Series: 1. Business Files, 1929-1964
Scope and Content Note: The bulk of the Business Files contain material from the period 1930-1960, related to Leon Kramer's work as a bookseller. This series contains booklists, correspondence, catalogues, and photographs of the Kramer family from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. The correspondence largely concerns orders and purchases made by librarians at various American Universities, including Dartmouth College, Duke University, the University of California--Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the University of Florida, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Texas. Other correspondence includes letters Kramer sent to the American writer Waldo Frank, and the American critic and novelist Edmund Wilson.

The collection also contains catalogues produced by used and antiquarian booksellers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Included also are a small amount of miscellaneous book trade ephemera dating from roughly 1920 to 1960.

American and European Booksellers, Catalogues, 1929, 1958, 1959, undated

Book Trade Ephemera, undated

Booklists and Catalogues, undated

Books Wanted Lists and Customer List, 1964, undated

Catalogues

Economic Catalogues, No. 1-7, undated

General Economics, No. 1-5, 1938-1940, undated

General Economics, No. 6-10, 12, undated

General Economics, No. 13-16, 18-20, undated

General Economics, No. 22a-26, 28, undated

Colby College, Correspondence, 1941-1942

Correspondence, 1942-1944

Correspondence, 1950-1964, undated

Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1932, 1936-1937, 1939

Dartmouth College, Correspondence, 1942

Duke University

Correspondence, 1937-1939

Correspondence, 1940

Correspondence, 1941

Correspondence, 1942

Correspondence, 1943

Kramer Family

Photographs, undated

Photographs, undated

Kramer, Jean, Correspondence, 1963-1964

Miscellaneous, Tamiment Institute Library Bulletin, Memorial to Leon Kramer, 1962

Russian Bookseller, Catalogues, undated

University of California-Berkeley, Correspondence, 1942

University of Chicago, Correspondence, 1937-1945

University of Florida, Correspondence, 1942

University of Kentucky, Correspondence, 1942

University of Texas, Correspondence, 1942

Workers Alliance, Correspondence, William P. Smith, 1939

Young Communist Movement, Catalogues and Booklists, No. 30-31, 33, 36, undated

Series: 2. Political Files, 1874-1960
Scope and Content Note: The Political Files chiefly contains material from 1870 to 1960. This series documents Kramer's political interests and contains miscellaneous political ephemera from the following political parties and organizations: the Communist Party of the United States of America, the Communist Youth International, the International Communist League, the International Socialist Party, the National Council for the Prevention of War, the Socialist Party of United States, the War Resister's League, and the Workers Party. The series also includes: certificates of affiliations, correspondences, educational materials, essays on strikes, Stalinism and Communist factionalisms, photographs of Norman Thomas and other Socialist Party leaders, political cartoons, postcards, reports, and resolutions.

The educational materials in this series is comprised of annual reports, newspaper clippings, reading material, syllabi, and teaching material from the Brookwood School, the Communist Party United States of America, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Jefferson School of Social Science, and the Workers School.

Anonymous, "Defense of the USSR in the Present War," undated

Anonymous, Taxation Essays, undated

Blackwell, Russell Negrete, Correspondence, 1938

Brookwood School

Annual Report, 1933-1934

News Releases, Reports, Statements, 1933, 1935, undated

Syllabi, Teaching Materials, 1929-1932

Teaching Materials, 1925-1934, undated

Carter, Joseph, "Stalinist Russia: A Bureaucratic Collectivist Society," undated

China's Children Fund, 1947

Communist Party, Photographs, undated

Communist Party United States of America

"The Drive Towards War and Fascism,"undated

Educational Materials, 1938-1950

Letters and Reports, 1933-1960

Communist Youth International, Reports and Statements, 1928, undated

Field, B. J., et al, "Lessons of the New York Hotel Strike," undated

Granges, Circulars, Washington D.C. and Iowa, 1874, undated

Herworth, Frieda von, "The German Woman," 1938

International Communist League, Resolution, undated

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Course Materials, 1936-1940, undated

Study Outlines and Syllabi, 1935-1936

International Socialist Party, Resolutions, undated

Jefferson School of Social Science

Annual Reports, 1945-1947

Syllabi, 1952, undated

Lanzitt, Mortimer, "Employers Problems in Operating a Collective Bargaining Agreement," 1937

Liberal Party, United States

Amendment, Program, Platform, 1944, 1946

Resolution, Rules, 1944

MacDonald, Dwight, "Shamefaced Defensism," undated

National Council for Prevention of War, Publications, 1933-1934, undated

Pell, Orlie, "Annotated List of Pamphlet Material for Workers' Classes," Labor Education Services, 1940

Political Ephemera, undated

Republican National Committee Research Division, Miscellaneous Reports, 1938

Sedition Trial, Minneapolis, Miscellaneous Printed Materials, 1941

Socialist Party, Songs, Lyrics, Miscellaneous, undated

Socialist Party, United States

Certificate of Affiliation, Illinois, undated

Flyer, 1945

Miscellaneous Printed Materials, 1912-1919

Miscellaneous Printed Materials, 1921-1923

Photographs, Events, undated

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Intellectual Workers of America, 1938-1939, undated

War Resisters League, Promotional Materials, undated

Workers Alliance, Party Announcement, undated

Workers Party, United States, Report and Statements, 1935

Workers School

Reading Materials, Lenin, Vladimir, undated

Reading Materials, Marxism-Leninism I, undated

Reading Materials, Trade Union Strategy and Tactics, 1935, undated

Student Notebook, undated

Syllabi, 1936, undated

"Thesis Adopted by Fifth Congress of Red International Labor Union," undated

Workers Schools, Newspaper Clippings, 1924-1925

Workers Unions, Miscellaneous, 1933-1934, 1942, undated