Register of the Pathfinder Press Photographic collection

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Title: Pathfinder Press Photographic collection
Date (inclusive): circa 1870-1999
Collection Number: 2004C50
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 31 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 3 card file boxes (14.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Collected by Pathfinder Press for use in illustrating its publications, the collection includes photographs, drawings, and printed reproductions of illustrations, depicting Leon Trotsky, leading figures of the Russian Revolution, leaders of the Fourth International, leaders of the Socialist Workers Party of the United States, and scenes related to all of the above.
Creator: Pathfinder Press
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

Box 34 closed. The remainder of 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

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2004

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Pathfinder Press photographic collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Biography Note

Pathfinder Press was established in New York City in 1969 as a successor to Pioneer Publishers (1930-1965) and Merit Publishers (1965-1969), and has been associated with the Socialist Workers Party. It has been the principal English-language publisher of works of Leon Trotsky, and has also published documentary works on the Communist International, Fourth International and Socialist Workers Party, writings of Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X and other American and international leftist leaders, and historical and analytical works on a variety of national and international political issues.
A Pathfinder Press Collection, donated by the Anchor Foundation, was established in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1992, and consists of record copies of publications of the press. This separate Pathfinder Press Photographic Collection was received from the Anchor Foundation in 2004.

Scope and Content of Collection

The Pathfinder Press Photographic Collection consists of photographs collected by the press for possible publication in books and pamphlets. There are also a small number of original drawings and cartoons. Cartoons by Laura Gray constitute the first series. The photographic series which follow include a Russian File (concentrating on the Russian Revolution and the history of the Bolshevik/Russian Communist Party through the 1920s), a Leon Trotsky File (depicting Trotsky at all stages of his life, but especially during his last three years in exile in Mexico), a Socialist Workers Party File (depicting leaders of the party from the 1920s through the 1990s), and a General Subject File (depicting Fourth International leaders from outside the United States, other notable leftist leaders from the United States and abroad, and world figures of all political stripes). There is also a small Publications File of photographs arranged by title of Pathfinder Press publication in which they appeared. Oversize items constitute a separate Oversize File.
Photographic prints often bear negative numbers on their backs. These will direct the user to a large file of negatives, arranged in numerical order. There is also a file of contact sheets, arranged numerically by negative number. An index card file of names of individuals depicted (mainly members or associates of the Socialist Workers Party) is also keyed to negative number.
Users of the Pathfinder Press Photographic Collection should be aware of the existence in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives of the Pathfinder Press Collection consisting of copies of publications of the press, and also of The Militant Photographic Collection, consisting of photographs created or collected by the staff of The Militant, the newspaper associated with the Socialist Workers Party. Negatives of photographic prints to be found in the latter collection are interfiled in the Numerical Negative File of the Pathfinder Press Photographic Collection.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into 11 series, Cartoons, Russian File, Leon Trotsky File, Socialist Workers Party File, Oversize File, General Subject File, Publications File, Numerical Contact Sheets File, Numerical Negative File, Filmstrips, and Card File.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pictorial works
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Pictorial works
Revolutionaries -- Pictorial works
Communists -- Pictorial works
Communists -- United States -- Pictorial works
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
Fourth International
Socialist Workers Party

 

Cartoons circa 1945-1957.

Scope and Contents note

Original cartoons and reproductions of cartoons by Laura Gray, mostly published in The Militant
box 1, folder 1

Anti-labor legislation

box 1, folder 2

Capitalism

box 1, folder 3

Colonialism

box 1, folder 4

Labor bureaucracy

box 1, folder 5

Labor solidarity

box 1, folder 6

Politicians

box 1, folder 7

Racism and police brutality

box 1, folder 8

Repression

box 1, folder 9

Stalinism

box 1, folder 10

War

 

Russian File circa 1870s-1950s.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of Russians and scenes in Russia and the Soviet Union
box 1, folder 11

Pre-1917—General

box 1, folder 12

Revolution 1905

 

Revolution 1917

box 1, folder 13

February Revolution

box 1, folder 14

Provisional Government

box 1, folder 15

July Days

box 1, folder 16

Soviets

box 1, folder 17

Soldiers and sailors

box 1, folder 18

Military Revolutionary Committee

box 1, folder 19

Red Guard

box 1, folder 20

Bolshevik leadership

 

Demonstrations

box 1, folder 21

March-September

box 1, folder 22

October-December

box 1, folder 23-24

October Revolution

 

Civil War 1918-1921

box 1, folder 25

General

box 1, folder 26

Allied intervention

box 1, folder 27

White terror

box 1, folder 28

Red Army

box 1, folder 29

Kronstadt revolt 1921

 

Early Soviet period 1918-1923

box 1, folder 30-31

General

box 1, folder 32

Constituent Assembly 1918

box 1, folder 33

Brest-Litovsk Treaty 1918

box 1, folder 34

Communist Party

box 1, folder 35

Conferences and meetings

box 1, folder 36

Culture and education

 

Demonstrations

box 1, folder 37

General

box 1, folder 38

Communist International congresses

box 1, folder 39

Eastern peoples

box 1, folder 40

Soviet government

box 1, folder 41

Soviets

box 1, folder 42

Voluntary labor

box 2, folder 1

Late 1920s

box 2, folder 2

1930s

 

Communist International

box 2, folder 3

First Congress 1919

box 2, folder 4

Second Congress 1920

box 2, folder 5

Third Congress 1921

box 2, folder 6

Fourth Congress 1922

box 2, folder 7

Congress of Peoples of the East 1920

box 2, folder 8

Red International of Labor Unions

box 2, folder 9

Antonov-Ovseenko, Vladimir

box 2, folder 10

Artistic and literary figures

box 2, folder 11

Bakunin, Mikhail

box 2, folder 12

Bukharin, Nikolai

box 2, folder 13

Chicherin, Georgii

box 2, folder 14

Communist International delegates

box 2, folder 15

Counterrevolutionary Civil War leaders

box 2, folder 16

Dzerzhinskii, Felix

box 2, folder 17

Gorky, Maxim

box 2, folder 18

Ioffe, Adolf

box 2, folder 19

Kamenev, Lev

box 2, folder 20

Kerensky, Alexander

box 2, folder 21

Kollontai, Alexandra

box 2, folder 22

Krupskaia, Nadezhda

box 2, folder 23

Left Oppositionists

 

Lenin, V. I.

box 2, folder 24

1895-1918

box 2, folder 25

1920

box 2, folder 26

1921

box 2, folder 27

Undated

box 2, folder 28

With Leon Trotsky

box 2, folder 29

With others

box 2, folder 30

Drawings and artwork

box 2, folder 31

Lenin cult

box 2, folder 32

Lunacharskii, Anatolii

box 2, folder 33

Mensheviks

box 2, folder 34

Nicholas II, Tsar, and family

box 2, folder 35

Plekhanov, Georgii

box 2, folder 36

Radek, Karl

box 2, folder 37

Rakovskii, Khristian

box 2, folder 38

Revolutionaries, Pre-1917

box 2, folder 39

Rykov, Aleksei

box 2, folder 40

Serge, Victor

box 2, folder 41

Stalin, Joseph

box 2, folder 42

Sverdlov, Iakov

box 2, folder 43

Zinov'ev, Grigorii

box 2, folder 44

Miscellaneous individuals

 

Leon Trotsky File 1897-1979.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of Leon Trotsky, family and entourage
box 3, folder 1

1917

box 3, folder 2

1917-1929

box 3, folder 3

Prinkipo, Turkey 1929-1933

box 3, folder 4

Trip to Copenhagen, Denmark 1932

box 3, folder 5

France 1933-1935

box 3, folder 6

Norway 1935-1936

 

Mexico 1937-1940

box 3, folder 7

Arrival 1937 January

box 3, folder 8

Dewey Commission hearings 1937 April

box 3, folder 9

Portraits of Trotsky

box 4, folder 1

Trotsky in Coyoacán study

box 4, folder 2

Trotsky with Nataliia Sedova

box 4, folder 3

Trotsky with others

box 4, folder 4

Coyoacán grounds and study

box 4, folder 5-6

Coyoacán guards and visitors

box 4, folder 7-8

Contact sheets (Joseph Hansen photographs)

box 5, folder 1

Assassination attempt 1940 May

box 5, folder 2

Harte, Robert Sheldon

box 5, folder 3

Assassination and funeral 1940 August

box 5, folder 4

Mercader, Ramon

box 5, folder 5

Memorial meeting, New York 1940

box 5, folder 6

Centenary meeting, Mexico 1979

box 5, folder 7-8

Miscellaneous prints

box 5, folder 9-10

Miscellaneous contact sheets

box 5, folder 11-12

Negatives

box 5, folder 13

Drawings and artwork

box 5, folder 14-15

Sedova, Nataliia

box 5, folder 16

Sedov, Lev

 

Socialist Workers Party File circa 1920s-1990s.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of Socialist Workers Party leaders, members and associates, and of scenes of Party activities
box 6, folder 1-2

Party leaders (group pictures)

box 6, folder 3

Party headquarters, New York and San Francisco

 

Mountain Spring Camp, New Jersey (Party summer leadership training camp)

box 6, folder 4

General ca. 1949-1962

box 6, folder 5

Construction project 1952

box 6, folder 6

Negatives

box 6, folder 7

Pathfinder Press printshop

box 6, folder 8

Pioneer Publishers sales booth

box 6, folder 9

Anti-fascist demonstrations (against Gerald L. K. Smith) 1938 and 1945

box 6, folder 10

Mission to Moscow (motion picture) pickets 1943

box 6, folder 11

Indonesia solidarity pickets ca. 1946

box 6, folder 12

Indochina solidarity pickets, French Consulate, New York 1947

box 6, folder 13

Alvin, Milton

 

Barnes, Jack

box 6, folder 14

1960s and 1970s

box 6, folder 15

1980s and 1990s

box 6, folder 16

Contact sheets

box 6, folder 17

Bartell, Mike

box 6, folder 18

Bleeker, Sylvia

box 6, folder 19

Booth, Eloise

box 6, folder 20

Breitman, George

 

Cannon, James P.

box 7, folder 1

1920s

box 7, folder 2

1930s

box 7, folder 3

1940s

box 7, folder 4

1950s

box 7, folder 5

1960s and 1970s

box 7, folder 6

Memorial meetings 1974

box 7, folder 7

Family members

box 7, folder 8

Contact sheets

box 7, folder 9

Negatives

box 7, folder 10

Carlson, Grace

box 7, folder 11

Chester, Bob and Ann

box 7, folder 12

Clarke, George

box 7, folder 13

Cochran, Bert

box 7, folder 14

Coover, Oscar

box 7, folder 15

Coover, Oscar, Jr.

box 7, folder 16

Curtiss, Charles and Lillian

box 7, folder 17

Dunayevskaya, Raya

box 8, folder 1

Farrell, James T.

box 8, folder 2

Ferguson, Duncan, and Demila Sanders

box 8, folder 3

Garza, Catarino and Richard

box 8, folder 4

Glass, C. Frank

box 8, folder 5

Goldman, Albert

box 8, folder 6

Gordon, Sam

box 8, folder 7

Gray, Laura

 

Halstead, Fred

box 8, folder 8

Portraits 1961

box 8, folder 9

World tour 1968

box 8, folder 10

1960s

box 8, folder 11

1970s

box 8, folder 12

Miscellaneous

box 8, folder 13

Hansen, Al

box 8, folder 14

Hansen, Bea

 

Hansen, Joseph

box 8, folder 15

Early 1930s

box 8, folder 16

Mexico late 1930s

Scope and Contents note

(includes Leon Trotsky)
box 8, folder 17

1940s and 1950s

box 8, folder 18

1960s and 1970s

box 8, folder 19

Intercontinental Press anniversary banquet 1974

box 8, folder 20

Memorial meetings 1979

box 8, folder 21

Hansen, Reba

box 9, folder 1

Herron, Edwin

box 9, folder 2

Karsner, Rose

box 9, folder 3

Keely, Ellen

box 9, folder 4

Kerry, Tom and Karolyn

box 9, folder 5

Konikow, Antoinette

box 9, folder 6

Kutcher, James

box 9, folder 7

Lovell, Frank

box 9, folder 8

Mangan, Sherry

box 9, folder 9

Mayhew, Howard

box 9, folder 10

Muste, A. J.

box 9, folder 11

Novack, George

box 9, folder 12

Preis, Art and Ethel

box 9, folder 13

Reed, Evelyn

box 10, folder 1

Roberts, Dan

box 10, folder 2

Scholl, Marvel

box 10, folder 3

Shachtman, Max

box 10, folder 4

Sharon, Art

box 10, folder 5

Simpson, Louise

box 10, folder 6

Swabeck, Arne

box 10, folder 7

Trainor, Lawrence and Augusta

 

Waters, Mary-Alice

box 10, folder 8

1960s and 1970s

box 10, folder 9

1980s and 1990s

box 10, folder 10

Contact sheets

box 10, folder 11

Weiss, Myra Tanner

box 10, folder 12

Wright, John G.

 

Individual party members and associates (mainly 1980s and 1990s)

box 10, folder 13

A

box 10, folder 14

B

box 10, folder 15

C

box 10, folder 16

D

box 10, folder 17

E

box 10, folder 18

F

box 10, folder 19

G

box 10, folder 20

H

box 10, folder 21

I-J

box 10, folder 22

K

box 11, folder 1

L

box 11, folder 2

M

box 11, folder 3

N

box 11, folder 4

P-Q

box 11, folder 5

R

box 11, folder 6-7

S

box 11, folder 8

T

box 11, folder 9

V

box 11, folder 10

W

box 11, folder 11

Y-Z

 

Oversize File 1871-1990.

Scope and Contents note

Oversize drawings, photographs, and printed pictorial articles
box 12, folder 1

Petrograd Soviet 1917.

Scope and Contents note

Photograph
box 12, folder 2

Bolshevik leaders. Drawings by Evelyn Reed of Nikolai Bukharin, Karl Radek, Khristian Rakovskii and Ivan Smirnov

 

Trotsky, Leon

box 12, folder 3

Photograph album of Trotsky in Siberia, 1906, and in Turkey and Norway 1931-1936

box 12, folder 4

New York American article by Louise Bryant reporting interview with Trotsky in Moscow 1922

box 12, folder 5

Life magazine pictorial articles on Trotsky in Mexico, the Dewey Commission, and the assassination of Trotsky 1937-1940

box 12, folder 6

Assassination 1940.

Scope and Contents note

Newspaper articles
box 12, folder 7

Italian memorial meeting 1945.

Scope and Contents note

Poster
box 12, folder 8

Photograph and drawing.

Scope and Contents note

Printed reproductions
 

Socialist Workers Party

box 13, folder 1

Works Progress Administration strike participation 1939.

Scope and Contents note

Broadside and newspaper articles
box 13, folder 2

Antiwar work 1967.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs
box 13, folder 3

COINTELPRO court case 1981.

Scope and Contents note

Drawings by Diane Jacobs of court testimony
box 13, folder 4

Lawrence Gelfand court case 1989.

Scope and Contents note

Drawings of court testimony
box 13, folder 5

Pathfinder mural 1990.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs
box 13, folder 6

Dunne, Vincent Raymond.

Scope and Contents note

Drawing by Della Rossa, 1964
box 13, folder 7

Hansen, Joseph and Reba.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs
box 13, folder 8

Reed, Evelyn.

Scope and Contents note

Photograph, 1978
box 13, folder 9

Paris Commune 1871.

Scope and Contents note

Pictorial newspaper articles
box 13, folder 10

Spanish Civil War.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs, 1936-1937
box 13, folder 11

World War II.

Scope and Contents note

Printed reproductions of photographs of the Jewish Holocaust and of the Hiroshima atomic bomb
box 13, folder 12

French General Strike 1968.

Scope and Contents note

Printed reproductions of photographs
box 13, folder 13

Peng, Shu-tse, and Chen Pi-lan.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs
box 13, folder 14

Pinochet, Augusto.

Scope and Contents note

Caricature by Ivan for The Militant
box 13, folder 15

X, Malcolm.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs
 

General Subject File circa 1900s-1990s.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of individuals, including American and other leftist figures, Trotskyist leaders from outside the United States, and figures of general historical interest
box 14, folder 1

Communist Party of the United States leaders 1920s

box 14, folder 2

Diego Rivera murals, New Workers School, New York City

box 14, folder 3

China massacres 1927-1931

box 14, folder 4

Chinese Trotskyist leaders

 

Spanish Civil War

box 14, folder 5

Francoists

box 14, folder 6

Republicans

box 14, folder 7

Vietnamese nationalist and Trotskyist leaders

box 14, folder 8

Debs, Eugene V.

box 14, folder 9

De Leon, Daniel

box 14, folder 10

Deutscher, Isaac

box 14, folder 11

Du Bois, W. E. B.

box 14, folder 12

Fonseca, Carlos

box 14, folder 13

Frank, Pierre

box 14, folder 14

Jones, Mary Harris "Mother"

box 14, folder 15

Jungclas, Georg

box 14, folder 16

Kun, Bela

box 14, folder 17

Leon, Abram

box 14, folder 18

Mandel, Ernest and Gisela

box 14, folder 19

Mink, George

box 14, folder 20

Peng, Shu-tse, and Chen Pi-lan

box 14, folder 21

Rodinson, Maxime

box 14, folder 22

Rosmer, Alfred and Marguerite

box 14, folder 23

Tabata, I. B., and Franz J. T. Lee

 

X, Malcolm

box 15, folder 1

Pre-1964

box 15, folder 2

U.S. 1964

box 15, folder 3

Africa 1964

box 15, folder 4

Militant Labor Forums, New York 1964-1965

box 15, folder 5

Schomberg Center, New York 1964-1965

box 15, folder 6

1965

box 15, folder 7

Unidentified occasions

box 15, folder 8

Assassination and funeral 1965

box 15, folder 9

Associates

box 15, folder 10

Drawings and artwork

 

Notable individuals

box 15, folder 11

A

box 15, folder 12

B

box 15, folder 13

C

box 15, folder 14

D

box 15, folder 15

E

box 15, folder 16

F

box 16, folder 1

G

box 16, folder 2

H

box 16, folder 3

J

box 16, folder 4

K

box 16, folder 5

L

box 16, folder 6

M

box 16, folder 7

N

box 16, folder 8

O

box 16, folder 9

P

box 16, folder 10

R

box 16, folder 11

S

box 16, folder 12

T

box 16, folder 13

V

box 16, folder 14

W

box 16, folder 15

Y-Z

 

Publications File 1973-1991.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs used in Pathfinder Press publications, arranged chronologically by publication
box 17, folder 1

Cannon, James P. Letters from Prison. 2nd edition. 1973

box 17, folder 2

Trotsky, Leon. Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929. 1975

box 17, folder 3

Trotsky, Leon. The History of the Russian Revolution. 1980

box 17, folder 4

Castro, Fidel. Women and the Cuban Revolution: Speeches and Documents. By Fidel Castro, Vilma Espin and others; edited by Elizabeth Stone. 1981

box 17, folder 5

Weissberg, Arnold. Nicaragua: An Introduction to the Sandinista Revolution. 1981

box 17, folder 6

Wang, Diane. Report from Vietnam and Kampuchea. By Diane Wang and Steve Clark. 1984

box 17, folder 7

Castro, Fidel. U.S. Hands Off the Mideast! Cuba Speaks Out at the United Nations. By Fidel Castro and Ricardo Alarcon. 1990

box 17, folder 8

Mandela, Nelson. Intensifiquemos la lucha: Discursos en Africa, Europa y Norteamerica. 1990

 

Communist International. Congress (2nd : 1920 : Petrograd, Russia) Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress, 1920. Edited by John Riddell. 1991

box 17, folder 9

Volume 1

box 17, folder 10

Volume 2

box 17, folder 11

Nouvelle Internationale. No. 4. 1991

 

Numerical Contact Sheets File circa 1960s-1990s.

Scope and Contents note

Contact sheets numerically arranged by negative number. Not all numbers are represented
box 17, folder 12

1-499

box 17, folder 13

500-999

box 17, folder 14

1000-1499

box 17, folder 15

1500-1999

box 17, folder 16

2000-2499

box 17, folder 17

2500-2999

box 17, folder 18

3000-3199

box 17, folder 19

3200-3399

box 17, folder 20

3600-3799

box 17, folder 21

3800-3999

box 17, folder 22

4000-4199

box 17, folder 23

4400-4599

box 17, folder 24

4600-4799

box 17, folder 25

4800-4999

box 17, folder 26

7000-7999

box 17, folder 27

8000-8999

box 17, folder 28

9000-9499

box 17, folder 29

9500-9999

box 18, folder 1

10,200-10,399

box 18, folder 2

10,400-10,599

box 18, folder 3

11,400-11,599

box 18, folder 4

11,600-11,799

box 18, folder 5

11,800-11,999

box 18, folder 6

12,000-12,199

box 18, folder 7

13,000-13,199

box 18, folder 8

13,200-13,399

box 18, folder 9

13,400-13,599

box 18, folder 10

13,600-13,699

box 18, folder 11

13,700-13,799

box 18, folder 12

14,000-14,999

box 18, folder 13

15,000-15,999

box 18, folder 14

16,000-16,999

box 18, folder 15

17,000-17,999

box 18, folder 16

18,000-18,999

box 18, folder 17

19,000-19,999

 

Numerical Negative File circa 1960s-1990s.

Scope and Contents note

Negatives numerically arranged. Not all numbers are represented
box 19

1-1805

box 20

1819-4623

box 21

4624-10,423

box 22

10,424-13,607

box 23

13,609-14,750

box 24

14,751-15,450

box 25

15,453-16,150

box 26

16,151-16,700

box 27

16,701-17,209

box 28

17,210-17,658

box 29

17,659-17,959

box 30

17,960-18,381

box 31

18,382-18,789

box 32

18,790-19,214

box 33

19,215-19,538

box 33

H1-H635

 

Card File.

Scope and Contents note

Names of individuals depicted, alphabetically arranged, correlated with negative numbers
box 35

A-L

box 36

M-Z