Series: 1. Business Files, 1929-1964
Scope and Content Note: The bulk of the Business Files contain material from the period 1930-1960, related to Leon Kramer's work as a bookseller. This series contains booklists, correspondence, catalogues, and photographs of the Kramer family from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. The correspondence largely concerns orders and purchases made by librarians at various American Universities, including Dartmouth College, Duke University, the University of California--Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the University of Florida, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Texas. Other correspondence includes letters Kramer sent to the American writer Waldo Frank, and the American critic and novelist Edmund Wilson.

The collection also contains catalogues produced by used and antiquarian booksellers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Included also are a small amount of miscellaneous book trade ephemera dating from roughly 1920 to 1960.

American and European Booksellers, Catalogues, 1929, 1958, 1959, undated

Book Trade Ephemera, undated

Booklists and Catalogues, undated

Books Wanted Lists and Customer List, 1964, undated

Catalogues

Economic Catalogues, No. 1-7, undated

General Economics, No. 1-5, 1938-1940, undated

General Economics, No. 6-10, 12, undated

General Economics, No. 13-16, 18-20, undated

General Economics, No. 22a-26, 28, undated

Colby College, Correspondence, 1941-1942

Correspondence, 1942-1944

Correspondence, 1950-1964, undated

Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1932, 1936-1937, 1939

Dartmouth College, Correspondence, 1942

Duke University

Correspondence, 1937-1939

Correspondence, 1940

Correspondence, 1941

Correspondence, 1942

Correspondence, 1943

Kramer Family

Photographs, undated

Photographs, undated

Kramer, Jean, Correspondence, 1963-1964

Miscellaneous, Tamiment Institute Library Bulletin, Memorial to Leon Kramer, 1962

Russian Bookseller, Catalogues, undated

University of California-Berkeley, Correspondence, 1942

University of Chicago, Correspondence, 1937-1945

University of Florida, Correspondence, 1942

University of Kentucky, Correspondence, 1942

University of Texas, Correspondence, 1942

Workers Alliance, Correspondence, William P. Smith, 1939

Young Communist Movement, Catalogues and Booklists, No. 30-31, 33, 36, undated