Holt Labor Library Ephemera Collection

Collection

Identifier: HLL-2019-034

Staff Only

Content Description

The collection includes buttons, keychains, flags, and banners that were collected by the Holt Labor Library and relate to various labor strikes, commemorative events, political party and labor union election campaigns, women's rights causes, anti-war activism and demonstrations, and socialist political causes. Black-and-white and color photographs, negatives and contact sheets which chronicle protests, demonstrations, and the interior of the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California are present as well, as is one portrait bust of Carl Skoglund and a sign from the Holt Labor Library.

Dates

1948-2005, undated
Majority of material found within 1970-2000, undated

Creator

Holt Labor Library (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

The Holt Labor Library was a library in San Francisco from 1992 to 2019 that collected and made accessible primary and secondary source material related to labor history and the history of the radical left, with an emphasis on the activities of American Trotskyist political organizations. The Library also collected materials related to various anti-war movements, the women's movement, gay liberation, the African American Civil Rights Movement, among other social justice causes.

Extent

5 Linear Feet (5 boxes.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection comprises buttons, keychains, flags, banners, and black-and-white and color photographs, negatives and contact sheets related to various labor strikes, commemorative events, political party and labor union election campaigns, women's rights causes, anti-war activism and demonstrations, and socialist political causes.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged numerially in item number order.

Custodial History

The Holt Labor Library Ephemera Collection was compiled by the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California between 1992 and 2019, and was acquired by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 2019.