The Sam Reiss Photographic Negatives Collection is comprised of 121,040 overwhelmingly black and white photographic negatives shot from 1946 to 1975. Photographic formats include 4" x 5", 120 and 35mm. There are also a few 8" x 10" and 5" x 7" negatives. Photographs that Reiss made from the late 1940s through the 1950s are usually in 4" x 5" format, while 1960s images include 120mm, and late 1960s and 1970s images are mostly in 35mm.

The collection is particularly rich in its documentation of the face of organized of labor: its institutionalized forms, its quotidian administrative activities, its community, and its celebration of steady achievements during this period to promote the quality of working-class life at home and in the workplace.

The collection is also notable both for its breadth of its coverage and the length of time it covers. Reiss photographed a wide cross-section of New York-based labor unions and labor union-affiliated organizations, including internationals and numerous locals and district councils of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; the Association of Federal, State, City, and Municipal Employees; Communication Workers of America; Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union; New York City Central Labor Council, Local 1199, Hospital Workers; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; International Brotherhood of Teamsters; International Union of Electrical Workers; International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Workers Union; Service Employees International Union; Transport Workers Union of America, and the United Furniture Workers. The files for a number of these unions are so extensive that they virtually constitute organizational collections within the larger collection. These heavily-represented unions include the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Transport Workers Union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers-Local 3, the United Federation of Teachers, and the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Workers Union. Furthermore, the fact that many of these organizations remained clients of Reiss more or less continuously during the entire thirty-plus year span of his career enabled him to document not only the histories of the specific unions for which he shot, but the vicissitudes of the broader labor movement during this period, especially in the New York City metropolitan area.

Most numerous in the collection are images of official labor union events covered by the labor press, such as contract signings, press conferences, award ceremonies, union elections, meetings; voter registration, health care services and initiatives such as blood drives, contract votes, installments and retirements of union officers, and annual and bi-annual conventions. This includes photographs of union leaders and staff, as well as many images of the day-to-day activities of union life such as demonstrations, passing out leaflets, and union-related field trips or travel and union-sponsored education classes and programs. The collection documents many improvements in housing and health care that were made for the working class during the most active and progressive years of the labor movement, including numerous photographs of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union's Penn South Cooperative Housing development, as well as Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker's extensive compound known as Electchester, complete with housing, a shopping center, and an athletic club. There are also images of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Unity House summer resort in the Pennsylvania Poconos Mountains, as well as a wealth of images of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Sidney Hillman Health Center.

The collection also includes photographs of many of the intimate milestone moments of a particular union's life: men and women collecting their first precious vacation paychecks (won for them through union contracts), awarding of pensions to widows, awarding gifts to retirees, Christmas parties, dances, testimonials, and achievement award banquets. Nevertheless, the bulk of the collection's images of individuals feature union officials rather than rank and file members. The collection features many group portraits of union officers including shop stewards, and executive and joint executive boards. There are also formal and informal portraits of national union leaders that include Jacob Potofsky, A. Philip Randolph, David Dubinsky, Harry Van Arsdale, Michael Quill, James Hoffa, Peter Brennan, Matthew Guinan, George Meany, Walter Reuther, Cesar Chavez, and Bessie Hillman, as well as images of local, national, and international politicians and personalities, including United Nations Secretary General U Thant, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson; Vice President Hubert Humphrey; Senators John F. Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward Kennedy, and George McGovern; Representative Bella Abzug; New York Governors Nelson Rockefeller and Averell Harriman; New York City Mayors Fiorello LaGuardia and Robert F. Wagner; Eleanor Roosevelt, and television news journalist Edward R. Murrow, as well as numerous ceremonial images featuring well-known public figures such as Mrs. George Meany sewing union labels on garments, and Eleanor Roosevelt and President John F. Kennedy attending the inaugural ceremony of the ILGWU's Penn South Cooperative Housing. Significant moments in labor history documented include images of George Meany and Walter Reuther jointly slamming down a gavel at the 1955 AFL-CIO convention, symbolizing their confirmation of the merger of the two labor federations. Other noteworthy events documented in the collection include New York City labor day parades, union members picketing Woolworth Department stores to protest discriminatory hiring practices, the New York City Transport Workers Union bus strike of 1953, the contentious New York City teacher's strike of 1968, the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, the labor movement's support for the United Farm Worker's grape and lettuce boycotts, and numerous political election campaign rallies. Also of interest are photographs documenting the activities of progressive, labor-related institutions such as New York City's Rand School of Social Science and the Harlem Labor Center.

Although it includes some shots of civil rights demonstrations, as well as some documenting bad working and living conditions, the bulk of the collection documents organizational, rather than social history. Similarly, although it includes some striking workplace images, most images of workers in the collection show them participating in meetings or activities organized by their labor unions or organizations, rather than on the job. And few, if any, of the collection's images are in the "social-documentary style" associated with the work of Lewis Hine and the photographers of the Workers Film and Photo League. Instead, Reiss' work is characterized by what one critic has described as his "clean, sharply focused press photographer's style." The sheer size and breadth of the collection does more than illuminate the history of the unions that engaged Reiss to photograph for them; at the same time it documents the work and life of the photographer himself, day in and day out.

The collection also includes a small representative sample of the images Reiss shot for non-union clients. Notable among these are posed shots from Manhanttan's Moskowitz and Lupowitz restaurant which feature celebrities of the 1940s and 1950s from the worlds of Broadway, Hollywood, music, and the arts, including Charlie Chaplin, John Garfield, Phil Silvers, George Burns, Groucho and Chico Marx, Adolph Green, Bert Parks, Jackie Cooper, Molly Picon, Maurice Schwarz, Elia Kazan, Billy Rose, Sam Goldwyn, Sam Levenson, Clifford Odets, Artie Shaw, Gertrude Berg, and Rube Goldberg. Also represented among these non-union clients are Sachs Department Store (these images are not of the store itself, but have to do with social, educational, and activities of Sachs' employees-probably provided by management), American Veterans Committee, the Warshauer Home (evidently a retirement home), Jewish Consumptive Relief Association (which includes the City of Hope and Deborah Hospital and Sanitarium in its purview), and the Boys Clubs.

Each series is comprised of "shoots." A shoot is a group of photographic images shot by the photographer of one event--usually, but not always, on the same day. Each shoot has a unique identifying number (selected individual images within shoots have also been assigned individual numbers). The container list for this finding aid includes a complete list of shoot-level descriptions for all the images in the Collection; in the container list, shoot numbers are listed in the column for "item." Shoot descriptions include Reiss's original captions, as well as clarifications, corrections, identifications, and additional visual details provided by the processing archivists. These additions are enclosed within square brackets, so that they may be distinguished from the original caption information. The total number of negatives in a given shoot is also indicated in brackets following each shoot description in the container list: [Total negs: #]

About one-fifth of the collection has been microfilmed (R-7850), and that portion must be viewed in this format; original negatives not microfilmed may also be viewed by researchers.

You can also click on the link within the shoot record itself in the container list below. Those shoots in which some (or occasionally all) negatives have been microfilmed are indicated in the Container List by: Microfilm. Researchers wishing to know if a complete shoot has been microfilmed can compare the number of images in a given shoot with the number of images from that shoot they find microfilmed.

The number of organizations and clients included in the Collection is so numerous that the following table of contents has been compiled, to provide a convenient overview (in contrast to the detailed, shoot-level descriptions in the Container List) of Collection contents:

COLLECTION TABLE OF CONTENTS

SERIES: UNIONS

Actors' Equity Association; date: 1968 - 1975; # of negs: 155
AFSCME; date: 1950s -1976; # of negs: 1762
AFSCME, District 5; date: 1950s; # of negs: 13
AFSCME, District 37; date: 1960 - 1975; # of negs: 993
AFSCME, District 50; date: 1959 - 1972; # of negs: 262
AFSCME, Local 1; date: 1970
AFSCME, Local 3; date: 1959; # of negs: 1
AFSCME, Local 82; date: 1970; # of negs: 3
AFSCME, Local 322; date: 1960; # of negs: 4
AFSCME, Local 371; date: 1958 - 1960; # of negs: 34
AFSCME, Local 372; date: 1960 - 1974; # of negs: 89
AFSCME, Local 375; date: 1957 - 1969; # of negs: 66
AFSCME, Local 410; date: 1957; # of negs: 4
AFSCME, Local 420; date: 1958 - 1960; # of negs: 56
AFSCME, Local 924; date: 1958 - 1965; # of negs: 29
AFSCME, Local 983; date: 1959; # of negs: 4
AFSCME, Local 1331; date: 1958 - 1960; # of negs: 7
AFSCME, Local 1407; date: 1959; # of negs: 2
AFSCME, Local 1412; date: 1967; # of negs: 53
AFSCME, Local 1502; date: 1958; # of negs: 2
AFSCME, Local 1505; date: 1959 - 1960; # of negs: 11
AFSCME, Local 1508; date: 1960; # of negs: 2
AFSCME, Local 1733; date: 1968; # of negs: 2
AFSCME, Local 14112; date: 1967; # of negs: 12
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; date: 1933 - 1977; # of negs: 19752
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 1; date: 1956 - 1957; # of negs: 5
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 4; date: 1950 - 1970s; # of negs: 118
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 10; date: 1958 - 1973; # of negs: 109
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 25; date: 1949 - 1970; # of negs: 95
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 54; date: 1951; # of negs: 166
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 55; date: 1954 - 1959; # of negs: 51
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 62; date: 1967; # of negs: 6
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 63; date: 1952 - 1962; # of negs: 18
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 88; date: 1965; # of negs: 5
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 126; date: 1951 - 1963; # of negs: 142
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 130; date: 1954; # of negs: 31
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 158; date: 1949 - 1969; # of negs: 57
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 162; date: 1954 - 1967; # of negs: 25
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 169; date: 1949 - 1975; # of negs: 352
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 173; date: undated; # of negs: 5
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 178; date: 1951 - 1954; # of negs: 62
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 237; date: 1950; # of negs: 12
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 239; date: 1950 - 1972; # of negs: 387
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 279; date: 1954 - 1972; # of negs: 49
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 324; date: 1949 - 1951; # of negs: 32
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 327; date: 1953; # of negs: 6
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 331; date: 1953 - 1968; # of negs: 21
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 332; date: 1951 - 1962; # of negs: 64
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 333; date: 1953 - 1963; # of negs: 27
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 340; date: 1950 - 1974; # of negs: 670
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 340A; date: 1962 - 1967; # of negs: 27
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 390; date: 1968; # of negs: 6
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 400; date: 1950 - 1958; # of negs: 20
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 1862; date: 1969; # of negs: 6
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America - Laundry Workers; date: 1948 - 1975; # of negs: 4652
Amalgamated Meatcutters and Retail Food Store Employees; date: 1951 - 1960; # of negs: 10
American Federation of Musicians; date: 1968 - 1975; # of negs: 108
American Federation of Musicians, Local 802; date: 1954 - 1975; # of negs: 3912
American Federation of Teachers; date: 1968 - 1972; # of negs: 93
American Federation of Teachers, Local 2092; date: 1971; # of negs: 26
American Federation of Teachers--Professional Staff Congress; date: 1972 - 1974; # of negs: 454
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists; date: 1961; # of negs: 4
Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers International Union, Local 50; date: 1956 - 1962; # of negs: 103
Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers International Union, Local 150; date: 1974; # of negs: 31
Building Service Employees International Union, Local 32E; date: 1949; # of negs: 8
Building Trades Union; date: 1963 - 1974; # of negs: 412
Chefs, Cooks, Pastry Cooks and Assistants Union, Local 89; date: 1953 - 1957; # of negs: 14
Communications Workers of America; date: 1958 - 1975; # of negs: 658
Communications Workers of America, Local 1109; date: 1973; # of negs: 8
Fur, Leather, and Machine Workers Union; date: 1970; # of negs: 65
Glaziers; date: 1960 - 1962; # of negs: 26
Glaziers, Local 1087; date: 1957; # of negs: 11
Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee; date: 1950 - 1957; # of negs: 262
Health and Human Service Employees Union; date: 1962; # of negs: 8
Health and Human Service Employees Union, Local 1199; date: 1958 - 1975 1987
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union; date: 1956 - 1961; # of negs: 40
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, Local 1; date: 1960; # of negs: 19
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, Local 6; date: 1960; # of negs: 7
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, Local 16; date: 1953; # of negs: 3
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Bartenders; date: 1964 - 1965; # of negs: 7
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Bartenders, Local 488; date: 1967; # of negs: 4
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Dining Room Employees, Local 1; date: 1952 - 1957; # of negs: 57
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Waiters; date: 1950 - 1973; # of negs: 845
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Waiters, Local 1; date: 1960; # of negs: 15
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Waiters, Local 16; date: 1953 - 1954; # of negs: 49
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Waiters, Local 89; date: undated; # of negs: 2
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Waiters, Local 144; date: 1963 - 1967; # of negs: 9
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Waiters, Local 219; date: 1950s -1954; # of negs: 4
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union - Waiters, Local 325; date: 1964; # of negs: 23
Insurance Workers International Union; date: 1968; # of negs: 100
International Association of Machinists; date: 1950s -1974; # of negs: 133
International Association of Machinists, District 15; date: 1950s; # of negs: 7
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; date: 1950s - 1975; # of negs: 2251
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 3; date: 1953- 1975 13824
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades; date: 1956 - 1973 1165
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, District 9; date: 1960 - 1970; # of negs: 25
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, Local 51; date: 1959; # of negs: 4
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, Local 261; date: 1959; # of negs: 4
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, Local 806; date: 1959; # of negs: 19
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, Local 886; date: 1957; # of negs: 8
International Brotherhood of Teamsters; date: 1972 - 1974; # of negs: 130
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 202; date: 1953; # of negs: 4
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 237; date: 1972; # of negs: 10
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 363; date: 1970; # of negs: 26
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 807; date: 1956 - 1962; # of negs: 55
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 810; date: 1955 - 1976; # of negs: 1042
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 815; date: 1968 - 1970; # of negs: 48
International Brotherhood of Teamsters - Milk Drivers' Union; date: 1957; # of negs: 5
International Brotherhood of Teamsters - Milk Drivers' Union, Local 584; date: 1956 - 1962; # of negs: 308
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; date: 1950 - 1975; # of negs: 363
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 10; date: 1971 - 1972; # of negs: 169
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 23; date: 1950s -1962; # of negs: 59
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 32; date: 1961; # of negs: 16
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 35; date: 1961 - 1965; # of negs: 16
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 62; date: 1953 - 1974; # of negs: 140
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 66; date: 1973 - 1975; # of negs: 25
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 89; date: 1962; # of negs: 6
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 98; date: 1965; # of negs: 11
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 99; date: 1961 - 1974; # of negs: 589
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 105; date: 1961 - 1974; # of negs: 59
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 117; date: 1962; # of negs: 21
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 132; date: 1957 - 1973; # of negs: 123
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Local 155; date: 1952 - 1975; # of negs: 117
International Longshoremen's Association; date: 1959; # of negs: 8
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers; date: 1955 -1974; # of negs: 871
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, District 3; date: 1962 - 1971; # of negs: 53
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, District 4; date: 1957 - 1960s; # of negs: 69
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 408; date: 1957; # of negs: 4
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 422; date: 1960; # of negs: 5
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 430; date: 1956; # of negs: 6
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 431; date: 1972; # of negs: 6
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 439; date: 1962; # of negs: 8
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 459; date: 1961 - 1973; # of negs: 14
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 463; date: 1957 - 1974; # of negs: 506
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 475; date: 1956; # of negs: 4
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Machine Workers, Local 485; date: 1958 - 1973; # of negs: 89
Ironworkers; date: 1969 - 1976; # of negs: 679
Ironworkers, Local 3; date: 1973; # of negs: 72
Ironworkers, Local 40; date: 1969 - 1974; # of negs: 869
Journeymen Tailors; date: 1952; # of negs: 2
Leather Goods, Plastics, and Novelty Workers; date: 1958 - 1973; # of negs: 145
Leather Goods, Plastics, and Novelty Workers, Local 111; date: 1956 - 1962; # of negs: 54
Leather Goods, Plastics, and Novelty Workers, Local 121; date: 1950s; # of negs: 1
Luggage Workers Union; date: 1961 - 1965; # of negs: 116
National Maritime Union; date: 1953 - 1962; # of negs: 271
Nursing Home and Service Employees Union, Local 1115; date: 1957 - 1975; # of negs: 190
Optical Workers; date: 1959; # of negs: 4
Pocketbook Workers Union; date: 1957 - 1958; # of negs: 66
Retail Clerks International Association; date: 1949 - 1961; # of negs: 24
Retail Clerks International Association, Local 888; date: 1960 - 1971; # of negs: 763
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union; date: 1940 - 1975; # of negs: 2029
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 1-S; date: 1955 - 1975; # of negs: 2521
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 2; date: 1948; # of negs: 2
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 3; date: 1955 - 1960; # of negs: 37
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 10; date: 1973; # of negs: 27
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 13; date: 1976; # of negs: 13
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 29; date: undated; # of negs: 5
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 65; date: 1967 - 1972; # of negs: 262
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 108; date: 1960; # of negs: 1
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 147; date: 1954 - 1974; # of negs: 150
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 260; date: 1953 - 1960; # of negs: 25
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 287; date: 1952 - 1961; # of negs: 70
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 301; date: 1960; # of negs: 1
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 305; date: 1955 - 1961; # of negs: 18
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 323; date: 1958 - 1959; # of negs: 6
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 338; date: 1948 - 1975; # of negs: 6076
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 371; date: 1954; # of negs: 8
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 377; date: 1952 - 1960; # of negs: 62
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 670; date: 1956 - 1970; # of negs: 40
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 721; date: 1956 - 1971; # of negs: 109
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 780; date: 1962 - 1973; # of negs: 53
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 906; date: 1953 - 1969; # of negs: 149
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 923; date: 1949 - 1961; # of negs: 105
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 1102; date: 1954; # of negs: 5
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 1125; date: 1950 - 1973; # of negs: 209
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 1199; date: 1954 - 1958; # of negs: 63
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 1268; date: 1953 - 1960; # of negs: 46
Seafarers' International Union
Seafarers' International Union; date: 1970; # of negs: 20
Service Employees International Union
Service Employees International Union; date: 1962 - 1972; # of negs: 57
Service Employees International Union, Local 6; date: 1962 - 1962; # of negs: 21
Service Employees International Union, Local 11; date: 1957; # of negs: 14
Service Employees International Union, Local 32B; date: undated-; # of negs: 38
Service Employees International Union, Local 144; date: 1960; # of negs: 11
Service Employees International Union, Local 377; date: 1948 - 1959; # of negs: 88
Street Workers Union
Street Workers Union, District 4; date: 1967; # of negs: 28
Teachers Union of the City of New York
Teachers Union of the City of New York; date: 1948; # of negs: 21
Textile Workers Union of America
Textile Workers Union of America; date: 1950 - 1975; # of negs: 1645
Textile Workers Union of America, Local 140; date: undated; # of negs: 1
Transport Workers Union of America
Transport Workers Union of America; date: 1951- 1976; # of negs: 15442
Transport Workers Union of America; date: 1969; # of negs: 12
Transport Workers Union of America, District 65; date: 1953; # of negs: 2
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 3; date: 1959 - 1961; # of negs: 8
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100; date: 1954 - 1974; # of negs: 380
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 101; date: 1949 - 1973; # of negs: 917
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 144; date: 1960s; # of negs: 51
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 234; date: 1973; # of negs: 1
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 240; date: 1971; # of negs: 6
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 241; date: 1974; # of negs: 15
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 250A; date: 1970s; # of negs: 5
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 252; date: 1953 - 1955; # of negs: 7
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 501; date: 1954 - 1956; # of negs: 13
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 501-527; date: 1962; # of negs: 5
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 504; date: 1957 - 1970; # of negs: 47
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 527; date: 1960; # of negs: 4
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 550; date: 1970 - 1973; # of negs: 57
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 551; date: 1974 - 1975; # of negs: 36
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 552; date: 1971 - 1975; # of negs: 88
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 827; date: 1961; # of negs: 4
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 1400; date: 1968 - 1973; # of negs: 49
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 1460; date: 1971; # of negs: 13
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 2001; date: 1955 - 1960; # of negs: 32
Transport Workers Union of America - Taxi Drivers
Transport Workers Union of America - Taxi Drivers; date: 1950 - 1965; # of negs: 50
Transport Workers Union of America - Taxi Drivers, Local 826; date: 1956 - 1960; # of negs: 85
United Automobile Workers of America
United Automobile Workers of America, District 65; date: 1950 - 1965; # of negs: 400
United Farm Workers
United Farm Workers; date: 1969 - 1972; # of negs: 312
United Federation of College Teachers
United Federation of College Teachers; date: 1968; # of negs: 27
United Federation of Teachers
United Federation of Teachers; date: 1960 - 1977; # of negs: 6519
United Federation of Teachers, District 2; date: 1971 - 1973; # of negs: 75
United Federation of Teachers, District 8; date: 1972; # of negs: 24
United Federation of Teachers, District 11; date: 1972; # of negs: 100
United Federation of Teachers, District 14; date: 1973; # of negs: 34
United Federation of Teachers, District 23; date: 1973; # of negs: 32
United Federation of Teachers, District 25; date: 1972; # of negs: 6
United Federation of Teachers, District 29; date: 1971; # of negs: 21
United Federation of Teachers, Local 2; date: 1970s; # of negs: 6
United Federation of Teachers, Local 3; date: 1974; # of negs: 53
United Food and Commercial Workers
United Food and Commercial Workers; date: 1970; # of negs: 8
United Furniture Workers of America
United Furniture Workers of America; date: 1953 - 1975; # of negs: 411
United Furniture Workers of America, Local 76; date: 1953 - 1971; # of negs: 211
United Furniture Workers of America, Local 76-76B; date: 1958; # of negs: 3
United Furniture Workers of America, Local 76B; date: 1950s -1974; # of negs: 624
United Furniture Workers of America, Local 76B-92; date: 1970 - 1972; # of negs: 16
United Furniture Workers of America, Local 92; date: 1960; # of negs: 32
United Furniture Workers of America, Local 140; date: 1962 - 1975; # of negs: 335
United Garment Workers of America
United Garment Workers of America; date: undated; # of negs: 4
United Steelworkers
United Steelworkers; date: 1952; # of negs: 9
Utility Workers
Utility Workers; date: 1959 - 1962; # of negs: 134
Utility Workers, Local 1-2; date: 1957 - 1960; # of negs: 6

SERIES: LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

AAA; date: 1970 - 1975; # of negs: 305
AFL; date: 1953 - 1956; # of negs: 94
AFL-CIO; date: 1955 - 1975; # of negs: 2544
African American Labor Council; date: 1969 - 1973; # of negs: 68
Black Trade Unionists; date: 1968 - 1973; # of negs: 62
CIO; date: 1951 - 1958; # of negs: 808
CIO - New York City; date: 1957; # of negs: 4
City CIO; date: 1958; # of negs: 24
Histadrut; date: 1957 - 1974; # of negs: 208
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; date: 1952 - 1955; # of negs: 143
Italian American Labor Council; date: 1961; # of negs: 6
Jewish Labor Committee; date: 1956 - 1973; # of negs: 173
Labor Commission; date: 1960; # of negs: 5
Labor Rehab; date: 1969; # of negs: 1
League for Industrial Democracy; date: 1970 - 1975; # of negs: 91
New York City Central Labor Council; date: 1956 - 1975; # of negs: 951
New York City Central Labor Council - Community Services; date: 1958 - 1961; # of negs: 44
Committee
New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council; date: 1958 - 1962; # of negs: 53
New York State Employees Brotherhood Committee; date: 1960s
Safety Trade; date: 1962 - 1965; # of negs: 9
Union Industries Information Center; date: 1950s; # of negs: 3
Union Label and Service Trades Council; date: 1972; # of negs: 152
Union Label Trades; date: 1956 - 1961; # of negs: 18
United Housing Foundation; date: 1955 - 1974; # of negs: 1385
Workmen's Circle; date: 1960 - 1965; # of negs: 8

SERIES: DEMONSTRATIONS/RALLIES/PARADES

Demonstrations/Rallies/Parades; date: 1953 - 1972; # of negs: 475

SERIES: MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS

Miscellaneous Events; date: 1961-1967; # of negs: 38

SERIES: PERSONALITIES/PORTRAITS

Benjamin, Sidney; date: undated; # of negs: 2
Brennan, C; date: 1958; # of negs: 4
Burato,; date: undated; # of negs: 2
Douglas, Roger; date: 1956; # of negs: 4
Freeman, Johnny; date: undated; # of negs: 2
Hollander, [Louis]; date: 1950; # of negs: 4
Hollander, Louis; date: 1950; # of negs: 6
Kennedy,; date: undated; # of negs: 1
Kheel, Theodore; date: 1954; # of negs: 2
King, Coretta Scott; date: undated; # of negs: 42
King, Martin Luther, Jr.; date: 1959; # of negs: 1
Ostroff, Harold; date: 1958; # of negs: 2
Roosevelt, Eleanor; date: 1954; # of negs: 1

SERIES: POLITICAL PARTIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

Socialist Party; date: 1971; # of negs: 8

SERIES: OTHER CLIENTS

Allergy Foundation; date: 1963; # of negs: 3
American Veterans Committee; date: 1951; # of negs: 2
Boys Club; date: 1948 - 1973; # of negs: 1581
Boys Town; date: 1959 - 1963; # of negs: 36
Cabell; date: 1974; # of negs: 12
Columbia Association; date: 1970 - 1973; # of negs: 25
Congress of Senior Citizens; date: 1969; # of negs: 6
Consumer Assembly; date: 1968 - 1973; # of negs: 263
Ed Menagh; date: 1956; # of negs: 13
Jacobsen Family; date: 1967; # of negs: 3
Jerry Wurf; date: 1968; # of negs: 56
Jewish Consumptive Relief Association; date: 1972; # of negs: 43
Jews Committee on Russian Passover; date: 1968; # of negs: 7
Kutch; date: 1970; # of negs: 15
Mayfair; date: undated; # of negs: 4
Moskowitz and Lupowitz Restaurant; date: 1940s - 1952; # of negs: 114
NAACP; date: 1957; # of negs: 13
National Association of Housing Coops; date: 1966; # of negs: 86
Ralph Engelson; date: 1958; # of negs: 5
Sachs Department Store; date: undated; 1948; # of negs: 115
Severie; date: 1970; # of negs: 6
Urban League; date: undated; # of negs: 1
Warschauer; date: 1950s - 1962; # of negs: 1363
Warschauer Home; date: 1951 - 1952; # of negs: 38