American Federation of Hosiery Workers, Branch 139, Royersford, Pennsylvania, records, 1937-1958

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American Federation of Hosiery Workers. Branch 139 (Royersford, Pa.)

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Records of a union local which represented employees of the Royersford Needle Works, manufacturers of parts for knitting machinery; including routine business and financial records, incoming corres...

Records of a union local which represented employees of the Royersford Needle Works, manufacturers of parts for knitting machinery; including routine business and financial records, incoming correspondence, some contracts and arbitration hearing records, and photographs.

Photographs include images of meetings and social activities of the branch. They also include images of a visit by George Baldanzi to Harvard University in 1945, and a visit by John F. Kennedy to a textile plant in New Bedford, Mass., in October 1958.

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