Series I: General JLC Activities

Includes photographs related to JLC's early history (1934-45), including the organization's establishment in 1934, meetings and conventions in the 1930s, the counter-Olympics it organized in August 1936, and food and clothing drives to aid victims of fascism in the 1940s. It also contains a smaller number of photographs indirectly related to JLC's WWII activities, including photographs of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)'s wartime activities, Jewish refugees from Hitler in England, the Jewish Brigade of the British Army, the liberation of the Jews of Tunisia at the hands of the British, and photographs of Jewish communal efforts on behalf of refugees from Hitler who were forced to flee into Poland in the late 1930's.

Contains photographs related to the Holocaust. The bulk of the photographs consist of poor-quality copy prints of news service photographs of concentration camps and other Nazi atrocities. However, this subseries also contains photographs of the JLC's April 1945 Heroes and Martyrs of the Ghettos exhibition commemorating anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Other original photographs in the subseries include several pictures of unidentified Nazi personnel.

Documents the JLC's aid to Holocaust survivors and others in Europe and Israel in the first years after World War II (1945-early 1950s). It includes images depicting the JLC's food, clothing and book drives, and its "Relative Search" program. Most photographs in this subseries portray various aspects of the postwar renewal of Jewish life and culture in displaced persons camps, in European cities, and in Israel. (See also Series IV for an album of photographs of Left Poale Zion projects in Israel.)

Contains images related to the JLC's postwar support of AFL and CIO (later AFL-CIO) educational efforts in the field of human rights, as well as the JLC's work of combatting antisemitism worldwide. The majority of the photographs are of labor conferences on civil rights in Chicago and other United States cities, National Trade Union Council anti-discrimination activities, and rallies in support of the rights of Soviet Jewry. Individual folders document the work of JLC local chapters for these causes. There are also several pictures of JLC protest rallies and conferences on behalf of Polish Jews.

Documents the JLC's work in international labor relations, Holocaust commemoration and education, and other programs and projects. The bulk of the photographs are of JLC annual conventions and meetings. The subseries also contains pictures of JLC meetings with international labor leaders, and the organization's participation in international labor conferences, labor rallies in support of Israeli democracy and other causes. There are several images of annual Warsaw Ghetto Memorial commemorations and of courses on the Holocaust for educators run in conjunction with the United Federation of Teachers.

Includes group portraits of JLC staff and photographs related to the work of the organization's National Executive Committee, Legislative Committee, Educators' Chapter, Women's Division, and local chapters.

Contains photographs of unidentified events and of subjects only indirectly related to the activities of the JLC. It includes a group of images of synagogues and other Jewish community buildings in the Netherlands.