
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
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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
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
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.
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
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
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
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Champagne has become synonymous with celebrations find out about a few sources to learn more.
Posted in: Business, Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Looking for sources for information and statistics about Native Americans and the businesses they own? Here are just a few.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This year National Disability Employment Awareness Month celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History