The NEP-HIS blog, edited by Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, professor of business history and bank management at Bangor Business School (Wales), selects papers recently abstracted in NEP-HIS
(Report on Business, Economic and Financial History papers posted on RePEc) as a springboard for debate on topics of current interest. Bátiz-Lazo has published an interesting post on "Linking History and Management Discourse." He explores two recent papers, "Seizing the Opportunity: Towards a Historiography of Information Systems," by Nathalie Mitev and François-Xavier de Vaujany ( http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00671690), and "The Silence of the Archive: Post-Colonialism and the Practice of Historical Reconstruction from Archival Evidence," by Stephanie Decker (http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:37280). Short reviews of these papers provide the basis for a discussion of business historians' interaction (or lack thereof) with management researchers. The post also includes links to and discussion of other relevant materials.
The Princeton University Library has digitized a number of posters from the Interborough Rapid Transit Subway Company . The posters, designed by the public relations firm Ivy Lee, were displayed in subway cars to provide information to riders about changes in fares and routes, safety issues, and other matters of interest. The collection consists of 385 images dating from 1918 to 1932; many of them provide financial information about rates, company dividends, and a general look at an early rapid transit system. October 29, update: Jonathan Rees over at "More or Less Bunk" was moved by this post to go off in search of a better site, and found the massive collection of the London Transport Museum , which displays over 5,000 items in a searchable collection .