Ledger Book, Culp Welding Company
date: label: Date made
content: 1948-1953
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Ledger Book from the Culp Welding Company. The hard back book has the title “Wage-Hour Social Security Weekly Time Book” in gold lettering and begins on January 4, 1948, going up to December 20, 1953. Each page has printed, “Time for Week Ending __19__” with room to fill in the month, date, and year. The ledger contains employees’ names, hours worked and pay, handwritten.
label: Description
content: Donor H. Lawrence “Larry” Culp, is an American businessman who became Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of General Electric Company, an American multinational conglomerate, on October 1, 2018. He is also the former CEO and President of Danaher Corporation. Larry L. Culp has been named in the list of ‘The Top 50 CEOs’ by Harvard Business Review.
label: Description
content: Larry L. Culp was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up primarily in the nearby Maryland suburb of Rockville. Culp’s grandfather founded the Culp Welding Company, a small welding business that his father then took over. Culp Welding stayed in steady business for decades, rarely employing more than a dozen workers at one time. Larry Culp sometimes helped on the shop floor, where he observed his grandfather and father run the business. He never intended to take over the business though, as his mother was adamant he did not follow his father into the family welding business.
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content: Larry believes that the lessons he gained from Culp Welding have stayed with him over time. One of his most treasured keepsakes is his grandfather’s payroll register from the 1940s. “When you think about it, this register is business at its core,” he explained.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Larry L. Culp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.3119.42
label: accession number
content: 1994.3119
label: catalog number
content: 1994.3119.42
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ledger Book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 36.195 cm x 22.225 cm x 1.5875 cm