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[Western Electric Company]
Presentation Album Showing the Company's Hawthorne Factory Complex, 1928
Silver prints (27)
Most 8 x 10 inches, one smaller
Each accompanied by caption to album page.
Each accompanied by caption to album page.
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This handsome and tidy presentation album prepared on occasion of a visit of city officials and businessmen from Baltimore to the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company. The album...
This handsome and tidy presentation album prepared on occasion of a visit of city officials and businessmen from Baltimore to the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company. The album contains crisp, professional views, mainly of the Hawthorne factory complex but a few show other parts of Western Electric’s operation, such as the plant in Kearny, New Jersey, and the distributing houses in New York and Kansas City. A number of the photos are rendered with an artistic flourish, such as a striking view of the reeling yard operating by floodlight or the album’s modernist, dramatic last picture showing throngs of employees leaving the facilities, under the looming buildings and sweeping sky, with a caption that reads, “After the day’s work.”
Opening in 1905 and closing in 1983, the Hawthorne Works was a large factory complex in Cicero, Illinois. At the peak of its operations, the complex employed over 45,000 people, producing telephone equipment and other consumer goods.
Opening in 1905 and closing in 1983, the Hawthorne Works was a large factory complex in Cicero, Illinois. At the peak of its operations, the complex employed over 45,000 people, producing telephone equipment and other consumer goods.