Barbara Wertheimer Photographs., 1883-1974
Collection Number: 5736 P

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Barbara Wertheimer Photographs, 1883-1974
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5736 P
Abstract:
Original and reproduction photographs, photocopies, and photos of drawings include material from a variety of archives and museums, as well as unattributed material.
Creator:
Wertheimer, Barbara
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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Preferred Citation

Barbara Wertheimer Photographs. #5736 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: /4015: Wertheimer, Barbara. Office Files. 5729: Barbara Wertheimer Research Files 5736: Barbara Wertheimer Additional Files 6144: Barbara Wertheimer Additional Files 6144 AV: Wertheimer, Barbara, Collector. Audiocassettes, 1973-1982.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Bellanca, Dorothy Jacobs
1900-1949
Scope and Contents
Includes Bellanca on the grass holding a book; on a Baltimore roof with other women including Mariel Santora, 1914; under a parasol, early 1900's; at a local 365 ACWA gathering with many smiling women, ca. 1940's.
Box 1 Folder 2
Coalition of Labor Union Women, CLUW
1974
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies and photos of a conference in 1974, and young African American children.
Box 1 Folder 3
Hillman, Bessie Abramovitz
Scope and Contents
Includes her as a young woman, alone in an informal portrait and with other labor leaders.
Box 1 Folder 4
Home and Homework
1883-1902
Scope and Contents
Includes imitation flower makers at home; workers carrying bundles to or from home; a family working around a table; a drawing (?) of hand carding, spinning and weaving, ca 1880's; a woman plucking a goose while children watch; "a New England Kitchen" drawing; crowded home with garment workers from Harper's Weekly, July 28, 1883; photocopy of women sorting something at home, toddler looks on ca. 1900; photocopy of basket makers; woman and girl sewing while child looks on ca. 1900; woman and boy making chain in England, 1902; photocopy of "boiling licorice and dipping" tobacco?; "Home Finishers: a consumptive mother and her two children", 1901.
Box 1 Folder 5
Immigration
1900
Scope and Contents
Includes reproductions from a book with poetry ca. 1900. A ship crowded with passengers; six children on a tenement fire escape with drying laundry and two American flags, a mother and 3 children newly arrived in the US.
Box 1 Folder 6
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Scope and Contents
Includes Luigi Antonini at a podium; Dubinsky, Zimmerman and other; Dubinsky and Meany;
Box 1 Folder 7
Lace Making
1920
Scope and Contents
Includes "Porto [sic] Rican method of making lace"
Box 1 Folder 8
Merrimack Valley Textile Museum
Box 1 Folder 9
Native Americans
Box 1 Folder 10
Newman, Pauline
Box 1 Folder 11
Petersen, Esther
Box 1 Folder 12
Rose Schneiderman
Box 1 Folder 13
School scenes
Box 1 Folder 14
Shop scenes
1900-1939
Scope and Contents
early 1900s
Box 1 Folder 15
Shop scenes
1940-1960
Scope and Contents
mid 1900s
Box 1 Folder 16
Street scenes
Box 1 Folder 17
Strikes and pickets
1900-1939
Scope and Contents
early 1900s
Box 1 Folder 18
Strikes and pickets
1940-1960
Scope and Contents
mid 1900s
Box 1 Folder 19
Triangle fire, and mine tragedy
Box 1 Folder 20
TUWs Class
Box 1 Folder 21
TUW Conference
Box 1 Folder 22
Women, portraits and candid photographs
1922
Scope and Contents
including Bessie Hillman and [?Jane Addams?] ca. 1922, Chicago
Box 1 Folder 23
Women on railroad jobs
Box 1 Folder 24
Women who won their jobs in court
Box 1 Folder 25
Women�s Trade Union League
Box 1 Folder 26
Contact sheets and negatives
Box 1 Folder 27
Pioneer life, slavery, war