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Summary Information
Albert Aaron Johnson Papers
1884, 1898-1963
- Johnson, Albert Aaron, 1880-1963
Mss 253; PH 307 (3); PH 4092; PH 4093; PH 4094; PH 4095; WHi(J5); WHi(J51)
2.2 cubic feet (5 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 742 photographs (2 albums in 2 boxes); plus additions of 649 photographs, 149 negatives, 0.2 cubic feet of negatives (1 negative box), and 2 pieces of ephemera
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Albert Aaron Johnson, an agricultural economist and educator and authority on the developing Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s. His activities included heading Long Island's Farmingdale Institute, being the commercial representative for several U.S. businesses in the Soviet Union, writing about the Soviet Union, patenting improvements to railroad cars, founding the Buy American Institute in 1938, and promoting research and education in psychic phenomena, particularly spiritualism. The collection contains fragmentary documentation of all these activities and consists of correspondence, writings including diaries and notes, patent records, genealogical information, and expense records and other materials concerning his trips to the Soviet Union. Extensive family correspondence includes letters written while serving with the military in the Philippines during and after the Spanish-American War, letters between Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and their son Albert R., and a 1926 letter from J. C. Penney reminiscing about his youth and his beginnings in the department store business.
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