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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Almost a year ago fellow blogger Yvonne Dooley did a post about the Grand Watermelon whose design was intended to thwart counterfeiting – and when it comes to money, counterfeiting is the persistent problem. One early publication that bankers used in the fight against this scourge was Thompson’s Bank Note and Commercial Reporter, which was …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Money
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The rather curious title of this post comes in part from a serial title, but doesn’t really do justice to what is actually in the publication. That job is left to the publication’s full title which does a better job of letting readers know what to expect. The full title is Ready Reference Book for …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s post is written by science librarian and culinary specialist Alison Kelly. She has provided her expertise in a number of Inside Adams blog posts related to food history and cooking such as Early American Beer, and Early Mixology Books. Abraham Lincoln liked gingerbread cookies, William Howard Taft enjoyed roast opossum, and Ronald Reagan always …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Presidents, Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read biographies of African American NASA scientists including those that were the subject of the major motion picture Hidden Figures.
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, African American History, Astronomy/Mathematics, Biography, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Women's History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
It may be a bit of a puzzle as to why Lin Manuel Miranda wrote a musical about a Secretary of the Treasury, but it may be a little more obvious why a Business librarian would write blog post about him -- the first Secretary of the Treasury had a profound impact on the country and the economy then and now.