ILGWU Photographs and ad boards, 1968-1977
Collection Number: 5780/125 G
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Photographs and ad boards, 1968-1977
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/125 G
Abstract:
This collection consists of fliers, posters, and broadsides produced and distributed
by the ILGWU. Some of these materials announce meetings, rallies, and other events;
others more generally relate to the garment industry.
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
3.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English, Yiddish
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was once one of the largest labor
unions in the United States founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing
about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States. It was one of the
first U.S. Unions to have a membership consisting of mostly females, and it played
a key role in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union is generally referred
to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG". The ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership size,
and political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized
labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU
worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective
bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing,
educational opportunities, and other efforts. The ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needle trades, Industrial
and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant
Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. The two
unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented only 250,000 workers between them, down
from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969.
This collection consists of fliers, posters, and broadsides produced and distributed
by the ILGWU. Some of these materials announce meetings, rallies, and other events;
others more generally relate to the garment industry.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU Photographs and ad boards #5780/125 G. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5780: ILGWU records 5780/125: ILGWU Newspapers
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry--New York (State) -- New York
Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York
Clothing trade--New York (State) -- New York
Industrial relations--New York (State) -- New York
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
I wish Ma could vote
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
The First Lady's First Choice
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
That's my union
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
They're labeling more and more labels
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
The Union Label is in fashion
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
"Union Label" (lyrics)
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
The walk to the registrar's office
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
We want our members
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
What do French women?
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Why is this Union singing?
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Shopping bag
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
TV
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
TV
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Spring Union Label
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Pamela wore a mini-skirt
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
100 years ago big girls played w/dolls
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
No more pencils
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Now isn't it a pity
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
1900-1970
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Murals
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Mother's Day
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Misc. Union Label
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Misc. Newsprint
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Misc. long sheets
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Mail-ins for books
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Label
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
ILGWU Quarterly Report
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
ILGWU Union Label Exhibit
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Imports
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
He knew how to listen (FDR)
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Box 1 | Folder 31 |
The Great American Look
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Fashion is more than a look
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Box 1 | Folder 33 |
FDR
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Box 1 | Folder 34 |
From Sweatshop to Stokowski
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Dear Mr. Editor
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
C. 1968
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1968 |
Box 1 | Folder 37 |
College Co-Ed
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Newspaper mock ups and diagrams
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Broadsides
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Photographs - cropped for advertising
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Scope and Contents
9 photographs, some matted, some mounted
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
News paper mock ups
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Broadside and News clippings
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Scope and Contents
1 broadside ; 2 Yiddish news clippings
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Photos
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Scope and Contents
16 photographs
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Broadsides
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
We're inviting you, NY
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Photo: Pauline Newman
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Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Invite - 1/9/1977
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1977 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Thanksgiving
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Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Tennis Cartoon
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Box 5 | Folder 6 |
She's holding her family together
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Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Once she's finished
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Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Mrs. Roosevelt 1930s
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Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Misc. Mother's Day
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Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Labor Press
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Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Misc. Imports
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Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Misc.
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Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Love is
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Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Local 142 WWII
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Box 5 | Folder 15 |
The Fashion
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Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Easter
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Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Do you know what can happen if?
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Box 5 | Folder 18 |
As she sews, America reaps
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Box 5 | Folder 19 |
After Hurricane Agnes
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Box 5 | Folder 20 |
Labor creates all wealth
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Box 5 | Folder 21 |
Her sewing keeps the country
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Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Eleanor Roosevelt had faith in people
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Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Empire Builders
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Box 5 | Folder 24 |
Child Labor
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Box 5 | Folder 25 |
d Cual De Estos Hermosos Bebes Es Mio?
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Box 5 | Folder 26 |
Art Young Cartoon
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Box 5 | Folder 27 |
Buy Apples 5 cents
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Box 5 | Folder 28 |
Baseball - The Great Un-American Game
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Box 5 | Folder 29 |
From Babyhood on
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Box 5 | Folder 30 |
If you don't come in Sunday
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Box 5 | Folder 31 |
If Union families don't look
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Box 5 | Folder 32 |
One small step for mankind
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Box 5 | Folder 33 |
Mr. Husband always believed
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Box 5 | Folder 34 |
Mr. Voter Vote No
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Box 5 | Folder 35 |
Misc. Xmas
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Box 5 | Folder 36 |
35 Years ago, Social Security replaced the tin cup
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Box 5 | Folder 37 |
Unicef
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Box 5 | Folder 38 |
There is only one child in the world
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Box 5 | Folder 39 |
These hands can speak
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Box 5 | Folder 40 |
What's this younger generation coming to?
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Box 5 | Folder 41 |
Women Arrested
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Box 5 | Folder 42 |
The Woman Who Cares
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Box 5 | Folder 43 |
Mother Jones
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Box 5 | Folder 44 |
Mary Had a Little Lamb
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Box 5 | Folder 45 |
Jobless Men Keep Going
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Box 5 | Folder 46 |
In the good old summertime
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Box 5 | Folder 47 |
The High cost of low wages
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Box 5 | Folder 48 |
The Greatest Creed
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