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News  A Look at the Records of the Socialist Labor Party

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10/06/2026
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Detail from flyer for the Annual Labor Day Grand Joint Picnic at Amory Grove in Roxbury (1900)

Our Special Collections holdings include the records of the Socialist Labor Party, dating from1884 through 1903. While working with the collection recently, our Processing Archivist discovered an interesting connection between the SLP, Scandinavian immigrants, and music. Read more in our latest blog post.

A labor song book published by Labor Press in Lynn, circa 1901

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