AFL Office of the Secretary-Treasurer, George Meany records
Collection
0039-LBR-RG2-006
The Office of the Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) maintained administrative and financial records for the activities of the AFL from 1940-1952. This record group contains files accumulated and created by the Secretary-Treasurer George Meany that span Meany's time as secretary-treasurer from 1940-1952. The files include geographic files, statements, and reports related to the Economic Cooperation Administration, as well as war files, reference files, calendars and engagement books, and speeches accumulated in the course of George Meany's time as Secretary-Treasurer.
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10.50 Linear Feet
English
This collection contains materials accumulated by George Meany in the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer from 1940-1952. Major subjects include the Economic Cooperation Administration as well as AFL involvement in wartime advisory committees. Materials include reports, correspondence, geographic files, war files, reference files, calendars and engagement books, and typescripts of Meany's speeches during his tenure as Secretary-Treasurer.
This collection is arranged into five series, according to type and subject of file.
The Office of the Secretary-Treasurer transferred these records to the George Meany Memorial Archives in 1982. The George Meany Memorial Archives transferred these records as part of a major transfer of their library and archive holdings to the University of Maryland Libraries in 2013.
Tom Connors at the George Meany Memorial Archives initially processed these records in July 1984. The University of Maryland Libraries received the records and the finding aid in 2013. In 2017, Bria Parker exported and cleaned the finding aid contents using OpenRefine, and finally transformed the finding aids into Encoded Archival Description (EAD) using a series of programmatic scripts. The finding aid was ingested into ArchivesSpace in 2017, at which point Jen Eidson updated the descriptive content for accuracy. Revisions include changes to scope and content notes, and the creation of new collection numbers. Jennifer Eidson also enhanced custodial histories and re-wrote collection titles to better conform to archival standards.
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