Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Holt Labor Library Periodical Collection
- Dates:
- 1913-2024; undated, bulk 1970-1990
- Extent:
- 699 boxes
- Language:
- English , Spanish; Castilian , French , Italian , Polish .
- Preferred citation:
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For information about citing archival material, see the Citations for Archival Material guide, or consult the appropriate style manual.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Holt Labor Library Periodical Collection (1913-2024; undated) contains 699 boxes of magazines, newsletters, peridoicals, bulletins, newspapers, and other publications related to Socialism, Communism, Trotskyism, Marxist theory, Civil Rights and Labor Movements, and other topics. Included in this collection are issues of The Militant; People's World; Labor Action; The Progressive; Barricada; Bulletin: Weekly Organ of the Central Committee of the Workers League; New Left Review, American Socialist; Labor Action and others. This collection is arranged alphabetically by title.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-25 16:27:20 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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There are no access restrictions on this collection.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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For information about citing archival material, see the Citations for Archival Material guide, or consult the appropriate style manual.
- Location of this collection:
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University Library, 5th Flr (5039)1000 E. Victoria StreetCarson, CA 90747, US
- Contact:
- (310) 243-3895