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(25231) UAW Organizing, Women's Auxiliary, Battle of the Overpass, 1937

Members of the UAW Local 174 Women's Auxiliary stand in the back of a parked streetcar and talk to the men standing outside of the Ford Rouge Plant during the Battle of the Overpass. Date:  1937-05-26 Physdesc:  Phot ...

Image - eclemens - 05/21/2016 - 18:36 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Event: “Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney and Operation Breakthrough”

Kristin M. Szylvian, Associate Professor of History and LIS at St. John's University in New York, will discuss conflicts between federal housing agencies and organized labor concerning prefabricated housing. In the late 1960s, the federal government exp ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 11/09/2017 - 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collection Spotlight: Leonard Woodcock Papers

The Walter P. Reuther Library is honored to announce the opening of the The Leonard Woodcock Papers . Leonard Woodcock orchestrated profound accomplishments in a variety of fields, notably as head of the UAW and later as Ambassador to Chin ...

Blog entry - gstrassel - 11/28/2016 - 15:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Sarah Schilling Schooten Papers

‹ previous 1753 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  WSP000182 Extent:  .25 linear feet (1 MB) Date:  1921 The 1926 student notebook of Dr. Schooten details the subjec ...

Abstracts - cwesterman - 04/27/2012 - 14:21 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Wayne State University Arab Fraternity Records

‹ previous 1475 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  WSR002058 Extent:  0.5 linear foot (1 MB) Date:  1920-1986 These records contain files of the Arab Fraternity that ...

Abstracts - astankrauff - 06/21/2018 - 16:28 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Alpheus F. Jennings Papers

... Water Pollution Controversy of 1914. Subjects such as Detroit’s water supply, and its effect on public health, water purification ...

Abstracts - cwesterman - 01/30/2016 - 16:34 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Donald C. Marsh Papers

‹ previous 1704 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  WSP000019 Extent:  14.75 linear feet (13 SB, 4 MB) Date:  1937-1976 Professor Marsh began his career at Wayne in 1 ...

Abstracts - cwesterman - 04/27/2012 - 13:42 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(27720) Cavanagh, Virginia Park Residents, 1967

Mayor Jerome Cavanagh meets with residents of the Virginia Park neighborhood as they plan to help rebuild and upgrade parts of the area destroyed in the 1967 Civil Unrest. Date:  1967-12-06 Physdesc:  Photograph ...

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Amy Zanoni discusses — Poor Health: Retrenchment and Resistance in Chicago’s Public Hospital

Please join the Reuther Library for a presentation from our latest Fishman grant recipient Wednesday April 5, 2017, at noon. Amy Zanoni, a doctoral candidate from Rutgers University, will discuss her research into disinvestment, austerit ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 04/20/2017 - 16:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(6677) Classrooms, Interiors, Laboratories, Old Main, c. 1935

The interior of an unidentified laboratory in Wayne University's Old Main, Detroit, Michigan. Date:  Circa 1935 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Wayne State University Staff (Architectur ...

Image - eclemens - 03/17/2011 - 14:04 - 0 comments - 3 attachments