More than 1,500 color political posters and broadsides and over 1,500 U.S. labor movement photographs from NYU’s Tamiment Library are now available exclusively to the NYU community through the ARTstor website (under “Browse — Institutional Collections – “United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Photographs”
A few months ago I was watching Call Northside 777, a 1948 noir-ish quasi-documentary film starring Jimmy Stewart as a cynical journalist who ends up crusading for a the release of a man wrongly convicted of murder. Although the movie itself is entertaining (you can
The Council on Library and Information Resources, the organization which funds my project, recently convened a symposium in Washington, D.C. for its 2008 and 2009 grant recipients. It was an extremely exciting and invigorating conference, but one of the presentations that I found most engaging
Processing at the Tamiment Library’s Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives offers a significant contrast to what I’ve focused on for much of my academic career. I often feel like I can’t bring the same subject expertise to my work as some other employees might offer,
Meet the Daily Worker and the Daily World Photographs Collection, close to 300 linear feet of photographic prints and negatives depicting notable figures and events in progressive political movements and popular culture of the last century. This collection consists of the photograph morgue of the
I’m relatively new to the scene at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. I was hired just under a year ago as the processing archivist for the Communist Party, USA records, a collection that comprises over 400 linear feet of manuscript material,