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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection PHOTOS.223
Descriptive Summary
| Creator:
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Communist Party of the United States of America |
| Source
- dnr:
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Andrews, Bill, 1937- |
| Source:
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Communist Party of the United States of America |
| Title: |
The Daily Worker and The Daily World Photographs Collection
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| Dates [inclusive]: |
1920-2001 |
| Dates [bulk]: |
1930-1990 |
| Abstract: |
The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time
the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States
that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide
range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the
world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century.
However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and
economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty,
labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist
and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement.
The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences
between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print
publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through
a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of
images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events
associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as
well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked
with the CPUSA or Left politics.
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| Quantity: |
227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes. |
| Language: |
Captions are in English, Russian and German. |
| Call Phrase: |
PHOTOS.223 |
| Sponsor: |
Detailed processing for this collection was made possible by a grant from the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
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