Mexico
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
AFL Office of the President, Samuel Gompers and Woodrow Wilson correspondence
Collection
0029-LBR-RG1-013
Abstract
This collection consists of letters exchanged between AFL president Samuel Gompers and U.S. president Woodrow Wilson during the latter part of Wilson's presidency, covering a wide variety of topics pertaining to labor and World War I between 1914 and 1919.
Dates:
1914-1919
Brantz Mayer papers
Collection
0322-MDHC
Abstract
Brantz Mayer was a prominent nineteenth-century Baltimore citizen, historian, and writer. This collection provides supporting documentation for two of Mayer's works on the history of Mexico: Mexico as It Was and as It Is (1844) and Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican (1851). The Brantz Mayer papers include diaries and notes kept by Mayer during his travels.
Dates:
1820-1853; Majority of material found within 1842-1853
Samuel Gompers, 1887-1982
Series
4
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
/
AFL-CIO Information Department, Photographic Prints collection
Scope and Contents
Includes images from Samuel Gompers' personal life, his career as a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, and various ceremonies and memorials after his death in 1924. Most of the images are from the 1900s-1920s. A sizeable portion of the collection consists of individual images, both formal and informal. The series also includes images of Gompers with various American and international labor leaders of the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries. Of special...
Dates:
1887-1982