Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Stanley Lathen Collection,
- Dates:
- 1928-1995
- Creators:
- Lathen, Stanley
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Stanley Lathen Collection, 1997/075, Labor Archives & Research Center, San Francisco State University.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection is comprised of documents and photographs from Lathen's labor and political activities in Vallejo. It ranges from a 1928 Plasterers' & Cement Finishers' Union Constitution to a 1995 holiday card from Bill and Hillary Clinton. Also included are brief letters to and from politicians Lathen supported, including Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Estes Kefauver, Edmund "Pat" Brown, and Alan Cranston in the "Correspondence - Political" folder. "The Plasterer" folder preserves two issues of the Plasterers' Union publication that contain letters from Stanley Sapp. There are undated papers opposing the use of sheetrock in construction in the "Lathing and Plastering" folder.
The collection includes photographs from most of the groups Lathen worked with including many of the Athletic Friends of Labor Ball Park and the Vallejo Builders, its home team. National figures, such as Gene Autry and Lady Bird Johnson, appear in some of the photos.
Researchers interested in labor in Vallejo in the 1950s through 80s, including unions for retail clerks, plasterers, butchers, and builders, will find material here. Other topics are labor's relationship to local and state politics, especially the Democratic Party; labor's commitment to community projects such as the ball park; and the growth of the political influence of retired trade unionists through its Congress of Seniors.
- Biographical / historical:
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Stanley Lathen is a labor union and political activist living in Vallejo. Lathen (known as Stanley Sapp until the early 1950s when he changed his name) was the secretary-treasurer, the executive officer, for the Retail Clerks International Association, Local 373; President of the Plasterers' Union, Local 631; and one of the founding Directors of the A.F. of L. Ball Park Board (Athletic Friends of Labor). He was active in Democratic Party politics and with the Congress of California Seniors. An oral history conducted by Harvey Schwartz is at the Labor Archives.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Center's online catalog.
- Physical description:
- .5 cubic feet
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. Date of source: July 1997.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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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:
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[Identification of item], Stanley Lathen Collection, 1997/075, Labor Archives & Research Center, San Francisco State University.
- Location of this collection:
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J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 4601630 Holloway AveSan Francisco, CA 94132-1722, US
- Contact:
- (415) 405-5549