Union Label and Service Trades Council of Greater New York and Long Island Photographs Bulk, 1957-1970 1938-1981, (Bulk 1957-1970)

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Union Label and Service Trades Council of Greater New York and Long Island Photographs Bulk, 1957-1970 1938-1981, (Bulk 1957-1970)

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The Central Union Label Council of New York City (later the Union Label and Services Trades Council of Greater New York and Long Island) was founded to promote union-labeled goods and union-made products, through lobbying, service and publicity. Chartered by the Union Label Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor in 1911, in its early years the Council established and ran a department store stocked with union-made products. By the 1950s, promotion took the form of mounting annual labor-management trade shows, "Miss Union Maid" beauty contests, sponsoring a weekly labor press radio program, and other public relations efforts. The collection consists of ca. 3,800 images that span the late 1930s through the early 1980s, with the bulk from 1957-1970. The majority are 8x10 black and white copy prints shot by a variety of commercial photographers. More than half document annual conventions of the New York State Union Label Trades and the conventions’ associated activities. Prints of special historic interest include images of the 1938 Union Label Week parade in New York City; a mass rally at Madison Square Garden opposing the Taft-Hartley Act, and comely young women used to advertise the Council’s agenda.

3.25 linear feet; (ca. 3,800 items; 148 folders), 8x10; b&w.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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