| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Lees-Bradner Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Lees-Bradner Company | | | | Dates: | 1915-1965 | | | | Abstract: | The Lees-Bradner Company was organized in 1906 as a partnership between Ernest J. Lees and Hosea Townsend Bradner of Cleveland, Ohio. It incorporated in 1909. The company specialized in gear hobbing and thread milling machinery for automobile timing and transmission gears and other applications. Hosea Bradner's sons; John A., George T., and James H. Bradner, ran the company in the post-World War II era. The company was purchased by White Consolidated Industries in 1967 and by 1983 the name Lees-Bradner had been phased out and the Cleveland plant closed. After White Consolidated Industries was itself purchased by Electrolux in 1986, the gear hobbing division was sold and the name Lees-Bradner was reinstated as a machine tool manufacturer. The collection consists of individual portraits of Hosea Townsend Bradner, George Townsend Bradner, and John Bradner; group portraits of employees, including production workers, managers and sales personnel; and views of products, facilities, and activities. | | | | Call #: | PG 462 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Bradner, Hosea Townsend, 1872-1963 -- Photograph collections. | Bradner, George T., 1916- -- Photograph collections. | Lees-Bradner Company -- Photograph collections. | White Consolidated Industries -- Photograph collections. | Grant-Lees Machine Company -- Photograph collections. | Machine-tool industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Gear industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Gear-cutting machines -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Lowell O. Mellen Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Mellen, Lowell O. | | | | Dates: | 1941-1959 | | | | Abstract: | Lowell O. Mellen (1897-1993) was a business consultant in Cleveland, Ohio, who pioneered the training techniques of Training Within Industry (TWI) as a representative of the War Manpower Commission in the Northern District of Ohio during World War II. After the war, he was recruited by General Douglas MacArthur to train supervisors and workers in Japan in the techniques of Training Within Industry in order to quickly stabilize the Japanese economy by making its industrial base more efficient. Mellen's company, Training Within Industry, Inc., trained over one million supervisors and workers in Japan. Mellen's training programs in job instruction, job methods, job relations, problem solving, and job safety are credited as the foundation for industrial programs that stress continuous improvement and lean management. The collection consists of 121 black and white photographs and one 16mm black and white motion picture film. | | | | Call #: | PG 596 | | | | Extent: | 0.30 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Employees -- Training of -- Photographs | Industrial efficiency | Industrial management -- Indonesia -- Photographs | Industrial management -- Japan -- Photographs | Industrial management -- Oho -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Industries -- Indonesia -- Photographs | Industries -- Japan -- Photographs | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Mellen, Lowell O., 1897-1993 -- Photographs | Training Within Industry, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs | United States. War Manpower Commission -- Photographs | World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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