Welcome

Digital Tamiment has moved to a new web address! This legacy site will remain active temporarily but does not contain the new collections uploaded on Digital Tamiment’s new site.

Welcome to Digital Tamiment’s legacy site!

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University form a unique, internationally-known center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left.  The primary focus of our collections is the complex relationship between trade unionism and progressive politics, and how this shifted over time.  Tamiment has one of the finest research collections in the country documenting the history of radical politics: socialism, communism, anarchism, the cultural left, the New Left and the struggle for civil rights and liberties.

This website is a digital repository for Tamiment’s growing collection of digitized materials, including oral histories, films, photos, posters, special projects, publications and Tamiment events.  Please use the tabs above or the images on the right to navigate through our vast collections.


Take Down Policy:

Digitized collections are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.

If you hold the rights to materials in our digitized collections that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu

Please include the following in your notice:

  1. Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
  2. Your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address;
  3. A statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  4. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury, and
  5. Your physical or electronic signature.

Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.


Header Image Credits:

Garment Workers, circa 1950’s-1960’s; Sam Reiss Photographs; PHOTOS 021.001; box 5; folder 407; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Construction, circa 1960’s; Sam Reiss Photographs; PHOTOS 021.001; box 5; folder 405; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University. 

Soldiers exercise with rifles, one soldier leading the ranks, undated; International Brigades Archive, Moscow: Selected Images; ALBA.PHOTOS.177; box 1; folder 8; item 177_182003 Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Milton Wolff speaking at Free Spain rally, undated; Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Photograph Collection; ALBA.PHOTO.015; box 3; folder 88; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.