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Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

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The McCormick Library houses more than 235,000 of Northwestern University Library's most unusual and outstanding items and collections. The span of time and material types represented ranges from four-thousand year old Mesopotamian clay tablets to 19th century cobweb paintings to the most recent issues of feminist journals from around the world.

Formats collected include rare books and periodicals, manuscripts and archives, sound recordings, photographs, video/film, posters, prints, and realia.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Avrom M. Landy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS106
Abstract Avrom M. Landy (1904-1992) broke off his doctoral studies to accept a position at the Daily Worker. He later became educational director of the Communist Party of America, a position he held until 1945. He was co-publisher of International Publishers from 1945 until about 1947, when he left the Communist Party.  In the late 1940s, Landy completed a manuscript for a book titled, The United States and the Paris Commune of 1871....
Dates: 1938-1954

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