Audio clip and text of interview with Richard Rowe, a business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63, who discusses his background, his entrance into the iron working trade, his involvement in the IWU, labor history, and the current state of…
Image series depicting Jess Hatcher of Ararat, VA drying apples. Photographs show Jess Hatcher looking over a screen full of apples set in the sun to dry. Photography by Terry Eiler. Part of the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection,…
Image of a one room school house that has closed for the summer. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Image and caption from Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker: Richard Rich Rowe, business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63 and unofficial iron worker historian, at IWU Local #63 Headquarters in Broadview, IL.
Image and caption from Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker: An Iron Worker Union (IWU) Local #63 pin honoring work on the Chicago "bean" [Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" sculpture] in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Many members…
Three photographs taken by Douglas DeNatale on August 22, 1987 at a picnic held at the home of Frances Milot Forest in Westford, MA. Documentation created as a part of the Lowell Folklife Project.Photographs presented here come from three different…