General Machinery Corporation Records
name: label: Creator
content: General Machinery Corporation
label: Creator
content: Niles-Bement-Pond Co.
label: Donor
content: Bement Company
label: Donor
content: Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Company
label: Donor
content: Long and Allstatter Company
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Engineering and Industry
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
label: Donor
content: Niles Tool Works
label: Donor
content: Ohio Historical Society
place: label: Place
content: Hamilton (Ohio)
label: Place
content: Ohio -- Manufacturing
topic: label: Topic
content: Manufacturing
label: Topic
content: Machinery industry
label: Topic
content: Machine-tool industry
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The negatives were donated to the Division of Work and Industry, in several gifts in 1991 and 1992, by the Ohio Historical Society.
creator: label: Creator
content: General Machinery Corporation
label: Creator
content: Niles-Bement-Pond Co.
setName: label: See more items in
content: General Machinery Corporation Records
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The General Machinery Corporation of Hamilton, Ohio was formed in 1928 by the merger of Niles Bement Pond Co. and Hooven Owens Rentschler Co. Other companies that became part of General Machinery were Putnam Machine Co. and Long and Allstatter. The General Machinery Co. became subsumed by the Baldwin Lima Hamilton Co. during th e1950s..
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 24 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1899-1969
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred to the Archives Center in 2007.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1115
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Divided into five series: Series 1, Long and Allstatter Negatives; Series 2, Niles Bement Pond Negatives; Series 3, Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Company Negatives; Series 4, Bement Company Negatives; Series 5, Niles Tool Works Negatives; Series 6, Photoprints from Negatives in General Machinery Corporation Collection.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection is unprocessed.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Over 2,000 photographic negatives of machinery produced by General Machinery Corporation and its predecessors; also three cubic feet of prints from the negatives.