Selected Records

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Finding aids are available for those archival collections that have been processed.  You can view the finding aid by clicking on the underlined collection title.  Larger collections (more than one box) were assigned Z numbers.  Smaller collections (one or more folders) were assigned ZZ numbers.

 

Most print items such as newsletters, contracts and agreements, constitutions and by-laws, proceedings, pamphlets, monographs, and books have been transferred to the Library for processing and cataloging.

 

 

COLLECTION

TOWN

UNION

COMPANY/INDUSTRY

SIZE

Z or ZZ

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Local P-1135.  Records, 1964-1974.

Fort Dodge

Packinghouse Workers

Iowa Beef Processors

1.00

Z 42

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Local P-1. Records, 1939-1973, 1986.

Ottumwa

Packinghouse Workers

Morrell

20.00

Z 23

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Local P-38. Records, 1965-1975.

Mason City

Packinghouse Workers

Armour and Co.

0.10

ZZ 19

American Federation of Grain Millers. Local 48.  Records, ca 1930s-1986.

Keokuk

Grain Millers

Hubinger Company

0.20

Z 39

American Federation of Grain Millers. Local 6.  Records, 1949-1980.

Clinton

Grain Millers

Clinton Corn Processing

18.00

Z 49

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Local 616.  Records, 1944-1975.

Ottumwa

AFSCME

Road construction

1.20

Z 8

American Federation of Teachers. Local 716. Records, 1946-1988.

Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids Federation of Teachers

Teachers

0.40

Z47

Bakery and Confectionary Workers International Union of America.  Local 36.  Records, 1942-1948.

Des Moines

Bakers

Omar Incorporated

0.10

ZZ 16

Billings, Harry.  Reminiscence, ca. 1978.

Cedar Rapids

Electrical Workers

Iowa Electric Light and Power Company

0.10

ZZ 53

Bluff City Typographical Union.  Local 203.  Records, 1882-1985.

Council Bluffs

Typographers

Printing trades

2.50

Z 64

Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers' International Union of America.  Local 5. Records, 1890-1953.

Sioux City

Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers

Building trades

0.40

Z 36

Brooks, Eli.  Papers, 1933

Albia

Mine Workers

Coal mining

0.10

ZZ 32

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Local 187.  Records, 1936-1964.

Clinton

Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen

Chicago & North Western Railroad

2.50

Z 54

Burlington Trades and Labor Assembly. Records, 1942-1981.

Burlington

City Central

 

0.40

Z 15

Butts, A. P.  Papers, 1948, 1979.

Fort Dodge

Railway Conductors

Railroads

0.10

ZZ 42

Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor.  Records, ca. 1956-ca. 1970.

Cedar Rapids

City Central

 

0.10

ZZ 49

Cement, Lime, Gypsum, and Allied Workers Division, Local D-66.  Records, 1976-1984.

Fort Dodge

Gypsum Workers

Gold Bond Building Products

2.20

Z 40

Central Iowa Building Trades Council.  Records, 1967-1974.

Des Moines

City Central; Building trades

Building trades

0.20

Z 35

Check voucher from Pals Transfer, Inc. to Robert Walker, 1961

 

Teamsters

 

0.10

ZZ 15

Clinton Labor Congress and Clinton County Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Temple. Records, 1919—1956.

Clinton

City Central

n/a

1.50

Z 48

Cole, Delno.  Newspaper Article, 1974.

Des Moines

Rubber Workers

 

0.10

ZZ 31

Communication Workers of America, Local 7102.  Records, 1978-1982.

Des Moines

CWA

Automotive

0.70

Z 59

Communication Workers of America.  Local 7181.  Records, 1977-1989.

Burlington

CWA (nurses)

nurses at Burlington Medical Center

0.10

ZZ 34

Dahl, Carl.  Papers, 1961-1973.

Waterloo

UAW

Farm Equipment

0.10

ZZ 9

Daly, Sister John Marie.  Thesis, 1962, 1975.

Waterloo

Electrical Workers, Packinghouse Workers, Auto Workers

Rath Packing Company, John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works, Iowa Public Service Company, American Gas Company, United States Telegraph and Telephone Company, Cedar Valley Telephone Company, Citizen Gas and Electric Company, Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company

0.20

ZZ 44

Delavan Strike of 1978-1979.

Des Moines

UAW

Delavan Corp.

0.20

ZZ 55

Des Moines Allied Printing Trades Council.  Records, 1971-2000.

Des Moines

Printing trades

Des Moines Register and Tribune

0.50

Z 65

Des Moines City Employees Joint Council.  Records, 1970-1987.

Des Moines

Firefighters, Police, municipal workers

Des Moines municipal workers

0.10

ZZ 59

Des Moines Stereotypers Union Number 40. Records, 1937-1976.

Des Moines

Stereotypers

Printing trades

1.00

ZZ 1

DeYoung, John.  John and Rosa DeYoung Papers, 1920-1967.

Quad Cities

Labor Newspaper Publisher

n/a

0.10

ZZ 8

Dubuque Federation of Labor.  Records, 1940-1966.

Dubuque

City Central

n/a

0.20

Z 46

Federal Labor Union.  No. 20878.  Records, 1937-1948.

Clinton

Federal Labor Union

Clinton Corn Processing

1.80

Z 57

Fenn, Earl.  Dues Book, 1939-1943.

Clinton

Machinists

 

0.10

ZZ 41

Firefighters, Station 9, Des Moines, Iowa.  Newspaper Articles, 1978.

Des Moines

Firefighters

 

0.10

ZZ 30

Flom, Abert. Papers, 1911-1945.

Sioux City

Plasterers and Cement Finishers

Building trades

0.10

ZZ 20

Fort Madison Trades and Labor Assembly.  Records, 1956-1987.

Fort Madison

City Central

n/a

0.60

Z 7

Graphics Arts International Union.  Local 104.  Records, 1972-1978.

Cedar Rapids

Printing trades

Cedar Rapids newspapers and commercial print shops