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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
FRASER Features: Primary Sources Primer: Letters
August 17, 2016Examine FRASER’s letter collections and see what information you can glean from letters as primary source documents. Read more
Staff Picks: 1979 BLS “Exploring Careers” Workbooks
July 6, 2016Learn more about the evolution of the working world in the 1979 Bureau of Labor Statistics workbook series “Exploring Careers.” Read more
Staff Picks: Bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
June 15, 2016The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Bulletins are a FRASER staff pick. With over 2,000 bulletins on labor, the workforce, and working conditions, BLS Bulletins are a valuable research asset. Read more
Staff Picks: Company Housing
April 20, 2016Company-provided housing was once a common practice in America. This 1920 BLS Bulletin examines company housing across the country. Read more
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