Burroughs Corporation black box photograph collection, 1880-1972.

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Burroughs Corporation black box photograph collection, 1880-1972.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62698147

The collection contains early photographs (most larger than 8x10 and some as large as 11x14) of American Arithmometer Company, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Burroughs Corporation, Boyer Machine Company, and Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company employees and facilities. The images include production facilities, sales meetings, and employee activities including company-sponsored athletics. The collection contains extensive documentation of Burroughs Adding Machine Company's, later Burroughs Corporation's, headquarters in Detroit MI. Also included in the collection are photographs from Walter H. MacDonald and photographs from an album created by E.D. Shaw. The MacDonald photographs include American Arithmometer Company employees shortly after the move from St. Louis to Detroit, employee activities at Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and the Kansas City branch. The photographs from the Shaw album show various sales training events over the first 25 years of Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

2 cubic ft. (8 boxes)

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis