Business History and the Kress Library

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The addition to the Business School Library of the Kress collection on business and economics presents as great an opportunity and challenge to the business historian as it does to the student interested in economic or politico-economic history. Here, for the first time at Harvard, is available a large collection of writings extending back to the dawn of printing, which have never been extensively surveyed from the particular viewpoint of the business historian.

The collection, and the room in which it is housed, come to us through the generosity of Mr. Claude Washington Kress, of New York City. The books and pamphlets themselves, to the number in excess of thirty thousand, were assembled in his lifetime by Professor H. S. Foxwell, of Cambridge, England.