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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
The bog post is about a floor detail in the vestibule of the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The Earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons and consequently may govern them as they please. When researchers walk into the Science and Business Reading Room, not only are they inspired …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week, Presidents