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Agricultural Workers I.U. No. 100 office in Yakama, Washington, 1928

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 439

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

Snapshots mostly from the 1920s and 1930s. They include photos of the IWW’s in-house historian, Fred Thompson, IWW General Secretary-Treasurer Walter Westman, General Executive Board Chairman Charles Velsek, Industrial Worker editor Carl Keller, IWW cartoonist Bill Henkelman, and several notable IWW women activists: Jennie Ambrose, Edith Cutler, Virginia Hadley, Fannie Keller, Jenny Lahti Velsek, and Aino Thompson. Several are group photos taken at IWW picnics in Chicago in the 1940s Also included are snapshots taken in Yakima during an IWW harvest organizing drive in the late 1920s and early 1930s, a group photo taken at the Haymarket Martyrs’ Memorial Monument at Forest Home Cemetery of the delegates who attended the IWW’s 26th convention in 1950, and a class photo from the Work People's College.

Dates

  • Creation: 1928

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum, and items in each folder will be counted before and after delivery to the patron (Priority I).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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