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

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Walter Van Dyke Bingham Collection, Series I, 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 I. concerns Bingham's work as founder and director of the Carnegie Institute of Technology Division of Applied Psychology, where pioneering work was done in applying practical psychology to the problems of higher education and business, as well as cooperative research into engineering; the work of the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the Army, of which he was the Executive Secretary, during World War I in developing, standardizing and employing methods of testing and classifying enlisted men and selectiong and rating officers; research he directed for the Thomas A. Edison Co. of Orange, N.J. on the emotional influence of music; establishment of the Psychological Corporation by him and other psychologists; business of the American Psychology Association, including its consideration of association with an abstract journal or its establishment of its own; and the business of the Scott Company of Philadelphia, industrial consultants.

28 boxes linear feet

Carnegie Mellon University, Hunt Library

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Carnegie Mellon University, Hunt Library

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Bingham, Walter Van Dyke, 1880-1952

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Professor, researcher and consultant in applied psychology. Born 1880 - died 1952. A pioneer in applied psychology, Bingham got his start in experimental psychology, receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago under James R. Angell. He held teaching positions at Teacher's College of Columbia University, Dartmouth College and Carnegie Institute of Tehnology. In 1942 he became director of the Personnel Research Foundation, where for many years he carried on independan...

Personnel Research Federation (U.S.)

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Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

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The Edison sheet music collection appears to be the music library of the recording division of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. and/or its predecessor, the National Phonograph Co. Its purpose is assumed to be to provide Edison's recording artists with music for recording sessions. From the description of Edison sheet music collection, 1830-1958 (bulk 1890-1940). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 61675798 The Collector The Edison Sheet...

Scott, Walter Dill, 1869-1955

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Professor of Psychology and President of Northwestern University (1920-1939). Scott's academic training and research interests were advertising and psychological testing. During World War I, he was involved in a project coordinated by the United States Army to test officers and enlisted men for aptitutes and character traits. As NU's president, Scott oversaw the construction of its Chicago Campus to house the Law, Medical, and Business Schools, as well as numerous building projects on the Evanst...