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George Schumm miscellany

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 37-5-3769

Scope and content

Group photographs of members of the Class of 1881; cabinet card photograph of George Lincoln Burr (Schumm's roommater at Cornell); photograph album with campus scenes and family and personal photographs; diploma; and "Quarter Century Book Class of '81 Cornell University," 1911.

Dates

1878-1911.

Creator

Schumm, George, 1856-1941. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Editor, writer, publisher. Cornell University Class of 1881. George Schumm graduated from Cornell in 1881. Born in Galena, Illinois, the son of German immigrants, he learned the printing trade in San Francisco, where he also published a radical German-language weekly. After working his way through Cornell, he published a number of radical periodicals including The Radical Review (Chicago), Transatlantic (N.Y.), and Liberty (N.Y.). He also served as a proofreader for The New York Evening Post and The Nation. He also translated works by Leo Tolstoy and others. He was described as a "philosophical anarchist.".