Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

The ice keeping your beverage cold has a fascinating history that includes ice harvesting, war contracts, artificial ice machines, a financial panic, and not one, but two Ice Kings.

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/04/business-of-ice/

If you are doing any research related to the history of transportation, the Library of Congress has many resources that you might need.

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/04/transportation-resources/

In 1939, the Library of Congress opened a new building: the Library’s John Adams Building, which was originally called “The Annex.” In celebration of the 85th anniversary of the opening of ...

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/04/adams85/

This post takes a look at two of the figures on the the doors of the John Adams Building - Ts’ang Chieh and Cadmus.

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/03/cadmus-tsang-chieh/

This post takes a look at two of the figures on the the doors of the John Adams Building - Thoth and Hermes.

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/03/thoth-hermes/

This week we commemorate Equal Pay Day, which represents the extra number of days beyond a year that the average woman needs to work to earn the same amount a man earns in one year for equal work...

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/03/closing-the-gap/

The Temporary National Economic Committee was formed to look at concentration in American industry and produced a number of reports that show America business and industry in the first decades of...

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/03/temporary-national-economic-committee/

Learn a little about one Library of Congress employee who went on to be a civil rights advocate and labor organizer.

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/02/jewell-mazique/

Geyer’s was a great source for everything a stationer needed to know and wanted to sell; that includes cards for Valentine's Day.

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/02/selling-valentines/

Join the Business Section for a short, 30-minute webinar at 1pm on Wednesday, February 28, highlighting collections, with content related to the fashion industry as examples.

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2024/02/business-collections-orientation-february-28/