The Great Northern Railway Papers Finding Aid Prepared By Maura L. Valentino Bass Business Collection University of Oklahoma Libraries Norman, OK 2010 Finding aid encoded by University of Oklahoma Libraries 2010 Finding aid written in English....
Container List Container Contents Board of Directors' Minutes and Corporate Histories I Historical Sketches and Company Minutes Scope and Content Note Contains Historic Sketches, minutes and notes from both the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company...
The Great Northern Railway encompassed several railway companies, including the St. Paul and Pacific Railway Company and the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Company, by way of owning the majority of stock. After financial problems, the Northern...
Northern Pacific Railway Company Papers Part I Finding Aid Prepared By Brian C. Shults Bass Business Collection University of Oklahoma Libraries Norman, OK 2010 Finding aid encoded by University of Oklahoma Libraries 2010 Finding aid written in...
Container List Container Contents Board of Directors' Minutes and Corporate Histories I Inventories, Records, and Company Minutes 1864/1922 Scope and Content Note Contains inventories, records of the Subscribers to the Capital Stock, and minutes...
The Northern Pacific Railway company was the first railroad to run through the northern tier of states, connecting Lake Superior to Puget Sound. Its contruction began with an estimated forty-seven to sixty million acres of land grants from the...
Three documents, two letters and one detailed report. First, Elton Mayos letter to G.A. Pennock dated February 9, 1931, concerning the status of the Western Electric experiments and the importance of studying how fatigue, morale, preoccupation...
Duplicates Progress Report No. 1 and 2 with the addition of a health questionnaire, notes on the physical examinations of each of the test employees, and a discussion about output increases when work shortened to 4:00 p.m. and then returned to 5:00...
Discusses the increase of productivity in the test room. Productivity increased when the workday was shortened. Lower production on Monday and Saturday was thought to be due to mental preoccupation in the majority of cases, not cumulative...
Comments made by the six test subjects in the relay assembly test room from 1927-1930. The comments are sorted into six categories: rest periods, hours, holidays and vacations; production, earnings, repairs and type; supervision and test room...
Five interviews with the mica-splitting test room operators. The interview covered attitudes about the company and the test room. Family life and outside interests were also discussed
Typewritten research report which presents background information on the company and how it is viewed by the community, analyzes the data collected about personnel counseling, and provides discussion about what impact this study will have on the...
Comments from mica test room operators. The comments were recorded and classified as follows: A. Rest periods, hours, holidays, vacations; B. Production, earnings, repairs, type; C. Supervision and test room environment; D. Attitudes and transient...
Two reports, one by Mr. Lovekin and one by Mr. Roethlisberger regarding their interviewing of the supervisors. Mr. Lovekins report divided by topics that the men discussed and then analyzed by percentage that felt one way or the other on each...
Report addressing the work of a counselor during the three month period of January through March, 1943. It stated what she did on a daily basis and showed how her work was valuable to the company by increasing employee morale, providing proof...
Case study of a group of young female employees. This group of young female employees formed cliques, talked, and was a problem for their supervisors. The girls claimed they did not know how to do their jobs, they needed more supervision, they...
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...
Correspondence passed among investigators from September 1928 to February 1934. Letters to G.A. Pennock from Dr. Elton Mayo examined blood pressure, visits, generalizing mind for administration and societal changes; biological measures needs,...
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...
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...
Interview method, analysis, and development of training began in the Inspection Branch, moved to the Operating Branch, and in January 1930 throughout the Works. A December 1929 pamphlet titled A Plan for Improving Employee Relations was printed. ...
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
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...
Kroff enlisted in Company ""F"" of the 11th Indiana Infantry Volunteers on July 12, 1861, at the age of 23. The diary describes his experiences during four years and one month of service: the battles, the news he heard about...
A proposed act to repeal the act entitled ""An act to incorporate the Choctaw and Chickasaw Central Railroad Company"" and to repeal on act entitled ""An act to incorporate the Choctaw and Chickasaw Thirty-fifth Senate...
A proposed bill that no citizen of this nation has the right to grant a right a way to any railroad company or corporate community. Passed Senate October 31, 1874. Passed House Nov. 2, 1874 and approved the same.
A proposed act requiring the M., K., and T. Railroad Company to reduce the rates of mileage on their line of railroad through the Indian Territory. Passed and approved October 23, 1889.
A proposed act requiring the M., K., and T. Railroad Company to reduce the rates of mileage on their line of railroad through the Indian Territory. Passed and approved October 23, 1889.
A resolution stating that the Osage Coal and Mining Company has not paid the royalty on coal mined by them from November 1882 to August 1, 1883. Passed Senate November 5, 1883. Passed House November 6, 1883. Approved November 6, 1883.
A proposed act for the betterment of the conditions of the orphans or Asylum Lottery Company. Passed Senate December 21, 1889. Passed House December 23, 1889. Approved December 24, 1889.
An act asking the Principal Chief to compel George Oaks, inspector of St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company to give his report. Passed and approved November 14, 1890. Passed House November 13, 1890.
Bill No. 22. A resolution accepting the report of J.H. Miller, inspector on the H.B.L.S.F. Railroad Company. Passed House and Senate October 23, 1893. Approved October 24, 1893.
Bill No. 30. Resolution accepting the report of H.J. Kayser, inspector on the C.C. and Railway Company. Passed House and Senate October 23, 1893. Approved October 25, 1893.
An act creating the Choctaw Oil and Refining Company for the purpose of finding petroleum for rock oil, and increasing the revenue of the Choctaw Nation. Passed Senate October 21, 1884. Passed House and approved October 23, 1884.
Bill No. 11. An act to authorize the Choctaw and Chickasaw national railroad company to construct and operate a railway through the Choctaw and Chickasaw nation and for other purposes. Passed House and Senate January 26, 1894. Approved January 27,...
A letter to S.J. Homer to examine the Treasurer's Reports and whether or not National Warrant No. 11 dated October 29, 1898, in favor of the American Book Company for $4905.00 has been paid. Dated August 30, 1899.
A letter from A.H. Garland, Attorney General, to Secretary of Interior concerning a contract dated November 8, 1883, between Mrs. A.G. Ream and Robert L. Ream, Jr., her husband and the Atoka Coal and Mining Company. July 29, 1885.
Bill No. 23. A resolution refusing to accept the statutory allowance of $50.00 per mile for right-of-way from the Fort Smith and Western Railway Company through Choctaw Nation (30 Statute, 1368). Passed and approved November 4, 1901.
Bill No. 46. A proposed act granting a charter to the Raymond, Sans Bois Telephone Company. Passed House November 5, 1901. Approved November 6, 1901. Disapproved by the President of the United States January 22, 1902.
A letter from Thos. Ryan to Soloman J. Homer, National Secretary of the Choctaw Nation stating that the resolution concerning the right of way of the Gainsville, McAlester, and St. Louis Railway Company had been referred to the commissioner of...
1887--Letter: To Hon. L.Q.C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior from G.W. Harkins, et al, Chickasaw and Cherokee Delegates. Re: mining contracts of the Choctaw Nation with the Osage Coal and Mining Company.
A resolution requiring J.M. Hodges to make a report of the settlement made with the Gulf, Colorado, and the Santa Fe Railroad Company. Passed Senate and approved November 10, 1887.