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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: Ellen Terrell
This great black and white photo was taken around 1910 and features the French Market in New Orleans. It’s not too far from Mme Begues, the subject of a recent blog post. The location of the French Market – near the Mississippi River and later the railroad tracks – has long been a place for …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
For over a year the Library has conducted research orientations on Saturdays. On June 23 Business Reference takes its turn. Instead of doing our general Business Research Orientation, I will be teaching a class titled So…you want to research old companies at the Library of Congress. While the class is primarily about using the Library’s …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Soulé Commercial College and Literary Institute taught business skills in New Orleans for many years - read a bit about its history.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Back in January 2017 I wrote a post about Alexander Hamilton. I interspersed what I wrote with a few lyrics from the musical, when appropriate, to spice things up. The Library has taken that idea – not that I think my post was the genesis for the idea – one step further. In Letters from …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is a picture of the building that served as the US Mint branch on Esplanade Avenue on the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The Mint in New Orleans was in operation during two separate periods – from 1838 to January 1861 and again from 1879 to 1910. While it hasn’t been …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This great black and white photo taken some time between 1900 and 1906 features a restaurant in New Orleans at the corner of Decatur and Madison – right down the street from Jackson Square. The restaurant – H. Bégué’s Exchange – was opened in 1863 by husband and wife Hippolyte Bégué and Elizabeth Kettenring Dutreuil …
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In June 2017 the Washington Post featured a story about The Negro Motorist Green Book published from the mid 1930’s until the late 1960‘s and used by African American travelers in the United States. I had heard about them and figured we had them, which we do (New York Public Library has digitized a number …
Posted in: African American History, Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans