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Motion study

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Alice Rice Cook papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 287
Scope and Contents The Alice Rice Cook Papers contain clippings regarding Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, correspondence with Lillian Gilbreth, and correspondence and materials regarding the death of Lillian Gilbreth collected by Alice Cook.
Dates: 1943-1972; Other: Majority of material found in 1950s-1960s; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1971

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth papers, addition 02

 Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20120615

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth papers, addition 04

 Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20210625.1

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Library of Management Research and Professional papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 8
Scope and Contents The Gilbreth Library of Management documents the pioneering research of Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Gilbreth in the fields of time and motion study. Commonly referred to as the N-file, the collection covers the Gilbreths quest to find The One Best Way in job performance, worker satisfaction, efficient office management, and home economics.Types of material in the N-file include photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, notes, blueprints, newspaper clippings, reports, and research...
Dates: 1845 - 1959; Majority of material found within 1906 - 1924; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1938

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 7
Scope and Contents The Gilbreth Papers documents the professional and personal lives of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. The collection consists of personal papers, letters, correspondence, photographs, and other memorabilia that Lillian Gilbreth collected during her life regarding her youth, marriage, family, and career. Types of materials in the collection include: personal correspondence between Frank and Lillian Gilbreth regarding their courtship, marriage, family, and work; correspondence between the Gilbreths...
Dates: 1869 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1971

School of Industrial Engineering records on Lillian Gilbreth

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 177
Scope and Contents The School of Industrial Engineering records on Lillian Gilbreth documents the Gilbreth Library restoration project, and communication between Purdue and the Gilbreth family, especially communication with Gilbreth’s daughter, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in the 1990s. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, documents and newspaper clippings regarding Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s research. Series 1 includes a speech, “Talking ‘Motion Study’ in Japan”, that was presented by...
Dates: 1914 - 2013

A. B. Segur and Company Motion and Time Analysis collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 299
Scope and Contents This collection contains instructional booklets on Motion Time Analysis published by A. B. Segur and Co. It also contains company bulletins, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, a photo album of factory machinery, and company ephemera.
Dates: 1912 - 1975

The Frank and Lillian Gilbreth films collection

 Collection — Box vhs, dvd
Identifier: MSP 214
Scope and Contents The Frank and Lillian Gilbreth films collection includes a VHS cassette and duplicate DVD of two short films. The Quest of the One Best Way: The Original Films of Frank B. Gilbreth, by James Perkins and Ralph Barnes, features film footage taken by Frank Gilbreth, particularly those used in his Motion Studies and Fatigue Studies research. The film includes commentary by James Perkins and Lillian Gilbreth, who narrate various aspects of Frank and Lillian...
Dates: 1968; Other: Date acquired: 03/02/2011