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Shipman (Charles) papers
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Subject file 1895-1986

Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet

Scope and Contents note

Consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, clippings, and notes related to Shipman's life and work with anti-war, anti-imperialist, and communist groups in the United States and Mexico.

Arrangement note

Arranged in alphabetical order by folder title.
box 1, folder 1-2

All-America Anti-Imperialist League 1920-1930, 1971

box 1, folder 3

American Communist Party 1923-1982

box 1, folder 4

Biographical file 1928-1985

box 1, folder 5

Ford expedition 1915-1966

box 1, folder 6

New Masses 1933-1934

box 1, folder 7

Passports 1915-1975

Scope and Contents note

Includes passports for Charles Shipman and his wife Sylvia Feningston
box 1, folder 8

Peace meeting 1895

box 1, folder 9

Personalities and friends 1965-1984

box 1, folder 10

Pic and Carlota 1945-1983

box 1, folder 11

Pre-Mexico data (correspondence) 1917-1918, 1966

Scope and Contents note

Includes letters regarding Shipman's decision to be a conscientious objector during World War I.
box 1, folder 12

Redding, Connecticut 1941-1985

Scope and Contents note

Includes Ah Catalina! programs
box 1, folder 13

Russia and the Comintern 1967-1984

box 1, folder 14

Work-related clippings 1956-1986

box 1, folder 15

Workers Monthly 1923-1925

 

Writings 1960-1971

Physical Description: 0.6 Linear Feet

Scope and Contents note

Contains an autobiographical transcript, Shipman's memoirs, and plays adapted and translated from Spanish.

Arrangement note

Arranged in chronological order.
box 2, folder 1-4

Biographical typescript (uncorrected) undated

box 2, folder 5-9

Natural Enough: An Autobiography undated

box 3, folder 1

The Lady from Havana 1960

box 3, folder 2

Papa by a Landslide 1962

box 3, folder 3

Gasoline for Mamma 1962

box 3, folder 4

Ah Catalina! 1964, 1971

box 3, folder 5

"From Mexico to Moscow," Survey: A Journal of Soviet and Eastern Studies, v. 55 1965 April

box 3, folder 6

Encounter in a Doctor's Waiting Room 1970

 

Photographs 1915-1982

Physical Description: 1.55 Linear Feet

Scope and Contents note

Composed of images of Shipman himself, family, friends, communist meetings, and play rehearsals.

Arrangement note

Arranged in chronological order by group.
box 4

Portraits of Charles Shipman undated

box 3, folder 7

Meetings and groups 1915-1972

Scope and Contents note

Includes images of communist meetings.
box 3, folder 8

Shipman family and friends 1919-1972

box 4

"Haitian Patriotic Union banquet for Mr. Manuel Gomez," 1928 September 30

box 3, folder 9

Miscellaneous snapshots 1947-1982

box 3, folder 10

Ah Catalina! rehearsals 1964

box 4

International Summer School, University of Cambridge 1975