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Series VII: Photographs and Other Nonprint Materials, 1910s-1950s, inclusive

Box: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
flat-file: 7, drawer: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

This series mostly contains black-and-white photographs of varying sizes, related to the New York WTUL. The photographs are made up of headshots of leaders and other shots of WTUL officials, publicity shots, events, meetings, performances, conventions, and other photographs. There a significant amount of photographs that feature Eleanor Roosevelt. The series also contains a cloth banner bearing the legend: "New York Women's Trade Union League; Organized 1903."

8 x 10 and 5 x 7 black and white prints, 1935-1949, undated

Box: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Ten folders including: undated headshots (mostly publicity photographs); staff; Nora Piore, dance class, meeting with Rose Schneiderman ca. 1940s; Washington, DC trip for students (1938); "Pilgrimage and Picnic," June 1947 (shots take at Franklin D. Roosevelt gravesite and on "Mrs. [Eleanor] Roosevelt's grounds" [Valkill?]; events arranged chronologically between 1923-1949; performances; portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt; social gatherings; cookout/camping (possibly at Valkill, group shot with Eleanor Roosevelt) ca. 1930s; classroom shots; photocopies of pages from a scrapbook.

Oversize and Panoramic Black and White Prints, 1929-1947, inclusive

Flat-File-Folder: 2 Left (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Group portraits and celebratory dinners.

Cloth Banner: "New York Women's Trade Union League; Organized 1903", undated

Box: 5 - Ephemera and Artifacts (Material Type: Realia)
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012