Burroughs Corporation records. Black box photograph collection.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains early photographs (most larger than 8x10 and some as large as 11x14) of American Arithmometer Company, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Burroughs Corporation, Boyer Machine Company, and Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company employees and facilities. The images include production facilities, sales meetings, and employee activities including company-sponsored athletics. The collection contains extensive documentation of Burroughs Adding Machine Company's, later Burroughs Corporation's, headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
Also included in the collection are photographs from Walter H. MacDonald and photographs from an album created by E. D. Shaw. The MacDonald photographs include American Arithmometer Company employees shortly after the move from St. Louis to Detroit, employee activities at Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and the Kansas City branch. The photographs from the Shaw album show various sales training events over the first 25 years of Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
This is one series of the Burroughs Corporation Records (CBI 90). Please see the other series finding aids for further information regarding the Burroughs Corporation.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-1972
Creator
- Burroughs Corporation (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Access to materials:
Access to the collection is unrestricted.
Copyright:
The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Historical Note
This collection of Burroughs photographs was created by the Burroughs archives.
Extent
8 boxes (2 cubic feet))
Abstract
The collection contains early photographs of American Arithmometer Company, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Burroughs Corporation, Boyer Machine Company, and Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company employees and facilities. The images include production facilities, sales meetings, and employee activities including company-sponsored athletics. The collection contains extensive documentation of Burroughs Adding Machine Company's, later Burroughs Corporation's, headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
Acquisition:
The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Unisys Corporation in 1991, accession 991-35.
Subject
- American Arithmometer Company (Organization)
- Burroughs Corporation (Organization)
- Boyer Machine Company (Organization)
- Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company (Organization)
Topical
- Title
- Burroughs Corporation Records. Black Box Photograph Collection, 1880-1972. Finding Aid.
- Author
- Prepared by Susan A. Stepka and Kevin D. Corbitt, September 1996.
- Date
- 1996
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Charles Babbage Institute Archives Collecting Area
Elmer L. Andersen Library
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455
612-624-5050
cbi@umn.edu
