Barney Rosset papers, 1841-2011, bulk 1935-2011

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Series I: Biographical and Early Material, 1936-2003

This series is comprised of Barney Rosset's personal, family, and early papers, including documents gathered and created during his high school and college years, and biographical information. Class notes, clippings, correspondence, grades, and materials related to Rosset's early ventures, such as the Anti-Everything Club, can be found in this series.


Francis Parker School



Box 1 Folder 1-2 Chinese History 8th Grade, 1935-936, (2 folders)


Students, Teachers, Politics, 1935-1940


Box 1 Folder 3-4 General, 1935-1940, (2 folders)


Box 1 Folder 5 "Parker's Little School House"


Box 1 Folder 6 "In Memory of Sarah Greenbaum"


Box 1 Folder 7 "The New Robinson Crusoe"


High School English II, III, IV, 1937-1940


Box 1 Folder 8-9 English II, (2 folders)


Box 1 Folder 10 English III


Box 1 Folder 11 English IV


High School Social Studies and Psychology, 1937-1938


Box 1 Folder 12-13 Social Studies, (2 folders)


Box 1 Folder 14 "Sawdust Caesar"


Box 1 Folder 15 Propaganda Report


Box 1 Folder 16 Psychology


Box 1 Folder 17 8th Grade Anti-(Everything Club) Cover, 1936



Box 64 Folder 1 Anti-Everything Club Glass Cover (fragile)



Box 1 Folder 18 Biography & Auto-biography


Box 1 Folder 19 Rosset, Barnet Sr. Materials, Undated


Box 1 Folder 20 Parker School--Grove Press Correspondence, 1969-1971


Box 1 Folder 21 Reunion and Alumni Materials, 1977-1978 1992, 1977-1978, 1992


Box 1 Folder 22 Editorial Clippings from The Parker Weekly and Graders, 1936-1940


Box 1 Folder 23 Theater, 1936-1940


Box 1 Folder 24 Rosset-Parker School Correspondence, 1956


Box 1 Folder 25 General and Alumni-related Clippings, 1977-1979


Box 1 Folder 26 Athletics and Track Materials, 1936-1940


Box 1 Folder 27-28 "Biography/Autobiography: Parker School Years, 1936-1940", (2 folders)


Box 1 Folder 29-32 Biographical/Autobiograpical "Parker Material" Outline & Misc., (4 folders)


Box 1 Folder 33-37 Social Studies, 1937


Box 1 Folder 33 "USA"


Box 1 Folder 34 "Russia"


Box 1 Folder 35 "Czechoslovakia"


Box 1 Folder 36 "Fascism/Germany"


Box 1 Folder 37 "China & Japan"


High School Records & Assoc./College Records & Assoc.


Box 1 Folder 38 1936-1937


Box 1 Folder 39 1937-1938


Box 1 Folder 40 "1939" & "Miscellaneous Francis Parker Records"


Box 1 Folder 41 1930s Social Scene, 1930s


Box 1 Folder 42 Psychological Test Scores and College Grades, 1937-1946


Swarthmore, 1940-1941


Box 1 Folder 43 1941


Box 1 Folder 44 Edited Letters and Writings


Box 1 Folder 45 Correspondence with Mary Rosset and Barnet Rosset, Sr.


Box 1 Folder 46 W.P.A. Theater and American Student Union's Association at Vassar, 1937-1940


The New School


Box 1 Folder 47-49 Courses, Grades, and Papers, 1950-1951, (3 folders)


Box 1 Folder 50 Diploma, 1952


Box 1 Folder 51-53 Nancy Ashenhurst--Correspondence, (3 folders)



Box 2 Folder 1 "The Strike," circa, 1940


Box 2 Folder 2-6 Jack Ellison Correspondence, 1940, (5 folders)


Box 2 Folder 7-9 Alfred Adler Correspondence, 1940-1984, (3 folders)


Box 2 Folder 10 University of Chicago Diploma, 1947


Box 2 Folder 11-13 Teru Osato Correspondence, 1937-1976, (3 folders)


"All Our Years" Robert Morss Lovett


Box 2 Folder 14 Edited Text, 2006


Box 2 Folder 15-18 Complete Text, 1948, (4 folders)


Box 2 Folder 19 Chapter Four--Swarthmore, University of Chicago, UCLA, 1941-2003


Box 2 Folder 20 Indianapolis Speedway, 1938