Look for the Union Label: A Celebration of Union Logos and Emblems
Online Exhibit by Jeff Rosen and Susan Parker Sherwood
This collection of over 150 images surveys union labels, their history, and related artifacts. American Union labels evolved from the seals and coats of arms of European craft unions and were a great source of tradition and pride. Beginning as early as 1880, the union label movement became an important economic tool as organized workers looked for ways to support union jobs and to protest unfair working conditions through tactics other than strikes.
Labor Archives & Research Center
February 22nd, 2008
Labor Archives and Research Center 22nd Anniversary Evening Program
Featuring Guest Speaker:
Dawn Mabalon
San Francisco State University
“We Must Eat Dust: Filipino Migratory Labor and Labor Organizing on the West Coast and Alaska, 1920s-1970s”
The event will be held at the ILWU, Local 34
4 Berry Street (2nd and King) on the Embarcadero
next to Giant’s Stadium. map
Friday, February 29, 2008 ~ 6 p.m.
Light Refreshments served at 6:00 p.m.,
program begins at 7:00 p.m.
Pinoy Jazz and Blues Music
by Little Brown Brother
Free and Open to the Public
This event is wheelchair accessible
LARC website
February 14th, 2008
Here’s a great example of a major cultural organization experimenting with Web 2.0. The Library of Congress has recently started using Flickr to expand awareness of their collections, and to solicit the more active engagement of viewers.
“The Library of Congress invites you to explore history visually by looking at interesting photos from our collections. Please add tags and comments, too! More words are needed to help more people find and use these pictures.”
Initial photo sets include “1930s-40s in Color” (with photos from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information) and “News in the 1910s.” The URL for the Library of Congress pilot project on flickr is: http://flickr.com/commons
We are exploring putting some images from our special collections in Flickr as well. Stay tuned.
February 1st, 2008
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