Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson

American Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1980, NMAH.AC.0300 [sheet music]

      Location: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Suite 1100, MRC 601, Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

      Description: Sam DeVincent (1918-1997) was a musical performer and radio show personality. He began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 5: Politics and Political Movements, ca. 1817-1982, Subseries 5.2: Politicians and Political Figures, ca. 1817-1982, contains sheet music about Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Alfred Landon, Ronald Reagan, and Wendell L. Willkie. Series 5: Politics and Political Movements, ca. 1817-1982. Subseries 5.3: Politicians and Political Parties, ca. 1825-1970, contains sheet music about Native American Party (Know-Nothings), ca. 1856. Series 5: Politics and Political Movements, ca. 1817-1982. Subseries 5.4: Ku Klux Klan, contains Ku Klux Klan sheet music from small publishing firms mostly in the Midwest and the west, 1913-1928, but most dating from 1923-1924, and photocopies of other items, 1922-1924.

      References:

      Register of the Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1980. Series 2--Armed Forces, ca. 1810-1980, by Karen Linn; with an introduction by John Edward Hasse ([Washington, D.C.]: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1989); Register of the Sam DeVincent Collection of illustrated American sheet music, ca. 1790-1980. Series 4, Songwriters, 1847-1975, by Robert S. Harding; with an introduction by John Edward Hasse (Washington: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1994).

      Finding aids:

      http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/ac0300.pdf

      http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/d5300.htm

      [0791] Emma Smith DeVoe Papers, MS 171 [digital collection]

      Location: Washington State Library, PO Box 42460, Olympia, WA 98504-2460

      Description: Emma Smith DeVoe (1848-1927) was a leader in the suffrage movement and the president of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association in 1906. The Bernice A. Sapp scrapbooks, 1910-1913, contain a copy of "Two Harvard Men And Anti-Suffrage" (a newspaper account of two men rejecting an appeal for support from the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women). Scrapbooks assembled by Emma Smith DeVoe, 1910, contain the following clippings: "Anti-Suffragists Protest," Tacoma News (Apr. 14, 1910); [short article about The Remonstrance, the magazine of the anti-suffragists], Spokesman-Review (May 4, 1910); "Anti-Suffragists Modest As Gentle Violet, So They Don't Talk Much," Post-Intelligencer (June 12, 1910); "English Women Who Oppose Ballots For their Own Sex," North Yakima Republic (Nov. 24, 1909) [on the English Anti-Suffrage Association, secretary, Mrs. Arthur Somervell, and the Anti-Suffrage Review]; and "Suffragists and Anti-Suffragists in Debate," Seattle Week-End (Feb. 19, 1910) [anti-suffragists to be represented in the debate by Ida M. Tarbell and Agnes Repplier].

      Websites with information:

      http://www.washingtonhistory.org/research/whc/WHCcollections/wsl/

      Finding aid to digital collection:

      http://digitum.washingtonhistory.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/devoe

      [0791a] Wesley A. D'Ewart Papers, 1936-1973, Collection 294, MtBC, us

      Location: Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections, Montana State University-Bozeman Library, P.O. Box 173320, Bozeman, MT 59717-3320

      Description: Wesley Abner D'Ewart (1889-1973) was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana in 1945, winning reelection four times. D'Ewart was an avowed opponent of Socialism and Communism. In 1954, during his unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by Montana's Democratic U.S. Senator, James Murray, the Montana for D'Ewart Committee compiled and published a booklet entitled "Senator Murray and the Red Web Over Congress." The collection contains campaign materials, speeches and writings, correspondence, and research materials accumulated by D'Ewart. Series 5: Communism and Socialism, circa 1950s, contains papers, correspondence, and materials pertaining to Communism and Communists. Includes copies of the booklets "Senator Murray and the Red Web Over Congress" and "The Red Record of Senator James E. Murray," as well as publications and articles on Socialism.

      Finding aid:

      http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv00207

      [0791b] Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers, 1951-2003 (bulk 1984-2000), SC/048

      Location: Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187-5593

      Description: Peter Simon Deyneka, Jr. (1931-2000) was general director of the Slavic Gospel Association from 1975 to 1991, when, with his wife Anita (1942-), he created a new organization called Peter Deyneka USSR Ministries (later changed to Peter Deyneka Russian Ministries). Series 9: Secondary. Sub-Series 6: Information about other Russian ministries, contains files on Accuracy in Media; Campus Crusade for Christ; Christian Action; Christian Anti-Communism Crusade; Christian Research Institute, Inc.; Christianity Today; Church League of America; Institute for Creation Research; Jesus to the Communist World, Inc.; Moody Bible Institute; National Council of Churches; Promise Keepers; The Rutherford Institute; and Summit Ministries.

      Finding aid:

      http://archon.wheaton.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=31

      [0791c] Carte Cornelio Di Marzio, 1919-1943, IT-ACS-AS0001-0004220

      Location: Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Piazzale degli Archivi, 27, 00144 Roma, Italy

      Description: Cornelio Di Marzio (1896-1944) was an Italian journalist and editor of Il Meridiano di Roma. From 1939 to 1943 he was president of the Confederazione dei professionisti e artisti (Confederation of Professionals and Artists). The papers contain correspondence as well as manuscripts, typescripts, and press articles regarding his work as a journalist.

      Websites with information:

      http://search.acs.beniculturali.it/OpacACS/guida/IT-ACS-AS0001-0004220

      [0792] Edwin Diamond Political Audiovisual Collection [audio and video recordings], 1960-1996

      Location: Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, 222 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-2010

      Description: Edwin Diamond (1925-1997) was a journalist, author, and professor. The collection contains a wide range of politically-related audio and audiovisual material. Topics covered include Pat Buchanan, Busing, Desegregation, Bob Dole, David Duke, Eisenhower, Freedom Forum, Barry Goldwater, Alexander Haig, Jesse Helms, Jack Kemp, Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, PTL Club, Ronald Reagan, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, Robert Schuller, Donald Trump, UK Conservative Party, and George Wallace.

      Finding aid:

      http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/d/diamond_e.htm

      [0793] Sara Diamond Collection on the U.S. Right, approximately 1950-1997 (bulk 1980-1997), BANC MSS 98/70 cz

      Location: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720-6000

      Description: Sara Diamond is a practicing attorney in Berkeley, California. The Sara Diamond Collection on the U.S. Right consists of mostly primary source material—publications, newsletters and other documents—published by and gathered directly from right-wing organizations. Contents include all of the early newsletters from the Christian Coalition, anti-gay conservative propaganda, material relating to anti-abortion movements and "pro-violence" groups, and papers showing the right's involvement in Central American politics of the early 1980s. Other topics covered include the Promise Keepers Christian men's movement, home schooling, racism and the right, conservative think tanks, and foreign affairs activities linked with conservatives. Series 1: Christian right organizations and topics approximately 1980-1997, contains files on About My Father's Business, Incorporated; Acton Institute; Ray Allen; Alliance Defense Fund; American Center for Law and Justice; American Coalition for Traditional Values; American Family Association; American Freedom Coalition; David Balsinger; Berean Call; David Bradshaw and Associates; William Marrion Branham; California Christian right;