Research Catalog

Title

Albert Shaw papers, 1827-1953 (bulk 1890-1947).

Author

Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947.

Supplementary Content

Collection guide

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927.
• Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947.
• Capa, Robert, 1913-1954.
• Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943.
• Finley, John H. (John Huston), 1863-1940.
• Hines, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
• Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948.
• Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937.
• Kertész, André.
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
• Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912.

Description

252 linear feet (237 boxes, 45 volumes)

Summary

The Albert Shaw Papers contain correspondence (professional and personal); files concerning the books, articles, and speeches Shaw authored, administrative records and articles from the Review of Reviews; and many records of Shaw's personal life, including financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera, and his notes on the Shaw family's genealogy, as well as Shaw's personal memoirs. Materials range in date from 1827 to 1953, with the majority of the records falling between 1890 and 1947.

Subject

• Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947
• Agriculture > United States
• American periodicals
• Economic development > Social aspects
• Education > United States
• Journalism > United States
• Municipal government
• Photojournalism
• Progressivism (United States politics)
• World War, 1914-1918 > Public opinion
• United States > Politics and government > 1901-1953

Genre/Form

• Diaries.
• Maps.
• Notebooks.
• Photonegatives.
• Photoprints.
• Scrapbooks.

Access (note)

• Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Additional Formats (note)

• Portions of this collection are available on microfilm.

Terms of Use (note)

• Copyright retained by any document's creator.

Biography (note)

• Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was an editor, journalist and scholar who spent most of his career as the editor and publisher of the Review of Reviews, a digest of progressive thought and political analysis. Shaw's principal interests were the improvement of municipal government, the relationship of business and organized labor, agricultural reform, international affairs, and contemporary politics and economics, topics which he wrote and spoke on frequently.

Call Number

MssCol 2736

OCLC

707634142

Author

Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947.

Title

Albert Shaw papers, 1827-1953 (bulk 1890-1947).

Restricted Access

Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Biography

Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was an editor, journalist and scholar who spent most of his career as the editor and publisher of the Review of Reviews, a digest of progressive thought and political analysis. Shaw's principal interests were the improvement of municipal government, the relationship of business and organized labor, agricultural reform, international affairs, and contemporary politics and economics, topics which he wrote and spoke on frequently.

Additional Formats

Portions of this collection are available on microfilm.

Terms Of Use

Copyright retained by any document's creator.

Finding Aids

Collection guide available online and in repository.

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Occupation

Editors.

Journalists.

Added Author

Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927.

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947.

Capa, Robert, 1913-1954.

Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943.

Finley, John H. (John Huston), 1863-1940.

Hines, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.

Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948.

Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937.

Kertész, André.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.

Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912.

Research Call Number

MssCol 2736