This newspaper diamond workers confirms Amsab-ISG reiterates its international role as a heritage center by bringing international online digitized collections from France.
Our French colleagues from La Fraternelle retreat since the 1980s the fate of the famous Maison du Peuple of Saint-Claude and have managed to build this historic site to " un espace culturel et artistique, lieu de mémoire, the diffusion et de création contemporary implante au coeur de la ville et du Haut Jura. "
Saint-Claude has traditionally been a center of diamond industry and the former economies possess also rich collections of the unions of the diamond workers. This sector has always been strong internationally and there were regular contacts between the diamond associations from the Jura Switzerland, Antwerp, Rotterdam and London. Therefore, the question of our French colleagues Amsab-ISH is gladly accepted's back a few years to work together on the digitization and online accessibility of these collections.
The result can now be found in the catalog of Amsab-ISH. There are two sets of digitized are available. The first is the newspaper of the French unions diamond L'Ouvrier Diamantaire from the period 1920-1939. This newspaper report systematically on the situation in the diamond industry in France but also internationally. Who is interested in the history of the Antwerp diamond sector will find herein certainly original information. There are 170 songs consulted online, they are full text accessed via this link: http://opac.amsab.be/Record/Tijdschriften_400004973 .
For some time is also a second collection available online, especially the digitized archives of the international diamond workers union Alliance Universelle des Ouvriers Diamond Aires (AUOD) . The archive contains documents from its founding in 1890 until after the Second World War. It is very complete and especially offering compelling series correspondence between the French, Belgian, Dutch and other diamond associations. It counts 257 files in PDF format and can be accessed via this link: http://opac.amsab.be/Record/496 .
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