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FSTC-V0012 - Video, Digital
Documentary video dated 2002 titled "A Fair Hope" written and directed by Michael Letcher for The University of Alabama Center of Public Television (APT). Reformers (members of the Fairhope Industrial Association, later renamed the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation) founded Fairhope in 1894 to address the economic and social problems of late 19th century America by demonstrating the practical application of the single tax economic theory. ...
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ii.1.46 - Letter
Letter dated 6/28/1894 to Alf Wooster, Des Moines, Iowa from T. W. Andrus of Sioux City, Iowa requesting information about the "Fair Hope Colony."
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iii.2.2 - Letter
Letter written to E. B. Gaston on 11/03/1894 from E. D. Babbitt, M.D., LL. D., Dean and Secretary, College Of Fine Forces. East Orange, New Jersey. He asked Gaston for information regarding his plan for a cooperative colony. He also has a plan and he will forward it to Gaston.
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iii.6.107-109 - Letter
Letter dated 12/17/1894 to E. B. Gaston from Clarence S. Moore. Moore is impressed with a young man named Kiel who will be visitng Fairhope. Further, Moore writes about an article in the New Earth publication decrying the Fairhope experiment, saying it will not work. iii.6.97-104 is Moore's published response to this article.
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iii.6.97-104 - Position Paper
Position paper written by Clarence S. Moore probably in early 1895. This was published in the New Earth newspaper/magazine. Moore has sent E. B. Gaston a copy of his paper, which supports the Fairhope Colony.
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iv.2.99-100 - Letter
Letter dated 12/18/1897 to E. B. Gaston from Jas. H. Francis of New Britain, Connicticut. Francis says he would like Debs (likely Eugene Debs) to look at the Fairhope colony, even though Debs' theory of economic reform is radically different from the Fairhope plan. Francis merely wants Debs to see how a successful colony works. Francis also includes subscription money for the Fairhope Courier newspaper.
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PMG-6338-6366 - Student Paper
Student paper dated 1985 by Michel J. Faherty submitted to fulfill requirements for the Fairhope Seminar, a course at the University of Virginia taught by Dr. Paul M. Gaston. The paper is title "An Intellectual Odyssey: Ernest B. Gaston and The Fairhope Industrial Association," and explores the . time leading to the establishment of the Fairhope Colony by Ernest B. Gaston and others. Topics include the Des Moines Investigating Club, the Nat...
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vi.12.96-97 - Letter
Undated letter (but likely mid-1908) to Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio from A. J. Wolf in Fairhope, Alabama, responding to Kiefer's letter. Wolf says Kiefer's letter contains wrong information about the recently-completed election of May, 1908 in which Dr. Harris Greeno won the office of mayor over his opponent, E. B. Gaston. Wolf says Kiefer is wrong about the status of support for Gaston and the singe-taxers, and that he has been "hoodwink...
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vi.2.33 - Letter
Letter dated 3/13/1906 to Joseph Fels in London, England from Tom L. Johnson in Cleveland, Ohio. Johnson is responding to Fels' letter about the Fairhope Single Tax Colony. Although Johnson wishes "the enterprise every success," he does not appeal to him as a "practical illustration of what the Single Tax might do."
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vi.6.92-97 - Letter
Letter dated 11/11/1907 To the Friends of the Single Tax Everywhere by Henry Borst, M. D., a medical doctor in Siliverhill, Alabama. Borst, a single-taxer, writes of his experiences and observations after living in Fairhope from 1904-1907. He left Fairhope because he was unable to make a living there, but has moved a few miles away and still observes the Colony. He is overall very sympathetic to the Fairhope single taxers and the administr...
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