- Approximately 1,400 collections of original business manuscripts
from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries
- Subjects include agriculture, transportation services, manufacturing industries, and marketing and financial services
- Over 30,000 photographs and prints documenting the history
of American industry
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- Baker Library's first circulating collection
- Unique arrangement of the collection brings together books, periodicals, and pamphlets organized by industry
- Includes trade publications, government documents, corporate histories and publications, and business directories
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- First commercial credit reporting agency in America
- 2,580 volumes of handwritten credit reports on individuals
and firms from the United States, Canada, and the West Indies,
dating from 1841–1892
- Information on the duration of the business, net worth,
sources of wealth, and the character and reputation of the owners, their partners, and
successors
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- Rare books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, and
prints, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries
- Traditional strengths in economic philosophy, political
economy, commerce, and business history
- Expanding cross-disciplinary use in areas like history of
technology, African-American studies, social and cultural history, and gender studies
- Digital facsimile images of a portion of the Kress Collection available through The Making of the Modern World
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- Original company documents from circa 1820 to the present
- Includes annual reports, prospectuses, proxies,
registration statements, and miscellaneous items such as brokerage-house reports and
unpublished corporate histories
- Documents approximately 20,000 companies
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- Includes published and unpublished materials that trace the history of HBS from its founding in 1908 to the current day
- Rich in photographs that vividly capture HBS, including faculty members, students, the campus, and special events
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