In this interview Arthur Brown recounts his early years as a lithographic artist for Stone Limited in Toronto Canada. Brown also recalls his election to numerous offices at the local level, and his twenty-year role as the international vice-president…
This interview with Harry Conlon was conducted while he was executive-vice-president of Chicago local #245 chapter of the G.A.I.U.(Graphic Arts International Union) Mr. Conlon describes his apprenticeship as a photoengraver for the Chicago-Sun-Times.…
Richard Clarke began his lithographic career in Montreal and joined the Lithographers union in 1941. By 1949 he was president of his local. In 1957 he was appointed International Representative and became vice-president in 1964. Clarke describes the…
Interview with Mike Smith about the Detroit radio and television personality's career as "Bob Allison," host of such shows as "Ask Your Neighbor" and "Bowling for Dollars." He and his wife Maggie Allesee are also well-known Detroit philanthropists.
Oral history interview with Eleanor Josaitis, co-founder of Focus:HOPE. This interview covers Josaitis’s involvement with the organization from 1968-2007.
This interview was conducted with John Connolly shortly after the union he was president of, the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, merged with the Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union to form the Graphic Arts International…
Henry J. Dillon began his career in the photoengraving trade in Chicago in 1937 in a non-union trade shop. Having been fired by his shop for economic reasons, he received further employment at another non-union shop until his entrance into the Air…
John Gabbard joined the Photoengravers’ Union in 1954 when he was working as a mask-out artist and then as a permit man for Advertisers Engraving in Cincinnati, Ohio. In there was a four week strike at Advertisers Engraving. As a result of his…
Mel Galbraith’s introduction to the lithography trade began in the Navy in 1946 and later in 1952 training young people in a sub-tender print shop. Out of the service Galbraith served as an apprentice on a multilith press in Minneapolis, joined…