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October 23, 2017
DuPont Commercial: The Deep Freeze Suit
This month, we have a staff favorite from our vast collection of DuPont Company commercials. The commercial, shown during an episode of Cavalcade of America in the mid-1950s, promoted the use of Nylon and Neoprene in insulated cold weather clothing.
October 23, 2017
Frances Gabe and her Amazing Self-Cleaning House!
Many people complain about cleaning their house but Frances Gabe actually did something about it! 
October 23, 2017
Philanthropy, Profit, and Paper
Paper is the flesh of the archive. It can be so familiar that the sensitive researcher can sometimes date a collection by smell and feel. Light must and cardboard—within the last fifty years. Damp, heady, sharp, nearly chemical fumes—we’re in much older territory.
October 23, 2017
Expanded and Updated Library Conservation Lab Opens
The stabilization and mending of documents, photographs, books, and other materials held by the Hagley Library takes place in the Library Conservation Laboratory.
October 23, 2017
The South Amboy, New Jersey, Port Explosion of 1950
On May 19, 1950, four transfer barges and several railroad cars loaded with 420 tons of military explosives suddenly detonated at the Raritan River Port of South Amboy, New Jersey. The result was devastating.
October 23, 2017
Better Late, Than Never: Identifying books from the du Pont family library in 1799
One of the first questions I was asked after being hired to head Hagley’s Published Collections department was “Which books did the du Pont family bring with them to the United States on the American Eagle in 1799?” For the longest time I could not provide an answer, but now I can.
October 20, 2017
NAM and the U.S.-Soviet Trade and Economic Council
In February 1973, NAM’s international economic affairs department organized a trade conference with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union sent fifteen delegates led by Vladimir Alkhimov, deputy minister for foreign trade.
September 28, 2017
RCA Anniversary: The David Sarnoff Library at 50
The David Sarnoff Library (DSL) opened fifty years ago today adjacent to the library of the Radio Corporation of America’s David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton New Jersey. In the early 1960s, Sarnoff, RCA’s iconic leader of more than three decades, had begun thinking about his legacy.

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