Walter Van Dyke Bingham Collection, Series II, 1852-1965, 1890-1952.

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Walter Van Dyke Bingham Collection, Series II, 1852-1965, 1890-1952.

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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, drafts, copies of speeches and articles, data, financial records, mimeographed and printed items including test forms and photographs relating to his interest in accident prevention, aptitude and intelligence testing, guidance and placement, industrial relations, interviewing, occupational studies, personnel selection and other aspects of psychology. Series II. concerns the founding and Bingham's directorship of the Personnel Research Federation, and his founding of its "Personnel Journal"; his work as a private consultant for the Boston Elevated Railway (1927-1933). Technical Committee of the National Occupational Conference (1933-1938), Technical Board of the Occupational Research Program of the U.S. Employment Service (1934-1940), Occupational Information and Guidance Service of the U.S. Office of Education (1938-1939), U.S. Indian Service (1938-1939), Civil Service Association of the U.S. and Canada, and other group business of the APA, the N.Y.S. Association of Applied Psychology, including publication of its "Jounal of Consulting Psychology," the formation of its Industrial and Business Section, and discussion by that section of a proposed Institute of Industrial Psychology; and also includes the manuscript and notes of his "Aptitudes and Aptitude Testing" (1937).

32 boxes linear feet

Carnegie Mellon University, Hunt Library

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Carnegie Mellon University, Hunt Library

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Professor at the University of Chicago, later President of Yale University. From the description of James Rowland Angell letters, 1880-1945. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418550 Born May 8, 1869, Burlington, Vermont; psychologist, educator; B.A., University of Michigan, 1890, M.A. 1891; M.A., Harvard, 1892; taught at the University of Chicago and was acting president, 1918-1919; president of the Carnegie Corporation, 1920-1921; president of Yale University,...

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