United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, Local 638 Photographs and Archived Website
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Abstract
Steamfitters' Local 638 is a subsidiary of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada that is headquartered in Long Island City, New York. This collection consists of photographic negatives and prints of classes and staff members at the Steamfitters' Local 638 Industry Training Center in Long Island City. The collection also includes the archived website for the union.
Historical Note
The Enterprise Association of Steamfitters Local 638 is a subsidiary of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada that is headquartered in Long Island City, New York. The local represents welders, HVACR (heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration) service technicians, sprinkler fitters, and related trades in New York City and Long Island.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographic negatives and prints of classes and staff members at the Steamfitters' Local 638 Industry Training Center in Long Island City. Photographs were taken by Werner Ulrich, the center's Director of Education. The archived website contains information about leadership, political action efforts, training, and their newsletter.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection created by the Steamfitters Local 638 are held by the Steamfitters Local 638. Permission to publish or reproduce materials to which s/he holds copyright must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance with contacting the Steamfitters' Local 638.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, Local 638 Photographs and Archived Website; PHOTOS 084; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
To cite the archived websites in this collection: Identification of item, date; United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, Local 638 Photographs and Archived Website; PHOTOS 084; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Janet Greene in 1998; additional materials were donated by the Enterprise Association of Steamfitters, Local 638 in 2001 and 2002. The accession number associated with these gifts are NPA.1998.021, 2002.023, 2002.024, 2002.025, and NPA.2007.035. In 2025, https://steamfitters638.org/ was added through the use of Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. The accession number associated with this website is 2026.001.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
Appraisal
Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of steamfitters638.org in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.
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New site crawls are accrued semiannually.
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Processing Information
Processing decisions made prior to 2026 are unknown. In 2026, description was added to bring the collection up to professional and local standards and the archived website was added to the resource record.
