Inventory of the Tim Sampson Photograph Collection No. 8, 1969-1981

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Inventory of the Tim Sampson Photograph Collection No. 8, 1969-1981

Accession number: 1987/59

Labor Archives & Research Center

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California

Contact Information:

Labor Archives & Research Center
San Francisco State University
480 Winston Drive
San Francisco, California 94132
Phone: (415) 564-4010
Fax: (415) 564-3606
Email: larc@sfsu.edu
URL: http://www.library.sfsu.edu/special/larc.html

Processed by:: The Labor Archives & Research Center staff
Encoded by:: James Lake

Descriptive Summary

Title: Tim Sampson Photograph Collection No. 8,

Date (inclusive): 1969-1981

Accession number: 1987/59

Creator: Sampson, Tim

Repository: San Francisco State University. Labor Archives & Research Center

San Francisco, California 94132

Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Center's online catalog.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives & Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Labor Archives & Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Tim Sampson Photograph Collection No. 8, 1987/59, Labor Archives & Research Center, San Francisco State University.

Introduction

This series of photographs is related to the 1968-1969 San Francisco State University Student and Faculty strike. Included in this collection are photographs of the United Professors of California (UPC) members and activities during the early 1980's. In 1987 Tim Sampson, instructor of Social Work Education at SF State and former President of the San Francisco State UPC Local #1352, donated four boxes of documents relating to Union activity between 1967 and 1982. Upon arrival to the Labor Archives the photographs were removed from the collection and placed in the LARC photographic collection.

History

The San Francisco Strike officially began on November 6, 1968 when the Black Student Union in conjunction with the Third World Liberation Front called for a mass student strike in protest to the suspension of English instructor and Black Panther Party member George Murray. San Francisco State AFT faculty went on strike on January 6, 1969. Strike issues ranged from long standing grievances over workloads to more immediate matters of threatened civil liberties and academic freedom. The faculty strike lasted two months and was the longest teacher's strike in the history of California to that date. For further information on the history of the UPC or other UPC/AFT documents relating to the strike please refer to the Timothy J. Sampson Collection Accession no. 1987/59 in the Descriptive Guide for the textual collections.

Scope and Content

This collection is arranged in sixteen folders with attention paid to original order and grouping upon arrival to the Labor Archives. Each folder lists a subject heading and contains several subheadings listed in the descriptive guide. Photographers and identified individuals are also documented in each folder. Subheadings are provided to aid researchers in a more detailed description of images in each folder.

The first portion of the photographs #1 though #208 (folders 1 though 13) consists of prints and contact sheets documenting the days of the strike. These photographs were taken roughly between November 1968 to February 1969. The second portion of the collection #209 to #362 (folders 14 through 16) document UPC participants and organizing activities in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

Folders 1 through 5 are photographs that had previously belonged to the UPC and AFT archives. Folder 6 was grouped separately upon arrival but also documents the strike. Folders 7 through 13 are contact sheets of the strike documented by 13 photographers. Folders 14 through 16 are of UPC members and are grouped into original order.

Negatives

There are 19 sets of negatives that correspond with photographic prints in the collection. These negatives are housed in a separate location in the Labor Archives and can be found in box NEGATIVES 1987/59 #1-19. Each photograph that corresponds with a negative will have the negative grouping listed on the lower right corner on the back of the photograph.

Cross Referencing

Negative group = Located lower right corner on back of photograph. Indicates negative group # where photograph can be matched.

Contact Print # = Located in lower right corner on back of photograph and refers to the contact sheets in folders 7 through 13 where print can be matched.

Print # = Located in lower right corner on back of Contact Prints and indicates location of enlarged images on contact sheet. This number only refers to prints in photographic collection 8.

Key

PC Photographic Collection
NG Negative group
a this letter following an individual print # indicates a duplicate of the original print.
" " all information in quotes represents information supplied on back of photograph. All other descriptive information or subheadings are added by the archivist
UPC United Professors of California
BSU Black Student Union
AFT American Federation of Teachers
TWLF Third World Liberation Front
SCAB students who did not recognize the strike
SLU Student Liberation Union

Box-folder 1/1, photograph #1-11

San Francisco State University Strike Speakers

Scope and Content Note

Identified speakers include: John Levin SDS leader; S.I Hayakawa, president of SF University; Vito DeLeonardis LMRS-AAA Public Sector Labor Relations; Glenn Dumke, State College Chancellor.

Photographers:

Nacio Jan Brown
Bob Wax

Box-folder 1/2, photograph #12-13

San Francisco State University Strike SCABS

Scope and Content Note

These two photographs document issues related to the students who didn't participate in the strike.

SCAB puppet; "The Silent Majority from San Francisco State, 1/6/69"

Photographers:

Robert Altman
Gerold Grow

Box-folder 1/3, photograph #14-23

San Francisco State University Strike Student and Community supporters

Scope and Content Note

Groups that supported the strike:

Japanese Americans
Welfare workers
San Jose State Student Strike Committee
"Students from Nearby City College of San Francisco Show Their Support for the Strikers by Marching on to S.F. College Campus"
Strike Local 1928
AFT supports 1352
AFT 61
Student Liberation Union
Local 212
SFSC Trustees
(see #58, folder 1/5 Pacific Heights ad hoc Committee, Community Strike Support Coalition)

Photographers:

Mike Hall
Lou de la Torre

Box-folder 1/4, photograph #24-28

San Francisco State University Strike Strikers

Scope and Content Note

Picket lines
AFT/COI Local 1352
Faculty strikers
"Student Strikers on the March" Black Student Union

Photographers:

Nacio Jan Brown
Mike Hall
Lou de la Torre
Bob Wax

Box-folder 1/5, photograph #29-76

San Francisco State University Strikers and Police

Scope and Content Note

This group of 49 photographs documents the conflict between the police and the strikers on the San Francisco State Campus between November 1968 and February 1969. Subheadings include:

Police arresting students
Police on horseback
Police and striker conflict
Red Cross workers
Strikers beaten
"Straight vs. Jocks"

Photographers include:

Robert Altman
Gilbert A. Andrew
Ted Goodman
Mike Hall
Cagar w.d. Holocomb
Bill Paul
Lou de la Torre
Bob Wax

Individuals identified:

Hartford, Bruce
Soloman, Eric
Stanton, Bill: "Economics Department Former Assemblyman Denied Tenure by S.I. Hayakawa"

Box-folder 1/7, photograph #78-130

San Francisco State University Strikers and Police

Scope and Content Note

General happenings during the strike. Subjects include:

strikers and police non violent
AFT Local 61
AFT Local 1352
women dancing at picket line
Black Student Union
SCSF Trustees picket line

Photographers:

Lou de la Torre
Bob Wax

Box-folder 1/6, photograph #131-143

San Francisco University Strike Contact Prints

Scope and Content Note

AFT photographers: Jeff Johnson, AA, Phiz Mozesson

Events during the strike:

SFS Party and leadership conference
police and striker conflict
picket lines
women dancing at picket line
Clerical Workers Union
Red Cross workers
Fresno AFT
Strike organizers
Faculty strike

Box-folder 1/8, photograph #144-147