Pub Date : 1950-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024624
Robert W. Lovett
It is not often—perhaps fortunately—that Baker Library receives a collection totaling four tons. That was the approximate weight of material brought by moving van from Augusta, Maine, this past May. The four tons comprised the paper remains—apparently untouched since the early nineteen-hundreds—of the E. C. Allen mail-order and publishing house, which flourished in Augusta during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Of the four tons, approximately one and a half are represented by bound and unbound files of Home and Fireside, Sunshine, Golden Moments, and the dozen other farm and home magazines published by Allen and his associates. Another ton consists of the oleographs, or colored reproductions of oil paintings, distributed as premiums or as mail-order offerings. The remaining ton and a half is the measure of the business records, bound and unbound, with which we are here chiefly concerned. It is expected that the full story of the enterprise will be told later, possibly by someone working for a Ph.D. degree. But before describing the collection itself, and some of the incidents met in its arrangement, a brief account of E. C. Allen's activities will be helpful.
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Pub Date : 1950-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024594
C. Chatfield
The W. L. Douglas Shoe Company, founded in Brockton, Massachusetts, in 1876, achieved an outstanding success as the first shoemanufacturing company to establish its own chain of retail stores. After World War I, however, the company entered a long and dreary decline which resulted finally in its removal to another state and its eventual sale to another company. This recent merger, with Arthur Million, Inc., a subsidiary of the General Shoe Corporation, marks the end of W. L. Douglas as an independent company.
1876年，w·l·道格拉斯鞋业公司在马萨诸塞州的布罗克顿成立，作为第一家建立自己的连锁零售商店的鞋业制造公司，取得了卓越的成功。然而，第一次世界大战后，该公司进入了漫长而沉闷的衰退，最终导致它搬到了另一个州，并最终卖给了另一家公司。最近与Arthur Million, Inc. (General Shoe Corporation的子公司)的合并标志着W. L. Douglas作为一家独立公司的结束。
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Pub Date : 1950-12-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024570
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Pub Date : 1950-12-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024648
From American Historical Association, Washington, D. C.: American Historical Review. From American Optical Company, Southbridge, Massachusetts: Annual Report for 1949. From American Petroleum Institute, New York City: Quarterly, Summer, 1950; Proceedings, Fourteenth Mid-year Meeting, Division of Refining, Refining; Proceedings, Fifteenth Mid-year Meeting, Division of Refining, Refining; also, Proceedings, Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting: Section I, General Sessions; Section II, Marketing; Section III, Refining; Section IV, Production; Section V, Transportation. From Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut: Many books and pamphlets on life insurance and other types of insurance, as well as other miscellaneous material. From Davison Publishing Company, Ridgewood, New Jersey: Davison's Knit Goods Trade, October, 1949; Davison's Rayon and Silk Trades, 1950; and Davison's Textile Blue Book, 1950. From First National Stores Inc., Somerville, Massachusetts: Colored map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. From Georgia Historical Society, Savannah: The Georgia Historical Quarterly, currently. From Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh: Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, currently. From Lee Higginson Corporation, New York City: "The Spirit of Paul Revere—a Glorious Heritage for American Industry," by C. Donald Dallas, and "Management Looks at the Post-war World," by Henry J. Kaiser. From National Archives, Washington, D. C.: "Disposition of Federal Records," National Archives Publication, No. 50-53, Washington, 1949; Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist of the United States on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1948-1949; Fifteenth Annual Report of the Archivist of the United States for the Year Ending June 30,1949; "Selective Checklist of Prints and Photographs . . . Lots 2985-3442."
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Pub Date : 1950-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024612
R. Moore
Business history reveals that business has been a major factor in the development of our present civilization. Business is the “core” of modern society. Consequently, business philosophy (an explanation of the phenomena of business) should logically be considered of extremecimportance in the realm of ideas and thoughts which shape and guide our civilization.
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Pub Date : 1950-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024600
A. Reynolds
Throughout American history the frontier was plagued by a shortage of capital and credit. The small pioneer farmer who migrated westward to take up cheap or free land needed capital or credit to build his homestead, secure tools and supplies, and provide for the immediate needs of himself and his family until the farm became self-sustaining. Likewise, men who wished to engage in commercial and industrial enterprises on the frontier had to have adequate capital or credit facilities to establish their businesses and to continue operations until the regular marketing of their products made the project self-supporting. The characteristic frontiersman was optimistic about the future and desired to enlarge his capital investment by expanding his landholding or his business in the expectation that future prosperity would create a greater demand for his produce—he believed that the larger the scale of his operations the greater the profits he would reap. His investments and operations, therefore, tended to outrun his own capital, and he characteristically turned to others for help. Since all elements in a frontier society were handicapped by the insufficiency of capital, and its handmaiden, credit, only limited aid could be expected from the frontier community. Assistance from the more stabilized eastern regions was necessary if the pioneer effort was to expand and prosper.
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Pub Date : 1950-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024338
H. E. Krooss
Both Disraeli and Walter Leaf are credited with having said that there are three things that drive men to madness: love, ambition, and the study of currency problems. Regardless of the origin of the quotation, both men were happily innocent of the vast potentialities inherent in teaching business history. For teaching business history is a chain of problems. And problems and challenges are synonymous. To cite a few: What shall be the purpose of teaching business history? Shall the subject be presented by the case method or in a less specific and more abstract way? Having answered these problems more or less to his own satisfaction, the instructor is then confronted with the ubiquitous problem of defining the entrepreneur. And he is constantly plagued by the incidental problems of overcoming the amorphous nature of the subject, not to speak of the monumental tasks of correcting the preconceived and fallacious notions of the student and overcoming the vast mass of misleading and misinformed interpretations that parade under the name business history. But these are the inevitable problems in the teaching of business history.
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Pub Date : 1950-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024375
T. Navin
As book dividends for 1950, the members of the Business Historical Society are being sent two new volumes in the Harvard Studies in Business History: The Whitin Machine Works since 1831: A Textile Machinery Company in an Industrial Village, by Thomas R. Navin, and The Saco-Lowell Shops: Textile Machinery Building in New England, 1813-1949, by George Sweet Gibb. These two books give a picture of the development of two of America's leading textile-machinery companies. They are the result of extended research in the records of the companies themselves and in the history of the textile machinery industry as a whole. These volumes illustrate the value of the cooperation of business with historians in the creation of a literature dealing with the history of the administration and operation of business.
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Pub Date : 1950-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024326
H. Larson
The over-all challenge to research in business history is to provide facts and generalizations concerning the history of business which may lead to a better understanding of business itself and of its rôle in society. This is an urgent challenge in our age of revolution, a revolution in which the generally expressed objective is a better and more secure living, the political tool being largely economic class conflict, and the target, private capitalism.
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Pub Date : 1950-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024363
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