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Photographs of company store shelves as a record of what workers could afford Oral history projects inside companies and the stories that never get recorded The oldest company lists are dominated by Japanese inns and construction firms Company museums and the version of the past they choose to show The product that saved the company was not the one it was founded on The founding story in the annual report vs what the first employees remember Corporate archives: who decides which documents get kept Company towns built for one industry and left with one industry Firms founded in 1890 tend to be in insurance or drinks rather than technology The founding date is often the date of a rename rather than the start of the business Planning a company town: housing blocks laid out around the factory shift Why the company store kept a ledger instead of a cash register Selling the company housing stock to its tenants: who could afford to buy Why so many company histories start in a garage and skip the investors Reading a hundred-year-old annual report to see what the business actually was

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