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29.12.6-9 - Booklet
Booklet titled "Science and Taxation" by John T. Giddings described as "A clear and concise exposition of the principles underlying a just method of raising public revenue, based on the philosophy of Henry George as expressed in his great work, 'Progress and Poverty.'" From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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FSTC-V0008 - Video, Digital
Video titled The Legacy of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation produced in 2016 by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The history of the Corporation (FSTC) and the beginnings of the Fairhope Colony are disucssed as well as an explanation of Henry George's Single Tax theory and how it is demonstrated in Fairhope. Present-day video of Fairhope, and photographs of early Fairhope and late-nineteenth century Des Moines, Iowa are included. Th...
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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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FSTC-V0017 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated August 15, 1994 with Sam Dyson who was born in Fairhope on February 16, 1908. His parents came to the United States on June 30, 1900 from Bolton, England, and settled in Philadelphia where they met Joseph Fels and read the Henry George book. Progress and Poverty. As a result, they moved to Fairhope in 1904, built a house on Fels Avenue, and his father, Marmaduke Dyson, started a construction company. Marmaduke Dyson serve...
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PMG-6295-6298 - Review
Summary of a paper by Robert C. Bannister titled "Alternative America: George and Bellamy" found in the Paul M. Gaston Collection of the FSTC Archives. Dr. Bannister (who was probably writing this in the mid 1980s) discusses how interpretations of "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George and "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy have changed in the approximate century since they were written. He is also reviewing the 1983 book by John L. Thomas "...
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