Henry R. Seager letters, 1928-1930

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Alphabetical by correspondent or by an individual that is referred to in a letter.

Description

Summary

Correspondence files of Seager, containing incomming letters with outgoing carbon replies and occasional related memoranda for the period 1928-1930. There are letters from Columbia University colleagues, Columbia University administrative officials, from economics professors at other universities and from students requesting references for professional positions, and discussing plans, ideas, and revisions for their dissertations. Much of the correspondence concerns itself with labor relations and the American trade union movement, including a group of letters from Jacob B.S. Hardman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, relating to a seminar that he gave at Columbia University.

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Henry R. Seager letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession number--M-59.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89.

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Subject

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Professor of economics at Columbia University, 1903-1930.