Saving for the Holidays the Old Fashioned Way
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
You may not see many of them now, but learn about Christmas Club accounts.
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Category: Business
Silent Sky: A Case Study in Researching the Pesticide Industry
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was written by Lynn Weinstein, Business Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing — KEATS A recent Cornell Chronicle article reported that nearly 30 percent of birds in the North America have vanished since 1970. Simultaneously, the population of raptors …
Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides
The Cost of Independence: Highlights from the Early American Paper Money Collection
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s guest post is by Anastasia “Tasha” Binkowski. Tasha is a Librarian-in-Residence working in the Rare Book & Special Collections and Manuscript Divisions. The Early American Paper Money Collection, newly rehoused in Rare Book and Special Collections at the Library of Congress, probably isn’t like any money you’ve ever seen before. These bills are roughly …
Researching Old Companies? Come to Our Class on November 30
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Library offers Saturday orientations/classes and sometimes Business Reference takes their turn. Instead of doing our general Business Research Orientation, we are teaching So…you want to research old companies at the Library of Congress. We have given this class before and because there was interest, we are doing it again on November 30. While the …
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Covent Garden’s Market
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Covent Garden Market was, and is, a beehive of activity. It sits near the Royal Opera House, St. Paul’s church, and the Theater Royal (on Drury Lane) and is only a short walk from Waterloo Bridge. Today it houses a number of shops and restaurants and is one of those places that everyone going to …
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How Much for That Tincture?
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
Finding General Electric
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Some ideas about free resources for anyone researching General Electric.
Posted in: Business
Updated Beauty & Fashion Guides
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is a second post about updates for Business Reference guides, and this post features guides for those studying the fashion industry and beauty business. I hope that both of them can help those doing research on the current state of the industry, but both also include resources for those wanting to look at the …
Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides
In Search of Unicorns?
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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