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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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