otthast, Theodore J. P, Sr., with Cabinetmaker John Hirt, 1970sThis photograph shows John Potthast’s son Theodore (1905-1998), who served as the last president of Potthast Bros., Inc. When he…
Ottmar Mergenthaler and the Printing RevolutionCreated By: Mengel, Willi Publisher: Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1954
Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and his Machine. A Biographical Appreciation of the Inventor on His CentennialCreated By: Kahan, Basil Publisher: New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000
Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New YorkCreated By: Birmingham, Stephen Publisher: New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1967
Our Friend, vol. I, no. IDating from August 1876, Our Friend was Stratemeyer’s first self-published amateur writing. It belongs to the “story paper” genre, which…
Oyster peddlers near Fort Monroe, Virginia, May 2, 1885Oyster peddlers near Fort Monroe, Virginia. Many peddlers traveled to the American South, where they sold goods on cotton plantations.…
Packing and shipping area in the Bevo building, mid-to-late 1930sPacking and shipping area in the Bevo building, mid-to-late 1930s. Bevo was a non-alcoholic brew designed to maintain an Anheuser-Busch…
Panoramic View of the “Weave Shed” at White Oak Mills, ca. 1941Published in a book commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Cone Export and Commission Co., this interior shot of the “weave…
Panoramic view of the principal buildings of the Anheuser-Busch brewing plant in St. Louis, ca. 1881.Panoramic view of the principal buildings of the Anheuser-Busch brewing plant in St. Louis, c. 1881. This photograph was taken…
Parade of Black Leaders, ca. 1912The high tide of progressivism coincided with some of the nation’s darkest moments of segregation, discrimination, and racial violence. In…
Partnership: The Making of Goldman SachsCreated By: Ellis, Charles D. Publisher: New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2008
Passenger Agreements in the North Atlantic Trade“Passenger Agreements in the North Atlantic Trade”: From the contemporary Congressional investigation of international shipping cartels, this diagram shows the…
Passenger list documenting Arnold Genthe's arrival in New YorkArnold Genthe as the 164th entry in this passenger list documenting arrivals in New York in 1895.
Passenger Shipping Cartels and Their Effect on Trans-Atlantic MigrationCreated By: Deltas, George, Richard Sicotte, and Peter Tomczak Source/Publisher: The Review of Economics and Statistics 90 (2008): 119-33
Patriarch of Denver Merchants, Leopold Guldman and the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company of Denver, 1879-1936Created By: Lee, Michael Source/Publisher: Colorado History 15 (2009)
Patten, Simon Nelson, ca. 1900German-trained economist Simon N. Patten (1852-1922) connected business progressivism with a critique of nineteenth-century liberal economics in innovative ways. As…
Paul Reinhart's Hardware StorePaul Reinhart behind the counter of his hardware store, D’Hanis, Texas, ca. 1910.
Pavlova, Anna, Madame, Nov. 8, 1915World famous ballerina Anna Pavlova was among Genthe’s prestigious clientele, November 8, 1915.
