Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on Individuals

Call Number

PE.030

Date

1890-2009, inclusive

Creator

Tamiment Library

Sweezy, Martha (Role: Donor)

Baskin, Alex (Role: Donor)

Extent

33 Linear Feet (33 boxes)

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

The Tamiment Library, New York University, founded in 1906 as the library of the Rand School of Social Science, is a special collection documenting the history of United States radicalism, labor, and progressive social action. The Printed Ephemera Collection on Individuals consists of approximately 2,000 files containing flyers, broadsides, leaflets, clippings, reprints, reports, pamphlets, and other printed ephemera, arranged alphabetically.

Historical/Biographical Note

The Tamiment Library, New York University, a special collection documenting the history of United States radicalism, labor, and progressive social action, accumulated this artificial collection of printed ephemera gradually over the years through purchases, donations, standing orders with publishers, organizations, and bookstores, and through exchanges with other special library collections via the Collectors' Network, which was organized by Russell Benedict at the University of Nevada in the 1970s and promoted through Benedict's newsletter Top Secret. Ongoing collecting by staff is another significant means for acquiring printed ephemera for the collection.

The collection contains materials on individuals connected with the labor movement, trade unionism, radical politics, feminism, civil rights, and peace and other movements such as Angela Davis, Irving Howe, Vito Marcantonio, Paul Robeson, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and I.F. Stone.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of printed ephemera such as flyers, broadsides, leaflets, clippings, reprints, reports, pamphlets, and other materials relating to individuals connected with the labor movement, trade unionism, radical politics, feminism, civil rights, and peace and other movements. The printed ephemera files on individuals may contain anywhere from a single leaflet to several folders of material. Individuals represented in the collection include Angela Davis, Irving Howe, Vito Marcantonio, Paul Robeson, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and I.F. Stone.

Subjects

Genres

Reprints.; Fliers (printed matter); Broadsides (notices); Pamphlets.; Clippings (information artifacts); Leaflets (printed works); Printed ephemera.; Reports.

People

Sweezy, Martha (Role: Donor); Baskin, Alex (Role: Donor)

Topics

New Left -- United States.; Labor movement.; Communists.; Communism.; Student movements -- United States.; Anarchists -- United States.; Antinuclear movement -- United States.; Anti-war demonstrations.; Civil rights.; Radicalism -- United States.; Political campaigns -- New York (State) -- New York.; Trade unions |z United States.; Women's rights.; Peace movements -- United States.; Anarchism -- United States.; Gay liberation movement -- United States.; Feminists -- United States.; Feminism -- United States.; Socialism -- United States.; Demonstrations |z United States.; Socialists -- United States.

Donors

Baskin, Alex; Sweezy, Martha

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. The Tamiment Library is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date; Collection name; Collection number; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials in this collection have been compiled by the Tamiment Library.

Various materials were found in the repository and added to this collection. The accession numbers associated with this material are: 2014.030, 2014.044, 2014.052, 2014.056, 2014.075, 2018.032, and NPA.2001.075.

Alex Baskin donated Mikhail Bakunin lithographs in 1990. The accession number associated with this gift is 2018.035.

Martha Sweezy donated the papers of Paul Sweezy in 2004. There is no accession record associated with this gift.

Custodial History

The provenance of the materials is varied. Items were obtained through purchases, donations, standing orders with publishers, arrangements with organizations and bookstores, exchanges with other libraries, and through ongoing collecting by Tamiment staff.

Collection processed by

Rebecca Altermatt, Loraine Baratti, Carina Don, Donna L. Davey, Aliquae Geraci, Bridget Hartzler, Adrien Hilton, Rachel Yood, and Tamiment Library Staff

About this Guide

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Language: Description is in English.

Edition of this Guide

This version was derived from a Microsoft Access Document