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Holt Labor Library ephemera collection
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Contributing Institution:
Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills
Title: Holt Labor Library Ephemera Collection
Creator:
Holt Labor Library
Identifier/Call Number: HLL.2019.034
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
5 boxes.
Date (inclusive): 1948-2005, undated
Date (bulk): 1970-2000, undated
Abstract: The collection comprises buttons, keychains, flags, banners, and black-and-white and color photographs, negatives and contact
sheets related to various labor strikes, commemorative events, political party and labor union election campaigns, women's
rights causes, anti-war activism and demonstrations, and socialist political causes.
Language of Material:
English
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The collection includes buttons, keychains, flags, and banners that were collected by the Holt Labor Library and relate to
various labor strikes, commemorative events, political party and labor union election campaigns, women's rights causes, anti-war
activism and demonstrations, and socialist political causes. Black-and-white and color photographs, negatives and contact
sheets which chronicle protests, demonstrations, and the interior of the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California are
present as well, as is one portrait bust of Carl Skoglund and a sign from the Holt Labor Library.
The Holt Labor Library Ephemera Collection was compiled by the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California between 1992
and 2019, and was acquired by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills,
in 2019.
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There are no access restrictions on this collection.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Allison Ransom processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in April 2022.
The collection is arranged numerially in item number order.
The Holt Labor Library was a library in San Francisco from 1992 to 2019 that collected and made accessible primary and secondary
source material related to labor history and the history of the radical left, with an emphasis on the activities of American
Trotskyist political organizations. The Library also collected materials related to various anti-war movements, the women's
movement, gay liberation, the African American Civil Rights Movement, among other social justice causes.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Feminism
Labor unions
Socialism
African Americans -- Civil rights