Series: 1. Political Files, 1892-1955
Scope and Content Note: The bulk of the Political Files contains material about the period from 1917 to 1929. The focus of these files include a number of signed, typed and carbon copied drafts of work by Alexander Berkman, as well as a series of letters and postcards Berkman sent to M. Eleanor Fitzgerald and Pauline Turkel.

Photographs of Fitzgerald's political colleagues and acquaintances are included in the Political Files. They include pictures of Alexander Berkman, Ben Capes, Emma Goldman, Frank Harris, Hippolyte Havel, Robert Minor, Harry Kelly, Carl Nylander, Ben Reitman, Bob and Lucy Robins, and Harry Weinberger. There are eleven photographs of Berkman, a number of them affectionately inscribed to Fitzgerald. The collection also includes a photograph of Emma Goldman inscribed to Fitzgerald.

Transcriptions of letters between Goldman and Rietman from May 31-June 1 1909, September 14, 1913, and September 20, 1913 can be found in the Fitzgerald, Eleanor case file.

Alsberg, Henry G., "Unearthed Roman Parchment," undated

Anonymous, Quotes, undated

Anonymous, "What's the Use of Poetry?" undated

Avrich, Paul, "Introduction To The Dover Edition," 1971

Berkman, Alexander, undated

Berkman, Alexander, Correspondence, 1922-1925

Berkman, Alexander, Correspondence, Contract Agreements, 1926-1927, 1929, undated

Berkman, Alexander, Correspondence, M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, undated

Berkman, Alexander, Correspondence, M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, and Pauline Turkel, 1919-1923, undated

Berkman, Alexander, Deed, 1919

Berkman, Alexander, "Introduction," The Bolshevik Myth, 1925

Berkman, Alexander, "Kronstadt" 1922

Berkman, Alexander, "My Odyssey," 1922

Berkman, Alexander, Photographs, 1892, 1919, 1927, undated

Berkman, Alexander, Release from the United States Penitentiary, 1919

Berkman, Alexander, "Russian Lessons," undated

Berkman, Alexander, "The Surgeon's Duty," 1918

Deportation Fund, 1919

Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor, Correspondence, Kropotkin, Peter, 1921

Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor, Correspondence, Morton, E. B., 1925-1926

Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor, Correspondence, Political Prisoners and Deportees, 1918, 1924, 1926,1955, undated

Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor, Correspondence, Union Memberships, 1925, 1927, 1940

Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor, Photographs, Berkman, Alexander, 1916, undated

Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor, Photographs, Reitman, Ben, 1906, undated

Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor, Press Release, 1918-1919

Goldman, Emma, Correspondence, Ballantine, Stella, and M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, 1920, 1923-1924, 1927, 1929, undated

Goldman, Emma, Mother Earth Bulletin, 1918

Goldman, Emma, Photographs, 1928, undated

Kropotkin, Peter, "Ethics," undated

Miscellaneous Printed Material, Announcements, undated

O'Carroll, Joseph, "The City of Our Dream," undated

Photographs, 1916, undated

Photographs and Postcards, 1915, undated

Reitman, Ben, Photographs, 1905-1906

Tolstoy, Leo, "Count Leo Tolstoy's War Prophecy," undated