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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
While doing research I got distracted by this wonderful advertisement published in the New York Tribune on October 5, 1920. It was an advertisement from the New York Edison Company touting the benefits of electricity, mostly for efficiency and safety, for businesses. But what really caught my attention was the hand drawn caricatures, for lack …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog post is about the history of the ZIP code.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In Business we get a lot of questions about historical stock prices. While there are a number of subscription databases that do have deep historical coverage of daily stock price data, they often aren’t widely accessible. Since most people who are asking the question often have limited avenues for research, I prefer to direct researchers …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Sometimes a book’s title and catalog record just don’t do it justice. A case in point is an item I found in the stacks recently and was attracted to purely because of it size – it is just over 5 inches thick. The rather prosaic title of this book is Emery’s Charts and Maps Showing …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I have worked at the Library of Congress for just over 10 years and am still amazed by what I find. When I first started, the various directories, credit reference books, telephone books, and salary surveys thrilled me. Sometimes I felt that there was a book or journal on every topic. That feeling really hasn’t …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog post is about several titles that provide information on World War II war contracts.
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Sixteenth that I am referring to is the 16th Amendment to the Constitution which is the amendment that created the Income Tax. Ratification by the requisite number of states was completed on February 3, 1913 when Delaware became the 36th state to ratify. Thereafter, another six joined including New Mexico and Wyoming which also …
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
As Secretary Chase was instrumental in establishing a national banking system after the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864 were passed.
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about the life and businesses of industrialist Andrew Carnegie.