Employee/Personnel Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1908 - 1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The employee and personnel materials consist of benefit, pension and insurance plans, a suggestion plan, an open house flier, family night documentation, and clubs for employees.  Family Night was created by the Research Division to acquaint  families with their work and explain how they contribute to the research effort of the company. Activities included demonstrations and displays of various machines. 

There are employee cards, 1908-1917, which consist of index cards, arranged alphabetically by employee surname that detail the kind of work (planer, grinder, laborer, tool maker), age, marital status, where the person last worked, where they worked the longest, if they were interviewed, home address, when they began work, and if they retired or were discharged, with a reason. 

From 1907 to 1940 the United Shoe sponsored the "Sam Sam" festival which included carnival rides, midway games, and entertainment for its employees and their families. Images of the "Sam Sam can be found in Series 17: Photographs, Subseries 10: Glass Plate Negatives.