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The T-Bone Slim corpus consists of columns, song lyrics, poems and manuscripts by the Finnish-American writer T-Bone Slim (Matti V. Huhta, 1882-1942), published in newspapers and other leftist publications. Most of the material is included in the openly available version (T-Bone Slim Corpus, source), but part of the manuscripts and photographs will be made available under a restricted license (T-Bone Slim Corpus, Westmoreland materials).
T-Bone Slim published his texts in the labour movement’s newspapers of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World). Original texts in English were published in the following magazines:
In addition, individual texts and advertisements were published in the following publications:
Finnish translations or texts originally written in Finnish were published in the following journals:
The material comes from the following libraries and archives: Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Erie County Public Library; Genealogy Bank, Newspaper Archives; Janet Guinnane’s family photo collection; Library of Congress, Chronicling America; National Library of Finland; Lakehead University Archives; Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub; Newberry Library; State Library of New South Wales; University of Michigan, Labadie Collection; Walter Reuther Library, Wayne State University; Westmoreland family archives.
The collection is part of the Kone Foundation funded project ”T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left in North America” (2022-2023).
Project homepage: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/tboneslim
Further details about the content and the terms and conditions regarding the different corpus versions are available in the corresponding metadata records.
Last updated: 13.05.2024
This page has a persistent identifier: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2024011204