Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Photographs

Collection Number: 5929 P

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Photographs, 1945-1965
Collection Number:
5929 P
Creator:
National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees (NUHHCE);
Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Union
Quantity:
2.3 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Clippings, photocopies and audio visual material.
Language:
Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

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 post war 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.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Bread and Roses Cultural Project
National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees.
National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees. Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Union (New York, N.Y.)

Subjects:
Labor unions--Health facilities--United States

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
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Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Photographs #5929 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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6140: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project
6069: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Additional Files
6140 AV: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Audio Recordings
6169 AV: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Audio-Visual Materials
6169: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Files
6169 MB: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Memorabilia
6169 P: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Photographs
5929 AV: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Audio-Visual Materials
5929 MB: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Memorabilia
5929: Local 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project Records
CONTAINER LIST

Container
Description
Date
Box 18 Folder 1
2 photographs
Box 18 Folder 2
2 photographs
Box 18 Folder 3 1963
12 photographs
Box 18 Folder 4 1945
negatives
Box 18 Folder 5 1945
negatives
Box 18 Folder 6
13 photographs, negatives
Box 18 Folder 7
2 photographs
Box 18 Folder 8
15 photographs
Box 18 Folder 9
21 photographs
Box 18 Folder 10
5 photographs
Box 18 Folder 11
22 photographs
Box 18 Folder 12
6 photographs
Box 18 Folder 13
8 photographs
Box 18 Folder 14
6 photographs
Box 18 Folder 15
18 photographs
Box 18 Folder 16
14 photographs
Box 18 Folder 17
2 photographs
Box 18 Folder 18
8 photographs
Box 18 Folder 19
Box 18 Folder 20
1 photograph
Box 18 Folder 21
2 photographs
Box 18 Folder 22
3 photographs
Box 18 Folder 23
4 photographs
Box 18 Folder 24 1963
Box 19 Folder 1 1964
18 photographs
Box 19 Folder 2 1961
16 photographs
Box 19 Folder 3 1963
4 photographs
Box 19 Folder 4
1 photograph
Box 19 Folder 5
15 photographs
Box 19 Folder 6
4 photographs
Box 19 Folder 7
news clippings
Box 19 Folder 8
Box 19 Folder 9
3 photographs
Box 19 Folder 10
7 photographs
Box 19 Folder 11
4 photographs
Box 19 Folder 12
1 photograph
Box 19 Folder 13 1961
3 photographs
Box 19 Folder 14 1959
3 photographs
Box 19 Folder 15 1959
4 photographs
Box 19 Folder 16 1959
3 photographs
Box 19 Folder 17 1959
1 photograph
Box 19 Folder 18 1959
2 photographs
Box 19 Folder 19 1959
2 photographs
Box 19 Folder 20 1959
6 photographs
Box 19 Folder 21 1960
3 photographs
Box 19 Folder 22 1960
6 photographs
Box 19 Folder 23 1960
9 photographs
Box 19 Folder 24 1960
4 photographs
Box 19 Folder 25 1960
1 photograph
Box 19 Folder 26 1960
6 photographs
Box 19 Folder 27 1960
13 photographs
Box 19 Folder 28 1960
4 photographs
Box 19 Folder 29 1960
1 photograph
Box 19 Folder 30 1960
3 photographs
Box 19 Folder 31 1960
1 photograph
Box 19 Folder 32 1961
5 photographs
Box 19 Folder 33 1963
11 photographs
Box 19 Folder 34 1963
21 photographs
Box 19 Folder 35 1963
10 photographs
Box 19 Folder 36 1963
2 photographs
Box 19 Folder 37 1963
26 photographs
Box 19 Folder 38 1963
4 photographs
Box 19 Folder 39 1964
19 photographs
Box 19 Folder 40 1965
1 photograph
Box 19 Folder 41
14 photographs
Box 19 Folder 42
3 photographs
Box 19 Folder 43 1964
26 photographs
Box 19 Folder 44 1964
19 photographs
Box 19 Folder 45
Box 19 Folder 46
3 photographs
Box 20 Folder 1
25 photographs
Box 20 Folder 2 1959
26 photographs
Box 20 Folder 3 1959
11 photographs
Box 20 Folder 4
1 photograph
Box 20 Folder 5
2 photographs
Box 20 Folder 6
4 photographs
Box 20 Folder 7
1 photograph
Box 20 Folder 8
26 photographs
Box 20 Folder 9
8 photographs
Box 20 Folder 10
1 photograph
Box 20 Folder 11
1 photograph
Box 20 Folder 12
3 photographs ; folder heading only mentions the negatives , but 3 photographs were found mixed in
Box 20 Folder 13
3 photographs
Box 20 Folder 14
17 photographs
Box 20 Folder 15
14 photographs
Box 20 Folder 16
5 photographs
Box 20 Folder 17
26 photographs
Box 20 Folder 18
26 photographs
Box 20 Folder 19
22 photographs
Box 20 Folder 20
23 photographs
Box 20 Folder 21
5 photographs
Box 20 Folder 22
24 photographs
Box 21 Folder 1
2 photographs ; news clippings with photographs
Box 21 Folder 2
Box 21 Folder 3
4 photographs
Box 21 Folder 4
12 photographs
Box 21 Folder 5
2 photographs
Box 21 Folder 6
1 photograph
Box 21 Folder 7
2 photographs
Box 21 Folder 8
Box 21 Folder 9
4 photographs
Box 21 Folder 10
Box 21 Folder 11
5 photographs
Box 21 Folder 12
3 photographs
Box 21 Folder 13
11 photographs
Box 21 Folder 14
10 photographs
Box 21 Folder 15
5 photographs
Box 21 Folder 16
23 photographs
Box 21 Folder 17
Box 21 Folder 18
24 Photographs
Box 21 Folder 19
4 photographs
Box 21 Folder 20
2 photographs
Box 21 Folder 21
1 photograph
Box 21 Folder 22
1 photograph
Box 21 Folder 23
8 photographs
Box 21 Folder 24
13 photographs
Box 21 Folder 25
13 photographs
Box 21 Folder 26
26 photographs
Box 21 Folder 27
12 photographs
Box 22 Folder 1
17 photographs
Box 22 Folder 2
Box 22 Folder 3
16 photographs -- (bent and curled)
Box 22 Folder 4
18 photographs -- (bent and curled)
Box 22 Folder 5
18 photographs
Box 22 Folder 6
17 photographs
Box 22 Folder 7
12 photographs
Box 22 Folder 8
1 photograph
Box 23