The Association of Business Historians will hold its annual meeting in association with the Centre for International Business History, Henley Business School, at the University of Reading on July 1-2, 2011. The theme of the meeting is "Sustainability" (see the original call for papers for a fuller description). The draft conference program has now been posted. The program features an international group of business historians, including scholars from Italy, France, Spain, the United States, Japan, and Germany, for example, as well as from the UK.
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 .
