Primary Sources:

LABOR: History of Work and Workers

Child Labor	Media: Songs, Film, Audio Recordings
Labor History	Statistics
.Landmarks & Museums	Visual Art: Murals, Paintings, Posters, Photographs
Leaders of Labor	Women and Labor

See also Gateway Sites

CHILD LABOR.

George Eastman Still Photograph Archive
http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/htmlsrc2/hinekit_idx00001.html#72:0159:0120B
105 Collected works of Lewis Hine.

The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 - Photographs of Lewis W. Hine
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
Photographs from mines, mills, fields and factories, featuring the original captions.
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Lewis Wickes Hine's "Work Portraits"
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/workport/work1.html
From the New York Public Library Miriam & Ira Wallach Photography Collection' mostly from the 1930s.

National Child Labor Committee Collection: Photographs by Lewis Hine
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/207-b.html
From the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.

LABOR HISTORY

see also: Immigration and History .

American Memory Collection Lesson Plans: United We Stand
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/labor/overview.html
"Was there a need for organized labor unions?" is the essential question for this lesson. The primary sources presented are top-notch. Using American Memory collections, documents, photographs and sheet music, students decide for themselves by examining working conditions. Also usable as resources for other research projects.

Free Speech Movement Digital Archives
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/
Approximately 35,000 pages of documents, oral histories, video and sound recordings, from Berkeley.
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FBI - Freedom of Information Act
http://foia.fbi.gov/
Topics include: Cesar Chavez, Martin Dies, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X (Little), Paul & Eslanda Robeson, the Rosenbergs, Sacco-Vanzetti, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Carlo Tresca, Leon Trotsky, and the Weatherman Underground.
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Haymarket Archives
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/haymarket/haymarkethistory.html
Anarchy Archives: Pictures and publications from the time, including:
The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America (McLean, 1886)
Reasons for Pardoning the Anarchists (Altgeld, 1893)

Internet History Sourcebooks Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
"Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use." Excellent for Ancient, Medieva, and Modern history research. Special sourcebooks on topics: African, east Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Women, Global, Science, GLTB.

Marxist Internet Archives: May Day
http://www.marxists.org/subject/mayday/index.html
What are the origins of May Day? This is a rich collection of writings, songs, poetry and pictures, dating back to 1882 from around the world.
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Massachusetts Study Projects
http://www.msp.umb.edu
Large variety of curriculum-based units, including much primary source mterial. Some topics include: African Americans in Massachusetts, Electronic Library on Industrial History, focusing on the industrial cities of Fall River, Lowell and North Central Mass.

Museum of the City of San Francisco: "Bloody Thursday" 1934
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/thursday.html
Contains news coverage of the first day of the San Freancisco rioting, July 3, 1934, which grew out of a strike that had begun in May. When the industries attempted to break the strike, "Bloody Thursday" was the result.
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National Social History Project
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/
With a New York focus, this resource features history from a social perspective. Be sure tocheck out "Who Built America" and the "Digital Projects" - the primary sources are mingled with the secondary sources.
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Photo Gallery: The Triangle Fire, March 25, 1911
http://newdeal.feri.org/library/d_4m.htm
Photographs, taken at the scene of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, from the archives of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. The tragedy served as a touchstone for New Deal reformers who campaigned for legislation to improve working conditions for all workers.

Project Gutenberg
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
E-books available, free - 16,000+ titles inthe public domain. Search by author, title and subject. The holdings are extensive, generally pre-1923: Jane Addams, Thomas Carlyle, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and Upton Sinclair, among others. Example:
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=140
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Seattle General Strike Project
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/strikehome.htm
Guide to this landmark historic event of 1919, it has selected images; from the University of Washington at Seattle.
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Sam Reiss: Eyewitness to Labor History
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/tam/reiss/opener.html
Sam Reiss, himself a laborer, was "labor's photographer," using his camera to capture historic events that shaped American labor. Photographs are viewable by year (1948 to 1975) or by subject.
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Seattle General Strike Project
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/strikehome.htm
Although this is a secondary source page for the study of the Seattle General Strike, it is rich with primary sources: photographs, political cartoons, and document facsimiles.

The Siege of Paris - Northwestern University Library Special Collection
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/
Photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871, plus caricatures, newspapers in hard copy and film, books, pamphlets and posters.
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Strikes! Labor and Labor History in the Puget Sound
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/STRIKES!/
Commemorates two famous events: the Seattle General Strike of 1919 and the Maritime Strikes of 1934. Primary sources tell the story, supplemented by secondary source analysis.
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Taylorism Magazine
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
June/August 1926 - International Society to Promote the Science and the Art of Administration and of Management. From the American Memory Collection.
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WTO Seattle Collection
http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/
From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections, a searchable collection of photographs, posters, and documents illustrating the protests at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Unique interviews with protesters and orgznizers.
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LANDMARKS AND MUSEUMS
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American Textile History Museum
http://www.athm.org
Lowell, MA.

Celebrating the History and Architecture of Saxonville
http://www.saxonville.org/
The Friends of Saxonville sponsor the "Historic Walk" of this Framingham neighborhood. Click on "Ongoing Projectss" and then, at the bottom of the page, go to "Celebrating the History and Architecture of Saxonville" and access the front and the back of the brochure.

Charles River Museum of Industry
http://www.crmi.org
Located in Waltham, MA, this manufacturing museum is on the site of the old Boston Manufacturing Company - Francis Cabot Lowell Mill.
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Essex National Heritage Area
http://www.essexheritage.org
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Framingham Historical Society and Museum
http://www.framinghamhistory.org

Labor Heritage Foundation
http://www.laborheritage.org/
Inventory of Labor Landmarks - with pictures and historical background.
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Lynn Museum / Lynn Historical Society
http://www.lynnmuseum.org
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Marine Museum at Fall River
http://www.marinemuseum.org
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Nantucket Historical Association
http://www.nha.org.

National Park Service: National Registry of Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/
Listed by region of the country and in some cases by theme. Follow the groupings to read about each site and view pictures and visiting information.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Corridor
     http://www.nps.gov/blac/index.htm
Boston African American National Historic Site
    http://www.nps.gov/boaf/index.htm
Boston National Historic Park http://www.nps.gov/bost/
Lowell National Park http://www.nps.gov/lowe/index.htm
New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park
    http://www.nps.gov/nebe/index.htm
Salem Maritime National Historic Park
    http://www.nps.gov/sama/index.htm
Saugus IronWorks National Historic Site
    http://www.nps.gov/sair
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
    http://www.nps.gov/spar

New Bedford Whaling Museum (including the Kendall Institute)
http://www.whalingmuseum.org

Peabody Essex Museum
http://www.pem.org
East India Square, Salem, MA.
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Slater Mill
http://www.slatermill.org
Information about the Slater Mill and its programs

Tenement Museum
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/logcabin.html
"The Urban Log Cabin": Over ten thousand people lived at 97 Orchard Street, New York City, between the years 1870 and 1915. This is actually a diorama-based exhibit for online exhibits; visitors view the rooms as they might have appeared. The story of the excavation done in 1933 reveals many artifacts. Actual histories of the families are included.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Building
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ny30.htm
"The Asch building--known as the Brown building today--was the home of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and site of both the first large scale strike of women workers in the country and of one of the worst industrial disasters in American history. The property is now used as classrooms and offices by New York University and is not open to the public."
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Tsongas Industrial History Center: Boott Cotton Mills Museum
http://www.uml.edu/Tsongas/
Lowell, MA.

LEADERS OF LABOR

Anarchy Archives - from Pitzer College
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html
Extensive links to individuals from the 18th, 19th and 20 century with biography, bibliography and collected works.
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Collected Works of "Big Bill" Haywood
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/haywood/BBHworks.html
The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood (1929), "The General Strike," speech
(March 16, 1911), Industrial Socialism, Bill Haywood Remembers the 1913 Paterson Strike.

Emma Goldman Collected Works
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/GoldmanCW.html
Essays and full-text e-books on anarchism:

Anarchism: What It Really Stands For; Minorities versus Majorities; The Psychology of Political Violence; Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure; Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty; Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School; The Hypocrisy of Puritanism; The Traffic in Women; Woman Suffrage; The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation; Marriage And Love; The Drama; Mother Earth Advertisements; Living My Life; My Disillusionment in Russia; My Further Disillusionment in Russia; The Social Significance of the Modern Drama.

Emma Goldman Papers Project
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
Emma Goldman was a champion for the rights of workers, women and free speech. This site abounds with primary source materials and offers lesson plans as well. Visitors have access to some of her writings as well as articles, telegrams and letters.
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Samuel Gompers Papers: A Documentary History of the American Working Class
http://www.history.umd.edu/edu/Gompers/index.htm
Incredible collection of documents, available in manuscript or transcription, photographs, and "points of View" of Gompers. This is not the complete set of two microfilm or eight volumes of Gompers' papers, but it is a valuable resource to the online researcher.

MEDIA: FILMS, SONGS, RECORDINGS
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Songs of The Labor Movement
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/labor.html
Lyrics to songs, organized by artist and by topic: Industrial Workers of the World, Songs of the Mines, songs from the Mills, Joe Hill, Dorsey Dixon, Woodie Guthrie, and others.

U.S. Labor and Industrial History WWW Audio Archive
http://www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio/
William Jennings Bryan (1896), William Howard Taft (1906 and 1912), William Jennings Bryan (1912), Woodrow Wilson (1912), Theodore Roosevelt (1912), Tom Mooney (1939), Fiorella LaGuardia (1945).

STATISTICS
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Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page.
http://www.bls.gov/
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Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov

VISUAL ART: Murals, Paintings, Posters, Photographs
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Graphic Witness
http://graphicwitness.org/ineye/sitemap.htm
"Dedicated to social commentary through graphic imagery by artists working from the turn of the 20th Century to the present, with related bibliographic and biographic data."
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International Institute of Social History
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/index.php
Virtual exhibitions from the archival collections of the IISH located in Amsterdam. Posters, prints, cartoons from the 19th and 20th century.

LaborArts
http://www.laborarts.org/collections/
"A virtual museum designed to gather, identify and display examples of the cultural and artistic history of working people and to celebrate the trade union movement's contributions to that history." Exhibits and permanent collections include photographs, paintings, banners, and buttons.
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Labor Mural Panel
http://www.ylem.org/artists/mmosher/grant3.html
Market Street, San Francisco: this is a 1998 mural of San Francisco's labor history, complete with background information.

WOMEN AND LABOR

Southern New England Telephone Company: The First Fifty Years, 1878-1928
http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/exhibits/snet/firstfifty/index.htm
An exhibition from the Archives and Special Collections of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.
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Sources in US Women's Labor History
http://nyu.libguides.com/labor
From NYU Labor Archives - this is actually an online listing of in-house materials, not available online, there are actually many scanned images of documents and photographs that are interesting and useful.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/
Over 800 primary documents on the history of women and reform activism. Search or browse by date or subject.
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Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/wb/welcome.html