Mrs. Walter Frank Collection, 1927-1963
Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries
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| Creator: |
Mrs. Walter Frank |
| Title: |
Collection, 1927-1963 |
| Identification: |
MWalB00031 |
| Quantity: |
ca. 1 linear ft. |
| Repository: |
Brandeis University Libraries |
Administrative Information
Access:
Access to the collection is in accordance with the policies of Brandeis University Libraries, Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department.
Copyright:
Requests to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department.
Processed by:
Susan Pyzynski.
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Scope and Content
This collection was a gift of Mrs. Walter Frank (Adelaide Schulkind) in 1968. She was the acting secretary for the Sacco-Vanzetti National League (New York) from about 1930-1932. Much of the collection consists of correspondence to, and from, the Sacco-Vanzetti National League.
The collection's importance lies chiefly in the correspondence from 1927-1932, which was written by and to people who belonged to either the Sacco-Vanzetti National League (New York)or the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee (Boston). This correspondence illustrates the aftermath of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial; what was done by people convinced of their innocence to keep the issue of injustice alive. Important correspondents include Robert Morss Lovett, Gardner Jackson, and Felix Frankfurter.
The correspondence from the 1960s divide into two series; letters written to Frank Russell that look back upon the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, and letters exchanged between Tom O'Connor and Vincenzina Vanzetti. The O'Connor-Vanzetti letters, written nearly forty years after the trial,show two people who continue to hope that Sacco and Vanzetti's innocence could still be proven.
The several photographs in the collection were taken of some of the principal members involved in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. A few of the photographs include members of the Sacco and Vanzetti families.
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Cataloging Entries
The following catalog entries provide controlled subject access to the collection. All these entries are searchable in the Brandeis University libraries' on-line catalog LOUIS to find materials of related interest.
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Series Description
Series I.
Sacco-Vanzetti National League (New York, NY)
1927-1930
73 folders
This series consists of correspondence to and from the Sacco-Vanzetti National League (also known as the Citizens National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti). Many of the letters are addressed to or written by Robert Morss Lovett, editor for Harper's Magazine and executive secretary for the National League. The correspondence illustrates the efforts being made to keep the cause of Sacco-Vanzetti alive in the first few years following their execution.
Series II.
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee (Boston, MA)
1927-1930
19 folders
This series consists of correspondence to and by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee (also called the Citizens National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti and the Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Committee). A major portion of this correspondence is letters written by Gardner Jackson to Margaret S. Huntley, a secretary for the New York-based Sacco-Vanzetti National League. These letters detail the actions and plans of the Boston committee.
Series III.
Tom O'Connor - Vincenzina Vanzetti Correspondence
1962-1963
11 folders
The correspondence in this series is made up of letters written between Tom O'Connor and Vincenzina Vanzetti in the early 1960s, when a renewed interest in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial occurred.
Series IV.
Correspondence to Frank Russell
1961
4 folders
This series is made up of a few letters written to Frank Russell, prior to the publication of his book, Tragedy in Dedham, in 1962. Of particular interest is a long letter by Gardner Jackson, recalling the trial.
Series V.
Publisher's Notices and Book Reviews Folders
1930s-1962
2 folders
This series is one book review of Frank Russell's Tragedy in Dedham and a publisher's notice for "The Sacco-Vanzetti Case."
Series VI.
Photographs and Death Masks
1927-1963
6 folders
The photographs in this series were taken during the Sacco-Vanzetti trial and funeral procession. The two death masks are the original ones taken of Sacco and Vanzetti, they are discussed in the letters of Gardner Jackson to Margaret S. Huntley in Series II
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Container List
| Series I: |
| Sacco-Vanzetti National League (New York, NY) |
| folder I.1 |
Anonymous to Robert M. Lovett,
August 13, 1927
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| folder I.2 |
Anonymous to Robert M. Lovett; Attachment: "Fight to Clear Memories: Sacco-Vanzetti." Labor Daily, January 19, 1928,
January 20, 1928
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| folder I.3 |
Axelrod, Jacob to Robert M. Lovett,
September 27, 1929
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| folder I.4 |
Bailey, Forrest to Mary L. Wilson; Attachment: Wilson, Gertrude L. to Bailey Forrest, November 9, 1927,
November 11, 1927
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| folder I.5 |
Bloor, Ella R. to Robert M. Lovett,
November 2, [1927]
|
| folder I.6 |
Chaffee, J. to Mary L. Wilson,
November 5, 1927
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| folder I.7 |
Clarke, Edwin L. to Margaret S. Huntley,
January 11, 1930
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| folder I.8 |
Codman, John S. to Sacco-Vanzetti League for Justice,
November 3, 1927
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| folder I.9 |
Cohen, Morris R. to Mary L. Wilson,
November 3, 1927
|
| folder I.10 |
Conlan, Frank to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
September 6, 1927
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| folder I.11 |
Croly, Herbert to Robert M. Lovett,
January 17, 1928
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| folder I.12 |
Davis, Horace A. to Forrest Bailey,
January 22, 1931
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| folder I.13 |
Dewey, John to Robert M. Lovett,
October 31, 1927
|
| folder I.14 |
Dudley, Helena to Robert M. Lovett,
August 20, 1927
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| folder I.15 |
Ernst, Morris L. to Robert M. Lovett,
October 7, 1927
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| folder I.16 |
Frankfurter, Felix to Robert M. Lovett,
October 13, 1927
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| folder I.17 |
Frankfurter, Felix to Robert M. Lovett,
October 13, 1927
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| folder I.18 |
Gory, Lucia to Robert M. Lovett,
August 14, 1927
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| folder I.19 |
Hard, William to Mary L. Wilson,
November 7, 1927
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| folder I.20 |
Hart, Albert B. to Robert M. Lovett,
November 7, 1927
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| folder I.21 |
Hart, Albert B. to Robert M. Lovett,
November 14, 1927
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| folder I.22 |
Henderson, Jessica to Robert M. Lovett,
September 8, 1927
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| folder I.23 |
Henderson, Jessica to Robert M. Lovett,
September 29, 1927
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| folder I.24 |
Henderson, Jessica to Forrest Bailey,
November 6, 1927
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| folder I.25 |
Holmes, John Haynes to Robert M. Lovett,
November 30, 1927
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| folder I.26 |
Huebsch, B.W. to Adelaide Schulkind,
November 22, 1930
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| folder I.27 |
Huebsch, B.W. to Adelaide Schulkind,
June 6, 1930
|
| folder I.28 |
James, E.H. to Forrest Bailey,
September 16, 1927
|
| folder I.29 |
James, Louisa (Mrs. E.H.) to Robert M. Lovett,
February 11, [1928?]
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| folder I.30 |
James, Louisa (Mrs. E.H.) to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
February 12, [1928?]
|
| folder I.31 |
Levine, Isaac Don to Robert M. Lovett,
September 16, 1927
|
| folder I.32 |
Llewellyn, K.N. to Hollace Ransdell,
March 1, 1928
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| folder I.33 |
Llewellyn, K.N. to Robert M. Lovett,
November 12, 1928
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| folder I.34 |
Lovett, Robert M.,
September 10, 1927
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| folder I.35 |
Lovett, Robert M.,
[1927?]
|
| folder I.36 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Ann Craton,
August 17, 1927
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| folder I.37 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Mr. Collier,
October 26, 1927
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| folder I.38 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Forrest Bailey,
January 23, 1928
|
| folder I.39 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Forrest Bailey,
February 6, 1928
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| folder I.40 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Hollace Ransdell,
February 24, 1928
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| folder I.41 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Forrest Bailey,
October 28, [1928-1930?]
|
| folder I.42 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Hollace Ransdell,
May 24, 1929
|
| folder I.43 |
Lovett, Robert M.,
December, 1929
|
| folder I.44 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Margaret S. Huntley,
August 1, [1930]
|
| folder I.45 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Margaret S. Huntley,
August 7, 1930
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| folder I.46 |
Lovett, Robert M. to Margaret S. Huntley,
August 26, [1930?]
|
| folder I.47 |
Marks, Jeanette to Mary L. Wilson,
November 23, 1927
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| folder I.48 |
McCollester, Parker to Mary L. Wilson,
November 14, 1927
|
| folder I.49 |
McCollester, Parker to Robert M. Lovett,
March 3, 1928
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| folder I.50 |
McCormack, John J. to Forrest Bailey,
November 19, 1927
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| folder I.51 |
Mendoza, F.B. to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
May 29, 1929
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| folder I.52 |
O'Connor, Tom to Hollace Ransdell,
September 30, 1928
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| folder I.53 |
O'Sheel, Shaemus to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
February 22, 1930
|
| folder I.54 |
Pollack, Walter H. to Robert M. Lovett,
July 16, 1930
|
| folder I.55 |
Porter, David R. to Jessica Henderson,
August 17, 1927
|
| folder I.56 |
Ransdell, Hollace to Felix Frankfurter,
March 9, 1928
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| folder I.57 |
Ransdell, Hollace to Royal D. Rood,
May 25, 1928
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| folder I.58 |
Ransdell, Hollace to John Silvestro,
January 7, 1928
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| folder I.59 |
Reynolds, Bertha C. to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
November 9, 1930
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| folder I.60 |
Rosenbloo, Arthur M. to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
May 28, 1928
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| folder I.61 |
Schubert, P.M. to Citizens Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti,
December 21, 1927
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| folder I.62 |
Seiler, Charles E. to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
April 10, 1929
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| folder I.63 |
Silvestro, John to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
December 27, 1928
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| folder I.64 |
Sweeney, Mrs. M.J. to Forrest Bailey,
October 24, 1927
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| folder I.65 |
Todd, Albert M. to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
December 12, 1927
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| folder I.66 |
Trent, Lucia to Robert M. Lovett,
May 16, 1930
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| folder I.67 |
Villard, Oswald Garrison to Robert M. Lovett,
September 7, 1927
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| folder I.68 |
Wallerstein, David to Norman H. Thomas,
October 8, 1927
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| folder I.69 |
Walsh, Frank P. to Robert M. Lovett,
August 20, 1927
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| folder I.70 |
Williams, Richard E. to [Sacco-Vanzetti National League],
December 17, 1928
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| folder I.71 |
Williams, Richard E. to Mary L. Wilson,
November 13, 1927
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| folder I.72 |
Wilson, Henry H. to Citizens National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti,
November 2, 1927
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| folder I.73 |
Yard, James M. to Sacco-Vanzetti National League,
April 6, 1929
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| Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee (Boston, MA) |
| folder II.74 |
Corey, W.H. to National Defense Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti,
August 20, 1927
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| folder II.75 |
Hibben, Paxton to Ann Craton,
August 15, 1927
|
| folder II.76 |
Jackson, Gardner to Alvan T. Fuller,
[1927?]
|
| folder II.77 |
Jackson, Gardner to Robert M. Lovett,
September 3, 1927
|
| folder II.78 |
Jackson, Gardner to Hollace Ransdell,
May 24, 1928
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| folder II.79 |
Jackson, Gardner to Hollace Ransdell,
October 1, 1928
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| folder II.80 |
Jackson, Gardner to Margaret S. Huntley,
December 17, 1929
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| folder II.81 |
Jackson, Gardner to Margaret S. Huntley,
May 30, 1930
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| folder II.82 |
Jackson, Gardner to Margaret S. Huntley,
June 5, 1930
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| folder II.83 |
Jackson, Gardner to Margaret S. Huntley,
June 6, 1930
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| folder II.84 |
Jackson, Gardner to Margaret S. Huntley,
June 7, 1930
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| folder II.85 |
Jackson, Gardner to Margaret S. Huntley,
July 22, 1930
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| folder II.86 |
Jackson, Gardner to Margaret S. Huntley,
August 12, 1930
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| folder II.87 |
Jackson, W.S. to Isaac Don Levine,
August 23, 1927
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| folder II.88 |
Morison, S.E. to Citizens National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti,
August 19, 1927
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| folder II.89 |
Parsons, C.E. to Citizens National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti, postcard,
August 20, 1928
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| folder II.90 |
Pope, Helen to Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee,
August 22, 1927
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| folder II.91 |
Post, Louis F. to Citizens National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti,
August 16, 1927
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| folder II.92 |
Williams, Howard Y. to Citizens National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti,
August 19, 1927
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| Tom O'Connor - Vincenzina Vanzetti Correspondence |
| folder III.93 |
M.A.M. to Vincenzina Vanzetti,
n.d.
|
| folder III.94 |
Vanzetti, Vincenzina to Tom O'Connor,
[November, 1962]
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| folder III.95 |
O'Connor, Tom to Vincenzina Vanzetti,
November 18, 1962
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| folder III.96 |
Vanzetti, Vincenzina to Tom O'Connor,
December 17, 1962
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| folder III.97 |
Vanzetti, Vincenzina to Tom O'Connor,
December 17, 1962
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| folder III.98 |
O'Connor, Tom to Vincenzina Vanzetti,
December 30, 1962
|
| folder III.99 |
O'Connor, Tom to Rino di Bartolo,
January 21, 1963
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| folder III.100 |
LeFevre (Mrs. John Wager) to Vanzetti, Vincenzina,
January 26, 1963
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| folder III.101 |
Vanzetti, Vincenzina to Tom O'Connor; Attachment: Telegram from Finerty, John R. to Oliver Wendell Holmes, [1927?],
February 7, 1963
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| folder III.102 |
Vanzetti, Vincenzina to Tom O'Connor,
February 7, 1963
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| folder III.103 |
Wager, John (Mrs.) to Martinelli (Signor),
November 6, 1962
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| Correspondence to Frank Russell |
| folder IV.104 |
DeSilver, Margaret to Frank Russell,
June 21, 1961
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| folder IV.105 |
Eastman, Max to Frank Russell,
April 6, 1961
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| folder IV.106 |
Jackson, Gardner to Frank Russell,
October 4, 1961
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| folder IV.107 |
Rorty, James to Frank Russell,
January 15, 1961
|
| Publisher's Notices and Book Reviews |
| folder V.108 |
"Sacco-Vanzetti-- and Justice." Book review of Tragedy in Dedham by Frank Russell. The Washington Post,
June 21, 1961
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| folder V.109 |
"The Sacco-Vanzetti Case." publisher's notice (Henry Holt),
[193?]
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| Photographs and Death Masks |
| folder VI.110 |
Negative of 2 photographs: Rosina Sacco and 2 children, Rosina Sacco and Luigia Vanzetti,
n.d.
|
| folder VI.111 |
Negative of 2 photographs: William G. Thompson, Herbert B. Ehrman, and Tom O'Connor; Fred H. Moore and Euguene V. Debs,
n.d.
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| folder VI.112 |
Negative of photograph: Sacco and Vanzetti funeral procession,
August, 1927
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| folder VI.113 |
Negative of photograph: Sacco and Vanzetti, Dedham,
April 9, 1927
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| folder VI.114 |
Invoice of photographs made by Smithway Studios for Tom O'Connor,
May 1, 1963; May 3, 1963
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| folder VI.115 |
List of photographs sent to Vincenzina Vanzetti,
April 9, 1963
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| folder VI.116 |
Death masks of Sacco and Vanzetti - plaster of paris, bronzed,
n.d.
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