Wrege, Charles D. Collection of History of Management Photographs, 1879- 1996
Collection Number: 6014 P

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Charles D. Wrege Collection of History of Management Photographs, 1879- 1996
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6014 P
Creator:
Wrege, Charles D.
Quanitities:
2.33 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.

Factory inventory, manufacturing, and improvement for various companies including Hawthorne Works, Manufacturing Investment Company and Madison Paper company; owner and employee portraits; advertisement for improved lighting, product assembly and testing over more than a century.
Photographer of many images was likely Marty Labno, according to Dr. Wrege.
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Preferred Citation

Charles D. Wrege Collection of History of Management Photographs #6014 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

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CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Photographs of 1926 advertisements on industrial lighting - copies of originals
1926
Box 1 Folder 2
Coil Box photo in Relay Test Room
Box 1 Folder 3
Original photo of Coilwinding Test Room at Hawthorne in the 1926-1927 tests
1926-1927
Box 1 Folder 4
Marty Lano's 1981 photo original of Building 47-5, Site of Relay Test Room 8 1926-1927 Illuminated Tests plus sketch
1981
Scope and Contents
July 27, 1981
Box 1 Folder 5
Permalloy loading coil (photo #133524)
1925
Scope and Contents
February 21 1925
Box 1 Folder 6
1926-1927 Light test room at the Hawthorne. 1926 photo #142902 (Benday screen for publishing)
1926
Box 1 Folder 7
Sorting jack springs in Inspection Department Hawthorne
1925
Box 1 Folder 8
Inspection Department at Hawthorne. Original photo #133675 - night view - from Snow 1924-1925 Report
1925
Scope and Contents
March 6, 1925
Box 1 Folder 9
Original Photograph of E-type relay 1925 - photo #131677 from Snow 1924-1925 Report
1925
Box 1 Folder 10
Enlargement of Order Section of Relay Assembly Department (position 135676)
1925
Box 1 Folder 11
Originals Assembly E-type relay. Relay Assembly Department. 1925 photo #131671
1925
Box 1 Folder 12
Original photo of Relay Assembly Test Room at Hawthorne (from Snow 1924-1925 Report)
1924-1925
Box 1 Folder 13
Original photo of #46 Induction Coil at Hawthorne
1925
Scope and Contents
February 12 1925
Box 1 Folder 14
Color photograph of Hawthorne Works of Western Electric Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1979 - original
1979
Box 1 Folder 15
35 millimeter slides of Hawthorne Studies Individuals - From Ron Greenwood - originals
Box 1 Folder 16
Original photo of Light Test Room at Hawthorne for 1926-1927 Tests - from Snow report of 1926-1927 tests
1926-1927
Box 1 Folder 17
Photograph of Charles E. Snow original from Western Electric Personnel Files
Box 1 Folder 18
Photograph of converted MorkRvm - Kleinschmidt recorder in Test Room. Original Photo (negatives at Western electric now missing - cdw 8/10/96)
1996
Scope and Contents
August 10, 1996
Box 1 Folder 19
Original photo of Homer Hibargen - creator of Riley Assembly Test Room at Hawthorne
Box 1 Folder 20
Photograph Coil Winding Department 1925 Original from Snow 1924-1925 Report Photo #135682 3-6-25
1925
Scope and Contents
March 6, 1925
Box 1 Folder 21
Early photo of Willimantic Company Linen Company Electric Light Installation 2/14/79
1979
Scope and Contents
February 14, 1979
Box 1 Folder 22
35 millimeter slides of Hawthorne and Joseph and Feiss Company
Box 2 Folder 1
Photos from Presentation
Box 2 Folder 2
Negative and print of Doctor Isaac Adams House (with his 1882 Glassbrick Basement Windows) Annisquam, Massachusetts
Box 2 Folder 3
Daniel Drawbaugh Telephone Photo
Box 2 Folder 4
Original photograph of William Daniel Basley
Box 2 Folder 5
Photos of Dolphine Jute Mills (Paterson, New Jersey)
1990
Box 2 Folder 6
Gilbreth Medical Photos
Box 2 Folder 7
Original 1929 photo of Richard A. Feiss from Mrs. Feiss
1929
Box 2 Folder 8
Negative of Feiss and Hawthorne (lined screen)
Box 2 Folder 9
Original photograph and negative of Maunsel White (save for High Speed Steel)
Box 2 Folder 10
Photos of machines High Falls, New York (from original Sanford Thompson files)
Box 2 Folder 11
Photo of Mary Jassett in office - circa 1915; Bendary screen for N-file May 23, 1979
1915-1979
Box 2 Folder 12
Original photos of Doctor Jordon Ball, early Industrial Psychiatrist - 1916-1922 (includes photo of his associate chief August Vollmer of Berkeley Police Department 1918)
1916-1922
Box 2 Folder 13
35 millimeter slides of Mrs. Pattinson's Experimental Housekeeping Station (Colonia, New Jersey)
Box 2 Folder 14
Management History Photos
Box 2 Folder 15
Original photograph of F.W. Taylor from Mrs. Richard A. Feiss
Box 2 Folder 16
Passaic Metal Ware photos - copies of originals 1989
1989
Box 2 Folder 17
Copies of original photos of Henry Noll, House in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Noll and wife plus R. Feiss Clothcraft Shops operators playing ball
Box 2 Folder 18
Original tintype of Henry Noll
1899
Box 2 Folder 19
Flood at Madison, Maine (Manufacturing Investment Company)
1936
Scope and Contents
April 19, 1936 - original photos
Box 2 Folder 20
Two photographs of construction of Manufacturing Investment Company - Madison, Maine - 1889. #1 Digesters #2 Main Building - originals
1889
Box 2 Folder 21
1889 Photograph of building of the Madison Mill of the Manufacturing Investment Company. Madison, Maine.
1889
Box 2 Folder 22
Madison Main Manufacturing Investment
1890
Scope and Contents
January 28, 1890
Box 2 Folder 23
1936 flood photos of Madison Paper Company. 1982 photos of Madison Paper Company
1936-1982
Box 2 Folder 24
Gilbreth photos from Richard Walp Countyway Medical Library
1985
Scope and Contents
August 28, 1985
Box 2 Folder 25
Illustrations (photos) for Canal Museum paper on Taylor at Midvale
Box 2 Folder 26
Manufacturing Investment company photos
1891-1899
Scope and Contents
November 1899, February 25 1891
Box 2 Folder 27
Color slides and negatives of Henry Noll Site of his house and concrete houses in Bethlehem
1963
Box 2 Folder 28
Original photos of Manufacturing Investment Company, Madison, Maine, plus 1982 photos
1982
Box 2 Folder 29
Photo of Horace King Hathaway plus copy negative Taylor
Box 2 Folder 30
Harlow S. Person
Box 2 Folder 31
Keppele Hall - employed by Richard A. Feiss at the Joseph and Feiss Company
Box 3 Folder 1
"Charles Day. A Memory" by his wife Margaret Dunning Day Philadelphia, 1934.
1879-1931
Scope and Contents
Copy #12 of a limited edition 25 copies. Signed by the author. Contains original photographs; binder includes the dates 1879-1931
Box 4 Folder 1
History of Management Photographs - 5/2010
2010
Scope and Contents
photo-copies of photographs
Box 4 Folder 2
Sprague Electric Motor
Scope and Contents
photo-copies of photographs
Box 4 Folder 3
Mary Hennan/Richard A. Feiss Photos
Box 5
Hawthorne Photo Album, 1925
Box 5 Folder 1
Hawthorne Photo Album, 1925
1925
Box 6
Hawthorne Photo Album, 1925
Box 6 Folder 1
Hawthorne Photo Album, 1925
1925
Box 7
Hawthorne Photo Album, 1925
Box 7 Folder 1
Hawthorne Photo Album, 1925
1925