Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1907 - 1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Series 17
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.