Wrege, Charles D. Hawthorne Studies Research Data, 1882-1974
Collection Number: 5167

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Charles D. Wrege Hawthorne Studies Research Data, 1882-1974
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5167
Creator:
Wrege, Charles D.
Quanitities:
8.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

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.
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Charles D. Wrege Hawthorne Studies Research Data #5167. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

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SUBJECTS

Names:
Wrege, Charles D.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Data on Factory Lighting before 1919, leading to the Hawthorne Studies
Box 1
Photocopy and original of color guide to C.D. Wrege files.
Scope and Contents
See: Box 17, ff. 2-4 Copies of Original Reports and Correspondence Related to the Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 1 Folder 2
Page 69 and 70 from The Society of Gas Lighting (1887) on Edison Electric Illuminating Company
1887
Box 1 Folder 3
Photographs of Gas Lighting in New York City
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 1 Folder 3
1. Gas light and Experimental and Tungsten lighting
Box 1 Folder 3
2. 3-types of Gas Light Street Lamps
Box 1 Folder 4
Gas Light Advertisements
Scope and Contents
photocopies of three
Box 1 Folder 5
Arthur A. Bright, The Electric Lamp Industry
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 1 Folder 6
1906 Lamp Report of Lamp Committee of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (TAEIC)
1906
Scope and Contents
"on improvement of carbon filament lamps since 1881 (Hand written)
Box 1 Folder 7
Photographs of gas lighting in New York City
Scope and Contents
Taken from a book - not orginals
Box 1 Folder 8
Portion of Western Electric Magazine - "Philadelphia Story"
1963
Scope and Contents
July/Aug. 1963 - on Old Western Electric photos at 300 E. Allegheny Ave. Bldg
Box 1 Folder 9
14th Bulletin E.E.L.C.(?) on "Isolated Plants"
1882
Scope and Contents
says 17th; 10/14/82 - handwritten
Box 1 Folder 10
Data from: Arthur A. Bright Jr. The Electric Lamp Industry (1949), MacMillan Co.
1949
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence w/ Judson Dickerman on Hawthorne Studies
1959
Scope and Contents
friend of Cooke
Box 1 Folder 12
Data on American Institute of Electrical Engineer's (pgs 187 - 192) and p. 193 on National Electric Lamp Association (NELA)
Scope and Contents
No date - assume late 1800's
Box 1 Folder 13
Talk by Mr. T. Carpenter Smith
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 1 Folder 14
One sheet - Oberlin Smith, American Institute of Electrical Engineers (A.I.E.E.) on "Lighting Factories"
1895
Scope and Contents
Vol 12, (pp. 323- 324)
Box 1 Folder 15
Notes on Streetlighting
1900-1930
Scope and Contents
handwritten
Box 1 Folder 16
W.B. Thompson, "commercial experience with NERNST & MERIDIAN LAMPS", and the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (A.E.I.C.)
1903
Scope and Contents
pp. 107-108, (handwritten)
Box 1 Folder 17
Misc. data on the Kern Incandescent Gas Light Company
1903
Box 1 Folder 18
J.R. Cravath "Do We Need Better Illuminating Engineering" Western Society of Engineers
1905
Scope and Contents
Vol. X, #5 (Sept - Oct 1905) pp. 639-659 (Heading same as piece of paper inside folder, i.e. just contains citation not the article itself.)
Box 1 Folder 19
Data on Illuminating Engineering Society & Industrial Lights
1905
Scope and Contents
one sheet
Box 1 Folder 20
Data on Incandescent lamps
1906
Scope and Contents
1/2 sheet
Box 1 Folder 21
Wm. D'Ryan on Production & Lighting
1906
Scope and Contents
T.I.E.S. Vol 1, #5 June 1906, p.22
Box 1 Folder 22
Alfred Spice New York City (N.Y.C.) Report on Lamps in Plainfield N.J.
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 1 Folder 23
Preston S. Miller, Lamp Renewal Policies, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (A.E.I.C.)
1908
Box 1 Folder 24
Factory Gas Light
1908
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 1 Folder 25
Alex Dow, on "Camp Renewals", Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (A.E.I.C.)
1908
Scope and Contents
p.19 (one sheet)
Box 1 Folder 26
Light: Its Use & Misuse
1912
Scope and Contents
Booklet by Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
Box 1 Folder 27
Chas. Russell, "Promising Fields for Development of Central Station Business", Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (A.E.I.C.)
1912
Scope and Contents
Minutes
Box 1 Folder 28
Copies of Electric City Magazine with articles by W.A. Durgin on "simple methods of Good Lighting"
1912
Scope and Contents
Published by Samuel Insull's Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago
Box 1 Folder 29
Samuel Insull on General Electric (G.E.) & Lamp Renewals
1912
Scope and Contents
(A.I.E.C.) Minutes, pp. 235-238
Box 1 Folder 30
2) Lighting Journal
1913
Scope and Contents
April 1913, Welsbach Street Lighting Co. of America
Box 1 Folder 30
1) Lighting Journal
1913
Scope and Contents
April 1913, Penna. Globe Gas Light Co.
Box 1 Folder 30
Advertisement on Gas Lighting
Box 1 Folder 31
Welsbach gas lighting advertisements in Lighting Journal
1913
Scope and Contents
December 1913 (empty folder)
Box 1 Folder 32
Report of the Committee on Indoor Lighting, National Commercial Gas Association (NCGA)
1913
Scope and Contents
pp.325-346 one sheet of notes
Box 1 Folder 33
C. Willing Hare, "Presidents Address", National Commercial Gas Association (NCGA),
1913
Scope and Contents
on proposal to merge American Gas Institute and National Commercial Gas Association (AGI & NCGA) into the Gas Institute
Box 1 Folder 34
Thomas W. Rolph, "Metal Reflectors for Industrial Lighting"
1913
Scope and Contents
T.I.E.S., May 16, 1913, pp. 281-83 on prod. & lighting
Box 1 Folder 35
Gas Lighting
1914
Scope and Contents
National Commercial Gas Association (NCGA) - 2 sheets of notes
Box 1 Folder 36
1) Norman MacBeth "gas lighting in U.S."
Scope and Contents
p. 971
Box 1 Folder 36
4) R.E. Simpson (Illumination & Saftey)
Scope and Contents
p. 463,464
Box 1 Folder 36
2) C.W. Jordan "Recent Advances in Gas Lighting"
1914
Scope and Contents
Ties 1914, p. 873-894
Box 1 Folder 36
3) Clarence E. Clewell on "Factory Lighting"
Scope and Contents
p. 471
Box 1 Folder 37
Commonwealth Edison Lamp Renewals in Electrical World
1914
Scope and Contents
May 9, 1914, pp. 1054-1055 - notes
Box 1 Folder 38
1914 Street Lighting Tests
1914
Scope and Contents
Notes
Box 1 Folder 39
Photos of Gas Lights
Scope and Contents
ARC type for factories; Amer. Gas Light Co. one print
Box 1 Folder 40
Edward P. Hyde, "Progress in the Science of Lighting"
1914-1915
Scope and Contents
Public Utility Economics, West Side YMCA, New York Public Library, TNH (call letters)
Box 1 Folder 41
J.W. Lieb "The Supply of Incandescent Lamps to Central Station Customers."
1914
Scope and Contents
Oct. 2, 1914 - Typed copy - 8 pages - carbon
Box 1 Folder 42
Report of Committee on Street Lighting
1916
Scope and Contents
A.E.I.C. Minutes on Vaughn & Sweet and Milwaukee Lighting (one sheet)
Box 2 Folder 1
Data from 1916 street - lighting tests on Intervale Avenue, Bronx, New York City
1916
Scope and Contents
2 pgs. Handwritten
Box 2 Folder 2
Sweet "Street Lighting Developments at Milwaukee"
Scope and Contents
Notes 1 pg.
Box 2 Folder 3
Nat'l. Electric Lamp Assoc. & Bulletin of the Engineering Dept on "Industrial Lighting"
1916
Scope and Contents
NELA #4, 1/14/07, 1916 p. 124 (1 pg. note)
Box 2 Folder 4
C.E. Clewell - New Lighting Codes for Factories
1916
Scope and Contents
Electric Journal, Vol. 13
Box 2 Folder 5
Information on Productivity & Illumination
1916-1917
Scope and Contents
Lighting Journal (notes 4 pgs.)
Box 2 Folder 6
M. Luckiesh, The Lighting Art
1917
Scope and Contents
McGraw - Hill; 1pg. pencil notes
Box 2 Folder 7
"Program for Limitation of the Production and Distribution of inefficient carbon & Gem Lamps"
1918
Scope and Contents
Sept. 1918 (empty folder)
Box 2 Folder 8
Correspondence with State of Illinois on Henkle - Best Company on Factry lyte
1959
Scope and Contents
one letter
Box 2 Folder 9
Edwin D. Tillson (Commonwealth Edison) Patent #1,360,825 for Industrial Fixture
1958
Scope and Contents
Factry lyte. Notes and Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 10
Material in letter books at Englehard Industries Newark, N.J.
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 2
William Durgin
Box 2 Folder 11
Correspondence on Commonwealth Edison Illumination Tests
1918
Scope and Contents
Durgin
Box 2 Folder 12
John W. Lieb "Notes for Presentation Before Electrical Conductor Dealers, July 2, 1918"
1918
Scope and Contents
11 pgs - thermofax
Box 2 Folder 13
Summary of Early Illumination Tests
1918-1931
Scope and Contents
Durgin
Box 2 Folder 14
William Durgin, photographs of test locations for illumination tests
1918-1919
Scope and Contents
Envelope does Not contain photos, rather handwritten notes on Durgin, 1919 (lots of notes) - photos with C. D. Wrege dissertation pages
Box 2 Folder 15
Results of Lee - Loader & Body Company test results
1918
Scope and Contents
notes
Box 2 Folder 16
Durgin - 1930 Annual Report of the Dir. of Research, Utilities Research Commissions, Personnel List and other correspondence 1921
1921- 1930
Box 2 Folder 17
William A Durgin, Envelope from Mrs. Durgin
Box 2 Folder 18
Correspondence with Secretary of State of Illinois on: Lee Loader and Body Co. (1917), Stromberg Motor Devices (1907), Utilities Research Commission (1930)
1907-1930
Box 2 Folder 19
Durgin in Tests - Correspondence
1958-1959
Box 2 Folder 20
Correspondence with Commonwealth Edison Co. on Tillson, Millan, Durgin
1959
Box 2 Folder 21
William Durgin File, corres., and notes
1959
Box 2 Folder 22
Information on William Durgin - on Early Industrial Lighting Tests
1918
Scope and Contents
Reports by Durgin and also corres. (1959) between Wrege and Durgin's wife
Box 2 Folder 23
Durgin "Early Papers" E-1, E-2
1909-1910
Box 2 Folder 24
Durgin "Later Papers" Lp-1, Lp-2
1924-1931
Box 2 Folder 25
Wm. Durgin (Original Material) - Newspaper clippings - etc.
Box 2 Folder 26
Department of Commerce Job materials and Corres.
Box 2 Folder 27
Durgin, "Sent Back List", List M-1 - M-15
Box 2
Lighting 1919
Box 2 Folder 28
Forrest McDonald, letters etc. on Pfister & Vogel
1919
Scope and Contents
Milwaukee 1912 or 1919 study
Box 2
Lighting 1920
Box 2 Folder 29
Factory Lighting Legislation in Great Britain
1920
Scope and Contents
(? his not ours)
Box 3 Folder 1
O.R. Hogue & J.F. Kirk - "Factory Lighting - a Central Station Problem"
1920
Scope and Contents
Transactions I.E.S. (TIES) (Feb. 10, 1920, p. 46-60) with data on Durgin
Box 3 Folder 2
R.O. Eastman, "A Survey of Industrial Lighting Conditions"
1920
Scope and Contents
Transactions I.E.S. (TIES) (Feb. 10, 1920), Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 77-88 - notes
Box 3 Folder 3
Data on Ward Harrisons speech at Rochester, New York
1920
Scope and Contents
May 7, 1920 (1 page note)
Box 3 Folder 4
Data on Ward Harrisons talk on Lighting
1920
Scope and Contents
12/12/1920, Transactions I.E.S. (TIES) (Nov. 20, 1920) p. 111, (1 page note)
Box 3 Folder 5
J.B. Wilson "Central Station Experience on the Improvement of Factory Lighting"
1920
Scope and Contents
I.E.S., Vol XV, Nov. 20, 1920 (pp. 582- 586) notes
Box 3 Folder 6
Ward Harrison, on "Industrial Lighting" in his book : Electric Lighting
1920
Scope and Contents
American Technical Society, Chicago Ill. - 1920 p. 146-160 - notes
Box 3 Folder 7
Ward Harrison " The RLM Standard Reflector for Industrial Lighting"
1920
Scope and Contents
I.E.S., Vol. 15 #6, Aug. 30, 1920, notes
Box 3 Folder 8
Bassett Jones on "illumination & production"
1920
Scope and Contents
notes
Box 3 Folder 9
Data on W.J. Drisko & S.G. Hibben
1920
Scope and Contents
Ties, Vol. 15 #9 Dec. 30, 1920, p. 125
Box 3 Folder 10
Electric Lighting in The 20's
Scope and Contents
notes
Box 3 Folder 11
Correspondence with Boston Edison Co. on NRC
1959
Box 3
Dolphin
Box 3 Folder 12
C.D. Wrege - Correspondence on Dolphin Jute Mills
1959
Scope and Contents
Paterson, N.J. [for Hawthorne Illumination Tests]
Box 3
Lighting 1921
Box 3 Folder 13
Information on Lighting Campaign in Cleveland, OH
1921
Box 3 Folder 14
Photograph of (15) automobiles used in Cleveland Electric Light Campaign
1921
Scope and Contents
original
Box 3 Folder 15
S.D. Heed, Wiring Old Residences in Cincinnati
1921
Scope and Contents
July 18, 1921 - copy
Box 3 Folder 16
Correspondence on Ivanhoe - Regency Works, G.E.
1959
Box 3 Folder 17
Correspondence with Taylor Instrument Companies
1959
Box 3 Folder 18
Charles E. Blood, "Gas Lighting and the Business Field"
1921
Scope and Contents
American Gas Journal (March 5, 1921, pp. 203-204, and 213) - 1p. of notes
Box 3 Folder 19
Boston Industrial Lighting Exhibit
1921
Scope and Contents
1) July 1921 Vol.8 #7. 2) Nov. 1921, Vol.8 #11. NELA Bulletin 1) p.418 2) p.649, 650 - all notes
Box 3 Folder 20
Data on Industrial Lighting in Electric Journals
1921
Box 3 Folder 21
"Reflectors for Incandescent Lamps"
1921
Scope and Contents
Booklet by Edison Lamp Works, April 1921
Box 3 Folder 22
"Industrial Lighting"
1921
Scope and Contents
from various sources - notes
Box 3
Lighting 1922
Box 3 Folder 23
Data on industrial lighting in electric journals
1922
Box 3 Folder 24
Cleveland Campaign material
1921
Scope and Contents
originals
Box 3 Folder 25
R.L.M. Standards Institute Data
Scope and Contents
list
Box 3 Folder 26
National Electric Light Association (NELA) Jt. Committee for Business Development, Electrify Magazine Guide Book
1922
Box 3 Folder 27
Theodore K. Quinn (on Mazda Lamps & Jobbers)
1919
Scope and Contents
notes on
Box 3 Folder 28
Robert Ffrench Pierce, "Factory Lighting"
1918
Scope and Contents
as reported in American Gas Engineering Journal, April 6, 1918, pp.224-228 - notes
Box 3 Folder 29
Chas O. Bond "Report of the Illumination Committee"
1919
Scope and Contents
(with Statistics of Gas Lighting), American Gas Association [first annual convention, Oct. 13-18, 1919 N.Y.C.] (pp. 224-228), notes
Box 3 Folder 30
National Electric Light Association (N.E.L.A.) on "Residence Lighting"
1919
Scope and Contents
pp.147-149 - notes
Box 3 Folder 31
"Economic Aspects of Ind. Lighting"
1919
Scope and Contents
C.E. Clewell (professor of Electric Engineering, Univ. of PA)
Box 3 Folder 32
Industrial Lighting
1919
Scope and Contents
General Electric (G.E.) National Lamp Works, Bulletin #36 May 19, 1919 (original document)
Box 3 Folder 33
Advertisements of the Mississippi Wire Glass Co. in Tech Engineering News, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
1923
Box 3 Folder 34
Information on Industrial Lighting in Electric Journals
1923
Box 4 Folder 1
J.J. Kirk & W.E. Underwood, "Store Lighting & Industrial Lighting"
1923
Scope and Contents
National Electric Light Association (NELA) Bulletin Feb. 1923 Vol.X #2 notes on
Box 4 Folder 2
"Improvements in Street Lighting"
1923
Scope and Contents
Technical Engineering News, May 1923, Vol.IV #2 p.54 under "Monthly News" - notes on
Box 4 Folder 3
"The Years' Progress in Illumination"
1923
Scope and Contents
Transactions I.E.S. (TIES), Sept. 1923, p.587 on origin of the word Gas - notes on
Box 4 Folder 4
Transactions I.E.S. (T.I.E.S.)
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 4 Folder 5
Data on Industrial lighting, Glassteel Diffusers, and "Good Lighting & Prosperity"
1923
Scope and Contents
M. Luckiesh (with notes)
Box 4 Folder 6
Data on Heating Research Committee
1923
Scope and Contents
Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (A.E.I.C.) (8 pgs. carbon copy)
Box 4
Detroit Piston Ring, Timken Test, Lighting 1924
Box 4 Folder 7
Clarence Law & Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) / National Research Council (NRC)
1924
Scope and Contents
Thermafax copies
Box 4 Folder 8
Factory Lighting in Periodicals
1924
Scope and Contents
Notes on various articles
Box 4 Folder 9
Data on Industrial Lighting in Electric Journals
1924
Box 4 Folder 10
Advertisement on Tungsten Lamp - Electric Light & Power
1924
Scope and Contents
original
Box 4 Folder 11
Advertisements in the Technical Engineering News of the Mississippi Wire Glass Co.
1924
Box 4 Folder 12
Street Lighting
1924
Scope and Contents
Preston Millar (from Elec. Light & Power, 1924) [original]
Box 4 Folder 13
John W. Lieb, "Good Lighting by American Central Stations"
1924
Scope and Contents
Transactions I.E.S. (T.I.E.S.) Sept. 1924, Vol.XIV p.629 on National Research Council (NRC), July 1924 (typed notes)
Box 4 Folder 14
Correspondence with various Electric Light Companies on illumination tests: 1)Consumer's Power Co. Jackson MI on Jackson Corset Co. Test
1924
Box 4
National Research Council (NRC) & Illumination Tests
Box 4 Folder 15
C.D. Wrege - correspondence with National Research Council on Hawthorne Illumination tests
1957
Box 4 Folder 16
Data on Hawthorne Illumination tests
Scope and Contents
in Annual Reports of the National Academy of Sciences (with exclusive dates and pages)
Box 4 Folder 17
Data on Engineering Foundation
1925
Scope and Contents
[pamphlet #2, Feb. 1925]
Box 4 Folder 18
Pamphlet on Division of Engineering of National Research Council (NRC)
1922
Scope and Contents
(Sept. 1922) 36pp. - 1 page note
Box 4 Folder 19
National Research Council Data in NY Times
1924
Scope and Contents
1 page note
Box 4 Folder 20
Proceedings of National Research Council (NRC)
1921-1926
Scope and Contents
(on origin etc.) notes on
Box 4 Folder 21
National Archives on National Research Council (NRC)
Scope and Contents
correspondence with
Box 4 Folder 22
Initiation of National Research Council (NRC) Tests
1924
Scope and Contents
Illuminating Engineering Society (I.E.S.) Feb. 1924, Vol.XIX, #2, pp.125-134 (notes on)
Box 4 Folder 23
Data on Hawthorne Tests in Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society
1922-1928
Box 4 Folder 24
C.I.L. in Annual Report N.A.S.
Scope and Contents
typed note
Box 4 Folder 25
[A Report of] George Hoxie Stickney on Revision of Lighting of Thomas A.(T.A.) Edisons Library
1925
Scope and Contents
Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society (T.I.E.S.) Vol.XX #8 (Oct. 1925) p.858
Box 4 Folder 26
Correspondence with Dr. George S. Crampton on Hawthorne Studies
1957
Box 4 Folder 27
Correspondence on Dean Seahore
Scope and Contents
[in Connection with C.I.L.] (empty folder)
Box 4 Folder 28
Correspondence with R.G. Stansfield on Hawthorne
1957
Scope and Contents
[Dept. of Scientific & Ind. Research, London] [Dec. 22, 1957]
Box 4 Folder 29
Dugald C. Jackson. Photo.
Box 5 Folder 1
Dugald C. Jackson. Articles and Booklet
1889-1928
Scope and Contents
1889, 1897, 1928, note on
Box 5 Folder 2
Letter from Dr. Ives to Dugald C. Jackson
1925
Scope and Contents
11/9/25. Notes and correspondence on
Box 5 Folder 3
Correspondence with Dugald C. Jackson Jr.
1957
Box 5 Folder 4
Dugald C. Jackson Data for: 1889, 1911 and letters from Nebraska State Historical Society
1959
Box 5 Folder 5
Correspondence with Maurice Holland on the National Research Council (NRC) and Hawthorne
1957
Box 5 Folder 6
Correspondence with Leland Franke on Hawthorne Illumination Tests
1957-1964
Box 5 Folder 7
Cheney Bros. Corp.
1958
Scope and Contents
Unlabeled folder - contents cover 1958
Box 5 Folder 8
Study on Hawthorne Illumination test [Jackson etc.] by Steve Rusnick of Kearny Works of Western Electric
1963
Box 5
National Research Council (NRC) - Edison Data 1924-27
Box 5 Folder 9
Illuminating Engineering Society (I.E.S.) Data at Edison Archives
1958
Scope and Contents
compiled 9/17/58
Box 5 Folder 10
Data on Edison National Historic Site
1957-1964
Box 5 Folder 11
List of documents, Edison Archives on Nation Research Council Committee on Industrial Lighting
1957
Scope and Contents
Charles D. Wrege (Aug. 22, 1957) 6 pages - 5 copies
Box 5 Folder 12
Folder #1 containing letters 1-5 on Edison as Chairman of C.I.L.
1924
Scope and Contents
2/27/1924 to 5/9/1924 (empty folder)
Box 5 Folder 13
correspondence from Maurice Holland, Dir. Division of Engineering & Industrial Research to W.H. Meadowcroft, Asst. to Thomas A. Edison
1924
Scope and Contents
May 29, 1924 (unlabeled folder)
Box 5 Folder 14
outline of correspondence on outside of folder
Scope and Contents
Empty folder, no heading, outline of correspondence on outside of folder
Box 5 Folder 15
outline of correspondence on outside of folder
Scope and Contents
Empty folder, no heading, outline of correspondence on outside of folder
Box 5 Folder 16
outline of correspondence on outside of folder
Scope and Contents
Empty folder, no heading, outline of correspondence on outside of folder
Box 5 Folder 17
outline of correspondence on outside of folder
Scope and Contents
Empty folder, no heading, outline of correspondence on outside of folder
Box 5 Folder 18
Letter from Edison Lab. on My Hawthorne findings
1957
Scope and Contents
7/1/1957
Box 5 Folder 19
pamphlet on Edison Laboratory: Edison Laboratory National Monument
1957
Scope and Contents
U.S. Govt. 1957 - O - 437438
Box 5 Folder 20
Letter from Edison Lab. to Rutgers
1964
Scope and Contents
9/10/1964
Box 5
National Research Council (NRC) - Atmosphere & Man Study
Box 5 Folder 21
Notes on 1914 N.Y. Ventilation Commission
1914
Box 5 Folder 22
Correspondence with Taylor Instruments Company on Ellsworth Huntington
1959
Scope and Contents
11/10/1959
Box 5 Folder 23
Variations in efficiency in Cotton Weaving
1923
Scope and Contents
(Ind. Fatigue Research Report #23, 1923) - notes on
Box 5 Folder 24
Air Movement Tests
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 5 Folder 25
"Effect of Air Conditions on Physical Work"
1923
Scope and Contents
from: Report of N.Y. State Commission on Ventilation (E.P. Dutton, 1923), Table 29, p.88, notes on
Box 5 Folder 26
Effect of Temperature, Humidity and Sunshine upon production
1919-1920
Scope and Contents
notes on
Box 5
W.F. Supply Dept., W.E. Hawthorne Data - 1905-1965, G.E. & NRC
Box 5 Folder 27
Advertisement for National Lamp Works ["It speeds"] Factory
1925
Scope and Contents
January 1925
Box 5 Folder 28
"Better Lighting increases production 35% "
1923
Scope and Contents
Earl Anderson (Electrical World, Vol. 8, #26, June 30, 1923)
Box 5 Folder 29
Western Electric Advertisement in Light
1925
Scope and Contents
Oct. 1925, p.39; labeled for Data on Western Electric Supply Dept. but no data
Box 6 Folder 1
Ward Harrison, patent #1,331,062 (illum measuring device)
1920
Scope and Contents
Feb. 17, 1920 (empty folder)
Box 6 Folder 2
Correspondence on RLM reflectors
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 6 Folder 3
"Does Good Lighting Pay Its Way In Industrial Plants?"
1925
Scope and Contents
Ward Harrison, Factory, June 1925, pp.932-33 (copies of photos)
Box 6 Folder 4
Data on Gerard Swope
1922
Scope and Contents
from David Loth's Book
Box 6 Folder 5
"1920 - 1925 Lighting Campaign"
1941
Scope and Contents
General Electric Co. [data from U.S. vs. G.E. Civil Action #1364, 1941] (notes - 2 sheets, pencil)
Box 6 Folder 6
Relationship between M.I.T. & G.E.
1920
Scope and Contents
Engineering Education, June 1920 Vol. X, #10, p.462
Box 6 Folder 7
General Electric (G.E.) on National Research Council (NRC)
1924
Scope and Contents
1 page note
Box 6 Folder 8
General Electric (G.E.) on National Research Council (NRC)
1925
Scope and Contents
1 page note
Box 6
Chase E. Snow
Box 6 Folder 9
correspondence of C.E. Snow on Stolls influence on Hawthorne tests
1961
Scope and Contents
Chase E. Snow, April 7, 1961
Box 6 Folder 10
Catalog of Charles E. Snow papers
Box 6 Folder 11
Tech. Engineering News
1943
Scope and Contents
in Union List of Serials, p.2741
Box 6 Folder 12
Comparisons of Snow's 1927 article and version in M&W
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 6 Folder 13
Mass. Institute of Tech. Alumni Association (MIT Alumni Register)
1955
Box 6 Folder 14
Charles E. Snow's work compared with Relay Assembly Test Room (RATR)
Box 6 Folder 15
James E. Ives letter on Illumination
Scope and Contents
2 pages
Box 6 Folder 16
Correspondence with Ward Harrison [G.E.]
Box 6
Men on CIL
Box 6 Folder 17
Matthew Luckiesh - correspondence
Box 6 Folder 18
"Workers - Work Horses or Human Beings"
1930
Scope and Contents
Matthew Luckiesh Editorial in Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society (TIES), Jan. 1930, Vol. XXV #1 - on more light for work even though evidence (from Hawthorne) seems to show no need for this (this is all Wreges folder Heading)
Box 6 Folder 19
Pamphlet, Contributions of Lighting Research Laboratory to the Science of Seeing
1911-1948
Scope and Contents
signed, compliments of Matthew Luckiesh
Box 6 Folder 20
Letter from Matthew Luckiesh, to Charles D. Wrege, on Hawthorne Illumination Tests
1952
Scope and Contents
[July 5, 1952] (4 pages)
Box 6 Folder 21
Forrest McDonald, correspondence with Charles D. Wrege
1957
Scope and Contents
8/28/1957
Box 6 Folder 22
Correspondence with Ethel Mollan on Hawthorne
1964
Scope and Contents
See D.A. Moore file 7/1/64 (empty folder)
Box 6 Folder 23
Johnson O'Connor and Hawthorne Tests
1926
Box 6 Folder 24
Harrison factors compared to procedures followed at Hawthorne
Scope and Contents
in The HIT and Relay Assembly Test Room (RATR) - notes
Box 6 Folder 25
General Lighting Plus"
1929
Scope and Contents
Matthew Luckiesh, Trans. of Illum. Eng. Soc. (March, 1929) Vol.24, No.3, pp.233-252 (empty folder)
Box 6
Men in Illum. Tests, John Mudroch Correspondence
Box 6 Folder 26
Notes for John Mudroch Tape
1964
Scope and Contents
6/5/64 [on National Research Council (NRC) and Relay Assembly Test Room (RATR)]
Box 6
Franke
Box 6 Folder 27
Helen Oldham, M.I.T., letters on Franke, Parsons et al
Box 6 Folder 28
Correspondence on National Research Council (NRC) with Clarence E. Clewell
1958-1959
Box 6 Folder 29
Correspondence with William J. Donald on Hawthorne and the National Electric Light Association (NELA)
1957
Box 6 Folder 30
Correspondence with Henry E. Edmunds [Ford Motor Co.] on Ford & Hawthorne & Allen Nevins and John R. Lee's work at Ford
Box 7
Correspondence with Samuel Hibben
Box 7 Folder 1
Correspondence with Samuel Hibben
1957
Box 7
Maurice Holland Correspondence
Box 7 Folder 2
Data on Frank B. Jewett and Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 7
Correspondence with Edwin Layton
Box 7 Folder 3
Correspondence with Edwin Layton
1957
Box 7
Theodore K. Quinn Correspondence
Box 7 Folder 4
Theodore K. Quinn Correspondence
1958-1959
Box 7 Folder 5
H.H. Wilson - Correspondence on Quinn & G.E.
1958
Scope and Contents
1 sheet
Box 7 Folder 6
Correspondence and Gertrude Rand (of Feree & Rand)
1957
Scope and Contents
1 dated 9/7/57
Box 7
Correspondence with John Scott
Box 7 Folder 7
Clarence Stoll's statement on why Hawthorne Studies were started correspondence
1957
Box 7 Folder 8
Data on Leonard Troland at Harvard correspondence
1958-1959
Box 7 Folder 9
Information on C.G. Stoll
Scope and Contents
in: Personnel Research Federation Service Bulletin (empty folder)
Box 7 Folder 10
The Industrial Lighting Situation - A Survey prepared for Professor Dugald C. Jackson by Henry Zeiger
Scope and Contents
copy of manuscript
Box 7 Folder 11
William Durgin photographs of Test Locations for Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago
1918
Scope and Contents
1.There are 7 photographs [#1 and #2 provided numbers by Charles D. Wrege] [#3,4,5,6, and 9, are original numbers]
Box 7 Folder 12
William Durgin papers
Scope and Contents
Hoover Presidential Library
Box 7 Folder 13
Data on Dover Manufacturing Company, Dover, Ohio and correspondence
1959
Box 7 Folder 14
Timken
1923
Scope and Contents
also notes and article by Hess
Box 7 Folder 15
Temperature, humidity and percentage of sunshine
1923
Scope and Contents
Columbus, Ohio - Jan - April 1923 Columbus, Ohio - use for Timkin Test. Data from U.S. Weather Bureau
Box 7 Folder 16
Detroit Piston Ring Co. data - Detroit Piston Ring Light Tests. Correspondence
1959
Box 8 Folder 1
Correspondence on Timken Roller Bearing Co. Illumination Test
1923
Scope and Contents
2/15/1923 to 4/25/23
Box 8 Folder 2
National Research Council - Industrial Illumination Research
1923-1936
Box 8
Thomas A. Edison and Hawthorne Studies
Box 8 Folder 3
National Research Council (NRC) Material in Edison Lab
1957
Scope and Contents
8/22/1957
Box 8 Folder 4
Henry Zeiger - Survey on Industrial Lighting 1924 for National Research Council (NRC)
Box 8 Folder 5
Office of Price Administration (OPA) Reports to Congress
1945
Scope and Contents
Mar-45
Box 8 Folder 6
Service Trials on Ind. Illumination (E.W.)
Box 8 Folder 7
Clarence Stoll Letter
1957
Scope and Contents
Sept. 3, 1957. Original handwritten letter
Box 8 Folder 8
Data on Western Electric Supply Department
1926
Scope and Contents
Western Electric (W.E.) News July 1926, p.3
Box 8 Folder 9
Western Electric Supply Department (survey of Advertisements in Light )
1924-1928
Scope and Contents
September, 1924 to October, 1928
Box 8 Folder 10
General Western Electric Files on Hawthorne etc
Box 8 Folder 11
"B" correspondence on Hawthorne Studies
1959
Box 8 Folder 12
L-M letters on Hawthorne
1959
Box 8 Folder 13
Misc. Hawthorne Data
1922-1941
Scope and Contents
Owen B. ("Obie") Hunt (RATR designer). Personnel Record
Box 8 Folder 14
Data on "Free - Lamp Renewals and the Hawthorne Studies"
1963
Scope and Contents
4 pages, offset, Western Electric Training Program (W.E.T.P.), 3-18-63
Box 8
1924-1925 Tests
Box 8 Folder 15
"1924-25 Report on Hawthorne Illumination Tests"
1924-1925
Scope and Contents
Charles E. Snow - original manuscript pages i-vi and pages 1-37
Box 8 Folder 16
"1924-25 Report on Hawthorne Illumination Tests"
1924-1925
Scope and Contents
Charles E. Snow - original manuscript pages 38-59
Box 8 Folder 17
"1923-24 - Report on Illumination Tests"
1963
Scope and Contents
Charles E. Snow - original manuscript pages 60-74, 77, 79, 80-83 [75-76, 78 missing] 8-29-63
Box 8 Folder 18
1924-25 Tests Report
1924-1925
Scope and Contents
Charles E. Snow pages 1-40 of Appendix
Box 8 Folder 19
1924-25 tests at Hawthorne
1924-1925
Scope and Contents
Charles E. Snow pages 42-60 of Appendix
Box 8 Folder 20
1924-25 tests at Hawthorne
1924-1925
Scope and Contents
Charles E. Snow pages 61-66 of Appendix
Box 8 Folder 21
Kata Thermometer Data
Scope and Contents
10 pp
Box 8 Folder 22
data on "Time Values Derived from Standards" - at Hawthorne
1925
Scope and Contents
Charles E. Snow 2 pgs
Box 8 Folder 23
Chart and blueprint comparing Detroit Piston Ring, Ives Post Office, Harrison-Timken Roller Bearing, Hawthorne Tests
1924
Box 8 Folder 24
Blueprint on Speed of Vision test for CIL of National Research Council (NRC)
1925
Scope and Contents
6/18/25 and data from p.96, Table III, Journal of Experimental Psychology (Jl. of Exper. Psych.) April, 1925
Box 9 Folder 1
Bound - Historical Research Project
1924
Scope and Contents
F.B. Jewett & Illumination Studies (Western Electric Co.) W.P. Cucco
Box 9
Temperature - Humidity, 1924-25, Hawthorne, Snow "Log"
Box 9 Folder 2
Original folder cover to Charles E. Snow's "Log Notes" from the 1924-1925 illumination tests at Hawthorne works of Western Electric
1924- 1925
Box 9 Folder 3
"Snow Log Notes"
1925
Scope and Contents
Jan. 12, 1925 - Feb. 2, 1925
Box 9 Folder 4
"Snow Log Notes"
1925
Scope and Contents
Feb. 3, 1925 - Feb. 26, 1925 [first page of 2/21/1925 and 2/24/1925 missing]
Box 9 Folder 5
"Snow Log Notes"
1925
Scope and Contents
Feb. 27 - April 16, 1925
Box 9 Folder 6
"Snow Log Notes"
Scope and Contents
envelope 2 - no date
Box 9
Geiss - Allphin
Box 9 Folder 7
Allphin and Geiss
Scope and Contents
pages 497-575
Box 9 Folder 8
Correspondence with Wilard Allphin (Sylvania, Salem, Mass.), on Hawthorne and the National Research Council (NRC)
1958-1959
Box 9 Folder 9
Charles E. Snow data - Dept. 6325 - coil winding - receiver coils
1924-1925
Box 9 Folder 10
Charles E. Snow data - Dept. 6329 - Relay Assembly - "E" type relays based on earnings and on direction of production
1924-1925
Box 9 Folder 11
Charles E. Snow - Inspection Dept. - Jack Springs, Jack Shells showing direction of production
1924-1925
Box 9 Folder 12
Charles E. Snow - Dept. 6325 Building 47-5, coil winding, Dept. 6329 Building 39-5 - relay assembly "hourly illumination averages" (by lighting period)
1924-1925
Box 9 Folder 13
Charles E. Snow - Dept.6325 Coil Winding Dept. - Induction coils (showing direction of production)
1924-1925
Box 9 Folder 14
Production results
1924-1925
Box 9 Folder 15
Floor layouts of Hawthorne Buildings 37-4, 39-5, 47-5
Box 9 Folder 16
Correspondence with T. North Whitehead
1964
Scope and Contents
Re: Charles E. Snow Log Notes.
Box 10 Folder 1
Correspondence with George E. Geis (of Allphin & Geis)
1958
Box 10 Folder 2
Geis & Allphin thesis an illumination
1925
Scope and Contents
M.I.T. June 1, 1925 [for Drisko & National Research Council (NRC)]
Box 10
1925 Light Data
Box 10 Folder 3
"A Year's Progress in Lighting"
1925
Scope and Contents
pages 701-707 on American Institute of Electrical Engineers (A.I.E.E.) Transactions, June, 1925
Box 10 Folder 4
patent #1,536,844 for "Glassteel Diffuser"
1925
Scope and Contents
Ward Harrison & John H. Waterbury - Official Gazette - U.S. Patent office Vol. 344, #1, May 5, 1925, p.238
Box 10 Folder 5
Plan Book of Industrial Lighting Activity
Scope and Contents
no date, but p.6 gives "schedule of Advertising Starting Aug. 1925 ending Jan. 1926"
Box 10 Folder 6
P.B. Zimmerman, National Lamp Works (N.L.W.) on Industrial Lighting
1925
Scope and Contents
in Light, October, 1925, p.16
Box 10 Folder 7
"Daylight Recording at Edison Electric Illum. Company of Boston"
1925
Scope and Contents
H.J. Baker [use for Sunshine Data], Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society (T.I.E.S.) Vol. XX, No.5, May 1925, pp.512-522
Box 10 Folder 8
Related events to 1924-1925 Hawthorne tests mentioned in issues of Hawthorne Microphone
1924-1925
Box 10 Folder 9
"Does Good Lighting pay its way in industrial plants?"
1925
Scope and Contents
Ward Harrison, Factory, June 1925, pp.932-33
Box 10 Folder 10
Advertisement for "Cooper - Hewett `Work Light'"
1924
Scope and Contents
from Factory, subtitled: "No more slowdown at sundown"
Box 10 Folder 11
Advertisements of the Mississippi Wire Glass Company in Technical Engineering News
1925
Box 10 Folder 12
Advertisement, "Sell Industrial Lighting Now"
1925
Scope and Contents
Light Oct. 1925, p.2
Box 10 Folder 13
Non-Mazda Lamps 1924-25 and 1925-26 Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (A.E.I.C.) Survey
1924-1926
Box 10 Folder 14
"How to Save on Light Bills"
1926
Scope and Contents
System, the Magazine of Business (January 1926) Vol.XLIX, No.1, p.146 & 148
Box 10
Whittemore
Box 10 Folder 15
Letters with I.C. Whittemore
1957
Box 10 Folder 16
Irving C. Whittemore's unpublished study on Illumination
1926
Scope and Contents
for Jackson and National Research Council (NRC)
Box 10 Folder 17
Progress reports
1925-1926
Scope and Contents
no.3 1/1/25 (2 pg); no.4 3/1/25 (4 pg); National Research Council 4/1/26 (4 pg)
Box 10 Folder 18
Charles E. Snow - Report of 2nd years test at Hawthorne
1926
Scope and Contents
(original copy)[apparently not]
Box 10 Folder 19
C.I.L. - "Progress Report" on 1926 Tests at Hawthorne
1926
Scope and Contents
Issued 2/17/26 by Dugald C. Jackson (on psychological test group) from National Research Council (NRC) Folder at Edison Archives
Box 10 Folder 20
Charles E. Snow 1926 tests - Production & temperature
1926
Box 10 Folder 21
1926 illumination tests at Hawthorne compared with 1924 tests
1924-1926
Scope and Contents
includes charts and drawings of illumination tests H-51-57, H-61-68
Box 10 Folder 22
Correspondence with Jules Daniels, [Boston Edison Company] on National Research Council (NRC) tests
Scope and Contents
mentions Munsterberg on p.2
Box 10 Folder 23
Drs. Ferree & Rand, "Intensity of Light and Speed of Vision, studied with special reference to Industrial Situations" part 1
1927
Scope and Contents
Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society (T.I.E.S.), Jan.1927, pp.79-110
Box 10 Folder 24
Percy W. Cobb and Frank K. Moss "Lighting & Contrast"
1927
Scope and Contents
Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society (TIES), Feb. 1927, Vol. XXII, #2 given Sept. 7-10, 1926
Box 10 Folder 25
H. Higbie, "Control of Illumination from Windows"
1927
Scope and Contents
Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society (TIES), March 1927, Vol. XXII, #3 given Sept. 7-10, 1926, notes on
Box 10 Folder 26
Data on Lighting
1926
Scope and Contents
from Light Magazine
Box 10 Folder 27
R.J. Lythgoe, "Illumination and Visual Capacities: A Review of the Literature"
1926
Scope and Contents
Med. Research Council, London (notes on)
Box 10 Folder 28
Effect of Hawthorne Illumination Tests on Dr. Luckiesh, (also on honorary doctorate), including Light & Health data, also Luckiesh Miles Tinker Controversy
1926
Box 10 Folder 29
M. Luckiesh & A.J. Pacini on "Lighting & Production"
1926
Scope and Contents
Light & Health, p. 293, notes on
Box 10 Folder 30
Charles E. Snow, outline of proposed final Report of National Research Council Studies
1927
Box 10 Folder 31
Snow's 1927 article on Illumination tests
1927
Scope and Contents
notes on
Box 10 Folder 32
Ralph G. Raymond, "Chicago Launches Another Offensive"
1927
Scope and Contents
Light, Jan. 1927, p.23
Box 10
1926-1927 tests
Box 10 Folder 33
Charles E. Snow, 1926-1927 tests
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
Ozalid of Retyped copy
Box 10 Folder 34
Charles E. Snow's original, "1926-27 Tests", Report
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
Ozalid copy 12 pages
Box 11 Folder 1
Handwritten comparison of text & central groups at Hawthorne
1926-1927
Box 11 Folder 2
Charles E. Snow "1926-1927 Tests"
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
Handwritten data on: "Test Group Operatives", "Lighting Period Averages"
Box 11 Folder 3
Charles E. Snow, later issued by C.I.L., "Progress Report", on 1926-1927 tests"
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
October 7, 1926 - 2 pages
Box 11 Folder 4
Charles E. Snow, "Report on 1926-1927 Tests" Progress Report on "Illumination Test - Dept.6325" test and control groups
1926
Scope and Contents
Dec. 30, 1926
Box 11 Folder 5
Charles E. Snow, "sickness rates of test and control groups"
1926-1927
Box 11 Folder 6
Temperature and Humidity in 1926-1927 tests
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 11 Folder 7
Photograph of Test Room in 1926-1927 Hawthorne illumination tests. Drawing of lighting arrangement in same room
1926-1927
Box 11 Folder 8
Charles E. Snow, Report on 1926-1927 tests. Table II a) "Test Group Operatives, Lighting Period Averages" b) "Control Group Operatives"
1926-1927
Box 11 Folder 9
Table IV 1926-1927 Tests [Charles E. Snow]
1926-1927
Box 11 Folder 10
Charles E. Snow - Drawing #L-15071, Illumination Test Demonstration Room", 1926-1927 tests, and chart #H-111 "Control Group #46 Induction Coils"
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
Demonstration room became Relay Assembly Test Room
Box 11 Folder 11
Charles E. Snow - Temperature & Humidity Record during 1926-1927 Tests
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
[9/7/26 to 4/30/1927] (68 pages)
Box 11 Folder 12
Progress Report of C.I.L.
1926
Scope and Contents
Ozalid of Oct.28, 1926
Box 11 Folder 13
Charles E. Snow "Progress Report" on "Illumination Test", "Test Group" - Dept.6325"
1927
Scope and Contents
Jan. 19, 1927, copy
Box 11 Folder 14
Charles E. Snow, "Progress Report"
1927
Scope and Contents
Feb. 15, 1927
Box 11 Folder 15
Charles E. Snow, "Progress Report" on "Illumination Test - Test Group Dept.6325"
1927
Scope and Contents
Feb. 28, 1927
Box 11 Folder 16
Charles E. Snow (comparison of product by test group and their machine speeds)
1927
Scope and Contents
14-Mar-27
Box 11 Folder 17
Charles E. Snow - Compiliation of data on Dept.6643-5, 6329, & 6325 in "1924-1925 Tests"
1929
Scope and Contents
25-Mar-29
Box 11 Folder 18
Complete set of tables summarizing illumination tests from 1924-1927
1924-1927
Box 11 Folder 19
Charles E. Snow, Handwritten copy of report on 6325
1927
Box 11 Folder 20
"Charles E. Snow 1926-1927 Tests"
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 11 Folder 21
Program Report 1926-1927, tests
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
Apr. 12, 1927
Box 11
"Data on Special Illumination Test" (1927) or "Moonlight Test"
Box 11 Folder 22
Special Illumination Test
1927
Scope and Contents
Feb., pg.1-20 copies 5/19/64
Box 11 Folder 23
Special Illumination Test
1927
Scope and Contents
Feb., 1927, p.2-20 copies 5/18/64
Box 11 Folder 24
Special Illumination Test
1927
Scope and Contents
Feb., 1927, p.3 20 copies 5/18/64
Box 11 Folder 25
Special Illumination Test by Hebarger
1927
Scope and Contents
Feb. 1927, p.4 5/18/64
Box 11 Folder 26
Special Illumination Test by Hebarger
1927
Scope and Contents
Feb. 1927, p.5 5/18/64
Box 11
Sidebotham
Box 11 Folder 27
Sidebotham photograph
Box 11 Folder 28
Correspondence with John Sidebotham Inc. (Phila. PA) on National Research Council (NRC) Tests
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 12 Folder 1
Correspondence with John Sidebotham Tapp Mills on 1926 National Research Council (NRC) Tests
1926
Box 12 Folder 2
John Sidebotham Tapp Mills photographs, 2, 8"X10" photos number 22794
Box 12
Dennison Test
Box 12 Folder 3
Report Illumination Tests
1925
Scope and Contents
Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham, Mass. Sept. 19, 1925, Dugald C. Jackson, Chairman
Box 12 Folder 4
Huse and Brainerd Illumination Tests in Philadelphia
1925
Scope and Contents
E.W, p.1154 see also Sidebotham Tests
Box 12 Folder 5
Correspondence with Arthur A. Brainerd on the National Research Council (NRC) and Hawthorne Tests
Box 12 Folder 6
Correspondence with Dennison Manufacturing Company [Framingham, Mass.] on National Research Council (NRC) Tests
Box 12 Folder 7
Report on Dennison Illumination Test
Scope and Contents
empty folder
Box 12 Folder 8
Photocopy of Dennison Manufacturing Company test
1924-1925
Scope and Contents
9/19/1925
Box 12 Folder 9
Dennison Manufacturing Illumination Test
1925
Scope and Contents
9/14/1925 (drawings)
Box 12
Bridgeport
Box 12 Folder 10
Correspondence with Jack Parsons on the National Research Council (NRC)
1964
Box 12 Folder 11
Charles E. Snow - Chart on Bridgeport Production (showing direction of production) tests
1924-1925
Box 12
Atkins Test
Box 12 Folder 12
Earnest Atkins Illumination Test at Johns Hopkins
1926
Box 12
Whiting-Davis
Box 12 Folder 13
Correspondence with Whiting & Davis Co. (Plainville, Mass.) on National Research Council (NRC) Tests
Box 12 Folder 14
Data on Whiting & Davis "Mesh Bag" Tests - National Research Council (NRC)
1926
Box 12 Folder 15
Charles E. Snow, teaching material on "Illumination 6.27" course at M.I.T.
1927-1928
Scope and Contents
given by Snow, Sept. - Jan. 1928
Box 12
Snow Outline of Final Report on the National Research Council (NRC), 1928
Box 12 Folder 16
Charles E. Snow "Suggested outline of Final Report, National Research Council, C.I.L."
Box 12 Folder 17
Photostatic copy of Snow's original "Authors reprint" of article in Tech. Engineering News
1927
Scope and Contents
Nov. 1927
Box 12 Folder 18
Negative photo stats of "Suggested final Report National Research Council (NRC)" by Snow
Box 12 Folder 19
Charles E. Snow - First 2 pages of proposed final report on National Research Council (NRC) Tests
1927
Scope and Contents
May-27
Box 12 Folder 20
[Charles E. Snow] Negative photo stats of "Suggested Final Report, National Research Council (NRC)"
Box 12 Folder 21
Charles E. Snow, Photostatic copy of Snow's, "Suggested outline of Final Report"
1927
Scope and Contents
pgs.,2,3,4 and 5 1/16/64
Box 12 Folder 22
Copy of actual published article by Snow in Tech. Engineering News
1927
Scope and Contents
Nov. 1927
Box 12 Folder 23
Charles E. Snow article in Tech. Engineering News
1927
Scope and Contents
Nov. 1927 (empty folder)
Box 12 Folder 24
Dugald C. Jackson "Lighting in Industry"
1928
Scope and Contents
Bulletin of the Franklin Institute, March 1928
Box 12
1927-1930 Light Data
Box 12 Folder 25
Industrial Lighting Tests
1928
Box 12 Folder 26
National Electric Light Association, Industrial Lighting Campaign
1925-1926
Scope and Contents
from Charles D. Wrege, Phd. Dissertation, original Mss. pp.511-521
Box 12 Folder 27
Ferree and Rand "Intensity of Light and Speed of Vision"
1929
Scope and Contents
Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol.XII, #5 (Oct. 1929) pp.363-391 notes on
Box 12 Folder 28
Industrial Lighting Sales Campaigns by the National Electric Light Association (N.E.L.A.)
1925-1929
Scope and Contents
1 pg. note
Box 12 Folder 29
Federal Trade Commission Data on Public Utilities
1928
Box 12 Folder 30
Matthew Luchiesh, "Contributions to the Lighting Art from Researches in Light & Vision"
1928
Scope and Contents
Proc. Int'l Congress on Illumination, pp. 936-943
Box 12 Folder 31
Matthew Luckiesh "General Lighting, plus"
1929
Scope and Contents
Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society (T.I.E.S.), Vol.XXIV, March 1929, notes on
Box 12 Folder 32
Matthew Luckiesh on Hawthorne in Electrical World
1928
Scope and Contents
notes on
Box 12 Folder 33
G.E. Reaction to illumination tests at Hawthorne
1927-1928
Scope and Contents
notes on
Box 13 Folder 1
National Electric Light Association (N.E.L.A.) "Benefits of Industrial Lighting"
1928
Scope and Contents
N.E.L.A. Proceedings, Vol.85, p.575 table VI
Box 13 Folder 2
Incandescent Lamp Bulletin, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois
Box 13 Folder 3
Incandescent Lamp Bulletin, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois
1929
Scope and Contents
Bulletin #21, Feb. 15, 1929 (Last issue)
Box 13 Folder 4
[on "Light's Golden Jubilee"] Speeches by John W. Lieb, and the National Electric Light Association (N.E.L.A.); Elmer A. Sperry - on "Birth of an Industry"
1929
Scope and Contents
Sperry 6/6/1929 (notes on)
Box 13 Folder 5
Ward Harrison (on "Glassteel diffuser")
1929
Scope and Contents
(see 1925 Light Data, page 18, item 4) ASME
Box 13 Folder 6
Luckiesh
1931
Box 13 Folder 7
Charles D. Wrege correspondence concerning: National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (NRECA) Free Lamps Renewal Study 1) M.L. Cooke, 2) Ervin Baker
1959
Box 13
Lighting 1930-1965
Box 13 Folder 8
U.S. Tariff Commission Report on Incandescent Electric Lamps Report #133
1939
Box 13 Folder 9
A. Zaccaria Jr. and M.E. Bitterman - Effect of Fluorescent Flicker on Visual Efficiency
1952
Scope and Contents
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 36, #6, Dec. 1952 [original print]
Box 13 Folder 10
Ernest J. McCormick, "Intensities of Illumination and a Motor Task"
1952
Scope and Contents
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 36, #3, June 1952
Box 13 Folder 11
Data on Lamp Renewals by Public Utilities
Scope and Contents
1922 & 1935 - compared
Box 13 Folder 12
Correspondence with Russell School, Lurch Road, Cambridge 38, Mass
1959
Scope and Contents
1/8/59 on report in Light Dec. 1936, Jan. 1937
Box 13 Folder 13
"Effects of Adequate Lighting on Production"
Scope and Contents
from "Light Conditioning - Industrys Power", Public Service Co., of Northern Illinois
Box 13 Folder 14
"$600,000 waste exposed in Gas Works Operation"
1960
Scope and Contents
Phila. Inquirer, 3/8/60, p.39
Box 13 Folder 15
"Code of Lighting: Factories, Mills and other work places."
1930
Scope and Contents
from the Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society (T.I.E.S.) Vol. XXV, Sept. 1930, No.7
Box 13 Folder 16
Correspondence with Theodore K. Quinn
1958
Box 13 Folder 17
Letter from W.J. Pettyjohn, Jr. on "industrial lighting"
1959
Scope and Contents
9/2/1959
Box 13 Folder 18
Lighting & Productivity
1947
Scope and Contents
Federal Government Study, Public Bldgs. Admin., Dec. 1, 1947
Box 13 Folder 19
Correspondence with Dr. Brenneman on Hawthorne
1958
Box 13 Folder 20
Data on Illuminating Engineering Society
1958
Scope and Contents
reprints and correspondence
Box 13 Folder 21
Recommended Levels of Illumination for Industrial Firms
1956
Scope and Contents
Illumination Engineering, Jan. 1956
Box 13 Folder 22
NRECA Lamp Study
1959
Box 13 Folder 23
Data on Future Trends in Lighting
1959
Scope and Contents
Illuminating Engineering, June 1959, p.374
Box 13 Folder 24
Intensities of illumination in 10 plants of U.S
1964
Scope and Contents
Factory, Vol. 122 (May 1964), [data on]
Box 13 Folder 25
Better Light - Better Sight Data, correspondence
1959
Box 13 Folder 26
Correspondence with Dr. Blackwell on Lighting
1958
Box 13 Folder 27
H. Richard Blackwell (Data on Illumination levels)
Box 13 Folder 28
Pamphlet on Practical Gas Educational Courses - Illumination
1917
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Gas Lamps, Lesson #7, 1917
Box 13 Folder 29
Data on Phases of the Moon 1925-1928 - use in connection with Hawthorne Studies
1925
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from The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac for the year 1925
Box 14 Folder 1
Welsbach Gas Lighting Advertisements
1913
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in: Lighting Journal, Dec. 1913
Box 14 Folder 2
Alex H. Strecker, "Review of the Report of Dr. S. Rideal on the Hygienic value of Gas & Electric Lighting"
1913
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Society of Gas Lighting, N.Y.C., 3/13/1913
Box 14 Folder 3
Kern Lamp
Box 14 Folder 4
Advertisement: Lighting Journal
1913
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March, 1913 - original
Box 14 Folder 5
American Gas Light Co. "Inverted Gas Avc" Illustration
1911
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lots of ads
Box 14 Folder 6
A.E.I.C. Lamp Report, on revenue from Higher Wattage Lamps
1917
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p. 18
Box 14 Folder 7
Jules Daniels, Illuminating Engineering & the Central Stations
1923
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presented at Association Island, N.Y., July 23- 25, 1923
Box 14 Folder 8
The Supply of Incandescent Lamps to Central Station Customers, Address before the Empire State Gas & Electric Assoc.
1914
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Oct. 2, 1914 by J.W. Lieb [report unfolded]
Box 14 Folder 9
Edison Letters - National Research Coucil (NRC)
1924-1927
Box 14 Folder 10
Data related to the role of Thomas A. Edison in the National Research Council Studies into industrial lighting
1957
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June 6, 1957, signed Charles D. Wrege, [unfolded]
Box 14 Folder 11
Intervale Lighting Test (correspondence with Victor & Little)
1964
Box 14 Folder 12
Correspondence with John Scott
1957-1959
Box 14 Folder 13
Correspondence with Dr. Edward P. Hyde on Hawthorne & General Electric (G.E.)
1957
Box 14 Folder 14
Ivanhoe Glassware & Industrial Lighting
1925
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from Light, Oct. 1925, p.2
Box 14 Folder 15
Clair E. Turner, I Remember
1974
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on Relay Assembly Test Room (RATR)
Box 14 Folder 16
Charles E. Snow, Introduction to final report on Hawthorne tests
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(never completed), handwritten, 2 pages
Box 14 Folder 17
References to Industrial Lighting Tests in Periodicals
1925-1930
Box 14 Folder 18
Sanford DeHart, "Illumination & Efficiency"
1925
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Industrial Management, (Feb. 1925), Vol. LXIX, No.2, pp.108- 111
Box 14 Folder 19
Harold E. Burtt and The Hawthorne Tests
Box 14 Folder 19
1) 1916 article in Journal of Experimental Psychology
1916
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Vol.1 #2, April 1916
Box 14 Folder 19
2) Selections from his 1952 book, Applied Psychology
1952
Box 14 Folder 20
Negative Photostats of 1924 memorandum on Hawthorne Illumination Tests
1924
Box 14 Folder 21
Plan book of 1925 Industrial Lighting Campaign
1925
Box 14 Folder 22
Letters on National Research Council (NRC) with names of men
Box 14 Folder 23
Investigation into Electric Lighting by a Committee of the Society of Gas & Lighting
1886-1887
Box 14 Folder 24
Charles E. Snow, "Illumination Test Summary Test Group, Dept.6325"
1927
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[1926-1927 Tests, Dated May 2, 1927] (carbon copy)
Box 14 Folder 25
Charles D. Wrege, Production of Test and Control Group "1926-1927 Tests"
1926-1927
Box 14 Folder 26
Output 1926-1927 Illumination Tests
1926-1927
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chart
Box 14 Folder 27
Copy of "O" report, 1926-1927 tests
1926-1927
Box 14 Folder 28
Snow's Report on 1926-1927 Tests
1926-1927
Box 14 Folder 29
Thermofax copy of proposed final report National Research Council (NRC)
1927
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Charles E. Snow
Box 14 Folder 30
Correspondence from Charles D. Wrege to Willard Allphin, Director Illumination Research Sylvania
1958
Box 14 Folder 31
Charles E. Snow, data on "Direct and indirect eyework, in minutes", at Hawthorne
Box 14 Folder 32
Photocopy of "O" copy of 1926-1927 Tests
1926-1927
Box 14 Folder 33
Analysis of Snow's article in Technicial Engineering News
1927
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Nov. 1927
Box 14 Folder 34
Photocopy of 1924-1925 Report of Hawthorne Illumination Tests
1924-1925
Box 15 Folder 1
Exhibit A - The Industrial Illumination Research
1928
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Copy, presented Nov. 14, 1928 meeting of the National Research Council (NRC) Division of Engineering and Industrial Research (no folder)
Box 15 Folder 2
Photocopy of Report of 1926 Tests at Hawthorne
1926
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16pp
Box 15 Folder 3
tests in Dept. 6325 on 1924-25 tests and 1926 tests
1924-1926
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Charles E. Snow, handwritten copy
Box 15 Folder 4
National Research Council (NRC) 1924 memorandum
1924
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issued by Dugald C. Jackson on Aug. 26, 1924
Box 15 Folder 5
Independent Study project for Wrege
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Unfolded misc.; by Janet Harris an individual involved in intesity light experiments
Box 15 Folder 6
Schedule of Test Periods, Relay Assembly Test Room
1927-1930
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Misc. unfolded
Box 15 Folder 7
Western Electric News, "Western Electric Plans Commemoration of Hawthorne Studies"
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Misc. unfolded, no date
Box 15 Folder 8
John Mudroch file
1924-1928
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Frank Platenka's assistant at Hawthorne 1924-1928 in Main Relay Assembly Department
Box 15 Folder 9
Western Electric [organization] charts
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no date
Box 15 Folder 10
"Bench layout for the assembly of A-1 type relay"
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Tracing of drawing, Xerox copies of drawing
Box 15 Folder 11
"Three to Eleven: a photo Essay on the Second Shift at Hawthorne"
1963
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Article in Western Electric July/Aug. 1963, Vol.XV, No.4, pp. 44-47
Box 15 Folder 12
Correspondence from Western Electric Company on Hawthorne, one with Frank H. Lovette - Archivist
Box 15 Folder 13
Correspondence with Mr. J. Walter Deitz on Hawthorne
Box 15 Folder 14
Addresses of Dickenson, Roethlesberger & Hibargn in Chicago
Box 15 Folder 15
letter from Mayo to Pennock
1928
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3/20/28, 5/7/28 & 5/9/28 (carbon copy)
Box 15 Folder 16
Elton Mayo "changing methods in industry"
1930
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Personnel Journal
Box 15 Folder 17
Brech letters
1943
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Dec. 1943
Box 15 Folder 18
Data on Mayo and the Rockefeller Foundation
1957
Box 15 Folder 19
Arthur H. Young data
Box 15 Folder 20
Empty folder
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empty - material put in Box #16
Box 15 Folder 21
A. H. Ryan Vascular Skin Reaction Test data for NLH
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Binder
Box 15 Folder 22
Death certificate of Mrs. Dwight T. Farnham
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also contains other materials
Box 16 Folder 1
Empty folder
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empty
Box 16 Folder 2
"Earlier Experiments on Employee Performance"
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on Hawthorne Studies from: Supervisory Training Series on Employee Performance, Conference
Box 16
R.H. Frazier Hawthorne Experiments 1928-29
Box 16 Folder 3
"An Employee Relations Development Study - Western Electric Co., Inc., Hawthorne Works"
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Frazier, R.H. - 55pp
Box 16 Folder 4
R.H. Frazier - Correspondence 1929-32 with M.L. Putnam re-interview plan for 1928-29 Hawthorne experiment
1929-1932
Box 16 Folder 5-6
R.H. Frazier - copies of original interview responses for 1928-29 Hawthorne experiment
1928-1929
Box 16 Folder 7
Interview program at Hawthorne
1928-1929
Box 16 Folder 8
Data on fatigue (Florence data), and AMA report on Hawthorne fatigue studies
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6pp
Box 16 Folder 9-11
Fatigue studies charts - operators 2,3,4
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originals and copies
Box 17 Folder 1
Miscellaneous photographs
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Mmarked - 1) Photos for Greenwood > Hawthorne & Williamantic Linen Co. 2) Hibarger Photos 3) Mary Pattison (NJ Housekeeping Experiment Station, 1911-12, Colonia, NJ) 4) Consolidated paper photos
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Copies of Microfilm of original reports & correspondence related to the Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section I - Correspondence related to the initiation of the Committee on Industrial lighting of the National Research Council
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section II - Report on the 1924-25 Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section III - Correspondence on the 1924-25 Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section IV - Mr. Snow's daily Log for 1925
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section V - Correspondence on 1926 tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section VI - The report on the 1926 Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section VII - Correspondence on the 1926-27 Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section VIII - Original report on the 1926-27 Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section IX - Official report on the 1926-27 Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section X - Progress reports on the 1926-27 Hawthorne Illumination Tests
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Section XI -Correspondence related to the Final Meeting of the Committee on Industrial Lighting of the National Research Council
Box 17 Folder 4
Charts on Illumination tests
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copies
Box 17 Folder 5
Report to the National Electric Illuminating Society also correspondence with Prof. Munsterberg re: report
1914
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4/11/14, photocopies