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 4: Gould Aeronautical Division
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1941-1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0320, Subseries 4.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: PERSONNEL RECORDS, 1941-1945, include a listing of employees and their nationalities drawn up in December 1941, notices regarding work rules and practices, position descriptions for salaried employees, and copies of the employee newsmagazine, The Leading Edge.  Especially interesting are a number of motivational posters done by Pratt, Read employees during the war, which were hung throughout the factory facilities.  These poster stress quality workmanship, productivity, safety, and the contributions of the workers to the war effort.  Negatives of these posters, and others, are included among the Photonegatives.