1980.0785.129 A poor quality chronocyclegraph of two females folding handkerchiefs on a bench against a gridded background. A young male in the background holds up a slate which reads: 'WITHOUT MARKED STEELS.' The cyclegraph lines are jumpy; for Gilbre...
odd: label: General note
content: Category: handkerchief folding study
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content: Collection: NMAH
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content: Copy negative: 99-30023
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content: Information in photo: WITHOUT MARKED STEELS
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content: Job name: Herrmann-Aukam Co.
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content: Job number: 613
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content: Related captions: 618-G71-D"Wrong motions of an inexperienced worker folding cloth in a textile factory. This picture shows intermittent electric lights with the filament and the current so proportioned that the light brightens quickly and dies out slowly. This gives us a photograph of time in that the number of flashes per second is known. Moreover, the point on the spot shows the direction of the motion. It is very easy to check up the efficiency of the motions in this way."

"Note that #618-G71-B shows an inexperienced girl: also #618-G71-C and #618-G71-D. While #618-G69-2 and #618-G69-3 show girls with much greater experience. And it is here that our method is important; in that, in the scientific selection of the worker, we do not separate the workers into the two classes of those who are efficient and those who are not efficient, until we have determined the difference in their motions and have given the worker time to correct this difference. The difference show in these photographs is that the inexperienced worker does not even make curves; the lines are jerky, both in deviating from a straigth or evenly curved line, or are jerky as to time. This latter can be told by the difference in spacing between the spots in any one line." (Purdue captions).
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content: Location of subject: South River NJ or Lebanon, PA
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Perkins, James Secor
label: Collection Creator
content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
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content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972
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content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection
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content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 5: Stereograph Cards
unitdate: label: Date
content: Oct-13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials