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Africa
Journals
- African Journals OnLine (AJOL) This site, which is supported by INASP, provides tables of contents and and abstracts from over 180 African-published peer-reviewed journals, with links to the full text if available.
Research Institutions
- African Studies WWW Site of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Newsgroups, links etc.
Archives and Libraries
- Africa Research Central California State University at San Bernardino. Guide to archives, libraries, and museums in Africa, Europe and North America with important collections of African primary sources.
Museums
- Africa Research Central California State University at San Bernardino. Guide to archives, libraries, and museums in Africa, Europe and North America with important collections of African primary sources.
Reference
- African Studies WWW Site of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Newsgroups, links etc.
Web Resources
Argentina
Archives and Libraries
- Biblioteca Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires). The most important social science library in Argentina. Information on the collections, including several business archives.
Reference
Web Resources
Asia
Reference
Data Archives
- Digital South Asia Library
- Human capital hub of the CLIO-INFRA initiative As part of the CLIO-INFRA, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Debrecen has taken the initiative to set up this website on human capital data. Our mid-term plan is to extend the activities of the hub into an online community of Scholars working in this field, providing them with a forum and hosting their data and research papers. Our long-run plan is to create a comprehensive dataset on human capital with annual and historical data and a global coverage. The site provides data, papers and links. The hub is maintained by Péter Földvári and Bas van Leeuwen.
Web Resources
Australia
Associations and Societies
Archives and Libraries
Museums
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Austria
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Museums
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Belgium
Discussion Lists
Journals
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Museums
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Brazil
Canada
Associations and Societies
Archives and Libraries
- Archives Canada Your Gateway to Canada's Past.
- Bank of Canada Archives (Ottawa). Overview of the collections.
- Canadian Library Gateway
- CCA Directory of Archival Repositories at the Canadian Council of Archives.
- Dalhousie University Libraries - Special Collections Listings of its business archives collection, and of the Nova Scotia Labour Archives.
- Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada at Hunter Information Management Services Inc. February 1999 edition prepared by Amy Fischer and Liz Holum Johnson for the Business Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists.
- Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries General Subject Index, Primary Subject Index, Collections Index, Institutions Index.
- Hudson's Bay Company Archives at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba. Holdings information.
- Killam Library at Dalhousie University. Business and labour archives from Atlantic Canada. General holdings information.
- Library and Archives Canada Search Canada's national collection of books, historical documents, government records, photos, films, maps, music...and more.
- Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Documents "relating to the history of sea-based activities in the North Atlantic region". Extensive holdings information, online catalog (Web).
- National Archives of Canada
- Scotiabank Archives (Toronto). Overview of the collections.
- University of British Columbia Manuscript Collections Information on the labour and business records, especially in fishing, foresting and mining.
Museums
Reference
- Canadian Corporate Reports McGill Digital Archive, McGill University ?s Howard Ross Library of Management. One of the oldest and most complete print collections of Canadian corporate annual reports. The collection consists of annual reports of approximately 2,000 Canadian corporations in all business sectors. The site provides a web-based archive of primary materials related to Canadian economic history. Available on this site are: digital images of historical corporate reports from McGill?s collection, holdings information for the collection, predecessor and successor information, and links to company websites (in progress).
- Canadian Economic History A short guide to finding books, periodical articles, government reports, and statistics on Canadian economic history.
- Canadian Statistics Selection of summary tables providing an overview of statistical information on Canada?s people, economy and governments.
- Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources This bibliographic essay originally appeared as "Canadian Studies: A Core Collection," CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (September 1997): 71-84, and was revised in June 1999 for the International Council for Canadian Studies World Wide Web Service.
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online This first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
- Economic History in Canada: A Survey A survey of economic history in Canada was done by Douglas McCalla and Shawn Day for a Canadian conference on The Future of Economic History in October 2003. A paper summarizing the results (together with the underlying data).
- Histoire(s) d'Entreprise(s) Business History Portal.
- History of Coal Mining in Nova Scotia This website, maintained by Gary W. Ellerbrok, contains transcripts of existing old publications, historical editorials based on research, photographs, diagrams and plans. The information comes from the Cape Breton Development Corporation, the Beaton Institute, and the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources.
- InfoMine: Mining History Books, articles, links from a comprehensive mining information site in Vancouver.
- Statistics Canada
- Subject Resources for Economics Maintained by the University of British Columbia Library.
- Syllabus Canadian Economic History
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Canadian History
Data Archives
- viHistory with access to a searchable database of nominal census records for Vancouver Island and parts of mainland British Columbia from 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901.
Web Resources
- Annotated Bibliography on Women's Hats and the Millinery Trade 1840-1940 by by Christina Bates, Canadian Museum of Civilization.
- Before e-commerce : a history of Canadian mail-order catalogues Virtual exhibition by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
- British Columbia's Resources Development
- Canada 1967 World fair
- Canadian Corporate Reports McGill Digital Archive, McGill University ?s Howard Ross Library of Management. One of the oldest and most complete print collections of Canadian corporate annual reports. The collection consists of annual reports of approximately 2,000 Canadian corporations in all business sectors. The site provides a web-based archive of primary materials related to Canadian economic history. Available on this site are: digital images of historical corporate reports from McGill?s collection, holdings information for the collection, predecessor and successor information, and links to company websites (in progress).
- Canadian Economic History Bibliography at EH.net. Searchable database.
- Canadian Enterprise Gallery
- Canadian Families project The Canadian Families Project is an interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Victoria. The project team is studying families in Canada, and has completed a national sample of the 1901 Census of Canada.
- Canadian Statistics Selection of summary tables providing an overview of statistical information on Canada?s people, economy and governments.
- Census of Canada, 1901
- Censuses 1841-1901 Prins Edward Island
- Exploration, The Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company
- Histoire socio-économique de la Nouvelle-France: Bibliographie
- Historical Census of canada 1852 and 1881 Research opportunities with the 1852 and 1881 Canadian census microdata extend beyond use of these research files on their own. First, the 1852 and 1881 Canadian census microdata can be used in conjunction with Canadian census microdata from 1871 (York University), 1891 (Guelph University), 1901 (University of Victoria), as well as twentieth-century Canadian census microdata currently under construction by the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure.
- Historical Statistics of Canada
- History of Coal Mining in Nova Scotia This website, maintained by Gary W. Ellerbrok, contains transcripts of existing old publications, historical editorials based on research, photographs, diagrams and plans. The information comes from the Cape Breton Development Corporation, the Beaton Institute, and the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources.
- History of the Canadian Dollar by James Powell (Ottawa 1999). The complete publication in PDF format (3.7 Mb).
- In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company
- International Microdata Access Group (IMAG) at the Univerity of Montreal. 1. Bibliography of sources about historical censuses and census microdata; 2. Historical census enumerator instructions available on-line.
- On the Job at the National Archives of Canada: a Century of Canadians at Work.
- Onderdonk's Way at the Kamloops Art Gallery: a virtual exhibition on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia.
- Working Paper Archive of Department of Economics and Institute for Policy Analysis University of Toronto; especially texts by John H. Munro on early Dutch and Flemish economic history (a.o. 'Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the Later Middle Ages', 'Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the "Nouvelles Draperies"' and more).
China
Research Institutions
- Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900 Local, Regional, National and International Perspectives. A new research group supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Research carried out within this project will
concentrate on the copper-based monies of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and late Choseon Korea. The focus is on the concrete conditions of coin production, starting from the mining and smelting of mint metals, their transport to the mints, to the casting of coins on the one hand, and on problems related to the functions and exchange rates of different means of payment, the structures of the financial systems as well as the cultural meanings of money on the other.
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Colombia
Archives and Libraries
- Biblioteca Luis Angel Arrango (Santa Fe de Bogotá). The archives and library collection of the Banco de la República de Colombia. Collections information.
Czechia
Denmark
Research Institutions
- Center for Business History The Center for Business History at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), was established in 1999 in order to strengthen the historical dimension of CBS research and teaching.
The Center for Business History faculty conducts methodologically and theoretically based research into the historical development of the modern enterprise and its business environment. In this, the enterprise is examined within its economic, political, social, conceptual, cultural and institutional context. The results of the research is communicated to the research community as well as to the public.
- Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Publications
- Price History Group Department of History, University of Copenhagen. Research and sources for the history of prices and wages in Denmark 1660-1800.
- The Price History Group, Department of History, University of Copenhagen
Archives and Libraries
- arkivalieronline.dk The Danish State Archives Filming Centre digitises parish registers and population censuses in order to make them accessible via the Internet.
- Danish National Research Database
- DANPA Danmarks Nationale Privatarkivdatabase. Danish private archives from a variety of persons, societies, organizations, institutions, businesses, shops etc. are collected and preserved by a great number of cultural institutions.
- Erhvervsarkivet (Ĺrhus), the Danish National Business Archives. General holdings information.
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Eastern Europe
- Central and Eastern European Online Library C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 360 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
Web Resources
- From Plan to Market From Plan to Market, From Regime Change to Sustained Growth in Central and Eastern Europe / by Ivan T. Berend. Full text available [pdf].
Europe
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
- Economic History Initiative Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) started an initiative in economic history to make the CEPR the focal point for cliometric research in Europe. The aim of the Economic History Initiative is to facilitate interaction between quantitative economic historians and the rest of the economics profession in Europe.
- EURINDIA EURINDIA is a 36 months project co-funded by the European Commission under the Economic Cross Cultural Programme. This project will focus specifically on the history of the economic relations (commercial, industrial, sea and land trade, etc.), in particular the history of map drawing and textile commerce from XVth century to present time.
- Tensions of Europe. Technology and the Making of Europe This network has explored and defined ways to study transnational European history with a focus on the roles of technology as forces of change. In Phase 1, the networking phase, Tensions of Europe brought together a group of close to 200 scholars with shared interests from many disciplines and 17 countries. Phase 2 was the transition phase during which the Transition Committee formulated an Intellectual Agenda and participants formed collaborative research groups and programs. Tensions of Europe has now entered Phase 3, the research phase. Network scholars are pursuing their research and some will do so by taking part in the ESF EUROCORES Programme Inventing Europe.
Archives and Libraries
- Europeana Search through the cultural collections of Europe, connect to other user pathways and share your discoveries.
Reference
Data Archives
- EH.Net Databases
- European State Finance Database at the University of Leicester. "Sources and data of European fiscal history and their interpretation".
- Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB). The project's aim is to provide scholars with an expanding library of information in electronic format on the medieval and early modern periods of European history, circa 800-1815. MEMDB contains five large data sets: three pertaining to currency exchanges and two pertaining to prices.
- NBER Macrohistory Database During the first several decades of its existence, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) assembled an extensive data set that covers all aspects of the pre-WWI and interwar economies, including production, construction, employment, money, prices, asset market transactions, foreign trade, and government activity. Many series are highly disaggregated, and many exist at the monthly or quarterly frequency. The data set has some coverage of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, although it predominantly covers the United States. For information see Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data , by Daniel Feenberg and Jeff Miron. (NBER Working Paper #5186). Published in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Volume 15 Number 3 (July 1997) pages 293-299.
Web Resources
- Company Histories Company histories international and further reading.
- Cooperating to Innovate By Leonard Dudley, Sciences Economiques, Universite de Montreal
Montreal QC, Canada H3C 3J7. April 2005.
- Economic History of Modern Europe to 1914 A Bibliographic Guide to some Reading, by John H. Munro.
- EH.Net Databases
- EU History website On this site you will find all sorts of information regarding the history of the European Union.
The historical documents section contains nearly all information about European Integration from 1945 - present available online. It includes (references to) a collection of audiovisual fragments, documents, pictures and a dedicated collection about specific themes.
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations.
- European State Finance Database at the University of Leicester. "Sources and data of European fiscal history and their interpretation".
- Eurostat Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Maps and Images Edited by Paul Halsall. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is now part of
ORB, the Online Reference Book
for Medieval Studies.
- Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB). The project's aim is to provide scholars with an expanding library of information in electronic format on the medieval and early modern periods of European history, circa 800-1815. MEMDB contains five large data sets: three pertaining to currency exchanges and two pertaining to prices.
- NBER Macrohistory Database During the first several decades of its existence, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) assembled an extensive data set that covers all aspects of the pre-WWI and interwar economies, including production, construction, employment, money, prices, asset market transactions, foreign trade, and government activity. Many series are highly disaggregated, and many exist at the monthly or quarterly frequency. The data set has some coverage of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, although it predominantly covers the United States. For information see Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data , by Daniel Feenberg and Jeff Miron. (NBER Working Paper #5186). Published in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Volume 15 Number 3 (July 1997) pages 293-299.
- Select English Language Works on the History of Eastern Europe by Anna M. Cienciala (University of Kansas), February 2000. Emphasis on Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
Finland
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Reference
Data Archives
- Finnish Social Science Data Archive The Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) is a national resource centre for social science research and teaching. It started to operate in 1999 as a separate unit of the University of Tampere. FSD provides a wide range of services from data archiving to information services.
- Institute of Migration Institute of Migration aims to promote and carry out migration and ethnic research and to encourage the compilation, storage and documentation of material relating to international and internal migration in Finland.
Web Resources
France
Journals
Associations and Societies
- Academie François Bourdon un Centre d'Archives Industrielles.
- Association Charles Gide pour l'étude de la pensée économique Conferences, list of publications, links.
- Association Francaise de Cliometrie Activities and working papers.
- Association French Lines Overview of the collections of the Compagnie générale maritime and the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée, including those of the Compagnie générale transatlantique and the Compagnie des Messageries maritimes.
- Association pour l'Histoire des Chemins de Fer en France General information.
- Association pour le Developpement de l'Histoire Economique General information, conferences, publications.
- Association pour le developpement de la recherche en Economie et en Statistique General information, Annales.
- Comité français pour la métrologie historique
General information.
- Comité pour l'Histoire économique et financičre de la France General information about the Committee's activities, publications (some full text online) and the historical library.
- Comité Régional Nord Pas-de-Calais
d’Histoire de la Sécurité Sociale
et de la Protection Sociale
"Dictionnaire des acteurs sociaux de la région"; periodical Prévoyance, Passé, Présent, Avenir.
- Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de l'Automobile at the Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne. Newsletter, Actes du GERPISA, book reviews, and bibliographies.
- Institut d'Histoire de l'Industrie (Paris). An independent institution created by the French Ministry of Industry to stimulate historical research on business and industry.
- Institut Mémoires de l'Edition contemporaine (Paris). Detailed overview of its collections on the French publishing industry in the 20th century.
- Institut pour l'Histoire de l'Aluminium (Paris). Bibliography, pictures, table of contents of the Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Aluminium.
- Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). Program information of a major coordinator of French and international historical and social science research.
- Mémoire, Industrie, Patrimoine en Provence Directory, journal Industries en Provence, Musée industriel virtuel.
Research Institutions
- Academie François Bourdon un Centre d'Archives Industrielles.
- Association Charles Gide pour l'étude de la pensée économique Conferences, list of publications, links.
- Centre d'Histoire de la Pensée économique Paris. Offers classic economic texts (Fonds Paulette Taieb), and references to e-texts elsewhere.
- Entreprises françaises sous l'Occupation allemande (1940-1945) Activities, bibliography, publications.
- Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de l'Automobile at the Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne. Newsletter, Actes du GERPISA, book reviews, and bibliographies.
- Groupement Européen de Recherches en Finances Publiques GERFIP GERFIP (The European Group for Research in Public Finance) is a scientific interest group created by (among others) the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris-Sud. GERFIP’s goal is to emphasize research in Public Finance and develop a network of researchers in this field, both in France and abroad.
- Institut d'Histoire de l'Industrie (Paris). An independent institution created by the French Ministry of Industry to stimulate historical research on business and industry.
- Institut Mémoires de l'Edition contemporaine (Paris). Detailed overview of its collections on the French publishing industry in the 20th century.
- Institut pour l'Histoire de l'Aluminium (Paris). Bibliography, pictures, table of contents of the Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Aluminium.
- Laboratoire de Démographie historique (Paris). Research projects, publications. Maintains the site of Histoire & Mesure.
- Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris LAMOP
CNRS Université Paris.
- Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). Program information of a major coordinator of French and international historical and social science research.
Archives and Libraries
- AGF - Archives historiques (Paris). Brief information on the historical records of the Assurances Générales de France.
- Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche en Sciences humaines et sociales Founded in 2001, the «Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche» (AAR) provide a program developped by the Equipe Sémiotique Cognitive et Nouveaux Multimédias (ESCoM ) of the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH), Paris. The program is conceived to preserve and make accessible the audiovisual heritage.
- Archives nationales de France On the server of the Ministry of Culture.
- Association French Lines Overview of the collections of the Compagnie générale maritime and the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée, including those of the Compagnie générale transatlantique and the Compagnie des Messageries maritimes.
- Bibliothčque nationale de France The French national library. Its Gallica project offers a large collection of digitized publications on topics like industrial and world fairs, among many others.
- Centre des Archives du Monde du Travail (Roubaix). A subsidiary of the French National Archives, collecting social and economic history sources from its region. General information.
- Centre historique minier de Lewarde Overview of the archival collection.
- Conservatoire Numérique des Arts & Métiers Une bibliothčque numérique consacrée ŕ l'histoire des sciences et des techniques, constituée ŕ partir du fonds ancien de la bibliothčque du CNAM. Le CNUM est un projet commun de la Bibliothčque, du Centre d'histoire des techniques et du Centre d'études et de recherche en informatique du CNAM.
- Histoire et Archives Credit Lyonnais Archives historiques du Crédit Lyonnais.
Dans le cadre du rapprochement entre Crédit Agricole SA et le Crédit
Lyonnais, les équipes de la Mission historique du Crédit Agricole et
des Archives historiques du Crédit Lyonnais ont fusionné pour former
les Archives historiques groupe, rattachées au Secrétariat central de
Crédit Agricole SA.
- Les fonds anciens de la bibliothčque de l'Ecole des mines de Paris Catalogue, online exhibitions, guides etc.
Museums
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Germany
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
- EconHist, Seminar für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Universität München Links and downloadable texts by staff members.
- Financial and Economic Data Center (FEDC) The FEDC is part of the Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin. General information, Discussion Papers online, links and conferences.
- Forschungsstelle für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas Bibliography, Conferences, Publications and Journal.
- Institut für Firmen- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Hamburg
- Institut für Unternehmensführung (ifu) General information. The Institute houses a collection of annual reports of over 2000 German and foreign companies. List of holdings online available.
- Institut für Weltwirtschaft at the University of Kiel. Home to the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftwissenschaften ZBW.
- Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900 Local, Regional, National and International Perspectives. A new research group supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Research carried out within this project will
concentrate on the copper-based monies of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and late Choseon Korea. The focus is on the concrete conditions of coin production, starting from the mining and smelting of mint metals, their transport to the mints, to the casting of coins on the one hand, and on problems related to the functions and exchange rates of different means of payment, the structures of the financial systems as well as the cultural meanings of money on the other.
- Sozio-ökonomisches Panel at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin). "A representative longitudinal study of private households in the entire Federal Republic of Germany" (1984-1997). Newsletter, bibliography etc.
- Zentrums für historische Sozialforschung Das Zentralarchiv archiviert Primärmaterial (Daten, Fragebögen, Codepläne) und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen. Das ZA ist ein Institut der Kölner Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung e.V. (KGS).
Archives and Libraries
- Archive in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland by Andreas Hanacek (Wangen im Allgäu). Links to German archives.
- Archives in Germany An Introductory Guide to Institutions and Sources. GHI Reference Guides.
- Bayerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (München). Overview of its holdings and other information.
- Bibliothek für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Köln.
- Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte at the University of Hannover. Links to German libraries.
- Bundesarchiv The German national archives.
- Carl Zeiss Archives The Carl Zeiss Archives contain original documents, files, photos, patents, registered designs, product literature, technical documentation and instruments from the more than 150-year history of Carl Zeiss.
- Deutsche Bibliothek The German national library.
- Deutsche Fotothek Dresden Das Online-Angebot der "Deutschen Fotothek" umfasst Bildmaterialien zur Technik-, Landes-, Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte, sowie eine digitale Bibliothek alter Drucke und Handschriften.
- Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ZBW Online-Catalog ECONIS.
- HBZ Werkzeugkasten International lists of online directories, libraries, bookshops, antiquarian bookshops, auctioneers, bibliographies, discographies, article databases, and many other reference tools for librarians, at the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum, Nordrhein-Westfalen (HBZ) in Cologne.
- Hessische Wirtschaftsarchive A guide (Hessisches Archiv-Dokumentations- und Informations-System - HADIS) to the important collections in Frankfurt/M, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt etc, including those of AEG, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Degussa, Hoechst, Merck etc.
- Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt. general information, collections, publications, links.
- Historische Sammlungen der Bahn Fotocollection, collection of prints, collection of books and the company archives.
- Historisches Archiv BMW Group See also the introduction by Claudia Adelberger Das Historische Archiv System der BMW Group im Internet, published in Archiv und Wirtschaft Heft 3 (2002).
- Ibach-Archiv (Schwelm). Overview of the business archive of Rud. Ibach Sohn, a piano manufacturer.
- Institut für Weltwirtschaft at the University of Kiel. Home to the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftwissenschaften ZBW.
- Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (Cologne). One of the major business archives repositories in Germany. General information, from the site of the Chamber of Commerce in Cologne.
- Sächsisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (Leipzig). Brief information on the collections.
- Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets (Bochum). Overview of the collections, including those of the Bergbau-Bücherei Essen, the Institut für soziale Bewegungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and the Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau und Energie.
- Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Detailed guide to its rich collections.
- Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Württemberg
- Wirtschaftsarchiv der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen
Fakultät der Universität zu Köln
- Wirtschaftsarchive im Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung. The Central Archive archives primary material (data, questionnaires, code plans) and results of empirical studies in order to prepare them for secondary analyses and to make them available to the interested public.
Museums
Reference
- Bibliographieren im Internet Recherche in Bibliotheken, Datenbanken und Bibliographien.
- Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte at the University of Hannover. Links to German libraries.
- Branchenbuch Deutschland Yellow Pages Germany.
- Business History in Germany: Recent Developments in Research and Institutions (EBHA-Newsletter 2004).
- Clio Online Fachportal für die Geschichtswissenschaften.
- Deutsche Industrie- und Handelstag
- Deutsche Internet Bibliothek
- Deutsches Internet Branchenbuch A list of lists of German company sites.
- Economic Departments and Institutes
- Franconica Online Contains 'Bilderchroniken', Würzburger Totenzettel, Unterfränkische Bibliograhy (1962-1987) and Datenbank zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Mittelalters.
- German Studies Web : History Resources on the history of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from the WESSweb [Western European Studies Section-Web].
Geschichte - History at the University of Erlangen. A collection of historical meta-indexes at German universities, with a link to resources on German history proper.
- H-Soz-u-Kult Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (Communication and Information Services for Historians).
- historicum.net historicum.net präsentiert mit Themenportalen, elektronischen Journalen, Rezensionen, Materialien für den Einsatz in Unterricht und Lehre, der Dokumentation aktueller Diskussionen, Terminankündigungen und umfangreichen Linksammlungen ein interdisziplinäres Informationsangebot für die Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften.
- Historische Informationsressourcen im Internet at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Extensive list.
- Historische Seminare An overview of German history departments, maintained at the University of Erlangen.
- Industrielle Revolution List of links.
- Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen Portal to literaturedatabase, maps, images and much more on the history of Hessen.
- m/a/d/s/ and f/h : industry List of links to industrial photography.
- Nachrichtendienst für Historiker maintained by Tobias Berg in Augsburg.
- Ruhr-Guide List of links.
- Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland
WWW Virtual Library: German Resources
WWW Virtual Library: Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
WWW VL History : German History
Data Archives
- Deutsche Fotothek Dresden Das Online-Angebot der "Deutschen Fotothek" umfasst Bildmaterialien zur Technik-, Landes-, Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte, sowie eine digitale Bibliothek alter Drucke und Handschriften.
- Firmenarchiv Die Firmensammlung enthält Presseartikel, Geschäftsberichte und andere Materialien über deutsche und internationale Firmen sowie andere Institutionen. 75.000 Dokumente über 1400 Firmen können wir derzeit hier zur Verfügung stellen. (Leitarchiv HWWA)
- Sozio-ökonomisches Panel at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin). "A representative longitudinal study of private households in the entire Federal Republic of Germany" (1984-1997). Newsletter, bibliography etc.
- Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland
- Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung. The Central Archive archives primary material (data, questionnaires, code plans) and results of empirical studies in order to prepare them for secondary analyses and to make them available to the interested public.
Web Resources
- Bayerische Bibliographie
- Betting on Hitler - The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany By Thomas Ferguson (University of Massachusetts)and Hans-Joaim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland und England im Vergleich = A Comparison of the Population trend between Germany and Great Britain.
- Bibliographie Geschichte der Technik
- Bibliographie zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des deutschen Südwestens 1750-1919 at the University of Mannheim. Searchable database of close to 10,000 entries up to 1998, with abstracts. Two general introductions.
- Computatio Die Marburger Seite zu Rechnungen des späten Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit.
- Deutsche Fotothek Dresden Das Online-Angebot der "Deutschen Fotothek" umfasst Bildmaterialien zur Technik-, Landes-, Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte, sowie eine digitale Bibliothek alter Drucke und Handschriften.
- Deutsche Hanse Lots of information: texts, glossary, bibliography, links and much more (in German).
- Die Krisen in der deutschen Rentenversicherung Die Krisen in der deutschen Alexander Brunner, Rentenversicherung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein historischer Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Diskussion über die Finanzierungsverfahren in der Altersversicherung (Wien 2001)
- Die Zwanziger Jahre
- Digitale Texte im Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte [=Digital Texts at the Inst. of Economic and Social history]. Selection of texts and books on economic and social history from the 17th-19th centuries (in German).
- Document-Archiv.de Der historischen Dokumenten- und Quellensammlung zur deutschen Geschichte ab 1800.
- Financial and Economic Data Center (FEDC) The FEDC is part of the Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin. General information, Discussion Papers online, links and conferences.
- Firmenarchiv Die Firmensammlung enthält Presseartikel, Geschäftsberichte und andere Materialien über deutsche und internationale Firmen sowie andere Institutionen. 75.000 Dokumente über 1400 Firmen können wir derzeit hier zur Verfügung stellen. (Leitarchiv HWWA)
- Glasnost Archiv Dokumentationssystem für Gesellschaftstheorie, Geschichte und Politk. Find in the economical pages of GLASNOST some contributions to the economic history of Germany.
- Hamburgisch-Lübischen Pfundgeldlisten 1485–1486 Herausgegeben von Dennis Hormuth, Carsten Jahnke und Sönke Loebert. Unter Mitarbeit von Hendrik Mäkeler,
Stefanie Robl und Julia Röttjer (Hamburg University Press/Verlag der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Hamburg 2007).
- Historische Arbeitsstätten- und Berufszählungen des VASMA-Projekts Übersicht zu den Tabellen aus den Arbeitsstättenzählungen (AZ) in Deutschland 1875-1970 = Statistical Overview on the Numbers of Places of Work (AZ) in Germany 1875-1970.
- IndustriebilderImages and links. Images and links.
- Industriekultur-Photographie ... the forum for industrial culture in word and image.
- Institut für Unternehmensführung (ifu) General information. The Institute houses a collection of annual reports of over 2000 German and foreign companies. List of holdings online available.
- Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / hrsg. von Bruno Hildebrand a.o. 1863- . Put on the web by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.
- mining-europe.de Photgallery.
- Nordrheinwestfälische Bibliographie Online [click NRW-Bibliographie at 'Schnelleinstieg'].
- Oekonomische Encyklopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats- Stadt- Haus- und Landwirthschaft
- Sozio-ökonomisches Panel at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin). "A representative longitudinal study of private households in the entire Federal Republic of Germany" (1984-1997). Newsletter, bibliography etc.
- Stahlseite A site about shapes, architecture and work in the heavy industries.
- VEB Kombinat Schiffbau See also the VEB Klement-Gottwald-Werke in Schwerin. Photographs and history.
- Zeche Hugo History, images, museum.
Greece
Hungary
Reference
Web Resources
- Corvinus Library Hungarian History. Some books on Hungarian history, published in the United States of America, in the English language; some others translated from the Hungarian.
Iceland
Research Institutions
Reference
Web Resources
- Historical Statistics of Iceland The Icelandic National Accounts have now been revised to bring them into conformity with the European System of Accounts, ESA 95. The revision extends back to 1990.
India
Research Institutions
- EURINDIA EURINDIA is a 36 months project co-funded by the European Commission under the Economic Cross Cultural Programme. This project will focus specifically on the history of the economic relations (commercial, industrial, sea and land trade, etc.), in particular the history of map drawing and textile commerce from XVth century to present time.
Reference
Indonesia
Research Institutions
- Indonesian Economic History Project This project at the International Ibnstitute of Social History, Amsterdam is a concerted effort of several researchers at different universities and research institutions. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the national accounts of Java (1815-1939) and of Indonesia (1900-2000) and to analyze the long-term evolution of the economy of Indonesia in this period. The reconstructed national accounts will serve as the prime source of information about the economy's development over time. This provides an analytical framework for a more thorough understanding of changes and discontinuities in the economic performance of Indonesia.
Reference
Data Archives
- Human capital hub of the CLIO-INFRA initiative As part of the CLIO-INFRA, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Debrecen has taken the initiative to set up this website on human capital data. Our mid-term plan is to extend the activities of the hub into an online community of Scholars working in this field, providing them with a forum and hosting their data and research papers. Our long-run plan is to create a comprehensive dataset on human capital with annual and historical data and a global coverage. The site provides data, papers and links. The hub is maintained by Péter Földvári and Bas van Leeuwen.
Ireland
Associations and Societies
Archives and Libraries
Museums
- Steam Museum Straffan. The site provides also links to heritage websites.
Reference
Data Archives
- Database of Irish Historical Statistics Recurrent statistics for Ireland for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries collected from a variety of printed census sources. At The Queen's University of Belfast.
- Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Web Resources
- Database of Irish Historical Statistics Recurrent statistics for Ireland for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries collected from a variety of printed census sources. At The Queen's University of Belfast.
- Great Famine Shortened version of the article, 'Sources in the National Archives for researching the Great Famine' by Marianne Cosgrave, Rena Lohan and Tom Quinlan. The printed full version, with illustrative examples of the document types mentioned, appears in Irish Archives, the Journal of the Irish Society for Archives, Spring 1995 and is also available to read on this site as a PDF file.
- Great Irish Famine
- Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Irish Mining in Periodicals and Anthologies 1955-1995
- Views of the Famine maintained by Steve Taylor at Vassar College. Contemporary articles and illustrations related to the Irish Famine and subsequent massive migration, 1845-1851.
Israel
Italy
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Museums
Reference
Data Archives
- Catasto Study Census and Property Survey for Florentine Domains and the City of Verona in Fifteenth Century Italy / David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber.
- Catasto: Florentine tax data
Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Catasto of 1427. Edited by David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, R. Burr Litchfield and Anthony Molho.
Web Resources
Japan
Journals
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Korea, Republic of
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Latin America
Reference
Data Archives
- Economic History Datadesk. Economic History of Latin America, United States and New World, 1500-1900 A scholarly web site devoted to current research with an emphasis on collection and analysis of historical datasets. Data data on commodity prices, mineral production, agricultural tithes, commercial traffic for Latin American Spanish and Portuguese colonies; United States data on gold and silver production with special reference to Nevada's Comstock; bullion flows from New World to Europe and Far East; Spanish royal treasury accounts from more than 70 branches in the Viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru, compiled by John TePaske, Herbert Klein et al.
- Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) is a free, downloadable, on-line resource for reliable, consistent, and comparable economic and social data series from 1900-2000 for 20 countries in Latin America. It is produced by the Latin American Centre of Oxford University.
Web Resources
- Colonial Independence and Economic Backwardness in Latin America By Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Dpto. de Historia Economica e Instituciones, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. Working paper 04-65.
- Economic History Datadesk. Economic History of Latin America, United States and New World, 1500-1900 A scholarly web site devoted to current research with an emphasis on collection and analysis of historical datasets. Data data on commodity prices, mineral production, agricultural tithes, commercial traffic for Latin American Spanish and Portuguese colonies; United States data on gold and silver production with special reference to Nevada's Comstock; bullion flows from New World to Europe and Far East; Spanish royal treasury accounts from more than 70 branches in the Viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru, compiled by John TePaske, Herbert Klein et al.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies at the Library of Congress. A searchable annotated bibliography.
- Latin American Business History : resource and research Oral history interviews with twenty-one leading Argentinean and Chilean business practitioners provide a valuable resource for research on the business history of Latin American Southern Cone countries.
- Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) is a free, downloadable, on-line resource for reliable, consistent, and comparable economic and social data series from 1900-2000 for 20 countries in Latin America. It is produced by the Latin American Centre of Oxford University.
- When Did Latin America Fall Behind? Evidence from Long-run International Inequality By Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Dpto. de Historia Economica e Instituciones, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. Working paper 04-66.
Latvia
Reference
- Digital Library Since 2000 the National Library of Latvia has implemented several serious projects, thus forming a digital library, which ensures a long-term preservation and wide accessibility to the unique Latvia culture heritage: national bibliography, periodicals, maps, posters, ancient photographs and sound recordings.
Mexico
Associations and Societies
Reference
Netherlands
Discussion Lists
Journals
Associations and Societies
- Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie
- Dutch-Flemish Society for the History of Economic Thought Directory, announcements.
- Genealogische Computer Vereniging
- Groningen Growth and Development Centre General information, list of publications and working papers (some downloadable).
- Industrial Heritage Foundation of Hoogovens (SIEHO)
- Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (ING) The site has links to the VOC publications and activities, the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland and the databases 'Beschrijvend Bronnenmateriaal van de Bataafs-Franse tijd', 'Dutch entries in the pound-toll registers of Elbing 1585-1700' and 'Gewestelijke financiën ten tijde van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden', data on the provincial finances during the Republic.
- Kamers van Koophandel The Chambers of Commerce in the Netherlands.
- Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief (Amsterdam). Association, owner of the precious Economic History Library (100,000 vols), which is accessible through the catalog of the International Institute of Social History. List of special collections, virtual exhibitions, publications (downloadable). Maintains the Bedrijfs Archieven Register Nederland, a register of company archives.
- Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging General information, links on the history of the book.
- Nederlandse Vereniging van Belangstellenden in het Spoor- en tramwegwezen
- Netwerk Voor Bedrijfsmatig Archiveren (NVBA)
- Papiergeschiedenis Nederland General information, newsletter.
- Stichting Bedrijfsgeschiedenis General information.
- Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën General information.
- Stichting Historie der techniek Foundation for the History of Technology, Eindhoven (NL). General information. Links.
- Stichting Maatschappijgeschiedenis General information.
- Stichting Nederlandse Tabakshistorie General information.
- Stichting Papiergeschiedenis Renkum-Heelsum General Information, Links, History.
- TANAP : maintaining and protecting the information in the VOC archives.
- Unger-Van Brero Fonds
- Vereniging voor Geschiedenis en Informatica General information; Nieuwsbrief Historia en Informatica.
- Vereniging voor Landbouwgeschiedenis On the site of the Agrarische geschiedenis Maatschappijwetenschappen Wageningen Universiteit.
Research Institutions
- Amsterdams Centrum voor de studie van de Gouden Eeuw General information, research, activities.
- Baltic Connections The Baltic Connections project is an international effort to uncover the archives of the common past of the countries around the Baltic Sea during the period 1450-1800.
- Biografie Instituut Institute of Biography.
Biographies have risen in popularity significantly in recent years. Amongst the signs of this increased popularity is the growing number of biographies that have been published as a dissertation. As a response to this development this resulted in the establishment of the Institute of Biography within the University of Groningen in 2004.
General Information. Links.
- Business History@Erasmus Business History@Erasmus, Erasmus University Rotterdam, brings together researchers with an interest in the history of business. The goal of this platform is to unite researchers from the schools of History & arts, Business, Economics, Social Sciences and Law in their endeavours to improve our academic knowledge in the field of business history.
- Civil Services and Urban Communities Research project Civil Services and Urban Communities The Netherlands 1500-1800.
- Economy and Society of the Low Countries in the Pre-industrial Period This research program, sponsored by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, unites Dutch and Flemish historians studying the economy and society of the Low Countries before 1850. On the site: program and papers.
- Groningen Growth and Development Centre General information, list of publications and working papers (some downloadable).
- Indonesian Economic History Project This project at the International Ibnstitute of Social History, Amsterdam is a concerted effort of several researchers at different universities and research institutions. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the national accounts of Java (1815-1939) and of Indonesia (1900-2000) and to analyze the long-term evolution of the economy of Indonesia in this period. The reconstructed national accounts will serve as the prime source of information about the economy's development over time. This provides an analytical framework for a more thorough understanding of changes and discontinuities in the economic performance of Indonesia.
- Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (ING) The site has links to the VOC publications and activities, the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland and the databases 'Beschrijvend Bronnenmateriaal van de Bataafs-Franse tijd', 'Dutch entries in the pound-toll registers of Elbing 1585-1700' and 'Gewestelijke financiën ten tijde van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden', data on the provincial finances during the Republic.
- N.W. Posthumus Instituut (Groningen), the Netherlands Research Institute and Graduate School for Economic and Social History.
- Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg General information.
- Urban Society in the Low Countries IUAP-Network - Urban Society in the Low Countries from the Late Middle Ages to the XVIth Century. Participants: Ghent University (UGent) - University of Antwerp (UA) - University of Leiden - Free University of Brussels (ULB) - Royal Library (KBR).
Archives and Libraries
- /Geschiedenis : Dossier Bedrijven [Dossier Business (History)] The site /Geschiedenis is the result of cooperation between the VPRO (a Dutch Broadcasting Company) and 2 programs on radio and tv about history. The site offers films, pictures and relevant dossiers (for example one on business history).
- Archiefforum Nederland en Vlaanderen
- Archiefnet Archiefnet offers links with archives in the Netherlands and abroad (also with a large number of other organisations in the historical field).
- Archieven. Beginthier Portal.
- BedrijfsArchieven Register Nederland at the Netherlands Economic History Archive. A register of company archives in the Netherlands.
- Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek Voorburg/Heerlen.
- Databank archiefinstellingen en -bewaarplaatsen in Nederland en Vlaanderen Database Dutch and Flemish Archive Repositories, maintained by Eric Hennekam.
- Digitale Bibliotheek Amsterdam (DBA) The Amsterdam Central Catalogue (ACC) is a combined regional catalogue for those AdamNet libraries, that have also been entered in the Dutch Central Catalogue (NCC).
- Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland Provincial Centre for Industrial Heritage, Archives and Museums.
- Geschiedenis van Zuid-Holland maintained by the Provinciaal Historisch Centrum Zuid-Holland.
- Historisch Centrum Overijssel (Zwolle). Archival index to the extensive business history collections.
- Historische boekencollectie Fortis ASR Important international historical book collection on life insurance (16th-20th centuries). The collection is housed at Fortis ASR, Utrecht.
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek The national library of the Netherlands.
- Nationaal Archief The national archives.
- Nederlands Centrum voor Autohistorische Documentatie (Arnhem). General information.
- Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg General information.
- Thematis Erfgoed Portaal Thematis Erfgoed Portaal geeft toegang tot miljoenen objecten uit beelddatabanken, bibliotheken, kranten en tijdschriften, archieven, akten en registers, genealogische databases, musea en catalogi van Nederlandse erfgoedinstellingen.
Museums
Reference
- Archiefnet Archiefnet offers links with archives in the Netherlands and abroad (also with a large number of other organisations in the historical field).
- Atlas of Mutual Heritage The AMH is a data-bank containing a complete survey of VOC settlements and illustrative material of these settlements.
- Bedrijvenregister Zuid-Holland 1921-1980.
- Biografieën van Nederlandse ondernemers Biographical information on more than 4,000 Dutch entrepreneurs.
- Biografisch portaal van Nederland Op de site van het Biografisch Portaal van Nederland vindt u wetenschappelijk verantwoorde informatie over kopstukken en andere opzienbarende figuren uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis. De website wordt steeds aangevuld met informatie en beeldmateriaal.
- Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland on the site of the International Institute of Social History (in Dutch).
- Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland comp. and ed. by the Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (in Dutch).
- Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek Voorburg/Heerlen.
- Centraal Planbureau The site of the Central Planning Bureau (CPB) in the Netherlands with online publications and downloadable data. Few historical statistics.
- Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Braun and Hogenberg, 1572) Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. Between 1572 and 1617 Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590) published six volumes, containing about 530 maps of mostly European cities.
- Digitaal Vrouwenlexikon van Nederland
- Digitale Atlas Geschiedenis Contemporaine beelden en teksten betreffende de Nederlandse Geschiedenis' (DAG) is the result of a co-operative project between the Royal Library, The Hague and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The project aims at making visible the treasures of both institutions on Dutch history in the 17th century.
- Digitized maps at the University Library of Utrecht A presentation of maps in the collections of the Utrecht University Library, the Netherlands.
- Dutch City maps from Blaeu's Toonneel der Steden Created by George Welling from the University of Groningen, provides access to facsimile copies of maps from Blaeu’s Toonneel der Steden published in 1652.
- Dutch Republic History Site Books, Links, Illustrations.
- Dutch-Asiatic Shipping (1595-1795) comp. by J.R. Bruijn, F.S. Gaastra, and others.
- Entrepreneurs Portrayed A virtual exhibition of 67 portraits of Dutch entrepreneurs from 1600 to the present (Dutch text).
- Gemeente atlas van Nederland Online version of the Gemeente Atlas van Nederland (Municipal atlas of the Netherlands) of 1865-1870 by J. Kuyper. The original edition was published by Hugo Suringar in Leeuwarden.
- Historisch Huis : Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis Portal to relevant Dutch sites and reviews.
- Historische Statistiek in Nederland Bibliography, survey of series and links to online publications.
- Hugo van de Molen's website met
Bedrijfshistorie en -documentatie Een collectie gedenkboeken, prospecti, brochures, productcatalogi, reclamemateriaal etc.
- Narcis The gateway to scholarly information in The Netherlands.
- Nederlandse Leeuw Een gids voor biografische gegevens van Nederlanders.
- Parlement en Politiek Het biografisch archief is een unieke verzameling biografieën van alle bewindspersonen en parlementariërs vanaf 1796 tot en met de dag van vandaag.
- RGP Online The Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën (RGP) is a series of source editions, the first volume of which was published in 1905. Today, the series comprises 450 volumes that contain documents about the history of the Netherlands.
The ING, The Hague is in the process of digitising the RGP series and has developed an application that makes it possible to browse the pages online. The online version aims, as far as possible, to be a faithful replica of the original edition. At the same time, efforts have also been made to exploit the new opportunities afforded by an electronic publication by making it possible to search the text and, where possible, adding clickable lists of contents and/or indices. More information about the approach that was selected can be found under explanation.
Since December 2007 137 volumes have been made available on the Internet (november 2009).
- Supplement op: Termeer, Historische bibliografische gids (Martinus Nijhoff uitgevers, 3e druk; Groningen 2001; in Dutch). This site is the online supplement to the author's book with the same title. The supplement includes references to all documents in the original guide with an internet address and to all works that appeared after the guide was sent to the publisher.
- Thematis Erfgoed Portaal Thematis Erfgoed Portaal geeft toegang tot miljoenen objecten uit beelddatabanken, bibliotheken, kranten en tijdschriften, archieven, akten en registers, genealogische databases, musea en catalogi van Nederlandse erfgoedinstellingen.
- Value of the Guilder comparing the purchasing power of the guilder from 1450 to any other year. Maintained by IISH, Amsterdam as part of the Prices and Wages Project.
- VOC Glossarium
WWW VL Dutch History Index The site is managed by Thimo de Nijs [updated 01/2001].
Data Archives
- Boedelbank van het Meertensinstituut Dutch Probate Inventories on the web.
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): the Dutch organization responsible for storing and providing permanent access to research data from the Humanities and Social Sciences. It incorporates the Steinmetz Archive for the social sciences and the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA), which were part of NIWI (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services) from 1997 to 2005.
- Historical Sample of the Netherlands offers a representative sample of about 80 000 people born in the Netherlands during the period 1812-1922. It is a unique tool for research in Dutch history and demography.
- Netherlands Historical Data Archive (The Hague). Collections information.
- Reconstruction National Accounts of Holland 1500-1800 The aim of this project is to analyse the economic development of Holland in the early modern period on the basis of a reconstruction of its national accounts. It will be one of the first times the system of national accounts is applied to the study of a pre-industrial economy. The project is confined to the province of Holland, which was demographically and economically the most important part of the Northern Netherlands during this period.
- RGP Online The Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën (RGP) is a series of source editions, the first volume of which was published in 1905. Today, the series comprises 450 volumes that contain documents about the history of the Netherlands.
The ING, The Hague is in the process of digitising the RGP series and has developed an application that makes it possible to browse the pages online. The online version aims, as far as possible, to be a faithful replica of the original edition. At the same time, efforts have also been made to exploit the new opportunities afforded by an electronic publication by making it possible to search the text and, where possible, adding clickable lists of contents and/or indices. More information about the approach that was selected can be found under explanation.
Since December 2007 137 volumes have been made available on the Internet (november 2009).
- Rotterdam-Antwerp. A century and a half of Port Competition The aim of this project was to investigate different variables that influence competition between these ports and their overall effect on cargo flows. In order to be able to determine the importance of these variables a large database was constructed containing the flow of cargo in both ports. This database is available for other researchers on maritime and port history, but can also be used for statistical analysis by economists and policy makers. The Antwerp database can be found at the Workshop in Quantitative Economic History site.
- Staten Generaal Digitaal U vindt hier alle Handelingen (Kamerverslagen, Kamerstukken en Kamervragen) van het zittingsjaar 1900-1901 tot 1 januari 1995. Het complete materiaal vanaf 1814 wordt in de periode tot 2010 stap voor stap aan deze website toegevoegd. De Handelingen vanaf 1995 zijn digitaal beschikbaar via de website Parlando.
- Uitgevaren voor de Kamers Database concerning the passengers and the crews of ships of the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) which departed to the Dutch East Indies between 1700-1794. At present 50.000 names, all from the town of Delft, are available.
Web Resources
- 'Voor geld is altijd wel een plaats te vinden' : de firma W.A. Scholten (1841-1892) : de eerste Nederlandse industriële multinational / Dorien Aletta van der Knaap
PhD Groningen University 2004.
- /Geschiedenis : Dossier Bedrijven [Dossier Business (History)] The site /Geschiedenis is the result of cooperation between the VPRO (a Dutch Broadcasting Company) and 2 programs on radio and tv about history. The site offers films, pictures and relevant dossiers (for example one on business history).
- 90 Jaar staalbedrijf in IJmuiden De website staat geheel in het teken van het 90-jarig bestaan van het staalbedrijf in IJmuiden. De site geeft de geschiedenis van het staalbedrijf, dat in 1918 is opgericht onder de naam Koninklijke Nederlandsche Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (nu Corus).
- Aardewerk uit Friesland maintained by G. Den Ouden. An overview of the Frisian ceramics industry, with historical notes.
- Bibliografie van Groningen Bibliography about all subjects concerning the Dutch province Groningen, especially history, economy, social, and politics.
- Boedelbank van het Meertensinstituut Dutch Probate Inventories on the web.
- Census 1899 in the Netherlands put on the web by the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek and NIWI Amsterdam. Full text; added: extensive introduction to digital census in Europe and the US. (in Dutch).
- Charter of the Dutch East India Company A translation of the charter of the Dutch East India Company (vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC): granted by the States General of the United Netherlands, 20 March 1602.
- Coalmines in the Netherlands A concise historic overview of the now vanished coal mines that dominated the South Limburg area in the Netherlands from the beginning of the 20th century to the midst of the 1970's. Lots of photographs.
- cubi.nl Includes database containing about 2000 online annual reports of Dutch and foreign companies.
- De Wereld van Peter Stuyvesant
- Deutsche Hanse Lots of information: texts, glossary, bibliography, links and much more (in German).
- Die älteste bekannte Aktie (Aandeel) der Welt (The oldest share VOC).
- Digitale bibliografie Nederlandse geschiedenis
- Digitale publicaties by the Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, The Hague. Contains (among others):
- Dutch entries in the pound-toll registers of Elbing 1585-1700 (databaseversion)
- Regional Finances Overijssel, Drenthe, Groningen and Holland
- Research Guide Social Security 1890-1967.
- Economy and Society of the Low Countries in the Pre-industrial Period This research program, sponsored by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, unites Dutch and Flemish historians studying the economy and society of the Low Countries before 1850. On the site: program and papers.
- Etnisch ondernemerschap : de Chinese horecasector in Nederland en in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika door Boudewijn Roger Rijkschroeff (Capelle a/d IJssel : Labyrint Publication, 1998). Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
- Functioneel en manifest De architectuur van de textielfabrieken in Twente 1850-1925; doctoraalscriptie kunstgeschiedenis door M. Tuinstra (Universiteit Utrecht : Utrecht 2006).
- Geheugen van Nederland 'The Memory of the Netherlands' is a project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands. The website contains digitized materials from Dutch archives, libraries and museums.
- Geschiedenis Dossiers : Bedrijven
- Geschiedenis van de tulp in Nederland : een bibliografie
- Groote tafereel der dwaasheid Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX / zynde een verzameling van alle de conditien en projecten van de opgeregte compagnien van assurantie, navigatie, commercie, &c. in Nederland, zo wel die in gebruik zyn gebragt, als die door de h. staten van eenige provintien zyn verworpen: als meede konst-plaaten, comedien en gedigten, door verscheide liefhebbers uytgegeeven, tot beschimpinge deezer verfoeijelyke en bedrieglyke handel, waar door in dit jaar, verscheide familien en persoonen van hooge en lage stand zyn geruďneerd, en in haar middelen verdorven, en de opregte negotie gestremt, zo in Vrankryk, Engeland als Nederland.
- Historische Statistiek in Nederland Bibliography, survey of series and links to online publications.
- Holec Historie
- jaarverslag.com Search for annual reports of Dutch companies on the web.
- jaarverslag.info Annual reports of all Dutch listed companies.
- jaarverslag.pagina.nl
Portal to annual reports of Dutch companies.
- Knowledge Web on SMEs and Entrepreneurship This website contains PDF-versions of more than 200 reports written in English, including General Reports (also available in print) and Research Reports (electronic working papers). It also gives you online entry to a number of datasets.
- Merchants from the Southern Netherlands and the rise of the Amsterdam Staplemarket (1578-1630) This dissertation is written by Oscar Gelderblom and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. A summary of the dissertation can be found on this site. The site provides information on sources and source use, information on the structure of the database and background information on variables and biographical information (database).
- National Accounts of the Netherlands 1800-1913 at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services. Downloadable papers and tables related to the historical reconstruction of Dutch GNP and its components directed by Jan Luiten van Zanden (2000). Also available on the site of the Groningen Growth and Development Center.
- Nederlandse Sontregister
- Reconstruction National Accounts of Holland 1500-1800 The aim of this project is to analyse the economic development of Holland in the early modern period on the basis of a reconstruction of its national accounts. It will be one of the first times the system of national accounts is applied to the study of a pre-industrial economy. The project is confined to the province of Holland, which was demographically and economically the most important part of the Northern Netherlands during this period.
- RGP Online The Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën (RGP) is a series of source editions, the first volume of which was published in 1905. Today, the series comprises 450 volumes that contain documents about the history of the Netherlands.
The ING, The Hague is in the process of digitising the RGP series and has developed an application that makes it possible to browse the pages online. The online version aims, as far as possible, to be a faithful replica of the original edition. At the same time, efforts have also been made to exploit the new opportunities afforded by an electronic publication by making it possible to search the text and, where possible, adding clickable lists of contents and/or indices. More information about the approach that was selected can be found under explanation.
Since December 2007 137 volumes have been made available on the Internet (november 2009).
- Rotterdam-Antwerp. A century and a half of Port Competition The aim of this project was to investigate different variables that influence competition between these ports and their overall effect on cargo flows. In order to be able to determine the importance of these variables a large database was constructed containing the flow of cargo in both ports. This database is available for other researchers on maritime and port history, but can also be used for statistical analysis by economists and policy makers. The Antwerp database can be found at the Workshop in Quantitative Economic History site.
- Staten Generaal Digitaal U vindt hier alle Handelingen (Kamerverslagen, Kamerstukken en Kamervragen) van het zittingsjaar 1900-1901 tot 1 januari 1995. Het complete materiaal vanaf 1814 wordt in de periode tot 2010 stap voor stap aan deze website toegevoegd. De Handelingen vanaf 1995 zijn digitaal beschikbaar via de website Parlando.
- Staten-Generaal Digitaal Parlementaire handelingen uit de periode 1814-1995.
- Statistisch Jaarboek voor het Noorden
- Textielfamilie Blijdenstein Website maintained by Ronald Jansen.
- The evolution of the money standard in medieval Frisia : a treatise on the history of the systems of money of account in the former Frisia (c.600-c.1500) / Dirk Jan Henstra
PhD Groningen University 2000.
- The prize of neutrality : trade relations between Amsterdam and North America 1771-1817 : a study in computational history / George Maria Welling
PhD Groningen University 1998.
- Toneel van Flora Pamphlet warning against the tulipomania.
- Trésor The Library of the Delft University of Technology started digitising unique and vulnerable documents of historical interest.
- Tulip Book in the NEHA Collection E-publication of the tulipbook in the collection of the Netherlands Economic History Archive, Amsterdam; contains drawings and description of tulips and other flowers. 116 leafs, dated 1628 onwards.
- Tulip Book of P. Cos Publication of the tulipbook P. Cos, Haarlem in the collection of Wageningen University; contains drawings and description of tulips sold in 1637. 75 Plates.
- Tulipomania See Tulipomania on the page 'History, Myths, and Romance' of the International Flower Bulb Centre.
- Twee eeuwen Nederland geteld. Onderzoek met de digitale Volks-, Beroeps- en Woningtellingen 1795-2001
Redactie: O.W.A. Boonstra, P.K. Doorn, M.P.M. van Horik, J.G.S.J. van Maarseveen en J. Oudhof
2007, viii + 526 pp
- Uitgevaren voor de Kamers Database concerning the passengers and the crews of ships of the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) which departed to the Dutch East Indies between 1700-1794. At present 50.000 names, all from the town of Delft, are available.
- VOC Kenniscentrum History, maps, images and literature about the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company; site in Dutch). See also Viering 400 jaar VOC and 400 jaar VOC Amsterdam.
- Website van Willy Ahlers Geschiedenis van Oldenzaal met onderwerpen als textiel, spoor- en postgeschidenis en Holec.
- Working Paper Archive of Department of Economics and Institute for Policy Analysis University of Toronto; especially texts by John H. Munro on early Dutch and Flemish economic history (a.o. 'Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the Later Middle Ages', 'Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the "Nouvelles Draperies"' and more).
New Zealand
Associations and Societies
Archives and Libraries
Reference
Norway
Archives and Libraries
Reference
Data Archives
- Norwegian Historical Data Centre The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC) is a national institution under the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Tromsř (UiTř). Main aim is to computerize the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Web Resources
- Digitalarkivet Norwegian censuses for the years 1801, 1865, 1875 and 1900.
- Historical Monetary Statistics The focus of this project has been to construct long time series of high quality for consumer prices, nominal bond yields, monetary aggregates, indicators of real activity (GDP), exchange rates, stock price indices, house prices and bank lending.
Norges Bank Occasional Papers No 35 Historical Monetary Statistics for Norway 1819-2003 provides a detailed documentation of the historical database as of June 2004. The data are available in spreadsheet format under each chapter.
- Historical Statistics
- Historisk Bibliografi Nasjonalbibliotekets Databasetjenester.
- Norwegian Coins through 1000 Years Norway's numismatic history.
Philippines
Poland
Associations and Societies
Museums
Reference
Web Resources
Portugal
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Reference
Web Resources
Romania
Associations and Societies
Reference
Russia
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
- Archives in Russia This site, based on the ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic database for Russian archives, provides an abbreviated listing of the current fourteen federal archives administered by the Federal Archival Service of Russia (Rosarkhiv), archives of major federal agencies, and local municipal and oblast archives in Moscow and St Petersburg (Leningrad Oblast).
- Introduction to Russian Archives Supplement to the course "Introduction to Archives in Russia and NIS" by Olga E. Glagoleva at CERES, University of Toronto.
- Research Guide to Soviet History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General bibliography prepared by Donald J. Raleigh, and based on materials at the Davis Library.
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
- Dissertation CIS Catalogue of more than 125000 Russian dissertations.
- NEP at Duke University Libraries. A bibliography of Soviet and Western literature (1965-1995) on the New Economic Policy in Soviet Russia, by Peter Frykholm.
- Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Surveys examining the health and economic welfare of the Russian Federation.
- Soviet and Russian Economic Statistical Series at Hokkaido University. Different indexes, some of them going back to 1940.
- Soviet Nationalities Data at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Data from the censuses of 1926 and 1959, compiled by Brian Silver. PDF and downloadable file.
Scandinavia
Research Institutions
- Baltic Connections The Baltic Connections project is an international effort to uncover the archives of the common past of the countries around the Baltic Sea during the period 1450-1800.
Slovenia
South Africa
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Spain
Journals
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Museums
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Sweden
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Museums
Reference
Data Archives
Web Resources
Switzerland
Associations and Societies
Research Institutions
Archives and Libraries
Data Archives
- Trainbase TRAINBASE ist eine Datenbank zur Verkehrsgeschichte der Schweiz. Sie stellt die Digitalisierung ausgewählter Daten der Eisenbahnstatistik und der Verkehrsstatistik (Nachfolger) der Schweiz dar. Es wurden vorerst Daten aus den Jahren 1920-1982 aufgenommen.
Web Resources
Turkey
- Turkology Update Leiden Project (TULP) Working papers archive Articles in Turkish, English and Dutch on various topics in modern Turkish history. At Leiden University's Department of Turkish Languages and Cultures.
Associations and Societies
Archives and Libraries
Web Resources
- CARRIE The First Full-Text On-Line Electronic Library: by Lynn H. Nelson.
United Kingdom
Associations and Societies
- Association for Industrial Archaeology General information, journal.
- Association of Business Historians The Association of Business Historians is a leading UK professional association dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about Business History.
- British Records Association Founded in 1932, the British Records Association aims to encourage and assist with the preservation, care use and publication of historical records.
- Business Archives Council (UK). General information.
- Business Archives Council of Scotland General information.
- Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution at the University of Wolverhampton. General information.
- Construction History Society General information.
- Design History Society Newsletter, journal, discussion list, links.
- Economic History Society Directory, list of publications.
- Greenwich Industrial History Society Newsletter.
- Historical Metallurgy Society Journal, bibliography, links.
- Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology Events, publications, archives.
- Railway & Canal Historical Society (UK). General information.
- Society of Co-operative Studies in the United Kingdom Directory, journal.
- Trevithick Society for the Study of the Industrial History in Cornwall. Trevithick Society Journal.
- Welsh Mines Society Newsletter.
- Women's Committee of the Economic History Society The aim of the Committee is to encourage women to participate in all areas of economic and social history.
Research Institutions
- Accounting and Business History Research Unit at the Cardiff Business School. General information.
- Biz/ed at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (Bristol). "A dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers", includes schools, colleges and other educational institutions.
- Centre for Business History in Scotland (Glasgow). General information.
- Centre for Business History in Scotland General information; links.
- Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) at University College London. "To promote the study of interactive learning with a view to providing a new foundational basis for modeling in economics and related social sciences".
- Centre for International Business History at the University of Reading. Home to Business History, the Euro-Business-History Noticeboard, and the European Business History Association.
- Centre for International Business History (CIBH) General information.
- Commodities of Empire Project Joint research collaboration between the Open University's Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and London Metropolitan University's Caribbean Studies Centre. General information, publications, events.
- Global Economic History Network (GEHN) The GEHN Network, the product of cooperation across 4 partner institutions (the London School of Economics, the University of California (Irvine & Los Angeles), Leiden and Osaka Universities), promotes research, teaching and co-operation in the innovatory and rising field of global economic history.
Working Papers, Conferences, Journal.
- London School of Economics, Economic History Department General information, useful links and working papers.
Archives and Libraries
- 1851 Project : The Great Exhibition The 1851 Project began in February 1995, with the aim of improving access to all relevant material held by the National Art Library (at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London) by reorganising and recataloguing it. By February 1997 the whole of the Library's collections in these areas had been recatalogued and made accessible through the Computer Catalogue.
- 19th Century Pamphlets Access to the collections of nineteenth-century pamphlets housed in the CURL libraries.
- Access to Archives A2A The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
- AIM25 : Archives in London and the M25 Area.
- Archives Hub A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.
- ARCHON is the principal online information gateway for archivists in the United Kingdom and users of manuscript sources for British history. It is hosted and maintained by the HMC and is divided into two sections, the ARCHON Directory and the ARCHON Portal.
- BLPES Pamphlet collection The site contains the catalogue of the 90.000 pamphlets of the British Library of Political & Economic Science (BLPES).
- British Library
- British Library of Political and Economic Science of the London School of Economics. Over 1m vols, 28,000 journals. Online catalog (Web). Guides to the manuscript and pamphlet collections.
- British Telecom Archives (London). Overview of the collections.
- Brunel University Library - Transport History Collection (London). Brief guide.
- Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull. Listings of its labour and business history collections.
- Cambridge University Library - Business Archives Brief description of the records of Jardine, Matheson & Co, Vickers Plc, Phoenix Assurance, and the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
- CommunityArchives.org.uk This website has been set up to show the variety and quantity of community
archives in the UK. It's a meeting-place where archives can publicise their work and share their experiences.
- Dundee University Archives - Indian Textile Industry Source List Detailed index.
- Glasgow University Archive Services Collection of business records, mainly from Scotland. Complete listing. Home to the Scottish Brewing Archive.
- Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature (London). Overview of its sources for economic history, virtual exhibition.
- Great Exhibition Collection The core of the Great Exhibition Collection of Reading University Library was acquired from Charles Hasler in 1966. It comprises approximately 150 printed books and periodicals, plus pamphlets and ephemera, approximately 50 prints, and some objects. Although the focus of the collection is the Exhibition of 1851, there is also material concerning the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854, where it became a great entertainment centre, and material pertaining to subsequent exhibitions down to the Festival of Britain of 1951.
- Greater Manchester Record Office - Guides to archives An overview. Holdings include the records of the British Textile Employers' Association, Manchester Stock Exchange, Rochdale Canal Company, Manchester Ship Canal Company, Richard Entwisle, among many others.
- Guide to Holdings - Manuscript Collections - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of Nottingham Go to Business records: Records of Nottinghamshire businesses and employees' organisations.
- Guildhall Library (London). Overview of its sources for social and economic history.
- History of Advertising Trust Archive (Raveningham, Norwich). General information.
- HSBC Group Archives (London). [See "about HSBC" - "Group History"] Brief overview of the rich archival collections of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which include the records of Midland Bank, among others.
- Institution of Electrical Engineers Archives Department (London). Holdings information, virtual exhibition.
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Information and Library Services (London). Information on the library and archival collections.
- King's College, Modern Archives: Collections of Personal Papers The Centre's personal paper collections are especially strong in the fields of early twentieth century literature, fine art and economics. Particularly well documented are among others the lives and works of the economists J.M. Keynes, Joan Robinson, Richard Kahn and Nicholas Kaldor.
- Liverpool University Archives - Holdings
- London School of Economics Archives The collections held in the archives cover modern British political, economic and social history, the history of the social sciences with particular reference to Economics and Social Anthropology, and the history of the London School of Economics & Political Science. The material dates mainly from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present day. See also Library Archives
- Modern Records Centre at the Library of the University of Warwick in Coventry. Records of the Trades Union Congress, the British Confederation of Industry and other union and company archives. Summary guide to the holdings.
- Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. Information on its extensive archival, library and audiovisual holdings, and its Bibliography of British Rural History.
- National Archive for the History of Computing at the University of Manchester. Detailed holdings information.
- National Archives Maintains ARCHON, a directory of British archival repositories, and the National Register of Archives
- National Gas Archive (Manchester). The company archive of British Gas plc. Overview of the collections.
- Public Record Office of England and Wales.
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
- Royal Society of Chemistry Library and Information Centre General information on its historical chemistry information service.
- Science Museum Library (London). Online catalog (telnet).
- Scottish Archive Network The Scottish Archive Network's aim is to open up Scotland's rich archival heritage to everyone. Over the course of this three-year project the SCAN will revolutionise access to Scottish Archives, their catalogues and contents.
- Scottish Textile Heritage Online "This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections. Users will be able to browse through a database of some 4,000 descriptions of archive and museum collections and objects with supporting images."
- South Wales Coalfield Collection at the University of Wales Swansea Library. Holdings information.
- University of London Library Home to the Goldsmiths' Collection on economic history. Online catalog (telnet).
Museums
- Bank of England Museum & Archive General information.
- Black Country Living Museum (Dudley, West Midlands). Brief overview of the collections.
- Dunaskin Open Air Museum (Doon Valley, Scotland), on the site of the Dalmellington Iron Works. General information.
- Ironbridge Gorge Museum (Shropshire). General information on the museums and sites at this "birthplace of the industrial revolution".
- London's Transport Museum Exhibitions and photographic collection.
- Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. Information on its extensive archival, library and audiovisual holdings, and its Bibliography of British Rural History.
- Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester The Museum's archive and library collection mainly relates to the industrial, scientific and social history of the Manchester region. The archive material include books, business records, films, letters, oral history recordings, personal records, photographs, textile sample books, written and printed papers. General information, with "stunning visuals and sound", if you have all the plug-ins.
- Museum of Transport (Manchester). Overview of the collections.
- National Coal Mining Museum (Wakefield, West Yorkshire). General information.
- National Maritime Museum (Greenwich). Overview of the collections, general information on the Caird Library and Manuscripts Collection.
- National Museum of Science and Industry consisting of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (Bradford), the National Railway Museum (York) and the Science Museum (London).
- National Railway Museum (York). Collections information, including on the Jack Simmons Library and Archive.
- Post Office Heritage (London). General information.
- Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum (Cambridgeshire). General information on the pumps that drained the Fens.
- Scottish Textile Heritage Online "This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections. Users will be able to browse through a database of some 4,000 descriptions of archive and museum collections and objects with supporting images."
Reference
- American and British History Resources on the Internet at Rutgers University. Extensive list.
- Biz/ed at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (Bristol). "A dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers", includes schools, colleges and other educational institutions.
- Brickmakers Index maintained by David Cufley. Information on an index of brickfield workers and owners, mainly from the South East of England. Includes bibliography.
- British Library Research Archive A database of papers and materials by researchers who are not affiliated to an academic institution.
- British Mining Database Images, links, bibliographies.
- Census datasets The information about the UK Census of Population datasets is maintained by the ESRC/JISC funded Census Dissemination Unit (CDU), which forms part of the Manchester University-based MIMAS service.
- Census Registration Service The Census Registration Service facilitates access to the Census data resources for UK higher and further education via Athens Single Sign On. Registering once with the Census Registration Service gives access to census data resources from 1971-2001 and to the UK Data Archive (University of Essex). Free.
- Computing 'Real Value' over time
with a conversion from British Pounds to U.S. Dollars,
or vice versa.
- Early Modern Resources created by Sharon Howard.
- Economic Growth Resources maintained by Jontahan Temple, University of Bristol.
- History On-line Theses Theses in progress and completed (since 1995).
- Materials for the History of Statistics Maintained by the Department of Mathematics, University of York
- Mining History Information Pages
- Revolutionary Players Revolutionary Players is a project focusing on the history of the Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands in Britain between the years 1700 and 1830.
The website contains images of many resources from museums, archives end libraries representing the history of the period. There are four main ways of accessing this material: Time, Place, People and Theme.
You can also read Articles on historical subjects, enter the Digital Library of primary sources, explore a Gallery of images and create your own Album of items from the site.
- SCoRe Search Company Reports SCoRe: a national catalogue of company reports in UK libraries. The website is the product of a project entitled 'Company annual reports: assuring the distributed national print archive'.
- Scots Currency Converter
- Sources for Business History UK overview, from the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
- South Sea Bubble Project The Bubble Project (BP) is a collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiative on the subject of the South Sea Bubble (SSB), or first great stock-market crash of 1720. Bibliography of printed material and links.
- Spartacus Educational Free educational material from this British publisher. Pages on New Deal, British Entrepreneurs, Slave Trade etc.
- The Worlds Fair and Exposition
Information and Reference Guide 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition.
Statistics, History, Links.
Virtual Museum of Computing University of Reading. "An eclectic collection of World Wide Web hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits".
- What is its Relative Value in UK Pounds?
- What Was the Interest Rate Then? The newest series in the "How Much Is That?" feature, developed by Lawrence Officer, EH.Net Special Projects Editor; major comprehensive review of existing compilations of series measuring three interest-rate concepts for the United Kingdom and the United States.
- What Was the UK GDP Then? EH.Net introduces the UK GDP the newest series in the "How Much Is That?" feature. "What Was the UK GDP Then?" presents the nominal and real GDP, GDP deflator, population, and nominal and real GDP per capita for the United Kingdom for the years 1086, 1300, 1688, 1759, 1801, 1811, 1821 1830 and annually from 1830 to 2000. The series are accompanied by a short description. A Question-and-Answer Guide and a more in-depth study on the development of the series, "What Was the UK GDP Then? A Data Study".
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History Scotland
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of the United Kingdom
Data Archives
- 1901 Census Website Official genealogy site of the Welsh & English census information for 1901.
- Census datasets The information about the UK Census of Population datasets is maintained by the ESRC/JISC funded Census Dissemination Unit (CDU), which forms part of the Manchester University-based MIMAS service.
- Census.ac.uk Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides a one stop gateway to data and support services which allow users and researchers in UK Higher and Further Education to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses. It also provides access to other important census related resources.
- Great Britain Historical GIS Programme This project is creating a Historical Geographical Information System (GIS) for Great Britain covering the period from the late 1830s, when modern statistical data collection can be said to have started, until the early 1970s, when data starts to become available in digital form. The GIS has two major components; accurate boundary data for the changing administaive areas of Britain linked to a major database of social, economic, and electoral statistics from throughout the period.
- Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website
An online resource of almost 200,000 pages of all the published population reports created by the Registrars-General and its predecessors for England and Wales and for Scotland for the period 1801–1920.
- Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Scottish Economic History Database 1550-1780 Crop yields, demographic data, price and wage series, weather statistics.
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s, provide a rich record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people. A free service is available to all users with the basic features of searching, viewing and printing from the two Accounts.
- UK Data Archive at the University of Essex. The UKDA also houses two specialist units: the History Data Service (HDS) and Qualidata and the Qualitative Data Service. It provides access to international data.
- UK National Digital Archive of Datasets at the University of London Computer Centre, in cooperation with the University of London Library and the Public Record Office. Archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies.
Web Resources
- 1851 Project : The Great Exhibition The 1851 Project began in February 1995, with the aim of improving access to all relevant material held by the National Art Library (at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London) by reorganising and recataloguing it. By February 1997 the whole of the Library's collections in these areas had been recatalogued and made accessible through the Computer Catalogue.
- 19th Century Pamphlets Access to the collections of nineteenth-century pamphlets housed in the CURL libraries.
- Account Book of Richard Latham Richard Latham of Scarisbrick, Lancashire (1724-67). The text of this introduction is derived from the published version: Lorna Weatherill (ed.) The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724-1767. British Academy Records of Social and Economic History ; New Series XV (Oxford, 1990).
- Anglo-Saxon History : A Select Bibliography Maintained by Simon Keynes, Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. Published in the Old English Newsletter Subsidia vol. 13, third, Revised Edition; Second Online Edition.
- ArtServe Art and Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin. A collection of prints of products shown in the Great Exhibition.
- BBC History Site Industrialisation with some articles and links.
- Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland und England im Vergleich = A Comparison of the Population trend between Germany and Great Britain.
- Bibliography Pictorial Statistics Bibliography of the pictorial statistics system developed by Otto Neurath and designed by Gerd Arntz.
- BOPCRIS "The British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. You can use this web site to search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995. You can also read abstracts, and view detailed consistent subject indexing, of key documents. You can then read the digitised full-text version of a limited number of these documents."
- Britain in Print Launched in January 2003, the Britain in Print project will, for the first time, provide free access for all to information about the rich collections of early British books that are held in twenty-one of the nation's most important libraries.
- Cambridge Working Papers in Economics Cambridge Working Papers in Economics (CWPE) is a series of papers from the Faculty of Economics and the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge. The series is one of many Working Papers series made available through REPEC (Research Papers in Economics).
- Census.ac.uk Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides a one stop gateway to data and support services which allow users and researchers in UK Higher and Further Education to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses. It also provides access to other important census related resources.
- Chez la Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 A brief introduction to the subject with pictures of books printed or sold by women. Online exhibition from the University of Illinois Library.
- Debates in Economic & Social History-Bibliography Standard of Living Debate, Antebellum Slavery Debate and others.
- Design of the Crystal Palace
- Digital Library of Historical Directories The University of Leicester's New Opportunities Fund project is creating a digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories from England and Wales.
- Festival of Britain Mainly devoted to the 1951-2001 Festival of Britain. Also useful for some links to earlier British exhibitions.
- Financial Repression in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714 By Peter Temin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4452.
- Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 This web site provides access to information about markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales.
- Glasgow Digital Library The Glasgow Digital Library is based at the Centre for Digital Library Research in the University of Strathclyde. Contents (a.o.): Virtual Mitchell (Photographs of Glasgow from the Mitchell Library and City Archives), 'Memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow men' and Victorian Times (social, political, and economic conditions 1837-1901).
- Great Britain Historical GIS Programme This project is creating a Historical Geographical Information System (GIS) for Great Britain covering the period from the late 1830s, when modern statistical data collection can be said to have started, until the early 1970s, when data starts to become available in digital form. The GIS has two major components; accurate boundary data for the changing administaive areas of Britain linked to a major database of social, economic, and electoral statistics from throughout the period.
- Great Exhibition Collection The core of the Great Exhibition Collection of Reading University Library was acquired from Charles Hasler in 1966. It comprises approximately 150 printed books and periodicals, plus pamphlets and ephemera, approximately 50 prints, and some objects. Although the focus of the collection is the Exhibition of 1851, there is also material concerning the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854, where it became a great entertainment centre, and material pertaining to subsequent exhibitions down to the Festival of Britain of 1951.
- Great Exhibition of 1851 A collection of images (10) of the Great Exhibition in 1851 for a course at the University of Virginia.
- Great War Archive The Great War Archive contains over 6,500 items contributed by the general public between March and June 2008. Every item originates from, or relates to, someone's experience of the First World War, either abroad or at home. Contributions were received via a special website and also through a series of open days at libraries and museums throughout the country.
- Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- I.A. Recordings (Telford, Shropshire). "Dedicated to the recording of past and present industry on film and video". Overview of the productions, industrial archeology links.
- Illustrated London News A few (large) illustrations of the Great Exhibition in The Illustrated London News.
- Industrial Revolution -- Selected Bibliographies compiled by George P. Landow for the Victorian Web.
- London Gold Bullion Market. Yearly Average Price (1833 - 1997)
- Map of John Snow in 1859 Images from the Great Exhibition.
- mining-europe.de Photgallery.
- Railway Poster in Britain at the National Railway Museum: a small selection.
- Revolutionary Players Revolutionary Players is a project focusing on the history of the Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands in Britain between the years 1700 and 1830.
The website contains images of many resources from museums, archives end libraries representing the history of the period. There are four main ways of accessing this material: Time, Place, People and Theme.
You can also read Articles on historical subjects, enter the Digital Library of primary sources, explore a Gallery of images and create your own Album of items from the site.
- Richard III Society Online Library Richard III Society. A.o. selections of the correspondence of the Cely family, merchants of the staple, 1475-1488.
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography In association with Irish History Online and London's Past Online.
- Scottish Economic History Database 1550-1780 Crop yields, demographic data, price and wage series, weather statistics.
- Scottish Exhibitions Study Group
- South Sea Bubble by History House an irreverent history magazine. Text.
- South Sea Bubble Project The Bubble Project (BP) is a collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiative on the subject of the South Sea Bubble (SSB), or first great stock-market crash of 1720. Bibliography of printed material and links.
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s, provide a rich record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people. A free service is available to all users with the basic features of searching, viewing and printing from the two Accounts.
- The Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer. circa 1180 A long dialogue between a disciple and a master concerning the English Exchequer and its many rules and customs.
- Three Centuries of Transport Three organisations submitted bids for a grant to digitise, and make available on the Internet, collections of images and objects relating to great transport undertakings: Bridging the Years, The Last Main Line and The Aviation Heritage Partnership.
- Victorian Census Project The Victorian Census Project at Staffordshire University aims to computerise source documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. These sources include: The nineteenth century census abstracts, Vital registration statistics, The returns of the Poor Law Commissioners, Agricultural Statistics, Crime Statistics and Pigot's and Slater's Topographies of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Victorian Economics Part of the Victorian Web at Brown University. Includes a section on "Economics, Literature, and the Arts".
- Victorian Web The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview.
- ViewFinder Online image resource for England's history. The Picture Gallery and Stories contain illustrations of the industrial age, social history (including the Henry W. Taunt Collection), architecture and archaeology, dating from the 1840s to the present day.
- Welcome to Great Exhibiton of Industries of All Nations The Site of the Art History Department at the University Trier provides also a bibliography, mainly art history.
United States
Associations and Societies
- Academy of Accounting Historians General information, journal, newsletter.
- Agricultural History Society General information, journal.
- American Association for State and Local History Programs and publications.
- American Aviation Historical Society General information.
- American Printing History Association Newsletter, journal.
- Association of Public Data Users General information.
- Conference on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM) General information, newsletter, links.
- Economic and Business Historical Society General information.
- Economic History Association Directory, list of publications.
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- History of Economics Society Directory, e-texts, reviews, links.
- Index to Railway Historical Scieties
- International Adam Smith Society General information and Adam Smith Review
- International Association for Research in Income and Wealth IARIW General information, conferences, call for papers Review of Income and Wealth.
- Mining History Association (MHA) The MHA (USA) holds an annual meeting, publishes a scholarly journal and a quarterly newsletter, and provides a forum for discussion of the history of mining
- National Maritime Historical Society The National Maritime Historical Society's mission is to preserve and perpetuate the maritime history of the United States and to invite all Americans to share in the challenging heritage of seafaring.
- National Railway Historical Society Directory, newsletter, links, brief information on the library in Philadelphia, PA.
- Newcomen Society of the United States Information on the Thomas Newcomen Library and Museum in Steam Technology and Business History (Exton, PA).
- Railway & Locomotive Historical Society General information, Newsletter, RRH Index.
- Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area (Pittsburgh). Rivers of Steel is involved with the preservation of historic buildings, locations and artifacts that help to tell and interpret the story of "Big Steel" throughout southwestern Pennsylvania. Extensive general information, newsletter.
- Scholarly Societies Project at the University of Waterloo. Links to over 1,100 societies, dozens of historical societies among them.
- Social Science History Association
- Society for the Development of Austrian Economics General information.
- Society for the History of Technology Directory, bibliographic database, journal, links.
- Society of American Archivists: Business Archives Section General information.
- Telecommunications History Group Catalogs, newsletter.
Research Institutions
- Academy of Management - Management History Division at the Aberdeen Graduate Center of the Florida Institute of Technology. Overview of the collections, newsletter.
- American Enterprise The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is planning a new long-term exhibition that will explore a key area of the American experience—the history of business and innovation. 'American Enterprise' is the working title for the exhibition, which will trace the development of the United States from a largely dependent territory to the largest national economy in the world (1750s–2010s). The exhibition is scheduled to open in 2014.
As part of the planning process, the museum’s curatorial team will be hosting an exploratory website to open the research and exhibition process to the public. Through regular blog posts readers will learn about research trips and the issues and artifacts that the team is considering. The museum is looking for interesting ideas about new artifacts to collect, topics to pursue, related personal experiences and to test ideas through surveys.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis Time series, economic surveys. Includes also National Income and Product Accounts. Downloadable annual and quarterly data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis as of 1959, including graphs.
- Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology The Center for Black Business, History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology was founded at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 by Professor Juliet E. K. Walker, who is considered the foremost scholar in African American Business History.
- Center for the History of Electrical Engineering of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New Brunswick, NJ). Finding aids, research guides, newsletter, oral history transcripts.
- Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Discussion Papers. See especially: Economic History.
- Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History at the University of Minnesota. Collections include the Burroughs Corp records. Finding aids, links to related sites.
- Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA). Home to the Othmer Library of Chemical History (general holdings information) and the Beckman Center, a historical research institution.
- Department of Economics UCDavis. Working Papers Working papers by among others Peter Lindert and Gregory Clark.
- Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Working Papers Series
- Federal Reseve Bank of Minneapolis Research Archive The Research Department's online archive offers all papers and reports published internally since its inception.
- Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Engaged in "the analysis of large-scale social change over long periods of historical time". Newsletter, papers, table of contents of its journal, Review.
- Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Articles by Brock, electronic versions of 18th century pamphlets on the topic.
- Ludwig von Mises Institute General Information, Conferences, Journals, Papers and Texts.
- National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge, MA.
- Program in Early American Economy and Society PEAES In conjunction with its new Program in Early American Economy and Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia is augmenting, cataloguing, and conserving its collections related to economy and society-including the areas of commerce, business, banking, technology, and other fields - and is also compiling a regional survey of related scholarly resources.
- Software History Center (Westport, CT). A project to collect "information about the history of software, the people who created it, and the companies that marketed it starting from its beginnings in the 1950s".
- Telecommunications History Group Catalogs, newsletter.
- The Study of Capitalism The aim of this research program is to identify emerging approaches to political economy and to facilitate interdisciplinary thinking on this important topic among students and faculty at Harvard University.
- The Study of Capitalism The aim of this research program is to identify emerging approaches to political economy and to facilitate interdisciplinary thinking on this important topic among students and faculty at Harvard University.
- University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) UTIP is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial change around the world.
Archives and Libraries
- Alabama Department of Archives and History - Business Records General overview.
- Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress. A first release of 1,400 digitized documents.
- Arthur Lakes Library at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO). A specialized technical library. Online catalog.
- Baker Library - Historical Collections at Harvard Business School. Extensive information, online catalog (Web). Home to the Kress Collection of Business and Economics and an important business manuscripts collection.
- Brown Family Business Records, 1773-1990 The John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization maintains a collection of archives created by members of the Brown family, spanning the period from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. This collection complements earlier Brown family papers at the John Carter Brown Library and the Rhode Island Historical Society. Together, these archives comprise one of the most complete archival records of any American family, and can be used to understand issues from colonial-era trading to nineteenth-century manufacturing to twentieth century philanthropy.
- Center for Agricultural History at Iowa State University. Information on the journal Agricultural History, links.
- Center for the History of Electrical Engineering of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New Brunswick, NJ). Finding aids, research guides, newsletter, oral history transcripts.
- Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History at the University of Minnesota. Collections include the Burroughs Corp records. Finding aids, links to related sites.
- Cincinnati Historical Society Library - Business Archives
- Collection of Industrial History at Kettering University (Flint, MI). Overview of the collections of the Kettering/GMI Alumni Foundation, including documents on General Motors Corp.
- David Sarnoff Library The David Sarnoff Library's website has been expanded. Of special interest to phonograph and television historians, as well as historians of technology, media and communications, home entertainment, business, the Russian Revolutions and Civil War, and New Jersey, are two additions in the Online Text.
- Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada at Hunter Information Management Services Inc. February 1999 edition prepared by Amy Fischer and Liz Holum Johnson for the Business Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists.
- Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs The Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs is intended for research, and deals with world's fairs from 1851-1940.
- Economic Policy Institute Library (Washington, DC). Online catalog (Web).
- Edison National Historic Site (West Orange, NJ) at the US National Park Service. Extensive general information. See also the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project.
- Federal Reseve Bank of Minneapolis Research Archive The Research Department's online archive offers all papers and reports published internally since its inception.
- First Fidelity Bank collection at the Maryland State Archives. General information.
- Gettelman Brewing Company at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: items from the company's scrapbooks, 1860-1987.
- Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE). One of the largest repositories of business records in the US. Online catalog (Web). Information on the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society.
- Harry Bass Business History Collection The Harry W. Bass Business History Collection contains books, microforms, videos, and journals on a number of topics including the histories of business leaders and firms, and the economic, social, and political forces that influence the role of business in society.
- Harry W. Bass Business History Collection The Collection houses close to 2000 rare books as well as manuscripts including the archives of J. and W. Seligman Company. The Bass Collection also holds the publications from the Retail Intelligence System (formerly known as Management Horizons). Our most recent acquistion is the Robert Kahn Collection on Retailing History.
- Hospitality Industry Archives at the University of Houston. General information.
- Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
- Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives (Stratford, CT). General holdings information.
- Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Insurance Library Association of Boston A rich specialized collection, but access is restricted.
- J.C. Penney Archives Overview of the collections.
- Jay Miller Aviation History Collection at the Central Arkansas Library System (Little Rock, AR). General information, images.
- Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History. Exhibits on the history of invention and innovation, finding aids for the Western Union and Computer Oral History collections, among others.
- John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History at Duke University. Overview of the collections, including the J. Walter Thompson Company Archives.
- Library of Congress
- Lilly Library at the University of Indiana at Bloomington. Holds various business archives. Online inventories.
- Milwaukee Urban Archives at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Local business and labour records. Extensive guide to the holdings.
- Minnesota Historical Society Library One of the largest repositories of business records in the US, part of whom are listed in the catalog.
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections at the Library of Congress.
- Newberry Library (Chicago, IL). An independent research library, with some business archives. General holdings information.
- NY Public Library Digital Gallery NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. See especially: Industry & Technology.
- Pennsylvania State Libraries : Special Collections Library : Historical Collections & Labor Archives Major labour and business archives. Overview of the collections, more details on the United Steelworkers of America Archive and Oral History Collection.
- Records for the Study of Labor and Business History in the National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region The National Archives-Pacific Region is a major source for research in labor and business history. It maintains historical records of Federal agencies in northern California, Hawaii, Nevada (except Clark County), American Samoa, and the Pacific Trust Territories.
- Research Guide to Soviet History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General bibliography prepared by Donald J. Raleigh, and based on materials at the Davis Library.
- Resources for the Study of Businessmen and Businesses Special Collections of the University Library of Iowa holds a number of collections directly related to businessmen and businesses that date from the late 19th century into the 20th century. An effort in the 1960's to collect the historical records of Iowa businesses means that many of these collections are specific to Iowa. Records of businessmen include the papers of a number of people who went on to become politicians. Records of companies reflect a strong manufacturing industry in Iowa, and include the records of a locomotive manufacturer, an elevator company, a maker of moving image equipment, and a manufacturer of desks.
- Rockefeller Archive Center (North Tarrytown, NY). List of the holdings.
- Rothschild Archive run by a charitable trust set up in 1999, holds over two million items drawn together from the history of the Rothschild banks and family. At the core of the Archive lie the records of the firm of NM Rothschild & Sons, the London branch of the banking dynasty, supplemented by a growing range of acquisitions of papers from members of the Rothschild family. The Archive represents possibly the most detailed surviving record of an international banking operation in the 19th and early 20th centuries and of a family with artistic, charitable and scientific interests at the heart of European society.
- Rutgers University Libraries - Special Collections Finding aids to the records of Consumers' Research Inc and the Modern School Collection, among others.
- Science, Industry and Business Library at the New York Public Library.
- Sources for the History of Agriculture and Rural Life Iowa State University. Detailed overview of the archival holdings in the University Library.
- State Archives of Michigan List of the holdings among others business records.
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Archives Division Important business and labour collections, among them the records of McCormick-International Harvester, and the American Federation of Labor and other unions. Online catalog (telnet).
- Steam Engine Library at the University of Rochester. Online historical books.
- Syracuse University Library - Television History Archive Detailed overview of the collections.
- Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University. Chronology, searchable database.
- Thomas J. Dodd Research Center - Archives and Special Collections at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Important labour and business archives. List of the collections, with more detailed information on some.
- Thomas J. Long Business and Economics Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Offers a guide to Internet Resources in Business and Economics and access to databases.
- Thomas J. Watson Library of Business and Economics at Columbia University. General information.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Manuscripts Department Provides a good list of links in Selected Business History Resources.
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the business history holdings.
- William J. Parish Memorial Business and Economics Library at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. General information, web guides.
- Wright State University Libraries - Special Collections and Archives (Dayton, OH). Strong in aviation history. Listings of its local and regional business history holdings.
- Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Ohio). List of finding aids and online catalog.
- Zinc Institute Archives at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA). Finding aid.
Museums
- American Enterprise The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is planning a new long-term exhibition that will explore a key area of the American experience—the history of business and innovation. 'American Enterprise' is the working title for the exhibition, which will trace the development of the United States from a largely dependent territory to the largest national economy in the world (1750s–2010s). The exhibition is scheduled to open in 2014.
As part of the planning process, the museum’s curatorial team will be hosting an exploratory website to open the research and exhibition process to the public. Through regular blog posts readers will learn about research trips and the issues and artifacts that the team is considering. The museum is looking for interesting ideas about new artifacts to collect, topics to pursue, related personal experiences and to test ideas through surveys.
- American Textile History Museum
- Baltimore Museum of Industry General information.
- Computer Museum History Center (Moffett Field, CA). General information, online exhibits.
- Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE). One of the largest repositories of business records in the US. Online catalog (Web). Information on the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society.
- Henry Ford Museum Overview of the collections.
- International Women's Air & Space Museum (Cleveland, OH).
- Kansas Oil & Gas Museum (El Dorado, KS). General information.
- Kendall Whaling Museum (Sharon, MA). Online catalog (logbooks and journals), bibliographies, newsletter.
- Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, MA), maintained by the National Park Service. Cotton textile mills, canals, operating gatehouses, worker housing etc, commemorating the American industrial revolution. General information.
- Museum of American Finance (New York). Extensive general information.
- Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago, IL). Overview of its resources including the Nielsen Online Research Center with thousands of television and radio programs, commercials etc (online catalog).
- Museum of History and Industry (Seattle, WA). General information, searchable photo database.
- Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, IL). Exhibits page.
- National Air and Space Museum - Archives Division (Washington, DC). Brief overview of the collections, virtual exhibitions.
- National Building Museum (Washington, DC). Overview of the collections including the records of the Kress Five-and-Dimes company.
- National Canal Museum (Easton, PA). General information, overview of its archival holdings, links.
- Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking (Atlanta, GA). General information, virtual tour.
- Rochester Museum and Science Center (Rochester, NY). Collections information.
- Staff House Mining & Smelting Museum (Kellogg, ID). General information.
- Texas Energy Museum (Beaumont, TX). General holdings information.
- Western Railway Museum (Rio Vista Junction, CA). General information, including on the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association's Archives Project.
Reference
- Academic Business Libraries Web Pages at Foster Business Library, University of Washington. Links to (mostly US) libraries.
- AJR NewsLink from the American Journalism Review. Over 4,000 links to newspapers worldwide.
- American and British History Resources on the Internet at Rutgers University. Extensive list.
- American Economic History (Prior to 1929) Guide to Resources at Schaffer Library 2000-2001
- American Universities at the University of Florida.
- Books about Companies Business & History at Western: A Guide to Selected Resources in the UWO Library System. Compiled and edited by Jerry Mulcahy.
- Business History Books Business History Books is an information and education resource - invaluable for business histories and management titles - in print or out of print.
- Business History Prizes
- Business Reference Services Business Division Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Collections, Bibliographies & Guides, Internet Resources and Calendar of Events.
- BusinessHistory.Net Links to company histories and business history sites.
- College and University Home Pages at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Computing 'Real Value' over time
with a conversion from British Pounds to U.S. Dollars,
or vice versa.
- Digital Librarian: History Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, New York
- EconData.Net Guide to US regional economic data.
- Federal Reserve Board
- Federal Reserve Economic Data at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. Includes US historical data going back to the early 1950s.
- Gold Rush City: San Francisco in the California Gold Rush General information and bibliography.
- History of Technology in the Carolinas maintained by Pamela E. Mack at Clemson University. Overview of industrial-archeological sites.
- Inflation Calculator maintained by Morgan Friedman at the University of Pennsylvania. Based on the US Consumer Price Index, 1800-1997.
- Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1665 to Estimated 2012 maintained by Robert Sahr at the Oregon State University; with a contribution by John J. McCusker on 1800-1900 prices.
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Extensive meta-index.
- Measuring Worth It can be difficult when the question is to determine the "historical" worth of something. The price, even deflated for inflation, is not enough. Was Andrew Carnegie richer than Bill Gates? Did Babe Ruth make more than Barry Bonds? Was the cost of a loaf of bread more then than now? These questions all depend on the context and the calculators on this web site enable users to make their own comparisons.
Users of these calculators ask how they are to decide which index to use. The authors have written an article that presents an explicit answer to that question. It has been published in the July-August 2006 issue Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. In this article we point out that the worth of different types of "subjects" (commodity, income or project) can be measured using various indexes from price to GDP. MeasuringWorth.com is currently developing a decision table, with associated expanded calculators, to help users determine which measure is best for their question.
- NAA Hotlinks to Newspapers Extensive list from the Newspaper Association of America.
- New American Studies Web: Economy and Politics at the University of Georgetown. Many links to US business, economic and labour information.
- North American Industry Classification System at the US Census Bureau. With comparability tables to the Standard Industrial Classification.
- Occupational Classification System Manual at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Sources for the History of Agriculture and Rural Life Iowa State University. Detailed overview of the archival holdings in the University Library.
- Statistical Resources on the Web maintained by the Documents Center of the University of Michigan.
- US Census Bureau Special topics: Statistical Abstracts 1995-2001 (online) and Census 1930.
- USUniversities.com An on-line US university directory.
- Virginia Tech - Manuscript Sources for Railroad History Research Extensive guide.
- What is its Relative Value in US Dollars?
- What was the GDP Then? The series include GDP, Real GDP,
population, GDP per capita, and Real GDP per capita 1790-2005. There is a link on the page that explains in some detail how the series are constructed.
- What Was the Interest Rate Then? The newest series in the "How Much Is That?" feature, developed by Lawrence Officer, EH.Net Special Projects Editor; major comprehensive review of existing compilations of series measuring three interest-rate concepts for the United Kingdom and the United States.
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History United States
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History USA (Reference)
World Wide Web Virtual Library: USA History (Age of Jackson 1830-1857)
Data Archives
- Archival Data Online Repository at the Data and Program Library Service of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Direct access to datasets on population, budgets, consumption, among others.
- Association of Public Data Users General information.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis Time series, economic surveys. Includes also National Income and Product Accounts. Downloadable annual and quarterly data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis as of 1959, including graphs.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor. Time series.
- Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. EADA is published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH).
- Economic History Datadesk. Economic History of Latin America, United States and New World, 1500-1900 A scholarly web site devoted to current research with an emphasis on collection and analysis of historical datasets. Data data on commodity prices, mineral production, agricultural tithes, commercial traffic for Latin American Spanish and Portuguese colonies; United States data on gold and silver production with special reference to Nevada's Comstock; bullion flows from New World to Europe and Far East; Spanish royal treasury accounts from more than 70 branches in the Viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru, compiled by John TePaske, Herbert Klein et al.
- Economic Time Series Page at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Data and charts for over 100,000 series, mainly from the US government.
- EH.Net Databases
- Federal Reserve Board - Statistical Releases Includes historical series of many of the data that are regularly released by the US central bank, among them those on assets and liabilities of commercial banks, foreign exchange rates, industrial production and capacity utilization, consumer credit etc.
- Federal Reserve Economic Data at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. Includes US historical data going back to the early 1950s.
- FRASER The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research is a project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to expand on its mission to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. On this web site you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.
- Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States at the US Bureau of the Census. Working paper by Campbell J. Gibson and Emily Lennon (1999). Detailed tables.
- Historical Financial Research Data Sources Maintained by the Yale International Center for Finance.
- Historical Statistics on Banking at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Annual statistical information on the US banking industry beginning in 1934.
- Integrated Public Use Microdata Series at the University of Minnesota. Census microdata for social and economic research.
- Modern Inventors Documentation Program (MIND) The Lemelson Center and the National Museum of American History Archives Center established the Modern Inventors Documentation (MIND) Program to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge about American inventors.
The MIND Database identifies the locations and contents of invention-related archival materials in the United States.
- National Agricultural Statistics Service
- NBER Macrohistory Database During the first several decades of its existence, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) assembled an extensive data set that covers all aspects of the pre-WWI and interwar economies, including production, construction, employment, money, prices, asset market transactions, foreign trade, and government activity. Many series are highly disaggregated, and many exist at the monthly or quarterly frequency. The data set has some coverage of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, although it predominantly covers the United States. For information see Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data , by Daniel Feenberg and Jeff Miron. (NBER Working Paper #5186). Published in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Volume 15 Number 3 (July 1997) pages 293-299.
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) The PSID is a nationally representative longitudinal study of nearly 8,000 US families. Following the same families and individuals since 1968, the PSID collects data on economic, health, and social behavior.
- U.S. Customs House Data, 1854-59 Excel file detailing how much revenue was collected, how much was spent, and how many people were employed at each of 152 customs houses in the United States in the years 1854 through 1859. The data are for fiscal years ending on June 30. The source is a U.S. Treasury report to Congress.
- US Census Bureau Special topics: Statistical Abstracts 1995-2001 (online) and Census 1930.
- US Historical Data on Bank Market Structure 1896-1955 by Mark Flood in Charlotte, NC. Downloadable data.
Web Resources
- 1904 World's Fair : looking back at looking forward In celebration of the centennial of the 1904 World's Fair, the Missouri Historical Society presents a virtual museum exhibition. Also links to other site related to the World's Fair.
- 1939 World's Fair Photograph Collection Photographs prepared by the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce and displayed in the Virginia Room in the Court of States at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.
- Account and Receipt Book of the Holme Family Account and receipt book, 1684-1762 Philadelphia, Pa.
- Account and waste Book of Michael Holstein Account and waste book, 1753 February 14-1798 March 18 Heidelberg Twp., Pa.
- Account Book of John Bartram John Bartram, 1743-1812. Account book, 1790 January 10-1803 May 4 Philadelphia, Pa.
- Account Book of John Head Drawing upon one of the least congenial forms of manuscript, the account book, Jay Stiefel's "Cabinetmaking and Commerce, 1718-1735" and his associated essay "The Head Account Book as Artifact," bring a piece of early Philadelphia to life, situating a productive, but little known artisan, John Head, within the larger context of early colonial society and economy [pdf].
- Ad*Access at Duke University. "Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955".
- AdFlip Claiming to be the world's largest searchable database of classic print ads, greeting cards of automobile, celebrity, audio magazines advertising and more.
- AMDOCS Documents for the Study of American History Maintained by George Laughead Jr., manager WWW-VL: United States History and Lynn H. Nelson, original author, WWW-VL: History, Kansas Heritage Group founder.
- America from the Great Depression to World War II Black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection.
- American Enterprise The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is planning a new long-term exhibition that will explore a key area of the American experience—the history of business and innovation. 'American Enterprise' is the working title for the exhibition, which will trace the development of the United States from a largely dependent territory to the largest national economy in the world (1750s–2010s). The exhibition is scheduled to open in 2014.
As part of the planning process, the museum’s curatorial team will be hosting an exploratory website to open the research and exhibition process to the public. Through regular blog posts readers will learn about research trips and the issues and artifacts that the team is considering. The museum is looking for interesting ideas about new artifacts to collect, topics to pursue, related personal experiences and to test ideas through surveys.
- An American Time Capsule: Three centuries of Broadside and Other Printed Ephemera The American Time Capsule web site has been developed by the rare books and special collections division of the Library of Congress to provide access to printed ephemera held by the Library of Congress.
- AnnualReports.com AnnualReports.com provides a complete and up-to-date listing of annual reports online.
- Basics of Business History at TheStreet.com. "100 events that shaped a century" in US business history.
- Benjamin
Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia just published "Benjamin
Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy" by Farley Grubb. It is a glossy 12 page pamphlet.
- Bibliography African American Economic Life A Bibliography on "One Kind of Freedom Reconsidered: African American Economic Life in the Segregation Era"
- Bibliography on the Garment Industry Entrepreneurship in the garment industry - particularly in its golden age, from 1860 to 1975 - was a crucial element not only in the history of New York City's economy (and the U.S. economy), but also in its social history and the rise of the Jewish middle class. Yet while the labor side of this rich industrial history has been well told, surprisingly little has been written about the business side.
A bibliography, primarily intended for use by business historians interested in pursuing scholarship in this fertile field, is now available, compiled by Shirley Idelson. It includes primary and secondary sources on traditional business concerns such as manufacturing, retail, entrepreneurship and management as well as related topics like immigration, fashion, labor, and gender.
- Birth of a New Social Science Discipline Achievements of the First Generation of American Economic and Business Historians ? 1893-1974 / by Arthur Harrison Cole (New York: Economic History Association, 1974)
- Boston Gas Company Photographs at Boston College. A searchable database of 400 photographs.
- Bridgeport Working at Bridgeport Public Library: images of, and interviews on, working life in Bridgeport, CT, in the 20th century.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis Time series, economic surveys. Includes also National Income and Product Accounts. Downloadable annual and quarterly data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis as of 1959, including graphs.
- Business Plan Archive In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Archive collects and preserves business plans and related planning documents from the Birth of the Dot Com Era so that future generations will be able to learn from this remarkable episode in the history of technology and entrepreneurship.
- California Pacific Exposition San Diego 1935-1936 Images, Texts.
- Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America at H-Net. "The Formative Era, 1890s-1916". Extended version of an article by Martin Sklar (1993).
- CARRIE The First Full-Text On-Line Electronic Library: by Lynn H. Nelson.
- Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921 at the West Virginia History Database. "The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions", an article by Clayton D. Laurie, from West Virginia History, 50 (1991).
- Centennial Exhibition The Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection and web site were developed by the Free Library of Philadelphia. The heart of this digitized collection is the approximately 1200 silver albumen photographs taken by the Centennial Photographic Company (CPC). However, other types of materials were included in the collection to provide a broader historical context.
- Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
- Century of Progress Bibliography, images etc.
- Century of Progress Exposition A Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago 1933-34.
- Century of Progress World's Fair, 1933-1934 Presented here are publicity and other documentary photographs from the Exposition. They form part of A Century of Progress Records, 1927-1952, housed in the Special Collections and University Archives Department, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.
- Chicago Area Company Histories at the Chicago Public Library. Bibliography of company histories in the CPL.
- Classification of American Wealth History and genealogy of the wealthy families of America.
- Cleveland Memory Project The photo archive of the Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library.
- Coins of Colonial and Early America A Project of the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment, University of Notre Dame, Department of Special Collections, by Louis Jordan.
- Company Histories Company histories international and further reading.
- Considerable Branch of Business at the University of New Hampshire Library: shipbuilding in Durham, NH, 1756-1950.
- Corporate Reports Online University of Pennsylvania. Scanned copies of historical annual reports (1834-1974).
- Crosby-Steam maintained by Craig Bliss (Taunton, MA). Online historical catalogues, photographs and other documents from and on the Ashton Valve Company and the Crosby Steam Gauge and Valve Co, both in Boston, MA.
- Daily closing values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) EH-Net series 'How Much Is That?'
- Department of Economics UCDavis. Working Papers Working papers by among others Peter Lindert and Gregory Clark.
- Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Working Papers Series
- Digital Collections University of North Carolina Library
- Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs The Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs is intended for research, and deals with world's fairs from 1851-1940.
- Economic History Datadesk. Economic History of Latin America, United States and New World, 1500-1900 A scholarly web site devoted to current research with an emphasis on collection and analysis of historical datasets. Data data on commodity prices, mineral production, agricultural tithes, commercial traffic for Latin American Spanish and Portuguese colonies; United States data on gold and silver production with special reference to Nevada's Comstock; bullion flows from New World to Europe and Far East; Spanish royal treasury accounts from more than 70 branches in the Viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru, compiled by John TePaske, Herbert Klein et al.
- EH.Net Databases
- Emergence of Advertising in America (1850-1920). Over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials are from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
- Evolution of Manufacturing For those interested in a historical perspective on manufacturing
operations in the U.S., there is a collection of original New York
Times articles that is being made freely available online for a
limited time. The collection consists of 12 articles published between
1909 and 2000. The archive is sponsored by PeopleSoft, and it is not
apparent how long it will be available.
- Falstaff Brewing Corporation (St Louis, MO): a photo album.
- Federal Reseve Bank of Minneapolis Research Archive The Research Department's online archive offers all papers and reports published internally since its inception.
- Food Cost Review, 1950-97 Full text of a report by Howard Elitzak, of the US Department of Agriculture [PDF file]
- FRASER The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research is a project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to expand on its mission to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. On this web site you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.
- Gasoline Price History
- Gettelman Brewing Company at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: items from the company's scrapbooks, 1860-1987.
- Great Lakes Industrial History Collection at the Cleveland Digital Library. The materials available through the Great Lakes Industrial History Collection include personal and company records, diaries and other keepsakes of the business leaders. Nice online collection of photographs (in the Naef & Joslin Photographs Conneaut, Ohio Collection).
- Historical Financial Research Data Sources Maintained by the Yale International Center for Finance.
- Historical Perspectives on Business Enteprise Business history book series from Ohio State University Press. Publisher's information.
- History and Industry of New York State's Hudson-Mohawk Region A bibliography by Sloane D. Bullough (1998).
- History and Media Initiative at the State University of New York at Albany. Includes projects on "The Glovers of Fulton County" (New York), "The History of the Endicott Johnson Corporation", and "Schenectady General Electric in the Twentieth Century".
- History of American Paper Money
- History of Railroads Links to historical societies. Another extensive address list of Railroad Historical Societies is offered at Con-Cor's Grand Central Railway Station of Cyberspace.
- History of the Eighties at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. An "examination of the banking crises of the 1980s and early 1990s". Full text of the publication (December 1997).
- History of the Standard Oil Company By Ida M. Tarbell.
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
- Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904 at the Library of Congress.
- Interactive Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition This site was created by Bruce R. Schulman, teacher at Nathaniel Alexander Elementary School at Governors' Village, in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (NC) school system. Thus as it may well be expected, this site presents a lot of information on the fair in a well organized and easy to read manner.
- Invention & Enterprise at Cornell University Library: on Ezra Cornell, founder of the Western Union Telegraph Company, among many other things.
- Investigating Disruptive Technology: The Emergence of Ring Spinning in the American Textile Industry Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Images, bibliography.
- Jacob Snavely Personal Account Book, circa 1727 Pages of interest to weavers include page 14 and 15 and then run from page 58 to page 86.
- John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company A study by François Micheloud (1997).
- John Wesley : An On-line Exhibition The exhibition consists of images selected from the extensive Wesley collection of manuscripts contained within the Methodist Archives at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
- KIPnotes : Business History Dedicated to business history and management literacy. Large multimedia collection of business histories and management titles available anywhere. Entries are organized by subject, company, year and author.
- Klondike Gold Rush at the University of Washington: on the journey north, 1897-1898.
- Klondike Weekly: Archive of Past Articles
- Latin American Business History : resource and research Oral history interviews with twenty-one leading Argentinean and Chilean business practitioners provide a valuable resource for research on the business history of Latin American Southern Cone countries.
- Looking back at Looking Forward Held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.
- Los Angeles at Work An exhibition of Chamber of Commerce photographers, 1920-1939, at the Los Angeles Public Library.
- Lost Labor Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980 is a selection of 155 photographs excerpted from a collection of more than 1100 company histories, pamphlets, and technical brochures documenting America's business and corporate industrial history This collection has been assembled over the last 20 years and many of the titles are rare and difficult to find. Since the images document factories, machinery, and jobs that no longer exist, Lost Labor provides an unusual visual and historical record of work in 20th century America.
- Ludwig von Mises Institute General Information, Conferences, Journals, Papers and Texts.
- Made of Steel at the LensWork WWW Gallery: "a photographic portfolio of men who work with steel" by Brooks Jensen.
- Marketing in the Modern Era: Trade catalogs and the rise of 19th-century American advertising at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. The Baker Library has a remarkably rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs ranging in date from the early nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century, with the greatest concentration of materials falling between 1870 and 1900. Images, bibliography.
- Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000 issued April 2002 [pdf/149 pp.]
- Moveable Feast at the University of Louisville: Russell Lee's photographs of the harvesting of winter wheat in Texas and Oklahoma, 1949.
- Museum of the City of San Francisco List of links to other sites and clippings on the world expositions.
- National Refining Company A research project by Ben Eckart in Manhattan, KS.
- NBER Macrohistory Database During the first several decades of its existence, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) assembled an extensive data set that covers all aspects of the pre-WWI and interwar economies, including production, construction, employment, money, prices, asset market transactions, foreign trade, and government activity. Many series are highly disaggregated, and many exist at the monthly or quarterly frequency. The data set has some coverage of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, although it predominantly covers the United States. For information see Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data , by Daniel Feenberg and Jeff Miron. (NBER Working Paper #5186). Published in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Volume 15 Number 3 (July 1997) pages 293-299.
- New and Wonderful Invention: The Nineteenth-Century American Trade Card at the Baker Library, Harvard Business School. As one of the most popular forms of advertising in the nineteenth century and an indicator of consumer habits, social values, and marketing techniques, trade cards are of interest to scholars of business history, American studies, graphic design and printing history, and social and cultural history. Images and bibliography.
- New Deal Network at Columbia University. "A research and teaching resource [...] devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal", sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
- NY Public Library Digital Gallery NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. See especially: Industry & Technology.
- Ohio State University - Department of History Offers a series of Special Web projects on labour and business history.
- Open Video Project A shared digital video collection.
- Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. In October 1997, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was to be awarded to obert C. Merton, Harvard University, and Myron S. Scholes, Stanford University, "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives."
- Panama-California Exposition Digitized postcards from the San Diego Historical Society.
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) The PSID is a nationally representative longitudinal study of nearly 8,000 US families. Following the same families and individuals since 1968, the PSID collects data on economic, health, and social behavior.
- Phoenix Hosiery Company at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: from the company's records, dating mostly from the 1950s.
- Populism - The People's or Populist Party of the 1890s Texts, Cartoons, Bibliography, & Primary Sources. Maintained by Bob Miller, Department of History, Missouri State University.
- Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs and Expositions curated by Iris R. Snyder and held at the Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library (February 8 - June 8, 2000). The Special Collections Department of the University of Delaware Library holds a wide variety of primary source materials relating to the World's Fairs and Expositions held in the United States between 1876 and 1939.
- Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 The Prosperity and Thrift web site from the Library of Congress provides access to full-text material that documents the prosperity enjoyed by the United States during the Coolidge years.
- Railroad Maps Collection at the Library of Congress. Includes "progress report surveys for individual lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way, and route guides published by commercial firms".
- Rear View Mirror at the UCR California Museum of Photography (Riverside): over 100 photographs illustrating "the American relationship with the automobile and the constructs and cultures that evolved from it".
- Repository of Historical Documents on Slavery The repository contains high resolution images of over one hundred and fifty historical documents, some six hundred manuscript pages in all, as well as introductory headnotes, bibliographic information, and technical data. The original documents included in this repository can be found in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, and the Brown University Archives.
- Resource Center for Greater Cleveland History
- Risky Business. Winning and Losing in Early American Economy The exhibition explores the currents of American economic change from 1780 to 1850. Organizer: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
- Scott Hancock Site Most text describing the fair and it?s elements that are contained in this site as illustrations and photographs, are directly lifted from period publications and insofar as is possible attributions will be appropriately noted.
- Society for the History of Technology Directory, bibliographic database, journal, links.
- Southern New England Telephone Company at the University of Connecticut: an exhibition on its first fifty years, 1878-1928.
- Souvenir of the Pan-American Exposition Introductory site.
- Stock Naked. Uncovering a Company History by Nell Ingalls (February 1999; revised November 2002). Now in the Internet Archive.
- Story of a Great Monopoly ', by H.D. Lloyd. Article published in The Atlantic Monthly (March 1881) Story of a Great Monopoly; Volume 47, No. 281; pages 317-334.
- Sugar at LSU at Louisiana State University Library: "celebrates the 200th anniversary of commercial sugar production in Louisiana".
- Terry's 1904 World's Fair Page Extensive site.
- The Study of Capitalism The aim of this research program is to identify emerging approaches to political economy and to facilitate interdisciplinary thinking on this important topic among students and faculty at Harvard University.
- Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Laboratory a small exhibition at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.
- Trade Catalogs in the University of Delaware Library digital version of an exhibition at the Hugh M. Morris Library.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire at the Kheel Center, Cornell University: a documentary site on the 1911 fire at this New York sweatshop.
- Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney Based on the National Historic Landmark files, "Madam C.J. Walker Building" and "J.C. Penney Historic District," as well as other sources related to Madam Walker and J.C. Penney. It was written by Rita Koman.
- U.S. Customs House Data, 1854-59 Excel file detailing how much revenue was collected, how much was spent, and how many people were employed at each of 152 customs houses in the United States in the years 1854 through 1859. The data are for fiscal years ending on June 30. The source is a U.S. Treasury report to Congress.
- Union Pacific Railroad History at UPRR. Includes information on the Union Pacific collection.
- US Steel Gary Works. Photograph Collection, 1906-1971
- US Census Bureau Special topics: Statistical Abstracts 1995-2001 (online) and Census 1930.
- US Historical Census Data Browser Data for this site originate in ICPSR study: "Historical Demographic, Economic and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970." Data sources for the complete data set include Decennial Censuses and sources such as the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Council of Churches of Christ of the United States.
- Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas A Study in Adaptation to Subhumid Geographical Environment / by
James C. Malin (University of Kansas
Lawrence KS: University of Kansas Press, 1944)
- Women Working in the United States, 1800-1930 This site provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. Featuring ca. 500,000 pages and images documenting women's roles in the U.S. economy between 1800 and the Great Depression.
- World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath Hypertextual thesis presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts, (Department of English, Concentration in American Studies) by Julie K. Rose.
- WTO History Project
- www.dollarization.org The website www.dollarization.org, maintained by Kurt Schuler contains a large amount of material, some of which warrant welcome by the monetary historian. The site is reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer for EH.NET.
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