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Powers Hapgood Papers on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5790 mf

Abstract

Microfilm copies of Powers Hapgood's manuscript

Dates

  • 1935-1940

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

Powers Hapgood was born December 28, 1899, the son of a progressive canning factory owner in Indianapolis, and his wife. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1917, and from Harvard University in 1921.

Hapgood experienced life as part of the working class while working as a miner in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Northern Pacific Railroad and in a Montana sugar beet factory. Working like this helped him to decide to dedicate his life to mobilizing the working-class.

In 1922 he went to work as an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). He worked in and out of the UMWA for most of the 1920's.

He married Mary Donovan, the Secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, on December 28, 1927. Powers Hapgood passed away on February 4, 1949.

Extent

0.22 cubic feet

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5831 mf: The CIO Files of John L. Lewis, Pt. II: CIO General Files on Microfilm 5928: Elaine Leeder Collection of Rose Pesotta Papers 5928 AV: Rose Pesotta Audio-Visual Materials 6034: Rare Pamphlet Collection 6046: Archives Union File (AUF) 6218: Melvyn Dubofsky Papers

Quantity:

2 microfilm reels

Forms of Material:

Papers (documents), microfilm.

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
Compiled by:
Kheel Staff, August 22, 2014
EAD encoding:
Kheel Staff, April 17, 2019
Title
Hapgood, Powers Papers on Microfilm
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
April 17, 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

Contact:
227 Ives Hall Tower Road
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3183