Posts tagged with Labadie Collection in Blog Beyond the Reading Room

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Altared States by Alison Bechdel. "Having quashed their last-minute reluctance, our starry-eyed brides now find themselves in the back yard surrounded by loving circle of their nearest and dearest!
  • Karmen Hall Beecroft
Before the 21st century marriage equality campaign, how did LGBT individuals frame their own relationships against the backdrop of a hostile society? Delving into the Joseph A. Labadie Collection, a pioneering record of American social and political protest movements, uncovers some surprising answers.
An drawn illustration of a boy, eyes closed, eating a doughnut fresh from the machine.
  • Kate Foster Hutchens
The first Friday in June is National Doughnut Day! We have items across our collections that feature this delectable treat...
Joe Hill's Last Will, November 19, 1915. "Don't Mourn But Organize"
  • Julie Herrada
A commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, the famous Wobbly bard.
Excerpt from trial transcript
  • Julie Herrada
On November 5th, 1916, the town of Everett, WA, witnessed a violent confrontation between a citizens’ militia hostile to labor unions and a group of Industrial Workers of the World members sailing into the town’s port to support local workers on strike. The Labadie Collection has secured a new set of archival documents about the Everett Massacre to be available to researchers.
Goldman's grave
  • Julie Herrada
The famous suitcase belonging to the anarchist Emma Goldman has found its final resting place in the Labadie Collection, 75 years after its last journey.
  • Julie Herrada
A 5+ year digitization project resulting in over 2,000 social protest images is now accessible to the world.
  • Julie Herrada
Take a peak at what a visiting Irish researcher is working on in the Labadie Collection!
  • Julie Herrada
A long-desired recon project finally gets attention.
Poster for Screening Event: Food Chains documentary
  • Athena Jackson
Mark your calendars for a free screening of FOOD CHAIN$: The Revolution in America's Fields documentary.

March 3, 2015 | 4pm to 6pm | Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery
  • Julie Herrada
A beautifully crafted, limited edition of essays and poems by Joseph Labadie was recently donated to us. Jo Labadie & His Little Books was created on a hand-operated printing press and bound by Michael Coughlin at his print shop in Cornucopia, Wisconsin.