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Box 1

 Container

Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:

Blue Grass Cooperage Company Records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1988_038-UA
Scope and Contents This collection from the Blue Grass Cooperage Company of Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation consist of two bound copies of job analysis for all employees and one folder of black and white photographs. Written in 1948, the job analysis book includes detailed descriptions of every job in the company from Finishing Department foreman to janitors and food workers. Although pay rates are not included, basis of pay and routes of promotion and training are listed. The two books are identical in...
Dates: 1948-1971

Bound copy of "Job Descriptions and Areas of Responsibility for Jobs in the Blue Grass Cooperage Company," Prepared by George Kirzinger, July 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes: List of employee benefits,

Flow chart of cooperage operations.

Job index and flow chart for individual departments-Finishing, Buffalo, Iron, Stave Jointing, Heading, Yard, Guards/Janitors/Cafe, Stock Room, & Boiler Room,

Individual job descriptions for each department.

Dates: July 1948

Job Descriptions and Areas of Responsibility for jobs in the Blue Grass Cooperage Company" (additional copy)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Missing: Flow chart of cooperage operations.

Including: 8x10 photos of cooperage employees.

Dates: 1948-1971

Photographs

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes: 7 photos of safety service banners, awards, ceremonies, and picnics, dated 1971;

2 photos of Hiram Walker manufactured barrels;

1 photo of Blue Grass manufactured barrels;

1 photo of Yard Department workers.

Dates: 1948-1971