Business History

Measuring Worth
Online calculators and data sets dealing with relative value throughout history

Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data:
The United States, 1790-1970
Online data repository from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

How Much is that in Real Money?: A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States
Strozier Reference: HB235 .U6 M35 1992

The Value of a Dollar: Colonial Era to the Civil War, 1600-1865
Strozier Reference: HB235 .U6 D47 2005

The Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860-2004
Strozier Reference: HB235 .U6 V34

Working Americans, 1880-1999
Strozier Reference: HD8066 .D47 2000

CRB Commodity Yearbook

Available in PDF form in Mergent Archives

Commodity Prices
Strozier Reference: HF1040 .C65 1991