UNITE Research Department Photographs
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Scope and Contents
This is a collection of over one hundred photographs showing members on strike in Eutaw, Alabama; Miami, Florida; and New Berry, South Carolina; plus other locations that are unlabeled.
Dates
- 1954-1977
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
UNITE, the Union of Needle Trades, Industrial, and Textile Employees was formed in 1995 after a merger between the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).
In 2004 they announced they would merge with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) which created UNITE HERE.
Jay Mazur served as president of UNITE from its beginning until his retirement in 2001. Bruce Raynor was elected president at that time and served until the HERE merger.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
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, April 12, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 30, 2015
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State)
- Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- New York (State)
- Collective bargaining -- Textile industry -- New York (State)
- Strikes and lockouts
- Textile Workers Union of America
- Textile workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State)
- Title
- UNITE Research Department Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- October 30, 2015
- 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