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3.16.1-82 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, (letter C), 1930-1935. Includes general correspondence as well as the following: 3.16.19-23 is a letter from W. H. Clarke, who moved away with his family when he was a small child, telling of his early memories of Fairhope and its citizenry. 3.16.28-46 is correspondence between E. B. Gaston and W. E. Clement discussing single tax theory. This section includes pamphlets from the Young ...
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3.26.1-51 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation 1930-1936 (Me-Mu) by E. B. Gaston, secretary, mostly letters of inquiry about acquiring leases in Fairhope or receiving information for research/school projects about the Fairhope Colony. Of special interest: 3.26.4-5 letter to Fairhope Single Tax Corporation membership from Alex Melville (separately cataloged). 3.26.16 is a letter to L. L. Miller from Gaston in which Gaston mentions the...
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3.32.1-48 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1931-1935 (N-Q), mostly concerning lease requests, rent collections, and dealing with non-resident lessees' concerns, as well as discussion about Mr. Ewing's proposed enclave. Note 3.32.14-18 (parklands transfer), 3.32.24-25 (survey of FSTC lands), and 3.32.34-35 (request for land from the Baldwin County Board of Education) are cataloged separately. Correspondence is between E. B. Gasto...
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3.34.1-37 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1913-1936, mostly E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Corporation responding to letters of inquiry about Fairhope, acquiring leased lands, requesting subscriptions to the Fairhope Courier newspaper, the School of Organic Education (Organic School), and other similar matters. Most documents are in the 1931-1936 time period.
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3.34.14 - Letter
Letter dated 6/23/1935 to Virgil D. Allen from E. B. Gaston. Allen, who is executive secretary of the Economic League of Ohio, has invited Gaston to attend a dinner at the Henry George School of Social Science. Gaston sends his regrets.
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40_16_001-002 - Brochures
Foldout brochure dated 1976 titled "Fairhope" and published by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The brochure includes information related to the single tax, the FSTC, Fairhope, the Somers System (in use at the time this was published, a graph of rents, Henry George, a statement by the FSTC's Executive Council, and several photographs. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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43_05_001 - Note
Note describing the annual costs of farming 100 acres under the Fairhope Plan (single tax land) compared to deeded land. The writer, (probably T. E. Mann or S. S. Mann) details the savings in capital and overhead under the Fairhope Plan. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Mann Collection, courtesy of Alison Holt Knight.
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43_14_001-002 - Documents
Form signed by T. E. Mann from Gladboork, Iowa with no date. The form is a peition requestiing that the House of Representatives appoint a special committee to look into the idea of raising public funds by a single tax on land value. The reverse side of the form is about the Single Tax. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Mann Collection, courtesy of Alison Holt Knight.
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4.8.1-112 - Correspondence
This correspondence (1936-1940) includes letters written by C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, responding to letters of inquiry from various people and organiztions including; The Anti-Single Tax Control Bureau, Auburn University, Cornell University, Rollins College, Marietta College and The Modern School. Many of the inquiries are from students of political economy, Henry George, Single Taxation generally and the...
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5.10.1-234 - Letter
Correspondence of secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (E. B. Gaston and C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1952, (letter W). Includes general business correspondence of the FSTC: letters of inquiry about the Colony, letters of inquiry about leasing lands, records, rents and other day-to-day business correspondence. In addition, there is correspondence between C. A. Gaston and Fiske Warren (and other Warren family members) about pro...
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5.11.1-203 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, Letter 'R," 1935-1953. 5.11.143-159 includes correspondence with FDR, Cordele Hull and Lister Hill.
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5.1.1-213 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1927-1953, (I, J and K). Most correspondence is of general FSTC business (rents in arrears, inquiries about single tax, tax returns). In 5.1.80 C. A. Gaston writes about Fairhope's early residents, saying those who came to Fairhope were "advanced thinkers and their various eccentricities made them stand out as distrinct from the common run of citizen." He called early Fairhope a "crank...
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5.1.16-17 - Letter
Letter dated 5/10/1938 and response from C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior in which Gaston complains about the state of the nation's economy, the Roosevelt administration's handling of such and his (Gaston's) suggestion that the single tax principles should be a solution. Of interest in the personal spin Gaston puts in the letter, reminding Ickes of "that day in March, ...
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5.11.87-89 - Letter
Letter dated 3/15/1949 to Frances Roberts in West Point, Georgia from C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and son of principal founder, E. B. Gaston. C. A. Gaston is responding to Roberts' request for background on Fairhope's founding. Gaston writes a three-page synopsis of the experience, beginning with the founders' study of Bellamy and George. An interesting read from his perspective.
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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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7.20.4-5 - Letter
Correspondence dated September, 1995 initiated by George Cartwright of Modesto, California to Frances Gaston Crawford, but answered by C. A. Gaston. Cartwright writes of an incident he observed while waiting in (he did not give a date) Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, Tom L. Johnson's outer office. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fels also happened to be there and Cartwright asked about the status of Fairhope. Cartwright writes of Fels' response: "fine, they...
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FMH_2063-2064 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph by Stewart the Picture Man of "Some Old Guard Single Taxers and Friends" posed outside the Tea Tile Restaurant on November 29, 1927 in Fairhope, Alabama. The ladies are seated with the portrait of Henry George propped on the center chair. E. B. Gaston stands behind George's picture. Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart), dressed in a suit with a trimmed beard is identified with the "X," and Prescott A. Parker (P. A. Parker) stands on...
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FSTC-0082 - Photograph, Digital
Presentation slide with label about Joseph Fels, soap manufacturer and single tax advocate. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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FSTC-0257 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of Henry George published in a supplement edition of the September 1, 1911 The Public. The picture was taken between the New York mayoral campaign of 1886 and the first Single Tax Conference of 1890. It is regarded by Henry George's friends as his best protrait of that period. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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