John R. Commons Collection on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
Reels 1-5 -- General correspondence, 1859, 1894-1967
Reels 6-8 -- Unemployment insurance for the Chicago Clothing Market, 1922-1929
Reels 9-11 -- Research files, 1875-1932
Reels 12-14 -- Book Manuscripts
Reels 15-17 -- Articles, speeches, and miscellaneous writings, chronological file, scrapbooks, 1887-1918, 1938-1943
Reels 17-18 -- Unbound, 1908-1933
Reels 19-21 -- Topical file, 1892-1938. Reels 21-22 -- Newspaper clippings, 1906-1936
Reels 22-24 -- University file, 1910-1967
Reels 24 -- Photographs, 1881-1934
Dates
- 1859-1967
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
John R. Commons was born in Hollansburg, Ohio, October 13, 1862, he died May 11, 1945.
After graduating from Oberlin College, Commons earned his PhD at Johns Hopkins University. After appointments at Oberlin and Indiana University, he began teaching at Syracuse University. He was dismissed from Syracuse in 1899, after being considered a radical.
Commons' early work exemplified his desire to unite Christian ideals with the emerging social sciences of sociology and economics.
Common's contribution to labor history is considered equal to his contibutions to the theory of institutional economics.
Extent
2.67 cubic feet
Abstract
"The Commons papers date 1859-1967, although the vast majority fall within the years 1887-1945" from the Scope and Content Note of the Guide.
Quantity:
24 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Records (documents), microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, June 12, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, June 12, 2019
- Title
- Commons, John R. Collection on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- June 12, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853