Box 2 [RG99-001] [WH16:22]
Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:
A.F. of L. Record, Labor Omnia Vincit, Membership, [name] Called to from Labor to rest…[date], 1905
Color certificate for death notice of union member with 16 vignette images of workers in different vocations. Portraits of Gompers and Morrison in the center top. Entered according to Act of Congress by J.M. Vickroy.
Whereas, since the last meeting of the Executive Board of the Union Label Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor there has passed from this life the peerless leader of labor's host of our Country; and whereas Samuel Gompers was recognized.....[...], January 5, 1925
Resolution created by the Union Label Trades Department to honor and memorialize the memory of Samuel Gompers upon his death.
Blackest Labor Record broadside, Undated
Broadside opposing John Hammill for senator from Iowa. Item details Hammill's anti-labor policies implemented while governor of Iowa and then details organizations that have condemned or opposed Hammill. The broadside also supports Major Frank J. Lund for senate. Printed by the Iowa Unionist Printing Company and contributed to by Lewis, J.C.; McAnally, R.J.; Sherman, M.E. ; Brown, J.J.; and Williams, D. L.
Exposition Universelle De 1900 Le Jury International des recompenses Décerne un Diplôme de Grand Prix a la American Federation of Labor, a Washington, August 18, 1900
Award granted to the AFL by the French Ministry of commerce, Industry, Posts, and Telegraphs. Document was created by the Ministère du Commerce, de L'Industrie, des Postes et des Télégraphes.
Universal Exposition, Saint Louis, 1904 Grand Prize, 1904
Grand Prise awarded to the American Federation of Labor, for statistics and publications illustrating work of the federation. Text of the award reads "United States of America Universal Exposition Saint Louis MDCCCCIV Commemorating the Acquisition of the Louisiana Territory the International Jury of Awards has Conferred a Grand Prize upon American Federation of Labor Statistics and Publications Illustrating Work of the Federation."
Opening of the Panama Canal Medal of Honor, 1915, 1915
Award granted to the AFL for a "comprehensive exhibit of the scope and activities of the Federation" by the international jury of awards of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition celebrating the opening of the panama canal.
Your Flag and My Flag Poem, 1916
Broadside featuring an image of the American flag, and lyrics to the song "Your Flag and My Flag" written by Wilbur D. Nesbit. The item has a handwritten note to Samuel Gompers as well but the name of the inscriber is illegible.