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Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Recently I received a question from a researcher wondering about the price of a commodity one could purchase in a pharmacy in the late 1800s. The question led me to the drug store supply industry at the turn of the 20th century and to our collection of price indexes published by pharmaceutical companies. A 1905 …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
In the business world, unicorns are private startups valued at over one billion dollars. However, if you search for books with the subject of unicorns in our collections, you’re more likely to find titles like Unicorns: The Myths, Legends and Lore or Unicorns and Other Magical Creatures. The term unicorn, according to the Oxford Dictionary, …
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