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(5213) Matilda (Rabinowitz) Robbins, Arrest, 1910s

Candid view of I.W.W. organizer Matilda Robbins, likely taken after her arrest in Detroit, Michigan. Caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Rabinowitz on the way to the workhouse - Patrol Kindley (illeg.) by police department. Dat ...

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(37647) Vita and Matilda, Big Tujunga.

Date:  1932 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  unknown (Industrial Workers of the World, Robbins, Matilda, Women of the I.W.W., Working class women) ...

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(46054) Cover Art, Sheet Music, "The Rebel Girl"

... Hill, Joe, 1879-1915, Industrial Workers of the World, IWW Graphics Materials and Artifacts) ...

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Collection Spotlight: The Utah Phillips Papers

... and gravitated toward the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) while at Yellowstone. He became a lifelong member of the IWW after returning from Korea and was ultimately one of the most prominent ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 11/18/2014 - 13:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver

... Jane Street, a single mother, firebrand, and little-known IWW organizer, orchestrated a 1916 housemaids' rebellion in Denver. To fight ... Street worked with—and later, despite—the IWW to blacklist and shame the area's worst domestic employers, thereby ... and the Rebel Maids of Denver and Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family , Botkin has received two Spur ...

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(33294) Helen Keller, Henry Ford, 1916

Helen Keller--pacifist, socialist, advocate for the disabled, and I.W.W. member--"listens" to Henry Ford speak during a 1916 visit to Detroit. The two found common cause in their pre-World War I peace efforts and Henry Ford's work in accommodating disab ...

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(5225) Akron Rubber Strike, Demonstrations, 1913

Supporters of striking rubber workers show their disdain for management during the I.W.W. Rubber Strike against B.F. Goodrich in Akron, Ohio. Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Strikers respond to the threat of plant manager Shaw to rem ...

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William E. Trautmann Papers

... and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), William Trautmann served as secretary-treasurer and on the first IWW executive board. As an IWW organizer, Mr. Trautmann led the 1909 McKees ...

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(4923) Demonstrations, Free Speech, LGBTQ Rights, San Francisco, 1992

Members and supporters of the IWW hold signs that support free speech and advocate for gay rights within ...

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(5214) Matilda (Rabinowitz) Robbins, Portrait, Little Falls, New York, 1913

Snapshot of I.W.W. organizer Matilda Robbins, writing at her desk. Photograph was taken in Little Falls, New York. Date:  1913-01 Physdesc:  Photograph (Industrial Workers of the World, Robbins, Matilda, Socia ...

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