Give the Gift of Music
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post features and advertisement for Victrolas.
Posted in: Advertising, Business
Category: Business
Uncle Sam Needs You!
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is the cover of a recruitment booklet – Stenographers and Typists, Uncle Sam Needs You – published by the Army Service Forces in 1943. It provides an interesting window into Washington, D.C. during World War II. As they wrote: Uncle Sam does need you – badly. This is an opportunity for You, and an …
Posted in: Business, Washington and the Capitol
Book Talk September 23: From Slave Ship to Harvard – POSTPONED
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Curious about a portrait of “Old Yarrow” by James Alexander Simpson that hangs in the Peabody Room of Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown public library, James J. Johnston a journalist and attorney decided he wanted to know more and eventually ended up writing a book From Slave Ship to Harvard. The portrait “Old Yarrow” was of Yarrow …
Posted in: Business, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Victor Gruen’s Shopping Towns U.S.A.
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
A blog post about Victor Gruen - designer, architect, and urban planner who was best known as a creator of the modern shopping mall.
Seeing American Enterprise at the Smithsonian
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
A new exhibit at the Smithsonian – American Enterprise in the Innovation wing of the National Museum of American History – is telling the history of American business and innovation. According to the Smithsonian, this exhibit “chronicles the tumultuous interaction of capitalism and democracy that resulted in the continual remaking of American business–and American life.” …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Business Reference Guides
“An almost inexcusable catastrophe” – Explosion at the Washington Arsenal
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
A short blog post about the explosion at the Washington Arsenal June 17, 1864.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
The Capitol Dome: Janes, Fowler, & Kirtland Co.
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The New York firm of Janes, Fowler, Kirtland Co. who supplied and constructed the cast iron frame for the Capitol dome was primarily known as a supplier of ornamental iron work as well as the Beebe Range when they were awarded the contract for the dome by the Architect of the Capitol. Chapter 7 of …
Posted in: Business, Washington and the Capitol
Self-help, Motivation, & Success: From the Beginning
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
A blog post covering a few notable names and early pioneers in the Self-help and motivational genre.
Posted in: Business
The Typewriter – “that almost sentient mechanism”
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about the history of the typewriter.
Posted in: Business, Inventions