Inventory for the Harry Golden papers-pt. 1
MS0020.1

ADMIRERS OF SANDBURG

AGE AND SANDBURG

BOOKS AS AMBASSADORS

AMERICAN EXHIBITION IN MOSCOW

APPEARANCE BY SANDBURG

ASSOCIATED PRESS PROFILE OF SANDBURG:

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4 page profile by Golden, written as a possible obituary. Includes related correspondence (1963). (See also Criticism and Biographical Information)

BANNED

BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD

BIRTHDAY--85TH CARL SANDBURG DAY JANUARY 6, 1963

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documents Carl Sandburg Day in North Carolina. Primarily correspondence between Golden and Tom Lambeth, administrative assistant to Governor Terry Sanford. Also includes a letter (12/7/62) from Sanford to Golden, Golden's suggested version of the proclamation, a copy of the official declaration, and correspondence regarding a possible Sandburg medallion. Information on Carl Sandburg Day in Illinois may be found in the correspondence between Vachel Davis and Golden. [See also box 1:42-46]

BIRTHPLACE 1958-1963

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material the birthplace of Sandburg in Galesburg, Ill., and the efforts of the Carl Sandburg Association to restore and maintain the house, and Golden's interest in the project. Includes correspondence (folder 24) and clippings, postcards, and bookplates (folder 25).

BROWN, VANESSA--ARTICLE 1968

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article by an actress, writer, and artist who painted Sandburg's portrait and entertained him as her house guest.

CARL SANDBURG HIGH SCHOOL

CASSIDY, CLAUDIA ESSAY ON SANDBURG

CHARITY

CHICAGO POEMS

COLLEGE, SANDBURG AT

COMPLETE POEMS 1950

CORNHUSKERS 1918

CORRESPONDENCE--GOLDEN TO SANDBURGS 1959-1962

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mostly carbons, these letters are primarily routine, arranging details for the completion and publication of Carl Sandburg or exchanging personal greetings. Noteworthy are: letter (12/22/59) to Carl Sandburg in which Golden reflects on Sandburg's participation in the Eugene Debs Memorial Meeting (1926?), and the conflict between the Socialist and Communist parties [see also letters of Mitchell Loeb, box 1:42]; letter (7/28/60) to Sandburg in which Golden comments on the 1960 Republican National Convention and American conservatism; letter (7/26/61) to Sandburg in which Golden describes his purposes for writing an informal Sandburg biography; letter (9/28/61) to Sandburg in which Golden lists people who will receive complimentary copies of Carl Sandburg; letter (12/6/61) to Sandburg in which Golden describes his intentions to restrict access to his Sandburg material after donating it to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library because of his plans to write a children's book on Sandburg and a definitive biography "with several volumes of footnotes"; and a letter (1/31/62) to Paula Sandburg in which Golden discusses the rejection for publication of Jenkins's accusations [see Paula's letter to Golden, 1/15/62].

CORRESPONDENCE TO CARL SANDBURG 1914, 1918, 1955-1965

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[NOTE: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, some containing Sandburg's responses.] Correspondents include a R. Bowman (copy, 1-8-60), who accuses Sandburg of being a covert Jew and a Communist who has disgraced Lincoln. Bowman also praises Hitler and the Nazis; Preston Bradley (1-3-57, with Sandburg's reply on reverse) praising Remembrance Rock; (copy, 9/1958, with a note to Golden from Sandburg that reads, "Ain't she a lovable old lady?"); Dell Floyd (managing editor, The Masses)--one (4-18-14) rejecting Sandburg's Coal Miner Poetry and the other (n.d.) discussing why some poems were rejected; Charles Hamblett (3 letters, copies, 5/1961) describing his establishment of a London Club in London; Henry Hardine (5 15 56) recalling their friendship during their youth [see Sandburg's response (6 11 56), box 1:40]; President John F. Kennedy (carbon, 5-2-61) praising Remembrance Rock; William Leiserson (10 25 26) inviting Sandburg to visit Antioch College; Max Lerner (12-12-50) praising Sandburg's poetry; items from Vachel Lindsay--letter (1-10-18) praising Sandburg's poetry and discussing Lindsay's next book, The Golden Book of Springfield, and an upcoming performance of his "Chinese Nightingale," letter (n.d.) congratulating Sandburg for his poems in The American Mercury, and a 3 page annotated typescript poem by Lindsay called "The Virginians Are Coming Again," with annotation to Carl, concerning its appearance in The American Mercury (7/1928) on the opening day of the Democratic Party Convention in Houston, and advising Carl to "chant Section III"; Louis Lipsky (10-10-61, with Sandburg's reply on verso) asking Sandburg to participate in Ben Gurion's 75th birthday celebration; Richard Lyons (12-4-61) asking Sandburg to autograph book; Christmas note (n.d.) from Archibald MacLeish expressing his family's affection for Sandburg; Slam Marshall (copies, 12 19 60, 1 2 61) about his book, Night Book, for which Sandburg wrote the introduction [see Sandburg's letter to Golden (6 8 61), box 1:39]; Otto McFelly (4-24-56, with Sandburg's reply), "an old friend" who hopes they may meet again in the afterlife [reply includes "remembering your riding the Red Special over Wis. in 1908"]; William Miller (copy, 1-14-60) discussing his displeasure at Sandburg's condoning capital punishment for Nazis; John and Elaine Steinbeck (with hand addressed envelope, 1 9 57) expressing birthday greetings and their friendship for Carl [see box 1:40 for Sandburg's response, 9 23 57]; CBS producer Joe Wershba (2-8-55) joking with Carl [see also box 3:45]; Urban Whitaker (12-13-61) with an anecdote about the naming of Carl Sandburg School in San Bruno, Calif.; birthday greeting (blind copy to Golden, 1-12-65) from U.S. Senator (Texas) Ralph Yarborough; and a letter (blind copy to Golden, 8-8-61) from Ben Zevin (president, World Publishing) expressing his pleasure with Golden's Carl Sandburg.

CORRESPONDENCE TO AND FROM GOLDEN ABOUT SANDBURG--DAVIS-DURNELL 1958-1970

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Includes extensive correspondence with Vachel Davis (Illinois "Coal Miner" artist and ardent Sandburg admirer) concerning his efforts to book Sandburg for an appearance in St. Louis (1961) and to establish a Carl Sandburg Day celebration in Illinois (1962-63). Also includes letter to Davis from Ralph G. Newman (9-10-62) concerning a bust of Sandburg, and copies of letters to Davis from Edgar Guest, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Markham, and Herbert Hoover (see Davis letter, 10-1-62) commending Davis's work; letter (10-31-61) from Hugh Downs commending Golden's biography; and correspondence (3-30 through 5-16-63) of Hazel Durnell concerning her critical analysis of Sandburg's works, The America of Carl Sandburg (1962) [see also box 2:93].

CORRESPONDENCE TO AND FROM GOLDEN ABOUT SANDBURG--I-P 1958-1970

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Includes correspondence with Alan Jenkins concerning a conflict between Golden and Jenkins, a Sandburg admirer who wrote several articles about him. In letter of (10-13-58), Jenkins offers Golden his Sandburg material to use in his research. Golden's letter of (2-9-61) elaborates on his informal, non definitive style in Carl Sandburg and encourages Jenkins to write a definitive biography of Sandburg. Letters (November 20-December 22, 1961), describe Jenkin's accusations that Golden's biography is "careless" and that Golden plagiarized his writings. Golden's responses assert that Jenkins accusations were caused by his unsuccessful efforts at having his Sandburg biography published [see box 1:39, Paula to Golden (1-15-62), and Golden to Paula (1-31-62)]; letter from (11-3-61) Kivie Kaplan (NAACP leader) praising Golden's biography (see box 7:15-16); letter (9-21-61) from Virginia Kirkus (editor) describing the Pictorial Review serialization of Sandburg's The Prairie Years, in which she and associate editor Helen Walker had a part. Also includes Kirkus's review of Carl Sandburg. Golden's response (9-25-61) reveals his intentions to write a children's book about pack peddler; letter (2-28-62) from Dorothy Knox (The Charlotte Observer) praising Golden's biography; letter (11-6-61) from Andre Kostelanetz praising Carl Sandburg; letter (10-31-61) from Lucy Knoll (Sandburg's agent) praising biography (see Norman Corwin's letter to Golden, box 1:42); letter (1-20-66) from Erma Landers discussing Sandburg's correspondence with Elbert Hubbard (writer/publisher); letter (10-27-61) from Herbert Lehman (governor, New York) turning down Golden's offer to write his biography; letter (n.d.) from Mary Lethbridge (Information Officer, Library of Congress), describing the publication of Mark Van Doren's lecture and bibliography of Sandburg, Carl Sandburg: With a Bibliography of Sandburg Materials in the Library of Congress (1969) (see boxes 2:93-96; and 1:46, Van Doren to Golden); correspondence (February 15-March 11, 1966) from Loeb Mitchell, discussing a memorial meeting honoring Socialist Eugene V. Debs at Madison Square Garden in 1926 in which Sandburg participated [see box 1:39, Golden to Sandburg (12-22-59)], and describing a Socialist meeting at the Garden (ca. 1930) protesting the Austrian dictator Dolphuss, at which members of the Communist Party rioted. Includes photocopies of The New Leader, (10-30-26), describing the Debs Memorial meeting; letter (7-16-58) from Catherine McCarthy (representative, Harcourt, Brace & Co.), asking Golden to submit his Carl Sandburg manuscript to them when completed. Golden's responses (7-21, 12-29-58) reveal his intentions to send his manuscript and his fears that the final product will not be "worthy of your consideration." Also includes McCarthy's letter to Targ of World Publishing Company, (6-21- 61), giving Golden permission to quote Sandburg's works; correspondence (1966-68) from George Medovoy (television producer) concerning his documentary on Sandburg; correspondence (December 7, 1961-March 12, 1962) from Harold N. Meyer (brother-in-law of Junius Scales), requesting that Sandburg petition for Scales's pardon. Includes articles for the New York Times (1923, 1925) concerning the pardon of political anarchists James Larkin and Benjamin Gitlow [see boxes 9:2-3; and 1:39, Golden to Carl (4-20-62)]; correspondence (December 13, 1965-November 6, 1966) from Herbert Mitgang (author/editor), and related clippings, concerning preparation of his book, The Letters of Carl Sandburg (1968), and in particular, concerning Golden's correspondence with Sandburg; letter (11-2-61) from Newton Minow (chair, Federal Communications Commission) describing Sandburg's poetry reading in which he commented that "he was one Minow...more like a Whale" (see box 8:7); letter (6-18-62) from Elizabeth Morton (representative, Chilton Company), requesting that Sandburg write his autobiography as a child's book. Golden's response (6-20-62) indicated his desires to write a children's biography of Sandburg; letter (9-1-60) from Edward R. Murrow concerning tapes of Sandburg's appearance on "Person to Person"; letter (3-15-63) from Arnold Newman concerning Golden's bad review of a book he and Sandburg co- authored, The Celebrities. Newman tells how Sandburg's illness forced the book to be only a captioning of famous people's photographs rather than a "comment upon the various types of people who shape our world"; correspondence (July 2, 1962-March 25, 1963) from Eric Olsen about his bust of Sandburg (see series 6, Photographs); letter (8-23-67) from Milo Pearson, describing his meeting with Sandburg at Knox College, and including his photograph of Carl, Paula, and Edward Steichen (see series 6, Photographs); and letter (1-23-60) from Cecil Prince (reporter, The Charlotte News) concerning a Golden article about Sandburg.

CORRESPONDENCE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY : 1960-1962

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Chronologically arranged correspondence between Golden and his publishers and other associates concerning the publication of Carl Sandburg. Correspondents are: Virginia Buckley, Lee Griffin, Eleanor Kask, William Targ, and Jerry Freed (also spelled Freide and Friede).

CRITICISM

DEATH OF SANDBURG CORRESPONDENCE

DEDICATION HENRY HORNER MEMORIAL 1948

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3 page typescript carbon of Sandburg's speech (10-27-48) to commemorate Illinois politician Henry Horner in Chicago.

DRAMATIZATION "CARL SANDBURG: HIS PEOPLE AND HIS POETRY" 1966

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Dramatized reading, 55 pages, by Edward Mammen and Margaret Servine.

DRAMATIZATION "AN EVENING WITH CARL SANDBURG" 1956, 1959-1962

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Material relating to four dramatizations of this name: a program containing Sandburg's Congressional address (2-12-59) and related clippings from poetry reading sponsored by Jacqueline Kennedy in the State Department (10-26-61); a brochure from a Northwestern University presentation (11-18-60); a program from the Vagabond Players's presentation at the Flat Rock Playhouse (8-12-62); and a 34 page draft of a script from radio workshop by Joe Wershba (2-6-56) (see letter, Wershba to Golden, in box 1:46).

DRAMATIZATION "A TRIBUTE TO CARL SANDBURG"

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70 page typescript.

DRAMATIZATION "THE WORLD OF CARL SANDBURG" (1959, 1963, 1967)

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Programs from three productions of Norman Corwin's drama: in Constitution Hall, Philadelphia, starring Bette Davis and Gary Merrill (10-29-59); at Charlotte's Mint Museum, directed by Dorothy Masterson, April, 1963; at Flat Rock Playhouse, Vagabond Players, 1967. (See also letters: box 1:39, Carl to Golden (6-14-61); Golden to Carl, (5-29-63); and box 1:42, Corwin to Golden).

EARLY POEMS

ELMHURST YEARS

EMERSON AND NEW ENGLAND WRITERS

FAMILY LIFE

FATHER 1952-1959

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Includes copy of The American Swedish Monthly (July, 1959), containing the chapter "Father and Mother" from Sandburg's The Sandburg Range (1952).

FORWORDS

FRIENDSHIP AND SANDBURG

FROST AND SANDBURG 1961-1962

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Includes Life article (12-1-62) about them, and a receipt (12-4-61) from Savile Book Shop in Washington, D.C., for Golden's Carl Sandburg, ordered by Helga Sandburg, "For Robert Frost, a friend of man."

GOLDEN, HARRY--ON SANDBURG

GRAMMAR AND SANDBURG

GUEST, EDGAR--POEM ON SANDBURG

HARCOURT, ALFRED

HAYMARKET RIOTS

HERALD EXPRESS ARTICLE 1961

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL--SANDBURG ON

INTERVIEWS

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Includes correspondence between Golden and Nat Hentoff of Playboy concerning a possible interview with Sandburg, and clippings of various interviews with Sandburg.

JOURNALIST--SANDBURG AS

KELLER, HELEN AND SANDBURG

LANDLORDISM 1937

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Includes pamphlet called "Landlordism" by business leader Joseph S. Thompson.

LEOPOLD, NATHAN AND SANDBURG

"LINCOLN AND LIBERTY" 1960

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9 page typescript copy of speech by unidentified writer, delivered in Indianapolis (2-12-60).

LINCOLN BIOGRAPHY AND COLLECTOR

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Includes brochure on the paperback editions of The Prairie Years and The War Years and a 34 page advertising brochure by Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1926) that purports to publish "one hitherto unpublished, authentic Lincoln story which does not appear in the book."

LINCOLN CENTENARY OF HIS NOMINATION BLUMEHAVEN DIGEST 1960

LINCOLN MEMORIAL AWARDS AND SANDBURG

LITERARY INFLUENCES

LOVITZ, GENE AND SANDBURG 1967

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Includes 7 page typescript of article on Sandburg by Lovitz, co author of Carl Sandburg: A Pictorial Biography. (See also box 2:93-96)

MIDWEST

MONROE, MARILYN AND SANDBURG 1962 (8-28-62) LOOK

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LOOK Magazine issue (8-28-62)

MURROW, EDWARD R.

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"Person to Person"

NATIONAL MEMORIAL PARK NAMED FOR CARL SANDBURG

NORTH CAROLINA--SANDBURG MOVES TO

NOTES

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Assorted scribbled notes by Golden in preparation of Carl Sandburg.

PACIFISM AND SANDBURG

PEOPLE AND SANDBURG

PERMISSIONS 1958

POETRY

POETRY STATEMENT

POLITICS AND SANDBURG

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Includes clippings about Sandburg's criticism of Eisenhower and about his poetry reading in Washington, D.C. (10-26-61) sponsored by Jacqueline Kennedy. (See box 2:7)

POUND, EZRA

PRAYER AND SANDBURG

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Includes copy of a sermon by Alan Jenkins, "The Prayers of Carl Sandburg" (see also boxes 1:45, letters from Jenkins; and 2:93-96).

PUBLICATIONS ABOUT SANDBURG

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Includes: "After Sandburg," The Inlander (December, 1928): 5-6; Hazel Durnell, The America of Carl Sandburg (University of Geneva, 1962); Sidney Fields, "Carl Sandburg, My Youngest Friend," Guideposts (November, 1961): 1-4; Elmer Gertz, "The Two Rarest Carl Sandburg Items," Autograph Collector's Journal (Spring, 1953): 40-41, and "Carl Sandburg Is Seventy," Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library (February, 1948): 23-26; Adda George, "The Galesburg Birthplace of Carl Sandburg," reprint, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Winter, 1952): 300-305; Dudley C. Gordeon, El Alisal: The Lummis Home, Its History and Architecture, (Los Angeles: Cultural Assets Press, 1968), and "Sandburg at City College," reprint, The California Librarian (April, 1969): 120- 124; Hawaii Quill Magazine (3-8-34) features two University of Hawaii students's essays about Sandburg; Illinois State Historical Society Journal (Winter, 1952), entire issue devoted to Sandburg; Illinois University Library, The Sandburg Range: An Exhibit of Materials from Carl Sandburg's Library (Urbana: Illinois University Library, 1958); Alan Jenkins, "Portrait of a Poet at College," reprint, The South Atlantic Quarterly (October, 1950): 478-482, and "The Prayers of Carl Sandburg," reprint of sermon, Royal Oak, Mich. (1-5-58) (see also Sandburg and Prayer); "Lincoln's Man Sandburg: The Time for Remembering Greatness," Newsweek (2-14-55): 49-53; Gene H. Lovitz, "Portrait in Blue," The Coupler (August, 1960): 6-7, and "Carl Sandburg, 'Old Rail,'" Railway Carmen's Journal (September, 1960): 4-6; Ralph McGill, "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met," Reader's Digest (May, 1954): 109-113 [includes note by Sandburg he apparently used as book-mark]; Lillian Mirmak, "Sandburg: Spokesman for the People," Opus (3-4-57): 1-4 and "The Pride and Wisdom of Two Great Poets: Sandburg and Frost," Life (12-1- 61): 101-102 [Oversize File, box OF1:3]; Don C. Shoemaker, "Carl Sandburg at Flat Rock," The Southern Packet (August, 1948): 1-4; Edward Steichen, ed., Sandburg: Photographers View Carl Sandburg (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966) [Oversize File, box OF1:3]; Larry Tucker, "For Paula Sandburg: The Void at Connemara," Tarheel Wheels (September, 1969): 14-15; Mark Van Doren, Carl Sandburg (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1969); Wisdom Magazine (August, 1959), contains "Carl Sandburg," by Alan Jenkins, pp. 25-26; "A Biography of Carl Sandburg," p. 27; and "From the Wisdom of Carl Sandburg," pp. 28-31. [Oversize File, box OF1:3]; and "The Years of a Poet Who Sang of America," Life (8-4-67): 44-53 [Oversize File, box OF1:3].

REMEMBRANCE ROCK 1948

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Includes 28 page publisher's brochure (Harcourt, Brace & Co.) containing reviews of book.

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. AND SANDBURG

RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR

SANDBURG, HELGA

SANDBURG - RANGE 1957

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Reviews.

SCHOOLS NAMED FOR SANDBURG

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Typed list of schools named for Sandburg, with Sandburg's note (n.d.) to Golden concerning the list.

SMOKE AND STEEL 1920

SOLDIERING 1898

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Photostats of Sandburg's diary while stationed in Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War.

SPEECHES BY SANDBURG 1959

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BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (2-18-59)

SPEECHES BY SANDBURG

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DES MOINES, IOWA [12 page annotated typescript draft (n.d.)]

SPEECHES BY SANDBURG 1959

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NEW SCHOOL GRADUATE FACULTY (4-6-59)

SPEECHES BY SANDBURG 1957

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UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA (3-5-57)

SPEECHES BY SANDBURG (Jan., 1955)

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UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE [Includes envelope with Sandburg's holograph notes.]

SPEECHES BY SANDBURG 1959

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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH (2-20-59)

SPEECHES BY SANDBURG 1959

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UPSALA COLLEGE (1-20-59)

STEVENS, GEORGE

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Includes Sandburg's annotation of a talk by the producer of The Greatest Story Ever Told, for which Sandburg acted as script consultant.

STONESIFER INTERVIEWS

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Includes transcript of interview with Golden about Sandburg, conducted by Richard Stonesifer of Drew University, and related correspondence.

SWEDEN AND SANDBURG

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Includes the following Swedish publications about Sandburg: Det Basta (Reader's Digest, March, 1946), containing a translation of Sandburg's poem "Chicago" (p. 68); Vasast Jarnan (The Vasa Star, February, 1958), including Sandburg's poems "Chicago," "Illinois Farmer," "Psalm of the Bloodbank," and "Shenandoah Journey," (p. 6) and "Psalmist of the Industrial Age," by Henning Nelson, p. 7; and Allsvensk Samling (1958), containing article on Sandburg by Naboth Hedin, pp. 4 8.

TELEVISION SHOW--"THE LEGACY OF CARL SANDBURG"

TRIBUTES TO SANDBURG

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Includes photocopies of letters honoring Sandburg on the occasion of an exhibit at the Pack Memorial Library in Asheville, N.C. in 1952. (See Harry Golden, Carl Sandburg: 108). Correspondents are: Robert M. Hutchins, a chancellor of the University of Chicago and associate director of the Ford Foundation (11-21-52); Archibald MacLeish (12-4-52); and Virginia Proctor, speaking for the president of Harvard University (11-18-52). Also includes a 10 page proposal for a National Sandburg Tribute (1958).

WERSHBA, JOE AND SANDBURG

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Includes 4 page typed transcript of recordings of Sandburg (1956) by television and radio producer Joe Wershba, and extensive typed notes, with anecdotes about Sandburg and a chronology of Sandburg's career, assembled by Wershba for Golden. (See boxes 1:41, letter from "Brudder Joe"; 1:46, letters from Wershba; and 2:7).

WHITMAN AND SANDBURG

WORK AND SANDBURG

WRIGHT, PHILIP GREEN

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Information on Wright, Sandburg's English professor at Lombard College and publisher of Sandburg's first works under the Asgard Press, imprint (see box 3:52).

WRITINGS--MISCELLANEOUS

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Includes A Little Sermon (1907); The Plaint of a Rose (1908) [extract, typescript]; and "What Do You Think!," 1 page ad for "Charles Sandburg, Lecturer," [photostat] Asgard Press advertisement (n.d).

WRITINGS-- UNPUBLISHED

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Unidentified and possibly unpublished material by Sandburg, arranged alphabetically by title or by first line (for recent compilation of Sandburg's previously unpublished works, see Breathing Tokens, edited by Margaret Sandburg, 1978). Includes: "Ben Thomas," 1 page typescript poem; "Bluebird, What Do You Feed On" and "May 1937," 1 page typescript poems; "Comfort and Happiness Yeah?" 1 page typescript poem on the dangers of complacency; "Creep Up, Moon, on the South Sky," 1 page typescript poem; "I Have Had a Thousand Fish Faces," 1 page typescript poem; "Journey," 1 page typescript poem; "'My God,' Laughed the Duchess, 'Stop Pulling My Leg,'" 1 page annotated note; "My Hand Goes Up to Our Flag," 1 page typescript poem; "This Life's a Hollow Bubble," 1 page typescript poem; "Prayer for the Child Margaret Who is Six, 1917," 1 page typescript poem; "What I Believe," 1 page typescript essay with Sandburg's annotation; "What Some of These Did," 1 page typescript statement about those who have died and deserve to be remembered; "You Certainly Must Love Me or You Certainly Don't," 1 page typescript poem; "Visible Flesh and Invisible Faith," 3 page typescript essay about the Continental Army; and "Leo Lerner is Diogenes," 2 page typescript essay. Also includes Sandburg's typewritten note listing "pieces of Golden's I liked much"; Sandburg's autographed note listing "American Christs" and "American Satans," with Golden's note describing the circumstances in which Sandburg wrote the list; Golden's note (to Targ?) suggesting that the "American Christs" list and "Prayer for the Child Margaret..." be included in his biography [see box 1:47, Targ to Golden (7 5 61)], declining use of these items); and a 2 page typescript essay by unidentified individual about Norman Corwin's dramatization of the Lincoln Douglas debate, The Rivalry (1960). [See also box 2:11].

BIOGRAPHY DRAFT CORRECTED BY GOLDEN

BIOGRAPHY FINAL COPY'S CHANGES AND ADDITIONS

BIOGRAPHY SANDBURG'S CORRECTIONS, TYPED

GOLDEN ON HIS BIOGRAPHY

PROOFS AND CAPTIONS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS IN BOOK

RAVES AND REVIEWS

ABRAM, MORRIS 1954-1964, 1968

ALEXANDER, KELLY M., SR. 1960, 1969

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION CHARLOTTE CONFERENCE ON WORLD PEACE THROUGH LAW 1959

AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR ISRAEL'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 1958

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE 1955-1961

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Correspondence and other material focusing on Southern racial integration and attitudes toward Jews in the late 1950s. Includes memorandum (10-7-55) from AJC's Paris office describing European criticism of the Emmitt Till case in Mississippi (1955) in which Till, a white man, was acquitted for an African-American boy's murder. Related correspondence (1-3, 12-12-55) reveals American criticism of AJC's publicity of Europe's reaction. Correspondence includes AJC's president Irving M. Engel and Golden; to Dean Rusk (1-16-61) about Latin American relations and to Chester Bowles and Adlai Stevenson (1-24-61) about Engel's appointment as delegate to German American Conference on East West Tensions and possible as U.S. ECOSOC representative. (See also Part 2)

AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1952-1955

AMERICAN JEWISH TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE

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Includes two typescript copies of "America Lies Before You," a 4 page drama written by Golden for the 300th anniversary of the first Jewish settlement in America.

AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY, CHARLOTTE 1951-1958

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Includes material on Golden's Carolina Israelite accounts with American Trust.

ANDREWS, ROBERT ARMSTRONG 1959-1963

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE CORRESPONDENCE 1953-1961

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Material focuses on anti semitism and discrimination. Letter to Golden from Murray Friedman disabuses Ku Klux Klan revival in North Carolina and the bombing of Charlotte's Temple Beth El. Golden's letter (4-4-54) to Meier Steinbrink discusses W. Kerr Scott's 1954 Senatorial campaign.

ATLANTIC UNION COMMITTEE 1952-1962

AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 1957

AWARD APPLICATIONS 1955-1959

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Includes Freedom's Foundation (1955-56); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (n.d.); Sidney Hillman Foundation (1955-56); and Pulitzer Prize (1959).

BELLS FOR PEACE 1960

BENNETT, JOHN C. 1961

BERNSTEIN, LEWIS 1949

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Golden's letter to Bernstein that expresses his philosophy behind the Carolina Israelite as well as some of its achievements.

BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU, INC. 1958

BILLIKOPF, JACOB 1950

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Includes correspondence between Billikopf and Irenee and Lammot DuPont of Wilmington, Del., concerning Irenee's statement that a Communist Jewish alliance seized control of the U.S. government and Irenee's subsequent praise of Merwin K. Hart, a conservative U.S. Representative frequently denounced as an anti Semite, racist, and facist.

BLOCH, CHARLES 1956-1959

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Includes material on Bloch, civil rights leader and vice president of States Rights Council of Georgia, Inc. Letter from Bloch to Golden (5-1-56) gives an extensive sketch of Bloch's activities.

B'NAI B'RITH OF NEW YORK 1959-1960

BOWEN, CARROLL 1953-1957

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Golden letter to Bowen (12-18-53) describes author Emmanuel Haldeman Julius, one of Golden's favorite writers. (See also boxes 6:51 and 8:8)

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 1956

B'RITH ABRAHAM, NEW YORK 1955-1961, 1964, 1966

CAESAR, IRVING 1957

CARE

CARVER COLLEGE 1955-1959

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Citation (6-6-55) presented to Golden by Carver College for his work toward better race relations; two letters (5-4, 5-20-59) from director Edward H. Brown.

CAUDLE, T. LAMAR 1956-1960

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Material on the 1956 trial of Caudle and Matthew J. Connelly, Truman administration officials convicted of a conspiracy to defraud the government. Detailed information includes such facts as the suicide of presiding Judge Hulen after the trial and a possible political conspiracy. Letter to Golden from Lawrence Spivak (7-31-57) expresses sympathy for Caudle.

CHARLOTTE CITY COUNCIL 1958-1959

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Certificate of resolution (10-1-58) stating Charlotte's dedication to continue a high quality of public education while at the same time responding to "changing times" (implicitly integration).

CHARLOTTE CITY SCHOOLS LUNCHROOM FUND 1959

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Correspondence concerning Golden's pledge to donate honorariums earned in North Carolina to the Lunchroom Fund, a hot lunch program for disadvantaged children. Includes letter from superintendent Elmer Garinger (5-5-59) thanking Golden.

THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER 1956-1961

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Routine correspondence between Golden and Observer staff members such as editor Hal Tribble, and columnists Kays Gary and E. B. Hunter.

CHESSMAN, CARYL 1959-1960

Scope and Contents note

Information on alleged rapist executed by the state of California. There was considerable controversy over his actual guilt. Golden's letter (2-15-60) to Governor Pat Brown requests that Chessman's sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.

CHRONICLES, NEWS OF THE PAST 1952

CLYDE, ETHYL 1958-1962, 1964

COHEN, ALEXANDER 1960

COHEN, WILLIAM 1954-1956

COLE, RALPH D. 1956-1957

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence on the P.S. 20 alumni reunion.

COMMITTEE TO SALVAGE TALENT 1959-1963

Scope and Contents note

Information on group sponsoring scholarships to gifted blacks (1959-1960, 1963).

CONE MILLS, GREENSBORO, N.C. 1948-1958

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence between Golden and Cone family members and information on the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in Blowing Rock, N.C.

COOK, HARRY 1952

Scope and Contents note

Cook's extensive account of life as a Jewish immigrant in Gainesville, Fla.

CORONET MAGAZINE 1958-1959

CURRENT BIOGRAPHY 1958

Scope and Contents note

Biographical information on Golden.

DANIEL AND CHARLES, INC. 1961

DAVIS, CURTIS 1957

THE DAY 1960-1961

DEANE, MARTHA (MARIAN YOUNG TAYLOR) 1958-1959

DE FEBIO, THEO 1952-1963

Scope and Contents note

Personal correspondence, including material (4-26-57 to 9-4-61) on de Febio's desegregation case in Fairfax County, Va. (1957-58). Includes various typescript essays by de Febio and clippings on the Fairfax County case and on a incident in 1952 when the de Febios, then Kitty Hawk, N.C. residents, were arrested for refusal to send their children to school.

DUFF, JOHN AND MINDELL 1959-1962

Scope and Contents note

Personal correspondence with Golden's childhood friend from New York City's Lower East Side.

EAST, P. D. 1956-1962

Scope and Contents note

Extensive personal correspondence between Golden and author and editor of the Mississippi based The Petal Paper. Includes East's nomination of Golden for the Pulitzer Prize (7/19-8/31/59); Golden's nomination of East for a Guggenheim grant (1/22/60-9/19/61); and Golden's fund raising drive to help East out of financial trouble (11/12/60-9/19/61). (See also box 6:13; and Part 2)

EDITOR'S CONFERENCE, CHAPEL HILL, N.C. 1956

Scope and Contents note

Speeches by panelists on North Carolina's fiscal system (7-20-56).

EHLE, JOHN JR. 1958-1961

Scope and Contents note

Personal correspondence, including a 2 page annotated typescript draft of Golden's forward to Ehle's book Shepherd of the Streets (with letter, 1-7-60) and Ehle's 6 page annotated typescript synopsis of his book (with letter, 1-3-59).

EISENSCHIML, OTTO 1961

EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE 1959-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence concerns a misunderstanding over Golden's affiliation with this organization.

EPISCOPAL SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL AND RACIAL UNITY--JOHN MORRIS 1959-1961

ERVIN, SENATOR SAM J. JR. (1958, 1966-1974)

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence (1958) concerning Golden's proposed article on Ervin for Harpers.

FACTS FOR FARMERS 1958

Scope and Contents note

Farm Research

FELLOWSHIP OF THE RECONCILIATION (1958-1967, 1972)

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence concerning fund-raising by the "Friends of P. D. East". (See also box 5:69)

FORD MOTOR COMPANY 1960

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY 1960

FREETHINKER'S OF AMERICA 1954-1959

Scope and Contents note

Includes letter to Golden from Joseph Lewis, editor of The Age of Reason; several issues of Freethinker, 1952-53; and an issue of The Age of Reason (November, 1959) describing Golden's decision not to debate Lewis on the impact of religion on civilization (see also boxes 4:18 and 5:41)

FRIDAY, WILLIAM 1956-1958

Scope and Contents note

Routine correspondence between Golden and the University of North Carolina president William Friday.

FUND FOR THE REPUBLIC 1956-1959

Scope and Contents note

Includes extensive three year report (1956) elaborating on the Fund's accomplishments in civil rights.

GARROWAY, DAVE TODAY 1958-1961

Scope and Contents note

5 page transcript interview questions for Golden's appearance on the Today show (7-24-58).

GHOST WRITING: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

GILBERT, L. WOLFE 1954-1962

Scope and Contents note

Extensive personal correspondence between Golden and the songwriter. Includes Gilbert's musical score for "Only In America," inspired by Golden's book of the same name. (See also Part 2)

GLATSTEIN, JACOB 1961

Scope and Contents note

Letter from Golden to the editor of The Day Morning Journal, (3-31-61) about Glatstein and "Jewish self hatred."

GOLD, SOL 1960

Scope and Contents note

SOL GOLD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

GOLDHURST, PETER 1956-1958

Scope and Contents note

Information on Peter, Golden's retarded son.

GOOD SAMARITANS FOR THE THREE R's 1957-1958

GORRELL, DICK--THE CHARLOTTE NEWS 1962

GRAVES, LOUIS 1957

GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS--MACK BELL 1956-1960

Scope and Contents note

Includes letter (9-12-57) describing Greensboro's reaction to the newspaper's support of public school integration. (See also Part 2)

GROSS, ALFRED A. 1956-1960

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence between Golden and Gross, executive secretary of the George Henry Foundation. In letter of 7-13-56, Golden speaks in detail of his childhood on Eldridge Street, New York City's Lower East Side, where the foundation's office was located. Letters also mention Wink Locklair, a Charlotte Observer reporter convicted on a homosexuality charge (see also box 7:41), and Charles Cook of the University Settlement (box 5:49). (See also Part 2)

GROSSMAN, MORTON S. 1957-1958

GUREY, JAY 1953-1959

Scope and Contents note

Extensive personal correspondence between Golden and his friend Gurey.

HALDEMNA JULIUS, EMANUEL 1951-1957

Scope and Contents note

Letters to Golden from Allen Crandall (4-28-57) and to Midstream editor from L. J. Hedgecock (5-7-57) criticize Golden's article (spring, 1957) on Haldeman Julius (1889-1951) publisher of the "Little Blue Book" series and Golden's idol. In letters of 9-30-51, 5-3-57, and 5-11-57, Golden expounds on his views of Haldeman Julius. Includes 1 page annotated typescript (incomplete) of Golden's "The Last Days of Haldeman Julius." (See also boxes 5:14, 8:8; and Part 2) (1951, 1957)

HANCHROW, JOSEPH 1955-1956

HARLOW, S. RALPH 1957-1958

Scope and Contents note

Routine correspondence between Golden and Harlow includes discussions concerning segregated eating and meeting places in Nashville (1-11-57); a white man's conviction and suspended sentence for the rape of a black girl in Mississippi; and student protests against segregated water fountains at the University of Louisiana. Also included material (11-10-57) on Koinonia Farms, an interracial pacifist community in Americus, Ga., "hindered by the KKK and by economic pressures from the hostile community." (See box 7:23)

HARRISON, SAMUEL B. 1958-1962

HAYWARD, HAROLD D. 1955-1958

Scope and Contents note

Routine correspondence between Golden and the minister of Providence Presbyterian Church in Matthews, N.C. Includes discussions on segregation as relates to religion; Hayward's autobiographical sketch (11-7-55); and material on the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Southern U.S. (6-7-56), and on the North Carolina Presbyterian Synod meeting (7-19-56).

HERSCHFIELD, RABBI NATHAN 1957-1960, 1968

HOCHSTEIN, JOSHUA 1958-1960

Scope and Contents note

4 page letter from theologian Dr. Howard A. Johnson (8 28 58) discussing the inherent anti semitism in Christianity.

HOWERTON, PHILIP F. 1959-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence between Golden and Howerton, a Charlottean and Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. Correspondence concerns their disagreement over desegregation, the role of religion and community leaders in effecting it, and relations between the Jewish and Christian communities. Also includes a typescript copy of a sermon (1908) on race relations by the Rev. J. R. Howerton, Howerton's father, and comments on the Golden Howerton exchange by Rabbis Israel J. Gerber and Marc Samuels, the Rev. Warner L. Hall, and Morris Speizman.

INDEPENDENT ZIONISTS OF AMERICA 1957

IRVING, ROBERT 1961

IVEY BLUFF PRISON 1958-1960

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with Frederick Barbour, an inmate at the Balfour, N.C. prison, who describes terrible living conditions, corruption of prison authorities, and inmates' frequent self mutilations. After his release, Barbour discussed his adaptation to normal society.

JACOBS, SINCLAIR 1953-1959

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with Golden's friend concerning funding for Jewish charities in Atlanta and Charlotte.

JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTE 1958

JEWISH JOURNAL 1951

JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS IN CHARLOTTE 1953-1956

Scope and Contents note

Includes letter to the American Jewish Congress from I. H. Madalia of the Federation of Jewish Charities (5-7-53) concerning funding; correspondence between Golden and Herman Blumenthal, president of Temple Beth El, concerning Golden's article, "A Pulpit in the South" (12-16, 12-24-53); and Golden's letter to Morris Speizman, president of Temple Israel, concerning the establishment of a local Jewish Tercentenary Committee (2-23-54). (See box 9:28)

JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF THE U.S.A. 1961

JOHNSON, GERALD W. 1958

Scope and Contents note

Includes letter from Johnson (3-28-58) lamenting anti-semitism in the South and Golden's brief response (4-12-58) comments on the progress made in the South toward racial equality.

JUDAISM 1952-1956

Scope and Contents note

Includes questionnaire by American Judaism magazine on the changing status of American Jews; and information on various Jewish holiday, from the Commission on Information about Judaism, and on the theological aspects of Judaism, as in the pamphlet titled "Mommy, Did We Kill Jesus?."

KALITZ, R. SCOTT 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Business correspondence with Golden's partner and advertising agent for the newly founded Israelite, revealing financial difficulties during the newspaper's early years.

KAPLAN, MORDACAI 1959

Scope and Contents note

Includes results of Kaplan's poll to determine the need for an international Jewish conference to deal with Jewish consciousness.

KEFAUVER, ESTES 1960-1963

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with the U.S. Senator.

KNOPF, ALFRED ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. 1958-1960

KOINONIA FARMS 1956-1967

Scope and Contents note

Information on an interracial farming community near Americus, Ga., and attempts by the KKK and States' Rights Council to hinder its activities. (See box 6:55)

KUNHIKRISHNAN, T. V. 1962

Scope and Contents note

Information on a visiting Indian journalist hosted by Golden.

LANG, HARRY AND LUCY 1952-1971

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with Golden, including his comments on the beauty of the Yiddish language (3-3-52). Also includes clippings about the political activities of Lucy Lang, an anarchist during the early 1900s. (See also Part 2)

LASHMAN, L. EDWARD 1953-1960

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with Golden's friend, including discussions on Charlotte Jews, including Arthur Goodman (12-1-53); how various U.S. Representatives from North Carolina, including Hamilton C. Jones and Charles R. Jonas, voted on a 1954 unemployment insurance bill (8-7-54); and the refusal by General Electric and Westinghouse to locate plants in the Tennessee Valley Authority area (8-7-54).

LEDER, J. HERMAN 1958

LENA - LOWER EASTSIDE NEIGHBORHOODS ASSOCIATION, NEW YORK CITY 1960-1961

LEVINTHAL, LOUIS E. 1958-1959

Scope and Contents note

Information on efforts to establish a professorship in Semitic studies at UNC Chapel Hill.

LEWIS, NELL BATTLE 1956

Scope and Contents note

Statistics from Golden on the increase in North Carolina's Jewish population, 1940-56, and his speculations on the reasons for it.

LITTLEJOHN, FRANK N. 1956-1958

Scope and Contents note

Letter to the Charlotte police chief (7-17-57) in which Golden warns of a scheduled KKK cross burning near Salisbury, N.C. and Littlejohn's response (7-18-57) describing his efforts to control such activities in the Charlotte Mecklenburg area.

LOCKLAIR, WRESTON 1955-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with a Charlotte Observer reporter convicted on homosexuality charges in 1955. Includes letters (5/21/55 to 3/7/57) about Locklair's prison term and parole and Golden's efforts to secure employment for him; and Locklair's comments (9/25/56) on the reelection on Congressmember Charles R. Jonas. (See also boxes 5:7 and 6:45)

LONDON, MEYER--MEYER LONDON MEMORIAL COMMITTEE 1961

Scope and Contents note

Information about a Socialist politician from New York City during the early 1900s.

LOUPUS, SIDNEY TED 1960-1961

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with this television producer concerning his adaptation of a story from Golden's Only in America.

MACMILLAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1959-1962

MALLOY, TOM [ALIAS JEFF KERRIGAN] 1961-1964

Scope and Contents note

Extensive manuscript material from Malloy, who under the alias wrote short stories and essays on contemporary issues entitled "Idle Thoughts." (See also Part 2)

MAYER, VERA W. 1960

Scope and Contents note

Information on the Fair Labor Standards Act.

MCCRARY, TEX--TEX MCCRARY, INC. 1958-1960

MCNEIL, BLANCHE HOBBS 1950-1958

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with a sales agent for the Golden/Rywell book Jews in American History (1950) and other works by Golden. Also includes information on McNeil's legal problems in Dela¬ware involving false insanity charges and the confiscation of her property. McNeil's letters (7/11/50 to 9/7/52) comment on the DuPont stronghold in Delaware's government.

MECKLENBURG COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE 1961

MEYER, HOWARD N. 1962

Scope and Contents note

Information about the republication of Thomas Higginson's book, Army Life in a Black Regiment, on the first regiment of freed slaves to help fight for their freedom. Includes a letter of praise to Meyer from Martin Luther King Jr. (3/31/62, copy).

MICAN, GEORGE S. 1959

Scope and Contents note

3 page letter from Golden responding to Mican's criticism that Golden's column "The Juggler of Notre Dame" misrepresented Abraham Lincoln's relationship with Karl Marx.

MINOW, NEWTON M. 1958-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager and FCC chair under John F. Kennedy. (See also box 1:45, letter, Minow to Sandburg, 11-2-61; and Part 2)

THE MORNINGSIDER 1961

MULLIS, DOROTHY M. 1959

MUSEUM OF RELIGION FOUNDATION -- JAMES WADE 1958-1961

NADOR, MOROCCO -- NADOR CASE 1962-1963

Scope and Contents note

Information on the trial and conviction (1962) of members of the religious sect Bahai in Nador.

NATIONAL ADVERTISING 1957-1958

NEUMANN, LUDWIG 1956-1957

NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY OF WORLD LITERATURE 1960

NICHOLSON, VALERY 1958-1959

NORTH CAROLINA EDITORIAL WRITERS' CONFERENCE 1958-1959

NORTH CAROLINA, UNIVERSITY OF (AT CHAPEL HILL LIBRARY--MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS 1951-1959

Scope and Contents note

Letter from director Charles E. Rush (ca. 1951) about the library's collections; letter from William S. Powell (10/9/59), librarian of the North Carolina Collection, requesting that Golden donate his manuscripts, and Golden's response (10/12/59).

NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS' CONFERENCES 1953-1981

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and related material concerning conferences during the 1950s, including letters from writers Richard Walser (6/3/53, 5/29/54, 5/27/55, 7/18/58), Bernadette Hoyle (beginning 9/25/56; many undated), Walter Spearman (4/9/59), Mebane Burgwyn (7/28, 7/30/54), and Sam Byrd (8/23/55). (See also Part 2)

NUSSBAUM, MAX 1958-1963

Scope and Contents note

Includes a copy of the rabbi's 4 page invocation at the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles.

OPPENHEIMER, HARRY 1958-1961

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with a fellow New Yorker. Includes biographical information (10/9/58) on Abe Stark, president of the New York City Council and philanthropist. (See box 9:30)

ORR, SAMUEL 1956

Scope and Contents note

Includes Orr's description (6/16/56) of his term as Bronx representative to the New York State Assembly and his suspension by Speaker Thaddeus Sweet (1920) on the grounds of disloyalty to America.

PARKER, JUDGE JOHN J. 1946-1947, 1948-1949, 1957-1958

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and other information regarding the presentation of the 1948 Carolina Israelite Gold Medal Award to Parker, U.S. Circuit Court judge in Charlotte. Includes related letters to Golden from former attorney general Francis Biddle (12/10/48) accepting an invitation to speak, and Herschel Johnson, U.S. diplomat (12/21/48). (See also box 7:11; and Part 2)

PAYNE, MIRIAM 1961-1962

Scope and Contents note

Her reflections and other information on the school system and the PTA in the Prince Georges County, Md., area.

PERELMAN, SELIG 1955-1958

PHILLIPS ACADEMY 1958

PIERCE, OVID W. 1960

POLIER, SHAD 1961

Scope and Contents note

Information on HEW's regulation (1960) annulling states's sterilization mandates for mothers with illegitimate children. Includes material on the Louisiana Aid to Dependent Children controversy that prompted this regulation (see also box 8:26).

POSTON, TED 1956

Scope and Contents note

2 page letter from Golden to Poston (11/8/56) discusses racial segregation in the South, and the role of the NAACP and Southern political leaders.

PRISON STORY 1958

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence relating to the revelation in the New York Herald Tribune (9/19/58, by Judith Crist) of Golden's mail fraud conviction (1929) and 5 year prison term. Includes copy of anonymous letter (9/13/58) that first revealed Golden's past to World Publishing Company; letters from Golden to various close friends (9/18/58) telling them the story "simultaneously with the 'break,'" as he wanted "my own people to hear it first"; letter to Golden from Eleanor Kask of World Publishing Co. (9/18/58) stating that Crist would omit reference to the anonymous letter; Golden's letter (9/19/58) to Jonathan Daniels, editor of The News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), describing Josephus Daniel's reaction when Golden confided the story to him; and a short statement by William Targ of WPC stating that the WPC would have published Golden even if his past had been known. (See also box 5:41)

RAIFORD, ROBERT 1958-1961, 1969, 1973

Scope and Contents note

Contains autobiographical essay on his firing in 1956 by Charlotte radio station WBT because of an unauthorized radio broadcast in which he criticized Southern racial attitudes and the assault on black singer Nat King Cole by whites in Birmingham.

RAMSEY, D. HIDEN 1958

RATCLIFF, LYDIA 1958-1962, 1968-1970

Scope and Contents note

(See also Part 2)

REAGAN, RONALD 1961-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and other material relating to Golden's article in the November/December, 1961 issue of the Israelite denouncing Reagan, who had spoken at the Charlotte Trade Fair. Some letters praise, but most criticize Golden's attack on Reagan's rightist philosophy. Letter to Golden from Reagan (1/1/62) answers Golden's accusations, which Golden defends in letter to Reagan (1/16/62). Also included is an editorial from The Charlotte News (with letter of 1/4/62) denouncing Reagan, a 3 page typescript copy of Golden's follow up article describing his and Reagan's correspondence, and a 6 page reprint of Reagan's address at the National Association of Purchasing Agents convention, Los Angeles, May, 1960, entitled "Business, Ballots, and Bureaus." (See also Part 2)

REIN, HARRY 1959

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION 1960

Scope and Contents note

Includes letter from U.S. Representative (R-N.C. 10th district) Charles R. Jonas (6/20/60), arranging for Golden to have a press pass.

RIBELOW, HOWARD U. 1959-1960

ROBERTS, JENNIE 1958-1963

ROLLMAN, HEINZ 1958-1960

Scope and Contents note

Information on his campaign for North Carolina's 12th district Congressional seat in 1958. Includes Rollman's 6 page copy of an essay on fostering peace with the Soviet Union and brochure, "Trained Candidates for Congress from State Academies" (campaign buttons removed).

ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO 1960-1964

Scope and Contents note

(See also Part 2)

ROSENWEIG, E. M.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence between Golden and the head of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at UNC Chapel Hill.

RUBIN, SIDNEY B. 1955-1959

SAMUEL, MAURICE--"AMERICA'S OPPORTUNITY" 1960

SCHINHAN, PHILIP C. 1957-1959

SCHULMERICH CARILLONS, INC. 1961-1962

SCOTT, W. KERR 1949-1958

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence between Golden and the North Carolina Governor (1949-53) and U.S. Senator (1955-58) relating to Scott's receipt of the 1949 Carolina Israelite Gold Medal Award, with letters to Golden from Jonathan Daniels (1/3/50), Gertrude Weil (1/26/50), and Lieutenant Governor Pat Taylor (1/6/50); and material relating to Scott's 1954 senatorial campaign, with correspondence between Golden and Terry Sanford, Scott's campaign manager, including letter of 7/5/54 in which Golden describes Negro voting in the run off. Also includes Scott's letter to Golden (6/26/53) expressing his need for a contact with North Carolina Jews; memo (5/20/54) to Scott from "Raleigh voters" criticizing him for his pro integration stance; letter (2/28/57) from Scott to Solon D. Smart, supporting the UN's attempts for Mideast peace, but adding that Israel should not be forced to comply with the UN's sanctions; program for dinner (1952) honoring Golda Mier and supporting sale of Israel bonds; 4 page typescript copy of Scott's speech for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in High Point, N.C. (4/12/54); and notes compiled by Golden for one of Scott's speeches in support of rural and farm communities.

SHARON HERALD--NEWSPAPER WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD 1959

SHELTON, WILLIAM 1955-1957

SMITH, GERALD K. 1951

SMITH, MCNEILL 1958-1960

Scope and Contents note

Includes information on the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

SOBELL, HELEN (MRS. MORTON)

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and other information relating to the clemency plea for Morton Sobell, tried and convicted with Ethel and Julius Rosenburg (1951) for conspiring against the U.S.

SOKOLSKY, GEORGE (1952)

SOUTH CAROLINIANS SPEAK 1958

SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL BULLETINS, REPORTS, ARTICLES 1954-1959

Scope and Contents note

Includes by laws, reports, and minutes; a 3 page reprint by the Patriots of North Carolina, Inc., defending their stand against integration (12/12/55); a reprint, "A Christian View on Segregation," by the Rev. G. T. Gillespie, president emeritus of Belhaven College in Jackson, Miss., defending segregation as a Biblical mandate (11/4/54); and SRC's extensive special reports of "Religious Bodies and the Supreme Court Decision" (7/31/57), and "Waiting Room Practices in 21 Southern Cities" (7/17/59).

SOUTHLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY 1945-1949

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, legal documents, and other information relating to the dissolution of the Southland Publishing Company, Golden's business venture established in Charlotte in 1943 and original owner of the Israelite. Documents concern the resignation of president Henry A. Stalls and the financial reimbursement of stockholders Genevieve Golden (Stalls's successor), William M. Knox (vice president), Arthur Goodman (treasurer), and Hermann E. Cohen. Minutes of stockholders's meeting of 3 24 47 reveal Golden's financial difficulties in operating the Israelite, which "has not been self supporting," and the need for suspension of second class mailing privileges "so that it will not be necessary to publish the paper monthly." Letter from Golden to lawyer W. Abernathy (10/13/49) describes the dissolution of the Southland Publishing Co. and the transfer of its assets to the Henry Lewis Martin Co., the name of the latter company being derived from HENRY A. Stalls, Harry LEWIS Golden, and MARTIN Rywell, its three stockholders. The purpose of the new company was to publish Golden and Rywell's book Jews in American History (1950). (See also boxes 7:55 and 5:41)

SPIVAK, LAWRENCE 1958

STATE CHARITIES AID ASSOCIATION 1961

STEADMAN, ALICE 1960-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence between Golden and the Charlotte poet and sculptor of a bronze bust of Golden (bust given to UNC Charlotte Library by Steadman on Harry Golden Day, May 1969).

STEPHEN'S PRESS, INC. 1960

STERN, HENRY W. MODERN COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS, INC. 1959

STRAUGHAN'S BOOK SHOP 1958

SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION 1960-1961

TANGARI, VINCENT 1960

Scope and Contents note

Information, including signed affidavit by Golden, concerning Golden's problems with two IRS employees.

TEWKSBURY, RUTH 1960-1961

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with one of Golden's advertising and subscription representatives.

TOBACK, LEON 1960

TOURS 1959-1961

Scope and Contents note

Arrangements for Golden's trip to Europe and Israel, 1961, including Golden's notes from the trip.

TRAVELSTEAD, CHESTER A. 1955-1964

Scope and Contents note

Information on a University of South Carolina professor discharged for his pro integration sentiments. Includes 4 page letter (5/2/55) from Travelstead to South Carolina Govenor George B. Timmerman in which he criticizes Timmerman's anti integration views; and a 3 page affidavit (11/12/55) in which Travelstead describes the circumstances of his dismissal.

TRENDS IN HOUSING (1958)

VARIETY MAGAZINE ABEL GREEN 1959-1961

VORSPAN, ALBERT 1957

WALLACE, RUDI 1960

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence concerning an ex-convict who robbed Golden while working for him. Golden refused to press charges because "he is only the second one who turned out bad twenty others have been great successes" (11/1/60).

WEINER, LILY 1959-1960

WEINSTEIN, MAURICE

WHITE, DABNEY 1959

WILLIAMS, AUBREY 1958

WINSLOW, THYRA 1958-1959

YARROS, VICTOR S. 1950

YMCA FUND DRIVE 1962

ZINTGRAFF, L. H. 1959

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA-- SIDNEY MARKS 1958

Scope and Contents note

Includes article "Jerusalem, Israel" by Charlotte Observer reporter Hal Tribble (Land Reborn, September/October, 1956), and an extensive report on the organization's projects.

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (September, 1946-March 6, 1958)

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (September 19-December 9, 1958)

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (March-June, 1959)

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (September 8- December 5, 1959)

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (February August, 1960)

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (January-April 12, 1961)

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (September 21, 1961-January, 1962)

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (September, 1962-February 12, 1963)

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (October, 1963-May 18, 1964)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (1959 August, 1962)

ARRANGEMENTS FOR ARTICLES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (September, 1962-63)

ARRANGEMENTS FOR SPEECHES 1958

ARRANGEMENTS FOR SPEECHES (January, 1961-December, 1962)

SPEECHES 1957-1962

Scope and Contents note

includes Carver College, Charlotte (6/2/57); Jewish Labor Committee's Third National Trade Union Conference on Civil Rights, Forest Park, Pa. (5/31/58) (See also series 9, Audio Visual Material, tape 2); Introduction of Golden (n.p., 3/12/59); University of Missouri Columbia School of Journalism (5/8/59); Myers Park High School, Charlotte (6/2/59); North Carolina Council of Human Relations, Durham (5/1/62); New York Metal Products Industry Division of the Joint Defense Appeal, New York City (6/18/59); Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, Bethesda, Md. (6/15/61); North Carolina College at Durham (6/3/62); Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, N.C. (6/5/62); Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio (7/31/62); North Carolina Press Associa¬tion, Chapel Hill (9/8/62); Eugene Debs Memorial Dinner, Chicago (12/6/62); and National Council of Jewish Women, Flushing, N.Y. (10/22/?)

COLUMNS 1960-1961

CLIPPINGS 1959-1961

MCCLURE SYNDICATE RELEASES 1962

CHARLOTTE

GOLDEN, HARRY--FIRE STORY

GOLDEN, HARRY--PERSON TO PERSON

GOLDEN, HARRY--REVIEWS OF HIS BOOKS

JEWISH COMMUNITY

MISCELLANEOUS

RELIGION--CHRISTIAN

STERILIZATION

Series 5.3: Brochures, News Releases, and Reprints 1949-1963

Scope and Contents note

This subseries is comprised of programs, advertising brochures, bulletins, reprints, extracts, and other assorted printed items. Arranged by subject.

BIRTH CONTROL

CULTURE

IMMIGRATION

JEWISH WAY OF LIFE

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

RACE PROBLEMS

Carl Sandburg's father, August

"The Dirty Dozen" Berrien St. youth gang

Scope and Contents note

Carl Sandburg (upper row, far right), Martin G. Sandburg (upper row, 3rd from left), others unidentified

Carl Sandburg membership card in the Social Democratic Party of Wisconsin 1908

Excerpts from "Incidentals" by Carl Sandburg

Edward Steichen and Carl Sandburg 1959

Edward Steichen, Carl Sandburg, David C. Mearns (Asst. Librarian for the American Collections and Chief of the Library's Manuscript Division) (left to right) 1959

Connemara Farm, Flat Rock, N.C.

Cartoon tribute to Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln by Fitzpatrick (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Carl Sandburg and Paula Sandburg at Connemara, Flat Rock, N.C.

Drawing of Carl Sandburg from the Guitar Review 1959

Carl Sandburg 1939-1961

Rosella Lawton Smith on steps of Connemara Farm, Flat Rock, N.C. 1960

Carl Sandburg at George Steven's Unit of 20th Century Fox Studios; proposed scene for "The Greatest Story Ever Told" in background

Carl Sandburg (far left), Helga Sandburg (3rd from left), President John F. Kennedy (center), and others at the White House, Washington, D. C. 1961

Carl Sandburg and Harry Golden looking at photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright and Sandburg

Carl Sandburg, Miss North Carolina, Harry Golden 1961

Painting by Jan Clausing of Carl Sandburg playing the guitar 1968

Carl Sandburg and Edward Steichen

Harry Golden with Paula Sandburg and Edward Steichen on porch at Connemara Farm, Flat Rock, N.C.

Bette Davis and Carl Sandburg on the stage of "An Evening with Carl Sandburg", Hollywood, Calif. 1960

Nun watching woman at a loom, Sorrento, Italy 1957

Paula Sandburg at Connemara Farm, Flat Rock, N.C. 1964

Janet Sandburg holding a cat

Vachel Davis and wife in front of the White House, Washington, D.C. 1953

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[autographed 11/24/62]

John Stewart Curry and Vachel Davis in Curry's studio, University of Wisconsin 1941

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[autographed 11/24/62]

"The Coal Miner" painting by Vachel Davis 1961

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[note on back to Harry Golden]

Bust of Carl Sandburg by Eric Olsen in final bronze 1963

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[letter from Olsen in Correspondence to and from Golden about Sandburg]

Raymond Kark, actor who played Carl Sandburg in Monty Ash's "Carl Sandburg, Yes"

Donald Edward Charles (grandson of Carl Sandburg)

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[caption reads "he's already got the The Sandburg outlook on life-"]

Carl Sandburg look-a-like 1961

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[letter to Golden from C. L. Buckner (10/31/61), Correspondence to and from Golden about Sandburg]

Carl Sandburg's feet

Carl Sandburg autographing copies of Carl Sandburg

Profile of Carl Sandburg entitled "Creative Solitude", from Portraits 1960

Carl Sandburg and Andre Kostelanitz

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[see Steichen's Sandburg, p. 92]

Harry Golden 1958-1970

Harry Golden 1959-1970

Harry Golden 1959

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with Madeline Blumenthal, E. Roosevelt, Mrs. Tillett, I. D. Blumenthal, Mrs. Van Every, Major Van Every, Jake Dressman (left to right) in group photo

Harry Golden 1960

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[note on back from Dorothy to Harry]

Harry Golden 1960

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receiving award from 1st Calvary Division with General Britton, Korea

Harry Golden 1961

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receiving award from National Conference of Christians and Jews

Harry Golden 1963

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with Norman Luboff

Harry Golden 1963

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addressing the Medical Association in Chapel Hill, N.C.

James Patton 1965

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with Governor Terry Sanford, Harry Golden and John Hersey (left to right), Committee for Support of Public Schools, Washington, D.C.

Harry Golden in office, Charlotte 1966

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[note on back: University of Georgia Creative Person]

Harry Golden 1968

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(3rd from right) [folder being held is in reference to the Jewish Center in Pompton Lakes, N.J.]

Harry Golden in Kent, Conn. 1969

Harry Golden 1970

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with Rabbi Samuel Silver on occasion of Golden's speech at Temple Sinai, Stamford, Conn.

Harry Golden 1972

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with Tom Schlesinger Jr. at Williamsburg International Assembly, Williamsburg, Va. [see correspondence to Golden from Schlesinger]

Dr. Buell Gallagher

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(President, Community College of New York), Charles H. Tuttle (trustee, C.C.N.Y.), and Harry Golden (left to right) at C.C.N.Y.

Harry Golden

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with Governor McKeldin discussing book, Washington Bound, Baltimore, Md.

Dave Miller, Fred Saunders, Jacob Beck, Dan Howard (back row, left to right); Rabbi Harry Pastor, Harry Golden (front row, left to right) at the Congregation of Shalom, Milwaukee

Harry Golden with Sister May Benedict Phelan, B.V.M. (president, Clarke College) 1968

Harry Golden with Jack I. Sperling (alderman, Chicago)

Harry Golden with Mrs. Edward H. Lewis of Hadassah Medical Fund Raising and wounded soldier, Jerusalem, Israel

Harry Golden and Hoyt Galvin (librarian) with Golden's gift to Golden Room in Public Library, Charlotte

Harry Golden with Pauline Frederick

Harry Golden

Harry Golden (right) "Join the Friends of the Library"

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[see correspondence from Bob Brown to Harry Golden]

Jan Peerie with Bob Surity and Harry Golden, Charlotte

Ty Golden receiving copy of You're Entitled from Harry Golden at Golden's home 1962

Harry Golden examining sculpture, "University Settlement", Brooklyn, N.Y.

Harry Golden 1959-1963

Harry Golden with Jerry Fleischer and his daughter, Ruth at Golden's home 1973

Harry Golden (2nd from left) with Premier David Ben-Gurion (left) in Israel at press conference on eve of the Eichmann trial 1961

Harry Golden with Dr. Heinrich Voekel (representative, West German Republic, Berlin) 1960

Harry Golden and Mr. Katz (Jewish book dealer in West Berlin) 1961

Harry Golden (left)

Harry Golden (far left, center row)

Harry Golden with May Hartman (widow of Judge Gustave Hartman), B. Altman's store, New York City, during autographing session for For 2 Cents Plain 1959

Harry Golden (far right) on panel, Southern Pines, N.C. 1958

Harry Golden (upper right)

Harry Golden and Maureen Titlow in his office

Harry Golden with Dave Garoway on NBC, New York City

Harry Golden (left)

Harry Golden, Los Angeles

Harry Golden with unidentified man

Harry Golden with Carroll Stoker on set of TV show; Stoker is holding a copy of For 2 cents Plain 1959

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[autograph and note to Golden from Stoker]

Harry Golden (center) greeting Dr. Heinrich Voekel (right), representative of the West Germany Republic in Berlin 1960

Harry Golden with the President Munoz of the University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

Jacob Goldhurst (Harry Golden's brother) 1926

Doris Goldhurst (Harry Golden's daughter-in-law) with her son, John 1968

Richard Goldhurst (2nd from left) and his wife, Doris, at their son Johnny's christening 1968

Harry Golden with grandchild (Barney ?) 1958

Harry Golden's grandson, Barney Goldhurst [note on bottom: "To Poppa Harry, from Barney"] 1959

Harry Golden's grandson, Rex Goldhurst 1959

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[with letter, 12/28/59, J. Goldhurst, in General Correspondence]

Harry Golden (right front) at Harry Golden Jr.'s (left front with wife) wedding

Bill Goldhurst

Matilda Goldhirsch

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[see correspondence, 4/16/81, from Lawrence Goldhirsch to Harry Golden]

Harry Golden's brother Max Goldhirsch

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[see correspondence, 4/10/81, Lawrence Goldhirsch to Harry Golden]

Harry Golden's son "Buddy" (William Goldhurst)

Bebe (?), Donny (?), and William Goldhurst ("Buddy") 1969

Harry Golden at Richard Goldhurst's home, Westport, Conn. 1965

Vice Mayor and Mrs. Maynard Jackson of Atlanta at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office 1962

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[cover of March, 1962 issue of Gentlemen's Quarterly]

Hamilton Jones

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[autographed: "To Harry Golden from Hamilton Jones"]

Ben Zevin of World Publishing Company reading telegrams on occasion of 250,000th copy of Only in America 1959

Richardson Preyer and family 1963

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[note to Harry Golden on back]

Frank Porter Graham (right), possibly receiving the Carolina Israelite Award 1947

Governor Terry Sanford

Eleanor Roosevelt reading a note

Adolphe de Castro

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[see letter 11/30/57]

Kerr W. Scott

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[note on back:" New Year' Greetings from Kerr Scott"]

Joe Wershba (producer, CBS) and his family

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[note on back: "Joe Wershba, CBS, My beloved friend and his family"]

Advertisement for Cone Cigar Company with artist's depictions of Herman Cone I, Moses Cone, and Caesar Cone (right to left)

Jeanette Boorman Cone (daughter of Benjamin Cone)

Benjamin Cone (retired chair, Cone Mills) [used in Our Southern Landsman] 1974

Sydney M. Cone (retired vice-president, Cone Mills)

Herman Cone II

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Cone II (1895-1955) (president, Cone Mills, 1938-55)

Moses H. Cone

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Moses H. Cone, 1857-1908, was co-founder of Cone Mills [used in Our Southern Landsman]

Charles H. Jonas, B'Nai B'Rith pioneer

Herbert H. Lehman 1945

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(New York governor and senator) [used in Our Southern Landsman]

Painting of Dr. Simon Baruch, 1840-1921

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[used in Our Southern Landsman] (n.d.)

David Camden de Leon

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(Surgeon General, Confederate Army) portrait by Carvalo [used in Our Southern Landsman]

Silhouette of Isaac Harky

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(journalist, literary critic, and founder of The Jewish Reform Movement) [used in Our Southern Landsman]

Alfred Mordecai (1804-87) of Philadelphia and graduate of West Point

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[used in Our Southern Landsman]

M. C. Mordecai, 1804-1888

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[used in Our Southern Landsman]

Judah P. Benjamin

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(Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State of the Confederacy) [used in Our Southern Landsman]

Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild, D. D. of the Temple, Atlanta

Synagogue Council of America Executives looking over antique synagogue silverware and scrolls rescued from the Nazis

Harry Golden 1970

Herbert Lehman 1970

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(New York governor) [used in The Greatest Jewish City in the World, p. 66]

Harry Golden 1970

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with the directors of the Diamond Center of America, 47th St., New York City [used in The Greatest Jewish City in the World]

Harry Golden 1970

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with the directors of the Diamond Center of America [used in The Greatest Jewish City in the World]

Harry Golden in the doorway and in front of his childhood home 1970

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[used in The Greatest Jewish City in the World]

Ira Gershwin

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[autographed photo] [used in The Greatest Jewish City in the World]

Harry Golden 1971

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in front of Izak's Clothing in the garment district, New York City

Harry Golden and three unidentified men

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(one possibly L. Wolfe Gilbert who wrote a song, "Only in America", based on Golden's book)

Battery in New York City with excursion boats (left) and aquarium 1934

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(right background) [see general correspondence, Al Schuszler]

Monument to "Faith, Hope, & Charity" in Tompkins Square, New York City 1934

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[see general correspondence, Al Schuszler, 4-5-65]

Tenament house "playground", New York City 1934

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[see general correspondence, Al Schuszler, 4-5-65]

Valerie Nicholson in front of 171 Elridge St., New York City 1959

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(Harry Golden's childhood home) [see correspondence, Valerie Nicholson in subject files]

Harry Kursh in front of Henry St. Settlement House, New York City 1979

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[see correspondence, Valerie Nicholson, in subject files]

Harry Golden's bookshelf, Charlotte

Cover of So What Else Is New? 1965

Window decorated to announce a book review for Only in America 1958

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[store may be Ivey's, Charlotte]

Marker in front of Elizabeth Ave. house 1960-1969

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"Harry Golden Published The Carolina Israelite And Wrote His Books Including Only in America At This Address"

Meditation room, Ivey's Department Store, Charlotte 1955

Harry Golden and Carl Sandburg at Connemara Farm, Flat Rock, N.C.

Helga Sandburg (Carl Sandburg's daughter) and Barney (?) 1968

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[see letter, 1/10/68, Helga Sandburg file]

Nazareth, Syria 1900

Harry Golden (back, left) and James J. Starrow (editor, Nation, speaking on Harry Golden Day at UNCC 1969

Kelly Alexander (left), and Harry Golden on Harry Golden Day at UNCC (1969)

William Targ (editor in chief, G. P. Putnam's Sons) 1969

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speaking on Harry Golden Day at UNCC

Children near construction site at Pakai Orphanage, Seoul, South Korea 1962

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[with correspondence to Harry Golden from Charles Chang, 11/27/62]

Harry Golden with children from Pak Ai Orphanage, Seoul, South Korea 1961

Children at Pak Ai Orphanage with U.S. soldiers at dedication of new gate to orphanage, Seoul, South Korea

Harry Golden with MP's, in Seoul, South Korea 1961

Cover of The Harry Golden Omnibus

George Gershwin correcting a musical score, New York City

"The Coal Miner" painting by Vachel Davis

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[signed: "To - Harry Golden with best wishes, Vachel Davis, Coal Miner artist"]

Leib Goldhirsch 1922

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(Harry Golden's father)

Judy Goldhurst and William Goldhurst (Harry Golden's son) with infant Rex (?) Goldhurst and Barry Goldhurst (Harry Golden's grandchildren) 1960

Rex Goldhurst, son of William Goldhurst and grandson of Harry Golden, Isle Verde, P.R. 1960

Harry Golden and Kathleen Midge 1969

Harry Golden with Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Geheni (?) at the City of Hope, Los Angeles 1966

Rabbi H. I. Gruewald being interviewed by American journalist, Adolph Schalk, Hamburg, West Germany

Anita Brown holding picture of Harry Golden

Harry Golden, Adolph Rocaberg, and Gabe Cohen 1975

Billy Graham, Fr. Cuthbert Allen and Harry Golden (left to right) at Ivey's Tulip Terrace 1963

Dinner honoring Judge J. Parker as recipient of Carolina Israelite Gold Medal Award: Parker (far left) and H. H. Baxter (far right) 1948

Judge John J. Parker

Carl Sandburg playing guitar for Salisbury Post 1951

"Lady Bird" Johnson giving a speech

Lynching of Leo Frank

Sketch by Ken Whitsett

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(Art Director, Mint Museum, Charlotte) of the Statue of Liberty, buildings in Washington, D.C., a framed picture of Emma Lazarus, background scenery, and the words, "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free"

Silhouettes of Harry Golden and Carl Sandburg

Unidentified family photograph

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Harry Golden in his office, Charlotte

Harry Golden 1962