Research Catalog

Title

Samuel Gompers papers, 1884-1925.

Author

Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Details

Description

11 linear feet (10 boxes, 42 v., 1 oversize folder).

Summary

Collection consists of scrapbooks, testimonials and memorials, photographs, certificates, printed matter, and ephemera.

Subjects

• Scrapbooks
• Photographs
• Labor unions > United States
• Working class > Europe
• Working class > United States
• American Labor Mission to Europe
• American Federation of Labor
• Gompers family
• Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924

Genre/Form

• Photographs.
• Scrapbooks.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Source (note)

• American Federation of Labor

Biography (note)

• Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), labor leader, was president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) from the year of its founding in 1886 until 1924.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

MssCol 1170

OCLC

NYPW89-A498

Author

Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924.

Title

Samuel Gompers papers, 1884-1925.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), labor leader, was president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) from the year of its founding in 1886 until 1924.

Finding Aids

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

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Finding Aid

LCCN

ms 69000879

Research Call Number

MssCol 1170