Inventory of the Margaret Ann Kerr papers

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Title: Margaret Ann Kerr papers
Date (inclusive): 1918-1964
Collection Number: 80185
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes (0.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Reports, speeches, letters, membership lists, bulletins, minutes, printed matter, and miscellany, relating to communist and other radical movements in California, and to the Better America Federation, an anti-communist organization.
Creator: Kerr, Margaret Ann
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1980.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Margaret Ann Kerr papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

Secretary-manager, Better America Federation of California.

Scope and Content of Collection

Reports, speeches, letters, membership lists, bulletins, minutes, printed matter, and miscellany, relating to communist and other radical movements in California, and to the Better America Federation, an anti-communist organization.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Communism -- California
Anti-communist movements -- California
Radicalism -- California
Better America Federation of California

box 1, folder 1

American Security Council 1962-1963

box 1, folder 2

Readers, First Grade and Second Grade 1935

box 1, folder 3

American Library of Information - Better America Foundation 1950-1964

box 1, folder 4

Commercial Federation of California 1918-1920

box 1, folder 5

U.S. Government 1932-1964

box 1, folder 6

American Library of Information 1950-1956

box 1, folder 7

Cooperative League N.Y. 1934-1935

box 1, folder 8

Communist Party USA miscellany undated

box 1, folder 9

Communist Party USA membership copies 1929-1938

box 1, folder 10

Communist Party USA membership undated

box 2, folder 1

Communist Party USA undated

box 2, folder 2

Better America Foundation 1963

box 2, folder 3

Membership list undated

box 2, folder 4

Commercial Federation of California 1920

box 2, folder 5

Better America Foundation 1922-1935

box 2, folder 6

Better America Foundation Resume of Activities 1923

box 2, folder 7

Communist Party --L.A. County 1936-1940

box 2, folder 8

"The Straight Shooter" 1922-1923

box 2, folder 9

"The Straight Shooter" [1923]

box 2, folder 10

List of Active Members of the Communist Party, District 13 undated

box 2, folder 11

Correspondence and notes 1936-1951

box 2, folder 12

American Sentinels undated

box 2, folder 13

American Women, Inc. Correspondence 1935