Western Electric Company photograph album, 1925.

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Western Electric Company photograph album, 1925.

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This album contains eighty-one black and white photographs that document the operations of the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne Works in 1925. The images depict general views of the plant's buildings and grounds, the offices and laboratories, the various shop departments, including the telephone apparatus, cable, rubber, and insulating operations, and the rod and wire mill. Many of the photographs show factory employees at work at their stations.

1 linear ft. (1 v.)

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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The Western Electric Company was a subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. The firm manufactured a wide variety of telephone equipment at its Hawthorne Works in Chicago, Illinois. A notable series of worker efficiency experiments known as the Hawthorne Studies were staged at the plant between 1924 and 1933. From the description of Photograph album, 1925. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 52815587 From the description of Western Electric Com...

Western Electric Company. Hawthorne Works.

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