Photonegatives
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
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0320, Subseries 4.6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The PHOTONEGATIVES, 1942-1945, show many of the same subjects as the photoprints.  However, since most of them were created in the course of photo assignments for The Leading Edge, they focus more on the employees and typical factory scenes.  The negatives showing the various departments, for example, usually consist of group photos of the workers in that department, rather than scenes showing them at work.  Factory scenes include the assembly line, change of shifts, a bond rally, visits of servicemen and women, the 1943 Christmas celebration, and production award ceremonies.  Many of the photoprints and photonegatives show the factory grounds covered with CG 4A gliders in various stages of assembly.  Others document the packaging and shipping of the finished gliders, and the accidents that took place in transit.  The archivist has grouped several sets of related negatives together by topic, since they lacked an overall original arrangement.