The Daily Worker and the Daily World Negatives Collection
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Abstract
The Daily Worker was established as the Communist Party USA's daily newspaper in 1924. As the official organ of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the party while also attempting to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists. The newspaper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequencies between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an online weekly publication titled the People's World. The Daily Worker and the Daily World Negatives Collection contains printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, created and collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. The collection dates from 1930 to 2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930 to 1948 and from 1968 to 1990. The images depict people, groups, and events associated with the CPUSA. The collection contains approximately 670,000 photographic negatives in various formats; contact sheets and log sheets related to 35 millimeter negatives; and several hundred slides. NOTE: Access to Series I and Series II is closed through 2025 pending digitization.
Historical Note
The Daily Worker was established as the Communist Party USA's daily newspaper in 1924. The newspaper was initially established as the weekly The Worker in 1921 when the Communist Labor Party (CLP) merged with the Workers Party in 1921 and the CLP's newspaper, The Toiler, became the The Worker. The newspaper was published in Chicago, Illinois until 1927, when the headquarters of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) moved to New York, New York. As the official organ of the CPUSA, editorial positions of the Daily Worker reflected the policies of the party while also attempting to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States (US) that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists. The newspaper published stories covering a wide range of events, organizations, and individuals in the US and around the world.
As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century with an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, the Soviet Union, and the world-wide Communist movement. The newspaper published the work of many graphic artists and cartoonists, including Fred Ellis, Hugo Gellert, Robert Minor, and Ollie Harrington, and documented the relationship between politics and folk music and folk dance, covering individuals such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Sophie Maslow and Martha Graham. The newspaper reported on the civil rights movement, including sit-ins, voter registration campaigns, and the Freedom Rides and as well as the work of individuals and organizations, including Martin Luther King, Jr, Ralph Abernathy, Rosa Parks, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the Black Panthers, the Soledad Brothers, and Angela Davis.
The newspaper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequencies between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an online weekly publication titled the People's World.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into six series:
Series I: 4 x 5, 120 and 127 Negatives, Series II: 35 Millimeter Negatives, Series III: 8 x 10 Negatives, Series IV: Slides, Series V: Log Sheets, Series VI: Contact Sheets
Series IV negatives are arranged alphabetically by shoot caption and Series V materials are arranged in chronological order. Dated negatives in Series I through III and in Series VI are arranged chronologically, followed by undated negatives arranged alphabetically by caption. In addition, all the negatives series in the collection may also be viewed in one combined list arranged in alphabetical order by caption, by clicking on the following link: http://library.nyu.edu/tamiment/dw_negs_sorted_by_shoot_title.pdf
Captions are assigned to a shoot, which is a group of images shot by a photographer or team of photographers of one event, usually on the same day. Each shoot has a unique identifying number. The 4x5, 120, 127, and 8x10 format negatives have been assigned individual frame numbers within each shoot as well (making it possible for researchers to determine in advance the total number of images available in a given shoot). 35 millimeter negative shoots (and any corresponding log or contact sheets for them) do not have assigned individual frame numbers, but the total number of frames within each 35 millimeter shoot ranges from one single frame to several rolls comprising as many as 100 individual images, with an average of 36 frames images per shoot.
While the shoot numbers for the 35 millimeter negatives, contact sheets, and log sheets correspond to one another, none of these groups of materials completely match one another. That is, not all 35 millimeter negatives have corresponding contact sheets or log sheets and vice versa.
Scope and Contents
The Daily Worker and the Daily World Negatives Collection contains printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, created and collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. The collection dates from 1930 to 2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930 to 1948 and from 1968 to 1990. The images depict people, groups, and events associated with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The collection contains approximately 670,000 photographic negatives in 4" x 5", 8" x 10", and 120, 127, and 35 millimeter formats; contact sheets and log sheets related to the 35 millimeter negatives; and several hundred slides. The negatives were mostly shot by Daily Worker and Daily World staff photographers, with additional negatives sent to the paper by readers and other individuals. Slides were also largely shot by staff photographers, but the collection does contain a few commercially-produced thematic slide sets, mostly from the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc countries. The majority of the negatives are of New York City people and events, despite the international coverage of the newspaper.
Images from the 1930s and 1940s focus heavily on the activities of organized labor and the relationship of the CPUSA to local and national labor unions, particularly those affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Images include strikes, union meetings and elections, union social events, and parades. Images from 1968 to 1990 focus on CPUSA activities, leaders, members, and affiliated organizations. These include portraits of Gus Hall, Henry Winston, Angela Davis, and Jarvis Tyner, and images of Mark Rudd, Abbie Hoffman, Stokely Carmichael, John Kerry, H. Rap Brown, Paul O'Dwyer, Adam Clayton Powell, Bella Abzug, John Lindsay, Nelson Rockefeller, Percy Sutton, Jacob Javits, Charles Rangel, Vito Marcantonio, Rhody McCoy, and C. Herbert Oliver.. There are also negatives of conventions, demonstrations, and meetings of the CPUSA, Young Workers Liberation League, Young Communist League, and W. E. B. Du Bois Clubs. The civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements are documented through images of the Black Panther's Breakfast Program in Harlem, New York City police raiding Louis Farrakhan's Muslim Mosque, Moratorium Day demonstrations, and other anti-war demonstrations. The arts and sports are also documented in the collection, including St. Patrick's Day parades, the New York City Marathon, Apollo mission astronauts at City Hall, Aretha Franklin in concert at the Apollo Theater, jazz musicians at the Village Vanguard, and a 1968 W. E. B. Du Bois centennial meeting at Carnegie Hall whose participants included Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin. Also included are images of celebrity supporters of liberal or left-wing political causes, mainly actors such as Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Dustin Hoffman, Ed Asner, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee. Images of city life include ice cream trucks, New Jersey's Palisades Park amusement park, public school openings, and the Brooklyn-Long Island Cat Show. Images related to professional sports and athletes include sports teams affiliated with labor unions, the Hermann Matern Sports School in the German Democratic Republic, exhibition games between United States (US) and Soviet Union teams, Jim Bouton, Joe Frazier, and Muhammad Ali. Images of people and events outside of the US in the collection focus on Cuba, Chile, and the Soviet Union. From Cuba, there are images of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, the percussion ensemble Los Papines, and events including the 1970 Organization of Latin American Journalists conference and the 1978 World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana, Cuba. From Chile, there are images of rural cooperative farms, and a 1971 May Day parade in Santiago whose participants include Salvador Allende. There are numerous images of people and events in the Soviet Union, many taken on CPUSA delegations. A large percentage of these depict CPUSA leaders including Gus Hall and Henry Winston, images of rural life in Tajikistan and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, and international conferences, including the 1985 World Festival of Youth and Students, a 1988 United States-Soviet Union Friendship Summit in Moscow, and the 1963 World Congress of Women in Moscow.
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Organizations
People
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Conditions Governing Access
Access to Series I and Series II is restricted until June 2025 pending digitization. Once digitization is complete, digitized access copies will be available online and access to the physical materials will be restricted.
Materials in Series III through Series VI are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the Communist Party, USA was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
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, New York University.
Location of Materials
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The bulk of the Daily Worker and Daily World Negatives Collection was transferred to the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives as part of the donation of the Communist Party of the USA archives and the Library of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies in the summer of 2006. Additions to the collection include several linear feet of material received from Daily World staff photographer and artist Bill Andrews in January 2010. The accession number associated with the Bill Andrews materials is 2011.120.
Separated Materials
Original cartoons and artwork were separated to the Daily Worker/Daily World Cartoons Collection (GRAPHICS 024). Printed ephemera was separated to the Communist Party of the United States of America Printed Ephemera Collection (PE 031).
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Sponsorship Information
Detailed processing for this collection was made possible by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
About this Guide
Processing Information note
Materials were placed in new acid-free folders and boxes. Original caption information, when available, was transcribed onto negative sleeves. Where captions were illegible, the archivist's interpretation is enclosed in square brackets. The language of the original captions, which includes editorializing comments (e.g., "District 9 – Hoodlums," "Demonstrations Against Czech "invasion" by Socialist forces," "Right-wingers protest "anti-Semitism" in Soviet Union," "National Caucus of Labor Committee goons attack Center for Marxist Education," "Demonstration against Israeli aggression by students") was retained. Some anachronistic terms - particularly those referring to race, ethnicity, or sex, such as "Negro," "Black," "Girl" or "Boy" (where the image is clearly of a young woman or young man, rather than a child) - have been revised, except for a few selected instances in which these have been allowed to stand, for the value they offer as a window into the political and cultural flavor of a particular time.
Shoot numbers for 35 millimeter negatives were originally assigned by Daily Worker staff, and these numbers have been retained. However, no Daily Worker shoot numbers were assigned to other negative formats, so shoot numbers were created for these materials by the archivist.
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Repository
Series III: 8 x 10 Negatives
Scope and Content Note
Contains nearly four-hundred 8x10-inch negatives. These are almost entirely copy shots of prints, rather than original images.
Copy Photograph of Title Page of Frederick Douglass' 1856 Autobiography, "My Bondage and My Freedom"., 1856, inclusive
Copy Photographs of Graphics Relating to Defendants in the Haymarket Affair., 1887, inclusive
Debs, Eugene V. - with Others, 1908, inclusive
Reed, John, 1916, inclusive
Ruthenberg, Charles E., 1917, inclusive
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich - Books by, 1918, inclusive
Communist Party of the Untied States of America (CPUSA), 1919, inclusive
Communist Party of the Untied States of America (CPUSA) - International Relations, 1919, inclusive
Communist Party of the Untied States of America (CPUSA) - International Relations, 1920, inclusive
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich - Books by, 1920, inclusive
Daily Worker - History, 1924, inclusive
Ruthenberg, Charles E., 1926, inclusive
Haywood, Big Bill, 1927, inclusive
Haywood, Big Bill, 1928, inclusive
Unemployment - Hunger Marches, March 6, 1930, inclusive
Unemployment, 1930, inclusive
Labor Organizations - United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) - Strikes, 1932, inclusive
Labor Organizations - United Steel Workers of America (USW) - Memorial Day Massacre, 1937, inclusive
Israel - Workers, May 9, 1941 - May 12, 1941, inclusive
Marcantonio, Vito, 1941, inclusive
Marcantonio, Vito, 1942, inclusive
Robeson, Paul, 1942, inclusive
Barsky, Edward K., May 1946, inclusive
Seeger, Pete, 1948, inclusive
African American Cases - Mallard, Amy, 1949, inclusive
Marcantonio, Vito, 1949, inclusive
Peekskill, Riots, 1949, inclusive
African American Cases - Martinsville (Virginia) Seven, 1951, inclusive
African American Cases - McGee, Willie, 1951, inclusive
Archibald, Jesus, 1952, inclusive
Guatemala - Demonstrations for - in United States, June 1954, inclusive
Soviet Union - Communist Party - 22nd Congress, Oct 29, 1961, inclusive
Foster, William Z. - in Soviet Union, 1961, inclusive
San Francisco to Moscow March for Peace, 1961, inclusive
Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna, June 1963, inclusive
Soviet Union - Latin America - Demonstrations for, Nov 19, 1963, inclusive
Bykovskiĭ, V. F. (Valeriĭ Fedorovich), 1963, inclusive
World Congress of Women (Moscow, Soviet Union), 1963, inclusive
Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), 1964, inclusive
Leonov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Arkhipovich), 1965, inclusive
Seeger, Pete - in Soviet Union, 1965, inclusive
Winston, Henry - in Soviet Union, March 1966, inclusive
Faría, Jesús, 1966, inclusive
Vietnam War - Demonstrations against - United States, Oct 21, 1967, inclusive
Sobell, Martin, 1967, inclusive
Venezuela, Mar 1971, inclusive
Chile - Celebrations and Demonstrations, Jul 1972, inclusive
Hall, Gus, 1972, inclusive
Chile - Demonstrations for Allende, Jun 12, 1973, inclusive
Khruscheva, Nina, 1973, inclusive
Winston, Henry, 1973, inclusive
Hall, Gus - in Soviet Union, 1974, inclusive
Young Workers Liberation League (YWLL), 1977, inclusive
Seeger, Pete, 1978, inclusive
World Festival of Youth and Students, 1985, inclusive
African American Cases - Moseley, Leon, undated
African American Cases - Scottsboro Boys, undated
African Americans - California, undated
African Americans - Youth, undated
Aluminum and Magnesium Industry and Workers, undated
Anti-Nazi and Anti-Fascist Demonstrations, undated
Anti-Semitism, undated
Aptheker, Herbert, undated
Automobile Industry and Workers, undated
Bachrach, Marion, undated
Belyayev, Pavel, undated
Ben Bella, Ahmed, undated
Bennett, Harry, undated
Berry, Abner, undated
Bittelman, Alex, undated
Bloor, Ella Reeve, undated
Brodsky, Joseph, undated
Bulgaria - Agriculture, undated
Carver, George Washington, undated
Castro, Fidel, undated
Castro, Fidel - and Soviet Union, undated
Charney, George, undated
Collins, Charles, undated
Colon, Jesus, undated
Chavis, Ben, undated
Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) - Leaflets and Pamphlets, undated
Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) - Smith Act Prosecution, undated
Cuba - Celebrations and Demonstrations, undated
Daily Worker - History, undated
Daily Worker - Staff, undated
Davis, Angela Y., undated
Davis, Benjamin J., undated
Debs, Eugene V., undated
Dennis, Eugene, undated
Du Bois, Shirley Graham, undated
Du Bois, W. E. B., undated
Duffy, Clarence, undated
Eichelis, Albert, undated
Eisler, Hanns, undated
Engdahl, J. Louis, undated
Engels, Friedrich, undated
Evictions, undated
Fasanella, Ralph, undated
Fascism - in United States, undated
Fine, Fred, undated
Foner, Phillip Sheldon, undated
France - Workers and Strikes, undated
Gates, John, undated
Gerson, Simon W., undated
Green, Gil, undated
Grimau Garcia, Julian, undated
Guevara, Che, undated
Hall, Gus, undated
Hani, Chris, undated
Hernandez, Melba, undated
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) - Demonstrations against, undated
Housing - African Americans, undated
Hughes, Langston, undated
Ibarruri, Dolores, undated
Ivens, Joris, undated
Jackson, James E., undated
Johnson, Arnold, undated
Juvenile Delinquency, undated
Korean War - Atrocities, undated
Labor Organizations - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), undated
Labor Organizations - International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), undated
Labor Organizations - Strikes, undated
Labor Organizations - United Auto Workers (UAW) - Ford Motor Company - Organizing, undated
Labor Organizations - United Auto Workers (UAW) - Strikes, undated
Labor Organizations - United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) - Strikes, undated
Labor Organizations - United Steel Workers of America (USW), undated
Labor Organizations - United Steel Workers of America (USW) - Strikes, undated
Levine, Ben, undated
Liebnecht, William, undated
Luxemburg, Rosa, undated
Maikovsky, Boleslav, undated
Marcantonio, Vito, undated
May Day Parades and Celebrations, undated
Mayor, Clarence, undated
McCarran Internal Security Act - Demonstrations against, undated
Migrant Workers, undated
Miners and Mining Industry, undated
Mitchell, Bessie, undated
Moreau, Alberto, undated
Mulzac, Hugh, undated
Nikolaev, A. G. (Andrii︠a︡n Grigorʹevich), undated
Perlo, Victor, undated
Popovich, Pavel, undated
Potash, Irving, undated
Puerto Ricans in the United States, undated
Puerto Rico - Independence Movement, undated
Racial Unity - Children, undated
Refregier, Anton - Mural in San Francisco, California Post Office, undated
Robeson, Paul, undated
Roosevelt, Franklin D., undated
Rosenberg, Ethel, undated
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial - Demonstrations for Defendants, undated
School Integration - Arkansas - Little Rock, undated
Seeger, Pete, undated
Sharecroppers, undated
Smith, Ferdinand, undated
Soviet Union - Celebrations and Demonstrations, undated
Soviet Union - Foreign Relations - China, undated
Soviet Union - History - Bolshevik Revolution., undated
Soviet Union - Jews., undated
Soviet Union - Republic of the Congo - Aid to and Demonstrations for., undated
Soviet Union - Space., undated
Soviet Union - Tajikistan., undated
Soviet Union - Vietnam - Demonstrations for, undated
Soviet Union - United States Surveillance, undated
Soviet Union - WWII - Nazi Atrocities, undated
Steel Industry and Workers, undated
Taggard, Genevieve, undated
Terrell, Mary Church, undated
Thompson, Robert, undated
Titov, G. S. (German Stepanovich), undated
Tyner, Jarvis, undated
Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), undated
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - Returning Home from Spain, undated
Vietnam War, undated
Vietnam War - Photos for Vietnam: Inside Story of the Guerilla War (Wilfred Burchett), undated
Washington (D.C.), undated
Weavers (musical group), undated
Weinstock, Louis, undated
West, James, undated
Williamson, John, undated
Woodson, Carter Godwin, undated
Workers, undated
World War II - United States Army - Wounded Soldiers, undated
World War II - War Industry - Women, undated
Young Communist League, undated
Zagarell, Mike, undated
Series IV: Slides
Scope and Content Note
Contains several hundred color and black and white slides. Of particular significance are slides depicting activities of the Young Workers Liberation League and the W.E.B Du Bois Clubs, including conventions and demonstrations of and by these organizations. Also included are a few sets of thematic commercially-produced slides, mostly from the former Soviet Union and Soviet bloc countries.
Africa - Drought and Hunger., undated
Africa - Sahara Desert and Sahel Region., undated
Art by Cikovsky, S. Deutcher, Dobkin, Fred Ellis, W. Granville-Smith, Gwathmey, Krevorouch, Manzardo, Martinez, Alice Neel, Quat, Antony Toney, Charles White, Wolins., undated
Bulgaria - Panagyurishte Treasure [commercially - produced slide set]., undated
Christmas Party and Unidentified Conference., Jan 1979, inclusive
Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) 22nd National Convention., 1978, inclusive
Daily World and Voz del Pueblo Staff., Sep 1981, inclusive
Demonstration Against South African Apartheid and Central American Injustice (Washington D.C.)., undated
Demonstration by South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) of Namibia., Sep 1985, inclusive
Demonstration for "Funds to Life Not Death." Photos by P. Demas., Jul 1973, inclusive
Demonstration for Jobs. Photos by P. Demas., Apr 1976, inclusive
Demonstration for Nicaragua (Washington DC)., Apr 8, 1987, inclusive
Demonstration for Peace in the Middle East., undated
Fireworks and Miscellaneous Photos of People. Photos by P. Demas., 1973-1974, inclusive
Group of Unidentified Elderly Women., undated
Henry Winston Enrollment Campaign Slide Show., undated
Leningrad, Scenes of [commercially - produced slide set]., undated
Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie., 2000
Mark Green., undated
Moscow Summer Olympics XXII [commercially - produced slide set]., 1980, inclusive
My Name is Joe Promos sent to People's World., Oct 1998, inclusive
Odessa, Scenes of [commercially - produced slide set]., undated
Paul Robeson., undated
People in [People's Weekly World?] Office., Mar 1979, inclusive
People's Weekly World Banquet Photos - People Speaking., 2001, inclusive
Photos of Socialism Ceremony Bought by Asian Week Journalist Santi Suthinthet., Jun 27, 2005, inclusive
Public Art Workshop - Paintings: Unity of the People, Toward Freedom, Protect the People's Homes, Free Angela Davis Free All Political Prisoners., 1970-1971, inclusive
Puerto Rican Day Parade. Photos by Ted Reich., Jun 8, 1975, inclusive
Soviet Union - Government Crisis. Photos by Scott Marshall., Jul 1996, inclusive
Ulyanovsk and Lenin Related Sculptures, Museums and Memorials., undated
UNICEF (Children's Photos)., 1986-1988, inclusive
W.E.B. Du Bois Club., Apr 1983, inclusive
W.E.B. Du Bois Club., undated
World Federation of Democratic Youth: Youth for Disarmament, World Forum of Youth and Students (Helsinki, Finland) (commercially produced)., Jan 19, 1981 - Jan 23, 1981, inclusive
World Festival of Youth and Students (Berlin, German Democratic Republic) (commercially produced)., 1973, inclusive
World Festival of Youth and Students (Havana, Cuba)., 1978, inclusive
World Festival of Youth and Students (Pyongyang, North Korea)., Jul 1, 1989 - Jul 8, 1989, inclusive
Young Boy, Sitting., Feb 1978, inclusive
Young Workers Liberation League (YWLL) Demonstrations and Events (includes Peace and Unemployment Demonstrations, 3rd and 4th National Convention). Photos by Chi, Dover, Ted Reich and P. Demas., 1973-1978, inclusive
Youth and Students for Mel King for Mayor (Boston, Massachusetts)., Nov 4, 1983, inclusive
Youth Demonstration for Jobs (Bronx, New York). Photos by Chi., Nov 1977, inclusive
Youth Demonstration for Jobs (Washington, D.C.). Photos by Ted Reich., Apr 26, 1975, inclusive
Youth Salute to Paul Robeson. Photos by [Nellie?]., Dec 1978, inclusive
Series V: Log Sheets
Scope and Content Note
These log sheets are paper records used by Daily World staff to track shoots between 1986 and 1991. They contain information (often incomplete) on the date and location of the shoot, the photographer, people depicted in the photographs, and technical information about the type of film used. The shoot numbers used on these sheets correspond (with a few gaps) to shoot numbers for those years in the 35 millimeter negative and contact sheets portions of the Collection.
Shoot numbers 860101-860127, 1986, inclusive
Shoot numbers 870128-870378, 1987, inclusive
Shoot numbers 870379-870419, 1987, inclusive
Shoot numbers 880417-880819, 1988, inclusive
Shoot numbers 890004-890190, 1989, inclusive
Shoot numbers 890191-890374, 1989, inclusive
Shoot numbers 900001-900222, 1990, inclusive
Shoot numbers 910004-910066, 1991, inclusive
Series VI: Contact Sheets, 1918-2006, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
Contains contact sheets printed from 35 millimeter negatives from more than 8,000 shoots, dating mostly from 1968 to 1990. Of particular significance are images of demonstrations against the draft and Vietnam War, demonstrations in support of Angela Davis, Communist Party of the United States of America candidates for election, and daily life in New York City in the mid-20th century. Most of the contact sheets have corresponding 35mm negatives in the Collection (these can be identified by their matching shoot numbers).