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Title: Candid shot of Hazel Beckham
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1947, 1948
Subjects--Topical: Photographic assistants, Work environment, Women
Description: Hazel Beckham sitting at desk at a commecial photography office, working on several photographic prints. Blinds and curtains cover the window. Printing on outside of window. Two phones, an adding machine, a lamp shade, and small postage scale are ...

Title: Citizens Bank employee
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1949-01
Subjects--Topical: Bank employees, Work environment, Banks and banking, Men
Description: An employee at First Citizens Bank and Trust Company.

Title: Clerk at First Citizens Bank
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1949-01
Subjects--Topical: Bank employees, Work environment, Banks and banking, Women
Description: A bank clerk at First Citizens Bank and Trust Company sits at a desk holding a notepad.

Title: Curtis Bynum at office desk
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1946-01
Subjects--Topical: Businesspeople, Work environment, Desks, Men
Description: Curtis Bynum, founder of Carolina Creamery in Asheville, sits at his desk with a pen in one hand and holding a pipe in his mouth with the other hand. Papers, reading glasses, a wooden object, and a lighter are on the desk. There is a clock on the ...

Title: Curtis Bynum, founder of Carolina Creamery in Asheville, at office desk
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1946-01
Subjects--Topical: Businesspeople, Work environment, Desks, Men
Description: Curtis Bynum, founder of Carolina Creamery in Asheville, writes at his desk. Papers, folders, and reading glasses are on the desk. Another desk can be seen behind him, with more papers and folders. A clock is on the wall.

Title: Don Williams oral history interview, 1993 October 22
Creator: Williams, Don, 1939-2004
Date Created: 1993-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Foundries, Flextime, Foundry workers, Plastic pipe industry, Mechanization, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
Description: In this interview, Don Williams recounts his twenty-five year career at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry and discusses his current position in the company's newly created Industrial Division. Hired in 1968, Mr. Williams discusses how he came to wor...

Title: Dorothy "Dot" Hager oral history interview, 1993 November 2
Creator: Hager, Dorothy, 1936-
Date Created: 1993-11-02
Subjects--Topical: Accounting--Technological innovations, Corporate treasurers, Corporations--Accounting, Employees--Effect of technological innovations on, Foundries--Accounting, Industrial relations, Pipe mills, Work environment
Description: Dorothy "Dot" Hager recounts her thirty-nine years at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry as she advanced from the payroll department to her position as secretary-treasurer in the accounting department. In her role as secretary-treasurer, she explains her ...

Title: Earl Raborn oral history interview, 1993 October 21
Creator: Raborn, Earl, 1927-2015
Date Created: 1993-10-21
Subjects--Topical: Foundries--Environmental aspects, Foundries--Management, Industrial relations, Personnel directors, Personnel management, Personnel departments--Employees, Pipe mills, Pollution control industry, Work environment
Description: In this interview, Earl Raborn recounts his forty-five year career in the personnel department of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry. He discusses his role as personnel director and the developments that occurred during his leadership in the personnel dep...

Title: Eastern Air Lines employee at ticket counter
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1949-07
Subjects--Topical: Airports, Airlines, Airport terminals, Work environment, Airlines--Employees, Women
Description: Employee on telephone poses behind the Eastern Air Lines ticket counter at Douglas Municipal Airport.

Title: Eastern Air Lines ticket counter
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1949-07
Subjects--Topical: Airports, Airlines, Airport terminals, Work environment, Airlines--Employees, Women
Description: Three women in white blouses are sitting behind an Eastern Air Lines counter at Douglas Municipal Airport. Name plates in front of the women read (left to right): "At your service, Miss Kenyon; At your service, Miller; at your service, Suzanne Ben...

Title: Employees at First Citizens Bank
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1949-01
Subjects--Topical: Bank employees, Work environment, Banks and banking, Men, Women
Description: Two employees sit in the office at First Citizens Bank and Trust Company. The woman sits at a desk with a name plaquard, "Miss Bullock." There are wrapped Christmas presents at the desk.

Title: Evelyn Grindstaff oral history interview, 1999 February 22
Creator: Grindstaff, Evelyn, 1922-
Date Created: 1999-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Mills and mill-work, Work environment, Textile workers, Dyslexia, Functional literacy
Description: Evelyn Grindstaff recounts her life and forty-five years working in textile mills in Gastonia, North Carolina. Topics discussed include her experiences working at the Groves Mills beginning at the age of fifteen, her husband's World War II service...

Title: Hassey Gibson oral history interview, 1993 June 3
Creator: Gibson, Hassey R. (Hassey Richardson), 1910-1999
Date Created: 1993-06-03
Subjects--Topical: Molding (Founding), Foundries, Ironwork, Piecework, Mechanization, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment, Strikes and lockouts
Description: Hassey Gibson was a Charlotte Pipe and Foundry ironworker for fifty-two years. He began to work as a piece worker in 1925, but moved on to do various jobs within the plant. At the beginning of the interview, Mr. Gibson recounts his early work and ...

Title: Hazel Beckham at work
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1947, 1948
Subjects--Topical: Photographic assistants, Work environment, Women
Description: Hazel Beckham working at a commecial photography office reaching for the telephone. She has papers in her right hand with a pencil. Photographic prints are lying in front of her on her desk. She is wearing a ring on her right hand and a bracelet o...

Title: Incivility and dysfunction in the library workplace : a five-year comparison
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Henry, Jo, Moniz, Richard
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Libraries, Work environment
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the internal library workplace incivility, conflict, and dysfunction which currently exists and identify five-year trends as compared to results of the study conducted by Henry et al. (2018). Areas of bully...

Title: Incivility and dysfunction in the library workplace : perceptions and feedback from the field
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Henry, Jo, Eshleman, Joe, Moniz, Richard
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Libraries, Work environment
Description: Issues associated with lack of civility, less than ideal functionality, and employees that may not self-reflect as much they should are all challenges in the modern workplace and libraries are no exception. The purpose of this study was to determi...

Title: Jasper Barber oral history interview, 1993 September 22
Creator: Barber, Jasper Dennis, 1932-2002
Date Created: 1993-09-22
Subjects--Topical: Foundries--Management, Foundry workers, Industrial relations, Plastic pipe industry, Piping--Design and construction, Pipe mills, Mechanization, Work environment
Description: Jasper Barber was a Charlotte Pipe and Foundry employee for twenty seven years at the time of the interview. Mr. Barber was hired in 1968 as a machinist for the newly created Plastics Division, and he discusses the various early practical and admi...

Title: Jim Price oral history interview, 1993 June 8
Creator: Price, James Wilson, 1921-2011
Date Created: 1993-06-08
Subjects--Topical: Foundries, Industrial relations, Ironwork, Mechanization, Mechanical engineering, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
Description: In this interview, Jim Price recounts his fifty years of service at the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry as well as his Air Force training during World War II. Mr. Price describes the working conditions at Charlotte Pipe as perilous in nature and discus...

Title: John Archibald oral history interview, 2004 April 1
Creator: Archibald, John, 1925-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-01
Subjects--Topical: Working class families, Working class, Mills and mill-work, Industrial housing, Vocational education, Shipyards, Labor unions, War, Americans--Public opinion, Bombings, Airplanes, Military, Poverty, Racism, Racism--Economic aspects, Work environment, Veterans
Description: John Archibald recounts growing up in the Leakesville-Spray area of Rockingham Country, North Carolina, his time as a soldier during World War II, and his life and career after the war. As Mr. Archibald grew older, he became aware that his educati...

Title: Kneever “Joe” Morrow, Sr. oral history interview, 1993 June 15
Creator: Morrow, Kneever, Sr., 1922-1999
Date Created: 1993-06-15
Subjects--Topical: Foundry workers, Foundry workers--Labor unions, Labor unions, Strikes and lockouts, Ironwork, Piecework, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Land use, Urban--Social aspects, Work environment
Description: Kneever Morrow worked at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry for approximately thirty-two years, and he recounts the various jobs he held with the company. Mr. Morrow explains how he received his nickname, "Joe," while working at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry...