frederick winslow taylor collection

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), pioneered the application of engineering principles to shop management in the movement that came to be known as scientific management. The collection consists largely of Taylor's personal and work-related correspondence, including his communications with companies interested in implementing scientific management.

Also included are rough drafts of his major publications, translations of his works on scientific management and the cutting of metal, examples of forms developed to improve shop efficiency, glass slides of factories and offices using scientific management, articles written by Taylor on his system, and responses from readers.

Correspondents include Louis Brandeis, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Ida Tarbell, Harvey Gantt, and the administrative officers of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Also included is a collection of memorial letters written by Taylor's associates after his death. Besides letters, the collection includes Taylor's work journal from Midvale Steel.

The Stevens library also houses a collection of some of the belongings of the Taylor family, including portraits, photographs, furniture, and other ephemera.

Please note:  A .pdf version of the Classified Guide to the Frederick Winslow Taylor Collection, an index to the physical collection at Stevens compiled by Elizabeth Gardner Hayward, will be made available on this website in September, 2008.  For information about the F.W. Taylor Collection, please contact:

Doris Oliver
Assistant Curator
Phone: 201.216.5415
Fax: 201.216.8319
doris.oliver@stevens.edu