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Archive: October 2011 (7 Posts)

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When Washington Bailed Out Mom and Pop

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Our guest author today is  Gulnar Nagashybayeva a Business Reference Specialist. Gulnar has been with Business Reference Services of the Science, Technology & Business Division for almost three years. Previously she worked as Government Documents librarian/contractor at the Central Library of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She holds a Master’s in Library Science degree …

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Civil War Sesquicentennial: Prices & Salaries

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

As part of a short series with the Sesquicentennial as a jumping off point, I used the 1860 Census in an earlier post as a way to find out more about the people living at the time of the Civil War.  In this second post I wanted to show how Business staff might answer a …