Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(NEW JERSEY.) Archive from the Free Acres single-tax community. Approximately 150 items (0.25 linear feet); various sizes and conditions. Manuscript hand-colored map, 15 x 22 inches, mounted on board along top edge, 1939 * Approximately 130 photographs and real photo postcards, various sizes and conditions * Free Acres anniversary pamphlets from 1930, 1935 and 1960 * Address book * and other personal papers. Vp, circa 1910-70
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Free Acres was a utopian community founded in Scotch Plains, NJ in 1910 according to the single-tax principles of Henry George. This archive was compiled by Free Acres resident Edith Wright Schulze (1892-1990) and her husband Max. Highlights include the charming Free Acres map by Eudoxia and Walter Brown (pictured) An address book listing the Hollywood and New York addresses of the most famous Free Acres resident, actor James Cagney A hand-colored 1922 holiday card by illustrator Will Crawford, another resident 8 copies of the community's 1930 anniversary group photograph and other snapshots from the community's early years.