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1.12.14-15 - Journal
From the correspondence of Anne B. Call. Pages from an unnamed journal include a letter to the editor about the state of the single tax movement. 6/8/1922
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29.9.7-10 - Correspondence
Letters between L. R. Clements in Knoxville, Iowa dated February 26,1936 and E.B. Gaston in Fairhope, Alabama dated February 28, 1936. Clements (age 82) is writing Gaston to catch up on the Fairhope Colony and expresses opinions about the state of the Single Tax movement. Gaston responds with information about his family, the state of affairs in Fairhope, and his opinions about the Georgist movement, land speculation and other issues of the day...
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31_1920_1-9 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1920. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Includes reports, lease information and information reflective of the business of the Corporation. Among other topics discussed: Colony Telphone System, Fairhope Public LIbrary, street and drainage projects, Tax increases on FSTC lands, rent issues and lessee concerns. Signor Cipriano Montoliu sent his Organic City pla...
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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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3.17.1-68 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1930-35 (letters I, J).
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3.18.1-47 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1930-35 (letters T, U, V). In 3.18.6, the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Executive Council directs the head of the ball team, J. H. Titus, to remove signage from the grandstand at the ball park on the beach indicating that payment is required for admission. Under the agreement with the FSTC, the ball team can only accept donations for entry, not require admission. In 3.18.14, E. B....
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3.5.74-75 - Postcard
Postcard dated 12/3/1935 to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper, E. B. Gaston from Bolton Hall in New York City stating his puzzlement on Gaston's support of the poll tax. Hall has read this in the Fairhope Courier, and says the poll tax is against Henry George's teachings. A poem titled "Mary's Little Land" is printed on the back of this postcard promoting the single tax. First verse: Mary had a little land, It was a vacant lot...
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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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5.1.166-173 - Letter
Correspondence dated May 1950 between G. J. Knapp in Pueblo, Colorado and C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Knapp is interested in putting single tax policies to work in Pueblo. He has met Gaston's father, E. B. Gaston at a conference years ago. These documents provide interesting reading about the single tax effort in Pueblo at mid-20th century, and give information on other single tax demonstations, partucularly...
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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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5.1.2-12 - Letter
Correspondence dated 1946-1948 between C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and Charles H. Ingersoll of New York City. Ingersoll is the editor of the publication 'democracy,' (little 'd' intentional), a single taxer, and a successful businessman (his company makes watches). He and Gaston discuss Fairhope, the history of the single tax movement, the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, and other topics. Th...
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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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5.7.1-69 - Scrapbook
Scrapbook (3 of 3), likely of E. B. Gaston, although attributed to C. A. Gaston on archival folder. Consists of newspaper clippings from The Forum, and possibly No Taxes, newspapers. (The headings are cut off, so cannot verify.) Both are editred by L. D. Beckwith. Dates are all 1935: 2/11, 2/25, 3/11, 3/25, 4/8, 4/22, 5/6, and 5/20. Topics includes Georgist issues, politics of the day, New Deal, Roosevelt administration, Socialism, Upt...
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FMH_0049 - Photograph, Print
Photograph c. early 1890s of the Worcester Single Tax Club in Massachusetts. Prescott A. Parker (aka P. A. Parker) is seen to the left of the man standing in the center of the pciture. Parker was an early resident and strong proponent of the single tax colony in Fairhope, Alabama. He was a surveyor, developer, engineer and businessman who helped plat early Fairhope. He later moved to Volanta and the Montrose area. His book the "Story of ...
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FSTC-V0052 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated April 5, 2016 with Dean Mosher. The writings of Henry George, the most widely read political economist of his age and one of the most influential reformers in American history. According to George, poverty, exploitation, lack of opportunity, and the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege resulted from the monopoly of scarce resources and the private ownership of land. His principal proposal was ...
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ii.10.119-120 - Letter
Letter written to E. B. Gaston on 6/29/1894 from Calvin B. Power, Pa. He writes about his lack of money and at the end of the month he will have $105.00 and for living expenses the last 6 months, he is in debt about $80.00. In these trying times he is getting much work done for "Single Tax". He is very interested in the Committee's report on location. He tried to borrow $1,000.00 but could not. 11,000 cokers marched in Connellsville on the 2...
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ii.2.110-111 - Letter
Letter written to E. B. Gaston dated 03/18/1984 from W. E. Brokaw of St. Louis, Missouri questoning Gaston about the proposed colony in Alabama. Brokaw is the editor of The Courier Publishing Company, a single tax newspaper. He mentions E. Q. Norton, James Bellangee, J. R. Sovereign and Bolton Hall.
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ii.2.112-113 - Letter
Letter written to E. B. Gaston dated 04/03/1894 from W. E. Brokaw of St. Louis, Missouri. Brokaw, editor of The Courier Publishing Company, says he is too busy establishing his single tax newspaper to participate in Gaston's colony, and tells of his disappointment in the small number of subscribers for his paper. He predicts the Single Tax will be in operation in the U. S. in 1900.
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ii.2.114-115 - Letter
Letter written to E. B. Gaston from W. E. Brokaw of St. Louis, Missouri dated 05/03/1894. Brokaw, editor of a single tax newspaper, The Courier (The Courier Publishing Company), is optimistic about the movement, and says men are "falling in line" towards supporting the movement. He predicts Ohio businessman and congressman Tom Loftin Johnson (1854-1911) will be elected president in 1896.
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