Inventory of the Wilbur Hobby Papers, 1956-1968

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Hobby, Wilbur

Wilbur Hobby Papers, 1956-1968

Material in English

13.3 Linear Feet

10,000 Items

Labor leader, from Durham, N.C.

Papers of Hobby while he served as southeast area director of the Committee on Political Education of the AFL-CIO. The collection also includes material from Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, and South Carolina on voting records, issue positions, activities of congressmen and other political officials, elections statistics, reports of state labor conferences, memoranda on unionization in various industries, reports of the state directors of the Committee on Political Education, and state labor publications. Box 52 is closed to research.

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[Identification of item], Wilbur Hobby Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

The Wilbur Hobby Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library in 1970.

Processed by RBMSCL staff

Encoded by Ted Holt, May 2008

Accession from 1970 is described in this finding aid.

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

Papers of Hobby while he served as southeast area director of the Committee on Political Education of the AFL-CIO. The collection also includes material from Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, and South Carolina on voting records, issue positions, activities of congressmen and other political officials, elections statistics, reports of state labor conferences, memoranda on unionization in various industries, reports of the state directors of the Committee on Political Education, and state labor publications. Box 52 is closed to research.

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