COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection contains extensive correspondence and other materials concerning William R. George and the founding of the George Junior Republic. The collection also contains material which documents the evolution of the Republic and its part in educational reform in the early twentieth century; the establishment of other Junior Republics in the United States; and George's ideas about the Child Labor Amendment, communism, socialism, pacifism, and the welfare state. Also included is extensive correspondence, 1807-1985 of George and the George family, including thousands of letters from former citizens, benefactors, and persons interested in social reform; George Junior Republic Association records, unpublished articles by George, minutes of councils, and annotated notes; manuscripts (ca. 1909-68) with book drafts, drafts for articles and speeches, and material about the Phalanx movement. Also, diaries (1881-1962), and other volumes, including memobooks, account books, steno notebooks, address books, guestbooks, and scrapbooks. Although a fire destroyed many of the Republic's work records, the collection still includes some record books (1895-1923).
Extensive published material which was printed at or concerns the George Junior Republic (1895-1985), and three books by William R. George, THE JUNIOR REPUBLIC, CITIZENS MADE AND REMADE (with Lyman Beecher Stowe), and THE ADULT MINOR are also included, as well as blueprints, plans, and certificates, museum items, photographs, albums, and sketches (1889-1955) depicting the early days of the Republic, family and friends of William R. George, citizens, ex-citizens, helpers, and officials of the Republic; genealogies of the Georges and related families; newspaper and magazine clippings (1809-1985); unidentified wax recordings; transcripts (1965) of five interviews done by Jack Holl and Frances Keefe; papers relating to Gerrit Smith Miller; and papers kept by Malcolm Freeborn (1930-85) concerning many committees and councils of the Junior Republic, and Freeborn's work with senior citizens and with the Tompkins County Youth Court.
Correspondents include Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Forbes, Willard E. Hotchkiss, Leonard S. Levin, Gerrit Smith Miller, Susan Dixwell Miller, William C. Orton, Theodore Roosevelt, Jacob Gould Schurman, Lyman Beecher Stowe, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Richard Welling, and many others.
Dates
- 1750-1989.
Creator
- George family. (Family)
- Holl, Jack M. (Person)
- Keefe, Frances Margaret, 1914- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
83.1 cubic feet. (83.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Collection contains extensive correspondence and other materials concerning William R. George and the founding of the George Junior Republic, the evolution of the Republic and its part in educational reform in the early twentieth century; and the establishment of other Junior Republics in the United States
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT
Series I. Correspondence Boxes 1-54
Series II. Manuscripts Boxes 55-59
Series III. Bound Volumes - Manuscripts Boxes 60-87
Series IV. Miscellaneous Box 88
Series V. Printed Material Boxes 89-111
Series VI. Blueprints, Plans, and Certificates Located in map-cases
Series VII. Museum Items Boxes 112-117
George Family Museum Items George Junior Republic Currency George Junior Republic Musuem Items
Series VIII. Photographs, Photo Albums, Negatives, Printed Photographs, and Sketches Boxes 118-137
Photographs of William R. George Photographs related to William R. George William R. George Family Photographs Photographs of Friends of William R. George Fresh Air Days Photographs (George Junior Republic) Early Days Photographs (George Junior Republic) Photographs - 1900-1905 (George Junior Republic) Photographs - 1906-1919 (George Junior Republic) George Junior Republic Activities and Group Photographs Photographs of Republic Buildings and Grounds Photographs of Republic Employees and Officials Photographs of Other Republics Photographs of George Junior Republic Ex-citizens Oversize and Miscellaneous Photographs Tintypes, Glass Plates, Negatives, and Miscellaneous Negatives Miscellaneous Rolled Photographs Photograph Albums Printed Photographs and Sketches
Series IX. Genealogy Boxes 138-140
Series X. Gerrit Smith Miller Papers Boxes 140-141
Series XI. Clippings Boxes 142-144
Series XII. Wax Recordings Boxes 145-150
Series XIII. Oral History Transcripts
Series XIV. Malcolm J. Freeborn Papers Boxes 151-
Physical Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, money, bound periodicals, blueprints, notebooks, photographs, sketches, clippings, wax recordings, transcripts
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Geri E. SolomonPhil McCrayElaine D. Engst
- Date completed:
- 1994
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez; January, 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, May 2018
- Account books.
- Anti-communist movements.
- Blueprints.
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
- Child labor -- Law and Legislation.
- Child labor.
- Children -- Institutional care.
- Discipline of children.
- Education.
- Forbes, Alexander, 1835-
- Freeborn, Edith George.
- Freeborn, Malcolm J.
- Freeville (N.Y.)
- Genealogies.
- George Junior Republic (Freeville, N.Y.)
- George Junior Republic Association
- George, Esther Brewster, 1872-1962.
- George, William R. (William Reuben), 1866-1936.
- George, William R. (William Reuben), 1866-1936. (Title of work: Adult minor..)
- George, William R. (William Reuben), 1866-1936. (Title of work: Citizens made and remade..)
- George, William R. (William Reuben), 1866-1936. (Title of work: Junior republic..)
- Hotchkiss, Willard E. (Willard Eugene), 1874-1956.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- League for the Promotion of Civic and Economic Responsibility
- Levin, Leonard S.
- Manuscripts.
- Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith), 1869-1956.
- Miller, Susan Dixwell, 1845-1924.
- National Association of Junior Republics
- Negatives (photographic).
- Older people.
- Orton, William C.
- Photographs.
- Reformatories.
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sketches.
- Social problems.
- Social reformers.
- Speeches.
- Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1880-1963.
- Sze, Sao-Ke Alfred, 1877-1958.
- Tompkins County (N.Y.). Youth Court
- Welling, Richard, 1858-1946.
- Youth -- Employment -- Law and legislation.
- Youth -- Employment.
- Youth -- Political activity.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Geri E. Solomon, Phil McCray, and Elaine D. Engst
- Date
- January 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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- mapcase folder: 1 (Mixed Materials)
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- mapcase folder: 3 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 1 (Mixed Materials)
- mapcase item: ? (unprocessed) (Mixed Materials)
- mapcase item: ? (unprocessed) (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu