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Photographs of Ironworkers and classified workers at Frontier Hotel, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1991 August 07 (folder 1 of 1)

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Date

1991-08-07

Description

Culinary Union workers strike at the Frontier Hotel and Casino on August 7, 1991. Secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Workers Union, Jim Arnold, and civil rights activist, Jesse Jackson are shown speaking on stage. Photographs also show police officers and travel buses on site. A large banner is partly shown, reading "Welcome iron workers... iron workers of the state of California and vicinity including..." Protest signs read, "Conquering the Frontier, Culinary Local 226, Bartenders Local 165." The Frontier marquee is depicted and reads, "Welcome teachers & ironworkers, bottled beer 25 cents 2pm Aug. 7 .. 10"Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.A. Frontier Strike Site name: Frontier Hotel and Casino

Digital ID

cwu0011
Details

Citation

cwu0011. Culinary Workers Union Local 226 Las Vegas, Nevada Photographs, approximately 1950-2006. PH-00382. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d18p5vm30

Rights

The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 retains copyrights to materials in this collection. Materials may be used for nonprofit purposes, including educational, teaching, scholarship, research, or other academic use. All for-profit use of copyrighted materials must receive permission in advance from the Culinary Workers Union Local 226. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

Standardized Rights Statement

Digital Provenance

Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Date Digitized

2016-06-22

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff