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Bibliography in Chapter 10, "Business and Employment records," by Kory L. Meyerink, in: The Source : a guidebook of American genealogy / edited by Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny. Published: Salt Lake City, Utah : Ancestry Pub. Co., 1984.

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Research and Finding Aids

Brownstone, David M., and Gordon Carruth, Where to Find Business Information.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1979.

Cochrane, Thomas Childs. 200 Years of American Business. 
New York: Basic Books, 1977. 

Craumer, Lucille V., ed. Business Periodicals Index. 
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, annual since 1958.

Daniels, Lorna M. Business Information Sources. 
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Milner, Anita Cheek. Newspaper Indexes: A Location and Selection Guide For Researchers. 
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977.

Vallentine, John F., ed. Handbook for Genealogical Correspondence. 
Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963.

Directories


Craig, Tracy Linton, ed. Directory  [of] Historical Societies and Agencies in the United States and Canada. 12   ed. 
Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1982.

Directory of Corporate Affiliations. 
Skokie, Ill.: National Register Publishing Co., annually since 1967.

Dun's Marketing Senices. (Dun's) Million Dollar Directory. 
New York: Dun and Bradstreet Corp., annually since 1963.

Fortune Magazine. Fortune Double 500 Directory. 
Trenton: Fortune Magazine, annually since 1970.

Jacques, Constant H., ed. Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches,
Nashville: Abington Press, annually since 1935.

Kruzas, Anthony T. and Robert C. Thomas, eds.  Business Organizations and Agencies Directory.
Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980.

The National Directory of Morticians. Vol. KK 
Youngstown, Ohio.: National Directory of Morticians, 1970. 

National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States. 
Washington,D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1978.

Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives.  
New York: Standard and Poors Corp., annually since 1928.

Ward, Baldwin H., ed. Wards Direcory of 55,000 Largest Corporations.
Petaluma, Calif.: Baldwin H. Ward Publications, 1981.

Typical Guides to Manuscript Collections


Dructor, Robert M. A Guide to Genealogical Sources at the Pennsylvania State Archives. 
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
1980.

Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2nd ed. 
Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1949.
                       
Larson, David R., ed. Guide to Manuscript Collections and Institutional Records in Ohio. 
N.p.: Society of Ohio Archivists, 1974.

The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. 
Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, annually since 1962.

Some Printed Primary Business Records


Kingsbury, Susan Myra, ed. The Records of the Virginia Company of London. 4 vols. 
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938.

Neible, George W.  "Account of Servants Bound and Assigned Before James Hamilton, Mayor of Philadelphia." 
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 32 (1908): 88-103, 237-49. 351-70.

Nelson, William, ed. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. 1st series, vol. 12. 
Patterson, NJ.: Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1895.

Pennsylvania German Society. Record of Indentures of Individuals Bound Out as Apprentices, etc.,...  Philadelphia...1771 to 1773....
 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973.

Scott, Kenneth. "Some Huntington, Long Island Residents, 1763-1779."
National Genealogical Society Quarterly 61 (Sept. 1974): 173-77.

The Stoystown and Greensburgh Turnpike Road Company: Minutes 1815-1826.
 N.p.: Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, 1976.

Stryker-Rodda, Kenn. "The Janeway Account Books 1735-1746."
Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 33 (Jan./April 1958): 1-4.

Some Compiled Business Records


Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia from 1694 to 1850.
Richmond: Dietz Press, 1952.

Elliott, Mary Quickly. Biographical Sketches of Knox County Writers. 
Mount Vernon, Ohio.: n. pub., 1937.

Hutslar, Donald A. Gunsmiths of Ohio 18th and 19th Centuries. Longrifle Series.
York, Pa.: George Shumway, 1973.

Martin, John Hill. Martins Bench and Bar of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: Rees Welsh and Co., 1883.

R.L. Polk and Co. Missoula City Directory. 
Missoula, Mont.: R. L. Polk and Co., 1922.

Vandenberge. Peter N., ed. Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America 1628-1965. 
New Brunswick, NJ.: Reformed Church in America, 1966.

Historical Information on Businesses and Records


Apprenticeship Past and Present. Rev. ed. 
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, 1964.

Clough Shepard B. A Century of American Life Insurance: A History of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York 1843-1943. 
New York: Columbia University Press, 1946.

Herrick, Cheesman A. White Servitude in Pennsylvania. 1926; reprint ed.,
New York: Negro University Press, 1969.

Historical Statistics of the United States Colonial Times to 1970. 
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1975.

Information Please Almanac, Atlas and Yearbook. 35th ed. 
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Larkin, Harold F. "Retention of Life Insurance Records." 
American Archivist 5 (April 1942): 93-99.

Lewison, Paul and Morris Rieger. "Labor Union Records in the United
States."  
American Archivist 25 (Jan. 1962): 39-57.

Madison, James H. "The Credit Reports of R. G. Dun and Co. as Historical
Sources." 
Historical Methods Newsletter 8 (Sept. 1975): 128-31.

Moskowitz, Milton, Michael Katz, and Robert Levering, eds., Everbody's Business: An Almanac. 
San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1980. 


           

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