Scope and Content Note

The Samuel Sigman Papers reflect more than the activities of a single local politician. They also reflect the growth and decline of the Progressive movement during the 1920s and 1930s: its changing organization, its shifting political alliances, its sources of support and opposition on both right and left. For instance, they demonstrate the close involvement of the labor movement in the Progressive cause at the local level. The correspondence, arranged chronologically by months, includes letters exchanged with national and state political figures, state labor leaders, and others. Among Sigman's correspondents represented in the collection are the following:

• Amlie, Thomas
• Dammann, Theodore
• Ekern, Herman L.
• Empey, Roy
• Evjue, William T.
• Frank, Glenn
• Gross, Edwin
• Groves, Harold M.
• Handley, John J.
• Hoan, Daniel W.
• Huber, Henry A.
• Hull, Merlin
• Jones, Burr W.
• La Follette, Philip F.
• La Follette, Robert M., Jr.
• Loomis, Orland S.
• Nelson, John M.
• Norris, George
• Ohl, Henry, Jr.
• Peavey, Hubert H.
• Rabinovitz, David
• Reed, James A.
• Schneider, George
• Shoemaker, Alice
• Wheeler, Burton K.
• Witte, Edwin E.