ILGWU Myrtle Banks Photographs, 1956-1987
Collection Number: 5780/212 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Myrtle Banks Photographs, 1956-1987
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/212 P
Abstract:
This collection includes photographs of Myrtle Banks' retirement party in 1984, events
at the City of Hope medical center, local union meetings, and ILGWU conventions.
Creator:
Banks, Myrtle
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
1.61 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English, Chinese
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.
Myrtle Banks was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas in 1919, and in 1946, began work
in California's garment industry, and became a member of in the Dressmakers' Union
Local 101 in San Francisco. In 1961, after fifteen years working as a garment worker
and, for a time, serving as shop steward at Koret of California in San Francisco,
Myrtle Banks became a business agent with the ILGWU. In 1984, Banks retired from her
position as business representative in the Pacific Northwest District Council. Throughout
her career, she served as Chair of the Alameda County Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph
Institute, Vice President of the Alameda County Civil Service Commission, and Trustee
of the San Francisco Joint Board.
This collection includes photographs of Myrtle Banks' retirement party in 1984, events
at the City of Hope medical center, local union meetings, and ILGWU conventions.
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 Myrtle Banks Photographs #5780/212 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5780/212 MB: ILGWU Myrtle Banks Memorabilia
Names:
Banks, Myrtle
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Subjects:
Clothing workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Contents of a Photo Album
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1984 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
"City of Hope" Photo Album
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1984 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Photo Album Contents
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Retirement Pictures [Office] & Union Party
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs; 13 of Retirement
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Miami Beach
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1966 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
"Loose" Photographs
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Union. New Orleans
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
A.P.R.I. Washington D.C.
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1980 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Union Meeting. Fashion Show
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1985 |
Scope and Contents
March 1; Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Union Meeting. Fashion Show
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1968 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included. May
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Union Convention. Herbert F. Humphrey
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1971 |
Scope and Contents
May; Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
"Loose" Photographs
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1981-1982 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Mary Clemente, Mattie May, Larry & Me
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
May 1956 Convention & Union
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1956-1987 |
Scope and Contents
Union August 29; Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Korset X-Mas Party
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1956 |
Scope and Contents
December 24; Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Union Hall
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Miscellaneous Union. M.M. Gauks
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1973-1984 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Myrtle & Union
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1980 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Local 101. Halloween Party
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
UFWOC & Grape Strike
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1974 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
City of Hope Fundraiser & Union Float
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Union Picnic
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
L.B.J. Union
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Union Convention
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
County Fair
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1979-1982 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Union Picnic
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Scope and Contents
Guiton Buses
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Konocte Conference Pictures
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1976 |
Scope and Contents
January 21; Chinese Included
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Sam Clemente. Union Photographs
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Scope and Contents
June 16
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Miscellaneous Union Photographs
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1962 |
Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Photography Album Contents
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Scope and Contents
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Group Photograph
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Rolled photographs [5]
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1956-1968 |
Scope and Contents
32nd Convention, Miami Beach 1965, ILGWU ; Atlantic City, N.J., May, 10-18, 1956,
ILGWU (brittle with a couple tears) ; 33rd Convention, International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, Atlantic City, N.J. May 23rd to 30th, 1968 ; 34th Convention, Internation
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Photo Album 1 [Folder 1 of 2]
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
June
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Photo Album 1 [Folder 2 of 2]
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1984 |
Scope and Contents
May
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Photo Album
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1983 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
A. Phillip Randolph. 31st ILG Convention. Almeda County Civil Service Commission
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1962-1976 |
Scope and Contents
Honoring W. March. Atlantic City (6/1962)
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Photo Album 2 [Folder 1 of 2]
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Scope and Contents
Pin Included; Myrtle Banks and Others
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Photo Album 2 [Folder 2 of 2]
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1956/1987 |
Scope and Contents
Myrtle Banks and others
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
5 Panoramic Photos - see list in 'notes'
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1956-1971 |
Scope and Contents
ILGWU - Atlantic City, NJ - May, 10-18, 1956 ; 34th Convention, ILGWU, AFL-CIO, Miami
Beach, Florida - May 6-15, 1971 ; 32nd Convention, ILGWU - Miami Beach 1965 ; Twenty-Ninth
Convention - ILGWU, AFL-CIO - Atlantic City, NJ - May 10-18, 1956 ; 33rd Conve
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Box 3 |
5 panoramic photos
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