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Papers of Nelson Cruikshank

 

 

 

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Author/Creator:

Cruikshank, Nelson H., 1902-1986

Title:

Papers, 1927-1988.

Quantity:

32.6 c.f.,
1 disc recording,
5 tape recordings, and
391 photographs.

Summary:

Papers of Cruikshank, the American Federation of Labor's director of social insurance activities (1944-1965), a visiting professor at Pennsylvania State University's Labor Studies Center (1969- ), and chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee on Health for the American Hospital Association (1971-1974). Included is correspondence, reports, conference materials, and publications, particularly stressing employment security, problems of the aging, health, social security legislation, union welfare fund fraud, and union ethics. The correspondence is from other unions, from Senators John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Paul Douglas, and between William Green and Harry S. Truman.

Notes:

The original disc recording now is also available on tape.
This collection is unprocessed.

Finding aid:

Case file.

Subjects:

Aged--Government policy--United States.
Insurance, Social.

Form/Genre:

Manuscript collection.
Photographs.
Sound recordings.

RLIN Number:

WIHV84-A215

Location:

Z:Unprocessed Accessions

Call Number:

M66-015

Shelf Location:

MAD 4 /58/F1-7, G7 (Box 1-24); MAD Sound/Tape 1269A (1 tape)

Description:

Correspondence, reports, and conference materials primarily from 1947-1965 and related to health, social security, union welfare funds, union ethics, employment security, and problems of aging. See preliminary inventory in Case file for more details. A "green disk" included in this collection, recording a Dec. 27, 1948 telephone conversation, has been copied on tape and assigned call numbers Tape 1269A and Disc 214A. Qty: 24.0 c.f. (24 cartons) and 1 disc recording

Location:

Z:Unprocessed Accessions

Call Number:

M84-329

Shelf Location:

MAD 2M/22/G2-4 (5 cartons); MAD Icon (slides); MAD Sound

Description:

Subject files and correspondence. Qty: 5.0 c.f. (5 cartons), 3 tape recordings, and 43 slides

Location:

Z:Unprocessed Accessions

Call Number:

M84-371

Shelf Location:

MAD 4 /41/B2

Description:

Correspondence concerning Cruikshank; from his daughter. Qty: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Location:

Z:Unprocessed Accessions

Call Number:

M94-199

Shelf Location:

MAD 3 /33/G6

Description:

Additions, ca. 1965-1984, including correspondence, clippings, publications, manuscripts, and photographs mainly concerning Social Security legislation and other programs for the aging. Included is a brief history of the Social Security Department of the AFL-CIO written by Cruikshank (?). See box list with accession form. Qty: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Location:

Z:Unprocessed Accessions

Call Number:

M96-082

Shelf Location:

MAD 2M/48/D3-4 (papers); MAD Sound (tapes); MAD Icon (photos)

Description:

Additions, 1927-1988, including substantial biographical information, notably about Cruikshank's first career as a clergyman. There are also files relating to his death; correspondence and manuscripts for his memoir "The Cruikshank Chronicles"; clippings; files concerning his activities with S.O.S. (Save Our Security) and the National Council of Senior Citizens; correspondence; articles and speeches; a tape-recorded interview by daughter Alice Hoffman (transcription in box 2, folder 4); transcript of an oral history interview regarding the merger of the AFL and CIO; diaries and appointment books; and numerous photographs, both informal and formal, especially from his years in the Carter administration. See box list with accession form. Qty: 3.0 c.f. (1 record center carton and 5 archives boxes), 2 tape recordings, and 348 photographs
Container List
M96-082

Box

Folder

 
  Social Security Project
1 1 Save Our Social Security Curriculum Project,1986-1988
  2 Social Security Education Project Re: Cruikshank Chronicles, 1988-1989
  3 Social Security
  4 "Social Security and You", 1969
  5 Income Maintenance and the Social Security System, Nov. 10-12, 1968
  6 Social Security Project
  7 "Ronald Reagan Speaks out Against Socialized Medicine"
  8 Social Security Conference and Pamphlet
  9 "A Fifty Year Report Card on The Social Security System," 1985
  10 Supplemental Security Income, 1984
  11 Social Security Project
  Cruikshank Chronicles
  12 Correspondence re: The Cruikshank Chronicles,1988
  13 The Cruikshank Chronicles manuscript, pp.151-257
  14 Cruikshank Chronicles
  15 Cruikshank Chronicles
  16 The Cruikshank Chronicles: Anecdotes, Stories and Memoirs of a New Deal Liberal, 1986
  17 The Cruikshank Chronicles, pp.1-150
  18 Permission to use New Yorker Cartoon in Cruikshank Chronicles, 1989
  National Council of Senior Citizens
  19 National Council of Senior Citizens, Membership Materials, 1984
  20 National Council of Senior Citizens and Bio on Daddy, 1986-1987 Correspondence to Alice Hoffman
  21 Press Release
  Newspaper Clippings
  22 Articles dealing with Social Security and Labor Issues
  23 Articles relating to Nelson Cruikshank's work as a Pastor, 1930's
  Nelson Cruikshank's Passing
  24 Sympathy Letters, 1986
  25 Gwen's Dairy on BarBar's Death, 1986
  26 Daddy's Memorial Service
  27 Funeral Register
  Articles, Speeches, and other works by Nelson Cruikshank
 2 1 Biography
  2 "The Churches and the NRA", article by Nelson Cruikshank
  3 Oral History from Nelson Cruikshank on the AFL-CIO Merger
  4 Interview with Nelson Cruikshank by Alice Hoffman (transcript of Tape 2)
  5 Congressional Record containing remarks of Nelson Cruikshank about Social Security, April 4, 1978
  6 Thesis? on Greek Religion and the Religious background of the Greek Tragedians
  7 "In Support of the Hypothesis that Senator Joseph McCarthy Could be a Communist Agent" by Nelson Cruikshank, 1953
  8 Articles written by Nelson Cruikshank, 1949-1983
  9 Why am I in The Labor Movement, "The People's Movement" by Nelson Cruikshank
  10 "Our Debt to the Liberal Arts", Alumni Convocation, June 22, 1980
  Correspondence
  11 Invitations, 1964-65, 1979
  12 "Town Meeting on the Air", Congratulatory Correspondence, 1949
  13 Family Correspondence, 1933, 1976-1981
  14 Correspondence, 1932-1986
  15 Mostly Financial Correspondence dealing with Alice hoffman, 1961-1974
  16 Personal Correspondence, 1983-1984
  Awards and Diplomas
  17 Awards and Diplomas
  18 Nomination of Nelson Cruikshank for the Rockefeller Public Service Awards, 1980
  Subject Files
 3 1 AFL-CIO, 1964-1968, Correspondence, Articles and Speeches
  2 A Tribute to John Herling, November 14, 1978
  3 A Dividend from History by Bert Strauss, 1982
  4 Memorial Gathering for Mary Fox Herling, Dec 2, 1978
  5 Calling Card/Business Card File
  6 Poems, 1938, 1958, 1978
  7 Job Applications, Performance Reviews, School Records, 1929-1944
  8 Sources for "Mountain Folks"
  9 Carter Years
  10 National Capitol Area Trade Union Retirees Club, 1980-1982
  11 Commemorative Stamp dedication Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Passage of Wisconsin Workmen's Compensation Act, Sept. 4, 1961
 4   Diaries/Appointment Books, 1927-1949
5   Diaries/Appointment Books, 1950-1959
6   Diaries/Appointment Books, 1960-1983
PHOTOGRAPHS
1   "Old" Photographs (205)
Contains photographs of Family, Friends, and Landscapes
2   White House Photographs (16)
Taken from the folder:"Carter Years" and includes several photographs with President Carter
3   Photographs (55)
Contains photographs of Nelson Cruikshank with various committees, groups, family members, and President Lyndon Johnson
4   Photographs (19)
Includes Landscapes and buildings (By Nelson Cruikshank?)
5   Photographs not used in Cruikshank Chronicles (16)
Nelson Cruikshank with various committees, union gatherings and other meetings.
6   Photographs for Mountain Folk (23)
Landscapes and "mountain folk"
7   Photographs to be copied (14)
Various photographs of Nelson Cruikshank
TAPE RECORDINGS
1   Nelson Cruikshank in Memoria
2   Interview by Alice Hoffman about Nelson Cruikshank's early life. He first describes his life as a pastor in New Haven, CT in 1933. He then goes on to talk about his dissatisfaction being in the clergy and how he saw his life unfolding if he remained. He then speaks about how he got into the labor movement while in New Haven and how events took him over.

 

 

 







     
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