From the Archives: Women's History in Baker Library's Business Manuscripts Collection

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-476
Author(s):  
Laura Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Business History ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Women’S History

“[O]ur ladies know nothing of the sober certainties which relate to money and they cannot be taught,” wrote Frederic Tudor in 1820, in a sweeping indictment of women's financial abilities that was common for the period. Despite such stereotypes, many women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries participated in commerce, both as merchants and as manufacturers. Because they mainly oversaw small and shortlived concerns, however, their enterprises did not fit into traditional understandings of successful business, either in their own time or later, when the field of business history developed in the twentieth century. As a consequence, when Harvard Business School's Baker Library began amassing business manuscripts, curators generally concentrated on collecting the records of large firms and well-known industrialists. Their big-business bias not only affected what was collected, but also how manuscripts were processed. Search aids and cataloging records did not distinguish materials made by or about women because gender was not a compelling issue for early twentieth-century historians.

Errata

Urban History ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Women's History ◽  
The Third ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Women’S History

‘Suburbia and infant death in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Adelaide’ by Philippa Mein Smith and Lionel Frost, volume 21 pt. 2 (October 1994) pp. 251-272.The publisher very much regrets that proof corrections were not incorporated in this article, and it thus included a number of errors.On page 251, line 20 should read ‘… various institutions which provided research funding and access to material’. In footnote 3, lines 1 and 3, ‘womens’ history’ should read ‘women's history’.Ten lines were missing that should have been represented on page 267. There were also eight lines repeated on pages 267-268 and an extra footnote 41 placed at the bottom of page 267, with a reference to footnote 42 that in fact refers to footnote 46 on page 268. We reproduce below the corrected text from the beginning of the third paragraph of page 266 to the end of the first paragraph on page 268. The above page references refer to the original article.

Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Scientific Developments in Epigraphy

2020 ◽  
pp. 270-284
Author(s):  
Vanessa Davies
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Physical Location ◽  
Less Invasive ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Invasive Techniques ◽  
Print Publications

The science of epigraphy has its roots in drawings and paintings made by travelers and those who worked on state-funded expeditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was primarily archaeologists, associated with universities and other research organizations, who recorded temple and tomb decoration. The desire to document texts and art was spurred by a growing push to conserve the monuments due to threats by those who visited, studied, and collected artifacts from them. In accord with this vision, the wet squeeze method of recording inscriptions was gradually replaced with less invasive techniques, such as dry squeezes, tracings, freehand copies, and photographs. Many factors influenced—and continue to influence—ways of recording of decoration: technical (physical location of decoration, available light, cost and limitations associated with print publications) and personal (the epigrapher’s training, cultural background, and attention to text and/or image).

Big Business im 20. Jahrhundert: Die 100 größten Arbeitgeber in Großbritannien und Deutschland in vergleichender Perspektive

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Fiedler ◽  
Howard Gospel
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis paper examines the dynamics of large firms as measured by employment in the UK and Germany over the course of the twentieth century. The paper presents a comparative overview of the major trends in terms of size and composition. It then examines the dynamics of change in terms of entry, survival, and exit of large firms in both countries. The findings reveal both differences and similarities between the two countries. However, the analysis suggests that similarities are more striking in the long run.

scholarly journals Taking Government Out of Politics: Murray Rothbard on Political and Local Reform During the Progressive Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Patrick Newman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
State And Local

Murray Rothbard’s The Progressive Era contains nine full chapters of Rothbard’s unfinished manuscript as well as later published essays on material he wanted to discuss (Rothbard 2017). Chapter 9, “The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism,” documents the cartelizing state and local reforms pushed by big business, big government, and court intellectuals in the early twentieth century. In Chapter 10, of which only notes remain because it was unfortunately not written, Rothbard would have continued his analysis of local Progressive Era interventions by analyzing both their political and urban reforms. Using his published writings and lectures, this paper discusses what Rothbard would have written about in the tenth chapter of the book.

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