Title: Edward A. Ross Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1859-1969

Creator:

• Ross, Edward Alsworth, 1866-1951

Call Number: Wis Mss RV; Micro 927; PH Wis Mss RV; PH Wis Mss RV (3); PH 1684; PH 1978; PH 3035

Quantity: 15.0 cubic feet (38 archives boxes), 40 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 129 photographs, 1 drawing, and 1 book

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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Abstract:

Papers of Edward A. Ross, a supporter of liberal causes and an influential sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. Correspondence with fellow sociologists, representatives of sociological organizations, University of Wisconsin colleagues, and publishers document the major events and interests of his long career. From 1893 to 1900 the letters particularly indicate his views on bimetallism and capitalism, and many discuss the rift with Mrs. Leland Stanford which led to his departure from the faculty of Stanford University and subsequent academic freedom issues. Throughout the correspondence many letters reflect his interest in problems of population pressure, eugenics, and immigration restriction. During the 1930s his correspondence shows his interest in the New Deal, and his advocacy of federal health insurance and of the income tax in opposition to the sales tax. After Ross retired from active teaching in 1937, he lectured frequently on behalf of temperance education, worked for the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, and aided the American Civil Liberties Union during the early years of World War II in support of conscientious objectors and of other efforts to offset wartime hysteria. Also present are field notes and class lectures, copies of articles and speeches, and drafts and revisions of Ross's best-known book, Principles of Sociology, travel diaries, photographs, scrapbooks of clipped newspaper and periodical materials, 1892-1909, and a box of unmounted newspaper articles, primarily of later dates, reveal the extent to which Ross became a national and sometimes a controversial figure in the development of sociological thought.

Language: English

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Edward A. Ross was an eminent sociologist, world traveler, and supporter of liberal causes. In each of these capacities he was, above all, an astute and popular observer of people and of the social, racial, and cultural forces that shaped people's behavior. As such and as a prolific author and lecturer, he exercised an influence and had a following far greater than most academics.

A pioneer in the field of sociology, Ross's earliest contribution to that discipline and his greatest contribution to progressive reform ideology was his criticism of the deterministic view of society embodied in Social Darwinism. He was also closely associated with a number of specific reform issues. In the 1890s he was an outspoken advocate of free silver and the regulation of monopolies. Beginning with his ouster from Stanford University in 1900, he was closely associated with the cause of academic freedom. Moreover, he was a strong temperance advocate, was involved in the birth control movement, and in the 1920s and later was associated with the American Civil Liberties Union and a host of other liberal and reform movements.

Ross's standing as a sociologist meshed with his role as a nativist. Using a methodology which now seems woefully unscientific he was quick to attach negative stereotypes to various ethnic and racial groups. Using these judgments he became influential in the immigration restriction and eugenics movements. Also related to Ross's sociological standing was his popularity as an interpreter of foreign cultures. Ross regularly journeyed to far-off lands and followed up each trip with a series of popular articles and/or a book. These works, which have been described as “sociological travelogues,” were widely read and gave Ross the status of an expert on foreign peoples.

December 12, 1866	Born at Virden, Illinois to William Carpenter and Rachel Ellsworth Ross.
1874	Rachel Ellsworth Ross died.
circa 1875-1876	William Carpenter Ross died.
1882-1886	Attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and received A.B. degree.
1886-1888	Taught at Fort Dodge (Iowa) Collegiate Institute.
1888-1890	Resided in Germany and studied at the University of Berlin.
1890-1891	Studied under Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at Johns Hopkins University and received his Ph.D.
1891-1892	Taught economics at University of Indiana.
June 16, 1892	Married Rosamond Simons, niece of sociologist Lester Frank Ward's wife.
1892-1893	Associate Professor of Political Economy and Finance at Cornell University.
1892-1893	Secretary of American Economic Association.
1893-1900	Professor of Economics at Stanford University. At Stanford, Ross's views on Chinese immigration, regulation of monopolies, and free silver caused conflict with Mrs. Leland Stanford and eventually resulted in his ouster from the University.
1895-1951	Advisory Editor of the American Journal of Sociology.
1896	Honest Dollars published.
1898-1899	European sabbatical.
1901	Social Control published.
1901-1906	Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska.
1905	Foundations of Sociology published.
1906	Appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.
1907	Sin and Society published.
1908	Social Psychology published.
January 1910	In separate incidents Ross drew fire for announcing the time and place of a lecture by radical Emma Goldman, and sponsoring a talk by Parker Sercombe, allegedly a “free love” advocate. As a result Ross was censured by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on March 2.
February-September 1910	Traveled in China. The Changing Chinese, based on observations from this trip, was published in 1911.
July 1913-January 1914	Traveled in South America. South of Panama, published in 1915, was based on this journey.
1914-1915	President of American Sociological Society.
July-December 1917	Traveled in Russia under auspices of the American Institute of Social Service. Interviewed Leon Trotsky on December 9. Russia in Upheaval (1918) and other works resulted from this trip.
1920	The Principles of Sociology published.
June-August 1922	Traveled in Mexico. The Social Revolution in Mexico (1923) was based on this trip.
June 1924-January 1925	Traveled to Portuguese East Africa (Angola) and India. In Africa studied the treatment of black workers by colonial authorities. Ross's findings, Report on Native Labor in Portuguese Africa, appeared in 1925.
June-October 1928	Taught at the University of Mexico and traveled in Mexico and Central America.
October 1928-June 1929	Took around-the-world cruise as Educational Director of the Floating University.
1929	Became chairman of newly formed Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.
February-April 1932	Traveled to Tahiti.
April 6, 1932	Rosamond Simons Ross died.
June-September 1934	Traveled in Russia, and several Scandinavian, Eastern European, and Mediterranean countries.
1935	Elected to American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Committee.
1936	Seventy Years of It published.
February-September 1938	Traveled in Australia.
September 1940	Married Helen Forbes.
1940-1950	Chairman of ACLU National Committee.
July 22, 1951	Died at Madison, Wisconsin.

The Edward A. Ross Papers were acquired in several installments from the Ross family and from the Sociology Department and the Archives of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1954 the Ross family, through Lester Ward Ross, son of Edward A. Ross, donated fifteen boxes of correspondence and other papers all pre-dating 1921. Five years later, the Sociology Department and its Chairman, W.H. Sewell, conveyed twelve cartons containing correspondence and manuscripts of speeches and articles, and six scrapbooks. Between 1971 and 1981 another son, Gilbert Ross, made several small donations consisting of family letters, photos, a diary relating to Ross's 1932 trip to Tahiti, and other papers. Finally, in 1981 the University Archives transferred custody to the Historical Society of ten boxes of Ross papers. This varied collection included miscellaneous correspondence; syllabi, exams, and other course materials; files regarding the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, and the Ross Memorial Association; a few book manuscripts; and several travel diaries. The origin of the papers received from the University Archives is uncertain, although it is possible that they were sent to the Archives by the Sociology Department.

The 1954 and 1959 acquisitions and the material received from Gilbert Ross in 1971 had been organized separately as they were received. In 1982 each of these components plus the papers transferred from the University Archives and the additional materials received from Gilbert Ross were reorganized and interfiled into a single comprehensive collection.

All of this material is available both in paper form and on microfilm. It was microfilmed in 1982 in a publication project sponsored by the National Historical Records and Publications Commission and most of the narrative above and below is drawn from the published guide to that microfilm publication. The publication project addressed papers of Wisconsin Progressives, individuals who were connected with the University of Wisconsin or the Wisconsin state government and were intellectual leaders of the Progressive era. Other editions in the series are the Richard T. Ely Papers, Charles R. Van Hise Papers, Charles McCarthy Papers, and John R. Commons Papers. All of these individuals had leading roles in the ideological changes which led to the demise of Social Darwinism, the abandonment of laissez faire economics, the democratization of the electoral process, and the assumption by government of a positive role in furthering the cause of reform. Moreover, several of them had a direct hand in the design and implementation of major Progressive era reforms.

The Edward A. Ross Papers, 1859-1969, are organized in the following series:

• A. Correspondence, 1869-1966
• B. Diaries and Travel Notes, 1883-1938
• C. Subject File, 1900-1956
• D. Writings, 1879-1948
• E. Teaching File, 1893-1941
• F. Photographs, circa 1870-1930
• G. Clippings and Ephemera, 1882-1969

Series A, Correspondence; Series D, Writings; and Series G, Clippings and Ephemera are comprehensive in their documentation of Ross's life and career. The correspondence, in particular, offers insights into his formative years, education, reform activities, and professional career. His correspondence with academic colleagues documents his own shift of interest from economics to sociology, and the development of sociology as a separate academic discipline. Also covered is Ross's prominent involvement in a number of reform, political, and professional issues including monetary reform, academic freedom, immigration restriction, eugenics, birth control, temperance, and civil liberties. Ross's travels to foreign lands are covered in the correspondence, but are most thoroughly documented in Series B, Diaries and Travel Notes. However, on these journeys he established an interest and made contacts which often lasted the rest of his life. In particular the correspondence reflects long-term interest in China, India, and Russia.

Additional information on Ross's early life and education is found in a few diaries and accounts of university study from the 1880s in Series B, and some early student compositions in Series D, Writings. Series D also includes a very comprehensive collection of Ross's articles and speeches. The Subject File, Series C, covers only a few distinct issues, principally the Stanford dismissal and the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky. The Teaching File, Series E, contains material such as syllabi and examinations which relate directly to Ross's teaching responsibilities. In addition to pictures of Ross and his family, Series F, Photographs, contains numerous pictures from Ross's travel in South America and a few relating to research on living conditions in Milwaukee.

More information on each of these series is provided below.

INDEX TO CORRESPONDENCE

An index to the correspondence in Series A appears on reel 40 of the microfilm. It shows the names of addressees and signers (except Ross himself) of all letters and documents, each followed by a list of dates of all items addressed to or signed by them. No entries have been made under Ross's name since he is either signer or addressee of virtually every letter in the series.

Entries are primarily for personal names; they were made for organizations only when items had no individual as addressee or signer. No distinction is made in the index between incoming and outgoing letters. Further explanation of the content and format of the index is included at the beginning of reel 40.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPERS

Series A. Correspondence, 1859-1966

1859-1906

Correspondence for these early years is sparse and generally limited to incoming letters. Most of the 1859-1874 letters are to/from Ross's mother, Rachel Ellsworth Ross, and reflect the family's difficult life in the Midwest. Following his mother's death in 1874 and his father's death eighteen months later, Ross's family ties dissolved and only occasional letters appear from step-brother Frank Goudy, and half-brother Willie Goudy. However, after 1876, and especially after Ross entered Coe College in 1882, there are many letters to and from his foster mother, Mary D. Beach. The Coe College years also include the first letters of two long-time friends and correspondents: Jennie Martin and James E. Barber (sometimes spelled Barbour), who first wrote from Kansas and later from Providence, Rhode Island, where he was in the ministry. Barber's letters regularly discuss issues such as religion, politics, and social problems. After graduating from Coe in 1886, Ross taught two years at Fort Dodge (Iowa) Collegiate Institute. At Fort Dodge, Ross for the first time was criticized for his alleged radicalism. “You are charged,” wrote Luther Dodd on September 19, 1887, “with being tinctured with the skepticism of a Spencer, etc.”

Ross studied and traveled in Europe, 1888-1889, returned to attend Johns Hopkins, 1890-1891, and between 1891 and 1900 held teaching positions at the University of Indiana, Cornell University, and Stanford University. His letters to Mary Beach during this period continue to describe his activities, goals, and motivations. Incoming correspondence documents the meteoric rise of Ross's early career and becomes increasingly professional in nature. Academic conferences and addresses, salaries, publications, departmental politics, placement, and the American Economic Association are among the topics discussed. Correspondents begin to include leading economists and sociologists such as Richard T. Ely, who continued to advise his former student, Simon N. Patten, Edwin R.A. Seligman, Albion W. Small, F.W. Taussig, and Thorstein Veblen. Ross's 1896 publication, Honest Dollars, is the topic of many letters, and others in 1898-1899 concern his sabbatical in Europe. In 1900 there is correspondence, especially with Richard T. Ely, concerning publication of Social Control. However, in the late 1890s the primary topic is Ross's conflict with Stanford University which resulted in his ouster in 1900. His academic freedom case became a “cause celebre” and made him a national figure. Included in the series are communications from Stanford president David Starr Jordan, and many letters sympathetic to Ross's side of the case. Stanford professors Morton A. Aldrich, Frank A. Fetter, George Elliott Howard, William H. Hudson, H.B. Lathrop, C.N. Little, Arthur O. Lovejoy, and David E. Spencer resigned in sympathy with Ross and the series includes correspondence with all but Spencer.

Ross joined the University of Nebraska faculty in 1901 and remained until 1906. Much of the correspondence for this period concerns the publication of two books, Social Control (1901) and Foundations of Sociology (1905), numerous magazine articles, and his increased academic and popular recognition. Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charlotte Perkins Gilman praise his work; noted British economist John A. Hobson consulted him when planning a lecture tour of the United States, and Roscoe Pound became a frequent correspondent. The subject of eugenics is mentioned in a July 24, 1906 letter from N.M. Hays of the United States Department of Agriculture. Although Ross apparently declined membership on the Department's Committee on Eugenics, the field later became of prime interest to him. There is still extensive correspondence from Richard T. Ely, culminating in his invitation to have Ross join the University of Wisconsin faculty in the fall of 1906.

1907-1918

Correspondence regarding publications, speaking engagements, placement, and professional meetings continues to dominate the material from Ross's early years at the University of Wisconsin. In these years his primary publishers were the Century Company for books and Century Magazine for articles. Ross engaged in regular correspondence with editors Douglas Z. Doty, Dana H. Ferrin, Robert U. Johnson, and others regarding publication arrangements and revisions. During this period Ross also undertook the first of his foreign travels and popular related writing projects, visiting China (1910), South America (1913-1914), and Russia (1917). Many letters concern these trips. A number of individuals including Arthur W. Calhoun, a former Ross student and radical professor who was always at odds with college officials, sociologist Seba Eldridge, and travel writer Harry A. Franck each began life-long correspondence with Ross. Old friend James E. Barber also continued to correspond regularly.

In 1907 and 1908 there is much correspondence with former University of Nebraska colleagues regarding the internal politics of that institution. Evidence of Ross's interest in eugenics is documented in a September 10, 1908 letter from H. W. Anderson, President of the California State Eugenics Association. His general interest in the field of education is conveyed in correspondence with Anna Garlin Spencer, Milton Fairchild, and others.

Material from January 1910 documents the controversy over Ross's role in the University of Wisconsin campus visits of Emma Goldman and Parker H. Sercombe. There is little correspondence for the rest of 1910 as Ross was in China investigating social conditions from February to September. The contacts he established at that time with missionaries, diplomats, businessmen, and educators, such as Julean Arnold, Grace B. Service, D.L. Anderson, and others, continued for years.

The Changing Chinese, the first of many popular travel books written by Ross, and numerous articles based on his China trip were published in 1911. These publications, coinciding with the revolution of Sun Yat Sen, proved most timely and resulted in many letters from readers of the works. Theodore Roosevelt, an acknowledged Ross reader, wrote regarding population limitation and Chinese exclusion on July 11 and October 31, and Grace B. Service wrote a lengthy description of the revolution filed at November 10. Other significant correspondence from 1911 includes a January 22-23 letter from the San Francisco Examiner detailing accusations made by David Starr Jordan regarding “the Stanford incident” of a decade earlier; and communications with Clark W. Hetherington discussing the value of playgrounds and other public recreation facilities. Laura Cornelius Kellogg, a militant American Indian reformer and a member of the Oneida tribe who studied at the University of Wisconsin from 1907 to 1908, is first mentioned in a letter to Maurice H. Needham dated June 29, 1911.

Probably due to a strong distrust of newspapers, Ross became involved in the Potentia movement beginning in about 1912. The Potentia idea was “to acquire an income through the rental of its protective trademark” and to use both income and trademark “in disseminating through the press the opinions of eminent and disinterested men of science,” on important public issues (Ross to Geddes Smith, March 2, 1922). There is regular correspondence between Ross and Potentia movement founder Niels Gron from 1912 until 1925.

Eugenics and immigration, inexorably linked, continued to be of primary interest to Ross, who received letters in 1912 from the Eugenics Club of Madison, Wisconsin and from O.E. Baker, author of the “Eugenics Bulletin” of the United States Department of Agriculture. Apparently prompted by Prescott F. Hall of the Immigration Restriction League, Ross wrote to Woodrow Wilson on November 19, 1912, urging that a strong advocate of immigration restriction be appointed to head the Department of Commerce and Labor. Other notable correspondents for the year included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound, and Joseph Fels.

Correspondence dating from 1913 is not extensive, as Ross departed for South America in July and returned the following January. Noteworthy communications for the year include a nineteen-page letter from Julean Arnold to Thomas Hotchkiss concerning graft (“the squeeze”) in the Chinese Customs Bureau; and correspondence of Judson King and Oklahoma Senator Robert L. Owen about the National Government League. Much correspondence from this year also deals with the settling of Lester Frank Ward's literary estate. Although he was not the executor, Ross handled part of the estate, as evidenced in correspondence with Emily Palmer Cape, James Quayle Dealey, Sarah (“Sate”) Simons, and G.P. Putnam & Sons publishers.

Ross's interest in eugenics is further reflected in 1914 correspondence with Joseph Lee of the Immigration Restriction League concerning the Burnett Bill to institute a reading test for immigrants. Ross was also in communication with the Eugenics Record Office, as shown in correspondence with H.H. Laughlin. Correspondents on the topic of American Indian reforms for 1913 and 1914 include Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Joseph B. Lockey of the Pro-Indigena Association, and F.A. McKenzie. Roberta Hodgson, a graduate student preparing a dissertation on blacks, began a long correspondence with Ross at approximately this time. Cora Mell Patten of the Chautauqua Circuit also wrote frequently. Letters regarding China appear from Julean Arnold, W.A. Hemingway, and R. Talbot.

In 1914 and 1915 Ross served as president of the American Sociological Society and much correspondence concerned that organization. The Society's Congress on Immigration, which convened in conjunction with the Panama Pacific Exposition, is documented in correspondence with James A. Barr. Other business of the organization is covered in extensive correspondence with Scott E.W. Bedford and Glen Levin Swiggett. As American Sociological Society president, Ross corresponded with prominent women educators Emily Balch, Mary E. Woolley, and Anna Garlin Spencer; and with J.P. Lichtenberger, J. Williams, and Franklin H. Giddings regarding the academic freedom case of Scott Nearing of the University of Pennsylvania.

Numerous other issues are represented in single and small groups of 1915 and 1916 letters. Following is a list of some of these topics with the names of correspondents involved with them:

• American Institute of Social Service (Horace G. Hoadley, Josiah Strong, and William B. Patterson)
• an international conference dedicated to ending World War I (Henry Ford)
• the Committee of Sixty on National Prohibition (Irving Fisher)
• the Burnett Immigration Bill (Representative John M. Nelson, Nathaniel M. Pratt, and John H. Wigmore)

Exchanges with eminent Argentinian sociologist Ernesto Quesada also began at about this time.

Correspondence of 1917 and 1918 is extensive and dominated by the subject of Ross's trip to Russia made under the auspices of the American Institute for Social Service. Preparations for the July-December journey are reflected in exchanges with Nathaniel M. Pratt, General Secretary of the Institute, as well as letters of introduction from University of Wisconsin President Charles R. Van Hise, Isaiah Bowman of the American Geographical Society, and other notables. In a February 16, 1918 letter to Rudolph M. Binder of the Institute, Ross explained how the November Revolution impeded his mission. A twenty-three page report of his trip is enclosed in an April 1, 1918 letter to Binder. At about this time he began a life-long correspondence with Franklin A. Gaylord of the YMCA International Committee, whom he met in Russia. He frequently communicated with James Abbott of the Century Company regarding his work, Russia in Upheaval, which appeared in 1918.

Ross's interest in immigration is reflected in 1917 and 1918 exchanges with Sidney L. Gulick of the League for Constructive Immigration Legislation and Prescott F. Hall. Other interesting topics are covered in the following 1918 letters: April 8 to J.L. Highsaw supporting minimum wage boards; May 8 to Hazel Griffin on women in the job market; and May 23 from Louis D. Froelick of the American Asiatic Association, and August 31 from S.G. Way of the Chinese Nationalist League regarding China and Asia. There is relatively little information on the war and related domestic issues. Exceptions are letters of Joyce O. Hertzler describing his military experiences, and of O.C. Wentin, Assistant Secretary of the League to Enforce Peace, regarding activities of that group.

1919-1929 ^[1]

Foreign travel and related writing projects, and immigration restriction and eugenics remain frequent topics of correspondence in the 1919-1929 period. In these years Ross also took interest in birth control (Margaret Sanger is a regular correspondent) and became involved, at least in an honorary capacity, with a host of liberal and reform related organizations. Old contacts James E. Barber, Harry A. Franck, and Roscoe Pound continue to correspond and Ross begins a regular correspondence with Russian emigre sociologist Pitrim A. Sorokin.

Even more than in years prior to 1919-1929, correspondence is taken up with publication of Ross's own works and those he edited. Ross's primary publisher was the Century Company and he corresponded frequently with its officials including Dana H. Ferrin, James Abbott, and Lyman B. Sturgis. About 1919 he also became editor of the Century Social Science Series of college textbooks. In this capacity he corresponded with authors including Willystine Goodsell, Katherine L. Lenroot, J.P. Lichtenberger, Emma O. Lundburg, H.A. Millis, and David Hutton Webster.

Ross's interest in higher education is documented in a May 10, 1919 letter to Edward A. Fitzpatrick, Secretary of the Wisconsin State Board of Education, suggesting the establishment of a revolving fund enabling Wisconsin high school students to attend college in-state regardless of their parents' income. The dismissal of University of California, Berkeley Professor Ira W. Howerth is discussed in letters of September 20 and 30, 1919, when the case was referred to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Committee on Academic Freedom. During 1919 Ross also began corresponding with Jerome Davis, while continuing exchanges with former Stanford colleague Lucile Eaves, then of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and Sidney L. Gulick. The 1919 correspondence also reveals Ross's views on a variety of contemporary issues: Bolshevism (A.L. Sugarman of the Socialist Party of Minnesota); Russia (H.H. Fuller); universal military training (B.A. McGee); equal pay for equal work done by women (Elizabeth Eddy); extending espionage and sedition laws into peace-time (Albert DeSilver and Senator Medill McCormick); raids under the Lusk Committee (Raymond Robins); and Chinese politics and government (C.G. Dittmer).

Correspondence dating from January through August 1920 continues to be extensive, but decreases considerably from September through December, when Ross took a leave of absence in New York City to study the Soviet regime. During 1920 Ross defended himself against charges that he had any revolutionary Socialist connections in letters to George C. Sellery and Richard T. Ely. His contacts and experience in China also continued to produce correspondence, and eugenics resurfaces in the 1920 correspondence with Charles B. Davenport, Chairman of the National Research Council's Eugenics Committee.

Ross's old “cause,” the Potentia movement, seemed to enjoy a resurgence in 1921 as he communicated with Niels Gron, A.S. Lloyd, and Charles Stewart Davison. Noteworthy correspondence with Margaret Sanger also increased, although Ross chose to remain aloof from her American Birth Control Conference, partly due to concern that the University of Wisconsin might be adversely affected by a backlash of Catholic voters influencing the state legislature (see letter of October 25). Immigration restriction, another aspect of population control, is documented in letters to Miles J. Martin and Dwight H. Porter. Ross's focus on China was also renewed in 1921, as he became head of Wisconsin in China (see enclosure to July 11 Allen P. Child letter for an explanation of this organization) and in correspondence with John L. Childs, University of Wisconsin representative in Beijing, and James D. Campbell.

A new trend which emerges in the early 1920s and continues for many years is an increase in Ross's committee work for various organizations, particularly “honorary” work or “lending his name.” In 1921, for example, Ross accepted Robert M. La Follette's invitation to join the National Council of the People's Legislative Service; responded positively to J.W. Beatson, becoming a member of the National Economic League; agreed to join the Education Committee of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in a letter to Stephen Duggan; and wrote to Samuel Gompers agreeing to serve on a disarmament committee for an international conference for arms limitation and Pacific problems.

Beginning in 1922 and continuing for the rest of the 1920s, there is a marked decrease in the volume of correspondence. From June through August 1922, Ross travelled in Mexico and there is little material from that three-month period. The trip became the basis for a series of articles published in The New Republic, (see exchanges with editor Herbert Croly), and for The Social Revolution in Mexico published in 1923. The contacts which Ross established on his 1917 Russian trip led to interesting exchanges five years later with Alexander Koulisher, an emigre seeking a professorship in the United States, and Alexander Guidony (many Guidony letters are in Russian).

Preparations for Ross's investigative trip to Portuguese East Africa (Angola) mark the 1923 correspondence. Further preparations, the trip itself, and the controversy over Ross's published findings are the subjects of many 1924-1926 letters. Ross's scathing Report on Employment of Native Labor in Portuguese Africa appeared in 1925. The Portuguese government apparently threatened to bring suit, and officials at the American State Department refused to vouch for Ross. There was fear that the missionaries who had cooperated with Ross would bear the brunt of Portugal's wrath, and ultimately Ross believed that his efforts at reform were in vain. For information on these events and issues see especially the correspondence of Amandus Johnson, A.G. Murray, Arthur J. Orner, Andrew Reid, C.K. Simango, and A.L. Warnshuis, and a May 24, 1924 interview with D.A. Hastings.

Other significant correspondents for the 1923-1925 period include Zechariah Chafee regarding free speech and radicalism; Roger N. Baldwin on the ACLU; Franklin A. Gaylord covering Indian nationalism; Upton Sinclair discussing “literature for emancipation of the workers;” Robert De. C. Ward and Arthur Fisher on Japanese immigration; Ben L. Reitman of “The Hobo College” in Chicago regarding his experiment on the “Homeless Man problem;” and long-time friends and associates James E. Barber, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Roscoe Pound.

Ross's public stand on the birth control issue changed during 1926 as evidenced by his correspondence with Margaret Sanger and Anne Kennedy. Other notable correspondents include: Cameron J. Davis on Protestant mission work; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn regarding fascism; M. Matsuhasi discussing women's education in the United States; R.R. Marett, a friend from Ross's Berlin days; Edna McCaull Bohlman, co-author of Civic Sociology; and Indians I.B. Sen, Radhakamal Mukerjee, and Haridas T. Muzumdar.

Long-standing concerns of immigration, eugenics, and over-population, are documented in 1927. Restricted immigration is endorsed in a January 4 letter to the President, Senate, and House of Representatives, while the National Origins Standard is supported in a February 23 letter to Senator David A. Reed. Ross's view of eugenics is summarized in a September 22 communication to Leon F. Whitney of the American Eugenics Society, Inc.

Extensive travel, particularly during the latter half of the year, accounts for the limited correspondence from 1928. Ross spent part of the summer in Mexico, then began a seven-month around-the-world tour as Educational Director of the Floating University. From the Orient, University of Wisconsin sociologist John L. Gillin wrote to Ross with observations on the Chinese Nationalist army in Shanghai and independence for the Philippines. In a June 14 letter to Paxton Hibben, biographer of William Jennings Bryan, Ross noted the great orator's lack of intellectual prowess and made other judgments. The death of long-time friend James E. Barber is mentioned in an August 29 letter from L.P. Barbour.

Ross did not return to Madison from his world tour until mid-June 1929. However, a May 22 letter to the editor of The Chicago Tribune defended the Floating University against charges of being unorganized and non-educational. The creation of a separate Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin is documented in a June 5 letter from John L. Gillin. A chapter in World Drift entitled “What the Films are Doing to our Children” evidently occasioned exchanges with William H. Short of the National Committee for Study of Social Values in Motion Pictures and George J. Hecht of The Parents Magazine.

1930-1936

There is a marked increase in the volume of correspondence for this period. Considerable numbers of letters continue to be devoted to Ross's own publications and to the Century Social Science Series he edited. As in the past, correspondence with Dana H. Ferrin is the key to Ross's publishing and editing activities. In addition he corresponded with authors including Emory S. Bogardus, Jerome Davis, and Horace B. Hawthorn. Academic responsibilities such as recommendations and placement, and correspondence related to Ross's travels remain prominent in the series. A number of individuals including Arthur W. Calhoun, Harry A. Franck, Zona Gale, Radhakamal Mukerjee, Haridas T. Muzumdar, Kathrene Pinkerton, and Margaret Sanger were still regular correspondents. In addition, Upton Sinclair, Mildred C. Smith of the Open Forum Speakers Bureau and S W. Stookey of Coe College wrote often.

Continuing and even expanding in the 1930-1936 period is Ross's participation in and/or membership on the governing boards of numerous liberal, reform, and scientific organizations. Listed below are some of these organizations and in parentheses are the names of people with whom Ross corresponded about the organization.

• American Civil Liberties Union (Roger N. Baldwin)
• American Committee Against War and Fascism (Ralph M. Compere)
• American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky (John Dewey and Norman Thomas)
• American Eugenics Society (Guy Irving Burch)
• Brookwood Labor College (A.J. Muste)
• Civic Education Service (Walter E. Myer)
• Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America (Hubert C. Herring)
• Committee to Invite Mahatma Gandhi to the United States (Frederick B. Fisher)
• Institute for the Study of Mercenary Crime (Ernest D. MacDougall)
• Intercollegiate Association for Study of the Alcohol Problem (John H. Shouse)
• League for the Organization of Progress (Rudolf Broda) National Economic League (J.W. Beatson)
• National Education Association Committee on Social Economic Objectives (H.A. Allan)
• The People's Lobby (John Dewey and Benjamin C. Marsh)
• Population Reference Bureau (Guy Irving Burch)
• Public Ownership League of America (Carl D. Thompson)
• Victor L. Berger National Foundation (Clarence Darrow)
• Wisconsin Conference of Social Work (Aubrey Williams)
• Wisconsin Temperance Education (C.E. O'Beirne and Charles L. Hill)
• World Tomorrow Peace Meetings (Kirby Page)

Not unexpectedly, the Depression is also a frequent topic of correspondence. Letters of Arthur W. Calhoun in particular hit upon this topic. There are many letters from unemployed professors seeking employment at the University of Wisconsin.

In a bizarre off-shoot from his interest in motion pictures and morality, Ross became involved in 1930 with Major Frank Pease, “manager” of the United Technical Directors Association (not to be confused with F.S. Pease Jr. of the Century Company who also corresponded with Ross in 1930). Major Frank Pease, an anti-Semitic, militaristic fanatic, used one of Ross's letters to create the false impression that Ross opposed the pacifist film, All Quiet on the Western Front. The situation was brought to Ross's attention by letters from Creighton Peet of The Outlook and Jessie Jack Hooper of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

One of the highlights of 1931 occurred in mid-March when Ross was honored by Alpha Kappa Delta for twenty-five years of service at the University of Wisconsin. Many colleagues and former students unable to attend his dinner forwarded letters of congratulations. Due in part to a doctor's order to rest, Ross sailed to Tahiti in February 1932. Fourteen pages of observations from this trip are enclosed in a March 25, 1935 M.M. Taylor letter. On April 6, 1932, while Ross was still in Tahiti, his wife, Rosamund Simons Ross, died. The 1932 correspondence contains more personal and family letters than other years, partially due to Mrs. Ross's death.

As chairman of the National Popular Government League's Roosevelt Campaign Committee, Ross became actively involved in the 1932 presidential election. This work is documented in exchanges with League founder Judson King and with Melvin D. Hildreth of the National Progressive League for Franklin D. Roosevelt. A number of other issues and topics are covered in single or small numbers of letters: independence for India (John Haynes Holmes); conditions in Russia, including collectivization and Bolshevism (Jerome Davis); and the Depression in Arkansas (William E. Zeuch).

Birth control, an issue which had long interested Ross, took on additional significance during an era of unemployment and bread lines. He viewed the problem in terms of class conflict, as he explained in a June 13, 1933 letter to Stella Hanau of the Birth Control Review. A June 10 letter from H.K. Hanson regards birth control legislation in Wisconsin and there are scattered references to Ross's participation in a losing 1933 legislative battle on the subject. Eugenics, forever associated with birth control to Ross, was the subject of an Associated Press clipping enclosed with a November 9, 1933 letter from Milton Fairchild. The wire service credited Ross with plans for breeding a “perfect race” by mentally and physically testing couples who wished to marry before issuing wedding permits. The scheme is cloaked in New Deal terminology referring to “a sort of 'new deal' for humanity or a 'superior race recovery program.'”

Much of the 1934 correspondence, including exchanges with Alexander R. Hohlfeld, Glenn Frank, Howard Becker, and F. Stuart Chapin, concentrated on efforts to bring sociologist Leopold Von Wiese from Nazi Germany to the University of Wisconsin as a visiting Carl Schurz Professor. During the same period, Ross, Becker, and Charles A. Ellwood communicated about resigning from the German Sociological Society to protest the Nazis. The summer of 1934 was highlighted by Ross's trip to Russia, as well as to Scandinavia, and to Eastern and Southern Europe. Arrangements are documented in exchanges with H.H. Powers and William M. Barber. After returning to the United States in September, he continued to correspond with William Coolagin, a Leningrad student, regarding living conditions in Russia. Ross reflected on his trip in letters to David Hutton Webster and Drexel A. Sprecher. In issue-related 1934 correspondence, Ross wrote on January 22 to Henry Pratt Fairchild suggesting a world project to study whether the crossing of the races should be restrained as in India and the American South; on March 23 to William English Walling regarding capitalism; on October 19 to Janet Crittenden Buck about David Starr Jordan as an educator; and on December 14 to Norman A. Kahl on the subject of old-age pensions.

The Ross material for 1935 reflects his involvement in a move to reinstate University Extension Professor Albert E. Croft (see letters of Croft, Florence E. Fell, Frank O. Holt, and others). In an August 15 letter old friend Charlotte Perkins Gilman explained her imminent suicide. Arrangements for his 1936 trip to Mexico, as well as 1938 travel to Australia and New Zealand, are discussed in exchanges with Hubert C. Herring and William M. Barber. “Current events” and topics which figure in the sociologist's 1935 correspondence include: the effects of the Depression on family life (Ernest R. Groves); the academic freedom case of Walter Terpenning (Paul F. Voelker); protestation of political murders in Nazi Germany (Hans Luther); and newspapers and public opinion (W. Ryland Boorman). Ross's December 28 speech criticizing the Hearst newspaper chain, delivered as incoming honorary president of Pi Gamma Mu, elicited much response. The writing of his autobiography also occupied Ross during 1935 and brought him in contact with his former teacher and life-long correspondent, S.W. Stookey, as well as Anita Newcomb McGee, daughter of Johns Hopkins professor Simon Newcomb.

Ross published more during 1936 than he had in over a decade. He frequently corresponded with Mary F. Anderson of the World Book Company, and he continued his editorial work for D. Appleton-Century (successor to the Century Company). His autobiography, Seventy Years of It, generated comments from many readers following its appearance in September. In addition, Ross's fight against the Hearst newspaper chain gained momentum and resulted in much correspondence after it was noted by Oswald Garrison Villard in The Nation of January 15. The academic freedom case of Jerome Davis, a professor at the Yale Divinity School and Ross's long-time friend, figured prominently in the 1936 correspondence. In addition to Davis, Ross's correspondents regarding the matter include George A. Douglas, Oliver Hart Bronson, Colston E. Warne, Luther A. Weigle, and Luther L. Bernard. Meanwhile, the forced resignation of University of Wisconsin President Glenn Frank is discussed in letters of December 17 and 31 to George A. Douglas and E. Allison Grant respectively.

1937-1966

After thirty-one years as Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Ross retired in 1937. He remained active professionally for several years, lecturing, attending meetings, and maintaining his office and some secretarial help. He also continued his travel and related writing projects and his participation in numerous liberal and reform-related organizations. Consequently the volume of correspondence remains high through about 1940. Thereafter, the number of letters is greatly diminished.

Ross's increased involvement in the controversial American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky may be considered the focal point of the 1937 correspondence. This work brought him in touch with Melville Stewart, Mauritz A. Hallgren, Katharine D. Lumpkin, John Dewey, Suzanne LaFollette, Judson King, Felix Morrow, George Novack, and others. Ross also served on the Wisconsin Peace Council (see George Collins correspondence); and the Advisory Board of the National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia (see Charles Francis Potter letters). In addition, Ross continued to receive letters from readers of his autobiography. Other noteworthy correspondence includes exchanges with Jerome Davis concerning his academic freedom case; a letter to Senator Lewis Schwellenbach regarding radio freedom; and one to Senator James F. Brynes about the Senate Committee on Civil Liberties.

From February through early September 1938, Ross journeyed to Australia. Descriptions of his final trip abroad are recorded in letters to his daughter-in-law, Gertrude. In 1939 Ross taught summer school at Northwestern University, as reflected in correspondence with Arthur J. Todd. In addition during 1939, he received many requests for his lecture “Fifteen Weeks in Australia.”

Ross's life-long interest in eugenics is also documented in the 1939 material. On May 15 he wrote a three-page letter to the Madison Capital Times endorsing compulsory sterilization of “mental defectives,” while sterilization and a “Race Betterment Conference” are discussed in a June 1 communication to Emil Leffler. He also received a letter from Dorothy D. Walton and Anna E. Morehouse of the Wisconsin Race Conservation Committee. In other 1938 and 1939 correspondence, Ross renewed friendships from Iowa days with DeWitt L. Pelton and E.V. Tuttle, reminded Mahatma Gandhi of their 1925 and 1928 visits in a letter of recommendation for Haridas T. Muzumdar, and received a complaint from Leon Trotsky about an unpleasant encounter with a Mrs. Harris, for whom Ross had written a letter of introduction.

During 1940, Ross became Chairman of the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a post he held for ten years. Although primarily an honorary position, it resulted in substantial amounts of correspondence. The case of thirteen University of Michigan students dismissed because of their anti-war stand is documented in correspondence with Alexander Ruthven, Ernest Goodman, Owen A. Knox, and Paul Allen. Oklahoma Governor Leon C. Phillips and Arthur Garfield Hays are among correspondents concerned with the academic freedom case of Stuart Streeter of Southeastern (Oklahoma) State College.

With the possible exception of ACLU material, there is only scattered significant correspondence after 1939. Personal highlights of 1940 include the unveiling of Ross's portrait at an honorary dinner held at the University of Wisconsin and his marriage to Helen Forbes. Both events generated congratulatory messages. In the early 1940s the Gettelman Bill, which banned minority parties from the ballot in Wisconsin and was specifically aimed at the Communist Party, was discussed in letters of Thomas E. Casey of the Wisconsin State Conference on Social Legislation, and Governor Julius Heil. Ross corresponded with Franz Boas, David C. Shelton, Roger N. Baldwin, and Robert W. Dunn regarding the case of Earl Browder, imprisoned head of the American Communist Party. In a May 2, 1941 letter to Henry W. Bragdon, Ross describes Woodrow Wilson's teaching years at Johns Hopkins University.

The establishment of a chapter of Pi Gamma Mu at North Carolina College for Negroes (Durham) is discussed in 1945 correspondence with Joseph H. Taylor and Leroy Allen. In 1946, Ross continued to work on his final manuscript, “Aphorisms of a Sociologist” (published as “Capsules of Social Wisdom” in the journal Social Forces), and sent it out for review to Judson T. Landis, Ray E. Baber, and others. Throughout later years he corresponded with old acquaintances including Arthur W. Calhoun, Dana H. Ferrin, Karyl Kanet Chipman, Raymond Robins, and Upton Sinclair.

From Ross's death in 1951 the series skips to 1958 when letters regarding the naming of a University of Wisconsin residence hall for Ross are included. From 1959 to 1966 nearly all the letters are between Ross's biographer Julius Weinberg and Ross's son Gilbert.

Series B. Diaries and Travel Notes, 1883-1938

Diaries and travel notes consist of diaries and transcripts, notes, and notebooks, which document Ross's student years and later travel. Organization of the series is chronological and the contents list below shows the dates and, in many cases, the topics of the diaries and notebooks.

A diary kept while attending Coe College (1883-1887) and the transcript of a diary kept at the University of Berlin (1888-1889), record his early intellectual development and views of society. However, most of the material in the series is related to trips taken from 1910 to 1938, including observations of China, Africa, South America, and Russia. His many travel books are based, in part, on these notes.

For Ross's 1913-1914 trip to South America there are two sets of volumes. The titled volumes (see contents list) record day-to-day activities and observations, while the untitled volumes are summaries probably drawn together as an early draft for publication. Five volumes which he wrote in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution are particularly significant since there is no correspondence from Ross during this 1917-1918 trip. Notes, dated December 9, 1917, on an interview with Leon Trotsky are included in volume IV of the Russian trip diaries. Two notebooks dating from a 1924 trip to Portuguese East Africa (Angola), sponsored by the International Missionary Council to Investigate Compulsory Labor Conditions, are also noteworthy.

Ross recorded two trips within the United States. His observations of Chicago factories, circa 1910, include impressions of Armour Company, U.S. Steel, and the McCormick Works twine mill. Topics include treatment of women workers, labor conditions, and unions. There is also a diary of travels through New York and New England, circa 1914, with points of comparison of different sections of the United States.

Series C. Subject File, 1900-1956

This alphabetically arranged series contains a variety of material, regarding several distinct facets of Ross's career, and an attempt by friends to raise a memorial fund after his death. The file headings shown in the contents list below are generally descriptive of the content of this series.

The “Academic Freedom” and “American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky” files are particularly interesting. The former pertains to Ross's dismissal from Stanford in 1900 as well as to the case of Jerome Davis, a Yale Divinity School professor denied tenure in 1936. Ross was a member of the Trotsky Committee, and the records regarding that group form the largest component of the series. Depositions, transcripts, reports, and press releases are included, while Ross's correspondence with the organization's secretary, Suzanne LaFollette, and others is located in Series A, Correspondence.

Series D. Writings, 1879-1948

Writings are subdivided into student compositions and notes, articles and speeches, and book drafts and files. The chronologically organized student compositions and notes, 1879-1891, include the libretto for an operetta, Yawnmore, written by Ross, and his notes from graduate school class lectures by Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson while at Johns Hopkins.

Articles and speeches consist of popular and professional journal publications and addresses on a variety of topics, such as sociology, travel, temperance, and over-population, as well as book reviews. A few articles of interest to Ross, but not written by him, are also included. There is occasionally more than one version of the same item. Multiple dates on the contents list below indicate that there is more than one dated version. The material is arranged alphabetically and the contents list shows all titles.

Book drafts and files consist primarily of annotated typescripts but also include book reviews (many additional reviews of Ross's works are found in Series G, Clippings and Ephemera), sales statistics, outlines, notes and notebooks, and other related material. Published and unpublished works are included. The material is arranged alphabetically, and the titles are shown in the contents list. Unnumbered chapters and related material are filed after the numbered chapters. Dates refer to the date of the material, not necessarily the same as the date of book publication.

The amount of documentation varies greatly among the works with some files, such as that for Changing America, consisting of only a few book reviews. Two works, Civic Sociology/”Sociology for Everybody” and Principles of Sociology, are extensively documented. The identity of the former manuscript is uncertain as, towards the end of his life, Ross revised Civic Sociology (revision unpublished) and wrote, but never published, “Sociology for Everybody.” Due to overlaps in subject matter, these drafts are difficult to distinguish from one another. It is also possible that some of the material may relate to a revision of Social Control begun about the same time but never finished. There are also missing chapters and chapters with the same number but different titles and contents for Civic Sociology/”Sociology for Everybody.” The draft of Principles of Sociology, the lengthiest in the series, probably relates to the 1938 edition and is nearly complete. The manuscript is based in part on lectures and notes, 1926-1939, included with the chapters.

Series E. Teaching File, 1893-1941

These records consist of detailed syllabi, examinations, and other material related to courses in economics and sociology taught by Ross. Much of the file predates his arrival at the University of Wisconsin in 1906. Ross's early teaching posts at Stanford and the University of Nebraska, where he taught introductory level courses, as well as advanced classes, such as “Railroad Problems” and “Bad Government,” are well documented. Records from his Wisconsin period reflect increasing specialization within the field of sociology and include the syllabus for a class on South America. Also included is material on a summer class Ross taught at Northwestern University after his retirement from the University of Wisconsin.

Series F. Photographs, circa 1870-1930 and undated

The photographs include formal and candid pictures of Ross and his family; those from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Visual Materials Archive's “Name File” were microfilmed and others were added to the collection later. Also on the microfilm and also available in original form are three sets of pictures related to his professional career. These include two groups of photos from Ross's travels in South America, 1913-1914, and a small number of photos of slum living conditions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1909.

Series G. Clippings and Ephemera, 1882-1969

The content of this series is primarily newspaper clippings, although invitations, announcements, broadsides, programs, and other types of materials are also included. The series is made up of seven volumes of scrapbooks and a separate chronologically arranged set of clippings. The first scrapbook volume consists exclusively of reviews of several of Ross's books. The other volumes cover his college years in the United States and Germany and his early professional career. There are a great many clippings on the Stanford dismissal and the silver issue. The contents list below shows the dates, and sometimes the topics, covered in the scrapbooks.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Frank A. and Lester Ward Ross, July 14, 1954; by Professor William H. Sewell, April 27, 1959; and by Gilbert Ross, September 16, 1971.

Processing Information

Prepared for microfilming by Harry Miller.

Micro 927/Wis Mss RV	Series: Series A. Correspondence
Reel   40	Index to Correspondence
Reel   1 Box   1	1859 April-1892 February
Reel   2 Box   1	1892 March-1893
Reel   2 Box   2	1894-1900 October
Reel   3 Box   2	1900 November-1901
Reel   3 Box   3	1902-1905 May
Reel   4 Box   3	1905 June-1907 August
Reel   4 Box   4	1907 September-1908 July
Reel   5 Box   4	1908 August-1910 October
Reel   5 Box   5	1910 November-1911 July
Reel   6 Box   5	1911 August-1912 May
Reel   6 Box   6	1912 June-December
Reel   7 Box   6	1913 January-1914 May
Reel   7 Box   7	1914 June-November 19
Reel   8 Box   7	1914 November 20-1915 September
Reel   8 Box   8	1915 October
Reel   9 Box   8	1915 November-1916 August
Reel   9 Box   9	1916 September-October
Reel   10 Box   9	1916 November-1918 February
Reel   11 Box   9	1918 March-April
Reel   11 Box   10	1918 May-December
Reel   12 Box   10	1919 January-February
Reel   12 Box   11	1919 March-November 14
Reel   13 Box   11	1919 November 17-December 15
Reel   13 Box   12	1919 December 16-1920
Reel   14 Box   13	1921-1922 April
Reel   15 Box   13	1922 May-November
Reel   15 Box   14	1922 December-1925 October
Reel   16 Box   14	1925 November-1926 May
Reel   16 Box   15	1926 June-1928 January
Reel   17 Box   15	1928 February-1929
Reel   17 Box   16	1930
Reel   18 Box   16	1931
Reel   18 Box   17	1932 January-October 15
Reel   19 Box   17	1932 October 16-1933
Reel   19 Box   18	1934 January 1-13
Reel   20 Box   18	1934 January 17-1935 March 15
Reel   21 Box   18	1935 March 16-31
Reel   21 Box   19	1935 April-1936 February
Reel   22 Box   19	1936 March
Reel   22 Box   20	1936 April-1937 January
Reel   23 Box   20	1937 February-March
Reel   23 Box   21	1937 April-December
Reel   24 Box   21	1938 January-June
Reel   24 Box   22	1938 July-1939 May
Reel   25 Box   22	1939 June-December
Reel   25 Box   23	1940 January-July
Reel   26 Box   23	1940 August-December
Reel   26 Box   24	1941
Reel   27 Box   24	1942-1944
Reel   27 Box   25	1945-1966 October; undated
	Series: Series B. Diaries and Travel Notes	⇧
Reel/Frame   28/1 Box/Folder   26/1	1883, 1885-1887
Reel/Frame   28/77 Box/Folder   26/2	, 1888-1889 (typescript)
Reel/Frame   28/95 Box/Folder   26/3-7	1910 (China, 5 Volumes)
Reel/Frame   28/623 Box/Folder   26/8	, circa 1910 (Chicago factories)
Reel/Frame   28/646 Box/Folder   26/9-12	circa 1912 (Ethnological notes and observations possibly used for The Old World in the New, 4 volumes)
	, 1913-1914 (South America)
	Titled Volumes
Reel/Frame   28/1025 Box/Folder   26/13	“Panama to Guayaquil”
Reel/Frame   28/1053 Box/Folder   26/14	“Guayaquil to Lima”
Reel/Frame   29/1 Box/Folder   27/1	“Lima to La Paz”
Reel/Frame   29/66 Box/Folder   27/2	“La Paz to Santiago”
Reel/Frame   29/114 Box/Folder   27/3	“Santiago to Buenos Aires”
Reel/Frame   29/175 Box/Folder   27/4-8	Untitled, 5 Volumes
Reel/Frame   29/571 Box/Folder   27/9	, circa 1914 (Observations in New York & New England)
Reel/Frame   29/636 Box/Folder   27/10-14	1917 (Russia, 5 volumes)
Reel/Frame   29/975 Box/Folder   28/1-2	1922 (Mexico, 2 volumes)
Reel/Frame   30/1 Box/Folder   28/3-4	1924 (Portuguese East Africa, 2 volumes)
	, 1924-1925 (India)
Reel/Frame   30/169 Box/Folder   28/5-6	Volumes 1-2
Reel/Frame   30/364 Box/Folder   28/7	Miscellaneous Notes
Reel/Frame   30/471 Box/Folder   28/8	, 1928 (Mexico)
Reel/Frame   30/505 Box/Folder   28/9	, 1929 (Around-the-World Trip)
Reel/Frame   30/530 Box/Folder   28/10	, 1932 (Tahiti)
Reel/Frame   30/604 Box/Folder   28/11	, 1936 (Mexico)
Reel/Frame   30/618 Box/Folder   28/12-13	1938 (Australia, 2 volumes)
	Series: Series C. Subject File	⇧
Reel/Frame   30/831 Box/Folder   29/1	Academic Freedom/ Stanford Case, 1900-1903, 1936
	American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky
Reel/Frame   30/886 Box/Folder   29/2	Drafts of Report, 1937
	Hearing...into the Moscow Trial, 1937
Reel/Frame   30/948 Box/Folder   29/3	Depositions, Affidavits, etc.
Reel/Frame   31/1 Box/Folder   29/4	Transcript
Reel/Frame   31/75 Box/Folder   29/5	Printed Matter, 1936-1937
Reel/Frame   31/130 Box/Folder   29/6	American Sociological Society, 1912, 1914-1916
Reel/Frame   31/166 Box/Folder   29/7	Biographical Material, 1892-1966
	Ross Memorial
Reel/Frame   31/287 Box/Folder   29/8	Administrative Correspondence and Papers
Reel/Frame   31/364 Box/Folder   29/9	Fundraising Correspondence, 1951-1952
Reel/Frame   31/556 Box/Folder   29/10	List of Donations, 1952-1956
	Series: Series D. Writings	⇧
	Student Compositions and Notes
Reel/Frame   31/569 Box/Folder   30/1	Essays and Poem, 1879-1886
Reel/Frame   31/598 Box/Folder   30/2	College Composition Books, circa 1882-1886
Reel/Frame   31/701 Box/Folder   30/3	Yawnmore, libretto for operetta by E.A. Ross, circa 1888-1889
Reel/Frame   31/731 Box/Folder   30/4	Notebook of Class Lectures, 1890-1891
Reel/Frame   31/828 Box/Folder   30/5	Notebook of Richard T. Ely's Class Lectures, 1890-1891
Reel/Frame   31/926 Box/Folder   30/6	Notebook of Woodrow Wilson's Class Lectures, 1891
	Articles and Speeches
Reel/Frame   31/962 Box/Folder   31/1	“Abstracts of Addresses,” undated
Reel/Frame   31/968 Box/Folder   31/1	“Academic Freedom for High School Teachers,” December 18, 1930
Reel/Frame   31/972 Box/Folder   31/1	“The Academic Influence of the Endowed Foundations,” undated
Reel/Frame   31/974 Box/Folder   31/1	“Address Before the Madison Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers,” March 27, 1940
Reel/Frame   31/979 Box/Folder   31/1	“Address Before the Northwestern School of Education” July 25, 1939
Reel/Frame   31/985 Box/Folder   31/1	“Alcohol,” statements regarding, 1941, 1942, 1944
Reel/Frame   32/1 Box/Folder   31/1	Alcohol, statement regarding, circa 1944
Reel/Frame   32/15 Box/Folder   31/1	“Alcohol's Day of Pentecost,” circa 1939
Reel/Frame   32/18 Box/Folder   31/1	“American Imperialism,” 1928
Reel/Frame   32/21 Box/Folder   31/1	“American Society,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/24 Box/Folder   31/1	“American Youth's Prospects,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/28 Box/Folder   31/1	“Are Militarists Feeble-Minded?,” August 19, 1931
Reel/Frame   32/31 Box/Folder   31/1	“Are We Headed for Degeneration?,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/38 Box/Folder   31/1	“Authority,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/43 Box/Folder   31/2	“The Best Defensive Is an Offensive,” December 28, 1935
Reel/Frame   32/46 Box/Folder   31/2	“Big Business,” July 28, 1933
Reel/Frame   32/48 Box/Folder   31/2	“Birth Control in the Present Crisis” (synopsis), March 9, 1934
Reel/Frame   32/50 Box/Folder   31/2	“Blasting at the Rock of Ages,” Harold Bolce
Reel/Frame   32/62 Box/Folder   31/2	Book Reviews Written by E.A. Ross
Reel/Frame   32/85 Box/Folder   31/2	“Booze and Betting in Australia,” circa 1938
Reel/Frame   32/96 Box/Folder   31/2	“Break the Yoke!” August 10, 1935
Reel/Frame   32/98 Box/Folder   31/2	“British Imperialism,” circa 1939
Reel/Frame   32/101 Box/Folder   31/3	“Can Capitalism Survive in American Society?,” August 4, 1933
Reel/Frame   32/111 Box/Folder   31/3	“Careers in Social Work,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/114 Box/Folder   31/3	“The Celtic Tide,” April 1914
Reel/Frame   32/122 Box/Folder   31/3	“Centurion Autobiographies-Edward Alsworth Ross,” German Influence In Russia,” June 1918
Reel/Frame   32/125 Box/Folder   31/3	“The Changed American,” Daniel F. Kellogg, July 1914
Reel/Frame   32/137 Box/Folder   31/3	“Charge to A.K.D. Initiates,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/138 Box/Folder   31/3	“Christian Education and Social Control,” November 22, 1921
Reel/Frame   32/140 Box/Folder   31/3	“Civil Liberties,” circa 1940
Reel/Frame   32/142 Box/Folder   31/3	“Civil Liberties in the Crisis,” January 11, 1941
Reel/Frame   32/144 Box/Folder   31/3	“The Commercial Fallacy,” March 1917
Reel/Frame   32/146 Box/Folder   31/3	“Commercialized Prostitution and Childlessness,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/148 Box/Folder   31/3	“The Comparative Value of Races,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/155 Box/Folder   31/3	“Conflict in Modern Society,” December 18, 1930
Reel/Frame   32/159 Box/Folder   31/3	“Consumerism,” August 3, 1935, undated
Reel/Frame   32/167 Box/Folder   31/3	“Contrasts Between Latin-American Society and American Society,” May 1, 1930
Reel/Frame   32/181 Box/Folder   31/3	“Contributions of John Lewis Gillin to Sociology,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/183 Box/Folder   31/3	“Culture,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/189 Box/Folder   31/4	“Daredevil Farmers,” 1938
Reel/Frame   32/201 Box/Folder   31/4	“Declaration of Faith,” February 18, 1934
Reel/Frame   32/205 Box/Folder   31/4	“Democracy and Privilege as Rival Ideals,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/215 Box/Folder   31/4	“The Depression,” statements regarding, circa 1933
Reel/Frame   32/225 Box/Folder   31/4	“Developing a Personal Employee Life Philosophy,” October 3, 1941
Reel/Frame   32/227 Box/Folder   31/4	“A Dialogue Between Mr. Swartout and Professor Ross,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/235 Box/Folder   31/4	“Drink,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/236 Box/Folder   31/4	“Drink and Hazards in Australia,” September 1938
Reel/Frame   32/237 Box/Folder   31/4	“The Eclipse of the Ultimate Consumer,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/246 Box/Folder   31/4	“Education and Society,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/257 Box/Folder   31/4	“Education Night,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/260 Box/Folder   31/4	“The Educational Function of the Church,” August 28, 1897
Reel/Frame   32/264 Box/Folder   31/4	“Embattled Teachers,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/266a Box/Folder   31/4	“The Evolution of Society,” 1894-1895
Reel/Frame   32/267 Box/Folder   31/5	“The Family in a Democracy,” August 11, 1939
Reel/Frame   32/282 Box/Folder   31/5	“Fear of Want?,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/289 Box/Folder   31/5	“A Few Sword Thrusts at Ross,” Norma Adam, March 10, 1931
Reel/Frame   32/298 Box/Folder   31/5	“Fifty Years of Sociology,” 1942
Reel/Frame   32/299 Box/Folder   31/5	“The Firing Line of Sociology,” February 19, 1928
Reel/Frame   32/301 Box/Folder   31/5	“Five Lectures for Teachers,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/304 Box/Folder   31/5	“Flattening the Consumer”
Reel/Frame   32/308 Box/Folder   31/5	“Forty-Five Years of It,” December 29, 1936
Reel/Frame   32/310 Box/Folder   31/5	“Foundations of World Citizenship,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/311 Box/Folder   31/5	“Freed Russia” or “The Re-Building of Russia,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/314 Box/Folder   31/5	“Freedom in the Modern World,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/320 Box/Folder   31/5	“The Frontier,” statement regarding, circa 1909
Reel/Frame   32/341 Box/Folder   31/5	“The Future Human Race,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/345 Box/Folder   31/5	“The Future of Europe,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/354 Box/Folder   31/5	“The Future of Personal Security,” January 9, 1942
Reel/Frame   32/364 Box/Folder   31/5	“The Future of Society,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/366 Box/Folder   31/6	“The General Relation of Government to Social and Economic Affairs,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/374 Box/Folder   31/6	“General Social and Economic Background of the Present Situation,” April 10, 1940
Reel/Frame   32/395 Box/Folder   31/6	“Generation Gap,” statement re, undated
Reel/Frame   32/397 Box/Folder   31/6	“Government,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/400 Box/Folder   31/6	“The Greatest Chance in the World,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/404 Box/Folder   31/6	“Headed for Degeneration?,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/413 Box/Folder   31/6	“History and Role of Social Ideas,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/420 Box/Folder   31/6	“Hog Island,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/426 Box/Folder   31/6	“Honest Dollars,” 1896
Reel/Frame   32/459 Box/Folder   31/6	“How a Sociologist Sees Things,” March 12, 1942
Reel/Frame   32/465 Box/Folder   31/6	“How Can Education Be Made to Promote Socialized Character?,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/471 Box/Folder   31/6	“How Can We Socialize Children and Youth?,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/473 Box/Folder   31/6	“How Much Truth Is There in Malthus?,” 1947
Reel/Frame   32/482 Box/Folder   31/6	“How Sociology Grew,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/488 Box/Folder   31/6	“How Sociology Is Becoming a Science,” May-June 1945
Reel/Frame   32/492 Box/Folder   31/6	“How the Bolsheviki Got on Top,” June 8, 1918
Reel/Frame   32/495 Box/Folder   31/6	“How the Liquor Interests 'Educate' Us,” circa 1939
Reel/Frame   32/498 Box/Folder   31/6	“How the Sermon on the Mount Looks to a Sociologist,” January 2, 1944
Reel/Frame   32/503 Box/Folder   31/6	“How to Block War,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/507 Box/Folder   31/6	“How to Teach Participating Citizenship,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/510 Box/Folder   31/6	“How Will the War Affect Our Immigration?,” circa 1914
Reel/Frame   32/511 Box/Folder   31/6	“Humanity's Changing Social Horizon,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/514 Box/Folder   31/7	“Impressions of Russia,” Abbe A. Gratieux, circa 1917-1918
Reel/Frame   32/517 Box/Folder   31/7	“Industrial Depressions and the League of Nations,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/519 Box/Folder   31/7	“The Infant Dead” (author unknown), circa 1911
Reel/Frame   32/523 Box/Folder   31/7	“Intercollegiate Sports,” October 30, 1933
Reel/Frame   32/525 Box/Folder   31/7	“International Implications of the Present Nationalistic Tendencies of Nations,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/527 Box/Folder   31/7	“International Peace,” April 28, 1937
Reel/Frame   32/528 Box/Folder   31/7	“Interview of Professor E.A. Ross,” November 23, 1935
Reel/Frame   32/530 Box/Folder   31/7	“In the Sere and Yellow Leaf,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/535 Box/Folder   31/7	“Introduction to the Study of Social Problems,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/539 Box/Folder   31/7	“Introductory Lecture in General Sociology,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/554 Box/Folder   31/7	“Is the News Supprest [sic] or Not?,” (author unknown), 1910
Reel/Frame   32/556 Box/Folder   31/7	“Is the World Growing Better or Worse?,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/575 Box/Folder   31/7	“Is the World Growing Better or Worse?” (a synopsis), undated
Reel/Frame   32/580 Box/Folder   31/7	“King Alcohol,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/585 Box/Folder   31/8	“Lecture of Dr. Ross at Goucher College,” January 13, 1917
Reel/Frame   32/587 Box/Folder   31/8	“Lectures Offered by Professor Edward A. Ross,” 1921-1922, undated
Reel/Frame   32/591 Box/Folder   31/8	“Lester F. Ward as Sociologist,” July 1913
Reel/Frame   32/594 Box/Folder   31/8	“A Look at Asia,” December 1929
Reel/Frame   32/607 Box/Folder   31/8	“Look at Australia,” Chapters 1-9, 1940
Reel/Frame   32/653 Box/Folder   31/8	“Lumping Versus Individualization,” October 1919
Reel/Frame   32/665 Box/Folder   32/1	“The Menace of Private Referendums,” 1930
Reel/Frame   32/667 Box/Folder   32/1	“The Modern Order of Rushin' Americans,” 1918
Reel/Frame   32/673 Box/Folder   32/1	“My Role of [sic] Sociologist,” August 1935
Reel/Frame   32/675 Box/Folder   32/1	“Nationalism,” August 21, 1939
Reel/Frame   32/679 Box/Folder   32/1	“The Nature and Significance of Planning,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/693 Box/Folder   32/1	“The Near Future of American Society,” circa 1900-1906
Reel/Frame   32/700 Box/Folder   32/1	“News,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/704 Box/Folder   32/1	“Newspapers That Do Not Give the News” (author unknown), undated
Reel/Frame   32/706 Box/Folder   32/1	“No Inferiority Complex,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/708 Box/Folder   32/1	“Notes...Before the Woman's League of Peace and Freedom,” February 15, 1923
Reel/Frame   32/714 Box/Folder   32/1	“Notes for 'The Sociologist Looks Ahead',” October 23, 1933
Reel/Frame   32/725 Box/Folder   32/1	“Notes on Native Labor in Angola,” circa 1924-1925
Reel/Frame   32/726 Box/Folder   32/1	“Notes on New York Address,” Leroy Allen
Reel/Frame   32/729 Box/Folder   32/1	“On Behalf of Rural Civilization,” 1914
Reel/Frame   32/731 Box/Folder   32/1	“On the Platform,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/738 Box/Folder   32/1	“On the Writing of a Travel Book,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/740 Box/Folder   32/1	“La Organizacion del Pensamiento,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/751 Box/Folder   32/1	“Origins of the American People,” 1914
Reel/Frame   32/757 Box/Folder   32/2	“The Peace Movement and the College Man,” November 1914
Reel/Frame   32/759 Box/Folder   32/2	“Percentage Immigration Law Inflicts Hardships On Aliens and Companies,” W. E. Carson, 1921
Reel/Frame   32/763 Box/Folder   32/2	“The Personal Equation in Journalism,” Henry Watterson
Reel/Frame   32/771 Box/Folder   32/2	“Philanthropy from the Viewpoint of the Sociologist,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/798 Box/Folder   32/2	“Pledge of the Red Blood Life,” November 26, 1907
Reel/Frame   32/799 Box/Folder   32/2	“Political Decay - An Interpretation,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/807 Box/Folder   32/2	“Politics and the Three Magics,” November 9, 1933
Reel/Frame   32/810 Box/Folder   32/2	“Population as a World Problem,” February 21, 1937
Reel/Frame   32/816 Box/Folder   32/2	“Positions,” circa 1935
Reel/Frame   32/835 Box/Folder   32/2	“Post War,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/837 Box/Folder   32/2	“The Post-War Intellectual Climate,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/843 Box/Folder   32/2	“Post War Problems and Outlooks,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/852 Box/Folder   32/2	“Present and Possible Contributions of Sociology to Rational Social Control,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/854 Box/Folder   32/2	“The Principle of Anticipation,” March 1916
Reel/Frame   32/879 Box/Folder   32/2	“The Principles of Sociology,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/886 Box/Folder   32/2	“Private Maxims,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/899 Box/Folder   32/2	“The Problem of Country Life,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/902 Box/Folder   32/2	“Professor Ross and the Eastern European Jewish Immigrant,” Bertha A. Loeb, September 11, 1914
Reel/Frame   32/904 Box/Folder   32/2	“Programs of Social Reconstruction,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/914 Box/Folder   32/2	“Prohibition,” statement regarding
Reel/Frame   32/916 Box/Folder   32/2	“Proposed Cession of Alaska Panhandle to Canada by Sale or Exchange,” November 9, 1914
Reel/Frame   32/922 Box/Folder   32/2	“The Prospects of Peace,” November 11, 1934
Reel/Frame   32/924 Box/Folder   32/2	“Prowling Alcohol,” October 1, 1942
Reel/Frame   32/937 Box/Folder   32/3	“Quality,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/940 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Queerness of the Military Mind,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/953 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Race Mind of the Chinese,” circa 1914
Reel/Frame   32/956 Box/Folder   32/3	“Raising the Standard of Suffrage,” circa 1910
Reel/Frame   32/957 Box/Folder   32/3	“Rearing Children in a Commercial Movie Age,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/964 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Recognition of Mexico,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/967 Box/Folder   32/3	“Recollections of a Pioneer in Sociology,” April 4, 1941
Reel/Frame   32/974 Box/Folder   32/3	“Las Recreaciones Humanas Como un Problema Social,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/988 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Red Scare,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/998 Box/Folder   32/3	“Reflections of a Veteran Sociologist,” December 12, 1936
Reel/Frame   32/1001 Box/Folder   32/3	“Relation of Lester F. Ward's Ideas to Economic and Social Planning,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/1004 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Relation of the Social Sciences to the Natural Sciences,” 1931
Reel/Frame   32/1008 Box/Folder   32/3	“Remarks...at the American Sociological Society Dinner,” 1932
Reel/Frame   32/1014 Box/Folder   32/3	“Remarks at the Galpin Dinner,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/1018 Box/Folder   32/3	“Remarks...on the Literacy Test,” January 22, 1915
Reel/Frame   32/1021 Box/Folder   32/3	“Remarks...at the Pi Kappa Mu Dinner”
Reel/Frame   32/1022 Box/Folder   32/3	“Reminiscences of My Life at Coe,” June 6, 1936
Reel/Frame   32/1024 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Remoulding of the Family,” undated
Reel/Frame   32/1038 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Rise of Social Pressure,” July 1918
Reel/Frame   32/1040 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Role of Sociologist,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/1 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Roots of the Social Question,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/8 Box/Folder   32/3	“Round-the-World Notes”
Reel/Frame   33/62 Box/Folder   32/3	“The Rug Market at Merv,” July 1918
Reel/Frame   33/68 Box/Folder   32/3	“Russia Reborn,” circa 1918
Reel/Frame   33/69 Box/Folder   32/3	“Russian Women and Their Outlook,” June 1918
Reel/Frame   33/78 Box/Folder   32/4	“Selectivity of Rural-Urban Migrations,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/82a Box/Folder   32/4	“Social and Economic Conditions of the Principal Criminal Tribes and Castes in Northern India” (B. S. Bhargava), Review by Ross, February 25, 1942
Reel/Frame   33/83 Box/Folder   32/4	“Social and Political Contributions which Rural Life Is Making to the Nation Today,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/90 Box/Folder   32/4	“The Social Circulation of Individuals,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/92 Box/Folder   32/4	“Social Control,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/98 Box/Folder   32/4	“Social Developments of My Own Time,” July 7, 1937
Reel/Frame   33/99 Box/Folder   32/4	“Social Evolution,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/102 Box/Folder   32/4	“Social Experimentation in Soviet Russia,” November 10, 1934; February 1, 1935
Reel/Frame   33/110 Box/Folder   32/4	“The Social Outlook,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/126 Box/Folder   32/4	“Social Reconstruction,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/134 Box/Folder   32/4	“Social Services,” November 21, 1938
Reel/Frame   33/135 Box/Folder   32/4	“The Social Significance of the Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages,” circa 1936
Reel/Frame   33/141 Box/Folder   32/4	“The Social Trend,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/144 Box/Folder   32/4	“Socialism and Social Revolution,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/150 Box/Folder   32/4	“The Society of Western South America,” circa 1914
Reel/Frame   33/167 Box/Folder   32/4	“The Sociological Frontier of Economics,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/176 Box/Folder   32/4	“A Sociologist in India,” circa 1924
Reel/Frame   33/178 Box/Folder   32/4	“A Sociologist Looks at Poverty,” circa 1933
Reel/Frame   33/186 Box/Folder   32/4	“A Sociologist Looks at War,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/195 Box/Folder   32/4	“A Sociologist Speaks of Missions,” November 1929
Reel/Frame   33/197 Box/Folder   32/4	“The Sociologist's Outlook,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/210 Box/Folder   32/5	“Sociologists Should Fight Back!” , 1935
Reel/Frame   33/211 Box/Folder   32/5	“Sociology in Retrospect,” March 13, 1936
Reel/Frame   33/215 Box/Folder   32/5	“Sociology's Prospects,” May 1, 1940
Reel/Frame   33/220 Box/Folder   32/5	“Some Contributions of Sociology to the Guidance of Society,” 1935, 1936
Reel/Frame   33/230 Box/Folder   32/5	“Some Generalizations Brought Back from Australia,” 1940
Reel/Frame   33/242 Box/Folder   32/5	“Some Observations on Professor Ross's Report Submitted...(to) the League of Nations,” 1925
Reel/Frame   33/264 Box/Folder   32/5	“Some Post War Outlooks,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/265 Box/Folder   32/5	“Some Practical Differences Sociology Makes,” September 28, 1936
Reel/Frame   33/268 Box/Folder   32/5	“Some Problems for the Oncomers to Face,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/272 Box/Folder   32/5	“Some World Changes 1886-1936,” June 9, 1936
Reel/Frame   33/282 Box/Folder   32/5	“South of Panama,” April 1915
Reel/Frame   33/283 Box/Folder   32/5	“Soviet Russia,” circa 1934
Reel/Frame   33/290 Box/Folder   32/5	“Speaking as a Sociologist--,” December 28, 1936
Reel/Frame   33/297 Box/Folder   32/5	“State Universities and the Public Service,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/306 Box/Folder   32/5	“The Study of the Present as an Aid to the Interpretation of the Past,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/317 Box/Folder   32/5	“Sub-Surface Tendencies in American Society,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/330 Box/Folder   32/5	“Suggested Itinerary for Tour of South Africa,” circa 1924
Reel/Frame   33/335 Box/Folder   32/5	“Suggested Points for an Introduction to Mr. Taylor's Book,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/338 Box/Folder   32/5	“Summary of an Address before...Pi Gamma Mu,” December 28, 1935
Reel/Frame   33/344 Box/Folder   32/5	Sun Yat Sen's Railway Dream (author unknown), circa 1911
Reel/Frame   33/346 Box/Folder   32/5	“Suppressing a Public Menace,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/348 Box/Folder   32/6	Teachers Federation, statement regarding, undated
Reel/Frame   33/349 Box/Folder   32/6	“The Tendencies of Natural Values,” August 1893
Reel/Frame   33/362 Box/Folder   32/6	“Today's Family,” April 1, 1939
Reel/Frame   33/371 Box/Folder   32/6	“Transformations of the Higher Life,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/383 Box/Folder   32/6	“Travel When You're Young,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/388 Box/Folder   32/6	“Uncertainty as a Factor in Production,” October 6, 1896
Reel/Frame   33/409 Box/Folder   32/6	“Underlying Population Trends,” circa 1940
Reel/Frame   33/415 Box/Folder   32/6	“The Uniqueness of the Social Sciences,” September-October 1931
Reel/Frame   33/419 Box/Folder   32/6	“The United States of India,” January 1926
Reel/Frame   33/426 Box/Folder   32/6	“Vice,” November 21, 1938
Reel/Frame   33/428 Box/Folder   32/6	“War and Immigration and Crime,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/441 Box/Folder   32/6	“War and Society,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/448 Box/Folder   32/6	“What Is a Good Man?,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/459 Box/Folder   32/6	“What Is the Highest Social Service?,” circa 1922
Reel/Frame   33/461 Box/Folder   32/6	“What the Films are Doing to Young America,” February 11, 1926
Reel/Frame   33/465 Box/Folder   32/6	“What the Sociologist Descries from the Masthead,” December 28, 1938
Reel/Frame   33/470 Box/Folder   32/6	“Which of the Current Industrial Attitudes...Conflict with the Principles of Jesus,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/476 Box/Folder   32/6	“Whither America?,” December 19, 1930
Reel/Frame   33/495 Box/Folder   32/6	“Why Do They Drink?,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/496 Box/Folder   32/6	“Why I Don't Drink,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/500 Box/Folder   32/6	“Why Intoxicants Are Now Pushed as Never Before,” circa 1944
Reel/Frame   33/505 Box/Folder   32/6	“Why Russia's Army Fell to Pieces,” circa 1918
Reel/Frame   33/507 Box/Folder   32/6	“Why Sociologists Should Be Globe Trotters,” undated
Reel/Frame   33/508 Box/Folder   32/6	“Why the Chinese Revolt,” circa 1911
Reel/Frame   33/514 Box/Folder   32/6	“Wisconsin Temperance Education Association,” statement regarding, undated
Reel/Frame   33/520 Box/Folder   32/6	“Women and Labor,” statement regarding, undated
Reel/Frame   33/522 Box/Folder   32/6	“The World Crisis in Population” (author unknown), undated
Reel/Frame   33/525 Box/Folder   32/6	“Young China at School,” 1911
	Book Drafts and Files
Reel/Frame   33/537 Box/Folder   33/1	American Society and Its Outlook, 1941
Reel/Frame   33/565 Box/Folder   33/2	Australia, untitled mss. regarding, circa 1938
Reel/Frame   33/680 Box/Folder   33/3	Capsules of Social Wisdom, 1948
Reel/Frame   33/775 Box/Folder   33/4	Changing America, 1912, 1914
Reel/Frame   33/780 Box/Folder   33/5	The Changing Chinese, 1911-1912
Reel/Frame   33/809 Box/Folder   33/6	“The City Problem”
	Civic Sociology/“Sociology for Everybody”
Reel/Frame   33/819	Microfilm copy
Reel/Frame   34/1	Microfilm copy (continued)
Box/Folder   33/7-35	Paper copy
Box/Folder   34/1-15	Paper copy (continued)
Reel/Frame   34/651 Box/Folder   34/16	“Conclusions...for Rural Organization” and related mss.
Reel/Frame   34/686 Box/Folder   34/17	The Future of Society, untitled mss. regarding
Reel/Frame   34/715 Box/Folder   34/18	Heredity, untitled mss. regarding
Reel/Frame   34/719 Box/Folder   34/19	India, untitled mss. regarding
Reel/Frame   34/731 Box/Folder   34/20	“Individuating Religion”
Reel/Frame   34/742 Box/Folder   34/21	Latter Day Sinners and Saints, 1910
Reel/Frame   34/745 Box/Folder   34/22	“Leadership” and related mss.
Reel/Frame   34/809 Box/Folder   34/23-26	New-Age Sociology, 1939-1940
Reel/Frame   34/839 Box/Folder   34/27	The Outlines of Sociology, Statistics, 1935, undated
Reel/Frame   34/845 Box/Folder   34/28	Population, mss. regarding
Reel/Frame   34/856 Box/Folder   34/29	Report on Employment of Native Labor in Portuguese Africa
	Principles of Sociology
	Manuscript
Reel/Frame   34/910	Microfilm copy
Reel/Frame   35/1	Microfilm copy (continued)
Reel/Frame   36/1	Microfilm copy (continued)
Box/Folder   35/1-23	Paper copy
Box/Folder   36/1-32	Paper copy (continued)
	Notes & Partial Drafts
Reel/Frame   36/148 Box/Folder   36/33	“Some Objectives of Modern Society”
Reel/Frame   36/151 Box/Folder   36/34	“Concluding Chapter”
Reel/Frame   36/160 Box/Folder   36/35	“Conflict”
Reel/Frame   36/165 Box/Folder   36/36	“Health Promotion as a Social Responsibility”
Reel/Frame   36/171 Box/Folder   36/37	“Reflections Enroute to Atlanta”
Reel/Frame   36/184 Box/Folder   36/38	“Suggestions for Adaptations to High School Classes”
Reel/Frame   36/192 Box/Folder   36/39	Miscellany
Reel/Frame   36/242 Box/Folder   37/1	Private Enterprise, mss. regarding
Reel/Frame   36/246 Box/Folder   37/2	Roads to Social Peace, 1924
Reel/Frame   36/252 Box/Folder   37/3	“Russia, Interview with Two Revolutionaries”
Reel/Frame   36/270 Box/Folder   37/3	“Women in Russia and Opportunities for Education,” circa 1917
Reel/Frame   36/274 Box/Folder   37/4	Russia in Upheaval, 1918
Reel/Frame   36/284 Box/Folder   37/5	The Russian Soviet Republic, 1923-1924
Reel/Frame   36/298 Box/Folder   37/6	Seventy Years of It, 1936-1937
Reel/Frame   36/305 Box/Folder   37/7	“Shifting Lines of Cleavage and Conflict”
Reel/Frame   36/321 Box/Folder   37/8	Sin and Society, 1907
Reel/Frame   36/327 Box/Folder   37/9	Social Control, circa 1904, 1916, 1938
Reel/Frame   36/426 Box/Folder   37/10	“The Socializing Process in Our Time,” 1937
Reel/Frame   36/436 Box/Folder   37/11	Social Psychology, 1908-1909, circa 1925
Reel/Frame   36/503 Box/Folder   37/12	The Social Trend
Reel/Frame   36/509 Box/Folder   37/13	South of Panama
Reel/Frame   36/526 Box/Folder   37/14	“Substitution”
Reel/Frame   36/622 Box/Folder   37/15	“Underlying Trends in American society”
Reel/Frame   36/634 Box/Folder   37/16	World Drift
Reel/Frame   36/636 Box/Folder   37/17-18	Miscellaneous Chapters, Notes, and Bibliographies
Reel/Frame   36/845 Box/Folder   37/19	Fragments
	Series: Series E. Teaching File	⇧
Reel/Frame   36/1048 Box/Folder   38/1	Examinations and Study Questions, 1901-1908 and undated
Reel/Frame   37/1 Box/Folder   38/2	Notebook for “Social Psychology” and Other Courses, circa 1908-1909
	Syllabi
Reel/Frame   37/42 Box/Folder   38/3	Economics 2, circa 1893-1900
Reel/Frame   37/141 Box/Folder   38/4	Railroad Problems, 1895
Reel/Frame   37/184 Box/Folder   38/5	Education and Society, 1896-1900
Reel/Frame   37/318 Box/Folder   38/6	Economic Problems, 1899-1900
Reel/Frame   37/366 Box/Folder   38/7	Social Psychology, 1899-1900
Reel/Frame   37/414 Box/Folder   38/8	General Sociology, circa 1900
Reel/Frame   37/590 Box/Folder   38/9	Bad Government, 1905-1906
Reel/Frame   37/627 Box/Folder   38/10	Special Criminology, 1908
Reel/Frame   37/628 Box/Folder   38/11	South America, circa 1914
Reel/Frame   37/630 Box/Folder   38/12	Social Progress and Social Regress, 1918
Reel/Frame   37/651 Box/Folder   38/13	The Use of Violence in Social Change, 1921
Reel/Frame   37/652 Box/Folder   38/14	Trends in Marriage and Family Relationships, 1939-1941
Reel/Frame   37/693 Box/Folder   38/15	Applications of Social Psychology, undated
Reel/Frame   37/695 Box/Folder   38/16	Some Present Day Problems, undated
Reel/Frame   37/696 Box/Folder   38/17	Miscellany, 1896-1941 and undated
	Series: Series F. Photographs	⇧
Reel/Frame   37/713	“Name File” Family Photographs
PH Wis Mss RV	Family Photographs, circa 1860-1930 Note: These photographs do not appear on the microfilm. Scope and Content Note: Photographs of Ross, his parents, wife, and son.
PH Wis Mss RV (3)	Photographs of Faculty Members at Indiana University and a Cornell University Souvenir Yearbook, 1893 Note: Not on the microfilm.
	Buenos Aires Photographs, circa 1913 Physical Description: 97 photographs  Scope and Content Note: Photographs of immigrants from Europe, immigrant receiving station, etc. in Buenos Aires, Argentina
PH 1684	Original Prints
Micro 927 Reel/Frame   37/738	Microfilm copy
	South American Photographs, circa 1913-1914 Physical Description: 7 photographs  Scope and Content Note: Photographs of South American Indians, town life, archeological remains, etc. in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Peru, & Ecuador
PH 1978	Original Prints
Micro 927 Reel/Frame   37/746	Microfilm copy
	Milwaukee Photographs, 1909 Physical Description: 8 photographs  Scope and Content Note: Photographs of underprivileged living conditions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
PH 3035	Original Prints
Micro 927 Reel/Frame   37/782	Microfilm copy
	Series: Series G. Clippings & Ephemera Note: Note: The original paper documents from this series were discarded after microfilming. The frames on Reels 38 and 39 are not numbered.	⇧
	Scrapbooks
	Volume 1, Book Reviews
Reel   38	South of Panama, 1915
Reel   38	What Is America, 1919
Reel   38	Russian Bolshevik Revolution, 1921
Reel   38	The Social Trend, 1922
Reel   38	The Social Revolution in Mexico, 1923
Reel   38	The Russian Soviet Republic, 1923
Reel   38	Volume 2, Personal Scrapbook, circa 1882-1898
Reel   38	Volume 3, Personal Scrapbook, circa 1892-1898
Reel   39	Volume 4, Personal Scrapbook, 1896-1897 (primarily silver issue & Stanford controversy)
Reel   39	Volume 5, Personal Scrapbook, 1899-1900 (primarily Stanford controversy)
Reel   39	Volume 6, Personal Scrapbook, 1900-1901 (primarily Stanford controversy)
Reel   39	Volume 7, Personal Scrapbook, 1900-1901, 1904-1906
Reel   39	Loose Clippings, 1888-1969

Occasionally from December 1919 through 1920 and regularly from January through September 1921, carbon copies of Ross's letters appear on the verso page of the incoming letter to which he was replying. This practice can be very confusing to users of the microfilm. The letters are filed, and appear on the microfilm, according to the date of the incoming letter (i.e. letter A, followed by reply to letter A, letter B, followed by reply to letter B, letter C, etc.) even though this interferes with the usual chronological order of the series. In the index, the incoming letter is entered in the regular way and the reply is entered as though it were an enclosure to the incoming letter.Occasionally from December 1919 through 1920 and regularly from January through September 1921, carbon copies of Ross's letters appear on the verso page of the incoming letter to which he was replying. This practice can be very confusing to users of the microfilm. The letters are filed, and appear on the microfilm, according to the date of the incoming letter (i.e. letter A, followed by reply to letter A, letter B, followed by reply to letter B, letter C, etc.) even though this interferes with the usual chronological order of the series. In the index, the incoming letter is entered in the regular way and the reply is entered as though it were an enclosure to the incoming letter.