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.....
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.....
AFL leadership press photo archive, documenting council meetings, conventions, White House visits, and interunion conferences by the American Federation of Labor, 1924-1943. William Green succeeded Samuel Gompers as AFL president in 1924 and led the federation through the Depression, the New Deal labor laws, and wartime price and wage disputes.....
[Labor] Industrial rock drilling photograph archive documenting Gardner Denver and drill carrier machinery in factory, yard, and field settings, circa 1960s, recording how specialized drilling equipment was designed, serviced, and operated in steep-cut and tunnel construction environments. The group centers on crawler-mounted drills, compressor-fed hose systems, and rail-mounted heavy equipment.....
Red Cross service photographs by notable Clearwater photographer George Fulmer recording volunteer nursing instruction, clinic intake, fundraising, and civic ceremony in Clearwater, Florida, 1951-1952, with primary source images of the care and volunteer infrastructure that accompanied postwar Sunbelt growth. Fulmer, a Clearwater native, served as a U.S. Navy photographer during.....
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.....
Brea Chemicals construction and early operations archive documenting the transformation of open Orange County foothill land into a Union Oil chemical manufacturing complex producing ammonia, nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, dry ice, and related fertilizer products. In 1953, The Petroleum Engineer reported that Homer Reed, president of the newly organized Union.....
Carquinez Bridge construction photo archive documenting the industrial development of the 1927 cantilever crossing at the Carquinez Strait, a transportation project driven by California’s rapid automobile growth and the mounting inadequacy of the Vallejo ferry connection between the Bay Area and Sacramento. By the early 1920s California vehicle registrations had.....
[Labor Organizing] United Auto Workers strike and labor photographs documenting national contract disputes, factory shutdowns, collective bargaining, and picket line action across the American auto industry during the 1960s and 1970s. The group records major UAW conflicts involving General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, including the 1961 General Motors bargaining deadline.....
[Science, Medicine & Technology][Military & War][Labor, Environment & Welfare] Manuscript industrial journal documenting the British lead shot industry, patent culture, and metallurgical manufacturing during the height of the Victorian industrial economy. Primarily England and Wales, 1851–1853. Approximately 50 pages written in ink in a highly legible hand, bound in an.....
Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, 1936, established the conceptual framework for modern macroeconomics and reoriented economic thought toward state intervention during the global crisis of the Great Depression. Written in direct response to mass unemployment and market instability, Keynes’s work advanced arguments concerning aggregate.....
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.....
[Labor Organizing][Industry] General Electric strike photo archive documenting the 1960 IUE Local 201 strike at the GE River Works plant in Lynn, Massachusetts, press photographs of workers and labor organizers resisting GE’s take-it-or-leave-it bargaining practice at the factory gate. These images record the early days of the national IUE walkout.....
[Public Transit][Massachusetts] Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area, including Lynn, Haverhill, Lawrence, Saugus, Marblehead, Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars, trolley routes, terminals, and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition.....
[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.....
George Fulmer photographs of Clearwater residents, businesses, club spaces, and service interiors recording how the residential economy of postwar Clearwater, Florida functioned during early Sunbelt expansion in the 1950s. Fulmer, a WWII U.S. Navy enlisted photographer and Clearwater city photographer for more than six decades, worked from a studio beside.....
Michigan Tri-State Motor Express trucks, trailers, and drivers photo archive depicting a first-generation American interstate trucking company based in Benton Harbor, Michigan and photographed across more than a decade, circa 1941 to 1952. Long-haul motor freight had barely existed a decade before these snapshots were taken; the Motor Carrier Act.....
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.....
Mine payroll archive dating from 1907-1930 recording the "truck system" wage structure, which dictated housing, medical care, supplies, lighting, and retail purchases through deductions entered directly onto payroll statements. Under this system, common in factory and manual labor in the U.S. from the Industrial Revolution through the 1930s, workers were.....
Photo archive of 11 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.....
[Transportation][Urbanization] Photographic court exhibits of a Connecticut freeway truck rollover and cargo spill, prepared for federal court proceedings in 1970, documenting accident investigation, scene control, and roadway recovery operating in the infrastructure of interstate freight transport. An official photographic record of the immediate aftermath on a wet multi lane roadway.....
Postwar manufacturing expansion and Clearwater Florida's food industry photo archive by George Fulmer documenting the manufacturing, shipment, retail display, and commercial service of American food in 1953. Featured in this photo archive is Snow Crop’s industrial frozen food operation, and a mid-century supermarket and cafeteria economy that reshaped the American.....
Steel construction photo archive documenting the labor system of midcentury building expansion in Macon, Georgia, depicting how fabrication, delivery, crane work, and frame erection operated within the commercial and industrial growth of the postwar South. An unidentified commercial photographer working for local firms recorded construction as an active process through.....
