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Mark Starr Photographs

Call Number

PHOTOS.005

Date

1944-1955, inclusive

Creator

Starr, Mark, 1894-1985 (Role: Donor)
Starr, Helen Norton (Role: Donor)

Extent

1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

Mark Starr was an educator and liberal activist, and was the educational director for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union from 1935-1960. In addition to several images of Starr, the collection principally consists of photographs of women workers in Great Britain during World War II.

Historical/Biographical Note

Born in England, Mark Starr (1894-1985) served from 1935-1960 as educational director for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and had a lifelong interest in adult and workers education. A liberal activist, he was also associated with the American Labor Party, Americans for Democratic Action, the League for Industrial Democracy, and the Liberal Party.

Arrangement

The files are grouped into 1 series:

Missing Title

  1. Container list

Scope and Content Note

Includes only six photographs specifically related to Starr's work: one 8 x 10 print shows Starr participating in a special award presentation to Jan Masaryk by the League for Industrial Democracy and another includes Starr in a group portrait of Liberal Party officers. The bulk of the collection is a group of British Information Services photographs of women workers in England during WWII. Women are shown in machine shops, at an ordinance factory canteen, an aircraft factory canteen, working as "Lumberjills" and painting railway cars.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection, created by Mark Starr, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Mark Starr Photgraphs; PHOTOS 005; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Mark Starr donated his papers to Tamiment Library in 1963. Helen Norton, Starr's wife, donated an additional 45 feet of books and papers following his death in 1985. Photographs from Starr's papers have been separated from these materials and established as their own collection. The accession number associated with these photographs is 1988.007. An additional donation of one hundred sixty-eight black and white photographs taken between the 1920s and 1940s was added to the collection in 2009. The accession number associated with this gift is 2009.057.

Custodial History

Photographs in this collection were separated from the Mark Starr Papers, TAM 019.

Related Material at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Mark Starr Papers (Tamiment 19)

Harry Laidler Photographs (Photographs 009)

Collection processed by

Mary Allison Farley

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 16:31:44 -0400.
Language: Description is in English.

Edition of this Guide

This version was derived from NP5 Mark Starr Final Draft.doc

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012