Daniel Nilva Photograph Collection
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Dates
- 1936-1962
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
Daniel Nilva was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, in New York City on March 7, 1914.
Nilva attended Cooper Union in the 1930's, though he never graduated he met some lifelong friends, Bernard Seaman, a labor cartoonist, Morris Stone, later an official with the American Arbitration Association, and Dr. Valentine Gregory Burtan, a heart specialist who had been imprisoned on a conterfeiting charge.
In 1933 he started working as a photographer for the Education Department of Local 22, Dressmakers, of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. He also was a photographer for the ILGWU newspaper 'Justice'. He did some freelance work for the Bookkeepers Stenographers and Accountants Union's newspaper, 'The Ledger'.
His job with Local 22 only lasted 4 years. By the 1950's, after having trouble finding the right position, he was working as a freelance photographer in New York City, many of his clients were labor unions and progressive organizations.
Nilva's health took a turn in the 1960's when he suffered a heart attack, so he had to cut back on the amount of work he could do.
Daniel Nilva passed away September 15, 1984 as a result of another heart attack.
Extent
1.25 cubic feet
Quantity:
1.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Black-and-white negatives.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, January 24, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 10, 2016
- Title
- Nilva, Daniel Photograph Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- February 10, 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853