
Ready. Set. Mail! The Christmas Rush is On!
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read a little about the busy Christmas season at the US Post Office.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, World War I
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read a little about the busy Christmas season at the US Post Office.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, World War I
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
It is not every day that I have on my desk tables of revenue and expenditure from the Trustees of the River Clyde “for improving the navigation of the River Clyde, and enlarging the harbour of Glasgow, from 1st July 1850, to 30th June 1851.” I also have the July 1846-June 1847 accounts. The Accounts of …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was authored by Nanette Gibbs, Business Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. This is a teaser for a series of posts in 2018 to celebrate the New Orleans Tricentennial so stay tuned. Mention Mr. Bingle to just about anyone from New Orleans and they will probably smile and sing the …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
Have you ever gotten Caught in the Web? You’re looking for an answer to just that question and are presented with everything and the kitchen sink. Have you ever dived down the Wikipedia wormhole? You think looking at just one page will answer your question only to emerge three hours later knowing all about Magna Carta …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps can provide a window into a city's business history.
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
It takes around 838 miles of bookshelves to hold the vast collections of the Library of Congress. Somewhere, deep in the bowels of the closed stacks under Capitol Hill or in an off-site storage facility, there may be a resource that will help you get closer to answering your questions. As a researcher, your entry into …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
A 1918 conference on labor in wartime sheds light on women in the workforce.
Posted in: Business, Labor, Women's History, World War I
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Library has many collections that may not, at first glance, be obvious places to find information for those doing business research. Most of these collections are only accessible to those that come to the Library, but some of the material from those collections has been digitized. Business Reference created a list of these “special” …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was written by Nancy Lovas a Business Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The story of shipbuilding along the River Clyde stretches over three centuries, though now it lives only in memory and museum. At the industry’s height, “Clyde-built” was the standard of quality, worthy of respect (McKenna & Ferreiro, …
Posted in: Business