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| Title: | The organization of the Washington Board of Trade |
| Author: | The Washington Star |
| Date: | 11/29/1889 |
two brief Washington Star articles on the organization of the Board of Trade
Document Information
Bibliographic Metadata
| Author: | The Washington Star |
| Title: | The organization of the Washington Board of Trade |
| Date: | 11/29/1889 |
| Archive: | Special Collections, Gelman Library, George Washington University |
| Collection name: | the Greater Washington Board of Trade |
| Document location: | Box 1, Folder 8 "Background Documents, 1800 to 1973" |
| Publication location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Publisher: | the Washington Star |
Descriptive Metadata
| Editorial notes: | Greater Washington Board of Trade;; Washington, D.C. Government;; Board of Trade for the District of Columbia;; 19th Century Washington, D.C. |
| Description: | Someone within the Washington Board of Trade took the time to transcribe a short editorial and a brief article from the November 29, 1889 edition of the now defunct Washington Star and place them in their records. The three sentence editorial reports to the city that the existence of the Board of Trade is now fact. It reports past efforts to organize such a body have failed, but the conditions are now perfect for such a civic organization to grow and flourish. The article states the Board has been organized in the parlor of the Ebbitt House the previous evening. It is significant that Crosby Noyes, head of the Washington Star, and Beriah Wilkins, head of the Washington Post, were elected Chairman and Secretary respectively. It speaks volumes as to the weight newspapers carried in the business community in the late nineteenth century. As well, it is interesting that the head of the Alexandria Board of Trade was in attendance and gave special remarks as to the benefits of organizing a board of trade. This speaks to unique nature of Alexandria predating the District and how it probably outpaced the District in development in some respects during the nineteenth century. |
| Subjects: | Greater Washington Board of Trade;; Washington, D.C. Government;; Board of Trade for the District of Columbia;; 19th Century Washington, D.C.;; the Alexandria Board of Trade;; The Washington Star newspaper |
Technical Metadata
| Date scanned: | 02/27/2006 |
| Person scanning: | Craig Clarke |
| Date converted: | 02/27/2006 |
| Person converting: | Craig Clarke |
| Scanner used: | Fujitsu FI-4220C |
| OCR program: | PixEdit 7 Rev. 7.3.6 |
| Technical notes: | This is a very old document. It appears to have been transcribed quite a long time, possibly the same day as the publication of the articles. |