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Presentation Photo Album showing the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne Factory Complex 1928

1928réf. 545041Cicero Illionis 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong folio 12 ½" x 10. A handsome presentation album consisting of three letterpress leaves followed by 27 gelatin silver prints neatly mounted on the rectos of thick card leaves each with a letterpress caption printed underneath. All but the first print measure 8" x 10". Screw-bound in flexible leather covers lettered in gold on the front cover. Head and tail of spine are torn the cardboard leaves are slightly bowed very good or better. The album was prepared "upon the occasion of a visit of city officials and business men of Baltimore to the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company." It contains crisp professional views mostly of the Hawthorne factory complex at Cicero Illinois as well as a few views of other parts of the Company's operations such as the plant in Kearny New Jersey and the distribution houses in New York and Kansas City. Among the many visually striking views are "A three and one-half acre" interior the "Reel Yard operating by Floodlight" throngs of employees at a "Hawthorne-Club Open-Air Dance" and a final view of employees leaving the complex under a dramatic sunset "After the day's work." At the peak of its operations from 1905 through 1983 the Hawthorne Works employed upwards of 45000 people in the production of radio systems radar and telephone equipment and related consumer goods. Located in a suburb of Chicago the complex also gained notoriety for the term "Hawthorne effect" which "refers to the type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed." An early scarce promotional album dating from the heyday of Western Electric during the roaring twenties. hardcover

Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA · États-Unis4 800,00 $US≈ 4 288,40 €

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