United Garment Workers of America Notebook
date: label: date made
content: 1908
name: label: advertiser
content: United Garment Workers of America
label: maker
content: Bastian Brothers Company
label: maker
content: United Garment Workers of America
notes: label: Description
content: With the invention of celluloid in 1870, many merchants now had a cheap, durable, and moldable plastic with which to produce complimentary advertising items. This notebook has a celluloid cover that bears an image of a man in a brown suit and hat standing before a trolley line. The man is holding his coat open to show the label for the United Garment Workers of America (UGWA). The reverse side has a warning not to accept clothing in which the label has been sewn in by the dealer, and lists four goals of the UGWA—fair pay, shorter hours, sanitary shops, and reliable clothing. The notebook contains a diary written in ink with pages indicating members of the UGWA, a calendar for 1907, and miscellaneous information such as interest tables. The notebook is meant to encourage consumers to “insist on clothing bearing the UGWA label” and not to “buy inferior, unclean, sweatshop clothing.”
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Science
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Work
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dadie and Norman B. Perlov
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1351
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1351
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Notebook with Celluloid Cover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 5 in; 6.35 cm x 12.7 cm