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The History of Making Toast

Toast is a quick and easy breakfast that can be eaten on the go, but it wasn’t always so.

Pennsylvania Power & Light Company and Latrobe’s 1801 Susquehanna River Survey

In the records of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company – well-known as the dominant electric supplier for central eastern Pennsylvania since the early twentieth century – is a 17-foot long by 22-inch wide map of the Lower Susquehanna River originally created 216 years ago.

Patent Models – Were they ever manufactured?

This is a question I get all the time about patent models. It is difficult to answer mostly due to the lack of information we have about each model. Due to targeted research, every day we learn more about these wonderful one-of-a-kind treasures. Today, there are more and more that I can positivel

The DuPont Story (1950)

This month’s video is a 1950 production titled “The DuPont Story” produced by the DuPont Company and the Apex Film Corporation.

Mixing business and pleasure: 'Emotional accounting' in P.S. du Pont’s letters to Marie-Anne Lavoisier

Thanks to an exploratory research grant, I spent a week at the Hagley Library in June of 2016 researching the correspondence of Pierre-Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and Marie-Anne Lavoisier (1758-1836). Hagley owns 143 manuscript letters between the two. While many of them are simple one-

New Digital Collection Opens from the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA)

Hagley is pleased to announce the launch of a new digital collection from the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) that includes historic publications, press releases, photographs, ephemera, and video.

Commercial for MCI Mail, 1983

This month, we're launching a new feature for the Collection and Research News called Video of the Month. This new feature will include a digitized video selected from Hagley’s vast collection of historic moving pictures about the history of business and technology.

Out of Many Vintage Pamphlets, One Timely Piece of Propaganda

Working at Hagley gives me the daily opportunity to hear voices from the past that speak to pressing concerns of today, such as immigration. Recently I processed a box of mid-20th century publications collected by a retired National Park Service historian.

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