US Labor Libraries List
Posted by the Holt Labor Library in the
conference in October 1993.
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Special Collections and Archives
Alexander Library
Rutgers University
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
201-932-7510
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Women
Contact: Ronald Becker
Monday-Friday 9-5
Holdings include labor history, the consumer movement, social welfare
policy and womens history. Serves as the official repository for the
International Union of Electrical Workers.
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Alternative Press Center
Alternative Press Center
1443 Gorsuch Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21218
301-243-2471
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Left
Contact: Peggy D'Adamo
Tuesday-Saturday 10AM-4PM
The Alternative Press Center contains publications covering a large left
spectrum since 1969. The Center also publishes the Alternative Press Index.
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International Longshoreman & Warehousemans Union & CIO Labor Collection
Anne Rand Memorial Library of ILWU
1188 Franklin Street 4th floor
San Francisco , CA 94109
Fax: 775-1302 E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Eugene Vrana
775-0533
9-1PM, 2-4:30PM Monday - Friday
Besides being a great resource on ILWU history,
the library contains a book collection of 3000 volumes centering on labor
history and industrial relations as well as vertical files including pamphlets
and newspaper clippings on labor economics, statistics, collective bargaining,
government policy and other labor related issues.
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Massachussetts Labor History
Archives & Manuscript Dept.
University of Massachussetts
University Library
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-2780
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Ken FonesWolf
Monday-Friday 8:30-5:00 or by appointment
Massachussetts labor history ecspecially concerning the textile industry.
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Chicano Studies Collection
Arizona State U. Hayden Library
Arizona State U. Hayden Library
Tempe , AZ 85287
602-965-2594602-965-4932
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Chicano
Labor
Contact: Christine Marin
Archivist
Monday-Friday 8AM-8PM
Saturday 9AM-4PM
Focus is mainly on Chicanos/Mexican Americans in the Southwest. Includes
Chicano
labor issues and immigration, politics, literature, bilingual education, and
women.
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Stoeckel Archives & Radical Pamphlets Collection
Ball State University
Alexander M Bracken Library
Muncie, IN 47306
317-285-5078
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Labor
African American
Jewish
Contact: David C. Tambo
Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
Wednesday 7:30PM-9:30PM
The Stoeckel Archives contains manuscripts, county records, photographs, and
interviews covering labor, African American history and Jewish history of the
east central Indiana area. The Radical Pamphlets Collection includes 850 titles
from 1900-1970. At the same location there is a Ku Klux Klan and a Nazi
collection.
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Social Protest Project & Peace Related Collections
Bancroft Library
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-6481
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Contact: Bonnie Hardwick
Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM
Saturday 1PM-5PM
Holdings center on Northern California history including the records of Amnesty
International, the Peace & Freedom Party, Student Mobilization Committee to End
the War in Vietnam, and general anti-war movement materials.
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History of Pacifism and Conscientious Objection
Bentley Historical Library
1150 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113
313-764-3482
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Contact: Francis X. Blouin
Director
Monday-Friday 8:30AM-5PM
Saturday 9AM-12:30PM
Holdings include materials on pacifism and conscientious objection ecspecially
centered on organizations and history of Michigan.
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Business and Labor History
Bridgeport Public Library
925 Broad St.
Bridgeport, CT 06604
203-576-7417
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Mary Witkowski
Monday & Wednesday 12-8PM
Tuesday & Thursday 10-6PM Friday & Sat. 9-5PM
This collection focuses on local Bridgeport labor history.
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Catherwood Library
Catherwood Library
Cornell University
144 Ives Hall
Ithica, NY 14851-0952
607-255-3183
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Martha Hodges
8-4pm Monday-Friday
The largest academic collection on labor and industrial relations in the USA.
Collection includes extensive holdings on labor history, labor law, and labor
economics.
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Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos
Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Civil Rights
Puerto Rican
Contact: Camille Rodriguez
The Centro has a library whose focus is Puerto Rican studies. The Center is
also
joined with Mexican American Studies centers at Stanford, UCLA. and the
University of Texas at Austin to create the Inter-University Program on Latino
Research.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Chicago Historical Society
Clark Street and North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
312-642-5035
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Archie Motley
Tuesday-Saturday 9:30-4:30PM
Holdings include transcript of Haymarket trial as well as other Chicago labor
history.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.Collection
Colonel Robert H. Morse Library
Beloit College
731 College Street
Beloit, WI 53511
608-365-3391 ext. 481
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Contact: Dennis Dickinson
Director
8:30 AM to 11:00 PM Monday-Thursday
8:30 AM to 8:00 PM Friday , 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
1:00 PM to 11:00 PM Sunday
Collection contains materials by and about Martin Luther King , Jr., Gandhi and
Thoreau as well as general pacifist nonviolence philosophy.
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West Virginia and Regional History Collection
Colson Hall
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26505
304-293-3536
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Ken Fones-Wolf
Monday-Saturday 9-5PM
Holdings cover West Virginia labor history and general Appalachian labor
history, ecspecially in the coal history.
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Connecticut Labor History
Connecticut Labor Archives
University of Connecticut
Box U-205
Storrs, CT 06269
203-486-2893
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Randall Jimerson
open Monday-Friday 1-4:30
Focuses on the preservation of records of Connecticut labor unions and labor
leaders.
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Fox Collection
Crosby Library
Gonzaga University
E 502 Boone Ave.
Spokane, WA 99258-0001
509-3284220x3137
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Marxist
Labor
Contact: Mary M Carr
Monday-Thursday 8AM-12AM Friday 8AM-9PM
Saturday 9AM-9PM Sunday 11AM-12AM
In between academic sessions Mon-Fri 9AM-5PM
The Fox Collection contains approximately 300 items concerning radical labor
history. Most of the collection came from Jay Fox editor of The Agitator/The
Syndicalist.
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Data Center
464 19th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
510-835-4692
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
General
Radical
Contact: Ruth
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Labor and Social History Records
Dept. of Archives & Manuscripts
Catholic University
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
202-635-5065
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Anthony Zito
9-5 Monday-Friday
Holdings include labor history particularly amongst the Catholic immigrant
population and the role of Catholics in the AFL-CIO purge of communists from
the
labor movement.
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Peace Related Collections
Dept of Archives & Manuscripts
Joseph P. Healey Library
University of Massachusetts @ Boston, Harbor Campus
Boston, MA 02125
617-929-7611617-929-7625
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Contact: Elizabeth Mock
Archivist
Monday-Friday 8:30AM-4:30PM
Boston area anti-war and peace related materials including the New England Free
Press pamphlet collection, and the Boston area anti-war and peace organization
resource file.
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Labor Library & Union Technical Assistance Center
Empire State College Labor Library
330 W 42nd St. 4th floor
New York, NY 10036-6901
212-279-7380
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Elaine Hargar
Monday-Thursday 12-9PM
Friday- 10-6PM Saturday 10-2PM
The Empire State Labor Library has an expansive collection on historical and
contemporary labor issues including occupational safety & health, labor law,
working women's studies, and working class culture. Inter-library loan and
database searches are also available ( possible fee .)
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Epicenter Anarchist Library
San Francisco, CA
431-4600
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Anarchist
Contact: Scott Clark
MONDAY - SATURDAY 12 - 6 PM
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George Meany Memorial Archives
George Meany Memorial Archives
10000 New Hampshire Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20903
301-434-6404
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Lynda DeLoach
Monday-Friday 9-4:30PM
The archives is the official archives of the AFL-CIO.
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Labadie Collection
Hatcher Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
313-764-9377
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Contact: AnneRobert OkeyStarring
Monday-Friday 10-5 PM
The Labadie Collection includes radical, antiwar, labor and anarchist posters
from 1910 to the present. There is also a collection of 1960's-1970's comic
books from the US counter culture movement.
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Herbert Hoover Pres. Library
West Branch, IA 52358
319-643-5301
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Dwight Miller
open 8:45-4:45 Monday-Friday
Holdings include Iowa labor history
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Labor Union History and Archives
Historical Manuscripts & Archives
McKeldin Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7011
301-454-2318
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Lauren Brown
Curator
Monday-Friday 8:30-5 PM
Saturday 10-5 PM by appointment
Holdings include those of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers of America and the Bakery, Confectionary & Tobacco Workers
International
Union.
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Radical & Labor History
Holt Labor Library
50 Fell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
241-1370
Fax: 415-431-1316 E-Mail:
holtlabor@igc
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Labor
Marxist
Contact: Hilary Diamond
Curator
Summer - 10-6 Monday-Friday
School Year - 10-9 Monday- Friday / Sat 11-5
Contemporary & Historical Labor Studies
Radical Political Theory & History
Labor Video Collection
Labornet/Peacenet Access
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Alternative Press Collection
Homer Babbidge Library
U. of Connecticut at Storrs
Homer Babbidge Library
U. of Connecticut at Storrs
U-5SC
Storrs, CT 06268
203-486-2524
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Marxist
Contact: Ellen E Embardo
Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM
between academic sessions Mon-Fri 1PM-5PM
The Alternative Press Collection, though not exclusively Marxist contains 2,700
books and pamphlets from the US Communist and Socialist movement from
1900-1933.
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Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6010
415-723-1687
Fax: 415723-1687 E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
General
Radical
Contact:
Open 8:15-4:45
Although a conservative institution, their materials document the history of
the
left. They have a substantial portion of the Socialist Workers Party archives
including rare materials on Trotsky.
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Immigration History Research Center
Immigration History Research Center
University of Minnesota
826 Berry Street
St. Paul, MN 55114
612-627-4208
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Radical
Contact: Joel Wurl
Open to qualified researchers 8:30-4:30 Monday - Friday
Contains labor history of 24 European and Near Eastern ethno-linguistic groups
in the US.
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Labor Archives
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
302 Stapleton Library
Indiana, PA 15705
412-357-3039
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Eileen Mountjoy Cooper
Monday-Friday 9-4:30PM
Holdings include the history of the coal and steel industries.
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Joseph A. Beirne Collection
Joseph A. Beirne Memorial Archives
Communications of Workers
1925 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
202-728-2568
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Bruce Montgomery
Monday-Friday 8-3PM
Holdings are primarily from the Communications Workers of America, the National
Federation of Telephone Workers and the International Typographical Union.
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Wilcox Collection
Kenneth Spencer Research Library
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
913-864-4274
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Contact: Sheryl K Williams
Curator
Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
Saturday 9AM-1PM
The Wilcox Collection contains political literature from the Left( as well as
from the Right) since 1960. This includes 4,000 serials, 5,000 books and
pamphlets and 50,000 pieces of ephemera representing 7,000 organizations of
the
Left and the Right.
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Labor Archives and Research Center
Labor Archives and Research Center
San Francisco State University
480 Winston Drive
San Francisco, CA 94132
415-564-4010
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Lynn Bonfield
Monday-Friday 1PM-5PM
& by appointment
Holdings cover labor history of Northern California mostly of the San Francisco
and Oakland areas.
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UIL Labor Archives
Labor Archives U. of Iowa
Special Collections Dept.
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-335-5921
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Robert McCown
open 9-5 Monday-Friday
Contains the Communications Workers of America-University of Iowa Oral History
Project, UMWA records, Progressive Party papers and materials concerning labor
in an agricultural state.
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Labour Movement Library and Archive
Labour Movement Library and Archive
Rejsbygade 1, DK 1759
Copenhagen, Denmark
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact:
Holdings cover labor and Communist Party history of Denmark.
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J.A. Wayland Collection
Leonard H. Axe Library
Pittsburg State U.
Pittsburg, KS 66762
316-2317000x4883
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Marxist
Contact: Gene DeGruson
Librarian
Monday-Friday 8AM-4:30PM
The Wayland Collection, named after founding editor of the Socialist publicaton
Appeal to Reason J.A.Wayland, contains different editons of Appeal to Reason
as
well as diaries and correspondence of Wayland and managing editor Fred Warren.
The collection also includes oral histories and photographs.
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Knights of Labor of Phillipsburg
Manuscript Collections
State Historical Society of Missouri
Room G-3 Library
University of Missouri at Rolla
Rolla, MO 65401-0249
314-341-4874
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Mark Stauter
Ass.Director
Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
This library is included in this listing for its holdings on the Knights of
Labor, these are the only labor materials that I am aware of in this
collection.
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Socialist Party of America Collection
Manuscript Dept.
William R. Perkins Library
Duke University
Durham, NC 27706
919-684-3372
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Marxist
Contact: Elvin Strowd
Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
Saturday 9AM-12:30PM
Holdings include the files of the Socialist Party from 1896-1976.
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American Federation of Labor Letterbooks
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540
202-707-5387
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
General
Labor
Contact: John Haynes
Monday-Friday 8:30-5
Holdings include American Federation of Labor Letterbooks and the American
Friends Service Committee Work Camp Diary.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
449 Auburn Avenue NE
Atlanta, GA 30312
404-524-1956
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Civil Rights
Contact:
Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM
This is the largest collection of primary source materials on Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. and the Civil Rights movement. Also holds the records for the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Congress of Racial Equality, and The
National Lawyers Guild.
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Catholic Social Action Collection
Memorial Library
Marquette University
1415 West Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53233
414-224-7256
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Contact: Charles B. Elston
Archivist
Monday-Friday 8AM-12PM , 1PM-5PM
& by appointment
Holdings center on anti-war and disarmament, conscientious objection, and
pacifism and include the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Collection, The Catholic
Association for International Peace Archives, and Justice and Peace Center
Archives.
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American Textile History Collection
Museum of American Textile History
800 Massachusetts Avenue
North Andover, MA 01845
508-686-0191
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Clare Sheridan
Open Tuesday-Friday 9-4
This collection of printed materials and actual artifacts promotes an
understanding of all aspects of the textile industy - including the role of the
labor movement in textile history.
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Nevada State Archives
3579 Highway 50 East
Carson City, NV 89710
702-687-5210
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Jeff Kintop
Monday-Friday 8-5 PM
Contains records of Nevada labor history including "Right to Work" documents.
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Violette Museum
Northeast Missouri State U.
Kirksville, MO 63501-0828
816-785-4526
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: George Hartje
Director
Monday-Friday by appointment
This is a collection of 20th Century posters many of them labor related.
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Ohio Historical Society
Ohio Historical Society Archive
1985 Velma Ave.
Columbus, OH 43211
614-297-2535
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Dan Ashyk
Tuesday-Saturday 9-5
Holdings center on labor union records, personal papers, and oral histories of
the Ohio labor movement.
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Ozark Labor Union Archives
Ozark Labor Union Archives
Southwest Missouri State U.
901 South National
Springfield, MO 65804
417-836-4933
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: J. David Lages
open by appointment
Holdings focus on labor history of the Ozark area.
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Urban Archives Center
Paley Library
Temple University
13th & Berks Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-787-8257
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Margaret Jerrido
Monday-Friday 9-5
This collection is focused on the lives of the average working class
population,
including records of labor, minority, social welfare, and housing
organizations.
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Historical Collections & Labor Archives
Pattee Library
Penn State University
W313 Pattee Library
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-2505
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Peter Gottlieb
Monday - Friday 8-5PM
Holdings include archival records, manuscripts, and oral histories documenting
the labor movement in Pennsylvania.
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Lou Block Collection
Photographic Archives
Ekstrom Library
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
502-588-6752
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: David Horvath
Monday-Friday 8AM-4:30PM
This is a photographic library which I included soley for the coverage of the
Artists Strike of 1935, though there may be other labor related photos
available
as well.
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Prometheus Research Library
Box 185, Canal Street Station
New York, NY 10013
2129661866
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Marxist
Contact: James Robertson
Director
open by appointment , non lending
This is the archive of the Spatacist League but also is a working research
facility for Marxist Studies in general. Holdings include major documents of
the
First through the Fourth Internationals, minutes of the early American
Communist
Party, and materials on the Workers Party and the Independent Socialist League.
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Radical Reading Room
Philadelphia Marxist School
4722 Baltimore Avenue
Philadelphia , PA 19143
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Marxist
Contact: Karen Buchholz
The library contains periodicals, books and video tapes of radical content.
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Debs Collection
Rare Books & Special Collections
Cunningham Memorial Library
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
812-237-2610
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Communist
Labor
Contact: David Vancil
Monday-Friday 8-4:30
Contains the collection of Eugene V. Debs, labor activist and Socialist Party
presidential candidate.
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Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives New York University
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
212-598-3708
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact:
Open Monday-Friday 10-5:45
The Wagner Archives is the labor holdings of the Tamiment Library. It is
jointly
sponsored by the New York City Labor Council.
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Rockefeller Archive Center
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Ave. Pocantico Hills
North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598
914-831-4505
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Erwin Levold
Monday - Friday 9-5PM
The archive contains materials related to projects of the Rockefeller
foundation, which included the Free Trade Union Committee, National Child Labor
Committee, Working Women's Protective Union, and the Watts Labor Community
Action Committee.
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Oral History Collection
Sangamon State U.
Oral History Office
Brookens 377
Springfield, IL 62708
217-786-6521
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Women
Contact: Cullom Davis
Monday-Friday 9AM-4PM
The oral history collection contains many interviews focused on coal mining and
union activities, as well as women's history, political activism and ethnic
groups.
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History of Women in America
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe College
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-8647
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Women
Labor
Contact: Eva Moseley
Curator
The Schlesinger Library focuses on the women's struggle. Topics include the
suffrage movement, the rights and conditions of working women, and
organizations
such as the women's trade union league.This collection is considered to be one
of the largest and most complete collections related to women and their history
available anywhere.
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Southern California Library
for Social Studies & Research
Southern California Library
for Social Studies & Research
6120 South Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90044
213-759-6063
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Marxism
People of Color
Contact: Sarah Cooper
Tuesday-Saturday 10-4
Contains materials on regional, national and international labor movement,
people of color, Marxism, communism, and immigration.
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Southern Labor Archives
Southern Labor Archives
Georgia State University
Library South
103 Decatur St.
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
404-651-2477
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Leslie Hough
open 9-5 Monday-Friday
Holdings focus on the lives of workers in the South as well as the role of the
labor movement in the history of the South.
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Rhode Island Textile Workers:Oral History
Special Collections
University of Rhode Island Library
Providence, RI
401-792-2594
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: David Maslyn
Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM
This collection consists of 60 oral histories from workers and management of
the
Rhode Island textile mills.
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State Historical Society of Iowa
Special Collections
402 Iowa Avenue
Iowa City, IA 52240
319-335-3916
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Mary Bennett
open 9-4:30 Tuesday-Saturday
Holdings include Iowa labor history.
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State Historical Society of Wisconsin Archives
State Historical Society of Wisconsin Archives
816 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-3266608-262-9561
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Peace
Contact: Harold Miller
Monday-Friday 8-5 Saturday 9-4
This was the first attempt to gather materials documenting the rise of working
class movements and labor unions. The collection has expanded to cover
anarchism, communism, cooperation, socialism and utopianism.
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Swarthmore Peace Collection
Swarthmore College Library
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081
215-447-7577
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Contact: Jean R. Soderlund
Curator
Monday-Friday 8:30AM-4:30PM
Saturday 9AM-12PM during school year
Closed in August
Perhaps the most extensive collection of materials on the American peace
movement. Records include those of the American Friends Service Committee,
CCCO,
Fellowship of Reconciliation, SANE, and A.J. Muste.
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Tamiment
Tamiment Institute Library
New York University
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
212-598-3708
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Marxist
Contact: Peter Filardo
Open Monday-Friday 10-5:45
Originally the Rand School for Social Science this collection maintains a
repository of rare socialist and trade union documents, books, and periodicals.
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Texas Archives of Autonomist Marxism
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-1173
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Radical
Marxist
Contact: Harry Cleaver
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Texas Labor Archives
Texas Labor Archives
University of Texas Arlington
Box 19497
Arlington, TX 76019
817-273-3393
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Jane Boley
Open 8-5 Monday-Friday 10-2 Saturdays
Holdings include the official archives for the Texas AFL-CIO.
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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Archives
UE / Labor Archives
363 Hillman Library
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7099
Fax: E-Mail:
Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: David Rosenberg
Monday-Saturday 8:30-5
Official archive for UE, as well as containing other collections relevant to
Western Pennsylvania labor history.
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Special Collections and Archives: Labor
University at Albany Library
State University of New York
Albany, NY 12222
518-442-3544
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Don Skemer
Monday-Friday 10-3PM
Holdings include labor union records and history from the Albany area of New
York. Special areas include printing trades and textiles.
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Western Historical Manuscript Peace Collections
University of Missouri
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121
314-553-5143
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Labor
African American
Contact: AnneKenn KenneyThomas
Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
Tuesday until 9PM
Regional holdings on peace organizations, labor leaders, and African American
community leaders.
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Indiana Labor History Collection
University of Southern Indiana
University Archives
8600 University Blvd.
Evansville, IN 47712
812-464-1896
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Gina Walker
Archivist
Monday-Friday 9AM-4PM
The Indiana Labor History Collection includes oral interviews, books,
pamphlets,and ephemera covering the Indiana labor movement from 1920-1960's.
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Peace Related Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Manuscripts Collection, FM-25
Seattle, WA 98195
206-543-1879
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Contact: Karyl Winn
Monday-Friday 8AM-12PM , 1PM-5PM
Materials cover 20th Century peace efforts in the Puget sound area.
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Urban Archives Center
Urban Archives Center
Oviatt Library
California State U. Northridge
Northridge, CA 91330
818-885-2487
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Robert Marshall
Monday-Friday 9-4:30PM
Wednesday 6-9PM additionally
Holdings cover Southern California labor history.
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Socialist Pamphlet Collection
Vernon R. Alden Library
Ohio University
Park Place
Athens, OH 45701
614-593-2710
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Marxist
Contact:
Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
Included for the Socialist Pamphlet collection.
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Black History Collection, SEIU Labor Archives, UAW Labor Archives and the
Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
Walter P. Reuther Library
Wayne State University
5401 Cass Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
313-577-4024
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
African American
Contact:
Monday-Friday 9-5PM
Wednesday 9-9PM
Collections include the Black History Collections, SEIU Labor Archives,UAW
Labor
Archives and the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs.
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Western Historical Collections
Western Historical Collections
University of Colorado
Box 184
Boulder, CO 80309-0184
303-492-7242
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact:
Monday-Friday 10-5 PM
Contains the archive for the Western Federation of Miners and International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers International Union.
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Musicians Union File
William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archives
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-865-5688
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Labor
Contact: Curtis D Jerde
Curator
Monday-Friday 8:30AM-5PM
Saturday 10AM-12PM
This is a library dedicated to music but included here for its holdings on the
New Orleans local of the American Federation of Musicians.
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Collection
Wilmington College Peace Resource Center
Pyle Center Box 1183
Wilmington, OH 45177
513-382-5338
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Peace
Contact: Helen Redding
Director
Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
Major collections center on the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan but also covers
the anti nuclear movement in general.
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Sophia Smith Collection
Women's History Archive
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
413-584-2700
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Area(s) of Specialty:
Women
Peace
Contact: Susan L. Boone
Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM
Materials document the intellectual and social history of women. Holdings
include the Women's Internatrional League for Peace & Freedom, the papers of
Jane Addams and Helen Caldicott.