Switchmen's Union of North America Photographs, 1917-1930
Collection Number: 5034 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Switchmen's Union of North America Photographs, 1917-1930
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5034 P
Abstract:
Miscellaneous Switchmen's Union of North America related photographs
Creator:
Switchmen's Union of North America (SUNA)
Quanitities:
0.89 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The Switchmen's Union of North America is among the older of the railway brotherhoods.
Beginning in 1877 with the formation of a local Switchmen's organization in Chicago,
the movement became national when the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association of North
America held its first meeting nine years later.
This association was destroyed, as a result of a disastrous lockout by the Chicago
Northwestern and the 1888 strike against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy which
had equally unfortunate results. Building on what was left of the S.M.A.A., several
lodges met in Kansas City in October of 1854 and formed the Switchmen's Union of North
America.
By the time of its merger into the United Transportation Union in 1969, the single
Chicago labor organization of 1877 had grown to international status with 275 lodges
in the United States and Canada having a combined membership of 12,000.
CHRONOLOGY
1877 Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association of North America organized
1886 Switchmen's Association organized
1889 Switchmen's Association affiliated with the Supreme Council of United Orders
of Railway Employees
1894 Switchmen's Association dissolved in July
Switchmen's Union of North America organized on October 13
1906 Switchmen's Union of North America affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor
1926 Switchmen's Union of North America becomes charter member of the Railway Labor
Executives Association
1935 Switchmen's Union of North America affiliated with the Canadian Labor Congress
1969 Switchmen's Union of North America joined with the B.R.T., B.L.F. and E., and
O.R.C.B. to form the United Transportation Union
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Switchmen's Union of North America Photographs #5034 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5034: Switchmen's Union of North America Records 5034 MB: Switchmen's Union of North America Memorabilia 5084: Switchmen's Union of North America Additional Records 5405 mf: Switchmen's Union of North America Constitutions on Microfilm 5406 mf: Switchmen's Union of North America Arbitration on Microfilm 5447: Switchmen's Union of North America Additional Unification Minutes and Convention
Proceedings 5556: Switchmen's Union of North America Additional Records 5556 AV: Switchmen's Union of North America Audio-Visual Materials 5590: Switchmen's Union of North America Lake Shore Lodge 55 Membership Registers 5613: Switchmen's Union of North America Oakland Lodge 158 Meeting Minutes 5630: W.B. Meyers Papers
Names:
Switchmen's Union of North America -- Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
The accident Site of J B. Doolen
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1917 |
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Scope and Contents
May 1, 1917.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Various views of site where a man was picked up on February 1, 1917
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1917 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Train Engines
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Scope and Contents
Includes: engines from Buffalo Creek RR, South Buffalo & NY RR, and Lackawanna RR.
(see also collection 5528 P for other Buffalo Creek RR photos)
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Train Stations
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Scope and Contents
Includes: Madden Ave Station in Camden, NJ with train Engineer W. Richards; Buffalo
Creek Station with tracks and overpass.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Cashen, T. C., Buffalo, NY
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| Box 2 |
Delegates to the Sixth Biennial Convention, Houston, Texas, 1913 SUNA
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Delegates to the Sixth Biennial Convention, Houston, Texas, 1913 SUNA
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Scope and Contents
Map folder
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Oversize photos: 6 photos sorted out of the 'misc. photos' box that was housed over
the mapcase
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| Box 5OP |
Fifth Triennial convention of the Switchmen's Union of North America and the Ladies
Auxiliary, Buffalo, NY, June 9, 1930 ; The Switchmen's Union of North America visiting
Niagara Falls, June 14, 1930 ; 14th National Convention Switchmen's Union of North
A
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| Box 5OP | Folder 1 |
panoramic photos - Fifth Triennial convention of the Switchmen's Union of North America
and the Ladies Auxiliary, Buffalo, NY, June 9, 1930 ; The Switchmen's Union of North
America visiting Niagara Falls, June 14, 1930 ; Convention - S.U. of N. A. - Buff
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1918-1930 |
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Scope and Contents
14th National Convention Switchmen's Union of North America, St. Louis, MO, May 1918
(not in box 10/2013) - this was originally listed as one of the photos in this box,
but was not present when I went thru the photos
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