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Digital Collections - Business

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Advertising

Ad*Access
(scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/)
Images and information for 7000 advertisements from US and Canadian newspapers and magazines, 1911-1955.  (J. Walter Thompson Co. Competitive Advertisements Collection)

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History

Bridgeport [Connecticut] Working: Voices from the 20th Century
(www.bridgeporthistory.org/)

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA)
(scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/)
This site presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.

Steelmaker-Steeltown: U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971
(www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel)

Steam and Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad
(railroads.uconn.edu/locomotives/)
(www.lib.uconn.edu/teams/digicoll/collections.htm)
Project Manager: Laura Katz Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad, Labor and Ethnic Heritage and Immigration Collections, Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries
Project Summary: This digital collection provides online access to over 460 black-and-white photographs that document steam and electric locomotives owned and operated by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad from the 1870s to the mid-1900s.

Working Women, 1870-1930
(ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)
"Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections." [Source: Website]

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See also: Research by Subject - Business