Labor
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Frances Perkins Article and Portrait
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized): [Barcode: 39020030724499], Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-20231219
Scope and Contents
One copy of an article by Frances Perkins titled "Eights Years As Madam Secretary" from Fortune magazine, September 1941. It includes a reproduction of a painted portrait of Perkins by Arthur Syk.
Dates:
1941
Potomac Company Payroll Log
Collection
Identifier: GTM-0058
Scope and Contents
A single payroll log of the Potomac Company ("Potowmack Company"), a company formed to improve the navigation system for the Potomac River, for canal construction workers employed at Little Falls on the Potomac River. Written in tabular format, the document lists 90 individual workers with their occupations, number of days worked, monthly wage rates, rations deducted from wages, and the authorization of the receipt of payment signified by the workers' signatures or mark and the signature of...
Dates:
1793 October 26 - 1794 January 23
Daniel W. Tracy Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-720101
Scope and Contents
The Daniel W. Tracy papers document his involvement in the labor movement spanning the period from 1913 to 1955. Included are correspondence, reports, minutes, speeches, labor publications, printed ephemera, newspaper clippings, and photographs concerning Tracy's presidency of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers from 1933 to 1940 and 1947 to 1954; his appointment as delegate to the ILO convention in Geneva in 1935; his term as Assiastant Secretary of Labor from 1940 to 1946,...
Dates:
1933 - 1955