Schramm, Richard E.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
correspondence from Richard E. Schramm to Micael Jensfelt, July 1, 1981
Item
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Schramm, Inc. records contain materials documenting the history of an important twentieth-century heavy equipment-manufacturing firm, Schramm, Inc. They include information on the growth and development of the company from its beginnings as a two-person operation in 1900 through the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, when it employed hundreds of workers and generated millions of dollars in sales worldwide. The materials span 1836-2018, with the bulk of the materials from...
Dates:
July 1, 1981
Richard E. Schramm professional papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-115
Overview
Richard E. Schramm (b. 1935) has worked for Schramm, Inc. in different capacities over several decades, including president of the company and chairman of the Board of Directors. As the heir of his family business, Richard worked his way through the ranks until he became executive vice president in 1974, president in 1985, and president & chairman of the Board of Directors in 1988. In 2005, Richard stepped down to a part-time role in the company and became known as past chairman when...
Dates:
1918-2022; Majority of material found within 1974-2016
Schramm, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-091
Overview
Schramm, Inc. is a manufacturing company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, that has had strong ties to Drexel University for almost one hundred years. Founded by Christian D. Schramm in Philadelphia in 1900, the company moved to its current location in 1917. In its early years, Schramm sold small gasoline engines and portable air compressors, but in recent decades the firm has specialized in the manufacture of drilling equipment. The Schramm, Inc. records include board and stockholders’...
Dates:
1836-2018; Majority of material found within 1900-1983
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Schramm, Inc. records
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 2
- Archival Record 1
- Subject
- Air-compressors 2
- Air-compressors--Catalogs 2
- Air-pumps 2
- Bonuses (Employee fringe benefits) 2
- Chester County (Pa.) 2
- Communication in industrial relations 2
- Compressed air 2
- Compressors 2
- Economic history--20th century 2
- Employee fringe benefits 2
- Employee stock options 2
- Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc. 2
- Employer-sponsored health insurance 2
- Family-owned business enterprises 2
- Gas well drilling 2
- Hydraulic engineering 2
- Hydraulic machinery 2
- Industrial procurement 2
- Industrial relations 2
- Industries--United States--History--20th century 2
- Old City (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Pneumatic machinery 2
- Pneumatic tools 2
- United States--Economic conditions--21st century 2
- Vacations, Employee 2
- Water well drilling 2
- West Chester (Pa.) 2
- College students--Employment 1
- Communication, International 1
- Company picnics 1
- Construction equipment industry 1
- Corporate reorganizations 1
- Defense contracts 1
- Depressions--1929--United States--Pennsylvania 1
- Education, Cooperative 1
- Family corporations 1
- Geothermal well drilling 1
- Insurance, Health 1
- Intellectual property 1
- Marketing 1
- Marketing research 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Pneumatic drills 1
- Retirement 1
- Selling--Industrial equipment 1
- Selling--Industrial equipment--Management 1
- Stockholders 1
- Strategic planning 1
- War and society--Pennsylvania 1
- Women blue collar workers 1
- Women employees 1
- World War, 1914-1918--War work--United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States 1 ∧ less
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