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Title: Robert Edward Edmondson papers
Date (inclusive): 1933-1940
Collection Number: 2021C45
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The largest known existing archive of propaganda created by 1930s isolationist provocateur Robert Edward Edmondson, a journalist
and America First activist with a pronounced anti-Semitic, anti-New Deal agenda. The collection consists of approximately
375 handbills, broadsides, flyers, and newsletters primarily written by Robert Edmondson and published in New York.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2022.
[Identification of item], Robert Edward Edmondson papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Robert Edward Edmondson (1872-1959) was an anti-Semitic pamphleteer and journalist for the Cincinnati Post, New York Mail
and Express, and the New York Herald. He launched the Edmondson Economic Service in 1934 as a means to publish anti-Semitic
literature and critiques of the New Deal and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of approximately 375 handbills, broadsides, flyers, and newsletters primarily written by Robert Edmondson
and published in New York. The majority of the broadsheets are written and signed in print by Edmondson as part of his propaganda
service; alternately titled American Vigilante, Special Defense, Defense Series, and Jew Exposure Patriotic Bulletins. Representing
the far-right political wing of the anti-interventionist movement prior to America entering WWII, the Edmondson archive complements
Hoover's America First Committee records and the 2022 acquisition of the Robert Douglas Stuart, Jr. papers, founder of the
America First Committee.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Antisemitism
Fliers (Ephemera)
Isolationism -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
Neutrality -- United States
Newsletters
Broadsides
America First Committee