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Businesspeople
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Bill Gates 
 This official Microsoft website for Bill Gates features a biography, writings, and transcripts (and some webcasts) of his speeches back to 1996. Includes press materials and video on the June 2006 announcement of Gate's transition (effective July 2008) "out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/ Topics: Notable People, Washington State: Business, Washington State: Science Last updated Jun 16, 2006 Cosmetic Queen Estee Lauder Dies
Obituary for this cosmetic and perfume mogul who died in April 2004. Also includes a brief video. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3658375.stm Topics: Fashion, Notable People Last updated Oct 1, 2004 Machine Dreams
Salon.com 's 1998 profile of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer. http://www.salon.com/bc/1999/01/cov_05bc.html Topics: Notable People Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Picturing Business in America: Hedcuts in the Wall Street Journal
This exhibit "explores the development, the technique, and the implications" of "The Wall Street Journal's distinctive portrait heads, known as 'hedcuts' or 'dot-drawings.'" Features examples of hedcuts of business leaders and the context in which the portraits ran in The Wall Street Journal, details about the process of creating the hedcut, and a section of hedcuts of women (such as Oprah Winfrey and Mary Kay Ash). From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/journal/ Topics: Art, Notable People Last updated Apr 18, 2006 The Rockefellers
Companion website to a documentary that is "the saga of four generations of a legendary American family whose name is synonymous with great wealth." Special features focus on members of the Rockefeller family, the Standard Oil Company, the clash between John D. Rockefeller Sr. and journalist Ida Tarbell, philanthropic activities, and other people and events in the family's history. Includes a timeline, biographies, essays, teacher's guide, and related resources. From the PBS program, American Experience. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/ Topics: Notable People Last updated Nov 1, 2007 Topolobampo Collection
This collection includes "records of the Credit Foncier of Sinaloa Company and its failed utopian colony at Topolobampo Bay in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico in the late nineteenth century. Also includes the business records and personal papers of Albert Kimsey Owen (1847-1916), the colony’s founder." Features a guide to the collection, which includes a history, and more than 500 photographs. From the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. http://www.lib.csufresno.edu/subjectresources/specialcollections/topolobampo.html Topics: California: Libraries, California: Libraries & Archives by Type, Notable People, Photograph Collections: Regional, Political Parties & Theories Last updated Oct 2, 2004 The Traces of Advertising Giants
Biographies of people in the advertising field dating from the 1880s through the 1960s. http://www.ciadvertising.org/studies/student/96_fall/index.html Topics: Advertising & Marketing, Business, Notable People Last updated Aug 31, 2002 Walter O'Malley: The Official Website
Biographical information about Walter O'Malley, "widely regarded as a pioneer in baseball for the westward expansion of the game, moving the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles prior to the 1958 season and for designing, building and privately financing Dodger Stadium" Features documents by and about O'Malley, a timeline, quotes, and audio and video clips. Also includes a history of the Dodgers, Dodger Stadium history and construction information, and photos. Searchable. http://www.walteromalley.com/ Topics: Baseball, California: History by Place, California: People, California: Sports, Discover New Trails at LII, Los Angeles & Environs, Notable People, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 2, 2004 |
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