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Motion pictures (2) x
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Visual materials from the office of the Federation News, owned and controlled by the CFL-IUC, the federation of unions in Chicago. Subjects include members and leaders, conventions and banquets, international events, interiors of their radio station WCFL, and their members participation in community affairs. Large oversize color photographs show the St. Patrick's Day parade (ca. 1970s) and a composite group
Dates: 1914-1984 | Extent: 4,568 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.; 5 albums (176 photographic prints) : b&w, col. ; 26 x 31 cm. (10 x 12 in.) or smaller.; 37 photographic prints : col. ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.; 2 photographic prints : col. ; 24 x 36 in. or smaller.; 3,468 negatives : b&w ; 70 mm. or smaller.; 117 negatives : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.; 40 photomechanical prints : b&w ; 18 x 28 cm. (7 x 11 in.); 3 reels of 3 ; 16 mm.; 1 transparency : col. ; 8 x 10 in.; 1 photograph : cabinet card ; 17 x 11 cm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.); 1 folder of non-graphic material.
Archives: Chicago History Museum
Photoprints relating to USWA, District 31, whose purpose is to provide plant level union leaders in northern Indiana (St. Joseph, LaPorte, Porter & Lake counties) and Illinois (Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Grundy, Will & Kankakee counties) with services and skilled advice. Subjects include union leaders including the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (1930s), especially Joseph Germano, director of District 31 from
Dates: 1920s-1970s, bulk 1930s-1950s | Extent: 842 photographic prints : b&w ; 31 x 51 cm. (12 x 20 in.) or smaller.; 17 albums (311 photographic prints) : 31 x 26 cm. (12 1/4 x 10 in.) or smaller.; 13 photographic prints : b&w ; 119 x 23 cm. (46 3/4 x 9 in.) or smaller.; 6 photographic prints : col. ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.; 2 boxes of motion picture film.; 1 folder of non-graphic material.
Archives: Chicago History Museum