Wrege, Charles D. Research Papers Regarding History of Management, 1928-1994
Collection Number: 5618
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Charles D. Wrege Research Papers Regarding History of Management, 1928-1994
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5618
Abstract:
Charles Wrege's research material, correspondence, some government publications, experiment
data and miscellaneous research material used to write his papers.
Creator:
Wrege, Charles D.
Quanitities:
4.44 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English, French
Charles "Chuck" Wrege finished his undergraduate degree in Upsala College, obtained
his Masters degree at the New School fo Social Research and another Masters of Business
Administration and his Ph.D. at NYU. He taught industrial management at Rutgers University
for 30 years. He became a renowned historian, researcher and writer. He is regarded
as a "National Treasure" by many in his field because of his expertise and the seminal
research he has done in the area of management history.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Charles D. Wrege Research Papers Regarding History of Management #5618. Kheel Center
for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5930 mf: Morris L. Cooke "Industrial Management" Monograph on Microfilm
Names:
Wrege, Charles D.
Subjects:
Industrial management -- United States
Management -- Research -- United States
Management science.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
"The Human Side of Enterprise" Forty-Five Years Before McGregor: The Work of Richard
A. Feiss, Early Explorer In Human Relations
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
August 14- 17, 1977
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
"The Search for Schmidt"
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1976 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege: Working Paper, Academy of Management.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence, Charles D. Wrege
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
Concerns Feiss Research
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Feiss Material for Golden Book
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Research Paper: Mary B. Gilson
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Research Paper: Mary B. Gilson
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Miscellaneous Articles on Scientific Management
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Article: "Taylor's Pig-Tale: A Historical Analysis of Frederick W. Taylor's Pig-Iron
Experiments"
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1974 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Academy of Management Journal; March 1974
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
"A Collection of Original F.W. Taylor Documents"
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Compiled for the Academy of Management History Division
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
N-File Newsletter
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Academy of Management; October 1978
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Background Material for Feiss Research
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Article by Henry Ruger, 1910
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Background Material for Feiss Research
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Background Material for Feiss Research
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Article by Henry Ruger, 1933
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Background Material for Feiss Research
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Article by Henry Ruger, 1910
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Background Material for Feiss Research
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Henry Link Article, 1923
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Background Material for Feiss Research
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Obituary: Henry Ruger, 1947
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Background Material on Feiss
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1957 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Sent by Mrs. Feiss to Lyndall Urwick; 4/30/1957
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
"J.W. Starr, Cincinnati's Forgotten Genius"
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1976 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin; 1976
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Corrections to Feiss Paper
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous: Government Publications
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1922-1926 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Miscellaneous: Notes on Kurt Lewin
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Notes on R.A. Feiss
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Notes on Organization of Clothcraft
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Organization Chart of Employment and Service Department of Joseph and Feiss, Inc.
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Scope and Contents
Transparencies. Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Research Materials from "The Search for Schmidt", F.W. Taylor's Subject for Pig-Iron
Experiments
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; American Cemetery; September 1964
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Correspondence on "Search for Schmidt"
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; Bethlehem Steel Co.
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Data on Taylor from Henry T. Boreman
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
On Pig-Iron 1963' Boreman is friend of Bob Brown of Bethlehem PA
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence on Edward Briggs
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Scope and Contents
Of Bethlehem; former foreman at Bethlehem Steel
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Correspondence with Mellville J. Boyer
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Scope and Contents
On "Search for Schmidt"
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Correspondence with Calvin Burk on Henry Noll
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Scope and Contents
(old volunteer foreman)
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Correspondence with City Clerk
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
Bethlehem PA on Henry Noll's house at 313 Martins Lane
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Data on Bethlehem Steel's "Farm:
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Correspondence with Walter Kuhn on Noll
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1964 |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Noll Family Chart
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
By Helen Lilly, 10/26/1963
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Correspondence on the "Search for Schmidt"
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Scope and Contents
with "Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society"
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Questions Concerning Henry Noll
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
Alias "Schmidt" 11/10/1964
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Correspondence on the "Search for Schmidt"
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Scope and Contents
With: Vernon Nelson Archives of the Moravian Church
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
"Schmidt Data"
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1963 |
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Data on Pig Iron Experiments
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Flow Chart for "Search for Schmidt"
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
Working Paper
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Barth Chart on the Work of Hohn and Gansberger
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Scope and Contents
1894
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Forms for "Search for Schmidt"
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
10/1/1963: Search for his house at 313 Martins Lane
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| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Forms for the "Search for Schmidt"
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
Original form 9/10/1963
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| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Correspondence with Stuart Bolger
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
Historic Bethlehem Inc.; Henry Noll ("Search for Schmidt")
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| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Data on Bethlehem Fabricators and Noll
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| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Names of Persons Mentioned in Gillespie and Wolle Study, 1899
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| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Correspondence with St. Michael's Cemetery, Bethlehem
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
On men in Taylor's Experiments
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| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Correspondence with Holy Saviour Cemetery, Bethlehem
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1964 |
| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Correspondence on the "Search for Schmidt" (Henry Noll)
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
With: John Stohmeyer Bethlehem Globe-Times; October 1 1963
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| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
J. Boddewyn
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1961 |
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Scope and Contents
"F.W. Taylor Revisited"; Journal of Academy of Management; August 1961
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| Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Correspondence on the "Search for Schmidt"
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1963-1964 |
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Scope and Contents
With: Bethlehem Memorial Park (Mr. Speck, Mr. Harold Ziegenfuss)
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| Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Photos of Noll
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Scope and Contents
Contains photographs
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| Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Hawthorne Photos and Taylor "Flying Machine"
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Scope and Contents
Contains photographs
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| Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Printer's Plates for Henry Noll Photographs
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
American Cemetery Magazine, 1964
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| Box 1 | Folder 55 |
Data on Taylor, "Schmidt", etc. Album
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1958-1967 |
| Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Gilbraith
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Scope and Contents
Contains photocopies of photographs
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| Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Correspondence with Robert Lovett at Harvard
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1958-1964 |
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Scope and Contents
On Mayo, etc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Western Electric Survey of Illumination and Efficiency
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Scope and Contents
11/18/140 Photocopy
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| Box 1 | Folder 59 |
Western Electric Training Program
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1964 |
| Box 1 | Folder 60 |
Discussion by G.P. Mangan
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1926 |
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Scope and Contents
Potomac Electric Power Co., Washington. DC; on lighting in Washington; August 2-4,
1926
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| Box 1 | Folder 61 |
Notebook with Hawthorne Studies Data
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Scope and Contents
Letters, etc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Miscellaneous Hawthorne Data
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| Box 1 | Folder 63 |
James E. Ives Study on Post Office Illumination Tests 1923
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1923-1924 |
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Scope and Contents
Reprint #973 from Public Health Reports, Vol. 39, #46; November 14, 1924 p.p. 2825
- 2851
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| Box 1 | Folder 64 |
"Hawthorne"
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
Arthur C. Moore
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| Box 1 | Folder 65 |
Search for Harold Wright
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1964 |
| Box 1 | Folder 66 |
Western Electric News
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1927 |
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Scope and Contents
George A. Pennock Data, Nov. 1927, p.p. 12-13
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| Box 1 | Folder 67 |
Correspondence with Gerard Swope on Hawthorne
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1957 |
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Scope and Contents
9/18/1957
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| Box 1 | Folder 68 |
Michael Argyle's Comments on Relay Assembly Test Room in Retrospect
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1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 69 |
Correspondence with Lyndall Urwick on Hawthorne
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1958 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Taylor-Thompson Letters
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1897 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Taylor Forms from Carl Barth
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
F.B. Stearns Taylor-Barth Form
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Scientific Management Correspondence
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1960 |
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Scope and Contents
J.C. Barth to Wrege 11/9/1960
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence
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1948-1964 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence with Phillip Wolle
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1964-1965 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Frederick W. Taylor Souvenir Booklet
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
J.D. Cooke and Herman Hutkin
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1977-1978 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Lecture Notes of Leon P. Alford
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1938 |
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Scope and Contents
From Dr. Jon Glover of NYU
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Barth Charts of Benefits of Scientific Management
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1924 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Manuscript on Taylor for American Heritage
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1979 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Morris L Cooke Correspondence
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1957-1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Reference Material on Taylor and Cooke and Industrial Management
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
James Gillespie
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
"Before Mayo, Forgotten Experiments and Experimenters at Hawthorne"
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Data on "Changes in Job Demand" and Creativity and Engineers
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| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Proposed textbook by Department of Management Science at Rutgers
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1966 |
| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
C. Wrege Describing Accession
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1980 |
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Scope and Contents
July 11th
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
"Lizzie Likes Her Job"
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1920 |
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Scope and Contents
Professor John R. Commons
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
"Spring lake"
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege, Rutgers University
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Derer Study on Management Material in Chicago Libraries
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1967 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
A Survey of Foreign Industrial Human Relations Research
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1956 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege MBA These NYU
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Blueprints
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Will Bethlehem Follow Pittsburgh?
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1910 |
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Scope and Contents
Bethlehem Steel; Literary Digest; 8/6/1910
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| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
J. Christian Barth Letters
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1959-1964 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Talk at Hanover PTA
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege; 3/13/1963; Clipping from The Weekly News of the Hanovers, 3/6/1963
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Charles D. Wrege data
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Analysis of Various 1926-1927 Illumination Tests
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence with Miles Tinker
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1958-1959 |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
1919 Data on "Factorylite"
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1919 |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Influence of Lighting, Eyesight, and Environment upon Work Production
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
US Government under Public Buildings Service; 1947
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| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
NRFCA
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Scope and Contents
Proposal for free lamp renewal survey
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| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Lighting Campaigns Data
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
6/18/1968
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| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
The Academy of Management
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1973 |
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Scope and Contents
Annual Membership Report August 1973
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| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence with John M. Burnham
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1978 |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Photo of The Willimantic Linen Co.
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Scope and Contents
Includes negative; Academy of Management
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| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
History of Scientific Management
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1939 |
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Scope and Contents
September 1939
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| Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Photograph of H.C. Wolle at Bethlehem Iron Co
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1897 |
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Scope and Contents
2/19/1897; Contains photograph
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| Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Transparencies Set 1
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Scope and Contents
Analysis of writing and typing of Cooke and Taylor
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| Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Transparencies Set 2
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| Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Transparencies Set 3
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| Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Transparencies Set 4
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| Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Professor Hugo Meonsterberg
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| Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Managementology
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1953 |
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Scope and Contents
John G. Glover
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| Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Charles Day Book Part 1
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1934 |
| Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Charles Day Book part 2
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1934 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Management History Film
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Scope and Contents
Contains VHS tape
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Hawthorne Interviews
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1983 |
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Scope and Contents
September 9 1983; Contains VHS tape
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
"Some Perspectives on the Hawthorne Studies"
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1986 |
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Scope and Contents
Academy of Management Centennial, 1986; Charles D. Wrege as participant; contains
VHS tape
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
American Iron and Steel Works
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1877 |
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Scope and Contents
AL Holley and Lenox Smith; March 30 1877; photocopy
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
"A Graphical History of Work"
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Scope and Contents
Diagram with French title
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company Union Documents
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1918 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Letter from Phillip Wolle
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1966 |
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Scope and Contents
On Hartley C. Wolle who conducted Pig-Iron study at Bethlehem Steel Co.; March 1966
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
"Relative Cost Numbers"
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1912 |
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Scope and Contents
Prepared by Horace King Hathaway for the Farrell Foundry and Machine Company, Ansonia,
Connecticut; July 18 1912
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| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Midvale-Heppenstall Philadelphia
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1957 |
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Scope and Contents
9/1/1957
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Midvale Steel Co.
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| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Canal History and Technology Proceedings
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1994 |
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Scope and Contents
March 12 1994
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| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
A Collection of Original Frederick W. Taylor Documents
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Souvenir Booklet; 5 copies
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| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Scientific Management Methods as Applied to A Manufacturing Organization
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1928 |
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Scope and Contents
Richard A Feiss; 7/12/1928
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Coil Winding Department - tables [brittle and curled]
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
C. Wrege describing gift of 7/11/1980
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1980 |