St. Charles Avenue’s Streetcar
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The St. Charles streetcar has been an iconic part of New Orleans since 1835 read a bit more about it.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The St. Charles streetcar has been an iconic part of New Orleans since 1835 read a bit more about it.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The collections of the Library of Congress are always growing. Besides what we receive through Copyright and other means, we reference specialists also recommend material to add to the permanent collection—often rare, older items we don’t own, but would like to have, and additional databases for on-site researchers to use. This past year there were …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Meet the banana man Sam Zemurray.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about Charles Zimpel, the man who laid out the Carrollton neighborhood of New Orleans.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
What is your background? I hail from New England where I was born and raised in Connecticut. I attended the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and studied History, with minors in American Studies and Classics. During my time at UNH, I accepted a semester-long internship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives here in Washington, DC, and …
Posted in: Business, Five Questions
Posted by: Angel Vu
What is your background? I was born and raised in the Virginia Beach area. I was accepted to Virginia Commonwealth University (Go Rams Go!) as pre-physical therapy and spent my first year heavily immersed in physical science courses. However, there was a general requirement history class that fascinated me and completely changed the course of …
Posted in: Business, Five Questions, ST&B Division
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I decided to take a short break from writing about New Orleans to highlight one really interesting title in our reference collection – English Overseas Trade Statistics by Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter. This title is a favorite of mine because of all of the tables and its historical coverage and like an earlier favorite I wrote …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
With the Library’s Baseball Americana exhibit taking the field, I wanted Inside Adams to get in the game, so to speak, even if it is with a post that is not business or science themed. When it comes to sports in New Orleans people usually think of the Saints and the Pelicans. But baseball does …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Angel Vu
Our goal as librarians at the Library of Congress is to help you find information quickly. We understand that library research—especially at the Library of Congress, which has one of the most extensive collections in the world—can be overwhelming. According to the 2007 North American Title Count, there were over 1.1 million titles classified under …
Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides, ST&B Division