Shavelson, Clara Lemlich Photographs, 1957-1973
Collection Number: 6131 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Clara Lemlich Shavelson Photographs, 1957-1973
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6131 P
Creator:
Shavelson, Clara Lemlich
Quanitities:
0.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Clara Lemlich Shavelson (1886-1982) forced union leaders to acknowledge the importance
of female workers in the labor force, and she organized important demonstrations for
worker's rights and cost-of-living issues.
Shavelson worked for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union organizing
women in 1905, arguing that without women workers, any strike was doomed to failure.
She forced her way into speaking at the 1909 strike meeting at Cooper Union. Her fiery
speech set off the 'Uprising of the 20,000', the largest strike by women workers to
that time.
Shavelson was blacklisted from factory work for a time. But, returned in 1917 to
fight cost-of-living issues during the kosher meat boycott. And again in 1919 during
the rent strike movement when a housing shortage raised rents. By 1929 she was helping
found what became the Progressive Women's Council, which combat depredations of the
Great Depression by running a meat boycott that shut down 4,500 butcher shops in New
York.
Shavelson continued her activism intor her final years, organizing the orderlies
at her nursing home.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Clara Lemlich Shavelson Photographs #6131 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Shavelson, Clara Lemlich, 1886-1982
Margules, Rita
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
Clara Shavelson with younger woman and 3 children under cherry trees, ca. 1960
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Scope and Contents
"B174" on back
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| Box 1 |
Informal group photo of three elder women including Clara Shavelson and a young girl,
all in informal clothing
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1957 | |
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Scope and Contents
"New York, August 1957" on back
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| Box 1 |
Woman sitting outdoors with young girl on her lap - possibly Rita and her daughter
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Scope and Contents
Circa 1940s?
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| Box 1 |
Informal outdoor portrait of an elder woman, perhaps carrying a camera case or purse
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1959 | |
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Clara Shavelson and Rita Margules
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1973 | |
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Scope and Contents
"To Mom with Love, Rita, taken June 1973" on back
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| Box 1 |
Clara Shavelson and Rita Margules
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1973 | |
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Scope and Contents
"To Mom with Love, Rita, taken June 1973" on back
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| Box 1 |
Informal photo of an outdoor meal with men and woman gathered around a table
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Scope and Contents
Circa 1960s
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Two men and a woman pose next to a brick wall
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Scope and Contents
Circa 1940s?
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Portrait of a young girl
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Scope and Contents
"I give my card as a keepsake to Aunt Klara from Zoey" on back, in Russian
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| Box 1 |
Postcard studio portrait of a young man in uniform seated with another man standing
behind him
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| Box 1 |
Negatives
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