Industrial Extraction and Scientific Farming in the Interwar Midwest: Ruhm’s Phosphate & Chemical Company (Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee). Photograph album documenting phosphate mining, processing, fertilizer application, and Illinois farm yield demonstrations. Circa 1928. Oblong black album (11 x 7½ inches) containing 77 silver gelatin photographs (majority captioned in typed slips, several.....

Graham, Benjamin; and Dodd, David L. Security Analysis: Principles and Technique. 1934. Published in the aftermath of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and during the Great Depression, Security Analysis established the intellectual framework of value investing. Graham and Dodd, professors at Columbia University, articulated principles distinguishing investment from speculation and.....

Elk Creek Mining Company photograph album documenting coal extraction, transportation networks, and company town life in Milner, Colorado during the early twentieth century. The photographs record operations of one of the principal coal producers in Routt County at a time when Colorado coal fueled railroads and industrial markets throughout the.....

[Japanese American] [California] Japanese American family photograph archive, 1950s, documenting everyday life in Southern California during the decade following the forced wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. The photographs record domestic routines, family celebrations, and recreational outings among a Nisei and Sansei generation rebuilding community life after.....

Internment camp copy of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona from the Gila River Project School Libraries, preserving the school library apparatus of a War Relocation Authority camp for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Arizona during World War II. The stamp “Property of Gila River Project School Libraries / War Relocation.....

Tyndall, John. Autograph Letter Signed, 19 July 1872, written in the year he published major work on atmospheric heat absorption that established the physical basis of what is now termed the greenhouse effect. Addressed to poet Matthew Arnold, the letter situates Tyndall within the intellectual networks of Victorian Britain at.....

7th Avenue Original Subway construction album documenting cut and cover excavation, timber bracing, and utility rerouting in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1914, a ground-level record of the Dual Contracts expansion that extended the IRT south along Seventh Avenue Extension and Varick Street to meet rising transit demand on.....

New York Public Service Commission investigator F.G. Daniell documenting the infrastructural failures behind the October 21, 1913 double boiler explosion at the Richmond Light & Railroad Company plant at Livingston, Staten Island, which killed fireman Daniel Sullivan, engineer Francis Hannan, and another worker, completely cutting electric service and trolley operation.....

Steve Rose's photographic coverage of demonstrations, strike activity, broadcast spaces, and police control in New York City and Washington, D.C., circa 1969–1971, with dissent moving through street assembly, underground and movement media, institutional protest, and municipal enforcement. Rose, active in New York documentary photography during the early 1970s, photographed activists.....

California photo Album documenting 1930's roadside commerce's, Oil and logging industries, and desert sightseeing across Southern California and Death Valley, circa 1930s. Include logging photographs made when steam power still ran the woods, before the gasoline tractor and chainsaw displaced the steam donkey engine and the logging railroad. The photographs.....

[Cuba] [Chinese] [Labor] Cuban indentured servant contract documenting the state administration of Chinese indenture in western Cuba, February 1867, records the municipal enforcement of Cuban contract labor rules for Asian migrants under the post 1860 regulatory system that governed wages, discipline, illness, food, and flight. Issued on a printed form.....

Large photographic archive documenting major public works and industrial construction projects undertaken by the Fletcher Construction Company Preload Division across New Zealand during the postwar expansion of the 1950s. Founded in 1915, Fletcher Construction became one of the country’s dominant engineering and construction firms during the decades when New Zealand.....

African American working men and women appear throughout this photograph archive documenting occupational identity and labor roles during the first half of the twentieth century. The images record Black workers in uniforms associated with municipal service, transportation, agriculture, and service industries during the era of racial segregation in the United.....