Visual Archive
Photographs
Fig.1: Symposium, Women in the Labour Movement, July, 8 1925.
Kind permission of Kheel Center, Cornell University
Fig. 2: Second International Conference on Workers' Education,
Ruskin College, Oxford, August 15-17, 1924,
Kind permission NYPL Archives
Fig. 3: Women's Auxiliary Conference, Unity House, June 1927,
Kind permission NYPL Archives
Fig.4: Unity House, kind permission NYPL Archives
Fig. 5: Cohn reading, kind permission NYPL Archives
Fig. 6: Cohn with a young girl,
Kind permission NYPL Archives
Fig. 7: Atlantic City Convention, kind permission NYPL Archives
Fig. 8: Pesotta with the ILGWU leadership at Unity House
Fig.9: Reading under the tree that so much fascinated the students' poetry and fiction writing
Fig. 10: ILGWU GEB with Rose Pesotta among men
Fig. 11: Cbins and footpaths at Unity House
Fig. 12: Lecture on social psychology given outdoors on Unity House grounds, August, 1926
Fig.13: Unity House buildings and grounds
Fig.14: Circle dance on the lawn of the early Unity House lodge
Fig. 15: ILGWU, Local 89, Unity House
Fig. 16: Boating on the Lake at Unity House
Fig. 19: Panel from Diego Rivera's mural at Unity House, depicting the growing conflict over slavery that eventually led to the Civil War. Also included are references to the Mexican War and the discovery of gold in California. Painted in 1933.
Fig. 17: Fire at Unity House, 1969
via the Kheel Center, Cornell University photographic stream
Fig. 20: ILGWU members leave union headquarters for a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 30, 1935.
via the Kheel Center, Cornell University photographic stream
Fig.18: Group gathered at Unity House for an art exhibition and lecture, entitled "Appreciation of Art," July 5, 1925.
Fig. 21: Fannia Cohn and several men review documents
via the Kheel Center, Cornell University photographic stream
Fig. 22: Fannia Cohn waves from an ILGWU Special Convention Train
via the Kheel Center, Cornell University photographic stream
Fig.23: Poem Written by Rae Millman
Fig. 24: ILGWU Education Department members visit Radio City Music Hall in New York, February 2, 1935
via the Kheel Center, Cornell University photographic stream
Fig. 25: Students from the Bryn Mawr School for Women Workers in the Industry
Fig. 26: A poetry hour on the Bryn Mawr campus
Fig 27: Educational Recreational Center, Textile School, 1948,
kind permission NYPL Archives
Films and Plays
Filmed in 1935 by the Home Movie Service, this film provides an overview of Unity House, the ILGWU's resort in Forest Park, Pennsylvania. It provides views of the resort grounds and buildings, as well as depictions of ILGWU members and their families enjoying the facility.
'The Women of Summer' (1985) is a National Endowment for the Humanities documentary film that chronicles the history of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. The Summer School was an experimental education program for women working in industry that ran from 1921-1938.
Produced, written and directed by Suzanne Bauman; coproduced by Rita Heller; cinematography by Ross Lowell, edited by Phyllis Chinlund, music by Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert,
Colour, 57 minutes.
Women of Summer [Part II]