James Cash Penney: An Indefatigable Salesman
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
A look at two articles that provide some insight on the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
Category: Biography
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s L’Aérophile! Recording Women’s Mark on Early Flight
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
A look at some of the women featured in the Science Section's L’Aerophile special collection, an archival set on early aviation.
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Biography, Women's History
Playing Ketchup: A Condiment and the Pure Food Movement
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today, our beloved bottles of ketchup are consistent and shelf-stable thanks to the work of Katherine and Arvill Bitting who examined over 1,600 bottles of ketchup, visited 40 canneries producing tomato pulp, and toured 20 ketchup factories to come up with a method to make a safe and preservative-free ketchup.
Posted in: Biography, Cookbooks and Food, Rare Books and Special Collections, Science, Women's History
Trusts, Combinations, and Charles R. Flint
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
You hear about mergers today, but Charles R. Flint was the master of combinations in his day.
Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Birth of Scientific Management
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Modern scientific management systems have a history that really begins with a man named Frederick Winslow Taylor.
A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Featured in “This Month in Business History”
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about the two new entries to Business Reference's This Month in Business History project; one on A. Philip Randolph and one on the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Posted in: African American History, African Americans, Biography, Business
Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In the history of the organized labor movement Samuel Gompers who, in 1881, helped to found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions which later became the American Federation of Labor, is a seminal figure.
Alice Foote MacDougall and her (not so) Little Coffee Shop
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Alice Foote MacDougall was a coffee house entrepreneur of the early 20th century; read a little about her story.
Posted in: Biography, Business, Women's History
Entrepreneur, Pioneer, and Philanthropist Clara Brown.
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Clara Brown was one of the most noted Black women of the West. Read more about her investments in Colorado after the Colorado Gold Rush and her philanthropy there.
Posted in: African American History, Biography, Women's History