Title: Vaughn Davis Bornet Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1949-1958, 1995

Creator:

• Bornet, Vaughn Davis, 1917-

Call Number: Mss 100; Micro 648

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (1 archives box and 1 half-archives box), and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)
Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Professor Vaughn Bornet concerning his research in 20th century labor history and his special interest in locating original manuscripts of labor leaders and of state federations of labor. Included is miscellaneous correspondence and research materials with information on the location of labor manuscripts, particularly the American Federation of Labor records and the efforts of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin to acquire them; labor support of presidential candidates in 1928; and other topics. Also includes a signed autobiography.

Language: English

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1917 October 10	Vaughn Davis Bornet born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1939	B.A. degree from Emory University
1940	M.A. degree from Emory University
1940-1941	Studied at the University of Georgia
1941-1945	U.S. Naval Reserve Commander
1946-1948	Instructor of history at the University of Miami
1949-1951	Attended Stanford University
1951	Received Ph.D. in history from Stanford University
1951-1953	Research Associate for the Institute of American Studies
1951-1952	Ford Fellowship and trip in search of labor manuscripts
1953-1956	Director of the Welfare Research Project, Commonwealth Club, California
1955	Bornet's "A New Labor History" published in The Historian. (Autumn, 1955)
1956	Received Volker Foundation Fellowship and published California Social Welfare, (Prentice-Hall)
1957	Assistant Editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica
1958	Research Associate for the American Medical Association
1959-1963	Member of the staff of the Rand Corporation
1960	Welfare in America published by the University of Oklahoma Press
1963-	Professor of history and social science at Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon
1964	Published Labor Politics in a Democratic Republic
2020 October 5	Vaughn Davis Bornet died

The papers relate exclusively to Bornet's research in 20th century labor history and to his special interest in locating original manuscripts of labor leaders and of state federations of labor. The collection is available both in original paper form and on microfilm. It is organized in two sections: correspondence and research materials. The correspondence is divided between general correspondence, and correspondence with Clifford Lord while Lord was director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The general correspondence file consists mainly of letters regarding Bornet's article, "The New Labor History" published in The Historian (Autumn, 1955). Other subjects discussed are Bornet's dissertation on labor and politics in 1928, manuscript locations, oral history, and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) archives. Of special interest are letters from the following: Selig Perlman on labor history; Edwin Witte on Bonnet's publications; and Norman Thomas with information on the location of his papers and permission to quote from them. The correspondence with Clifford Lord concerns the AFL papers, the attempt to acquire them for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin manuscript collections, and some mention of the destruction of the central files of the AFL.

The Research File consists of materials Bornet used in his dissertation, and in "The New Labor History." Included are responses to a 1951 survey of AFL state federations regarding support of presidential candidates in 1928. The notebook, "The Trip East" (1952), is a collection of Bornet's applications for admission to manuscript repositories, requests for information on collections in labor history, and responses to those requests, including listings of the manuscript holdings of some archives. Also included are a reprint of Bornet's "The New Labor History"; handwritten notes on the location of labor manuscripts and published works in the field of labor history; a preliminary inventory of the AFL records, and a preliminary survey of the central file room of the archives of the AFL, which Bornet completed in 1954.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Vaughn Bornet, Ashland, Oregon, December 2, 1975, in 1978, and in 1998. Accession Number: M75-607, M78-027, M98-038

Processing Information

Processed by Susan Glad (Intern) and Joanne Hohler, March 25, 1976.

Vaughn Davis Bornet collection on California social welfare , 1934-1956 (bulk 1950-1956) at The Bancroft Library, University of California-Berkeley (BANC MSS 82/38 c)

Vaughn Davis Bornet Papers, 1933-2004 at the Herbert Hoover Presidental Librry and Museum

Vaughn Bornet papers, 1959-1966 at the Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota (SW 135)

American Federation of Labor -- Records and correspondence; State Historical Society of WisconsinHistoriansLabor movement -- History -- SourcesLabor unions -- History -- SourcesPresidents -- United States -- Election -- 1928Manuscript collectionMicroforms

	Correspondence
Box-Folder   1/1   Reel/Frame   1/1	1949-1955 Scope and Content Note: This section of the correspondence includes letters from Selig Perlman: 1949 October 26; 1951 August 10; 1951 December 13; and 1952 June 24; and from Norman Thomas: 1951 December 6 and 1954 October 5.
Box-Folder   1/2   Reel/Frame   1/104	1956-1958 Scope and Content Note: This section of the correspondence includes letters from Selig Perlman: 1956 February 12 and August 17; and from Edwin Witte: 1956 February 10, March 6, July 24, August 3, and 1957 October 9.
Box   2   Folder   2	1956-1957 Scope and Content Note: Letters with Selig Perlman regarding Bornet's book, Labor and Politics.
Box-Folder   1/3   Reel/Frame   1/185	Correspondence with Clifford Lord, 1952-1958
Box   2   Folder   1	An independent scholar in twentieth century America: the autobiography of Vaughn Davis Bornet (1995)
	Research File
Box-Folder   1/4   Reel/Frame   1/223	Survey of AFL state federations re support of presidential candidates in 1928 election, 1951
Box-Folder   1/5   Reel/Frame   1/277	"Trip East" notebook on location of 20th century labor manuscripts
Box-Folder   1/6   Reel/Frame   1/371	"A New Labor History"--article reprint from The Historian (Autumn 1955)
Box-Folder   1/7   Reel/Frame   1/381	Preliminary inventory of AFL archives, preliminary survey of central file room of archives of AFL
Box-Folder   1/8   Reel/Frame   1/399	Notes, handwritten Scope and Content Note: Notes concern location of labor manuscripts and published works on labor history.