Economics and Labor
Most of the books included in this subsection of the exhibition entered into the Special Collections through the generosity of Dr. Harry A. Cochran, a dean of the School of Commerce (now the Fox School of Business) from 1939–1960. His personal collection of rare books and manuscripts focused thematically on the history of commerce, in its many forms throughout the centuries and from across the globe. This collection includes a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Mesopotamia that detailed sailors’ wages, a business manual from fifteenth-century Florence, and a tax ledger documenting the Spanish colonization of Peru in 1571 CE.
Emma P. Holter
