733 results for: Labor and Labor Unions
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Gordon Matheson at work during KING-TV filming at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story" a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, Gordon Matheson is being filmed while working on a pair of boots inside the factory. Stamped on verso: RICHFIELD SUCCESS STORY. PICTURE # 91013…
ID Number:2013.114.21
Date:1959
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Bob Burki at work during KING-TV filming at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story" a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, Bob Burki is being filmed while working on a pair of boots inside the factory. Stamped on verso: RICHFIELD SUCCESS STORY. PICTURE # 91013…
ID Number:2013.114.22
Date:1959
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Currin-Greene Shoe manufacturing employees, Seattle, 1955
Hugh Currin and Warren Greene founded the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company in 1908. They built their first plant on Seattle’s Eastlake Avenue and moved in 1920 to a new plant on Western Avenue. The company specialized in specialty and heavy-duty work boots and shoes, which they sold throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The company later acquired the Rainier shoe…
ID Number:2013.114.24
Date:1955
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CORE taxi boycott bumper sticker, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.1
Date:1964
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CORE jobs rally poster, October 4, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.2
Date:1964
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Panelists for program on racial integration of Musicians' Association of Seattle, January 23, 2018
The American Federation of Music (AFM) Local 493 in Seattle, also known as the "Negro Musicians' Union," was founded in 1918 as Local 458 when African Americans were excluded from Seattle's first musicians' union, AFM Local 76. Local 493 was at the heart of Seattle's vibrant jazz scene, and its E. Jefferson Street "clubhouse," the Blue Note, was a lifeline…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC657
Date:2018
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Presidential candidate Henry Wallace with a union officer, 1948
Henry Wallace shares the head table with a union officer at a dinner meeting of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union of the Pacific at Washington Hall. A sign reading Stop the Un-American Committee refers to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Wallace was Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1941-1945. This picture was probably taken…
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder25.001
Date:1948
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Presidential candidate Henry Wallace with union officers, 1948
Henry Wallace shares the head table with union officers at a dinner meeting of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union of the Pacific at Washington Hall. Several signs are visible, including "[No Contract] No Work", "...Defeat Taft-Hartley Law", "Wallace in '48...", "Palestine Peace or Profit", "Register Now Win With Wallace". Henry Wallace was Vice President of the United States under…
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder25.002
Date:1948
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Presidential candidate Henry Wallace with union officers, 1948
Henry Wallace speaks from the head table at a dinner meeting of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union of the Pacific, held at Washington Hall. A sign reads: "No Contract No Work". Henry Wallace was Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1941-1945. This picture was probably taken in 1948, when he attemped a third party…
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder25.003
Date:1948
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Two men in group shaking hands at union office, circa 1944
Two unidentified men shake hands at the office of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Association of the Pacific, a CIO labor union which represented galley staff on steamships. A group of people, probably union members and staff, look on. The photographer Al Smith was a member of this union.
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder25.005
Date:Circa 1944