Tamiment Library Printed Ephemera Collections

I keep coming across collections of Ephemera in public libraries and museums.. and want to bring them to your attention.

The most recent one I found is at the Tamiment Library at the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives (NYU Libraries). Here’s a description from their site:

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University form a unique, internationally-known center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left. The primary focus is the complex relationship between trade unionism and progressive politics and how this evolved over time. Archival, print, photograph, film, and oral history collections describe the history of the labor movement and how it related to the broader struggle for economic, social, and political change.

In 1977 the Robert F. Wagner Archives was established as a joint program of the New York City Central Labor Council and the Tamiment Library. The Wagner is the designated repository for the records of the Council’s more than 200 member unions. Today the Library has an extraordinary research collection documenting the history of organized labor in New York and the workers who built the City.

Tamiment has one of the finest research collections in the country documenting the history of radical politics: socialism, communism, anarchism, utopian experiments, the cultural left, the New Left, and the struggle for civil rights and civil liberties. It is the repository for the Archives of Irish America, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, and a growing Asian American labor collection.

You can Read more about the history of the Tamiment Library through this link.

The collection that caught my eye is called the Tamiment Library Printed Ephemera Collections and consist of some 1 million items, including broadsides, leaflets, flyers, manifestoes, reports, reprints, serials, clippings, pamphlets, and internal documents generated by a wide spectrum of labor and left-wing organizations.

Two of some 350 or so items are shown here. Looking through the rest was very interesting and I recommend that you take a look. I’m sure you will find it interesting.

There are a number of other Ephemera collections at the library which I again recommend you peruse. You will hopefully find it as interesting as I did.

I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

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