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Photographs from the Dorothy De Losada papers

 Collection — Container: Box P010
Identifier: MSP-582

Content Description

Collection comprises 15 black and white photographic prints and two photocopies of the front and back of a photographic print documenting Dorothy De Losada's work as a political and union activist between 1946 and 1956. The bulk of the photographs show De Losada's and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's (ILWU) picketing of the Hiram Walker liquor rectifying plant between 1948-1949 and the assembly line at Hiram Walker in 1956. Photographs also document De Losada's time in Monteagle, Tennessee as a teacher at the Highlander Folk School and show her posed with students of her labor history class. There is a photograph of De Losada watching American chemist and peace activist Linus Pauling speaking at a 1949 Peace Conference in Mexico City (Pauling is not pictured). Photographs also show an ILWU Strike Publicity Committee meeting in San Francisco in May 1947; a picket line against discrimination held at Fillmore and Eddy Streets, San Francisco, November 1948; and an ILWU strike in 1949. Two photocopies are copies of the front and back of a photograph depicting Horace De Losada (Dorothy De Losada's husband) addressing the Joint Action Committee of Maritime Unions at Embarcadero and Commercial Streets in San Francisco, June 1948.

Dates

  • 1946 - 1956

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The California Historical Society (CHS) has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it.

Biographical / Historical

Dorothy Elizabeth Baget De Losada was a political and union activist; an official of International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) Local 6 in San Francisco in the 1940s; and an organizer, steward, and member of Local 6's Strike Committee.

Extent

1 folder

Abstract

Collection comprises 15 black and white photographic prints and two photocopies of the front and back of a photographic print documenting Dorothy De Losada's work as a political and union activist between 1946 and 1956.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Dorothy De Losada, 1976.

Title
Finding aid to the photographs from the Dorothy De Losada papers
Status
Completed
Author
Jaime Henderson
Date
March 2019
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
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Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the California Historical Society Repository

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