Object Details
- Collection Creator
- United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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- United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records
- Date
- 1907 - 1981
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0277, Series 17
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- This series consists of black and white and color photographs (originals, copy prints, and later prints), postcards, glass plate negatives (silver gelatin on glass) and film negatives (silver gelatin on cellulose acetate safety film) documenting the United Shoe Machinery Corporation and its activities. Images include, but are not limited to, portraits of United Shoe Machinery executives, employees, ledger pages from bound volumes, drawings/blueprints (especially wiring diagrams), the arrival of trains, factories and buildings (with directional views north, south, east and west), trucks, construction work, interior offices, bicycles used by employees, and hospital interiors with operating rooms. The materials are arranged topically. The film negatives and the glass plate negatives contain images of machinery manufactured by the company and other topics depicted in the employees, equipment/products, and factories/buildings subseries.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at [email protected] or 202-633-3270. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view materials in cold storage and audio visual materials. Using cold room materials requires a three hour waiting period, reference copies do not exist for audio visual materials. Arrangements must be made with the Archives Center staff two weeks prior to a scheduled research visit. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562731185152-1562731185442-4
