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[Black Star photographs of United Automobile Workers strike against General Motors].
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Title:

[Black Star photographs of United Automobile Workers strike against General Motors]

Creator/Contributor:

Black Star (Picture agency), creator, photographer.

Creator/Contributor:

Kaplan, Fred, photographer.

Creator/Contributor:

Daniels, Gene, photographer.

Abstract:

Photographs documenting United Automobile Workers (UAW) union members employed by General Motors Corporation during the union's 1970 strike, taken chiefly at automobile industry facilities in Fremont (UAW local 1364), Van Nuys (local 645) and South Gate (local 216) by Black Star photojournalism agency photographers Fred Kaplan and Gene Daniels. Photographs depict UAW members on picket lines, many of them depicted in close-up views and/or carrying picket signs.

Date:

1970 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Strikes and lockouts -- Automobile industry -- California -- Photographs
Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- California -- Photographs
Picketing -- California -- Photographs
Grèves et lock-out -- Automobiles -- Industrie et commerce -- Californie -- Photographies
Travailleurs de l'automobile -- Syndicats -- Californie -- Photographies
Piquet de grève -- Californie -- Photographies
Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions
Employees
Picketing
Strikes and lockouts -- Automobile industry
California
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America -- Photographs
General Motors Corporation -- Employees -- Photographs
General Motors Corporation.
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer's stamp on backs of photographs: "Credit Fred Kaplan from Black Star" or "Credit Gene Daniels from Black Star".
Purchase from Auger Down Books ; 2022.
Black Star photographs of United Automobile Workers strike against General Motors, BANC PIC 2022.051, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.

Physical Description:

photoprint
40 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 18 x 26 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California