United Shoe Machinery Corporation Employee ID Badge
date: label: date made
content: 1920 - 1960
notes: label: Description
content: Harold Albert Moore Latham (1899–1988) wore this badge during his work at the United Shoe Machinery Corporation (USMC) of Beverly, Massachusetts. Latham served as a machinist for the USMC during the 1920s and ’30s before becoming a superintendent in the 1940s. His father, Albert Latham (1856–1924), worked for the USMC as well, and holds many patents related to shoe-making machinery. The expansion of the scale of industry often meant that managers did not know every employee by sight, which created the need for employee identification in large plants.
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Judith C. Lawrence
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0259.001
label: accession number
content: 1989.0259
label: catalog number
content: 89.0259.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: identification badge