Pesotta, Rose Photographs, 1934-1950
Collection Number: 5928 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Rose Pesotta Photographs, 1934-1950
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5928 P
Creator:
Pesotta, Rose
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Born Rakhel Peisoty in Derazhnia, Ukraine in 1896 to grain merchants, Pesotta was
well educated and influenced by the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will), and eventually
adopted anarchist views.
Pesotta emigrated to New York City at the age of 17 (1913), and found employment
in a shirtwaist factory, she joined the ILGWU very soon after. The ILGWU was a union
that represented mostly Jewish and Latina female garment workers. She was elected
to the all male executive board of ILGWU Local 25 in 1920. Pesotta went to Brookwood
Labor College for two years in the 1920s.
In 1933 the union sent her to Los Angeles to organize the garment workers there.
The organizing of the Mexican immigrant garment workers lead to the Los Angeles Garment
workers Strike of 1933. As a result of this success, she was made vice-president of
the union in 1934.
In 1944, she resigned from the executive board of the union in protest of the fact
that, despite 85% of the union's memebership were women, she was the sole female executive
member.
Rose Pesotta died in 1965.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Rose Pesotta Photographs #5928 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Pesotta, Rose, 1896-1965.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Akron-Flint-Detroit
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Atlantic City, Atlantic Voyage
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1937-1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 3a |
Book Signing Parties
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Boston
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Brookwood
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Brookwood
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Brookwood
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Bryn Mawr
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Brookwood
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Chicago
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Dubinsky and family
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Fleshine (Mollie Steimer and husband Senya)
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
General
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Israel
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1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Los Angeles
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Los Angeles
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Mohegan
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Montreal and Canada
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Monney, Tom -- Warren K. Billings
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Box 2 | Folder 20 |
New York and Personal
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
New York and Personal
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Box 2 | Folder 22 |
New York and Personal
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
New York and Personal
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
New York and Personal
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
New York and Personal
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Box 2 | Folder 26 |
New York and Personal
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Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Ohio, Cleveland
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Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Peterson, Esther; family/Ed Allen family; Bill Kennseley?
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Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Joseph Turnbold Monument
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Scope and Contents
7 photographs
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Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Misc. photos, negatives and letters
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Scope and Contents
9 photographs
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Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Photos from a small photo album
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Scope and Contents
15 photographs
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Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Misc. photos (some have labels)
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Scope and Contents
26 photographs
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Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Misc. photos (some with labels)
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Scope and Contents
28 photographs
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Polish photos
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1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Polish photos
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1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Polish photos
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1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Puerto Rico
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1934 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Puerto Rico
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1934 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Puerto Rico
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1934 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Rocker, Berkman, Havel, Tom, Bill, Shane?
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Seattle
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Stelton
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
USSR
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
USSR
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
USSR
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Unity
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Unity
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Box 3 | Folder 15 |
negatives ; slides - some labeled
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Scope and Contents
16 slides
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Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Negatives
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Movie Film - B&W - Cat Statue
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