Subject file. Publications (1939-1975) of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other state and federal government agencies, along with reprints of articles regarding the American Indian. Included in the collection is a report (1970) entitled,...
April 13, 1931, G.A. Pennock sent C.W. Bergquist a report titled: An Account of the Work of the Industrial Research Division. The Industrial Research Division was established in January, 1929 to centralize the test room study, the employee...
Anthropologist. Correspondence (1949); notes (n.d.); and publications (1948-1951) concerning a field trip headed by Bell in 1949 to the Harlan Site, near Fort Gibson, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. Included in the collection are notes (1950) by Kenneth...
Case histories of the five operators and layout operators of the relay assembly test room. The histories are forms covering the test subjects family connections, personal qualities, home and community environment, and work history. Following these...
Case study of a relay assembly test room operator who was taken off the study because of her antagonistic attitude. The change in her behavior could be due to her poor health condition, perhaps anemia. Included are some of her health statistics...
Indian tribe. Official correspondence, letter press books, reports, chiefs' messages, speeches of delegates, proceedings, laws, court decisions, acts, leases, election returns, registers of removal claims, and clippings related to the affairs of...
Counseling record, entitled: Counseling in a group situation, by Phyllis Dodds. It contains detailed descriptions about the interviews, conversations, observations, as well as counselors own impressions, feelings, etc. which happened during the...
Raw data regarding the effect of rest break variations on the daily output of 5 mica-splitting operators was measured over a 37-week period in 1928. Included are tables of the average accumulated totals, charts of output, and daily output logs for...
Interpreter. A Comanche-English dictionary (ca. 1895), with a Comanche alphabet and diacritical markings, compiled by Detrick while serving as an interpreter for the Red Store Trading Post at Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Also included in the...
Subject collection. Letters, reports, publications, and manuscripts reflecting the history of Oklahoma and of its American Indian tribes and nations, including correspondence (1813-1839) from U.S. government officials concerning policy toward the...
Included in this group are tables of vascular skin reaction readings as a measurement of fatigue. There is also an abstract of chapter 5, concerning the physiology and psychology of fatigue, from Edgar James Swifts book Psychology and the days...
Report concerning the employee interview program conducted by Hawthorne Works Inspection Branch. Included are the plans for the study with purpose and procedure. Also contained is a summary outline, and interviews with representative employees...
Several reports, memoranda, and letters. It includes two copies of a preliminary report concerning the experiment in personnel counseling by which Personnel Man would interview employees and supervisors in an attempt to find problems in his...
Military post. Correspondence documenting Fort Gibson's significance in carrying out the U. S. government's Indian policy regarding the Indian pacification program following the Civil War. Included in the collection are letters sent (1879-1890),...
Collection of miscellaneous documents, both typewritten and handwritten, pertaining to the Hawthorne project and the results obtained from the study. Based on data collected from 1928-1940. Included are transcripts of speeches, summary documents...
Geography professor. Research notes and township maps (ca. 1937) of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, on which Hewes plotted the following data: which groups (categorized by degree of Indian blood, intermarried citizens, or freedmen) settled which...
Attorney. Personal and business correspondence (1893-1948) relating to Hume's family, his attendance at the University of Oklahoma, his contact with the university as an alumnus, and his law practice as an attorney for the Caddo Indians. Also...
Documents regarding creating a mathematical method for determining the tone of the interview by creating a ratio of negative to positive comments. Also included are charts analyzing interviews in groups of 100.
Two page form/questionnaire used for personal data collection and observation. A narrative case history for each of the 5 mica splitting operators follows. The case histories give marital status and age. There is a discussion of living...
Records regarding mica-splitting operator 1. Informal notes and recommendations, both hand written and type written, concerning this operator are included. Also included is a summary of absences is given for the entire period of employment from...
Records regarding mica-splitting operator fives performance. Included are a formal summary, a list of comments, and a log of favorable and unfavorable comments. The favorable and unfavorable comment log is for the period from 1928 to 1930. Also...
Report discussing the problems that the supervisors are having after the change in pay scale across the company. Changes in attitude and relations to other workers are included
Transcripts of interviews with supervisors regarding the employee interview process, working conditions and supervisor training. Also included are newspaper clippings pertaining to new management and layoffs. Some handwritten notes are included as...
Transcripts of interviews with supervisors regarding the employee interview process, working conditions and supervisor training. They took place in 1929. Some handwritten notes are included as marginalia.
Collector. A ledger (1870) with entries in the Choctaw language belonging to Wilson N. Jones, a principal chief of the Choctaws, and containing information regarding a general store he operated in Cade, Indian Territory. Also included is a copy of...
Collector. An original journal (1850) kept by Joseph R. Smith of New York, in which he recorded his experiences while on a surveying expedition through Indian Territory. Entries detail the expedition's encounters with hostile Comanches, friendly...
Anthropologist. Correspondence (1926-1961); manuscripts (n.d.) of Marriott's books and articles; research notes (n.d.); and printed materials (1930-1968) accumulated by Marriott in the course of her research for her numerous books and articles...
Letters written both before and after a Personnel Counseling Conference held January 24-25, 1961, in New York City that included representatives from numerous branches of American Telephone & Telegraph Company. After the conference, the...
Poet. A poem (1878) by McKinney written in the Choctaw language and entitled Iti Hishi Yama Isht Chit Haya Va Lihohe or A Leaf That Reminds Me of Thee. An English translation is included.
Record of observations of the relay assembly test room operations. Conversations of the workers were recorded in detail. Also included are observations of their moods in handwritten marginalia. During this period, several workers were informed...
Raw production and earnings data on an hourly basis for assembly group two with information on climate. Tables with weekly and monthy averages are included. Some handwritten notes are included, adding context to the figures.
The reports of the experiments at the Hawthorne Plant generated a great deal of interest. Directors of various companies requested further information for use in their company. Several university professors requested information for use in their...