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Clocking In, Clocking Out

June 14, 2024

Clocking in? Punching out? Where did these come from? Read this post for more information on time recording and tabulating machines.

Posted in: Business

the magazine masthead features Neptune in a shell being pulled over the ocean by two sea horses with three mermaids in the water draped over the shell the title The shipping World and the Herald of Commerce surrounds the figures edited by Major Jones cost was sixpence

The Shipping World: 1940 and the War

May 29, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This is the second of a two part series on Shipping World, looking specifically at issues from 1940, which provide an interesting vantage point to look at the Second World War and find information on British shipping of the time.

Posted in: Business, Transportation

The Shipping World: The Beginning

May 18, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This is the first of two posts about the publication Shipping World and Herald of Commerce; a great resource for the history of shipping and shipbuilding. See what the earliest issues from 1883 and 1884 can offer!

Posted in: Business, Transportation

two men stand on the ices holding ice saws propped on the ground with cut marks in the ice where the blocks of ice were to be cut; one man pushes a rectangular section that is pushed slightly out of place ready to be harvested

Ice Cold: The Business of Ice

April 30, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The ice keeping your beverage cold has a fascinating history that includes ice harvesting, war contracts, artificial ice machines, a financial panic, and not one, but two Ice Kings.

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Map of the US Caption reads: Figure 25. Relief traffic map of the recommended interregional system. The height of the traffic bands indicates approximately the average density of traffic to be expected at all points on the system. The mounting spires at the principal cities picture the great increases of traffic to be expected on sections of the routes traversing the cities.

A Transportation Roundup to Introduce a New Business Guide

April 19, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

If you are doing any research related to the history of transportation, the Library of Congress has many resources that you might need.

Posted in: Business, Transportation

man in a suit with a pointer stands to the left of a chart with the title UNITED STATES BUSINESS POPULATION with Thousands of Concerns along one axis and the years along the other with lines for New Enterprises, Total Discontinued, Total Listed Concerns

To Create a Temporary National Economic Committee

March 6, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The Temporary National Economic Committee was formed to look at concentration in American industry and produced a number of reports that show America business and industry in the first decades of the 20th century.

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Card shows green lace; in the center is a boquet of flowers with a note and pencil laying upon it.

Selling Valentines

February 14, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Geyer’s was a great source for everything a stationer needed to know and wanted to sell; that includes cards for Valentine's Day.

Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History

40 Hours, 5 Days

January 17, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Read about the role the Ford Motor Company played in the drive to the 40-hour work week.

Posted in: Business

photo has three items along the top is a beaded choker featuring a stylized eagle bottom left is a lapel pin and ribbon the ribbon says "MEMBER UNITED FARM WORKS OF AMERICA AFL-CIO 1st Constitutional Convention September 21-23 1973 FRESNO California" the pin says United Farm Works of America AFL-CIO with the stylized eagle on the bottom right is a campaign type button featuring the same stylized eagle that says "bycott non-union lettuce"

New “This Month in Business History” Entries for United Farm Workers, César Chávez, and Dolores Huerta

November 13, 2023

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The Business Reference project This Month in Business History has three new entries that feature United Farm Workers, César Chávez, and Dolores Huerta.

Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Hispanic American History

Category: Business