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Hugo, George B., Collection, 1909-1919, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
Hugo, George B., Collection, 1909-1919, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
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The George B. Hugo Correspondence consists of his book Socialism: The Creed of Despair and 25 letters related to its publication.
George B. Hugo was born in 1866 in Massachusetts to French immigrants. Hugo married Jennie Saulsbury in 1888 in Boston and in 1893 a daughter they named Ruth was born. In Boston, Massachusetts, George worked as a merchant. In 1909 he published his book, Socialism: The Creed of Despair. The book is further described as a “Joint Debate in Faneuil Hall, March 22, 1909 between George B. Hugo, President Employers' Association of Massachusetts, Affirmative, and James F. Carey, …
Marshall, Marguerite Mitchell, Collection, 1942-2001, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
Marshall, Marguerite Mitchell, Collection, 1942-2001, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
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This collection includes information about the life and civil rights research by Marguerite Mitchell Marshall (1911-2002). It includes newspaper articles, family photos slides, programs, personal cards, correspondence, financial records, and scrapbooks relating to local and national African American contributors to the Civil Rights movement, Black History and politicians.
Marguerite Mitchell Marshall was born October 5, 1911 to Henry Levi and Emily J. Fonchoser Mitchell in Pittsburg, Kansas. Marguerite Marshall the attended Frederick Douglass School, a Pittsburg school for African-Americans, from 1917 to 1925; Pittsburg High School from 1925 to 1927; and College High on the campus of the Kansas Teachers …
Lockwood, Guy, Collection, 1903-1913, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
Lockwood, Guy, Collection, 1903-1913, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
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Drawings, books, and letters related to Guy Lockwood of Lockwood Publishing Company and related to politics.
Guy Lockwood (1870-1947) of Michigan was an American cartoonist and political activist, advocating for socialism. Lockwood and his friend Grant Walt Wallace created the company Wallace & Lockwood in 1891 which offered correspondence courses in penmanship and illustrations out of Lincoln, Nebraska, which was the first business of its kind. Both of the men were teachers at Western Normal College, also in Lincoln. Wallace left the company and Lockwood moved the company to Omaha by 1896. Lockwood moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1904 where …