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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Barbara Wertheimer Photographs. #5736 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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 |
Bellanca, Dorothy Jacobs
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1900-1949 |
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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.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Coalition of Labor Union Women, CLUW
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1974 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies and photos of a conference in 1974, and young African American
children.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Hillman, Bessie Abramovitz
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Scope and Contents
Includes her as a young woman, alone in an informal portrait and with other labor
leaders.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Home and Homework
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1883-1902 |
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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.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Immigration
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1900 |
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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.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
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Scope and Contents
Includes Luigi Antonini at a podium; Dubinsky, Zimmerman and other; Dubinsky and Meany;
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Lace Making
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1920 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes "Porto [sic] Rican method of making lace"
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Merrimack Valley Textile Museum
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Native Americans
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Newman, Pauline
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Petersen, Esther
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Rose Schneiderman
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
School scenes
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Shop scenes
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1900-1939 |
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Scope and Contents
early 1900s
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Shop scenes
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1940-1960 |
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Scope and Contents
mid 1900s
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Street scenes
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Strikes and pickets
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1900-1939 |
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Scope and Contents
early 1900s
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Strikes and pickets
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1940-1960 |
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Scope and Contents
mid 1900s
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Triangle fire, and mine tragedy
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
TUWs Class
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
TUW Conference
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Women, portraits and candid photographs
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1922 |
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Scope and Contents
including Bessie Hillman and [?Jane Addams?] ca. 1922, Chicago
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Women on railroad jobs
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Women who won their jobs in court
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Women�s Trade Union League
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Contact sheets and negatives
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Pioneer life, slavery, war
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