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April 22, 2019
Major League Baseball Promotional Stunts: A Historically Quirky Affair
A new baseball season is upon us, which heralds warmer weather, spring flowers, and hot dogs and ice cream at the ballpark. In Philadelphia, Phillies fans have a renewed optimism for this year’s team following the signing of Bryce Harper in the offseason.
April 22, 2019
The Marshall Johnson Collection: Lurelle Guild Materials in the Marshall Johnson Collection
Lurelle Van Arsdale Guild, one of the most prolific and popular industrial designers in America, and a founding member of the Society of Industrial Designers in New York, designed many of the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company’s (later the ALCOA Company) most popular products.  Guild began designin
April 22, 2019
DuPont Color: "Harnessing the Rainbow"
This month's featured motion picture comes from the DuPont Company Dyestuffs Division and highlights the work of company chemists in creating vibrant and standardized colors for the garment industry.
April 22, 2019
Processing the Vulcan Iron Works negatives
As an archivist, working with negatives poses more challenges than working with photographic prints. For one, the negative needs to be backlit in order to see the image.
March 18, 2019
The Marshall Johnson Collection: From Concept Design to Final Product
Marshall Johnson’s collection includes the documentation for his whole design process, from concept designs to production drawings, packaging, and marketing materials. It also includes examples for some of his finished products.
March 18, 2019
Video Gaming On the Campaign Trail
As mentioned in my post The Halfway Point - Reflecting Back,  one of the interesting things I found in the manuscript portion was a series of folders related to a computer simulation gam
March 18, 2019
Digging for Oil in the Boreal Forest
On a wet September day in 1963, Sun Oil President Robert Dunlop visited the site of Sun’s new synthetic oil project in the boreal forests of northeastern Alberta.
March 18, 2019
Nylon and Firearms: The Bruce A. Bydal papers
During the height of the Great Depression, the DuPont Company purchased shares in Remington Arms, America’s oldest gun manufacturer originally founded in 1816.

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