Unemployment

Scope and Contents This collection includes meeting minutes, reports, and records from Daniel B. Luten, George E. Gill, and others in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1931 to 1934, regarding the Emergency Work Committee, Inc. and its activities during the Great Depression. There is also a register of people who visited Charles Fairbanks' headquarters in Chicago during the Republican National Convention of 1908 and a program with notes from the American Plan-Open Shop-Conference in 1928.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a postcard and a letter sent to Nancy Hovarter in Angola, Indiana from her daughter Hattie Weirich in Toledo, Ohio on August 12, 1924, and from her granddaughter Ruth and family in Glenwood, Iowa on Augutst 24, 1931, respectively concerning travel, unemployment, farming, drought, and the swarm of grasshoppers which devastated Midwestern crops in 1931. There is also a letter to Hattie Weirich in Kendallville, Indiana from her sister Lydia in Orland, Indiana on July 15,...