Historical Garment Workers Photographs from "Socialist Call", 0000-2999
Collection Number: 5783 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Historical Garment Workers Photographs from "Socialist Call", 0000-2999
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5783 P
Abstract:
This is a collection of miscellaneous photographs. Included are shop scenes, strike
scenes, labor leaders, and pictures of homework and living conditions.
Creator:
Socialist Call
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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 is a collection of miscellaneous photographs. Included are shop scenes, strike
scenes, labor leaders, and pictures of homework and living conditions.
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
Historical Garment Workers Photographs from "Socialist Call" #5783 P. Kheel Center
for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Socialist Call.
Subjects:
Clothing workers--Pictoral works.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Homework and living conditions
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Scope and Contents
15 photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Labor leaders
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Scope and Contents
Includes: A. Beckerman, Morris Hillquit, Meyer London, Scott Nearing, Elmer Rosebery,
Rose Schneiderman, Vladek, Waldman, and others. -- 27 photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Shop scenes
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Scope and Contents
20 photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Strike scenes
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Scope and Contents
24 photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous
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Scope and Contents
Includes: United Hebrew Trades, rallies, Panken's court, Joint Board of Sanitary Control.
--11 photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Negatives and contact sheets
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Box 2 |
Images digitized from the collection.
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