This blog post was written by Kate Donovan, Public Services and Instruction Librarian, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Commonly referred to as the Wagner Act, after its sponsor New York State Senator Robert F. Wagner, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) passed
This posting excerpts Robbins Barstow’s liner notes for The Abbakadabba Coopno. New York University received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) to preserve a 17-minute film by NYU alumnus Robbins Barstow. Barstow, an educator and amateur filmmaker whose 1956 Disneyland Dream was
Today’s entry is written by Margaret Fraser, Project Archivist for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance Records. The New York Taxi Workers’ Alliance (NYTWA) grew out of the Lease Driver Coalition, a segment of the Committee Against Asian American Violence (CAAAV), in 1998. In May
Today’s entry is written by David Olson, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. He is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program and at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science. On May
All throughout May, in honor of Labor History Month, we will be bringing you a variety of short articles, photo galleries, and linked content on our Facebook page, Twitter account, and here at the newly reinvigorated Back Table blog. Join us as we spotlight milestones
Today’s entry is written by Aleksandr Gelfand, an archives assistant at the New York University Archives and student in the Archives and Public History Program at NYU. In March of 1922, Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Chancellor of New York University, wrote a letter to Robert de
This post is contributed by Aleksandr Gelfand, a graduate student in the Archives and Public History Program at NYU. He currently works at the University Archives and is processing the Records of the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center. The Grey Art Gallery and Study
May Day seems an appropriate day to announce that the Robert Fitch Papers have been processed and are now available to researchers at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Fitch was a journalist, teacher and labor union organizer and one of the most consistently
This post is from Gwen Gethner, a graduate student in NYU’s World History program. This is Gwen’s second semester as a graduate assistant at Tamiment Library. The Tamiment Library recently acquired the papers of David Sullivan (19??:-2006), an activist involved in the American Maoist movement
As the culmination of a two year project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), I’m pleased to announce that the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection and the Daily Worker and Daily World Negatives Collection are now