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American Leftist Organizations and Labor Unions Stamps and Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-026
Abstract The American Leftist Organization and Labor Unions Stamps and Ephemera Collection contains stamps, stickers, labels, cards, and other ephemera produced by socialist and communist organizations and labor unions in the United States, 1890-1940. The bulk of the materials in this collection are stamps from fundraising, boycott, and strike actions. Highlights include stamps and campaign cards from the International Workers of the World, "Save the Scottsboro Boys" fundraising stamps from the...
Dates: 1890-1940; undated

Keli Baars Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-020
Scope and Contents The Keli Baars Collection (1982-2000; undated) contains two boxes of notebooks, textbooks, manuals, homework, guides, reports, and other materials belonging to Keli Baars and relate to her training and career as an electrician. A majority of the collection consists of National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC) textbooks and course workbooks. For digitized material related to all tradeswomen archives collections please consult the ...
Dates: 1982-2000; undated

California Labor Federation AFL-CIO

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-025
Abstract

The collection contains convention booklets and leaflets, voter information fliers, training manuals, organization constitutions, and other materials that provide insight into the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.

Dates: circa 1927-2021; undated

Leo Gallagher Campaigns - Weatherwax Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2017-007
Abstract

The Leo Gallagher Campaigns - Weatherwax Collection contains press releases, pamphlets, legal filings, campaign literature, lists of expenditures and receipts, internal campaign committee literature, endorsements, correspondence, and other papers about the 1933 and 1934 judicial campigns of Leo Gallagher from the personal collection of his campaign manager, John Weatherwax. This collection is now part of the

Dates: 1933-1934, undated

Kate Crane Gartz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-004
Abstract

The Kate Crane Gartz Collection contains a wide array of personal papers including correspondence, poems, clippings, activism ephemera, drafts and information related to her published travel diary "Around the World with Kate Crane Gartz," and photographs. The materials were collected by her friend and colleague, John Weatherwax. This collection is now part of the

Dates: 1929-1954

Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) and Joe Hill Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2023-024
Scope and Contents The Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W) and Joe Hill Ephemera Collection (1923-1990; undated) contains 26 items related to I.W.W; and member Joe Hill, a labor activist and songwriter who was accused of murder and executed by firing squad in 1915. Included in this collection are I.W.W. publications such as an appendix to the general constitution and by-laws, and pamphlets such as: Historical Catechism of American Unionism"; "One Big Union of All the Workers"; and "The General Strike for...
Dates: 1923,1944, 1946, 1963, 1971, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1990, circa 1970s; undated

Records of the National Writers Union

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-051
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence; memorandums; reports; notes; meeting minutes; resolutions; newsletters; budget and financial information; and other documents from the National Writers Union (NWU).

Dates: 1972-2004; undated; Majority of material found within 1983-2000

Political Newspapers and Publications Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2009-006
Abstract

This collection consists of approximately thirty alternative and underground newspaper and journal titles whose primary focus is from an ethnic, leftist, socialist, or communist perspective. This collection also consists of other publications, leaflets, flyers, clippings, and articles relating to topics such as the anti-war movement, the Black movement, the labor movement, student movements, and other topics.

Dates: 1942-1995; undated; Majority of material found within 1969-1992

Random Lengths News Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-032
Abstract

This collection contains clippings, notes, correspondence, photographs, half-tones, press releases, flyers, invoices, meeting minutes, reports, published newspaper issues, and other material generated by Random Lengths News.

Dates: 1848, 1853, 1967, 1971, 1985-2024; undated ; Majority of material found within 1990-2004

Roy Pearson, Records of the IUMSWA and the War Manpower Commission

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2009-003
Abstract

Records of Roy Pearson, labor representative for the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, or IUMSWA, from the War Manpower Commission, and other miscellaneous organizations. Included in the collection are meeting agendas, meeting minutes, memorandums, correspondence, letters, press releases, employment statistics, pamphlets, postcards, reports, and handbooks.

Dates: 1938-1950; Majority of material found within 1943-1944

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National Federation for Constitutional Liberties 1
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United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry 1
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Weatherwax, Clara , 1905-1958 1
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