Sponsored by Washington Art Library Resources Committee (WALRC)
Art and Recreation: The International Garment Workers' Union, Unity House, and Diego Rivera - Kathryn Dowgiewicz, ILGWU Project Archivist, Kheel Center, Cornell University
Shooting Back: Labor Portrays Itself and the World (in the collections of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives) - Erika Gottfried, Curator of Nonprint Collections, Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives/Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, New York University
Black and White and Red All Over: Bernard Kassoy’s McCarthy Era Political Cartoons in the New York Teacher News - Barb Morley, Digital Archivist, Kheel Center, Cornell University
Opportunities and Challenges: Collecting and Managing Activists' Photos Available on the Web - Anna Perricci, Web Archiving Project Librarian, Columbia University
Moderator:Elizabeth Berenz, Senior Implementation Manager, Artstor
Art and politics collide in the documentation of the history of the labor movement. Several speakers from Cornell University and New York University will present their special collections of documentary photographs, political cartoons, and labor movement ephemera across a century. An additional speaker from Columbia University who is also a member of the Occupy Wall Street Archives Working Group will present about the work of that group, including how Bulkr and the use of Creative Commons licensing helped the working group with the challenges they faced collecting material outside of an institutional setting.
Recorded Session Available Summer 2014
