Few regions can rival the rich, lively labor history of the San Francisco Bay Area. This history is preserved in primary source and vintage history materials at the Labor Archives and Research Center. Founded in 1985 by trade union leaders, historians, labor activists and university administrators, the Labor Archives is a unit of the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University.
The Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University's digital collection at California Revealed consists of still images, moving images, and audio recordings from the 1950s to the 2000s. The collection includes extensive oral histories, political advertisements produced by the California Labor Federation, and photographs documenting the California Labor School, a cultural hub for the Bay Area's progressive and labor communities during the 1940s and 1950s.
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