The papers comprise correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs, and relate to philosophical and anarchist thought, union activities (Bakery and Confectionery Workers), his travels, publication and distribution of his papers, social comment and personal matters. There are several series of transcribed correspondence with added commentary, intended for publication; also of correspondence with and about Rudolf Grossman, who defaulted on a publishing agreement. There is a group of papers on general subjects written as night school assignments. A few letters are addressed to his wife. The materials are in English, German, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian.
Among the correspondents are Louis Adamic, John B. Barnhill, Norman Beard, natural pathologist Otto Brunner, Karl Dopf, Enrique Flores Magon, Wilhelm Fox, Charlotte Francke-Pellon, Emma Goldman, Rudolf Grossman, Max Metzkow, Max Nettlau, Carl Nold, Nicholas Petanovic, Charles L. Robinson, Rudolf Rocker, Stefan Zweig, and family members.
Stephanus Fabijanovic was born in Serbo-Croatia in 1868 and was a baker by trade. After finding living conditions intolerable there, he emigrated to America in 1897, via Zurich and London. Conditions in the baking industry were horrible, so he hoboed across the continent, seeking answers to questions on the "individual and the state, mass and man..." He visited Canada, Mexico, Australia, and the Far East, and kept diaries throughout. His writings were rich with descriptions of nature as well as his observations of human misery. Fabijanovic met Minnie at an Emma Goldman lecture in Seattle, and they remained companions until his death in 1933.
Collection comprised of correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs, and relate to philosophical and anarchist thought, union activities (Baker and Confectionery Workers), his travels, publication and distribution of his papers, social comment and personal matters. There are several series of transcribed correspondence with added commentary, intended for publication; also of correspondence with and about Rudolf Grossman who defaulted on a publishing agreement. There is a group of papers on general subjects written as night school assignments. A few letters are addressed to his wife.
This collection is divided into five series and six sub-series. The series are as follows with the sub-series numbered using Roman numerals:
1. Correspondence, 1912-1933 2. Correspondence, Alphabetical
i. Correspondence, Alphabetical, A-G ii. Correspondence, Alphabetical, H-Z iii. Correspondence, Alphabetical, Corporate names 3. Photographs 4. Writings
i. Copies of Letters ii. Short prose iii. Longer papers 5. Miscellaneous
