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1. 5.5.1-57 - Scrapbook

   Scrapbook (1 of 3) of Cornelius Gaston dated 1934-1936. This scrapbook includes clippings from "The Forum" in Stockton, California, a newspaper advocating Henry George's Single Tax theory as well as the "No Tax" movement. Most of the articles are written by or to the editor, Loring Dumas Beckwith. Topics include: Georgist philosophy, Progress and Poverty, The Townsend Pension Plan, NRA (the National Recovery Administration) which was establis...

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2. 5.6.1-55 - Scrapbook

   Scrapbook (2 of 3), likely of E. B. Gaston (although archival notes of physical folder shows C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1935. Includes clippings from newspaper The Forum (and possibly No Taxes, although headings are cut off) on topics such as Georgist issues, taxes, politics of the day in relation to taxation and land valuation, and Upton Sinclair. These newspapers are edited by L. D. Beckwith. 5.6.4-5 is a letter to the editor of The Fo...

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3. 5.8.1-194 - Letter

   Correspondence of E. B .Gaston and C. A. Gaston, secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1934-1954. Includes general business correspondence of the FSTC including inquiries about the Colony, requests for leases, rent bills, and some correspondence with Georgist organizations. 5.8.72-73 are letters from the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in 1945 and 1946 offering current information about the school and soliciting f...

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4. FMH-A0004b - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio) dated February 20, 1980 and April 28, 1980 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. This is the second part of an interview with Hazele Williams Payne. The first part can be heard at FMH-A0004a in these Archives, followed by other interviews at FMH-A0007a and FMH-A0007b. Mrs. Payne recounts a wide range of topics about life in Fairhope including people, parties, dances, entertainment, b...

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5. FSTC-0018 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph c 1905 of writer Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) and son David on a porch. See related photos at FSTC-0267-0268.. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photo Archives.

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6. FSTC-0267-0268 - Photograph, Digital

   Two photographs in cardboard frames of a man who is most likely Upton Sinclair. See FSTC-0018 for a related photograph. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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7. FSTC-V0042 - Video, Digital

   Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated February 3, 2015 with Maggie Mosteller-Timbes who portrays Marietta "Aunt Mettie" Johnson. The School of Organic Education at Fairhope, Alabama began in a little cottage in the fall of 1907. It grew to a campus of ten acres and was one of the country's first progressive schools. Marietta Johnson lectured extensively in the United States and abroad. She was a legend in her own time and far ahead in her ...

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8. ix.8.1-35 - Correspondence

   Correspondance from the Organic School (School of Organic Education) in Fairhope, Alabama which includes Upton Sinclair letters and an article ( p 4-8). A number of letters from people wishing to send their children to Organic School to board, and information from the Progressive Education Association. A Plan for Cooperative Reorganization of the School is given on pg. 33.

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9. vii.3.79 - Letter

   Letter dated 4/11/1910 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels enclosing a 3/24/1910 letter from Upton Sinclair (see vii.3.80-81) his 4/9/1910 response (see vii.3.82) and an article written by Lewis H. Berens, Treasurer of the Single Tax League in London, for Single Tax publications (see vii.3.83).

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10. vii.3.80-81 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/24/1910 to Joseph Fels from Upton Sinclair saying that he is unsure of where to settle. He is thinking of Fairhope again as David seems to like like the school (likely the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education). He is interested in the land south of town owned by J. C. Mackintosh of Asbury Park, New Jersey. It is 220 acres and the "old man" wants $13,000 for it. Sinclair says that with all the visitors from the north, waterf...

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11. vii.3.82 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/9/1910 to Upton Sinclair from Joseph Fels responding to Sinclair's 3/24/1910 letter suggesting that Fels purchase the J. C. Mackintosh Bay Front property and sell part of it to Sinclair. Fels says that he is not inclined to invest any more money in Fairhope. Even if he wanted to buy the property, it would never do for him to contact the sellers. He considers $13,000 an outrageous price for the 220 acres. If Sinclair will get the se...

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