Dorr E. Felt collection, 1900-1930.

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Dorr E. Felt collection, 1900-1930.

Dorr E. Felt collection consists of approximately 91.25 linear feet spanning the years 1900 to 1930 and includes correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, newspapers, journals, brochures, etc., on a variety of subjects including World War I; Bolshevism, Communism, Red Russia; the Air Board of Chicago; Labor; College Made Utopias; National Security League; the U.S. Employers Commission to Europe; and the Pan American Congress.

ca. 91.25 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7953565

Cudahy Library

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Loyola University of Chicago. Archives.

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Industrial Relations Association of America

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National Security League

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Felt, D. E. (Dorr Eugene), 1862-

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Dorr E. Felt was born March 18, 1862, in Rock County, Wisconsin. He died August 7, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. President of the Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing company and inventor of the comptometer. Felt invented the first key operated calculating machine and the first practical adding and listing machines before perfecting his comptometer in 1887. He served as regional advisor for one section of the war industrial board in 1918; was a member of the employers' commission appointed by Secretary ...