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DOI: | 10.21273/HORTSCI.25.9.1126d |
Web URL(s): | https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/25/9/article-p1126d.xml?rskey=5qQdQp Last checked: 11/07/2019 Requires: PDF Reader |
Publication Type:
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Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
Author(s): | Hershey, David R. |
Author Affiliation: | Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park |
Title: | John H. Patterson's use of horticulture for industrial welfare in the early 1900's |
Source: | HortScience. Vol. 25, No. 9, September 1990, p. 126. |
Publishing Information: | St. Joseph, MI: American Society for Horticultural Science |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Personal profile
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Subjects' Names: | Hershey, David R. |
Abstract/Contents: | "John H. Patterson, founder and president of the National Cash Register Co. (now NCR Corp.), is best known for his innovative business practices which made the cash register a standard product. Less well-known was his program of industrial welfare for NCR employees which included many uses of horticulture. Illustrations of the landscaping contests Patterson sponsored in his factory neighborhoods are shown in a collection of early 1900's glass lantern slides recently discovered in the University of Maryland Horticulture Building attic. The noted Olmsted landscaping firm was hired to design the NCR factory grounds. Neighborhood childeren were given company land, tools, instructions, and awards, enabling them to grow vegetables to sell and give to their families. Patterson created these 'Boys' Gardens' to occupy youngsters who might otherwise break windows in the NCR factory and give the factory neighborhood a bad reputation. Although his program of industrial welfare was unique in an era of worker exploitation, Patterson justified the program because "It pays"." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | This item is an abstract only! |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Hershey, D. R. 1990. John H. Patterson's use of horticulture for industrial welfare in the early 1900's. HortScience. 25(9):p. 126. |
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| DOI: 10.21273/HORTSCI.25.9.1126d |
| Web URL(s): https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/25/9/article-p1126d.xml?rskey=5qQdQp Last checked: 11/07/2019 Requires: PDF Reader |
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