Tobacco Workers International Union (TWIU) records

The TWIU records came to the University of Maryland’s Special Collections in six separate accessions from 1972 to 1990. Mary Bocaccio processed the core accession in 1979, creating a finding aid with five series: administration, organizers, locals, finances, and publications. The records were placed into acid-free folders and acid-free document boxes. Oversized items and memorabilia were separated from the collection and housed in format-appropriate enclosures, and photographs were removed, with some affixed to cardboard backings, and stored in the Biographical Print Files collection. In July 2011, the photographs were returned to the TWIU archives.

Five additional accessions were received between 1972 and 1990, totaling approximately 100 linear feet. Accessioned material that was not incorporated into the finding aid was minimally processed in 2023-2024. Administrative files in the archive were reviewed, and all accessions not previously inventoried were inventoried and described by Rosemarie Fettig and Jasper Nash. Existing inventories were entered into the Resource Record. The memorabilia, which had been separated from the core accession 1977-007, was inventoried on an item-level, while other unprocessed materials were inventoried at a box level. All accession records were updated with content descriptions. To make this material accessible, a series level record was added for each accession in the finding aid, listing the accessions in order by the accession number and including a descriptive title with dates. The memorabilia was incorporated into the “Locals” series, listed in order by local number. For processing information about specific accessions, please open the series level record for more details.