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George Woolf scrapbook

 Item
Identifier: larc-srp-0021

Abstract

Scrapbook of news articles, leaflets and correspondence related to a 1946 labor organizing campaign of cannery workers in Ketchikan, Alaska by the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union.

Dates

  • 1940 - 1970
  • Majority of material found in 1946 - 1946

Biography of George Woolf

George Woolf was a union activist in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Food, Tobacco and Agricultural (FTA) who later led the fight against redevelopment plans in Yerba Buena during the late 1960s and early 1970s with the group Tenants and Owners on Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR).

Extent

1 folder (1 album ; 39 x 29 cm.)

Language of Materials

English

Location

Vault:13:04:G

Acquisition

Donated by Lee Sims

Author
Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in: English.

Repository Details

Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository

Contact:
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571