Photographs from the Dorothy De Losada papers
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
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the California Historical Society Repository