Kheel Center Labor Photos
Photographs from Cornell University's collection. Subjects include:
Walter P. Reuther Library
The Labor Movement & Organization
New York Public Library
Photographs Concerning Labor, Housing & Social Conditions in the U.S.
Series of Photographic Documents of Social Conditions, 19005-1939
Cal Poly Humboldt Digital Archive
Shuster Aerial Photograph Collection
Between 1946 and the mid 1960s Merle Shuster was hired by land developers, timber owners, and lumber mill owners to photograph specific sites. Approximately half the images in the collection come from these assignments and the other half are what Mr. Shuster chose to photograph as he was flying to and from the designated site. Most of the images are taken at an oblique angle, giving the viewer a richer sense of the landscape. Scenes from the burgeoning post-war lumber industry on Humboldt Bay and nearby coastal areas form the majority of the collection. Other scenes include rivers, country roads and farmsteads, small towns, and stunning landscapes. Humboldt Bay, Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad, and Crescent City are particularly well documented.
University of Washington
The Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7 Photographs include over 200 photographs documenting union meetings, events, portraits of union officers and members--primarily from the 1930s-1950s.
Images of Labor & Social Justice: The Art of Richard V. Correll
The U.W.’s digital collection, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) photographs, provides over 250 images of this work – both work done indoors in offices and retail businesses and work done outdoors on roads, parks, and public lands in and around Seattle. Another 100 images along the same lines are available in the U.W.’s collection entitled Civil Works Administration photographs – the CWA was a subdivision of the FERA, and provided similar opportunities to workers.
The State Historical Society of Missouri
As part of its ongoing mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the history of Missouri and the trans-Mississippi West, the Society has assembled thousands of original prints, negatives, postcards, and glass plates of Missouri’s people, urban and rural communities, transportation, and industry. Subjects include: 1904 World's Fair, Bridges, Charles Trefts, Postcards, American Civil War, Jewish Community Archives of Greater Kansas City, Missouri Bicentennial Photograph Project, Sports & Recreation, Transportation, Travel, World War I and II, Government & Politics.
The State Historical Society of Missouri's manuscript collections contain materials concerning roads, railroads, waterways, airways, and other modes of travel; papers of individuals in the transportation industry; records of freighting and other types of transportation companies; professional and trade organization records; public transportation; and tourism.
The Aerial Photograph Collection is a special collection of "maps" taken from the late 1930s to the 1960s as part of the USDA's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. This collection contains a select number of counties.
Montana State Library
Henry B. Syverud Scrapbooks Photograph Collection
This digital collection consists of 1,568 images of photographic prints from the Henry B. Syverud Scrapbooks Photograph Collection, Lot 045 in the Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives. This collection consists of photographs, dated from about 1909-1965, removed from four scrapbooks documenting towns and rural farm life in Sheridan County in northeastern Montana and Divide and Williams counties in northwestern North Dakota, including the towns of Dagmar, Coalridge, Plentywood, Medicine Lake, and Reserve in Montana, as well as Grenora, North Dakota. Topics include homesteading, farming, coal mining, recreation, church and other social events, Farmers Union conventions, and the Sheridan County Pioneers Club.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
More than 4000 photographs depicting child labor in the first part of the 20th century.
Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Phot Collection contains images from the 1850s to the present, documenting all aspects of life in Southern California, with an emphasis on Los Angeles. Noteable collections include: Industrial LA Photo Collection, Los Angeles Trade-Tech Collection, and Works Progress Administration Photo Collection.
University of Idaho Library
Columbia River Basin Project: Dam Construction in Pacific Northwest
Historical photographs of Columbia Basin Project and other dams constructed in the Pacific Northwest, 1933-1965.
Carleton Watkins Mine Interiors Collection
Interior photos of mines in Butte, Montana, 1890, hundreds of feet below ground.
Documenting the Development and Construction of the Doworshak Dam, 1952 - 1975.
Minnesota Historical Society Division of Library & Archives
Narrowed down search of collections for all digital material relating to labor.
Highlights include:
Stanford University Libraries
Includes United Farm Workers (UFW)/Cesar Chavez gallery,1968-1974.
CaliSphere University of California
Henry J. Kaiser Pictorial Collection, 1941-1946
More than 900 photos documenting the work of the Kaiser company.
Labor Arts