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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Women’s Bureau was organized in 1920 as an agency within the Department of Labor to represent the needs of working women. As part of its mission, it published many books and pamphlets about women’s issues and the working conditions of women. Since March is Women’s History Month, I thought this would be a good …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Labor, Women's History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Since the budget of the U.S. Government is the current hot topic on Capitol Hill, I thought I would share this U.S. Treasury Report on Monies for 1800. The image is a bit difficult to read, but there are lines for military expenditures for the Army, the Navy, and arms. Further expenditures are indicated for …
Posted in: Business, Presidents
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
For my first post of February 2011, I wanted to give a heads up for a publication that I find very useful. Coming out this month from the Council of Economic Advisers is the Economic Report of the President. This publication, published annually since 1947, gives an overview of the nation’s economic progress along with …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I had been looking for a good way to start an occasional series on both the well known and lesser known men and women in American business, when I ran across a great series of articles in Moody’s Magazine from 1909 written by Mark M. Reynolds. Each month’s issue featured one or more profiles. As …
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog post looks at the history of the board game Monopoly and the game it was borrowed from.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Inventions
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
James Jacob Ritty was a saloon keeper in Ohio who was trying to insure employees didn’t pocket the money from customer purchases.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Inventions
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Columbus Day holiday is a good opportunity to post on the topic of trade. After all, wasn’t finding another trade route to the Orient one of the main purposes of the expedition in 1492? Since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the land route had become difficult and dangerous. The Portuguese were working on …
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History