Personnel Records
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nickse, Hugo
label: Collection Donor
content: Johnson, Hanford
label: Collection Creator
content: Comstock, Cheney and Co.
label: Collection Creator
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Donor
content: Steinway, Henry Ziegler
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content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records
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content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records / Series 3: Pratt, Read and Company, Pratt, Read and Company, Inc., and Pratt-Read Corporation
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1890 - 1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0320, Subseries 3.7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: PERSONNEL RECORDS, 1890-1983, primarily date from the mid 1940s to the late 1970s.  Notable exceptions, however, include a photocopy of the West Factory time book from 1890 1900, a company payroll from February 1894, and three piece rate books from the period 1926-1939.  The piece rate books, arranged by factory department, show employee name and amount earned per piece completed.  Many of the records in this subseries set forth personnel practices and policy, through instructions, memoranda, and employee handbooks.  Details of Pratt, Read's organization and structure can be found in various organization manuals, charts, and evaluation program records.  The company's dealings with the local chapter of the United Furniture Workers of America union are represented by correspondence, 1945-1946; agreements, 1947-1982; a union publicity scrapbook, 1948 1952; and three scrapbooks of news clippings about strikes in 1947 and 1974.  This subseries also includes a complete run of Harmony Magazine, the employee newsmagazine, from 1953-1981.