Series XI: Photographs, Charters and Badges

This series contains photographs documenting the history of the Commercial Telegraphers Union/United Telegraph Workers from circa the early 1940s to the 1980s. Includes black-and-white and color group and documentary photographs from CTU/UTW conventions and meetings from the 1940s to the 1980s; black-and-white portraits and candids, with corresponding negatives, of union leadership and staff from circa 1973; circa 1940s small black-and-white prints from a CTU and AFL strike; an undated group portrait of the AFL-CIO Executive Council; and a portrait of Samuel Gompers.