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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I hope everyone has done their food shopping for their New Year’s Day feasts. In 1918, the Perth Amboy Evening News was doing its part to help shoppers by running this advertisement on December 27th for the Perth Amboy City Market (owned and operated by Morris M. Shumsky and William P. Shumsky). It was designed …
Posted in: Advertising, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is our last official New Orleans tricentiall related posts with a few final business bits.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
post featuring old and new images of the New Orleans skyline and the river.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was written by Kelsey Diemand Librarian in Residence in the Science, Technology and Business Division. This month, we have commemorated the centennial of the end to the Great War. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 effectively stopped the fighting between Germany and the Allied forces after four years of violence, destruction, and chaos. …
Posted in: Business, World War I
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The St. Charles streetcar has been an iconic part of New Orleans since 1835 read a bit more about it.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The collections of the Library of Congress are always growing. Besides what we receive through Copyright and other means, we reference specialists also recommend material to add to the permanent collection—often rare, older items we don’t own, but would like to have, and additional databases for on-site researchers to use. This past year there were …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Meet the banana man Sam Zemurray.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
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
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about Charles Zimpel, the man who laid out the Carrollton neighborhood of New Orleans.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans