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  1. Elmira Heights, New York, Townsend Club minutes and balance sheets, 1936-1941

    Collection consists of contemporary grey cloth binder containing 237 leaves comprised of 168 typescript and manuscript minutes (most signed by the Secretary) and 32 leaves of typescript bookkeeping balance sheets. The weekly minutes of one of hundreds of national "Townsend Clubs" formed during the Great Depression. Francis Everett Townsend, a South Dakota and later California-based doctor lost his position at the age of 66 at the height of the Depression, in 1933. Townsend began campaigning for a social security system for the aged poor, including the proposal to pay a monthly $150 stipend to workers who retired at the age of 60. The Townsend Movement lead to the formation of Townsend Clubs, which claimed as many as 5 million members at the height of the Movement's popularity. The present collection is a detailed account of one such club, founded by Harold Jay Underwood at the beginning of 1936 with 100 members secured at the end of the first meeting, quite a large number for a village of Elmira Heights's population (a little over 5,000 according to the 1930 census). The majority of the Minutes included in this collection are signed by the acting Secretary Thelma Haflett, a young local woman. Much of the club's activities revolve around raising funds and recruiting new members, with incentives (such as a new pillow) for existing members with the most recruits. [From dealer description]

  2. California Peace and Freedom Movement Minutes of the State Steering Committee

    San Francisco, 1968 May 11

    California Peace and Freedom Movement Minutes of the State Steering Committee, May 11, 1968. Consists of 19 loose leaves of typescript printed both sides, approximately 23,000 words. [From dealer description]

  3. Heart Mountain, Wyoming Japanese American incarceration site records, 1943-1945

    Archive of More Than Sixty Documents from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. Includes 64 mimeographed items, most a single sheet. Nine documents in Japanese. Letter and legal size. Established in 1942, Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of ten government camps used to contain Japanese Americans during World War II. Located in northwestern Wyoming, the Relocation Center was in use from August 1942 to November 1945, and at its peak it housed nearly 11,000 Japanese citizens. This archive documents a bleak period in American history, recording the activities of American citizens trying to carry on with some semblance of regular life while being imprisoned by their own government. The documents here date from December 3, 1943 to October 17, 1945, spanning almost the entirety of the camp's operation. They are comprised primarily of Community Council meeting minutes, with several ordinances, the criminal code for the camp, and other similar pieces documenting camp life. Seven of the nine Japanese documents are War Relocation Authority bulletins entitled Washington Daily News Digest (the remaining two are not labeled in English in any way). [From dealer description]

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