Condé Memorial Collection
The Condé Memorial Collection contains labour heritage objects and artworks donated in 2024 by Karl Beveridge in memory of his partner in life and art, Carole Condé. Beveridge and Condé are renowned labour artists and two of the founding members of WAHC. The objects in this donation consist of historical objects relating to labour movements and unions in Canada, USA, Australia, England, and Norway. Priority was given by Beveridge to collect objects related to Canadian unions, but he also collected objects relating to American unions if they had Canadian contingents. International labour objects were often gifts from Condé and Beveridge’s unionist colleagues from around the world. Many of these objects are evidence of individuals’ active union membership, such as delegate ribbons from union conventions, dues booklets/receipts, and union pin-back buttons and pins. Others are evidence of labour print history, such as letterpress cuts and union constitution booklets. There are union branded clothing objects such as a necktie, hats, and a briefcase, as well as labels and tags calling for union labels. Other objects include shirt buttons, sculptures, signs, educational materials, stickers, a tobacco pouch, postcards, matchbooks, lighters, and handbooks. Together, the objects in this collection trace material histories of global union membership, campaigns, and labour movements from the 1880s-present.
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