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Staff Picks: The Mimeograph Letters and Statements of the Board
November 15, 2017Learn about the earliest days of the Federal Reserve system in these primary source documents from the Board’s archives. Read more
Dismal Facts: Measuring the Economy Before GDP
October 3, 2017How did we measure the economy before the invention of GDP? Learn more about GNP, national income, and their predecessors. Read more
Staff Picks: The Commercial and Financial Chronicle: 1865-1928
September 20, 2017A brief look at the early years of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle and its creator, William Buck Dana. Read more
FRASER Features: Primary Source Primer: Interviews
August 16, 2017Examines how to use an interview as a primary source. Read more
Staff Picks: Decoding the Fed’s Telegrams
April 19, 2017Learn more about the message codes used by the Federal Reserve System and the banking industry in the age of the telegraph. Read more
Staff Picks: The Statements and Speeches of Andrew F. Brimmer
February 15, 2017Andrew F. Brimmer became the first African-American to sit on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 1966. He not only contributed to monetary policy but also used his status to bring attention to economic issues facing African Americans. Read more
Librarian Life: Meltzer’s History of the Federal Reserve
December 7, 2016This post describes the work done by FRASER librarians to gather and make the source documents used by Allan Meltzer in his A History of the Federal Reserve available to researchers. Read more
Staff Picks: Wonderland Revisited
November 2, 2016Learn more about economic and trade policy during World War II in this parody of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party found in the archival papers of economist Winfield Riefler. Read more
Staff Picks: Commercial and Financial Chronicle
September 21, 2016The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, now available in FRASER, is an excellent source of contemporaneous economic and business information for the years 1870 to 1935. Read more
Staff Picks: The New York Fed Circulars
September 7, 2016The New York circulars show more than 80 years of the day-to-day business of the Fed. Read more
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