San Francisco earthquake photo archive depicting the destruction caused by the April 18, 1906 earthquake and the fires that burned through the city afterward. The disaster killed thousands, left much of San Francisco in ruins, and displaced a massive urban population into parks, camps, and temporary shelters. Commercial postcards circulated.....
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.....
Large photo archive documenting the businesses, utilities, and construction trades within Pinellas County, Florida, during the region’s extraordinary population expansion in the 1950s. Clearwater Historical Society's notable photographer George Fulmer’s assignments record the businesses within this economic moment as it rapidly aimed to accommodate the postwar migration to the Sunbelt.....
[Mining][Labor][Steel] Iron mining photographs of Inland Steel Company workers at Greenwood Mine, southwest of Ishpeming, Michigan, documenting the labor system that linked Upper Peninsula ore extraction to steel production in Chicago during the central decades of twentieth century industrial expansion. Greenwood Mine gave the Inland Steel Company, one of Chicago's.....
Southern cotton commerce documents spanning 1815 to 1850 recording the shipment, pricing, and commercial circulation of cotton during the formative decades of the antebellum cotton economy. These records document the infrastructure of the American cotton trade connecting southern ports such as Savannah and New Orleans with northern commercial centers including.....
United States military weapons and ammunition development documented in a group of photographs produced during the Cold War era at or associated with the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Missouri, circa late 1960s to early 1970s. The plant was established in 1941 to manufacture and test small caliber.....
Photographic Archive Documenting Manual Leather Production, Factory Labor, and the Transformation of the American Tanning Industry at the turn of the century. An important photographic record of American tannery workers and industrial leather production during a period of rapid mechanization and consolidation in the late nineteenth century. Produced by the.....
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.....
Ford Lima Engine Plant photo archive documenting one Ford's Ohio engine factory from steel-frame construction through twenty years of production and UAW strike activity. Ford opened the Lima plant in 1957 on farmland north of Lima, Ohio, producing six-cylinder engines for its postwar lineup and reaching its five millionth six-cylinder.....
[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.....
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.....
Megabit Communications, Inc. corporate scrapbook album, circa 1982 to 1989, documenting the development and commercialization of high speed data communications equipment designed to extend connections between IBM mainframe computers and peripheral devices beyond conventional channel distances. Founded in the St. Paul, Minnesota area by James Milligan, formerly of Network Systems.....
[Labor Organizing] Ford River Rouge plant press photographs documenting labor conflict, picketing, and union organization at the largest industrial complex in the United States from the early UAW recognition battles of 1941 through the major Ford walkouts of 1949 and 1967. The River Rouge plant in Dearborn employed tens of.....
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press, 1962. First edition., the foundational statement of free market political economy that shaped late twentieth century American libertarian and conservative thought. In this work Friedman argues that “competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary.....
Panama City photograph archive, ca. 1920s, documenting the urban environment of the Panamanian capital and the infrastructure of the Panama Canal during the decades following the canal’s opening in 1914. The photographs record the interconnected worlds of canal engineering, international commerce, tourism, and everyday street life that developed as Panama.....
[Labor Organizing] United Auto Workers and CIO labor photograph archive documenting strike action, union leadership, and collective bargaining negotiations during the expansion of organized labor in the American automobile industry, 1938-1949. The archive traces the period immediately following the 1935 Wagner Act, when unions gained federal legal protection for collective.....
[Texas History][Industrial Disaster] Texas City Disaster photo archive, documenting search and recovery work, emergency relief, and widespread damage after the Grandcamp and High Flyer explosions, the 1947 catastrophe that became the deadliest industrial accident in United States history and a defining early test of the Federal Tort Claims Act. The.....
Stone Martin, David. Strong In The Strength of the Lord We Who Fight In The People's Cause Will Never Stop Until That Cause Is Won, 1942, a U.S. government wartime poster that articulates the ideological pro-America push on the American home front during World War II. Produced in the first.....
Sierra Club Bulletins, Issues from 1926-1929, and later issues from 1954, documenting the organization's transition from a California mountaineering society into a national voice for wilderness preservation, scientific exploration, and outdoor recreation. Issued during the formation of the American conservation movement established by John Muir and the Sierra Club, this.....
India glass lantern slide archive documenting class hierarchy dichotomy in British India, with scenes of village labor, bazaar exchange, railway movement, industrialization, Sikhs, and colonial cavalry, circa 1900-20. Images clearly depict the class divide and caste system; villagers and laborers are shown seated on bare ground in carpentry work, men.....
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.....
Marathon Paper Mills and later American Can Company industrial safety archive documenting workplace medicine, accident prevention campaigns, first-aid training, and factory safety administration in Menasha, Wisconsin, from the 1940s-60s. The album records how Midwestern paper and graphic arts manufacturers attempted to reduce industrial injuries during a period when paper mills.....
