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August 19, 2022
Museum Collections: Summertime Sips
Who doesn’t love a cold, fizzy drink in the summertime? The popularity of brands like La Croix and Spindrift, not to mention spiked seltzers, indicates that many people do!
August 19, 2022
Innovation, Pandemics, and Good Jobs
July 25, 2022
MYSTERY MAN: FRANKLIN T. MATTHIAS AND THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
From the small window of the plane flying over Washington state, Franklin “Frank” T. Matthias (1908-1993) watched as a swath of desert dotted with small bushes passed beneath him.
July 25, 2022
Company Unions in the American Steel Industry
July 25, 2022
Ice cream, you scream!
The heat of the summer often leads to a desire to cool off with a frozen treat! Whether it’s ice cream, water ice, or a frozen beverage, we have some interesting items from our collection to tempt you.
July 25, 2022
“In the Kitchen with BBDO,” a new video series
Have you ever looked at the back of a food can or box or in a magazine and wondered where the recipe came from? My family has several of these clipped recipes that we make throughout the year. Church window cookies. Sweet and sour chicken. Chocolate fudge.
July 25, 2022
A Film for the Classroom from Fostoria Glass Company
Classrooms were among the many venues for showing industrial and sponsored films in the middle of the 20th century. Placement in classrooms required some stealth from the sponsors and film companies. These films couldn’t be overtly commercial with pushy sales methods.
July 22, 2022
William Young: Historic Delaware Papermaker
Watermarks are an often-overlooked source of historical information embedded in many manuscript papers. Watermarks are papermakers identifiers, a kind of a signature woven into the screens used to make sheets of paper.

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