See American History to 1865, American History from 1865, African American History, Native American History, Pacific Northwest History, State History, History of Women, and World War II for other sites related to American history.
- Anthracite Coal Strike
Collection of transcribed primary sources and digitized cartoons dealing with the 1902 strike. Also see the Mother Jones Collection for additional letters dealing with the strike.- Bisbee Deportation of 1917
Collection of digitized materials dealing with 1917 deportation of miners includes "I.W.W. publications, personal recollections, newspaper articles, court records, government reports, correspondence, and journal articles."- Centralia Massacre and the Industrial Workers of the World Collection
Selection of materials drawn from the Seattle office of the Industrial Workers of the World labor organization. Includes pamphlets, leaflets and correspondence documenting the I.W.W.'s involvement in the Centralia Massacre of 1919 and general publications from the national I.W.W. organization.- Copper Mine Strike of 1913-1914
Exhibit created by Michigan Technological University of the 1913 strike in Copper County Michigan. The site includes a brief narrative and selected photographs and documents.- Everett Massacre Collection
Digital collection of approximately 100 items documenting labor's perspective on the events of the 1916 Everett Massacre. Also see Everett Public Library's collection of photographs and documents.- Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
Collection of photos, oral histories, newspaper (El Malcriado published by the NFWA and the Movement published by SNCC of California) and more documenting Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker's Movement. Also see FBI documents on Chavez and the United Farm Workers.- Flint Sit-Down Strike
Collection of nearly 100 audio files and transcripts of those participating in the 1937 strike.- Haymarket Affair
This American Memory "collection showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair" of 1886-1887. Also see Dramas of Haymarket.- Industrial Workers of the World
Part of the American Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University. Also see Jim Crutchfield's IWW Page and I.W.W. in Washington State.- Jewish Labor and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
Exhibit presented by the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives of New York University provides narrative, documents and photographs.- Seattle General Strike
Records, oral histories, news coverage and photographs documenting the Seattle General Strike of 1919. Part of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Project directed by Professor James Gregory at the University of Washington.- The Trial of Bill Haywood
This site includes a chronology, excerpts from trial transcripts, and photographs of 1907 Haywood (leader of the Western Federation of Miners) trial. Part of the Famous Trials web site.- The Triangle Factory Fire
Photographs, contemporary accounts and reports of the fire of 1911. Presented by the Kheel Center in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.- The Union Makes Us Strong
2000 images, reports, and documents detailing the history of the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain.- WTO History Project
A collection of interviews and images depicting the protests of the WTO ministerial meeting held in Seattle on November 29 - December 3, 1999.
- A & L Tirocchi Dressmakers Project
Collection of "ledgers, photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera" documenting the history a Providence, Rhode Island dressmaker from 1915 to 1947.- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
"The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations." Also see America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 and Voices from the Dust Bowl. Part of American Memory.- Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry & Culture
Letters, photos, oral histories and more that illustrate the "not only the lives of railroad barons and steel titans, but also the experiences of the regular folks who work and live in the community."- Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century
Oral histories, photographs and an exhibit depicting working life in Bridgeport, Connecticut over the last century.- The Glovers of Fulton County
This project "is a research and documentation project that examines the glove industry of Fulton County, New York." Included are transcripts, photographs and clips from a documentary. Part of the History & Media Initiatives at the University of Albany.- Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Companion site to the book this web site includes narrative, photographs and oral history excerpts that document southern textile mill towns from the 1880s to the 1930s. Also see A Southern Mill Village: History of Old West Durham.- Oral History Project in Labor History
Oral history transcriptions of 68 Chicago area labor movement leaders and union members.- Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
"This multi-media web site brings the vital history of Seattle's civil rights movements to life with dozens of video oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, documents, movement histories, and personal biographies." Part of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Project directed by Professor James Gregory at the University of Washington.- Women Working 1870-1930
"This is the prototype of the Open Collections Program Women Working project. This site will provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930."- Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in a Urban Setting
Excerpts from audio interviews and photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project conducted in Paterson, New Jersey in 1994. Part of American Memory.
- 1934 International Longshoremen's Association and General Strikes of San Francisco
Digitized collection and finding aid created by the Bancroft Library of UC Berkeley. Part of the Online Archive of California. Other labor related collections of photographs include agricultural workers, labor camps and oil industry.- America at Work/America at Leisure
Collection of 150 digitized films dating from 1894-1915 depicting work and leisure activities.- Changing Face of the Auto Industry
Collection of photographs depicting Detroit's auto industry from 1890-1940. For more photographs of the Detroit area see Virtual Motor City Collection- Inside an American Factory
Collection of 21 films depicting the Westinghouse Works in 1904.- Kheel Center Labor Photos
Photographs from Cornell University's colelction of labor photographs. Registration required to view the images.- Labadie Collection
Labor collection at the University of Michigan includes finding guides and more than 900 labor-related digitized images.- Labor Arts
Collection includes posters, buttons and other artworks that comprise "the cultural artifacts of working people and their organizations."- National Child Labor Committee Collection
Collection of more than 5,000 photographs by Lewis Hine documenting the working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1921.- U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection
Calumet Regional Archives collection of more than 2,200 photographs dating from 1906 to 1971 of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana.
Photograph: Lewis Hine, Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C., 1908. Courtesy of the Library of Congress' National Child Labor Committee Collection.
