Facilities
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records
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content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records / Series 5: Research and Development Department Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947 - 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Subseries 5.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries consists of documentation about physical property at United Shoe and the polices and procedures for that property. Some files detail aspects of tours conducted at United Shoe Machinery facilities as well as the tours of other manufacturers.  For example, United Shoe staff visited other organizations to learn more about research and development philosophies. The building and facilities file contains organizational charts, a menu from the Beverly Factory cafeteria (1961 and 1969); notices about moving offices; memoranda about using excess space; charts with square footage calculations; blueprints; evaluation of alternate sites; and other notes related to space planning issues. 

The file relating to equipment includes inventories of specialized equipment for use by the Research Division and a 1955 report on Facilities and Instruments Available in the Research Division.

The disaster planning materials contain photocopies of articles and memoranda about the development of emergency procedures, especially fall-out shelters, the threat of nuclear attack,  and the use of microfilming of all experimental drawings for machines and their storage. In 1962, the Research Division formed the Records Protection Committee to discuss microfilming efforts, the backlog of material to be microfilmed and future accruals. A 1961 Disaster Plan Outline details the Research Divisions action plan. 

The security materials consist of memoranda, photocopies of articles documenting security procedures for incoming documents, particularly for classified government contract work undertaken by United Shoe. A copy of the Industrial Security Manual for Safeguarding Classified Information, Department of Defense, 1960 and 1961 is in the file as well as United Shoe's Standard Practice Procedures for Security Control at the Beverly Research Division, 1965. Other security issues relate to master keys for offices, doors to machine rooms, and the loss of equipment through theft.  A May 1970 memoranda details new security procedures to be implemented, including new identification cards. Of note is a September 1960 Industrial Security Letter about "Industrial Security and Soviet Espionage."

The parking materials include a 1948 memoranda about easing traffic problems in the Research Division parking lot, with a map.

The computer services documentation consists of memoranda, notes, and correspondence about the use of IBM computers in the Research Division with scientific software.