Hall, Keppele Papers, 1894-1980
Collection Number: 5607

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Keppele Hall Papers, 1894-1980
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5607
Abstract:
Work measurement and job analysis studies.
Creator:
Hall, Keppele
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Keppele Hall was an engineer, contractor, management theorist, superintendent of planning for Joseph & Feiss Company, and member of the National Board of Labor Managers. As a management consultant, he oversaw the implementation of management systems according to the principles enunciated by proponents of scientific management.

Professional papers consist primarily of fragmentary examples of work measurement and job analysis materials used in various manufacturing companies. The documents reflect Hall's effort to apply scientific management principles to practical activities.
Work measurement materials include tags, job instructions, data and miscellaneous notes and diagrams for the Tabor Mfg. Company (1912-1919), the Clinton Wire Cloth Company (1917), Lamson and Sessions Company (1926), and Strouse Brothers Inc. (1920); a contract for the Keppele Hall Contracting Company, Dayton, Ohio (1894-1913); and drafts and copies of the Articles of Federation of the National Industrial Federation of Clothing Manufacturers (1919). The papers also reflect Hall's association with Frederick Taylor's colleagues, Richard A. Feiss and Sanford E. Thompson.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS

Preferred Citation

Keppele Hall Papers #5607. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Feiss, Richard A. (Richard Albert),1878-1954
Hall, Keppele,1872-1926.
Thompson, Sanford E. (Sanford Eleazer), 1867-1949
Subjects:
Industrial management
Job analysis
Management science
Methods engineering
Work measurement.
Business consultants
Industrial engineers

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Biographical information on Keppele Hall by C.D. Wrege and J.C. Mundy
1980
Scope and Contents
Includes working paper entitled "Management Consulting 1913- 1926:The Keppele Hall Papers" by C.D. Wrege and J.C. Mundy, 1980, 31 pp.
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence. General.
1914-1926
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Frederick Taylor, Tracy Copp, Harold Marshall, Sidney Hillman. Includes notes on Mrs. Muskowitz. One letter mentions Ida Tarbell's interest in Scientific Management.
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence [folder 1 of 2]
1915-1926
Scope and Contents
Includes Minutes of Baltimore Federation of Clothing Manufacturers note: This material is in order as taken out of one binder [folder 1 of 2]
Box 1 Folder 4
Correspondence [folder 2 of 2]
1915-1926
Scope and Contents
Includes Minutes of Baltimore Federation of Clothing Manufacturers note: This material is in order as taken out of one binder [folder 2 of 2]
Box 1 Folder 5
Keppele Hall Publications
Box 1 Folder 5
Terms in the Wire Cloth Industry by K. Hall
1917
Scope and Contents
6 pp.
Box 1 Folder 5
The Standardization of Papers by K. Hall
1916
Scope and Contents
5 pp.
Box 1 Folder 5
Reducing The Cost of Manufacture by K. Hall
1924
Scope and Contents
16 pp.
Box 1 Folder 5
Preliminary Report on Overall Industry by K. Hall
undated
Scope and Contents
5 pp.
Box 1 Folder 5
Wage Systems by K. Hall
1923
Scope and Contents
24 pp.
Box 1 Folder 5
The Planning Department as an Instrument of Executive Control by K. Hall
1923
Scope and Contents
8 pp.
Box 1 Folder 6
Article of Federation. National Industrial Federation of Clothing Manufacturers
1919
Box 1 Folder 7
Clinton Wire Cloth Company: Time Cards, Work Reports
1917
Box 1 Folder 8
Clinton Wire Cloth Company: Work Cards, Purchase Slips, etc.
1917
Box 1 Folder 9
Clinton Wire Cloth Company and Easton Manufacturing Company, Taylor System Forms
undated
Box 1 Folder 10
Contract (blank) to Keppele Hall Company, Dayton, Ohio
1894-1913
Box 1 Folder 11
Eastern Manufacturing Company. Keppele Hall Report and Paper Specifications
1916, undated
Box 1 Folder 12
Eastern Manufacturing Company. Standing Orders
1914-1915
Scope and Contents
Standing Orders.
Box 1 Folder 13
Job Tags
undated
Box 1 Folder 14
Lamson and Sessions Company
1926
Scope and Contents
Statistics and Data on Work Output and Report.
Box 1 Folder 15
Strouse Brothers, Inc. [folder 1 of 4]
1920
Scope and Contents
Forms-includes cost sheets, Diagrams, Instruction Sheets for work operations. [folder 1 of 4]
Box 1 Folder 16
Strouse Brothers, Inc. [folder 2 of 4]
1920
Scope and Contents
Forms-includes cost sheets, Diagrams, Instruction Sheets for work operations. [folder 2 of 4]
Box 1 Folder 17
Strouse Brothers, Inc. [folder 3 of 4]
1920
Scope and Contents
Forms-includes cost sheets, Diagrams, Instruction Sheets for work operations. [folder 3 of 4]
Box 1 Folder 18
Strouse Brothers, Inc. [folder 4 of 4]
1920
Scope and Contents
Forms-includes cost sheets, Diagrams, Instruction Sheets for work operations. [folder 4 of 4]
Box 1 Folder 19
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Accounting System for the Newton Machine Tool Works by H.K. Hathaway
1912
Scope and Contents
97 pp.
Box 1 Folder 20
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: The Balance Clerk n.n.
1913
Scope and Contents
66 pp.
Box 1 Folder 21
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data [folder 1 of 3]
Box 1 Folder 21
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: The Follow Up System
1915
Scope and Contents
21 pp.
Box 1 Folder 21
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: The Planning Department by H.K. Hathaway
1912
Scope and Contents
30 pp.
Box 1 Folder 21
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: "Bonus Time Notes and Bonus Record Cards
Scope and Contents
4 pp.
Box 1 Folder 22
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data [folder 2 of 3]
Box 1 Folder 22
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Report to Plymouth Cordage Company, North Plymouth, Mass., on Form of Organization by H.K. Hathaway
1914
Scope and Contents
28 pp.
Box 1 Folder 22
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Report on Care and Maintenance of Belting
Box 1 Folder 23
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data [folder 3 of 3]
Box 1 Folder 23
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Routine and Bonus for Time Clerk
1912
Scope and Contents
5 pp.
Box 1 Folder 23
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Standing Order for Order of Work Clerk
1913
Box 1 Folder 23
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Standing Order for Recording Clerk
1913
Box 1 Folder 24
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Standing Order for Storekeeper
1913
Scope and Contents
62 pp.
Box 1 Folder 25
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Standing Order for Balance of Stores Clerk
1919
Scope and Contents
47 pp.
Box 1 Folder 26
Study of Operations and Processes Used in the Manufacture of Clothing
undated
Scope and Contents
Morris Greenberg
Box 1 Folder 27
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Miscellaneous Forms
1912-1919
Box 1 Folder 28
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Miscellaneous Forms
1911, undated
Mapcase Folder 2
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Blueprint
1908
Processing Information
Rehoused from box 1 folder 27
Mapcase Folder 3
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Blank Forms
undated
Processing Information
Rehoused from box 1 folder 27
Mapcase Folder 4
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Blueprints and Charts
1908, 1917
Processing Information
Rehoused from box 1 folder 27
Mapcase Folder 5
Tabor Manufacturing Company Data: Blueprints and Charts
1904-1919
Processing Information
Rehoused from box 1 folder 27