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Correspondence, clippings,, and leaflets collected by Dean S. Paden while preparing a history of the King Hardware Company of Atlanta, Ga., with which Paden was connected. The history was published in 1946 as King Hardware Company and Atlanta.

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The Samuel S. Dale papers contain diaries related to a Brookline, Massachusetts wool merchant's interests in the wool tarrif, weights and measure, and other public matters.

Content Description: This collection contains 30 years’ worth of promotional materials for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program. Executive Education programs offer executives already in the business field opportunities to expand their leadership and management skills. The programs can be single session classes or several weeks of content. The brochures and promotional materials for the Executive Education programs include brochures, pamphlets, booklets, catalogs, clippings and more. The...

Scope and Contents: The collection includes a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed materials, and circulars related to the issues surrounding the 1896 election between William Mckinley and William Jennings Bryan. The issues included protections for farmers, expansionary monetary policies of free silver vs the gold standard, and labor unions. William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate, was for free silver, whereas William McKinley, the Republican candidate, was for keeping the gold...

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The O.B. Stone papers, dating 1859-1865, contain books of study for a bookkeeper in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The Harvard Business School Dialogue conference publications contains pamphlets, booklets, and coffee table books used to promote the Dialogue conference and documenting the event.

Scope and Contents: Records of zinc and silver mines operated by Richard Schreiber and others in the town of Joachimsthal, located in Brandenburg, Germany. Schreiber was a banker and a factory and mine owner from Breslau, Germany. Records include a monthly record book from 1861 to 1863, organized by month and listing debits and credits related to silver and zinc mines operated by Richard Schreiber and others. Schreiber is frequently listed in the credit column. Also included are handwritten and printed...

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The Carl Oscar Schmidt (MBA 1933) papers spans the years 1929 to 1972 and document Schmidt's time as a student at HBS and his involvment as an alumnus.

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Letters received in the Boston office of the New England Associated Press, chiefly to William Warland Clapp, president. Also includes letters to Clapp as editor and proprietor of the Boston Journal, clippings and administrative records.

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Wilfrid Airy was a Civil Engineer in London. The Wilfrid Airy business papers span the years 1862 to 1925, and primarily document the various civil engineering projects on which Airy consulted.

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The Lewis Ketcham Sillcox papers span the years 1820 to 1959 and contain materials created and collected by an American mechanical engineer for railroads and business executive, largely on topics related to transportation.

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The HBS Archives Vertical File Collection is an artificial collection consisting of single items either donated or transferred to the HBS Archives. The materials are of an ephemeral nature, including clippings, pamphlets, reports, and letters, collected and arranged by call number for ready reference. In general the materials document the history of HBS.

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Records of an iron manufacturer operating at Ramapo, N.Y. with a sales office in New York City, 1795-1865. The firm manufactured nails and screws and by the 1820s had expanded to include cotton textile manufacture. Part of the business appears to have been operated as Ramapo Manufacturing Company.

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This collection consists of Georges F. Doriot's correspondence and research related to aviation, atomic energy, and radio isotopes, as well as a collection of aviation-related ephemera owned by Doriot.

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The Edward Echtman papers consist of correspondence, documents, speeches, pamphlets, and printed material related to in industrialization and growth of Israel, primarily after World War II. Echtman was interested economic development and trade between Israel and the international community. Many of the papers are in foreign languages including Hebrew, German, Polish, Yiddish, and French.

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This collection documents the professional and personal activities of Harvard Business School Dean George P. Baker. Types of materials include consulting records; speeches; writings; teaching files; photographs; research materials; transportation timetables; and course work from Baker's time as a student at Harvard Business School.

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Minute books of the Chamber and its predecessors, the Boston Commercial Exchange, and the Boston Merchants Association, 1872-1909. Office files, ca. 1910-1949, arranged by the Chamber's own subject classification; there are some gaps.

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Records of the Business Historical Society, an organization established to encourage and broaden research into the history of business.

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The Harry Chick collection of railroad photographs and ephemera contains postcards, photographs, stereographs and ephemera pertaining to locomotives and railroads. The materials were collected by railroad enthusiast Harry Chick.

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Papers relating to both the Ames family and their involvement in the Union Pacific Railroad, 1861-1969. The material was gathered by Charles E. Ames in writing his book, "Pioneering the Union Pacific" (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969).

Scope and Contents: The papers of Charles C. Withers, HBS Lecturer in Business Policy, and President of Towle Manufacturing Company (1950-1957) cover the period from his undergraduate years until his death. The bulk of the material fall within the years of his employment at Towle and HBS. The records contain prospectus, correspondence, teaching material, memoranda, directives, minutes, ephemera, schedules, publications, questionnaires, by-laws, reports, photographs, reviews and speeches. These...

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The papers of George Eugene Bates, first James R. Williston Professor of Investment Management, cover the period from his graduate education at HBS until his status as emeritus.

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Earl Huntington Barber was a public utility engineer who specialized in gas and electric rates. Includes work notes, correspondence, reports, and articles, largely relating to a number of Massachusetts towns and cities whose gas and light companies Barber investigated.

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The business papers of New Hampshire merchant Ichabod Goodwin contain correspondence books, receipts, bank drafts and memorandum books regarding trade in Charleston, Liverpool, Mobile, New York and Savannah for cotton and rice. Goodwin was also the Governor of New Hampshire during the Civil War.

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Manuscripts, letters, and notes relating to Barnard's writings and lectures on management subjects. There are six folders of material by or about Lawrence J. Henderson of Harvard. Correspondents include Adelbert Ames, Jr., James B. Conant, William E. Hocking, George C. Homans, Robert K. Merton, Talcott Parsons, and others.