Content Description The Boeing Company Employee Strike Posters Collection is a small collection consisting of six posters used by workers striking at the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington, in September 2005 and September 2024. Two posters from 2005 read: "Aerospace Machinists on Strike, Lodge 751 AFL-CIO, At Boeing." The other two posters from 2005 read: "Machinists Union On Strike Against Boeing, ULP!, Unfair Labor Practices!, IAM&AW District Lodge 751, AFL-CIO." The 2024 posters read: "Machinists...

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Abraham Lincoln Brearcliffe, Jr. (1899-1984) was born in Washington state and worked for Boeing from 1930-1945. The collection features photographs, clippings and newsletters, foreman's materials, labor union membership books, and assorted ephemera from Brearcliffe's time at Boeing, most of which are almost exclusively from the war years (1941-1945).

Contents of the Collection The Helen C. Eads Boeing Machinist Collection is a single-file collection that pertains to Eads' work as a machinist on B-29 aircraft at The Boeing Company in 1944. It includes Eads' union card book and "honorary retiring card" for the International Order of Machinists, Lodge Number 751-H. It also includes three black-and-white photographs. One depicts a B-29 in flight over Mount Rainier. The other two images both depict Eads; one shows her working as a machinist. The other image is a group...

Content Description The Charles Hickling Collection is a small collection consisting of various identification and membership cards of Charles Hickling, a machinist at the Boeing Company during World War II.Items in the collection include: a "Journeyman" folder with International Association of Machinists certification and dues stamps with a Boeing Aircraft Company employee identification card affixed inside cover; a "Helpers" folder with International Association of Machinists certification and...

Content Description The Velda Teel Collection is a small collection of materials possibly owned or created by James A. Teel, who was evidently a machinist at the Beoing Company in the mid 20th Century. The collection includes clippings regarding Boeing, circa 1940s-1950s and 1976; The Hawaii Times with "International Assn of Machinist & Aerospace Workers" written across front page, September 26, 1972; a booklet titled "Workers, how the wage-hour law affects you"; a U.S. Office of Price administration...