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Primary sources for historical research: U.S. economic, business and labor history
This guide lists important collections of primary sources on U.S. economic, business and labor history held by the Princeton University Library. It covers microform, print and digital collections. Microforms listed in this guide are housed in Firestone Library Microforms Service on C floor. Printed guides to these collections are usually also housed in Microforms Service and have call numbers beginning "FilmB." A few collections held by Princeton Theological Seminary or by the Center for Research Libraries are also listed in this guide. Please consult a librarian for help if you would like to use these collections. For further information, please see Guides to primary sources for historical research: introduction.
Table of Contents
On the slave trade and plantations, see also Primary sources for historical research: African-American History and the Antebellum South.
| Minutes of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor [microform] |
| Microfilm 09605 |
41 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD8055.A5 M568 |
| Consists of records of the AFL. The collection documents not only the activities of the AFL, and the relations of the federated unions, but also labor issues in general. Online guide: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/upa_cis/group.asp?g=215 |
| American Federation of Labor records [microform] |
| Microfilm 05599 |
55 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD8055.A5 S72 1985 |
| Consists of material from the "strikes and agreements" file, 1898-1953, which documents the AFL's relations with local unions throughout the U.S. and in many industries. |
| American Federation of Labor records [microform]: the Samuel Gompers era |
| Microfilm 11807 |
144 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
HD8055.A5W57 |
| Consists of records of the AFL, including minutes and letterbooks, and the files of the office of the President. Most of the material dates from the first quarter of the 20th century. On Gompers, see http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00278.html |
| Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor. Collection 2, American Federation of Labor and the unions [microform]: national and international union records from the Samuel Gompers era |
| Microfilm 11806 |
5 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD8055.A5 A68 |
| Consists of correspondence between Gompers, president of the AFL, and other national and international unions (e.g. the United Mine Workers and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union) plus additional records documenting those unions. On Gompers, see http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00278.html |
| Samuel Gompers letterbooks 1883-1924; William Green letterbooks, 1925 |
| Available through interlibrary loan from the Center for Research Libraries. See Borrowing Microforms from the Center for Research Libraries for more information. |
| " This set includes chiefly the outgoing correspondence of Samuel Gompers, first President of the American Federation of Labor and his successor, William Green, for 1925. Gompers' letterbooks ( aka copybooks) document a wide variety of labor issues and include correspondence with local and national organizers, heads of American foreign trade unions, members of Congress and U.S. president." [343 reels] |
| William Green papers, 1891-1952 [microform] |
| Microfilm 07252 |
21 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms Z6616.G73 G73 |
| Green was a labor leader and President of the AFL from 1924 to his death in 1952. The paper in this collection, from the Ohio Historical Society, contain his personal correspondence. See http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00288.html |
| State labor proceedings, AFL, CIO and AFL-CIO conventions, 1885-1974 |
| Available through interlibrary loan from the Center for Research Libraries. See Borrowing Microforms from the Center for Research Libraries for more information. |
Printed guide: Industrial Relations Library [Firestone] HD8055.A6 F564 1975 |
| " This microfiche edition of some 2,000 state convention proceedings summarizes unnion deliberations and includes officers' and financial reports, resolutions, elections of officers, and executive council minutes. Organized labor's attitudes toward a wide variety of political and social issues are well documented in these proceedings." [3,693 fiches] |
| American Bureau of Industrial Research [microform]: manuscript collections on the early American labor movement, 1862-1908 |
| Microfilm 05861 |
12 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD6508.A53 |
| Consists of material collected by the ABIR and archived at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Includes manuscripts, pamphlets and articles documenting the activities of late nineteenth-century labor leaders and labor organizations, including the Knights of Labor. |
| Department of Justice investigative files [microform]. Part I. The Industrial Workers of the World |
| Microfilm 06455 |
15 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
HD8055 .D47 |
| Consists of material from Record Group 60, U.S. Department of Justice, the National Archives, documenting federal investigations into the IWW, a radical labor organization that advocated a revolution against capitalism. Also documents public opinion of the IWW. |
| FBI file on Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers [microform] |
| Microfilm 11870 |
2 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
HD6509.C48 F25 1996 |
| Materials from the FBI file on Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers and activist for social justice for Mexican-American immigrants and migrant workers. This material is also available in a digital edition athttp://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/chavez.htm. For a brief biography of Chavez, see http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-01259.html. |
| FBI file on John L. Lewis [microform] |
| Microfilm
11817 |
2 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
HD6509.L4 F24 |
| Materials from the FBI file on John L. Lewis, labor organizer and president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920-1960. For a brief biography of Lewis, see http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00412.html |
| Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers, 1934-1970 [microform] |
| Microfilm 06126 |
60 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms Z7164.T7S56 |
| The STFU was organized in response to the plight of Southern sharecroppers and small farmers displaced by the New Deal. It came to represent not only black and white Southern tenant farmers, but farm workers in general. The papers document labor conditions on Southern farms, and the political, legal and advocacy activities of the union. |
| U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, 1912-1915 [microform] |
| Microfilm 05615 |
16 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD6971.S34 |
| From RG 174, Department of Labor, National Archives. The Commission was charged with investigating "the general condition of labor" in the United States. See http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/174.html |
| President's Mediation Commission, 1917-1918 [microform] |
| Microfilm 05613 |
3 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD5504.S34 1986 |
| Consists of material from Record Group 174, Department of Labor. The Commission was established as a response to strikes that affected the war effort, and to public anti-union activism. See http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/174.html#174.6.2 |
| Papers of the National War Labor Board, 1918-1919 [microform] |
| Microfilm 05614 |
22 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms KF3444.A75S34 |
| The establishment of the War Labor Board was the outcome of the Mediation Commission (see above). The Board was given authority to oversee labor disputes, and the papers consist primarily of case reports. |
| Black workers in the era of the great migration, 1916-1925 [microform] |
| Microfilm 05597 |
25 reels |
Printed guide: none |
| Consists of materials from the National Archives that document conditions in the South and the North during the early 20th century, when many African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North. Online guide: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/upa_cis/group.asp?g=207 |
| Strike files of the U.S. Department of Justice [microform] |
| Microfilm 09822 |
20 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD5324 .U547 |
| Consists of material from Record Group 60, U.S. Department of Justice, the National Archives, documenting the federal reponse to strikes. Includes correspondence from business leaders, labor leaders, and the general public, in addition to federal documents. See http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/060.html |
| Records of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, 1918-1965 [microform] |
| Microfilm 10548 |
23 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD6095 .R426 |
| The Women's Bureau was established to investigate and improve conditions for women working outside the home. The collection include reports, surveys, and articles written by Bureau staff. See http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/086.html |
| New Deal agencies and black America in the 1930s [microform] |
| Microfilm 05473 |
25 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms E185.61.L47 |
| The materials in this collection were drawn from a number of record groups in the National Archives, and document the experiences of African Americans in the workforce in the 1930s. |
| New Deal economic policies [microform] |
| Microfiche 1604 |
476 microfiches |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HC106.3 .N482 |
| Consists of congressional, presidential and Supreme Court material documenting the New Deal from inception through implementation. |
| Records of the Committee on Fair Employment Practices [microform]: Division of Review and Analysis : part 1, Racial tension file, 1943-1945 |
| Microfilm 11991 |
9 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms [in process] |
| Consists of material from Record Group 228, National Archives. See http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/228.html. |
| Records of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1961-1963 [microform] |
| Microfilm 11856 |
70 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD8072.5 .G853 1990z |
| Records of the Department of Labor during the Kennedy administration. Issues addressed include unemployment compensation, labor disputes, and the amendment of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The originals are held in the Kennedy Presidential Library. |
| National economy under President Johnson [microform]: administrative histories |
| Microfilm 09659 |
9 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HC106.6 .N374 |
| Consists of materials from the Johnson Presidential Library on a variety of economic issues. Online guide: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/upa_cis/group.asp?g=154 |
| War on poverty, 1964-1968 [microform]: selections from the holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library |
| Microfilm 05645 |
41 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HC110.P63S34 |
Consists of White House central files (16 reels) from the Johnson administration and records of the President's National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, 1966-1967 (25 reels). |
| United States v. AT&T [microform]: court documents, 1974-1984 |
| Microfilm 05636 |
30 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
KF2849.A5 U547 |
| Consists of the court documents from the landmark antitrust case, which ended the AT&T monopoly on telephone service in the U.S. |
| Reports and summary proceedings of the International Monetary Fund, 1946-1974 [microform] |
| Microfilm 10564 |
6 reels |
Printed guide: none |
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| Japan - U.S. semiconductor cases [microform] |
| Microfiche 818 |
382 microfiches |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
HF1456.5.J3J37 |
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Reproduces in their entirety the files of the semiconductor cases filed before the United States International Trade Commission, the International Trade Administration, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative" and resolved in 1986. |
| Multinational corporations, OPEC, cartels, foreign investment, and technology transfer [microform] |
| Microfilm 10634 |
53 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
HD2755.5 .M847 |
| This collection comprises studies prepared by a variety of government and non-governmental organizations to inform U.S. policy making, 1971-1988. Online guide: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/upa_cis/group.asp?g=163 |
| International trade [microform]. Special studies |
| Microfilm 10636 |
61 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
HF1379 .I575 |
| This collection comprises studies prepared by a variety of government and non-governmental organizations to inform U.S. policy making, 1971-2003. Online guide: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/upa_cis/group.asp?g=162 |
| Minute books of the American Chamber of Commerce of the port of Liverpool, 1801-1908 [microform] |
| Microfilm 00198 |
3 reels |
Printed guide: none |
| The Chamber was an English association founded to promote trade between Great Britain and the United States. |
| Papers; materials relating to the Mississippi Trading Co., 1874-8, in the Library of the Co-operative Union, Manchester |
| Microfilm 00161 |
4 reels |
Printed guide: none |
| Records of the Mississippi Valley Trading Company, which was established to promote trade between Great Britain and the United States. |
| Warner Bros. archive [microform] |
| Microfiche 1541 |
1587 microfiches |
Printed guide: uncataloged; at end of guides in Firestone Microforms |
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| British emigrant guides and pamphlets, 1819-1870 |
| Microfilm 02693 |
2 reels |
Printed guide: none |
| Microform edition of books and pamphlets in various British libraries. (Note: these are not all included in the Goldsmith's-Kress collection.) |
| Recessions, depressions, and economic panics in American history: collection of sources [microform] |
| Microfilm 05484 |
7 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HC103.R42 |
| "Gathers together and publishes ... the major documentary, investigative, and narrative sources pertaining to economic disturbances throughout American history." |
| Americans for Democratic Action papers, 1932-1965 |
| Microfilm 05623 |
142 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms E740.5.A42 |
| The ADA is a liberal advocacy organization founded in 1947. |
| Pamphlets in American History: Group III: Cooperative Societies |
| Microfiche 898 |
411microfiches |
Printed guide: E179 .P35 |
| Cooperative Societies (CS1-390) "documents the cooperative ownership movement as it began in the United States in the 19th century. There is a great deal of material on workers' co-ops formed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." |
| Pamphlets in American History: Group III: Finance |
| Microfiche 898 |
2069 microfiches |
Printed guide: E179 .P35 |
| Finance (F1-2011) "gives a history of 19th and early 20th-century discussion on such topics as bimetallism versus monometallism, banks and currency, state banks and national banks, the Federal Reserve System, taxation, and bankruptcy." |
| Pamphlets in American History: Group III: Socialism |
| Microfiche 898 |
712 microfiches |
Printed guide: E179 .P35 |
| Socialism (S1-689) "includes numerous documents published by the Socialist Labor Party and the United States Socialist Party." |
| Records of the National Negro Business League [microform] |
| Microfilm 10600 |
14 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HD2425 .R426 |
| Consists of annual conference proceedings, letters and business records of the National Negro Business League (1901-1923). The NNBL was founded to promote the "commercial, agricultural, educational, and industrial advancement" of African Americans. |
| Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945 [microform] |
| Microfilm 06818 |
21 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HX84.D3 D42 |
| Consists of the papers (correspondence, speeches, and published writings) of Eugene Debs, labor leader. On Debs, see http://www.anb.org/articles/06/06-00148.html |
| Twentieth Century Advice Literature |
| Digital collection of advice manuals, etiquette books, how-to-guides, professional manuals, textbooks, and government and association publications that provide insight into social and economic issues including race, sex, gender, and family life in 20th century America. |
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