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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edith Anna Ellis scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 498
Abstract

Two scrapbooks of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera relating to Edith A. Ellis' activities in the Democratic State Committee, the Democratic Union, New York Federation of Women's Clubs, and other organizations. Included are letters from Nancy Cook, James A. Farley, Helen Keller, Herbert Lehman, Caroline O’Day, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and other members and affiliates of the Democratic Party.

Dates: 1924-1940.

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/009
Abstract Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's second term as president, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these materials include union organizing; strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor issues in the women's garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union relations; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by Schlesinger and others to form an alliance of garment workers' unions;...
Dates: 1914-1923.