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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I was on the hunt for some information on Panama Canal bonds and saw the item featured in today’s Pic of the Week. The glorious cover caught my attention and I just had to know more. I brought it back to my desk and had Jan Herd, who speaks Spanish, look at it so we …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I thought I would take an opportunity to post briefly on BEOnline (Business and Economics Online). The BEOnline project began in 1996 and has developed into a useful collection of Internet links organized by subject area. Donna Scanlon who blogged for Business before I did, featured the job search and career assistance area in a …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s photo features a map of the telephone lines found in the October 1894 issue of the National Telephone Directory from American Telephone and Telegraph Company. As noted on the title page, this publication “is intended to be a List of Stations Connected by Metallic-Circuit Lines” within the “LONG DISTANCE” System and includes businesses and …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This year we are commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The Library recently debuted the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, and after spending time looking at those photographs, I thought it would be interesting to write a blog post featuring business-related resources that illuminate the lives of the people living in the …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This publication features a chart from Mida's Criterion.
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
While hunting for information related to liquor wholesalers in Boston from the late 19th and early 20th century, I was hoping that a trip to the stacks would be helpful. While I didn’t find exactly what I needed, I did find some items that were quite interesting and decided to share one for today’s post. …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Advertisements. We think of them as a way to find out about products and services, but they can also be useful for learning about companies themselves. I frequently use advertisements to answer historical questions on companies where information is harder to come by. For example, companies looking for capital will try to lure would-be investors …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Tax season has just ended, and I felt it would be an appropriate time to feature data that the IRS gathers from our annual tax returns (none of it attributed to individual companies, individuals, or non-profits!). There are two particular publications I wanted to mention that both use the data gathered from the forms: the …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
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