New  Development (ND) Project Files
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: 1924 - 1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Subseries 5.9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries documents new development work at United Shoe through index cards, shipping requests, reports, correspondence, photographs, parts shipping notices, closure forms, government purchase order requests and requests for engineering. The index cards provide the order number, date, what was being worked on, a description, who suggested the work, who developed the work, a department manager signature and when the order was closed. Associated costs (per month) were recorded on the reverse side of the card. For example, order number, ND 9999, documents a Unishank cementing "A"  machine which was opened in April 1935 and the work closed in September 1935. In some instances the cards are stamped "destroyed" with a date. New development (ND) index cards were sampled on the basis of retaining 100 cards at 1,000 card intervals.