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Photograph of Mollie West receiving her diploma from Weekend College at Mundelein College Chicago. Mundelein College affiliated with Loyola University Chicago in 1991.

Medal worn by Mollie West at the 115th Annual International Typographical Union Conference in San Diego, CA. The medal details the dates of the conference as well as the year it occurred.

Scan of a Chicago Typographical Union (CTU) Badge. The badge depicts a Bald Eagle within a gold thread border with its wings spread. This badge is specific to the Local 16 branch of the CTU.

Photograph of Mollie West working at her desk at Commerce Clearinghouse

Scan of Mollie West’s FBI Case file. Parts of the report are blacked out to preserve confidentiality.

Photograph of a tender moment between Mollie West and her adopted son, Steven West. Steven West was born 1951 and taken in by Molle and former husband James West six weeks after his birth and later adopted by them.

Mollie [far left] pictured with other delegates in Moscow. The United States delegation was invited to visit the Soviet Union while they were in Europe attending the World Youth Congress in London and the World Student Congress in Czechoslovakia.

Correspondence from Carl Leiber describing his activities in the Army as he is being sent overseas. Dates, locations, and other information were censored out of the soldiers' letters so that information about military movements could not get into the…

The correspondence from Mollie Leiber West to Carl Leiber describes the events at the Youth Communist League (YCL) convention when it disbanded. In the letter, Mollie describes the quick and dramatic dissolution of the YCL and the founding of…

Photograph of Mollie shown with first husband Carl Leiber in his uniform.