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1925
- Wallace B. Donham, dean of Harvard' University's Graduate
School of Business Administration (1919 to 1942), gathered the
editor of the Boston Globe, the Federal Reserve agent attached
to the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, and two or three others,
formed a Business History Society. Membership composed of
librarians, historians, businessmen, immediately began to
educate companies and repositories to historical value of
business operating records, acquired records for Baker Library
at HBS. The fee for membership was $100 a year, the Society
regularly issued a Bulletin containing news of its activities.
Donham credited with founding of Business History as distinct,
academic pursuit.
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