Private Eyes
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The blog post is about Allen Pinkerton and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Posted in: Biography, Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Category: Business
An Early History of Life Insurance
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s guest post is by 2012 Junior Fellow Alec Korte. A life worth living is a life worth insuring. The above quote was the bedrock on which Judge Willard Phillips, a Massachusetts lawyer, founded the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1835. The anchor that held that bedrock firm was the leadership at the top, which …
Posted in: Business
Five Questions (The Intern Edition): Alec Korte
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
1. What is your background? Excluding five years in California, I have lived most of my life in Bowling Green, Ohio, home to its namesake university as well as the National Tractor Pulling Championship. I am currently enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, where I am studying Mechanical Engineering and, eventually, Business as part of …
Posted in: Business, Five Questions
A Fortune Made from Fur: John Jacob Astor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog post is about John Jacob Astor early American businessman.
Give Me an H!
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In an earlier post I featured an April 1902 Washington Times article on how to get a book from the Library of Congress. While reading the article, a section about the catalog division – “one of the most remarkable departments in the conduct of the library” – also caught my eye. The function of a …
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Five Questions: Ellen Terrell, Business Blogger & Reference Librarian
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
1. What is your background? If you had not already guessed, based on my posts about Mardi Gras, New Orleans, and Louisiana, I am from New Orleans and much of my family still lives there. I was in the 260th graduating class of Ursuline Academy and went to the University of Alabama (ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!) …
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What do you give for a 200th Anniversary?
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I am from Louisiana and sometimes I like to use my home state as a jumping off point for a blog post. 2012 brings a perfect opportunity, because it is Louisiana’s Bicentennial. On April 30, 1812 Louisiana was admitted as a state into the Union. For a little historical background on the years before Louisiana …
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
A Factory, a Fire, and Worker Safety
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Triangle Waist Company was owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris and manufactured shirtwaists. Most of the company’s employees were young, immigrant women; and like many manufacturing concerns of the day, working conditions were not ideal and the space was cramped.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Labor
But Was She Really the “Witch of Wall Street”
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog post is about Hetty Green a Gilded Age businesswomen with quite the reputation.
Posted in: Biography, Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History