General Motors Corporation
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
General Motors documents relating to World War II corporate activities in Europe
Collection
Call Number: MS 1799
Abstract:
This collection focuses on World War II era activities of and relating to Adam Opel Aktiengesellschaft, a German firm in which the General Motors Corporation (GM) purchased a controlling interest in 1928. The collection materials were assembled as part of a 1999-2000 research project under the auspices of GM. The collection contains approximately 1,150 copies of GM and Opel records, including copies of relevant records from GM's subsidiaries in Britain (Vauxhall Motors Ltd.), Denmark...
Dates:
Circa 1900-1982, bulk 1935-1949
John McDonald papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 622
Abstract:
The John McDonald Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials related to McDonald's published writings on the practice and history of American business, management, game theory, and fishing. Also in the collection are files of his personal correspondence, papers documenting his political, social, and professional involvements, and material collected for works of fiction and non-fiction planned but never written.
Dates:
1890-1999, bulk 1945-1997
Technology and Society Collection
Collection
Call Number: RU 472
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence, research data, interviews, statistics, reports, and printed material compiled to document studies made in twelve American companies by the Yale Technology Project and related material.
Dates:
Circa 1946-1962
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1691
Abstract:
The papers consist of Henry Ashby Turner's correspondence with other historians about the controversy surrounding David Abraham's book, The Collapse of the Weimar Republic. A later accession comprises two databases, one containing information concerning foreign workers in the Adam Opel AG plant in Rüsselsheim, Germany, during the World War II era, and the other containing evaluative records concerning documents and articles relating to General Motors'...
Dates:
1982-circa 2000