Archive: October 2018 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Ellen Terrell; (Year) 2018; (Month) October

Photograph of train car and ships in the port with many people working at unloading

Sam the Banana Man

October 11, 2018

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Meet the banana man Sam Zemurray.

Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans

A teacher surrounded by young elementary students watching their teacher show them how to write cursive on a blackboard

Back to School with the Blackboard -1817’s Newest Teaching Technology

October 3, 2018

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post written by Michelle Cadoree Bradley, a Science Reference Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division. By the 1840s this teaching aid was being lauded as miracle of instruction. In a “Letter to a Primary School Teacher” published in the February 15,1844 issue of the The Common School Journal the author writes that …

Posted in: Science

Refined by: (Author) Ellen Terrell; (Year) 2018; (Month) October