Background Materials
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 5: Research and Development Department Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947 - 1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Subseries 5.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries consists of documentation that provides an overview of the activities of the Research and Development Department. The Research and Development Department included activities carried out by persons trained formally or by experience in the physical sciences or related engineering fields. Primarily through memoranda, the department's goals, objectives, functions (for example, committee work), responsibilities and working definitions are communicated.  The files also include a publicity kit from 1967 for a tour of the Research and Development laboratories emphasizing the various techniques utilized in machine design and product development.