In Z. Taylor Vinson's unpublished "Auto-biography," he wrote of a selection of items in his collection he identified as his "Treasures." Below are a few of the items that Vinson considered the best of his collection:
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- A Crisis of Identity: Sectionalism & The U.S. Navy Officer Corps, 1815-1861 with Roger Bailey
- A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945
- A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry & Modern Japan
- A Stretch of the Imagination: Speculative Design, Performance Fabrics, and the Space Race
- Afro-Andean Sailors and Shipbuilders in Spanish America and the Black Pacific
- Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn
- American Advertising: Researching Capitalism from the Inside Out
- American Independent Inventors In An Era of Corporate R&D
- An Artist in the Archive: Researching & Sculpting Nylon
- An Official History of Official Corporate Histories
- An Oral History of the RCA Studio II Console
- Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
- Back on Track American Railroad Accidents and Safety 1965-2015
- Be His Guest: How Conrad Hilton Made Hotels Better than Homes
- Black Powder, White Lace: The DuPont Irish & Cultural Identity in 19th Century America
- Born in the USA/Made in the GDR: How Western Popular Music Shaped a Communist Record Market
- Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture
- Building an Oral History of DuPont’s Textile Fibers Department
- Care in Question: Childcare Policy and the Limits of 20th Century Liberalism
- Chemical Citizenship: A History of Drug Testing in the United States
- Chemistry, Capitalism, & the Commodification of Nitrogen
- China's Dream of a Red Railway: Technicians & Industrial Power, 1945-1976
- Commercial Attention: Advertising, Space, & New Media in the U.S.
- Company Unions & Worker Identity
- Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945
- Detroit Muscle: Automobile Manufacturing and the Middle West
- Digital Archaeology: Rediscovering Early Video Games with Kevin Bunch
- Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products Incorporated
- Empire of Steel: Bethlehem in Latin America
- Forging the Global Industrial Network: International Industrial Conferences, 1957-1997
- Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s
- Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
- Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895
- Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940
- Health, Safety, & Risk Communication at DuPont in the Twentieth Century
- Holy Holes: Mining and Religion in the Americas
- Home & Hell: Sundown Towns & the Great Migration in Appalachia
- How Florida Happened
- How International Business Associations Reacted to Regulations on Multinational Corporations
- Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
- Imagining the Future of Business, 1961-1996
- Industrial Semiotic & Visual Complexes: A Study of the United States Visual Culture from the 1880s to the 1950s
- Innovation and Markets in the Beauty and Fashion Industry
- Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers
- Italian Fashion Since 1945: A Cultural History
- Kerosene Antimonopoly: Standard Oil & the People Who Hated It
- Labor, Technology, & Race in the Early 19th Century Global Textile Industry
- Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s
- Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
- Making Youth Safe for Democracy: Education & American Enterprise, 1916-1980
- Management as Design: Industrial Designers and Business Culture
- Manufacturing Self-Determination: Industry on Native American Reservations
- Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of American Brewing
- Negating Visions: Cultural Memory and Media Negatives
- New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
- New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
- Oil Palm: A Global History
- Old Brains: How Corporate America Measured Aging
- On Ice: America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life
- Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office
- Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965
- Patents Over Planning: Industrial Capital & Postwar Innovation Policy with Dan Traficonte
- Philadelphia's Pencoyd Iron Works: Forging Along the Schuylkill River
- Pirates of the Caribbean: US Domestic Satellites & Media Distribution in the Americas in the 1980s
- Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
- Plasticizing China: A Cultural History of Everyday Things, 1960-1990
- Plebian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth Century Colombia
- Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity
- Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
- Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
- Racial Economies of Early Jazz
- Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America
- Ruman Nation: An Environmental History of American Cattle with Nicole Welk-Joerger
- Screentime: An Interactive Exhibition with Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
- Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Computer Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013
- Set the Earth on Fire: The 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike
- Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: American Tobacco & Broadcast Media
- Smoking Gun: How Consumerism & Community Made an American Gun Culture, 1870-1920
- Sound and Music in the du Pont Women's World: From French Revolution to American Civil War
- Steel Rhythms: The Many Phases of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Struggling to Adjust: U.S. Labor Unions & Global Competition, 1940-1980s
- Survival is Improvisational: Casual Labor in Postwar America
- Synthetic Fashion & the Mad Russian
- TV Town: New York City & Broadcast Media
- Tasteful Design: Peter Schlumbohm & the Chemex Coffeemaker
- Tax the Rich: Teachers’ Fight to Fund Public Schools
- Techno Redux: Technology Competition Policy Lessons from the U.S. vs IBM Trial
- Technology & Work
- The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal
- The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815
- The Council for a Union Free Environment
- The Economics of the Empire State Building
- The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the US West
- The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
- The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
- The Long Shadow of Kodak: Markets and Scientific in Twentieth Century Photography
- The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
- The Nature of War: An Environmental History of Industrialization in the United States During World War One
- The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
- The Not So Inexhaustible Sea: Fisheries Science & Management, 1863-Present
- The Only Way Is Up: Self-Employment in Britain, 1950-2000
- The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 2: The Age of Limits 1917-1933
- The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933-1968
- The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950
- The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal
- The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800-1940
- The Shareholder Value Revolution
- The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
- Theater of Innovation: Live Performance in the Tech Industry
- Time-Bombing the Future: Plastics in & Around Us
- Tired!: Industrial and Workplace Fatigue, 1900-1950
- Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
- Unpeeling the Orange Empire: Citrus & Art in the Archive
- Who Can You Trust?: Brands, Deception, & Markets
- Willing Communist Collaborators?: DuPont in China, 1946-1953
- Working Relationships: A Labor-Centric History of the U.S. Public Relations Profession
- Your Friend the Boss: Corporate Social Responsibility at DuPont, 1900-1940
- Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York
- “Keep Within Compass”: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865
- “People of Some Talent & So Much Virtue”: Forgotten Lives of du Pont Women
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