This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Global facts from 1900s trade and society notes
A sweeping collage reports on dyes from sawdust in France, steamship crews, Japanese-made printing type, Swiss hairdressing by women, New York schoolteacher pay, Venice publishing, New York demography, and high percentages of Italian Hebrew and Polish residents. It cites left handed children in Berlin, cayenne prices, planned rubber shortages after 1919, and medical research appointments in England. It mentions nonrefillable cigars, glass cooking utensils, and African immigration to the U.S. since 1904, plus Australian child care funding, Belgian-led Persian road projects, and worldwide car and concession trends. It notes aluminum horse shoes, Panama mining laws, bank vacation policies, window security, steel composition innovations, U.S. coal consumption for warships, and rapid growth in U.S. kindergartens to 7,557 with 34,189 enrolled. It covers reforestation in China, Australian land ventures, a Jewish colony plan in Palestine, European fruit markets, and U.S. professional education data by field. The breadth includes education figures, professions, and international commerce and policy observations.