Research Catalog
Rose Pesotta papers
- Title
- Rose Pesotta papers, 1922-1965.
- Author
- Pesotta, Rose, 1896-1965.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 25 linear feet (45 boxes, 4 packages).
- Subjects
- Pesotta, Rose, 1896-1965
- Posters
- Photographs
- Diaries
- United States > Social conditions > 1945-
- United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
- Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939
- Labor movement > United States
- Labor unions > Israel
- Labor unions > Clothing workers
- Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
- World War, 1939-1945 > Refugees
- Refugees > Europe
- Racism
- Anarchism > United States
- Working class > Israel
- Working class > Puerto Rico
- Working class > Canada
- Working class > United States
- Histadrut ha-kelalit shel ha-ʻovdim be-Erets-Yiśraʼel
- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
- Pesotta family
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Photographs.
- Posters.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Source (note)
- Pesotta, Rose; Dorothy Rotker
- Biography (note)
- Rose Pesotta (1896-1965) was a labor union official.
- Language (note)
- are in Russian and Yiddish.
- Processing Action (note)
- Surveyed
- Cataloging updated
- Call Number
- MssCol 2390
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A719
- Author
- Pesotta, Rose, 1896-1965.
- Title
- Rose Pesotta papers, 1922-1965.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Summary
- Collection consists of correspondence and papers reflecting Pesotta's career as official of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and as organizer of garment workers in various cities in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Includes diaries, 1934-1949; family letters; photographs; and writings, including drafts of her autobiographies, Bread Upon the Waters (1944) and Days of Our Lives (1958). Also, notes, personal accounts, pamphlets, news clippings, posters, and periodicals relating to the labor movement, Spanish Civil War, the Histadrut (Israeli labor organization), and topics such as anarchism, the labor movement, racism, and the plight of displaced persons after World War II.
- Biography
- Rose Pesotta (1896-1965) was a labor union official.
- Language
- Some family letters are in Russian and Yiddish.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Berkman, Alexander, 1870-1936.Cohn, Fannia M. (Fannia Mary), 1885-Dubinsky, David, 1892-Steimer, Mollie, 1897-1980.Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940.Hapgood, Powers, 1899-1949.Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970.Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927.Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927.
- LCCN
- ms 76001537
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 2390