Albums
odd: label: General
content: This series  includes bound albums of photographs of United Shoe inventors, the Turner Tanning Machinery Company, Stetson Shoe Company and the Beverly Factory Exhibit.

The Research Division Inventors Album, 1915-1920, is arranged alphabetically by last name of inventor and includes portraits.  Some of the photographs are annotated and contain information such as a death date. 

The Turner Tanning Machinery Company was formed by William B. Turner in 1902 to produce a vertical single table putting-out machine invented by Joseph Vaughn.  The company moved from Boston to Peabody, Massachusetts, in 1905, and soon thereafter set up overseas subsidiaries in Germany and England.  The United Shoe Machinery Company acquired a controlling interest in Turner Tanning in the early 1920s.  By 1938, USMC had acquired complete control and Turner Tanning became a wholly owned subsidiary.  In 1961 it was dissolved and the business absorbed into USMC as the Turner Tanning Machinery Division.

Turner Tanning Machinery Company Photographs, 1926-1937, consist of black and white photoprints, mainly 8" x 10".  The tanning process photographs, taken at an unidentified tannery, depict several stages of the tanning process, but, since none are captioned, they probably do not depict the tanning process in the correct order. Most show Turner machinery in use.  The Machinery Photograph Albums, 1926-1937, mainly contain photoprints of various Turner machines taken during their development process.  These are accompanied by detailed explanatory captions.  They are not arranged chronologically within the albums. They include Turner Tanning Machinery Company photographs, 1926-1937 (8" x 10" photoprints, some in albums), and pictures taken in the Beverly factory.
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 17: Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1915-1950s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Subseries 17.8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials