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(Tapeten-Musterbuch) - Zuber Manufacture de Papiers PeintsBiblio.com

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Dictaphone Technology FactoryBiblio.com

WWII Era Women's Employment at a Dictaphone Factory in Bridgeport Connecticut 1940s

1940233241940. Dictaphone Corporation factory photographs documenting women and men manufacturing dictating machines in Bridgeport Connecticut circa 1940s showcasing the postwar expansion of women's employment inside a growing communications technology industry. The group centers on Dictaphone's Bridgeport plant at 335 Howard Avenue where workers appear at long rows of benches with recording and transcription equipment tool drawers lamps wiring and partly assembled machines placing this archive within the larger World War II and postwar reorganization of American factory labor. Several photographs give women a central place within that system not as incidental figures but as seated operators bench workers and posed employees inside the production rooms themselves grounding the archive in the history of women's industrial employment as office technology manufacturing expanded beyond clerical use into large scale commercial production. Archive of 21 pieces including 20 black and white and one red photographs ranging from 2" x 2" to 5" x 7" and original envelope. Bridgeport Connecticut circa 1940s. One original company envelope is printed "DICTAPHONE CORPORATION / 335 HOWARD AVENUE / BRIDGEPORT CONN." fixing the factory location. Interior views show crowded production rooms under fluorescent strip lighting with dozens of workers seated at benches operating or assembling dictating machines and related components; in the largest image male workers fill a deep factory floor while several men in the foreground lean into handsets or testing devices at stations packed with equipment. One view shows a male worker alone at a bench in a long machine lined room with belts tools and suspended mechanisms overhead; several smaller prints show women seated at desks or worktables women and men posed together on the shop floor and mixed groups of workers assembled outdoors or around demonstration tables with supervisors and visiting men in suits. The images repeatedly emphasize rows of benches machine bodies cords lamps and standardized work positions while the envelope and repeated factory interiors tie the lot to Dictaphone's manufacturing operation rather than to sales or office promotion alone. During World War II and the immediate postwar years firms producing office equipment occupied an important place in the broader American communications and business machine economy supplying devices that organized dictation transcription record keeping and administrative workflow for corporations law offices and government users. This archive makes that industrial system visible at the level of labor showing how the growth of business technology relied on factory discipline gendered employment patterns and the integration of women into production space during a period when wartime labor demand altered who worked at the bench and who appeared in the industrial workforce. Light edge wear envelope toned. Overall very good condition. A concentrated visual record of 1940s office machine manufacturing placing women's industrial labor inside the production history of one of the leading American dictation companies. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis580,00 $US≈ 490,74 €

Marathon Paper Mills; Factory SafetyBiblio.com

Factory Safety Program Archive Over 100 items Documenting Industrial Nursing and Accident Prevention at Marathon Paper Mills Menasha Wisconsin 1940s-1960s

1940233861940. Marathon Paper Mills and later American Can Company industrial safety archive documenting workplace medicine accident prevention campaigns first-aid training and factory safety administration in Menasha Wisconsin from the 1940s-60s. The album records how Midwestern paper and graphic arts manufacturers attempted to reduce industrial injuries during a period when paper mills and printing plants remained physically hazardous workplaces filled with heavy rollers cutting machinery chemical exposure steam systems and high-speed industrial presses. During the postwar decades American manufacturers increasingly institutionalized safety committees plant nursing departments and employee first-aid instruction in response to rising workers' compensation costs union pressure and national workplace safety campaigns promoted by organizations such as the National Safety Council. Marathon Paper Mills was acquired by American Can Company in 1957 placing the Menasha Graphic Arts plant within one of the nation's largest packaging and industrial printing corporations. Photo and scrapbook archive of over 100 pieces with approximately 75 black-and-white photographs including twelve 8 x 10 inch prints with typed programs corporate memoranda newspaper clippings conference photographs official correspondence and safety-related ephemera Menasha Wisconsin 1940-1969. Group portraits identify attendees at the Fox River Valley and Lakeshore Safety Conferences of 1940 1941 and 1942. Numerous mounted photographs depict factory nurses treating workers administering oxygen equipment conducting examinations teaching first-aid procedures inspecting washrooms and sanitary facilities and leading emergency-response instruction for plant employees. Workers stand beside industrial presses and mechanical equipment while captions stress housekeeping sanitation accident reporting and machine safety. Several pages preserve newspaper coverage celebrating "one million safe man hours" and "three consecutive years of safe working without a disabling injury" alongside a 1969 letter signed by Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles congratulating the American Can Graphic Arts Plant on its safety record. A 1953 letter from the National Safety Council thanks Marathon Corporation for photographs displayed at the Industrial Nursing Section exhibit during the National Safety Congress in Chicago directly tying the album to nationally circulated industrial safety programming. The album preserves a narrower glimpse into ground level industrial plants with the emergence of workplace medicine and safety management as formal corporate systems. The main photographs focus on the Marathon First Aid Department where nurses supervisors and workers collaborated in organized training programs intended to reduce accidents and standardize emergency response inside hazardous production environments. Captions repeatedly emphasize sanitation inspections accident prevention emergency transport and employee instruction demonstrating how industrial safety became both a managerial program and a public relations tool during the postwar era. Photographs mounted with corner tabs throughout; scrapbook pages retain mounted newspaper clippings letters and typed documentation; light toning occasional adhesive discoloration and minor edge wear present. Overall in very good condition. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Silk Manufacture. Lobbying.ABAA

Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for Ascertaining and Limiting the Time of Future Publick Mournings . . . caption title.

170918578N. p. but London: n. p. 1709 or 1710. First edition. Somewhat dust soiled and worn with a small tear from the blank fore-edge; old fold; in good to very good condition. Single leaf evidently extracted from a nonce volume with traces of calf along one edge 12.75 x 8 inches with a printed docket title on the verso. An early example of industry lobbying a petition to Parliament on the loss of jobs across England due to public mourning; among those affected by the evident sumptuary restrictions and named here include weavers silk-dyers silk-throwers traders with Turkey and Italy and the white bone lace-makers of Bedford Buckingham and Northampton who "amount to Fourty Thousand sic whose whole Dependence was on this Manufacture and are now by Reason of this Present Mourning Reduc'd to the last Extremity by the Loss of their Trade". Hanson assigns the date 1706 to this petition which is followed by ESTC which notes a single copy at Chetham's Library in Manchester--though given that the text begins "That at the Death of the Prince of Denmark the Colour'd Silk Goods in the Mercers Hands within the Bills of Mortality by a Moderate Computation Amounted to the Value of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds and upwards; the greatest Part whereof lyes Dead on their Hands to this Day" this would suggest that the plea dates to after the death of Queen Anne's consort Prince George of Denmark and Norway Duke of Cumberland on October 28 1708; further the History and Proceedings of the House of Commons: 1706-1713 London 1742 vol. 4 pp. 139-140 notes taking up a petition on February 2 1709 O.S. from the Cities of London and Westminster on this very problem with specific phrases of this text integrated. Hanson Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750 677 Manufactures. Small ink autograph number to the upper corner of the recto. n. p., unknown books

Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA) · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

Jerry Bauer photographs essays; Andy Warhol's Factory The Fugs Greenwich Village League for Spiritual Discovery "LSD" subjecABAA

Archive of photographs of the New York Counterculture scene 1967 Collection of eight original photographs and 3 essays from 1967

19671458751967. Archive of eight vintage borderless photographs three typescript essays and a carbon typescript of the first essay and first page of the second by photographer Jerry Bauer circa 1967 with the photographs corresponding to the topics of the essays. Bauer was an American photographer best known for his photographic portraits of writers with his portraits of Samuel Beckett being held in particularly high regard. Much of his work resides in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. The first essay "The American Underground: Mind Expansion A Messiah 'Love'" is an examination of Timothy Leary and the "League for Spiritual Discovery" LSD a communal organization carrying out studies in the religious use of psychedelic drugs as well as the effects of LSD. Two photographs are of the New York Millbrook estate mentioned in the essay one of the centers for the group one photograph of the estate itself and the other of two participants on the porch. Another photograph shows three young people lounging on a bed a young man with beads in his hand matching the description in the essay of a subject's focus on "a set of beads" and a description of the living quarters being ". . . simple: mattresses on the floor." The second essay "American Underground : Mind Expansion The Poets 'Love' 2" is broken into three sections. The first is about the musical group The Fugs who Bauer describes as "the Beatles of the American underground." Two of the photographs in and around Washington Square Park feature members of The Fugs one of a gleaming Ed Sanders and Geoff Outlaw with two unidentified young women. In a second photograph the same group is on the grass along with Ken Weaver and a third unidentified young woman. The second section of the essay is about "the two stars" of the underground film movement Andy Warhol stars Baby Jane Holzer and Edie Sedgewick with a corresponding photograph taken in Warhol's Factory showing Ingrid Superstar sitting on a mattress Baby Jane Holzer on the floor with her back to the camera along with several unidentified subjects. Holzer is identified from a published photograph by Bauer titled "Baby Jane Holzer" taken at the same time as the one in the archive. The final section of the essay is a about American youth and drug culture in Greenwich Village as well as the neighborhood itself. Here the related photographs are of several young people seated on the grass one playing the guitar in Washington Square Park and one of several people standing around a Greenwich Village intersection. The third essay "Andy Warhol: Film Director of America's Underground" is a study of Warhol's early experimental films. Beginning with a brief summation of Warhol's early career Bauer goes on to postulate about Warhol's films discussing the director's various regulars including Elekro Baby Jane Holzer Sally Kirkland Nico here spelled "Nicot" and others. Photographs: Six photographs 10.75 x 8.25 inches two photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall. Ribbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Typescript on onionskin stock six leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine. Carbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock three leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine. unknown books

Royal Books, Inc. · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €