United Steelworkers of America, Communications Department records, 1919-2009 (bulk 1937-2009)

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United Steelworkers of America, Communications Department records, 1919-2009 (bulk 1937-2009)

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This collection features a large media archive of photographic, audio, film, and video material that documents the establishment of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee in 1936, and the formation and operation of the United Steelworkers of America from 1942 into the twenty-first century. Materials document union functions, strike scenes, workplaces, political meetings, conventions, elections, educational and promotional activities, labor songs, and officials. There is also substantial textual material, including news clippings, correspondence, officers' reports, convention documents, biographical profiles of prominent union men, and published union-company agreements. Other textual records concern department personnel, conferences, and staff meetings.

555 items (17 phonograph records, 388 videotapes, 134 films, 1 panorama photograph, 13 newspaper scrapbooks, 1 songbook, 2 DVDs)

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7913203

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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