Papers, 1887-1930.

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Papers, 1887-1930.

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Certificates as a boiler engineer from the New York City Police Department, 1913; ms. instructions on boiler operation; letters of recommendation from employers; and a dues card for membership in the Knights of Labor, 1894. Also letters of condolence on the loss of a grandchild, and Fishbough's pocket diaries, 1887-1930, with notes on weather and work performed.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Fishbough, Arthur W.

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Laborer. Arthur W. Fishbough worked as a boiler engineer in New York and Brooklyn, and as a farm worker and general laborer in Lake Grove, L.I. From the description of Papers, 1887-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155560785 ...

Knights of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of Minutes, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536651 From the guide to the Knights of Labor minutes, 1886, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Organized in Philadelphia in 1869 as a general labor organization to protect and promote American laborers. One of ther goals was to prohibit the importation of foreign labor under contract. In 1880's, California's local Assemblies worked to ban use of Chinese immigrants and to pr...