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

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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INFORMATION FOR USERS

Preferred Citation

Charles D. Wrege Research Papers Regarding History of Management #5618. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5930 mf: Morris L. Cooke "Industrial Management" Monograph on Microfilm

SUBJECTS

Names:
Wrege, Charles D.
Subjects:
Industrial management--United States.
Management--Research--United States.
Management science.

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