Series VII: Photographs, 1920s-1980s, inclusive; 1940-1949, bulk
Scope and Content Note
Three-hundred-twenty-six black and white prints and 59 color prints, including images of these individuals: Warren K. Billings, "Mother" Ella Reeve Bloor, Fidel Castro, Joseph R. Curran, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Hugo Gellert, Gus Hall, Dorothy Healy, Fiorello LaGuardia, William O'Dwyer, Mike Quill, and Paul Robeson. Notable subjects depicted include May Day parades in New York City, and demonstrations protesting against the Korean War. Photographers include Hungarian immigrant photographers John Albok and Gabriel Hackett, Alexander Archer, and one photograph credited to A.H. Greene of the Film and Photo League.
1920s?, circa 1920-1930, inclusive
1930s?, circa 1930-1940, inclusive
1940s - Restaurant souvenir photographs, circa 1940-1950, inclusive
1940s?, circa 1940-1950, inclusive
1950s?, circa 1950-1960, inclusive
1960s?, circa 1960-1970, inclusive
1970s?, circa 1970-1980, inclusive
1980s?, circa 1980-1990, inclusive
Congress Syndical Mondial, Berlin, 1986, inclusive
1990s?, circa 1990-1994, inclusive
Reference photocopies of photographs of Louis and Rose Weinstock in passports and labor union membership books, 1928-1980, inclusive
Photocopies of unidentified photographs (possibly family, friends, and political colleagues), undated
Photograph album (disassembled) of the Fot, Hungary orphanage, circa 1960-1970, inclusive
General
This item was presented to Louis Weinstock in memory of his visit to the orphanage on November 4, 1966. Captions are handwritten in Hungarian. Nineteen pages long (with photographs on both sides of the pages), it is arranged in original page order (indicated by an assigned page number written in pencil in square brackets on both sides of the pages). The album also includes a dedicatory note that accompanied the album, and a sample page of the original interleaving papers in the album has been retained.
