Guide to the American right wing pamphlet collection M2867
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2022
Green Library
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Stanford 94305-6064
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Collection of American right wing pamphlets
source:
Bolerium Books
Identifier/Call Number: M2867
Physical Description:
12 Linear Feet
(22 boxes, 1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): 1926-1981
Date (bulk): 1950s-1970s
Abstract: Collection of 1950s-1960s right wing political and religious ephemera ranging from economic conservatism to extreme hate speech.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, 2012. Accession 2022-357.
Related Materials
Stanford Special Collections holds a few related collections of conservative and extremist political ephemera:
Margaret Meier collection of extreme right wing American political ephemera, 1930-1980 (M0688)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084319
Right-wing extremists : ephemeral material and partial runs of journals, 1926-1994 (M0993)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084783
Conservative viewpoint and related ephemera, 1965-1971 (MISC 576)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084782
Stanford's Archive of Recorded Sound holds a series of audio recordings by the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6757029
Conditions Governing Use
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Collection of American right wing pamphlets (M2867). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.
Scope and Contents
This collection of political and religious ephemera was obtained from a San Francisco dealer who assembled the material from
the estates of various Southern Californians activists. Content ranges from economic conservative viewpoints such as free
enterprise and small government to racist, antisemitic, and other hateful expression, but the majority are anti-Communist
and Christian Nationalist in nature. Most are from the 1950s and 60s, but there is material from the 1930s through the 1980s
as well as a small file from 1914.
The ephemera consists of mailers, fliers & handbills, article photocopies (often heavily annotated), pamphlets, books, magazines,
newsletters, reports, transcripts, typescripts, and related items. Much of the material comes from churches and religious
organizations.
The collection, which arrived unsorted, was sorted into various series as follows (please note that series are general groupings
and subjects overlap between them):
Series 1 contains material filed by distributor, publisher or author. In many cases these are reprints from other sources,
revealing an editorialized information network much like contemporary internet practice.
Series 2 contains material filed more or less by subject, and in many cases without clear authorship or source printed. Series
3, 4 & 5 are also filed by subject, but with more detailed description.
Series 6 contains a variety of generally liberal and moderate religious and institutional publications. It is not clear which
things were used by right groups as examples for commentary, and which were probably added later by the dealer in putting
the collection together. Miscellaneous non-political publications are also filed here.
The final series is another instance of unrelated material that came with the collection; a group of multiple copies of article
reprints, committee reports, state bills, and other printed ephemera concerning prenatal health, hygiene and clean milk legislation
in Massachusetts circa 1914.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Right-wing extremists -- U.S.
Christians -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
California -- Politics and government
Political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Politics and government.
White supremacy movements.
Cold War
Conspiracy theories
Bolerium Books
Series 1. Alphabetical by organization
Scope and Contents
Material filed here has been arranged by organization or individual alphabetically. Prolific organizations were foldered indiviudally.
Other publications by these organizations may also be found in other series.
Box 13, folder 1
20th Century Reformation Hour/Carl McIntire
Box 13, folder 2
A
Scope and Contents
Action Patriots ; AD-HOC Committees ; Alert America Association ; Allen-Bradley Co. ; America First Committee ; America Preferred
; America's Promise Radio ; American Bible Society ; American Birthright Committee ; American Capsule News ; American Conservative
Union ; American Council of Christian Churches ; American Council of Christian Laymen ; American Flag Committee ; American
Freedoms Center ; American Legion ; American Liberty Press ; American Nationalist ; American Progress Foundation ; Americans
United Council ; The Anti-Communist ; Awake America
Box 13, folder 3
Alerte! (Advocates of Our Lady)
Box 13, folder 5
B
Scope and Contents
The Bible Forum ; Bible News Flashes ; William Blessing ; Boniface Press ; The Bookmailer, Inc.
Box 13, folder 6
Ca-Ch
Scope and Contents
Cal-Press Features, Inc. ; California Defense Committee ; California Free Enterprise Association ; California League of Christian
Parents ; Catholic Freedom Foundation ; Child Evangelism Fellowship ; Christian Anti-Communism Crusade ; Christian Call ;
Christian Defense League ; Christian Evangelizers Association ; Christian Freedom Association ; Christian Literature, Inc.
; Christian Party/Pelley's Weekly ; Christian Patriots Crusade ; Christian Prayer Crusade ; Christian Resistance ; Christian
Youth Against Communism ; Christians Awake ; Church of the Covenants/Curtis Clair Ewing (Pasadena, CA) ; Church Times (Oak
Hill, WV)
Box 13, folder 7
California Christian Citizens Association/David Calderwood
Box 13, folder 9
Christian Educational Association
Box 13, folder 10
Christian Nationalist Crusade/Gerald L.K. Smith
Box 14, folder 1
Church League of America (National Laymen's Council)
Box 14, folder 2
Ci-Cv
Scope and Contents
Circuit Riders, Inc. ; Citizen's For a Free Cuba, Inc. ; Citizens' Council of Mississippi ; Citizens For Decent Literature,
Inc. ; Citizens For a Return to the American Constitution ; Civic Research Action Group ; Clergymen's Committee on China,
Inc. ; Committee of Pawns ; Committee on Religion in American Life ; Committee for the Preservation of the Constitution ;
Community Churches of America ; Conservative Viewpoint ; Constitution Party ; The Constitutionalist & Traditional American
; Constitutionalists ; Council for Statehood ; Covenant Evangelical Association ; Covenant Message (South Africa) ; Cow-Country
Commentary ; Matt Cvetic
Box 14, folder 3
Cinema Educational Guild, Inc.
Box 14, folder 4
Clem Davies Ministry, Inc.
Box 14, folder 5
Coast Federal Savings & Loan Association
Box 14, folder 6
Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc.
Box 14, folder 7
Committee of Christian Laymen, Inc.
Box 14, folder 8
Committee to Restore the Constitution, Inc.
Box 15
D
Scope and Contents
Donald Day ; Defenders of the U.S.A. Republic ; Destiny Publishers, Inc. ; Elizabeth Dilling ; Joseph Dilys
Box 15, folder 2
Defenders of the American Constitution, Inc.
Box 15, folder 3
Defenders, Inc./Defenders of the Christian Faith/Gordon Winrod
Box 15, folder 4
E
Scope and Contents
Educational News Service ; Educator Publications ; End Times Revelations ; Evolve
Box 15, folder 5
F
Scope and Contents
The Fact Finder ; The Fact Reporting Network ; Fact Sheet ; Facts For Action ; Facts Research ; Families Opposing Revolutionary
Donations (anti-Ford Foundation) ; Fellowship Forum ; Fighting American [addressed to Liberty Lobby in San Francisco] ; Firm
Foundation ; For America ; Free Enterprise ; Free Men Speak ; Freedom's Facts (All-American Conference to Combat Communism)
; From the Mountain/Robert E. Miles (Cohoctah, MI)
Box 15, folder 6
Factual Reports, Inc./Action in Congress
Box 15, folder 7
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
Box 15, folder 8
G - H
Scope and Contents
Gospel Tract Society ; General Herbert Holdridge ; Headlines, Inc. ; W.D. Herrstrom/Americanism Bulletin ; Home Tract Distribution
Box 15, folder 9
I
Scope and Contents
The Illuminator/Martin Paul Bohnet ; Independent American ; The Individualist (Danville, VA) ; Institute for Special Research
; International Services of Information Foundation, Inc./Inform
Box 16, folder 1
J - K
Scope and Contents
Theodore Jackman ; Jesus to the Communist World, Inc. ; John Birch Society ; Howard E. Kirshner ; Kingdom Bible Institute
; Geza Korda
Box 16, folder 4
L
Scope and Contents
LeBlanc Publishers ; The Ledger ; Life and Liberty Party ; Life Line
Box 17, folder 1
M
Scope and Contents
Manion Forum ; Militant Christian ; Militant Truth ; Moral Re-Armament ; Minutemen ; Mothers' Crusade for Victory Over Communism
Box 17, folder 2
William Steuart McBirnie/Community Churches of America
Box 17, folder 3
Memo U.S.A. / Roy E. Gillespie
Box 17, folder 4
N
Scope and Contents
National Advisory Committee ; National Blue Star Mothers of America ; National Christian Association ; National Chronicle
; National Citizen's Union ; National Committee of Christian Laymen ; National Education Program (Harding College) ; National
Federation Christian Laymen (Canada) ; National Information Service ; National Law Enforcement Committee (Keep America reprints)
; National Patrick Henry Organization, Inc. ; National Reprint Service ; National Renaissance Party ; Nationalist Information
Service ; Edward Warwick Neville/Survival of the Fittest ; New Age Press ; New Christian Crusade Church ; New Times ; News
For Action ; Leo E. Nolte Printing & Lithography Co.
Box 17, folder 5
National Defense Committee (National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution)
Box 17, folder 6
National Message Ministry
Box 17, folder 7
Network of Patriotic Letter Writers
Box 17, folder 8
Osterhus Publishing House
Box 17, folder 9
P
Scope and Contents
Parliament House Book Publishers ; Pasadena Anti-Communist League ; South Pasadena Research ; Periscope Publishing Co. ; Personal
Christianity ; Personal Rights Association/The Individualist ; Plain Talk ; Poor Richard's Book Shop ; Portions in Due Season
; Karl Prussion/Head's Up ; Prophetic Herald ; Protestants And Other Americans For Separation of Church & State ; Public Opinion
Box 18, folder 1
R
Scope and Contents
Realism's Reporter ; Reveille ; Research Publications ; Review & Herald Publishing Association
Box 18, folder 2
S
Scope and Contents
San Francisco Conservative Baptist Seminary ; Search Light ; Seventh Trumpet ; Dan Smoot Report ; Sons of Liberty ; The Southern
Conservative ; SPX Research Associates ; Success/Constitutional Alliance, Inc. ; Special Project ; Spiritual Mobilization
Box 18, folder 3
Soldiers of the Cross/Kenneth Goff
Box 18, folder 5
T-U
Scope and Contents
Gardner C. Taylor ; Time For Truth Press, Inc. ; Town Meetings For Freedom, Inc. ; Truth Forum ; Twentieth Century Evangelism
; The Truth About Cuba Committee ; Truth & Liberty Magazine ; Union Mission Army, Inc. ; United Baptist Laymen, Inc. ; United
Groups for Americanism in our Schools ; U.S. Flag Committee
Box 18, folder 6
V
Scope and Contents
Veritas Foundation ; Victory Publishing Company ; The Voice of Deliverance ; Voice of Liberty Association ; Voice of the Nazarene
; Voice of Truth & Freedom
Box 18, folder 7
W-Y
Scope and Contents
Wage Earners Committee ; General Walker [Friends of, etc.] ; Washington Observer Newsletter ; Weekly Sermon Visitor (First
Covenant Church, Dallas) ; We, The People ; Western Voice ; Ellen G. White Publications ; White Horse Crusade/Church of Jesus
Christ of Israel ; What Now?/Roy G. Owens ; Why Magazine ; G. Spencer Wice ; World Church News ; World Prophetic Ministry,
Inc. ; Youth Action
Box 19, folder 1
Wings of Healing Correspondence Course
Series 2. By subject, type or author
Box 21, folder 4-5
Antisemitism
Scope and Contents
Mostly unsigned articles and essays, many articles taken from Jewish press and editorialized with annotations. Second folder
(originally labeled "Jew") contains original grouping of various files.
Box 4
Edward L. Delaney publications
Box 19, folder 2
Event publicity, programs & transcripts
Scope and Contents
Bible-Science Radio/Creation Science Research Center ; Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Crosby ; Tirso Del Junco, San Gabriel Valley District
- LA County Medical Association ; Lawrence Reilly, Eleventh Hour/XERF ; Harry E. Fisher ; John T. Flynn ; Edward Hunter ;
T. Robert Ingram, St. Thomas Episcopal Church ; Senator William E. Jenner, Springfield Ohio Chamber of Commerce ; National
Kingdom Israel Convention 1958 ; Harry T. Everingham, Pro-American Forum ; Project Alert School of Anti-Communism, Shrine
Auditorium ; Robert B. Record, Destiny of America Radio Broadcast ; Bill Schutz/KAFY/KCOK ; Voice of Truth/XERB ; R. Bishop,
Watchtower Society, Kingdom Hall ; Western Washington Kingdom Bible Conference ; KABC Gun Control editorial 1968 ; Ron Wright/Radio
Verite ; Your Christian Inheritance Hour
Box 4
Garet Garrett publications
Box 4
Robert Le Fevre/Harry Elmer Barnes publications
Box 21, folder 1
Miscellaneous unsigned
Scope and Contents
Material largely with unclear publication information, in some cases loose pages, incomplete documents, and photocopied articles.
Some original typescripts.
Box 8
Mounted articles etc. for exhibit or display
Box 21, folder 6-7
Race, eugenics, desegregation
Box 4
John Howland Snow/Upton Close publications
Box 20, folder 2-4
Spiritualism & philosophy
Scope and Contents
Arcane School ; J. Osborn Brink ; Brotherhood of Light ; The Christophers ; Clifton's Cafeteria ; Great Aim Society ; Hamsa/Dane
Rudhyar ; August Hashagen ; Human Science International/Sheldon Shepard ; Institute of Mentalphysics ; Institute of Religious
Science/Ernest Holmes ; Peter Melnick ; Michael X. ; Marie Harlowe - The Occult Digest/World Philosophy ; Order of DeMolay
; The Rosicrucian Order ; Scientology ; Charles E. Stone/The Voice ; The Temple Artisan/Temple of the People ; Universal Life
Research
Box 21, folder 2
Typescripts (some incomplete)
Scope and Contents
Most suggest they are internal correspondence or memos, including a report spying on a meeting of the Committee for Fair Employment
Practice 1955. Also included are two original unlabeled folders of various material.
Box 23
Oversize material
Scope and Contents
Includes larger article reprints, "The Tree on Which Our Republic And Freedom Were Murdered" poster, The New Day (Father Divine
newspaper) Vol.XIX No.18 April 30, 1955
Series 3. Churches, Christian denominations
Box 19, folder 3
National Council of Churches/Collectivism
Box 19, folder 4
Southern California churches (mostly non-political)
Box 19, folder 7
Mormonism/Latter-Day Saints
Series 4. Economics
Scope and Contents
Material in this series is generally concerned with taxation, government, and finance. Some pamphlets are published by government
agencies.
Box 9, folder 1
A
Scope and Contents
Ambassador College Press ; American Affairs ; American Mercury Magazine ; American Opinion
Box 9, folder 2
American Institute for Economic Research
Box 9, folder 3
B-D
Scope and Contents
Brady Publishing Corporation ; R.N. Burgess ; Changing Times ; Commission on Money & Credit ; Committee for Economic Development
; Christophers ; Constitutional Money League ; William M. Dobslaw ; Czarol Delatour ; Duck Book Digest
Box 10, folder 1
F-G
Scope and Contents
Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy ; Enterprise Publications ; Forum Publishing Company ; Gold Standard League
; Green Mountaineer
Box 10, folder 2
H
Scope and Contents
Heritage Foundation ; Herbert C. Holdridge ; Honest Money Founders ; Human Events
Box 10, folder 3
I
Scope and Contents
Ingram Institute ; Institute for Humane Studies, Inc. ; International Freedom Academy
Box 10, folder 4
K-L
Scope and Contents
Kaspar & Horton ; La Fayette Institute ; Lake Printing Company
Box 10, folder 5
M-N
Scope and Contents
Meador Publishing Company ; National Economic Council, Inc. ; National Association of Manufacturers ; National City Bank of
New York ; National Research Bureau ; Andrae B. Nordskog
Box 11, folder 2
P-R
Scope and Contents
Progress Publishing Concern ; RB Press ; Riverside Press ; Etta M. Russell ; Responsible Enterprise Association
Box 11, folder 3
S-U
Scope and Contents
Secure Monetary Systems Ltd. ; Stable Money Association ; E.R. Stockwell ; John L. Talbott ; United States Steel Corporation
; Tax Rebellion Committee
Box 11, folder 4
V-W
Scope and Contents
Vincent Press ; Henry A. Woodard ; World Peace Foundation
Series 5. Politics, government, foreign policy
Scope and Contents
Also includes Commonwealth publications (UK, Australia & Canada).
Box 1, folder 1
United Nations/UNESCO publications
Box 1, folder 3
Anti-World Government/Foreign Policy
Box 1
Foreign policy publications [unfoldered]
Scope and Contents
Includes booklets from American Friends Service Committee, Carnegie Endowment for World Peace, etc.
Box 2
Politics/political philosophy books and booklets [unfoldered]
Box 3, folder 3
The National Message (Journal of the British Israel World Federation)
1946-1948
Box 5
Miscellaneous government publications
Scope and Contents
Includes Public Administration Service, National Municipal League, etc.
Series 6. Moderate, liberal, miscellaneous
Box 5
Case Studies in Personnel Security. Collected under the Direction of Adam Yarmolinsky. (Washington, D. C.: The Bureau of National
Affairs, Inc.1955)
Box 5
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Box 5
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Box 6, folder 1
B'nai Brith/Anti-Defamation League
Box 6, folder 3
Moderate & liberal Christian
Box 6, folder 4
Liberal and left
Scope and Contents
Includes many issues of New South
Box 22, folder 1
Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents
Employe's Group Insurance Plan of Sears, Roebuck & Co. June 1944 ; Selected Speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll (missing back
cover) ; Publicity Procedure: Post-Advocate Handbook for Press Chairmen ; Hoax Or Hostage? (Financial Managers Society for
Savings Institutions 1974)
Box 22, folder 3
Series 7. Massachusetts - health, milk & prenatal care, 1914
Scope and Contents
Multiple copies of article reprints, committee reports, state bills, and other printed ephemera concerning prenatal health,
hygiene and clean milk legislation in Massachusetts circa 1914. Material printed by or about the American Association for
Study & Prevention of Infant Mortality, American Child Hygiene Association, Women's Municipal League of Boston, and the Ellis
Clean Milk Bill, dating from 1914 to 1916.
