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June 16, 2016
Miller Center/Hagley Library Dissertation Fellow Announced!
Jeannette Estruth, a Ph.D. candidate at New York University working under Professor Linda Gordon, is the 2016-17 recipient of the Miller Center/ Hagley Library Fellowship in Business and Politics.
June 16, 2016
Manuscripts and Archives: The research team of Margaret Kane and P.S. du Pont
Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954), like many in his family, had a voracious appetite for historical research and preservation.
June 16, 2016
Museum Collection: Marshall H. Mallory’s Theater-Stage Patent Model
One patent model in particular has piqued my interest over the last few weeks: a Theater-Stage, invented by Marshall H. Mallory on June 8, 1880.
June 16, 2016
Published Collections: Jell-O, America's Most Favorite Dessert
It’s summer time!  Burgers on the grill, potato salad, corn on the cob, and Jell-O salad!  At least that’s the way it was in my family growing up in the 1960s!  
May 20, 2016
Bringing the Ernest Dichter Papers to Hagley
On the website for Adam Mathew, a digital publisher that works with Hagley, our good friend Regina Blaszcyk described her role in bringing the papers of Ernest Dichter to our library.
May 18, 2016
Museum Collection: Augustus Eliaers’ Folding Chair
Folding chairs of one kind or another have been with us for centuries. Here in the United States after 1860 there was a spike upward in the number of patented folding chairs for all sorts of uses.
May 18, 2016
Manuscripts and Archives: Early Twentieth Century Job Applications - A Personal Affair
May 18, 2016
Conservation: Rainbows on Holotape
An extremely unique group of items recently passed through Library Conservation. It was a couple of small boxes of loops of thin plastic film, labeled “Holotape” on the outside.

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