Summary Information

Title: Mary Heaton Vorse Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1928-1930

Creator:

• Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966

Call Number: Micro 469

Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Microfilmed papers of Mary Heaton Vorse, a journalist and author known for her championship of trade unionism. Included are materials on three strikes in the textile industry covered by Vorse during the late 1920's. The majority of the papers are concerned with a strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. Included are correspondence, notes, news dispatches to Tass and the New York Evening Graphic, typescripts of articles, and the manuscript and final typescript for her novel Strike! (1930). Relating to strikes in Marion, North Carolina, and Elizabethton, Tennessee, are miscellaneous notes, clippings, and press releases.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0469

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