Links
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Industry Specific History Sources
Airlines:
http://www.airtimes.com/index.
Automobiles:
https://www.speedwaymotors.
Consumer Products
Food and Telecommunications:
This amazing site includes a ton of historical financial statements an information on AT&T, Borden, and Beatrice Foods.
https://www.beatriceco.com/btitpc/
Department Stores:
http://www.
Media
https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/
https://worldradiohistory.com/
https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/
https://www.earlytelevision.org/index.html
https://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php
Oil and Gas Industry:
Railroads:
Retailing:
https://www.fmi.org/our-research/supermarket-anniversary-facts
For further research and information:
Lists of the oldest companies in each nation and in many U.S. cities are given at these two websites:
https://businessfinancing.co.uk/the-oldest-company-in-almost-every-country/
https://www.workandmoney.com/s/oldest-business-every-major-us-city-58fdd666e8e4447f
An excellent podcast series on the great battles of business:
https://art19.com/shows/
Website with short biographies of many entrepreneurs through history:
https://www.famous-
This podcast series tells the stories behind familiar brand names.
https://podcasts.google.com/?
This great site reprints excellent older company histories from the International Directory of Company Histories:
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/
A great museum and library at the old DuPont
Beard books List of Business Histories:
http://www.beardbooks.com/beardbooks/lists_business_histories.html
http://www.friendsofbusinesshistory.com/index.html
A list of industry museums in the United States:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Industry_museums_in_the_United_States
Various historical data at this site:
The Society for Industrial Archeology:
The Society of American Archivists, Business Section:
https://www2.archivists.org/groups/business-archives-section
The Economic and Business History Society:
The Business History Conference:
The Business and Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association:
Business History at Harvard, including the prestigious Business History Review:
https://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/Pages/default.aspx
Also at Harvard, the Lehman Brothers Collection:
https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/
Biographies at the American National Business Hall of Fame:
There are many similar state and local sites, including the Texas Business Hall of Fame:
Many
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/
https://tshaonline.org/handbook
A great publisher of local history books, including books on specific industries and companies, ranging from department stores and railroads to automobile and aviation companies:
https://www.arcadiapublishing.com
The American Historical Association:
Other good sites to learn history:
https://www.history-magazine.com
http://www.historynet.com/american-history
https://www.companieshistory.
https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/
The Society for Industrial Archaeology:
Local Business History
https://historymuseumsb.org/research-history/business-history/
Chicago:
https://www.
Milwaukee:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/photos-milwaukees-industrial-past/