Selling Valentines
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
Category: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Carnival Season and the Street Sweepers
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Mardi Gras is a time of fun, but all that fun means a lot of rubbish to be cleaned up and those street sweeping machines have their own history.
Posted in: Business Reference Guides, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Visions of Packages Danced in Their Heads
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Christmas is a busy season for the Post Office and provides a good opportunity highlight the photo collections related to the mail held by the Library.
New “This Month in Business History” Entries for United Farm Workers, César Chávez, and Dolores Huerta
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
That First Fireside Chat was All About the Banks
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Great Depression brought a lot of turmoil to American banks and in 1933 President Roosevelt created a "bank holiday" as a way for the government to stabilize the situation; he then took to the radio to explain the situation in his first Fireside Chat.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
International Women’s Day Symposium at the Library of Congress, March 8
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Join us in-person at the Library of Congress on the morning of Wednesday, March 8 for a conversation around the current state of investments in technology, increasing the percentage of women in leadership positions, and how to incorporate diverse thinking when solving for today's problems through technology.
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Women's History
Tamales and the Tamalada: a Christmas Tradition
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
During the holiday season there are many diverse traditions. One food that is traditional in many Latine households is tamales, prepared at a tamalada, or tamale making party. Tamales are a Mesoamerican dish made with nixtimalized cornmeal dough—masa—steamed in a cornmeal husk, or banana leaf, and seasoned with cheese, beans, meats, and other flavors.
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Hispanic American History
O Christmas Tree
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
According to the National Christmas Tree Association, about 25-30 million real Christmas trees sold in the U.S. every year with 350 million real Christmas trees currently growing on Christmas tree farms in the U.S.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Bats: Out of Our Nightmares and Into Our Hearts
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Let's take a look at the bat with an open mind, and allow them to fly out of our nightmares and into our hearts.
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Science, Zoology