Stanley Lathen papers
Content Description
Material documenting Stanley Lathen’s labor and political activities in Vallejo, California. This collection contains information on unions for retail clerks, plasterers, butchers, and builders in the Vallejo area as well as on labor’s relationship to local and state politics and commitment to community projects, such as the AFL Ball Park. Also included are brief letters to and from politicians Lathen supported, including Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Estes Kefauver, Edmund "Pat" Brown, and Alan Cranston.
Dates
- 1928-1995
Availability
Collection is open for research.
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives and Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Labor Archives and Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Biography
Stanley Lathen is a labor union and political activist living in Vallejo. Lathen (known as Stanley Sapp until the early 1950s when he changed his name) was the secretary-treasurer, the executive officer, for the Retail Clerks International Association, Local 373; President of the Plasterers' Union, Local 631; and one of the founding Directors of the A.F. of L. Ball Park Board (Athletic Friends of Labor). He was active in Democratic Party politics and with the Congress of California Seniors. An oral history conducted by Harvey Schwartz is at the Labor Archives.
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet ( (2 boxes))
Language of Materials
English
Acquisition
Donated by Stanley Lathen in June 1997.
Separated materials
Photographs in this collection have been transferred to the Stanley Lathen Photograph Collection, larc.pho.0018, and oversize photographic materials have been catalogued separately.
Relocated to the Stanley Lathen Photograph Collection, larc.pho.0018
- "A.F. of L. Ball Park" 194?, undated
- "California Federation of Labor" 1965, undated
- "Central Labor Council" 194?, 1959, undated
- "Democratic Party" 1956-1969, undated
- "LLPE Fundraisers" 194?, 1959
- "Plasterers' & Cement Masons' Union" 1936, 1940
- "Retail Clerks Union" 1953-1975, undated
- "Retirement Dinner, Everett Nelson" undated
Relocated to Photograph Collection 1
- "California State Federation of Labor" OVERSIZE 1956-1967
- "Retail Clerks Union" OVERSIZE 1959, 1964
Processing Information
Processed by Kim Klausner in July, 1997.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Stanley Lathen Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by James Lake, updated by Marissa Friedman.
- Date
- 1999, revised 2020.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English, Old (ca.450-1100)
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu