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Item ID | 156613 | |||
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Accession Number | BANC MSS 2010.704 |  |
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Other Number | WJHC 1969.019 (legacy) | |
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| · Number | WJHC 1969.019 | |
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| · Type | legacy | |
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Other Number | 180 (WJHC Guide) | |
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| · Number | 180 | |
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| · Type | WJHC Guide | |
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Level of description | Collection | |
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Judah L. Magnes Museum | |
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Title | Magnes collection on Levi Strauss and Company | |
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Filing Title | Magnes collection on Levi Strauss and Company | |
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Date Created | 1950-1974 | |
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Extent and Quantity | 1 box (.2 linear feet) | |
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Creation Place | USA, San Francisco Bay Area, California | |
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Biographical History | Levi Strauss has been known as the world’s largest clothing manufacturer. The founder of the company, Levi Strauss, arrived in San Francisco in 1850 and designed "Levi’s" for miners during California gold rush (four pairs of vintage jeans are owned by the Smithsonian Institution.). The clothing business was incorporated in 1890; by 1984, there were fifty-six domestic and fifty-seven overseas manufacturing plants. The company is known for social responsibility: it pioneered in the hiring and upgrading of job opportunities for minorities; it developed an affirmative action program for women; and, in 1969, it won the first Business Week magazine citizenship award. Its in-house philanthropic organization, the Levi Strauss Foundation, is staffed by volunteers from the community affairs department, and Foundation committees are linked to Levi Strauss communities throughout the country. | |
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Scope and Content | Collection consists of some biographical material on Levi Strauss and his descendants and relations, company ephemera and other business materials mainly from the 1960s and 1970s. | |
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Link to this Item | http://magnesalm.org/notebook_fext.asp?site=magnes&book=156613 | |
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Link to OCLC WorldCat | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/708089407 | |||
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Link to UC Berkeley OskiCat | http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b18367807~S1 | |||
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Link to Magnes.org | http://www.magnes.org/collections/archives/western-jewish-americana/magnes-collection-levi-strauss-and-company-1950-1974 |
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