318949.0475 Interior corridor of a factory (New England Butt Company) with a display case of books. Sign reads Public Library Branch, for use of all employees, apply at information bureau. The image depicts the Providence Public Library branch which th...
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content: Card Number: 140
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content: Category: betterment
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content: Collection: NMAH
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content: Copy negative: 93-4438
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content: Information on photo: Frank B. Gilbreth
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content: Job name: New England Butt Company, Providence, RI
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content: Job number: 610
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content: Related captions: "P59 Public Library Branch in an industrial plant--a method of providing recuperation from fatigue." (courtesy of Dave Ferguson via GPP).

"LLI. Cooperating with the Public Librarian for the education of the workman. This window showing various books supplied by the libraries is located right adjoining the window where the men come to get thier new work tickets from the Planning Department and they can thus utilize their periods of "unavoidable delay" [a therblig] by looking over the books and deciding which one they want." GPP NF1/0019 vol. III.

"A plant library is becoming a regular institution. It is usually one of the first things introduced by the welfare or betterment department...In a typical New England plant [i.e, New England Butt] the librarian of the city was more than willing to cooperate. He asked the plant to supply a list of the books which he should send. His letter was discussed in the foremen's meeting, and every member present helped by submitting a list of books that he had read and enjoyed most in his life. From these lists a list of fifty books was made up and sent to the librarian, who pronounced it the best list that he had ever seen. The books were promptly brought to the plant, and put in a convenient place where every member of the organizationcould see the titles and borrow them...." for a fuller discussion, see the material from which this quote (pp. 73-74) is drawn: Frank B Gilbreth and Lillian M. Gilbreth Fatigue Study: the Elimination of Humanity's Greatest Unnecessary Waste; A First Step in Motion Study (NY: Sturgis and Walton, 1916; reprint NY: The MacMillan Company, 1919): 54-75.
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content: Location of subject: New England Butt Company, Providence, RI
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content: Subject names: New England Butt Company, Providence, RI
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Perkins, James Secor
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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 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 318949.0381 to 318949.0620
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912 c.
container: label: Container
content: Box 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Negatives