Abraham Feinglass Collection of Visual Materials

 

Container List for the Collection at the Chicago Historical Society

 

By Diane Ryan, 1987

 

 

© Copyright 2004, Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614

 

 

 

Title:

Abraham Feinglass collection of visual materials

Inclusive dates:

[1930-1980, bulk 1940-1980]

Creator:

Feinglass, Abraham, 1910-1981

Accession no.:

1985.0471

Extent:

Call #: 1985.0471 PPL

685 photographic prints : b&w ; 31 x 51 cm. (12 x 20 in.) or smaller.

1 album (298 photographic prints) ; 60 x 48 cm. (23 1/2 x 19 in.)

2 photomechanical prints : b&w ; 24 x 15 cm. (9 1/2 x 6 in.) or smaller.

1 drawing : b&w ; 30 x 21 cm. (12 x 8 in.)

Call #: 1985.0471 PCP0005

16 photographic prints : col. ; 11 x 14 in. smaller.

Call #: 1985.0471 PPN0075-0076

47 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.

Call #: 1985.0471 PNG

1 folder of non-graphic material.

Restriction:

Credit photographers. Advance appointment required to view color material in cold storage.

Summary:

Primarily depicts union meetings, conferences, conventions, in Chicago and other cities; and leaders of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union (I.F.L.W.U.) and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America while Feinglass served as I.F.L.W.U. president (1954-1955) and international vice-president of Fur & Leather Dept. of Amalgamated Meat Cutters (1956-1980). Includes a few photographs of demonstrations by factions of these groups; relations with labor groups in Greece, Israel, France and Canada; selected political leaders; and informal photographs and one caricature of Chicago area residents, Feinglass and his wife, Bessie.

Provenance:

Gift of Bessie Feinglass, 1982 (1985.0471).

Related collections:

A related collection is the Abraham Feinglass papers in the Archives & Manuscripts Collection, Chicago Historical Society.

Digital resource:

http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/finding_aids/1985/ph1985-471 Feinglass.htm

Finding aid available online

Online catalog headings:

  1. Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
  2. Feinglass, Abraham, 1910-1981
  3. Feinglass, Bessie, 1907-
  4. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
  5. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  6. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
  7. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
  8. Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
  9. Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Fur and Leather Dept.
  10. International Fur and Leather Workers Union.
  11. United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
  12. Afro-Americans -- Work -- United States.
  13. Clothing industry unions -- United States.
  14. Fur garments -- United States.
  15. Jews -- Work -- United States.
  16. Labor -- United States.
  17. Labor unions -- United States.
  18. Leather industry and trade -- Illinois -- Chicago.
  19. Meat industry strikes -- United States.
  20. Meetings. -- United States.
  21. Shoe industry strikes -- United States.
  22. Strikes -- United States.
  23. Women -- Work -- United States.
  24. Industries -- Canada.
  25. Industries -- Illinois -- Chicago.
  26. Industries -- France.
  27. Industries -- Greece.
  28. Industries -- United States
  29. United States -- Relations -- Israel.
  30. Caricatures.
  31. Ephemera.
  32. Group portraits.
  33. Photograph albums.
  34. Portrait photographs.
  35. Snapshots.
  36. Drawings.
  37. Photomechanical prints.
  38. Photographic prints -- Color.
  39. Silver gelatin prints.

 

Container list:

Box 1 1930-1949
1 Labor union meetings, 1930-1949
2 Labor union meetings, 1930-1949
3 Labor union meetings--Children's events, 1940-1949
4 Labor union meetings--I.F.L.W.U., Midwest District Council meeting, 4th (Chicago: 1949)

Box 2 1950-1959
1 Labor union meetings, 1950-1959
2 Labor union meetings--I.F.L.W.U., Annual Midwest District Conference, 7th (Chicago: 1953)
3 Labor union meetings--I.F.L.W.U., Annual Midwest District Conference, 8th (Chicago: 1954)
4 Labor union meetings--I.F.L.W.U., Biennial Convention, 20th (Atlantic City, NJ: 1954)
5 Labor union meetings, 1957

Box 3 1958-1969
1 Labor union meetings, 1958
2 Labor union meetings, 1959
3 Labor union meetings--I.F.L.W.U., Annual Midwest District Conference, 12th (Chicago: 1959)
4 Labor union meetings, 1960-1969
5 Labor union meetings, 1960-1969
6 Labor union meetings--Fur & Leather Council (Chicago: 1960)

Box 4 1962-1981
1 Labor union meetings--Furrier's Joint Council of New York, 50th Anniversary (New York: 1962)
2 Labor union meetings--Furrier's Joint Council of New York, John F. Kennedy Memorial Meeting (New York: 1963)
3 Labor union meetings, 1970-1981

Box 5 Other topics, 1930-1981
1 International relations--Canada and France, 1940-1969
2 International relations--Greece, 1940-1959
3 International relations--Israel, 1950-1969
4 Personal (incl. portraits of A. F.), 1940-1981
5 Portraits, 1930-1981
6 Workers, strikes and demonstrations, 1950-1979

Box 6 Rolled photographs
1 Testimonial dinner for Abraham Feinglass, Chicago Histadrut Israel Campaign, 10/26/57
2 A public tribute to Patrick E. Gorman, General Secretary-Treasurer, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local 342, 640, A. F. of L., Hotel Sheraton-Astor, 1/15/56
3 Unidentified group of women at dinner
4 Weizmann Institute of Science, Chicago Committee Banquet honoring Patrick E. Gorman, Palmer House, 9/11/66
5 I.F.L.W.U., 20th Biennial Convention, Chelsea Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ, 5/54
6 [Certificate] John F. Kennedy Peace Forest in Israel 10 trees...in honor of Int. Vice President of Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Abe Feinglass, Planted by Rabbi H. Judah Hurwitz, No. 23725

Box 7 Album
Labor union meetings and activities, ca. 1934-1954

Box X
1 Duplicate photographs (11)

Photoprints--Color
1 folder: Primarily personal snapshots, group portraits at dinners, ca. 1960s

Negatives--B&w
1 folder: Scenes from a tannery or fur garment factory; copy negatives of a demonstration of meat & poultry workers in Millsboro, Del., ca. 1960; unidentified people [personal?]