David Montgomery Papers
1820-1925, 1953-2009, inclusive
; 1960-2000, bulk
Montgomery, David, 1927-2011
Montgomery, David, 1927-2011 (Role: Donor)
Montgomery, Ed (Role: Donor)
Materials are in English with some materials in French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.
The David Montgomery Papers document the professional career and, in some cases, the personal life of historian and professor David Montgomery (1927-2011).The bulk of the collection consists of Montgomery's research files, which mainly focus on the labor history of the United States, although some files describe labor movements that occurred in China, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Latin America. Materials include photocopies of articles, newspaper clippings, correspondence, printed ephemera, handwritten notes, typescripts, and FOIA files. Three boxes are specifically devoted to the FBI files of Jay Lovestone, a former Communist Party USA leader who became a militant anti-communist, specializing in combating communism in labor movements in the U.S. and abroad, was employed by the AFL-CIO for this purpose, and cooperated closely with U.S. government agencies. In addition to Montgomery's research files, the collection also contains a few awards, some materials related to Yale University where Montgomery taught, photographs, course materials (including student theses), medical records, personal financial documents (including tax returns), and child artwork.
Peter Meyer Filardo and Aniko Szucs, with updates by Andrea Kutsenkow in July 2017
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Language: Finding aid written in English.
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