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February 24, 2023
Sweet's Catalog Service: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Estimated at 80,000 collection items, Hagley prides itself on a very strong collection of trade catalogs.
February 24, 2023
Snapshots of Bathing Beauties: Bias and Exploitation in Corporate Archives
February 23, 2023
Marketing Cleveland: "The Best Location in the Nation"
In 2019, Hagley acquired an extensive collection of films from Cinecraft Productions, an industrial film producer founded in 1939 that continues in business today.
February 23, 2023
World War I Worker Housing: DuPont and Aladdin Co. Homes
Hopewell, Virginia got its start as a company town when E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company (DuPont) transitioned its dynamite facility to a guncotton manufacturer at the outbreak of World War I.
January 23, 2023
The Extraordinary Life of Rosetta Henderson: A New Digital Exhibit
In 1932, Rosetta McKinley was born to William and Arvie McKinley in Fairhope, AL. Known to family and friends as “Rose,” she was one of sixteen children raised in a family in the segregated American South.
January 23, 2023
An Illuminating Journey into "Gaslighting" Today and Yesterday
Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary publisher in America, selected the term “gaslighting” as their 2022 Word of the Year.
January 23, 2023
Eugene Roussel and the Birth of Flavored Sodas in America
Perhaps some of you made a resolution to give up alcohol for “Dry January.” Flavored seltzers and sodas might fill in for that beer or wine—for one month, at least.
January 23, 2023
The Start of Something Big: Constructing the Eiffel Tower
On January 26, 1887, the first digging work began on the construction of what would become the Eiffel Tower.  It would take two years, two months, and five days before the massive structure was complete.

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