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November 21, 2016
Published Collections: A Diverting Day Off in the Salt Mine
When a recent vacation took me from my workplace in Delaware to the state of Kansas, little did I realize that my venture would transport me from the figurative salt mines into the physical.
November 21, 2016
New Video Digitization System
In 2016, Hagley’s Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department made significant infrastructure improvements for the digitization and preservation of videotape. Hagley holds an estimated 20,000 videotapes related to the history of business and technology.
November 21, 2016
Center for the History of Business: Researching the Women who Opposed American Prohibition
Coffee is usually my first thought in the morning, but I kept forgetting my morning java the week I was at Hagley for my research on the repeal of Prohibition, supported by a grant from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society.
October 21, 2016
Museum Collection: Cast Your Ballot in Willis L. Barnes’s Patent Model
An incredibly controversial, but immeasurably important Election Day is looming for us here in the U.S. Appropriately, within the last couple weeks, I happened to unpack a Ballot-Box patent model (below). This patent was granted to Willis L. Barnes, of Charlestown, Indiana, on October 15, 1878.
October 21, 2016
Impossible Project – Resurrecting Instant Photography
Do you yearn for the days when you could watch your snapshot appear magically before you, only moments after the exposure?  Do you still have a Polaroid camera collecting dust?  If so, you may be interested to learn about the Impossible Project. 
October 21, 2016
Audiovisual Collection: Magoon Collection on Produce Marketing
The Audiovisual and Digital Department is pleased to announce the acquisition of a collection that documents fruit and vegetable marketing in the United States from the 1880s up to the 1970s.
October 21, 2016
The Seagram Black Historical Calendar and Corporate Responsibility in the 1970s
By the end of the 1960s, the Seagram Company had established itself as one of the largest distillers of alcoholic beverages in the world.
October 21, 2016
DuPont Safety: Handrails and Rules
After graduating from college, I went to work for the DuPont Company at the Chambers Works, a plant built to make dyes following Germany’s embargo of those materials in World War I. If you have ever driven over the Delaware Memorial Bridge heading into New Jersey, then you’ve seen the Chambers Wo

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