Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, minutes, lists, reports, financial records, and printed materials of Abraham Epstein. The personal and business papers relate to his fight on behalf of Social Security and old age pensions.
This collection consists of copies of correspondence, articles, diaries, memoirs, and other manuscripts by and about the Blackwell family. Also, a small group of papers, including correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed papers, about the Rice family of New York.
Materials gathered by Maurice B. Cuba for a projected doctoral dissertation at Columbia University on the life of Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877), social reformer, author, and spiritualist. The collection is composed of Mr. Cuba's correspondence about Owen, outlines and drafts for his thesis, many notes and copies of letters from Owen, and photostats of manuscript and printed materials from several libraries in Indiana where Owen helped to establish the utopian community of New Harmony. There are also eleven holograph letters from Owen to various people.
Walter Rauschenbusch was a leading scholar of the Social Concern Movement and the Church in America, and taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. This collection consists of two letters written by Rauschenbusch to Dr. Thomas C. Hall, Professor at Union Theological Seminary, discussing courses and anti-German sentiment after World War I.