Local 1199 Moe Foner Photographs, 1955
Collection Number: 6140 P

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Local 1199 Moe Foner Photographs, 1955
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6140 P
Creator:
National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees (NUHHCE)
Local 1199 Drug amd Hospital Union
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

As a local of the Drug, Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union, Local 1199 was founded by Leon J. Davis in 1932, to organize pharmacists in New York City. Nonprofessional hospital employees were organized starting in 1958.
Because of the large number of Black and Puerto Rican workers it sparked the first postware Civil Rights Movement. May 8, 1959 marks the start of approximately 3500 hospital workers striking against seven large private hospitals in New York City, the strike lasted forty-six days.
Professional and technical workes were added to the union in 1963, the same year they won the right to collective bargaining under provisions of the state's labor relations act. The union was granted the right to represent workers across the state in 1965. Registered nurses became part of the union in 1973.
In 1998 the union became part of SEIU and membership went up significantly.

This collection includes photographs of Moe Foner, Leon Davis, Ossie and Ruby Dee Davis, others such as Coretta Scott King, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Photographs from strikes, union meetings, rallies, and miscellaneous.
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Conditions Governing Use

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

Preferred Citation

Local 1199 Moe Foner Photographs #6140 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

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SUBJECTS

Names:
Foner, Moe, 1915-
Bread and Roses Cultural Project -- Photographs
National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees -- Photographs
National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees. Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Union (New York, N.Y.) -- Photographs
Subjects:
Labor unions--Health facilities--New York (State)

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Angelou, Maya - 1955
1955
Scope and Contents
2 photographs
Box 1 Folder 2
Baltimore election
Scope and Contents
2 photographs
Box 1 Folder 3
Bread and Roses
Scope and Contents
13 photographs
Box 1 Folder 4
Celebrations
Scope and Contents
5 photographs
Box 1 Folder 5
Columbia University
Scope and Contents
3 photographs
Box 1 Folder 6
Davis, Leon
Scope and Contents
17 photographs
Box 1 Folder 7
Davis, Ossie and Ruby Dee
Scope and Contents
4 photographs
Box 1 Folder 8
Early 1199
Scope and Contents
11 photographs
Box 1 Folder 9
Foner, Moe
Scope and Contents
17 photographs
Box 1 Folder 10
Gallery 1199
Scope and Contents
19 photographs
Box 1 Folder 11
Godoff, Elliott-Tribute
Scope and Contents
2 photographs
Box 1 Folder 12
King, Coretta Scott
Scope and Contents
9 photographs
Box 1 Folder 13
King, Jr., Rev. Dr. Martin Luther -- Photographs
Scope and Contents
12 photographs
Box 1 Folder 14
Labor Arts + Humanities
Scope and Contents
2 photographs
Box 1 Folder 15
Levison, Stanley
Scope and Contents
4 photographs
Box 1 Folder 16
Like a beautiful child
Scope and Contents
3 photographs
Box 1 Folder 17
Local 65
Scope and Contents
9 photographs
Box 1 Folder 18
NAACP
Scope and Contents
8 photographs
Box 1 Folder 19
Personalities
Scope and Contents
20 photographs
Box 2 Folder 1
Rallies
Scope and Contents
15 photographs
Box 2 Folder 2
Saturday Night Club
Scope and Contents
6 photographs
Box 2 Folder 3
Stern, Andrew
Scope and Contents
1 photograph
Box 2 Folder 4
Strike - 1959
Scope and Contents
9 photographs
Box 2 Folder 5
Strike - 1969, Charleston
Scope and Contents
25 photographs
Box 2 Folder 6
Strikes, no dates
Scope and Contents
10 photographs
Box 2 Folder 7
"Take Care" photographs, no date
Scope and Contents
4 photographs
Box 2 Folder 8
"Take Care", 1980 - Photos
Scope and Contents
10 photographs
Box 2 Folder 9
"Take Care, Take Care" 1982, Photographs
Scope and Contents
7 photographs
Box 2 Folder 10
Theatre - 1199
Scope and Contents
4 photographs
Box 2 Folder 11
Union Meetings
Scope and Contents
9 photographs
Box 2 Folder 12
Workers on the job
Scope and Contents
22 photographs