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.....

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.....

Civilian Conservation Corps and Wisconsin Conservation Department photograph archive, circa 1930s, documenting the expansion of New Deal work relief into park construction, forestry, public recreation, and state-administered conservation at Devil’s Lake State Park. The photographs record the federal labor and state supervision that gave the park much of its modern.....

Chinese Eastern Railway and rural Manchuria photo archive depicting railway travel across Manchuria in 1903, documenting the rapid transformation of northeastern China into one of the most contested transportation corridors of the early twentieth century. Created only months before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the photographs record a landscape.....

All-American Canal construction archive, 1936, recording the machinery, labor, and earth-moving work that redirected Colorado River irrigation water into Imperial Valley through a canal located entirely inside the United States. Congress authorized the All-American Canal in the 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act, the same law that authorized Hoover Dam, as.....

At 6:42 a.m. on June 29, 1925, Santa Barbara was struck by a severe earthquake that killed thirteen people, caused roughly $8 million in damage, and tore through the city’s commercial center before most stores and offices had opened for the day. This large archive of photos record the ruined.....

California railroad and industrial development photo album documenting Southern Pacific workers, locomotives, rail yards, derailments, logging settlements, and expanding cities in 1924, when rail transport remained the principal link between the state’s resource districts, agricultural regions, ports, and urban markets. The album follows railway personnel through working landscapes and recreational.....

Salt Creek Haydite Plant album documenting shale extraction, rotary-kiln aggregate production, and water-control construction in Natrona County, Wyoming, 1922-1924, recording the first commercially manufactured lightweight structural concrete aggregate in the United States, patented by Kansas City brickmaker Stephen J. Hayde in 1918 after he discovered that certain shales and clays.....

[Technology][Rescue Operations] American fire engine modernization archive documenting the transition from horse drawn steam engines to motorized trucks and rescue wagons in Massachusetts and across the Northeast between the 1910s and 1940s. Fire departments across the U.S. began to transition from horses and steam pumpers to gasoline powered apparatus to.....

Cook Inlet offshore drilling photo archive of 57 chromogenic color photographs documenting the transport, assembly, and field operation of oil platform equipment in Alaska in 1966, including derrick sections, drill pipe, draw works components, service trucks, staging yards, flare fire, and rig floor assembly during the period when offshore construction.....

Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin photographs depicting drilling crews, derricks, lease camps, well stimulation, pumpers, machinery suppliers, and industrial worksites associated with the Salt Flat Oil Field (originally known as the Bruner Field) near Luling, Caldwell County, Texas, during the peak of the 1929 oil boom and the years.....

Industrial butcher shop and slaughterhouse photo archive depicting meatpacking labor during the rapid expansion of refrigerated food distribution in the early twentieth century, when urban slaughterhouses and cold storage facilities transformed American food consumption. After the introduction of refrigerated rail transport in the late nineteenth century, cities such as Philadelphia.....

Post WWII driver safety education archive depicting apparatus-based traffic instruction in the United States, circa 1950, documenting the effort to make automobile behavior measurable through classroom testing, demonstration equipment, and supervised observation. The negatives precede the National Safety Council’s first Defensive Driving Course, introduced in 1964, and belong to the.....