Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Photographs
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Abstract
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Photographs including image scans, ritual materials, photographs from award ceremonies and other miscellaneous photos
Dates
- 1930-1960
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
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen is a labor union originally founded in Marshall, Michigan in May 1863, and was called Brotherhood of the Footboard at the time. At the time it was the only trade organization for railroad workers. A year later they changed their name to Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. They took their present name starting in 2004.
In the nineteenth century the Brotherhood generally took a conciliatory approach in dealing with railroad management, preferring to negotiate reasonable demands than to go on strike. The brotherhood was seen as elitist by other railway unions, and sometimes came into conflict during strikes.
In 1969 the B of LF&E merged with three other railway labor organizations to form the United Transportation Union.
In 2004 the Brotherhood merged with the teamsters.
Extent
0.97 cubic feet
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, September 09, 2009
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 07, 2019
- Title
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 07, 2019
- 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