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

Biographical / Historical

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

Preferred Citation

Rose Pesotta Photographs #5928 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Pesotta, Rose, 1896-1965.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 2 Folder 1
Akron-Flint-Detroit
Box 2 Folder 2
Atlantic City, Atlantic Voyage
1937-1950
Box 2 Folder 3a
Book Signing Parties
Box 2 Folder 4
Boston
Box 2 Folder 5
Brookwood
Box 2 Folder 6
Brookwood
Box 2 Folder 7
Brookwood
Box 2 Folder 8
Bryn Mawr
Box 2 Folder 9
Brookwood
Box 2 Folder 10
Chicago
Box 2 Folder 11
Dubinsky and family
Box 2 Folder 12
Fleshine (Mollie Steimer and husband Senya)
Box 2 Folder 13
General
Box 2 Folder 14
Israel
1950
Box 2 Folder 15
Los Angeles
Box 2 Folder 16
Los Angeles
Box 2 Folder 17
Mohegan
Box 2 Folder 18
Montreal and Canada
Box 2 Folder 19
Monney, Tom -- Warren K. Billings
Box 2 Folder 20
New York and Personal
Box 2 Folder 21
New York and Personal
Box 2 Folder 22
New York and Personal
Box 2 Folder 23
New York and Personal
Box 2 Folder 24
New York and Personal
Box 2 Folder 25
New York and Personal
Box 2 Folder 26
New York and Personal
Box 2 Folder 27
Ohio, Cleveland
Box 2 Folder 28
Peterson, Esther; family/Ed Allen family; Bill Kennseley?
Box 2 Folder 29
Joseph Turnbold Monument
Scope and Contents
7 photographs
Box 2 Folder 30
Misc. photos, negatives and letters
Scope and Contents
9 photographs
Box 2 Folder 31
Photos from a small photo album
Scope and Contents
15 photographs
Box 2 Folder 32
Misc. photos (some have labels)
Scope and Contents
26 photographs
Box 2 Folder 33
Misc. photos (some with labels)
Scope and Contents
28 photographs
Box 3 Folder 1
Polish photos
1946
Box 3 Folder 2
Polish photos
1946
Box 3 Folder 3
Polish photos
1946
Box 3 Folder 4
Puerto Rico
1934
Box 3 Folder 5
Puerto Rico
1934
Box 3 Folder 6
Puerto Rico
1934
Box 3 Folder 7
Rocker, Berkman, Havel, Tom, Bill, Shane?
Box 3 Folder 8
Seattle
Box 3 Folder 9
Stelton
Box 3 Folder 10
USSR
Box 3 Folder 11
USSR
Box 3 Folder 12
USSR
Box 3 Folder 13
Unity
Box 3 Folder 14
Unity
Box 3 Folder 15
negatives ; slides - some labeled
Scope and Contents
16 slides
Box 3 Folder 16
Negatives
Box 3 Folder 17
Movie Film - B&W - Cat Statue