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Warren Worth Bailey Papers
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Warren Worth Bailey was born in New Winchester, Indiana on January 8, 1855. He moved to Illinois with his parents in 1863 and then worked as a telegrapher. In 1875, he joined the Kansas (Ill.) News and learned the printing trade. He purchased the Vincennes News in 1877 and later moved to Chicago in 1887 and was a staff member of the Daily News and later of the Evening Mail. His published the Johnstown, Pennsylvania newspaper The Daily Democrat starting in 1893 that was devoted to the single-tax principle. While unsuccessful in his run as a Democratic candidate in 1906 for Congress, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1912 and was elected to the sixty-third and sixty-fourth Congresses. He served as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from 1913-1917. He was unsuccessful when he ran for reelection in 1916 and again in 1920, 1922, and 1926. As a result, Bailey resumed journalism in Johnstown. He died on November 9, 1928
The collection consists of Bailey's correspondence with various political figures, family, and friends as well as materials, including clippings, about his election campaigns, the Bailey Bill for the extension of free mail service (1913-1914), a war tax, and the issue of military preparedness. Condolences are also included that were sent to his widow after his death in 1928.
The Warren Worth Bailey Papers were deposited at Princeton University by the Bailey family in 1948.
Two photographs and a postcard found in the Mudd Library were added to the collection in 2016. The accession number associated with this material is ML.1000.009.
Folder of speeches found in the Mudd Library were added to the collection in 2019. The accession number associated with these materials is ML.2019.015.
Collection was processed and finding aid updated by Kelli Yakabu in June 2019. Unrelated publications and books separated from collection.
No information about appraisal is available for this collection.
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Subject
- Editors -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Floods -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown -- 19th century
- Legislators -- Pennsylvania -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Newspaper publishing -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown -- 20th century
- Postal service -- United States -- 20th century
- Rural free delivery
- Publisher
- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.
Collection Inventory
Includes correspondence related to "military preparedness"
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Correspondence includes topics such as military preparedness and the single tax issue.
Original order has been maintained.
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Includes correspondence related to "military preparedness"
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Includes correspondence related to "single tax"
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Includes correspondence related to "military preparedness"
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Includes Bailey, E. Homer, "How to Get Rich Without Working," Bailey, Warren Worth II
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Clippings are mainly written about Bailey.
Original order has been maintained.
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Condolence files include correspondence to Bailey's widow and to Bailey himself about his father.
Original order has been maintained.
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Materials include Bailey's platforms and campaign advertisements.
Original order has been maintained.
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Materials include speeches written by Bailey and by other political figures. Includes accession ML.2019.015.
Original order has been maintained.
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These boxes contain miscellaneous documents including pamphlets not written by Bailey, receipts from financial transactions, political-related tickets, etc. Includes accession ML.1000.009.
Materials in this series are arranged into two sub-series: pamphlets, publications, etc. and receipts, writings, tickets, etc.
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Includes two photographs, one of Warren Worth Bailey and one of an unidentified group of women, and a W.W. and E.H. Bailey postcard, both undated (ML.1000.009).
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Scrapbooks mainly include clippings and occasional correspondence.
The sub-series are arranged in chronological order.
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