Ruth St. Denis: "First Lady of the Dance"
Flyer for a performance by Ruth St. Denis, the “First Lady of American Dance,” at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. St. Denis regularly performed her interpretations of Indian forms dance in the 1910s onwards to American audiences.
Freedom for India Now!
Pamphlet titled Freedom for Indian Now! published by the New York-based Post War World Council, featuring writings by Pearl S. Buck, Lin Yutang, Krishnalal Shridharani, Arthur Garfield Hays, A. Philip Randolph, Anup Singh, Roger Baldwin, and Norman Thomas. The pamphlet contains speeches, messages, and excerpts from a meeting of the Post War Council on August 6, 1942. The editor Mary W.
India's Right To Freedom
Booklet titled "India's Right to Freedom" published by the British Information Services in 1942. The text includes statements and excerpted speeches from Minister from the War Cabinet Stafford Cripps, Secretary of State for India Leopold S.
Can Indians Get Together? / India's Day of Reckoning
Booklet published and distributed by the New York-based India League of America with reprints of two essays by Jawaharlal Nehru: "Can Indians Get Together?" first printed in the July 19, 1942 edition of the New York Times, and "India's Day of Reckoning," first printed in the April 1942 issue of Fortune.
India Independence Day
Program for India Independence Day Dinner held in New York on January 26, 1945, and hosted by the India League of America. The guest of honor the dinner was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit; also in attendance was Sirdar J.J. Singh, Pearl Buck, Lin Yutang, Elsa Maxwell, Francis J. McConnell, and William Shirer.
The Story of the Oriental Peoples -- Japan, China, India
Booklet titled The Story of the Oriental Peoples -- Japan, China, India, written by Florence Natalie Heacock in collaboration with Walker Brown. The booklet was published by the Los Angeles City School District Division of Psychology and Educational Research in 1929. The booklet contains epigraphs from Confucius and Rudyard Kipling, a foreword by Assistant Superintendent Helen Watson Pierce.
India and the War
Booklet titled India and the War by S. Chandrasekhar, published in 1941 out of New York. An inscription in the opening page reads "with kind regards to Mr. Ram Bagai Tripati Chandrasekhar N.Y. City June 1941."
Memorandum on Proposed Legislation
Memorandum on Proposed Legislation to Authorize the Naturalization and Admission Into the United States Under a Quota of Eastern Hemisphere Indians of India, presented by Sirdar J.J. Singh, President of India League of America. The document contains an assortment of statements by vested interests (U.S.
Voice of India (May 1945)
The May 1945 issue of Voice of India (Vol. 1, No. 9), a monthly publication by the National Committee for India's Freedom, based in Washington D.C. The issue includes writing by Syud Hossain, Pearl Buck, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Haridas Muzumdar, Oswald Garrison Villard, John Haynes Holmes, Roger N. Baldwin, and Louis Bromfield. The cover features an image of Jawharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad.