Consists of genealogies, biographical sketches, correspondence, appointment diaries and calendars, ledgers, annual financial summaries, bank statements, trust deeds, tax assessments, returns and other financial documents, stock certificates, wills, real estate inventories, diplomas, award certificates, military discharge papers, corporate annual reports, speeches and broadcast transcripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, articles of incorporation, minutes, and scrapbooks.

Papers of the Crawford family, pastoralists in the North East of the State, near Broken Hill. Comprises correspondence, legal documents, financial records, 35 mm movie films, photographs and research notes compiled for a published biography on Robert Crawford.

John Crawford was born in about 1695. He had thre known sons, John, Hardy and James. James was born in about 1718. James married Kesiah Saunders in 1739 in Prince Frederick Parish, South Carolina. They hadsix children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in South Carolina.

The hundred-year history of The Timken Company is one of the great success stories of U.S. manufacturing. More than just a chronicle of the company's growth in two key industries, bearings and steel, this absorbing account examines the factors that have sustained it through dramatic changes in the business environment.

World War II presented a unique opportunity for American business to improve its reputation after years of censure for inflicting the Great Depression upon the nation. No employers’ organization worked harder or devoted greater resources to reviving business prestige during the war than the National Association of Manufacturers, which spent millions of dollars on promoting the indispensability of private enterprise to the successful mobilization of the American economy in an uncompromising multi-media campaign which spanned the factory floor to the movie theatre. Now, using unpublished primary sources, the full extent of the NAM’s wartime mission to raise the stature of American business in the post-war era is revealed. During the war the NAM erected a vast structure of research on an unprecedented scale numbering more than one hundred persons dedicated to planning the best solutions for restoring American ‘free enterprise’ capitalism after the war in a direct challenge to the ‘liberal’ prescriptions of the reigning administration. These studies were painstakingly assembled and widely distributed and served as a complimentary arm to the better-known pro-business propaganda message of the organization. What emerges is a unique and telling glimpse into the minds of the corporate class of wartime America that reveals the determination of a major employers’ organization to exploit the exceptional circumstances of total war to influence both the power-brokers in Washington who wrote economic policy and the American public as a whole to embrace a post-war future ruled by private enterprise capitalism.