University of Chicago, Industrial Relations Library, collection of materials on Chicago area companies, 1945-1971.

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University of Chicago, Industrial Relations Library, collection of materials on Chicago area companies, 1945-1971.

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Newsletters, reports, brochures, training guides, forms, financial information, and consumer relations booklets of various Chicago area companies. The materials were compiled by the Industrial Relations Library at the University of Chicago. Companies include Chicago and North Western railroad, Pure Oil, Allied Radio Corporation, Continental Illinois National Bank, Illinois Bell Telephone, Inland Steel, Jewel, Montgomery Ward, Swift and Company, and Western Electric.

1 linear ft. (3 boxes)

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Swift & Company.

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Chicago and North Western Railway Company.

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"The Chicago & North Western Railway, created during the late 1850s by the merger of several small railroads in Illinois and Wisconsin, was led during its early years by William B. Ogden, Chicago's first mayor. In 1864, the Chicago & North Western absorbed the Galena & Chicago Union, which in 1848 had been the city's first railroad. Between 1872 and 1910, under the leadership of Marvin Hughitt, the length of track in the road's rail network grew from about 1,400 miles to nearly 10,00...

Montgomery Ward

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Montgomery Ward, the world's first general merchandise mail-order business, issued its first single sheet catalog in 1872. By 1887, the Chicago based company had annual sales exceeding $1,000,000 and in 1889 it became a privately held corporation. In 1893, founder Aaron Montgomery Ward sold his controlling interest to partner George R. Thorne, and the company became a public corporation in 1919. In 1931, Sewell L. Avery became chairman and chief executive officer. His te...

University of Chicago. Industrial Relations Library.

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Western electric 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...

Jewel Tea Company

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Illinois Bell Telephone Company

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Allied Radio Corporation

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Inland Steel Company

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Steel Company founded in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois; Inland Steel operated a fleet of bulk freighters for ore transport on the Great Lakes. From the description of Records 1978-1981. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 588915836 Wheelwright, located in eastern Kentucky's Floyd County, is a town created by the coal industry. Initially developed as a coal camp by Elk Horn Coal Corporation, Wheelwright began to take shape in 1911. It was incorporat...

Pure Oil Company

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Continental Illinois national bank and trust company of Chicago

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