The 17th Conference on Accounting and Management History will be held in Toulouse, France, March 22-23, 2012. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Association Francophone de Comptabilité (AFC), the Centre de Recherche en Management (CRM) at the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, the Laboratoire Gestion et Cognition (LGC) at the University of Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, and the Management Research Centre-ESC Toulouse. The theme is "Images and Representations," intended to cover both the use of images and representations in accounting and management and the depiction of those fields in such media. Proposals that do not fit within this theme, but that cover some aspect of accounting and management in historical perspective, are also welcome. The deadline for submission is November 15, 2011. Please note that full papers (in French or in English) and two abstracts (one in French and one in English) must be submitted in electronic form to jhcm2012@gmail.com. For complete information and submission requirements, please see the full call for papers.
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 .