Sacco and Vanzetti collections: miscellaneous11.MWalB02170

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Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 3 Scope and Contents ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Controlled Access Headings ...... 4 Collection Inventory ...... 5 Correspondence ...... 5 Publications ...... 6 Miscellaneous Documents ...... 11 Photographs ...... 13

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Summary Information

Repository: Brandeis University Title: Sacco and Vanzetti collections: miscellaneous ID: 11.MWalB02170 Date [inclusive]: 1920-1979 Date [bulk]: 1920s, 1961 Physical Description: 1.00 Linear Feet Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes other_unmapped Abstract: Arranged in four series. 1. Correspondence, 1925-1957; 2. Publications, 1921-1979; 3. Miscellaneous Documents, 1920-1957; 4. Photographs, 1920-1961. Contents have been rearranged chronologically in Series 1, 3 and 4. Series 2 is arranged alphabetically by author name, or, in the case of an unknown author, by title. AL: autograph letter; ALS: autograph letter signed; TL: typed letter; TLS: typed letter signed. For more information about each series, please consult the series descriptions in the box and folder listing. Preferred Citation

Sacco and Vanzetti collections: miscellaneous, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

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Scope and Contents

This collection of miscellaneous letters, articles, pamphlets, reports, newsclippings, and photographs is part of the Brandeis University Special Collections' extensive set of material related to the trial and legacy of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

The collection includes copies of letters from Sacco and Vanzetti as well as the correspondence and numerous publications of their supporters. The photographs in the collection include a few images of Sacco and Vanzetti's family members, along with their friends and supporters. In addition, among other topics, the images document the jury, ballistic evidence, and locations discussed in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial.

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Note that there exists some overlap of materials between this collection and Brandeis University's other Sacco and Vanzetti collections. Even so, this small and diverse collection, taken together with the other related collections in the Brandeis University Libraries, comprises a significant archival resource for research.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement Brandeis University

415 South St. Waltham, MA URL: https://findingaids.brandeis.edu/

Conditions Governing Access Access to the collection is in accordance with the policies of the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

Conditions Governing Use Requests to reproduce or publish material from the collection should be directed to the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

Source of Acquisition Donated by various donors.

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Controlled Access Headings

• Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921. • Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts -- Dedham • Trials (Murder) -- United States

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Collection Inventory

Correspondence, 1925-1957 Date: 1925-1957 Scope and Contents

Letters of Nicolo Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee to their friends, family, and other supporters. Letters are arranged by date. One letter regards a donation to the Sacco-Vanzetti collection, while another is a 1957 letter to the editor regarding the anniversary of the Sacco and Vanzetti executions.

Box 1 Box 1

Sacco, Nicolo, to G.W. Benton, ALS, postcard, Dedham, 1 page, Box 1 Folder 1 April 28, 1925 Date: April 28, 1925 Scope and Contents

Gift of Marquette University Archives in 1982.

Fabbri, Amleto, Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, TLS, form Box 1 Folder 2 letter, Boston, 1 page, June 1925 Date: June 1925 Scope and Contents

Form letter asking for donations to the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee.

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, to Irene W. Benton, ALS, 3 pages, Box 1 Folder 3 October 13, 1926 Date: October 13, 1926 Scope and Contents

Gift of Marquette University Archives in 1982.

Sacco, Niccolo to Dante Sacco, TL, Charlestown, 4 pages, Box 1 Folder 4 August 18, 1927 Date: August 18, 1927 Scope and Contents

Copy of letter to son.

Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, TL, donation receipt form Box 1 Folder 5 letter, Boston, 1 page, September 1, 1927

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Date: September 1, 1927

Baldwin, Roger, John Chamberlain, et al, TL, letter to the editor, Box 1 Folder 6 1 page, August 23, 1957 Date: August 23, 1957 Scope and Contents

2 copies in folder. Other LTE signees include John Dos Passos, Gardner Jackson, Howard Lindsay, Eugene Lyons, Aldino Felicani, Eugene V. Rostow, and Norman Thomas. An additional, annotated copy of the LTE, plus a related press release, can also be found in this collection in Series 3, Box 1, Folder 34.

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Publications, 1921-1979 Date: 1921-1979 Scope and Contents

Originals and reprints of magazine and journal articles, pamphlets, academic papers, and government documents relating to the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. Documents are arranged by author's name, or, if none is listed, by title. The final folder of the series contains various newsclippings for the years 1947-1977.

Box 1 Box 1

Bernheimer, Louis, "The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Box 1 Folder 7 Summary of the Outstanding Testimony," pamphlet, New York, 16 pages, May 15, 1927 Date: May 15, 1927 Scope and Contents

Front page has unidentified handwritten note: "Hotel La Fayette, New York City".

Cohn, Michael A., Independent Sacco-Vanzetti Committee, Box 1 Folder 8 "Some Questions and an Appeal," pamphlet, New York, 11 pages, 1927? Date: 1927? Scope and Contents

Dates mentioned in the pamphlet suggest the publication date was between April and August 1927.

Cook, Fred J., "New Light on Sacco-Vanzetti: The Missing Box 1 Folder 9 Fingerprints," [i]The Nation[/i] 195, no. 21, New York, pages 442-451, December 22, 1962 Date: December 22, 1962

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Scope and Contents

Excerpted periodical article, with front/back covers of magazine. Additional copy in Sacco and Vanzetti collections: Tom O'Connor Collection 1920-1965, Series 4, Box 7, Folder 13.

Davis, Horace B. and Granville Hicks, et al, "Walled in This Box 1 Folder 10 Tomb: Questions Left Unanswered by the Lowell Committee in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, and Their Pertinence in Understanding the Conflicts Sweeping the World at This Hour, for Especial Consideration by the Alumni of Harvard University During Its Tercentenary Celebration," pamphlet, Boston, 29 pages, 1936 Date: 1936 Scope and Contents

Pamphlet printed by the Excelsior Press. Foreword authored by 28 Harvard alumni, ranging in graduation year from 1891 to 1932. Additional note authored by Horace B. Davis and Granville Hicks [the main authors, presumably].

Epstein, Melech, "Sacco-Vanzetti" (transliterated "Sako- Box 1 Folder 11 Vanzeti"), pamphlet in Yiddish, New York, 72 pages, September 1927 Date: September 1927 Scope and Contents

Pamphlet with illustrations, published with support from the Workers Communist Party. Gift of Mrs. Bella Solon.

Goodwin, Frank A., Industrial Defense Association, Inc., Box 1 Folder 12 "Sacco-Vanzetti and the Red Peril: speech made by Frank A. Goodwin before the Lawrence Kiwanis Club," pamphlet, Boston, 15 pages, June 30, 1927 Date: June 30, 1927

Joughin, Louis, "Beyond Guilt or Innocence; The Responsibility Box 1 Folder 13 of History," academic paper, Boston, 11 pages, October 26-27, 1979 Date: October 26-27, 1979 Scope and Contents

Academic paper presented at Boston Public Library conference entitled "Sacco-Vanzetti: Developments and Reconsiderations--1979," October 26-27, 1979. Reprinted from [i]Conference Proceedings[/i], 1982.

Lehning, Arthur Müller, "De Feiten en de Beteekenis van de Box 1 Folder 14 Zaak Sacco en Vanzetti," pamphlet in Dutch, Amsterdam, 86 pages, 1927

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Date: 1927 Scope and Contents

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Anixter, in memory of Mandel Anixter.

Musmanno, Michael A., "Book Review of 'Sacco-Vanzetti: Box 1 Folder 15 The Murder and the Myth', by Robert H. Montgomery," reprinted from [i]University of Pittsburgh Law Review[/i] 22, [Pittsburgh?], pages 651-674, undated Date: undated Scope and Contents

Excerpted article only, bound in pamphlet form.

Musmanno, Michael A., "The Sacco-Vanzetti Case, with Box 1 Folder 16 Critical Analysis of the Book "Tragedy in Dedham" by Francis Russell," reprinted from [i]Kansas Law Review[/i] 11, no. 4, 2 copies, [Lawrence, Kansas?], pages 481-525, May 1963 Date: May 1963 Scope and Contents

Excerpted article only, bound in pamphlet form.

Musmanno, Michael A., "Was Sacco Guilty?", reprinted from[i] Box 1 Folder 17 The New Republic[/i], [Washington, D.C.?], pages 25-29, March 2, 1963 Date: March 2, 1963 Scope and Contents

Reprint includes only excerpted article and foreword consisting of a reprint of Hugh Russell Fraser's "As I See It," from [i]Daily Commercial News[/i], San Francisco, CA. An additional copy of the Musmanno article can be found in the Sacco and Vanzetti collecton: Tom O' Connor Collection 1920-1965, Series 4, Box 7, Folder 31.

O'Connor, Tom, Committee for the Vindication of Sacco Box 1 Folder 18 and Vanzetti, "Hearing before Judiciary Committee of Massachusetts Legislature on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case," Boston, 168 pages, 1959 Date: 1959 Scope and Contents

Full title: "Record of Public Hearing Before Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts Legislature on the Resolution of Representative Alexander J. Cella Recommending a Posthumous Pardon for Nicola

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Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti." Hearing regarded House Bill no. 2358.

Porter, Katherine Anne, "The Never-Ending Wrong: Sacco and Box 1 Folder 19 Vanzetti Fifty Years Later," [i]The Atlantic Monthly[/i] 239, no. 6, Boston, pages 37-64, June 1977 Date: June 1977 Scope and Contents

Entire periodical included.

Russell, Francis, "Sacco-Vanzetti: The End of the Box 1 Folder 20 Chapter," [i]National Review[/i] XXII, no. 17, New York, pages 454-466, May 5, 1970 Date: May 5, 1970 Scope and Contents

Entire periodical included.

"The Sacco-Vanzetti Case: Twenty Years Later," pamphlet, Box 1 Folder 20.1 Boston, Massachusetts. 10 pages , August 23, 1947. Date: August 23, 1947.

Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, "Reflections on the Sacco- Box 1 Folder 21 Vanzetti Tragedy," pamphlet, Boston, 15 pages, undated Date: undated Scope and Contents

Pamphlet includes the following reprinted articles: "Fear," by Edna St. Vincent Millay; "Vanzetti's Last Statement," by William G. Thompson; "Psychology and Justice," by John Dewey; and "The Martyrs of Massachusetts," by C. I. Claflin.

Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, "What Do You Think? Box 1 Folder 22 Nine Revealing Documents," pamphlet, Boston, 12 pages, undated Date: undated Scope and Contents

Pamphlet consists of nine affidavits/extracts presented by Sacco and Vanzetti's attorney, William G. Thompson, in connection with a motion for a new trial; this motion was denied by Judge Thayer. Gift of Jo Labadie, September, 1929, to University of Michigan's Joseph A. Labadie Collection. It was brought to Ann Arbor by Jo and Mrs. Labadie.

Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee and Workers Defense Box 1 Folder 23 Union, "Are They Doomed?", pamphlet, New York, 31 pages, 1921 - Page 9- Sacco and Vanzetti collections: miscellaneous11.MWalB02170

Date: 1921 Scope and Contents

Pamphlet describes the events of and history surrounding the Sacco & Vanzetti case. Gift of Agnes Inglis. Additional copies of pamphlet located in Sacco and Vanzetti collections: Tom O'Connor Collection 1920-1965, Series 1, Box 4, Sub-series 2, Folder 3.

"A Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial," [i]Lantern[/i] 2, no. 3, Boston, 26 Box 1 Folder 24 pages, August 1929 Date: August 1929 Scope and Contents

Entire periodical included, containing various individuals' commentary and reprinted newspaper articles regarding the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Sacco-Vanzetti National League, "There is Justice: A Summary Box 1 Folder 24.1 of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case," pamphlet, New York City, 21 pages , undated Date: undated (inferred)

Taylor, Daniel A., Office of the Governor's Legal Counsel, Box 1 Folder 25 "Report to the Governor in the Matter of Sacco and Vanzetti," Boston, 38 pages, July 13, 1977 Date: July 13, 1977 Scope and Contents

Along with the report listed in the folder title, the folder includes a copy of Governor Michael S. Dukakis's 1977 proclamation/pardon regarding the Sacco and Vanzetti case on the 50th anniversary of the two men's executions. The folder also includes the Massachusetts State House News July 19, 1977, Press Release from the Office of Governor Dukakis regarding the proclamation.

"Third Report of the Judicial Council of Massachusetts," Box 1 Folder 26 annotated by an unidentified hand [Tom O'Connor?], public document, Boston, 142 pages, November 1927 Date: November 1927 Scope and Contents

From the library of Tom O' Connor. Annotations direct the reader to sections regarding "Suggested Changes in the Practice of Murder Cases" and "Drafts of Legislation Recommended: An Act as to Appeals in Capital Cases."

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, Road to Freedom Group, "Background Box 1 Folder 27 of the Plymouth Trial," pamphlet, 2 copies, Boston, 38 pages, undated

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Date: undated Scope and Contents

One copy is the gift of the Boston Women's Committee.

"Vanzetti Was Innocent," [i]Outlook and Independent[/i] Box 1 Folder 28 150, no. 9, 2 copies (one without cover), New York, pages 1050-1063, 1070-1079, 1082-1085, and 1088-1095, October 31,1928 Date: October 31,1928 Scope and Contents

Entire periodical included.

Newsclippings (photocopies), 1947-1977 and undated Box 1 Folder 29 Date: 1947-1977 and undated Scope and Contents

Folder includes the following: Small clipping entitled "A 20th Century Crucifixion" [photograph caption from an exhibit?]; "Sacco-Vanzetti Shrine," [i]Boston Herald[/i], August 25, 1947; Gardner Jackson, "Still Not Guilty," [i]New York Post[/i], January 8, 1961; "Governor Fuller's Decision," undated; Robert H. Montgomery, "Sacco-Vanzetti, Again!," and Revilo P. Oliver, "And, Again,"[i] [/i](two book reviews of Francis Russell's [i]Tragedy in Dedham), [/i][i]American Opinion[/i] (organ of John Birch Society), pages 11-15, November 1962; Abe Fortas, "Sacco, Vanzetti – and Justice," (book review of Francis Russell's [i]Tragedy in Dedham[/i]), two copies, [i]Washington Post,[/i] August 12, 1962; Richard Hudson, "Sacco-Vanzetti: New Reasons for Doubt," [i]Boston Globe[/i], pages A1 & A4 (4 photocopy pages), August 21, 1977.

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Miscellaneous Documents, 1920-1957 Date: 1920-1957 Scope and Contents

These miscellaneous documents, arranged by date, relate to the Sacco-Vanzetti trial but do not fall into the other series' categories. They include a 1920 Pinkerton report, a 1920 diagram of the crime scene, 1927 meeting minutes of the Citizens' Committee on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the transcript of an interview with Mario Buda [alternate spelling to Boda], and a 1957 press release calling for the posthumous exoneration of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Box 1 Box 1

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"Sacco-Vanzetti Case: Pinkerton Report on South Braintree Box 1 Folder 30 Holdup," 28 pages, two copies, 1920 Date: 1920 Scope and Contents

Folder includes bound Pinkerton report (two copies), plus an additional typescript statement from Tom O'Connor, Secretary of the Committee for the Vindication of Sacco and Vanzetti, explaining how he alerted Sacco and Vanzetti's defense counsel to the existence of the 1920 report in 1926. These copies of the report may be ones typed up by O'Connor himself (as noted in his statement). O'Connor notes that most of the reports within the Pinkerton report, ranging from April 17, 1920 to February 13, 1921, were submitted by Henry Hellyer, or H. H.

"Diagram of the Crime Scene," photostat copy, 1920 Box 1 Folder 31 Date: 1920 Scope and Contents

Caption reads: "This drawing shows the principal physical details connected with the payroll murders on April 15, 1920. After the shooting the robbers sped westward along Pearl Street and escaped over the country roads." Photostat looks to be of a drawing from a book (pages 24-25), but no book title or publisher is listed.

Glueck, Sheldon, "Minutes of Meeting of Citizens' Committee Box 1 Folder 32 on Sacco-Vanzetti Case, April 7, 1927," 13 pages, typescript, April 8, 1927 Date: April 8, 1927 Scope and Contents

Along with the loose typescript pages of the meeting minutes, the folder includes a typed note on Harvard Law School letterhead. Dated April 11, 1927, the note is addressed to Mr. [John F.] Moore (in whose office the meeting was held) and offers him a copy of the minutes. The note concludes with the handwritten signature of Professor Felix Frankfurter.

Buda, Mario, "The Story of Mario Buda Before the Jury of the Box 1 Folder 33 World," 18 pages, typescript, annotated in unidentified hands, Messina, Italy, February 14-16, 1928 Date: February 14-16, 1928 Scope and Contents

Mario Buda was also known as "Mike Boda," the "ringleader of the bandit gang" with whom Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of being in collaboration. Sacco and Vanzetti supposedly left the scene of the crime in a

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Buick belonging to "Boda." By 1928, Buda had returned to Italy and was being held on the island of Lipari as a political prisoner. Boston resident Edward Houlton James obtained permission from Benito Mussolini to visit and interview Buda about his connections to the Sacco- Vanzetti case.

Felicani, Aldino and Gardner Jackson, "For Release, Monday Box 1 Folder 34 A.M. papers, August 26, 1957," 3 pages, typescript, annotated by an unidentified hand, Boston, August 26, 1957 Date: August 26, 1957 Scope and Contents

Press release about request to Boston's mayor and Massachusetts's governor to exonerate Sacco and Vanzetti on the 30th anniversary of their execution. To that effect, an August 22, 1957, letter to Major John B. Hynes and an August 23, 1957, Letter to the Editor are attached. Two other (non-annotated) copies of the Letter to the Editor can be found in this collection in Series 1, Box 1, Folder 6.

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Photographs, 1920-1961 Date: 1920-1961 Scope and Contents

Photographs and photographic copies of materials relating to the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. Photographs are arranged by date taken (when known) or, in the case of photographic copies, the date the original material was created.

Box 2 Box 2

Secondi, Joe [Joseph], Photographs of South Braintree, Box 2 Folder 35 Bridgewater, and Plymouth, 1921-1961 Date: 1921-1961 Scope and Contents

Photographs relating to the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, taken (primarily?) by Joseph Secondi. Photographs are arranged by date taken (though also by the chronology of the South Braintree holdup within the 1961 images). Note that many of these photographs, along with more comprehensive captions and explanations, can be found in Wofford College's Special Collections, under the name "Sacco-Vanzetti materials compiled by Professor Joseph Secondi: 'The Sacco-Vanzetti Case: A Commentary with Photographs,' by Joseph Secondi" ([url=http://

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The jury and sheriffs on July 4th outing during Sacco-Vanzetti Box 2 Folder 35 trial, 1921 Date: 1921 Scope and Contents

8x10 inch black and white photographic print.

Sacco-Vanzetti, [just before sentence was passed, Dedham], Box 2 Folder 35 April 9, 1927 Date: April 9, 1927 Scope and Contents

7x10 inch black and white photographic print, with printed caption at bottom.

Signora Rosina Sacco and Signora Luigia Vanzetti leaving Box 2 Folder 35 Charlestown State Prison, [1920s?]; Signora Rosina Sacco and her two children, Ines and Dante Sacco, leaving Charlestown State Prison, August 1927 Date: August 1927 Scope and Contents

Two black and white photographic prints (4x6 and 3x4.25 inches), printed on the same sheet of photographic paper. The second photograph is mislabeled as "Signora Rosa Sacco and her two children, Rosina and Dante Sacco;" in fact, Rosina and Nicola Sacco had two children: Ines and Dante. A larger version of this second photograph can be found within this same collection, Series 4, Box 2, Folder 36, Item 10. Handwritten annotations on the larger print confirm the subjects' names and that the photograph was taken in August 1927.

Eugene Debs and Chief Counsel Fred Moore visit Vanzetti in Box 2 Folder 35 prison, [1920s?] Date: [1920s?] Scope and Contents

4x6 inch black and white photographic print.

Sacco's automatic [pistol], July 21, 1960 Box 2 Folder 35 Date: July 21, 1960 Scope and Contents

7x9 inch black and white photographic print. Closeup of Colt automatic pistol. Print dated July 21, 1960, on

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back [but may be a reprint of a photograph taken in the 1920s?].

Vanzetti's revolver, July 21, 1960 Box 2 Folder 35 Date: July 21, 1960 Scope and Contents

7x9 inch black and white photographic print. Print dated July 21, 1960, on back [but may be a reprint of a photograph taken in the 1920s?].

Fortini House, 35 Cherry Street, Plymouth, [September 1961?] Box 2 Folder 35 Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Annotations in an unidentified hand on the back note that the house had "grey shingles, rather than brownish, as the picture suggests." The enclosed caption card reads "The Fortini house on Cherry Street, Plymouth, where Vanzetti lived before he became a boarder at the Brini house. Beltrando Brini was Vanzetti's 13-year-old helper delivering eels on the morning of December 24, 1919."

Suosso's Lane, Plymouth, [September 1961?] Box 2 Folder 35 Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Caption reads "Suosso's Lane, Plymouth, where Vanzetti originally lived, with the Brini family. Brini house was near auto [in photo]. I think he lived there at the time of the Bridgewater holdup." Annotations in an unidentified hand on the back of the photograph affirm the location of the Brini house.

Plymouth Cordage Works, [September 1961?] Box 2 Folder 35 Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Caption card reads: "Plymouth Cordage Works—the great "bastille" of the town of Plymouth. Vanzetti was active in the strike here in the winter of 1915-1916." Written in unidentified hand [Joe Secondi?] on back of photograph: "Part of the Plymouth Cordage. The Brini house, the Fortini house, etc. are perhaps a mile away off to our right generally."

South Braintree Railroad Station, [September 1961?] Box 2 Folder 35

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Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Caption card reads "South Braintree Railroad Station where the train from Boston brought the American Express box containing two payrolls (one for Slater & Morrill Shoe Company) at about 9:15 a.m. on April 15, 1920. The original plan of the bandits was to hold up the American Express agent and grab the two payrolls."

South Braintree building [railroad station], [September 1961?] Box 2 Folder 35 Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. No caption, but same building as in photograph entitled "South Braintree Railroad Station."

Empty parking lot, [once site of Hampton House and Slater & Box 2 Folder 35 Morrill Factory], South Braintree, [September 1961?] Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Annotations in an unidentified hand note that the shot was taken "twenty-thirty feet in front of the line where the front wall of the Hampton House used to be (now a vacant lot); and of course we shot towards Rice & Hutchins and Slater & Morrill." Caption card notes that the lot "was once site of "Hampton House" upper office and factory of Slater & Morrill." Also, it notes that O'Connor's car is on the left of the photo.

Building (originally Rice & Hutchins Shoe Factory) where the Box 2 Folder 35 South Braintree holdup took place, [September 1961?] Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Caption reads: "Building—originally Rice & Hutchins shoe factory—where the South Braintree holdup took place."

Rice & Hutchins Shoe Factory, South Braintree, [September Box 2 Folder 35 1961?] Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Mounted photo with caption. Caption reads: "Another view of Rice & Hutchins shoe factory, where the two gunman - Page 16- Sacco and Vanzetti collections: miscellaneous11.MWalB02170

waited for Parmenter & Berardelli, carrying the Slater & Morrill payroll. The Slater & Morrill building, not in photo, was on same side of street, near auto." Back of mounted photo has Tom O'Connor's name on it.

Matfield Crossing, West Bridgewater, [September 1961?] Box 2 Folder 35 Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print, with caption card and annotations in unidentified hand. Annotations on photograph note how the "bandit car" approached and turned at Matfield Crossing. Caption card notes "It was here that Austin T. Reed, the gate tender, said he saw Vanzetti, and that one bandit yelled at him in clear English."

Coacci house, West Bridgewater, [September 1961?] Box 2 Folder 35 Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

Two 3.5x5 inch black and white photographic prints. Annotations on back of one say "Puffer's Place" [?]. Caption card reads: "This house is on Lincoln St., W. Bridgewater."

Coacci "garage," West Bridgewater, [September 1961?] Box 2 Folder 35 Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Annotations in unidentified hand on back note "the Coacci shed without car." Caption card reads "Coacci 'garage' - originally a cow barn where Boda kept his 1912 Overland. This is located in West Bridgewater."

Another view of the "bandit's garage" with Tom O'Connor Box 2 Folder 35 crossing the road, West Bridgewater, [September 1961?] Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Caption card reads: "Another view of the 'bandit's garage' with Tom O'Connor crossing the road. The garage was never more than a one-car affair, but Chief Stewart said it was a two-car garage for the Overland of Mike Boda and the bandits' Buick." Reverse of photo annotated in unidentified hand [Joe Secondi?]: "The Coacci

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shed. That is you, sir, walking across the street. Sorry I messed up the picture by overexposing."

Original barn of Bartlett house, West Bridgewater, [September Box 2 Folder 35 1961?] Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photographic print. Caption card reads: "Original barn of Bartlett house in West Bridgewater. Mrs. Johnson (wife of Simon Johnson of Elm Square Garage) phoned to Chief Stewart of Bridgewater."

The spot in the Manley Woods, West Bridgewater, where Box 2 Folder 35 the bandit car, the Buick, was found on April 17, 1920, [September 1961?] Date: [September 1961?] Scope and Contents

3.5x5 inch black and white photograph. Caption card reads: "The spot in the Manley Woods, West Bridgewater, where the bandit car, the Buick, was found on April 17, 1920."

Photographs, 1920-1927 Box 2 Folder 36 Date: 1920-1927 Scope and Contents

Photographs and photographic copies of materials relating to the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. Photographs are arranged by date taken (when known) or, in the case of photographic copies, the date the original material was created.

Bases of the four bullets taken from the murdered guard's Box 2 Folder 36 (Berardelli's) body, 5 photographs, undated [1920?] Date: undated [1920?] Scope and Contents

Five 8x10 inch black and white photographic prints, annotated in an unidentified hand. All printed by JET Photography, Boston. These are possibly part of the photographic set of the original Sacco-Vanzetti ballistic evidence which Francis Russell arranged to have made in the winter of 1961-62 [per his note in collections control file]. Captions read: [photo labeled #2] "The four bullets taken from Berardelli's body, with the 'X' bullet claimed to have been fired from Sacco's pistol"; [photo labeled #3] "Bullet IIII [base]"; [photo labeled #4] "Bullet III [mortal bullet) [base]: the so-called fatal bullet. Note deformation. The only bullet claimed by the

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prosecution to have been fired from Sacco's pistol. Later the defense asserted that the identifying scratches on the bullet differ from those on the other three and claim that it was switched by the prosecution"; [photo labeled #5] "Bullet II [base]"; [photo labeled #6] "Bullet I [base]: bases of the four bullets taken from the murdered guard (Berardelli's) body. Scratches were made by Medical Inspector MaGrath for identification."

Four shells found at scene of crime, undated [1920?] Box 2 Folder 36 Date: undated [1920?] Scope and Contents

8x10 inch black and white photographic print. These are possibly part of the photographic set of the original Sacco-Vanzetti ballistic evidence which Francis Russell arranged to have made in the winter of 1961-62 [per his note in collections control file]. Printed by JET Photography, Boston. Caption reads: [photo labeled #1] "Four shells found at scene of crime. 'X' shell was claimed to have been fired from Sacco's pistol.

Prison cell block, [Charlestown State Prison?], undated Box 2 Folder 36 [1920s?] Date: undated [1920s?] Scope and Contents

8x10 black and white photographic print.

Dedham Courthouse at beginning of Sacco-Vanzetti trial, Box 2 Folder 36 [i]Boston Globe[/i], [1920s?] Date: [1920s?] Scope and Contents

7x9 inch black and white photographic print. Printed on back, "Courtesy of [i]Boston Globe[/i]." Image of large crowd of men (some policemen) on stairs of courthouse.

"Sacco Flays Capitalists in Fiery Speech in Court," [i]Boston Box 2 Folder 36 Post[/i], cartoon, photographic copy, July 8, 1921 Date: July 8, 1921 Scope and Contents

6.5x11.25 inch black and white cartoon, printed on photographic paper. Depiction of Sacco speaking to the jury, judge, lawyers and other court attendees during Sacco-Vanzetti trial. Full title: "Sacco Flays Capitalists in Fiery Speech in Court: Holds Courtroom Spellbound

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by Address---Went to Mexico to Escape War Service, He States---Proud of Having Been a Slacker."

Sheriff, Vanzetti and Sacco, just before death sentence, Box 2 Folder 36 [i]Boston Globe[/i], April 1927 Date: April 1927 Scope and Contents

7x9 inch black and white photographic print. Printed on back, "Courtesy of[i] Boston Globe[/i]." Image is annotated in unidentified hand, labeling the sheriff, Vanzetti and Sacco. Other unidentified men stand behind the three major subjects in the photograph.

Trial evidence slip - Exhibit 18 Mortal Bullet "III", Box 2 Folder 36 photographic copy, June 9, 1927 Date: June 9, 1927 Scope and Contents

8x10 inch black and white photographic copy. These are possibly part of the photographic set of the original Sacco-Vanzetti ballistic evidence which Francis Russell arranged to have made in the winter of 1961-62 [per his note in collections control file]. Printed by JET Photography, Boston. Date is that of the original evidence slip, not the (unknown) date the photograph was taken.Text on slip reads: "Norfolk, ss. Superior Court. Nos. 5545 & 5546. Commonwealth vs. Sacco & Vanzetti. Exhibit 18. Mortal Bullet "III". From Clerk of Courts, Dedham, Mass." Photograph back annotated in unidentified hand: "Envelope containing moral bullet when sent from Dedham court to Lowell Committee."

"Judicial Murder in Massachusetts: An Incident in the Sacco- Box 2 Folder 36 Vanzetti Case!" [photograph of William G. Thompson, Herbert B. Ehrmann, Thomas F. O'Connor, with caption included in photograph], July 21, 1927 Date: July 21, 1927 Scope and Contents

8x10 inch black and white photographic print. Complete caption included in photograph: "Judicial Murder in Massachusetts: An Incident in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case! William G. Thompson, Chief Defense Counsel; Herbert B. Ehrmann, Assistant; and Thomas F. O'Connor, Journalist and Investigator, leaving State House, Boston, Mass., July 21, 1927." A larger version of this print can be found within this same collection, Series 4, Box

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2, Folder 36, Item 9 (but without caption included in photograph).

"Judicial Murder in Massachusetts: an incident in the Sacco- Box 2 Folder 36 Vanzetti Case!" [sepia-toned photograph of William G. Thompson, Herbert B. Ehrmann, and Thomas F. O'Connor, without caption included], July 21, 1927 Date: July 21, 1927 Scope and Contents

8x10 inch sepia-toned black and white photographic print, with no caption included in photograph. Caption card reads: ""Judicial Murder in Massachusetts: an incident in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case! William G. Thompson, Chief Defense Counsel; Herbert B. Ehrmann, Assistant; and Thomas F. O'Connor, Journalist and Investigator, leaving State House, Boston, Mass., July 21, 1927." A smaller version of this print can be found within this same collection, Series 4, Box 2, Folder 36, Item 8 (but with caption included in photograph).

Rosina Sacco, with Ines and Dante, leaving Charlestown State Box 2 Folder 36 Prison, August 1927 Date: August 1927 Scope and Contents

7x9 inch black and white photographic print. Annotated in unidentified hand: "Visitors to Sacco: Rosina Sacco, with Ines and Dante, leaves state prison. August 1927." Variation on same written on photograph back. This photograph is a larger version of a print found within this same collection, in Series 4, Box 2, Folder 35, Item 3.

Charlestown State Prison: state troopers on guard the night Box 2 Folder 36 of Sacco-Vanzetti execution, [i]Boston Globe[/i], August 23, 1927 Date: August 23, 1927 Scope and Contents

7x9 inch black and white photographic print. Printed on back, "Courtesy of [i]Boston Globe[/i]." Image is of numerous state troopers on horses at the gate of the Charlestown State Prison.

Photographs, 1931 and undated Box 2 Folder 37 Date: 1931 and undated

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Scope and Contents

Photographs relating to the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. Photographs are arranged by date taken, if known.

Kruse, Alexander L., "A Boston Sunset," painting, Box 2 Folder 37 photographic copy, 1931 Date: 1931 Scope and Contents

7.5x10 inch black and white photographic copy of painting. Image shows two men on crucifixes (below the signs Sacco and Vanzetti), with men in top hats hammering in the signs, and a man at the base of the crucifixes with his arms open. Photograph back annotated by "A.Z.K." [painter?]: "Now on view at The Society of Independent Artists, March 6th to 30th, 1931, at Grand Central Palace, N.Y. (Size 28"x48") Painting by Alexander Z. Kruse. Title - 'A Boston Sunset'. We met thru Carl Zingrosser (?) at Doug Haskell's. A.Z.K."

Unknown man, undated Box 2 Folder 37 Date: undated Scope and Contents

4.5x8 inch black and white photographic print. Photograph has been cut in half. Image is of an older man in a suit, sitting and smiling while smoking a pipe. Photograph back has cryptic annotations in an unidentified hand: "Dodi - Pat."

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