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David F. Selvin photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0019
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs gathered by Selvin in his role as editor of Northern Califonia Labor, a labor newspaper he founded in 1951. Other photographs were used in several books and articles Selvin authored related to labor history, in particular, his 1996 book, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco.
Many of the photographs in this collection are reprints from various...
Dates:
1861-1991; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
International Ladies Garment Workers' Union San Francisco Joint Board records, part 1
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0040
Abstract
Correspondence, minutes, wage information, union bulletins and financial records, including arbitration reports and investigations of suspected employer violations and union official fraud. Also included are a small sampling of lists of job titles and wage rates and a number of wage adjustment petitions of individual employees.
Dates:
1931-1947
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Sue Ko Lee oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-lee
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Sue Ko Lee conducted by Judy Yung. Sue Ko Lee was a participant in the 1938 National Dollar Stores garment worker strike. This strike was the first labor organizing in San Francisco's Chinatown, eventually breaking the colorline that had kept Chinese workers from jobs outside Chinatown. Lee later became the first Chinese American business agent in the garment worker union.
Dates:
1989 October 26
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Sue Ko Lee scrapbook on Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: larc-srp-0011
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook belonging to Sue Ko Lee, a button hole machine operator at the National Dollar Store garment factory in San Francisco's Chinatown, and member of the Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (CLGWU), Local 341. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, bulletins and photographs pertaining to the CLGWU, mostly concerning the strike at the National Dollar Store/Golden Gate Manufacturing in 1938. Contains a few images of Sue Ko Lee, and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
Dates:
1937-1938
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. 3
- Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. 2
- Golden Gate Manufacturing (San Francisco, Calif.) 2
- National Dollar Stores Strike, 1938 -- San Francisco (Calif.). 2
- Photographs. 2
- Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- California -- San Francisco. 2
- Women clothing workers -- California -- San Francisco. 2
- Chinese American women -- California -- San Francisco. 1
- Clippings. 1
- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -- Pictorial works 1
- Labor union members -- Portraits. 1
- Labor unions -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs. 1
- Labor unions -- Membership -- Photographs. 1
- Oral histories. 1
- Picketing -- Photographs. 1
- Scrapbooks. 1
- Service Employees International Union -- Pictorial works 1
- Strikes and Lockouts -- Hospitals -- Photographs. 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs. 1
- Women labor union members -- California -- San Francisco. 1
- Women labor union members--California--San Francisco--Interviews. 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Lee, Sue Ko 2
- Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 1
- International Longshore and Warehouse Union--Pictorial works 1
- Matyas, Jennie, 1895-1988 1
- Retail Clerks International Union. Local 1100 (San Francisco, Calif.)--Pictorial Works 1
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