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Company Information: Company HIstories

Research guide for company histories, financials, annual reports, etc. Some resources available only at The Thomas Yoseloff Business Center. Guide by Madeleine Cohen.

Company histories

If you are looking for information about an older large domestic company it is worth checking the Library’s Research Catalog. Search by the company name as a subject and also as an author. 

 For further research on company history and business history you may wish to consult these sources: 

United States corporation histories : a bibliography, 1965-1990 / Wahib Nasrallah. Call number : JBD 18-476  

American economic and business history information sources; an annotated bibliography of recent works pertaining to economic, business, agricultural, and labor history and the history of science and technology...[by] Robert W. Lovett. Detroit, Gale Research Co. [1971] Call number:
JBD 18-477

United States business history, 1602-1988 : a chronology / compiled by Richard Robinson.New York : Greenwood Press, 1990. Call number: *R-SIBL HC103 .R595 Company/Industry Section 

The Library of Congress has an excellent Guide to Business History Resources. Use the Guide to find titles and authors and check in the NYPL Research Catalog for holdings.