Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on Organizations
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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 Organizations consists of flyers, broadsides, leaflets, clippings, reports, pamphlets, catalogs, brochures, bibliographies, press releases, programs, and other printed ephemera, arranged alphabetically by organization.
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, trade unions and other organizations, 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 his newsletter Top Secret. Ongoing collecting by staff is another significant means for acquiring printed ephemera for the collection.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of flyers, broadsides, leaflets, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, posters, press releases, programs and other printed ephemera arranged alphabetically by organization.
Organizations represented are political, anti-war, legal, student and radical in nature. Examples, including the Black Panthers, Workers' Defense League, American Labor Party, Social Democratic Federation of America and New England Free Press, demonstrate the depth and variety of this collection.
As many of the organizations were organized for a specific purpose, some have very short date-spans and the folders will contain end date. For other organizations, dating is often times open-ended as material is continuously added to the collection, i.e., there will be a beginning date and no end date.
The files are organized alphabetically.
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Organizations
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People
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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. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives 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.
Some materials were donated by Madeline Tress in 1988, and by Sidney Gluck in 2004. There is no accession record associated with this material.
Various material was found in the repository in 2014 and was added to this collection. The accession numbers associated with this material are 2014.021, 2014.030, 2014.036, 2014.058, 2014.065, and 2014.078.
Accession numbers also associated with this collection are NPA.2000.260, NPA.2001.034, NPA.2001.070, and NPA.2001.093.
In 2021, an accretion of materials collected by Everett Allgood, Authorities Librarian and Principal Serials Cataloger at NYU Libraries, and Shannon O'Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, was added to this collection. The accession number with this accretion is 2021.019.
Custodial History
The provenance of the materials is varied. Items were obtained through purchases, donations, standing orders with publishers, arrangements with labor unions and other organizations, exchanges with other libraries, and through ongoing collecting by Tamiment staff.
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Processing Information
Decisions regarding arrangement, description, and physical interventions for this collection prior to 2021 are unknown. In 2021 an accretion of fliers was physically added to the collection in Box 121 and intellectually incorporated into the collection's existing alphabetic structure.
