Wurlitzer, RudolphRudolph Wurlitzer established a substantial music trade and manufacturing company, the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, which sold a wide range of goods, including musical instruments for marching bands, violins, harps, and pianos.
xWaldthausen, Kurt's certificate of the Cross of Merit, signed by the German President Horst KöhlerCertificate of the Cross of Merit, signed by the German President Horst Köhler, for Kurt Waldthausen, September 2008.
Years of Extermination, 1939–1945, Vol. 2 of Nazi Germany and the JewsCreated By: Friedländer, Saul Publisher: New York: Harper Collins, 2007
Years of Persecution, 1933–1939, Vol. 1 of Nazi Germany and the JewsCreated By: Friedländer, Saul Publisher: New York: Harper Collins, 1997
Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WisconsinThe Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, photographed between 1928 and 1932.
YMCA at Proximity Mills, ca. 1925Like many turn-of-the-century industrialists, Moses Cone was a practitioner of corporate paternalism. As part of this, he built on-site housing…
You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald and the Building of Schools for the Segregated SouthCreated By: Deutsch, Stephanie Publisher: Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011
Young, Swope and General Electric’s ‘New Capitalism’: A Study in Corporate Liberalism, 1920–33Created By: McQuaid, Kim Source/Publisher: American Journal of Economics & Sociology 36.3, (1977), 323–334
Yuengling, David G., his sons, and the Eagle Brewery workers, ca. 1873David G. Yuengling, his sons, and the Eagle Brewery workers, ca. 1873. The men pose in front of beer barrels…
Yuengling, David G.’s Eagle Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, ca. 1835Illustration depicting the front of David G. Yuengling’s Eagle Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, around the year 1835. David Yuengling rebuilt…
Yuengling, David GottliebDavid Gottlieb Yuengling founded the eponymous brewery in 1829 that eventually became both the largest domestically-owned brewery in America and also the oldest. From its location in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, roughly 90 miles northwest of Philadelphia, D.G. Yuengling was able to serve the thousands of miners working in the relatively remote coal and slate belt regions of Eastern Pennsylvania, along with the booming towns that sprung up around them.
Yuengling: A History of America's Oldest BreweryCreated By: Noon, Mark A Publisher: Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2007
Zehntbauer, John, Clarence Bishop, and Max S. Hirsch, 1957John Zehntbauer (of Jantzen, Inc.), Clarence Bishop (of Pendleton Woolen Mills), and Max S. Hirsch, 1957.
Zenger Case Revisited: Satire, Sedition and Political Debate in Eighteenth Century AmericaCreated By: Olson, Alison Source/Publisher: Early American Literature 35 (2000): 223-245
Zenger, John PeterJohn Peter Zenger was a printer in colonial New York during the early eighteenth century. He leveraged a colonial political scandal to prop up his struggling printing business and eventually emerged a successful proprietor of a print shop as well as publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal.
Zenger, John Peter's 1734 Trial in New YorkUndated illustration depicting the 1734 trial of Peter Zenger in New York.
