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  • Collection: Early Life in Buffalo, NY (1916-1936)

Program for Hofstadter's commencement ceremony, Fosdick-Masten Park High School, June, 1933.

Yearbook photograph of Richard Hofstadter in the Fosdick-Masten Park High School Chronicle, 1933.

Portrait photograph taken in 1913 of a young H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken working at his typewriter in the Baltimore Sun office. He holds a corncob pipe in his hand. The Sun offices were then located in a building on…

A one-act play written by Richard Hofstadter while a high school student in Buffalo, NY.

Certificate announcing Richard Hofstadter's scholarship award for his university education.

Richard Hofstadter's senior thesis, written at the University of Buffalo, May, 1936.

Letter from Charles A. Beard, written May 8, 1944, congratulating Hofstadter for his article, "U.B. Phillips and the Plantation Legend," which appeared in the April 1944 issue of The Journal of Negro History.

National Student League membership application form, 1935. Richard Hofstadter headed the University of Buffalo chapter of the organization that year.

National Student League petition against Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs on college campuses, 1935. That year, Richard Hofstadter headed the NSL strike publicity committee at the University of Buffalo and helped to coordinate the…

Front page of a National Student League anti-war pamphlet, 1935.
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