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This subcategory contains 66 links Henry Ford resists unions Mostly commercial Aetna. Inc, 1850-1998. Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone. Although a commercial site, there are good history sections. Beginning in 1903. British-American Tobacco Document Collection: Documents from the Guildford Depository The premier scholarly journal on business history in the US. Founded in 1869. Includes a histiry of service stations as well as this oil company. Insurance by Stephen Meyer The quarterly journal of the Business History Conference; deals with topics concerning the history of business and its interactions with the societies within which it operates. A timeline with illustrations. "Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. " Founded by Harvey S. Firestone of Ohio. Since 1869. by Cliff Slater. Transportation Quarterly, Vol. 51. No. 3 Summer 1997 (45-66). 1997 Eno Transportation Foundation. Inc., Lansdown, Virginia "H-Business is an on-line newsletter for the Business History Conference. The Business History Conference, H-Net and Eh.Net are the joint owners of H-Business. " Brief description of why it occurred, the police state operations, and the martyrs. Chicago. The Haymarket protest meeting on the evening of May 4, 1886, at which several policemen were killed by a dynamite bomb attributed to political radicals. History " Digital Archives IBM is putting its history online - exhibiting highlights from its Corporate Archives, building a reference resource to answer your questions, and digitizing historic company materials for public access. " Electronic text of the famous book. History, philosophy, and character, The J.P. Morgan legacy The whiskey. Biography of John D. Rockefeller and his creation of Standard Oil. Bio and snippets about his good works. From the Museum of American Financial History. "The development of the first ready-made, ready-to-use surgical dressings by Johnson & Johnson in the mid-1880s marked not only the birth of a company, but also the first practical application of the theory of antiseptic wound treatment. " Understanding Conspiracy-Theory Explanations of The Decline of Urban Mass Transit by Martha J. Bianco, Portland State University, biancom@pdx.edu. November 17, 1998, Discussion Paper 98-11 Founded in 1872. From Ohio State University. Bluejeans! A guide to researching defunct companies in Buffalo, NY, with descriptions of offline sources and links to online sources How Bill Gates got fabulously rich! From the Henry Ford Museum "The Museum showcases the history of Wall Street, the economic miracle of the markets, and the achievements of American businessmen and women from Alexander Hamilton's founding designs for a national economy, to the rise of "dot com" entrepreneurs in the global "new economy." The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is one of only three broadcast museums in America and home to the nation’s only Radio Hall of Fame. Class notes by Professor K. Poole. By Hadley Davis in the Concord Review Sears was a founder of Sears Roebuck Company. "an internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology. In addition to more than 2,000 books, the Museum features a remarkable collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts." Sears, Roebuck Archives History. By Sharon Murphy "The Museum and this site are dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American Advertising." "On May 3, 1913, five Oakland, California, entrepreneurs invested $100 apiece to set up America's first commercial-scale liquid bleach factory on the east side of San Francisco Bay." And it grew. Clever, comprehensive site on the Haymarket affair. The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. From its origins in London... Besides the DuPont Company, it specializes in business and technology history. "The digital collection presents images of key documents and artifacts in their historical context with a minimum of interpretive information. Much like the witness testimony and exhibits introduced during the Haymarket trial, these primary sources are pieces of evidence which enable the user to reconstruct and interpret the historical events to which they relate." Pullman Strike of 1894. Posits the myth that General Motors conspired to destroy the streetcar industry. For an accurate view, see General Motors and the Demise of Streetcars Workers, steel, Pinkerstons, Carnegie "What follows is a short version of Thiokol's more than 50 years experience in the aerospace industry. No serious history of aerospace and rocket propulsion can overlook Thiokol's contributions." From the Biography Channel. Good articles History History and Photos "Since 1852, the Wells Fargo stagecoach has been a symbol of reliable service across the American West. " |
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