Western Electric Company Photograph Album
name: label: Creator
content: Western Electric Company.
label: Names
content: Bell System
label: Names
content: Hawthorne Works.
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
place: label: Place
content: Chicago (Ill.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Manufacturing
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Western Electric Company.
abstract: label: Summary
content: Album of black-and-white photographs documenting the Hawthorne, Illinois Works of the Western Electric Company in 1925.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Collected for the National Museum of American History, Division of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (now called the Division of Work and Industry). Transferred to the Archives Center in 2007.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1036
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albums
label: Type
content: Photograph albums
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged in one series.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Albums -- 1920-1930
label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums -- 1920-1970
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1920-1930
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Collection consists of photographic album prepared for a Bell System conference in Chicago, 1925. It contains black-and-white photographs of the Hawthorne, Illinois Works of the Western Electric Company including views of buildings and grounds, offices, laboratories, shops, and the rod and wire mill.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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