Rose Pesotta Photographs
Collection Number: 5928 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Rose Pesotta Photographs,
Collection Number:
5928 P
Creator:
Pesotta, Rose
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
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.
Names:
Pesotta, Rose, 1896-1965.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
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:
Rose Pesotta Photographs #5928 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1937-1950 | |
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 | 1950 | |
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7 photographs
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9 photographs
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15 photographs
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| Box 2 | Folder 32 | ||
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26 photographs
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| Box 2 | Folder 33 | ||
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28 photographs
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 | 1946 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | 1946 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 | 1946 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | 1934 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 | 1934 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 | 1934 | |
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16 slides
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| Box 3 | Folder 17 | ||