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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
What is your background? I hail from New England where I was born and raised in Connecticut. I attended the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and studied History, with minors in American Studies and Classics. During my time at UNH, I accepted a semester-long internship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives here in Washington, DC, and …
Posted in: Business, Five Questions
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I decided to take a short break from writing about New Orleans to highlight one really interesting title in our reference collection – English Overseas Trade Statistics by Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter. This title is a favorite of mine because of all of the tables and its historical coverage and like an earlier favorite I wrote …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
With the Library’s Baseball Americana exhibit taking the field, I wanted Inside Adams to get in the game, so to speak, even if it is with a post that is not business or science themed. When it comes to sports in New Orleans people usually think of the Saints and the Pelicans. But baseball does …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This great black and white photo was taken around 1910 and features the French Market in New Orleans. It’s not too far from Mme Begues, the subject of a recent blog post. The location of the French Market – near the Mississippi River and later the railroad tracks – has long been a place for …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
For over a year the Library has conducted research orientations on Saturdays. On June 23 Business Reference takes its turn. Instead of doing our general Business Research Orientation, I will be teaching a class titled So…you want to research old companies at the Library of Congress. While the class is primarily about using the Library’s …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Soulé Commercial College and Literary Institute taught business skills in New Orleans for many years - read a bit about its history.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Back in January 2017 I wrote a post about Alexander Hamilton. I interspersed what I wrote with a few lyrics from the musical, when appropriate, to spice things up. The Library has taken that idea – not that I think my post was the genesis for the idea – one step further. In Letters from …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is a picture of the building that served as the US Mint branch on Esplanade Avenue on the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The Mint in New Orleans was in operation during two separate periods – from 1838 to January 1861 and again from 1879 to 1910. While it hasn’t been …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference & Research Specialist, in the Science, Technology, and Business Division of the Library of Congress. She is also author of the blog posts “Kebabs, Kabobs, Shish Kebabs, Shashlyk, and: Chislic” and “The Potato Transformed.” I grew up in the small town of Canton, South Dakota. A …
Posted in: Military science, Nobel Laureate, Science