BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- Museum -- DC LaborFest Tour

DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- Museum -- DC LaborFest Tour:

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Description of Pictures: A very special guided tour of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) museum. The IBEW museum presents an interactive history of the IBEW from its founding until today, tracing the fascinating development of the electrical industry over the last century through displays of equipment used by members going back to the 1890’s, including a collection of lightbulbs spanning more than a century. The tour will be led by IBEW Museum Curator Curtis Bateman.

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2017_DC_IBEW: DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- DC LaborFest Tour (34 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_IBEW_Museum: DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- Museum -- DC LaborFest Tour (20 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_IBEW_Vw: DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- Views from building (57 photos from 2017)

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1. IBEWMU_170510_022.JPG: 1911 No. 317 Rural Magneto Party Line: This phone as a "five bar," 80-volt, alternating current, crank-powered ringing system for up to 40 phones over a distance of 15 miles. These phones would all be on a two-wire party line and connected to a central station like the one displayed in the adjacent telephone operator scene. Each circuit would have a code for each phone, and there was no need to go through the operator to call a phone on your circuit. Each phone is powered by three 1.5 volt batteries.
2. IBEWMU_170510_036.JPG: The Death of Henry Miller Today, the IBEW provides for the perpetual care of Miller's grave site in Washington's Glenwood Cemetery. This photo shows IBEW officers and staff at a 1976 wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of Miller's death. Henry Miller, one of the founders of the IBEW, died as a result of a work-related accident in an industry that was much more dangerous than it is today. After gathering seven AFL local unions into the NBEW, serving as the first Grand President for two terms and Grand Organizer for part of a term, Miller returned to work with the tools as a lineman. At 11:30 at night on July 10, 1896, toward the end of a long day's work tracing a lighting circuit, Miller received an electrical shock. He fell headlong from the ladder, striking his partner on the way down. Miller recieved [sic] doctor's care and was taken back to his room in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC. At about 4:30 in the morning of July 11, he died. Henry Miller was 38 years old.
3. IBEWMU_170510_052.JPG: Women in the IBEW Women have always been important members of the industrial electrical business. As skills diversified, women increasingly took to the shop floor. Here, Bettie Jane King of LU 1041 in New Jersey makes condensers at Cornell Dublier Electric. In 1891, the word "brotherhood" was considered an all inclusive word like "mankind." In 1892, NBEW sisters became a reality in the electrical industry. Electrical manufacturing and telephone companies hired more women, and the new union reached out to organize some of them. Local 1A, Boston telephone operators, joined the Brotherhood in 1912 and was the third largest local union with 2,500 members. The fight for equality would continue well into the 20th century, but today, opportunities for women abound in all branches of the IBEW. [Having said that, they've never had a female president.]
4. IBEWMU_170510_085.JPG: IBEW and the Space Program This photo shows construction of the Cape Canaveral missile pad and Blockhouse 37 with heavy wall galvanized conduit banks, which were installed by members of Local Union 756, Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1962. Since the first days of the US space program, the IBEW and union labor have helped in mankind's leap across the solar system. In 1969, IBEW locals and other union brothers and sisters manufactured the equipment for a safe lunar landing and kept communications running from Houston to the moon. The collective efforts of IBEW members were "accomplishments of the first order," according to the first man on the moon, former astronaut Neil Armstrong. As the union label flies with NASA on its space stations, satellites, and shuttles, the IBEW continues to train members to meet the demands of space-age technology.
5. IBEWMU_170510_095.JPG: U.S. Enters World War I Vol. 36, No. 10, May 1917 The Journal of the Electrical Workers and Operators
6. IBEWMU_170510_101.JPG: The Electrical Worker: Since the first issue of The Electrical Worker rolled off the press in 1893, IBEW publications have given electrical workers across North America a voice while keeping them informed about the latest developments in the industry. Displayed here are examples of historic events as seen through the lens of The Electrical Worker.
7. IBEWMU_170510_115.JPG: Journeyman Wireman, ca. 1976: In an environment where one spark can cause a deadly explosion, a journeyman wireman tests a circuit for continuity. For decades, wiremen have been among the most highly skilled of all trades, achieving journeyman status only after a rigorous multi-year apprenticeship. Wiremen are encouraged to upgrade their skills regularly.
8. IBEWMU_170510_120.JPG: As Ye Sow; So shall ye reap. Secession Cartoon Vol. 12, No. 4, March, 1912 The Electrical Worker
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA, a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin), New York City, and my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona). For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about: "Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo), "The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy), "The American Spirit" (David McCullough), "Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert), "The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and "The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover). Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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