ILGWU Myrtle Banks Photographs
Collection Number: 5780/212 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
ILGWU Myrtle Banks Photographs,
1956-1987
Collection Number:
5780/212 P
Creator:
Banks, Myrtle;
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)
Quantity:
1.6 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs .
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
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.
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.
Names:
Banks, Myrtle
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Subjects:
Clothing workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
ILGWU Myrtle Banks Photographs #5780/212 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1984 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1984 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 3 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1983 | |
Photographs; 13 of Retirement
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Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1966 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1983 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 7 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 8 | 1980 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1985 | |
March 1; Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1968 | |
Photographs Included. May
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Box 1 | Folder 11 | 1971 | |
May; Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 12 | 1981-1982 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 13 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 14 | 1956-1987 | |
Union August 29; Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1956 | |
December 24; Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 16 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 17 | 1973-1984 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 18 | 1980 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 19 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 20 | 1974 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 21 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 22 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 23 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 24 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 25 | 1979-1982 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 26 | ||
Guiton Buses
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Box 1 | Folder 27 | 1976 | |
January 21; Chinese Included
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Box 1 | Folder 28 | ||
June 16
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Box 1 | Folder 29 | 1962 | |
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 30 | ||
Photographs Included
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Box 1 | Folder 31 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 32 | 1956-1968 | |
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 | 1983 | |
June
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Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1984 | |
May
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Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1983 | |
Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1962-1976 | |
Honoring W. March. Atlantic City (6/1962)
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Box 2 | Folder 5 | ||
Pin Included; Myrtle Banks and Others
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Box 2 | Folder 6 | 1956/1987 | |
Myrtle Banks and others
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Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1956-1971 | |
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 |