{"id":9242,"date":"2024-11-07T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/specialcollections\/?page_id=9242"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:45:37","slug":"molloy-labor-and-transit-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/specialcollections\/molloy-labor-and-transit-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Molloy Labor and Transit Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero fullwidth   cl-has-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><div class=\"block\"><h1>Molloy Labor and Transit Collections<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2247\/Molloy_Trolley_1500x500-e1735313906175.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls-container\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-icon\" title=\"Accessibility controls\">Accessibility controls<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-motion-control cl-accessibility-control-hidden\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Pause motion\">Pause motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">On<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Play motion\">Play motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Off<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-contrast-control\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Increase text contrast\">Increase text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Standard<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Reset text contrast\">Reset text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">High<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-system-setting\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle\" title=\"Apply my preferences site-wide\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle-label\">Apply site-wide<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-hero-caption-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero-caption\">Newport Trolley, 1889<\/div><div class=\"cl-hero-credit\">Providence Public Library Digital Collections<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\">This collecting area honors Professor Emeritus Scott Molloy\u2019s commitment to the documentation of the region\u2019s labor, industrial, and transit history.\u00a0 It encompasses collections of primary source material produced or collected by organizers and researchers as well as the records of unions.\u00a0 Molloy has been helping UASC build our collections in this area since 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg233.xml\"><strong>Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 618<\/strong> <strong>(Providence, R.I.) Records<\/strong><\/a><br>Gr.233; 1913-1996; 3.5 linear feet<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg219.xml\"><strong>Brown and Sharpe Labor Strikes Collection<\/strong><\/a><br>Gr.219; 1853-1997; 2.25 linear feet<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg230.xml\"><strong>Edwin C. Brown Labor Union Collection<\/strong><\/a><br>Gr.230; 1953-1984; 5 linear feet<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg231.xml\"><strong>Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection<\/strong><\/a><br>Gr.231; 1904-2000; 2 linear feet<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg248.xml\"><strong>Duane Clinker Labor and Community Organizing Papers<\/strong><\/a><br>Processed; approximately 60 linear feet<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Kane Collection of Rhode Island Transit Historical Records<\/strong><br>Unprocessed; approximately 7 linear feet<\/li>\n<li><strong>MacAloon Labor Collection<\/strong><br>Unprocessed; approximately 13 linear feet<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg232.1.xml\"><strong>Scott Molloy Papers<\/strong><\/a><br>Gr.232.1; 1773-2024; 26.5 linear feet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg232.xml\"><strong>Scott Molloy Research Collection<\/strong><\/a><br>Gr.232; 1864-2009; 15 linear feet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Ritchie Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Papers<\/strong><br>Unprocessed; approximately 3 linear feet<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg234.xml\"><strong>Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Collection<\/strong><\/a><br>Gr.234; 1891-2000; 3.75 linear feet<br><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchives.apps.uri.edu\/xml\/msg229.xml\"><strong>Arthur H. Riani and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lodge 66 Papers<\/strong><\/a><br>Gr.229; 1923-1989; 1.5 linear feet<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related materials:&nbsp; UASC also holds the records of the University\u2019s faculty union, a local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP; see <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/specialcollections\/manuscripts_list2\/\">Manuscripts &amp; Personal Papers<\/a>) and is the repository of a number of oral history projects documenting the lives of Rhode Island workers (see <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/specialcollections\/oralhist_list2\/\">Oral Histories<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>UASC is actively acquiring materials in this collecting area as resources allow.&nbsp; It seeks organizational records, personal papers, and other primary source material related to labor and the labor movement in the State of Rhode Island and to local industries.&nbsp; It also seeks similar collections that enhance its current holdings related to transit and transportation in the region with a particular interest in the intersection of labor and transit.&nbsp; Please see UASC Collecting Policy (forthcoming) for more information about what UASC does and does not collect.<\/p>\n<p>UASC also seeks funding to support the arrangement and description of unprocessed collections.&nbsp; Please contact Director Karen Walton Morse if you would like to make a donation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collecting area honors Professor Emeritus Scott Molloy\u2019s commitment to the documentation of the region\u2019s labor, industrial, and transit history.\u00a0 It encompasses collections of primary source material produced or collected by organizers and researchers as well as the records of unions.\u00a0 Molloy has been helping UASC build our collections in this area since 2009. 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