The Economic and Business History Society (EBHS) will hold its next annual meeting on May 29-31, 2014, at Chancellor’s Hotel and Conference Centre in Manchester, UK. The preliminary program and other details about the meeting have now been posted. Highlights include a keynote address by Leslie Hannah, "Where Did the 'Anglo-American' Corporate Model Come From and Can It Survive the Global Financial Crisis?" and a roundtable on"Giving 'em the Business: The Intersection of Economics and
the Humanities." For more detailed information, please see the conference website.
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 .
