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March 18, 2019
Video Gaming On the Campaign Trail
As mentioned in my post The Halfway Point - Reflecting Back,  one of the interesting things I found in the manuscript portion was a series of folders related to a computer simulation gam
March 18, 2019
The Marshall Johnson Collection: From Concept Design to Final Product
Marshall Johnson’s collection includes the documentation for his whole design process, from concept designs to production drawings, packaging, and marketing materials. It also includes examples for some of his finished products.
March 18, 2019
Digging for Oil in the Boreal Forest
On a wet September day in 1963, Sun Oil President Robert Dunlop visited the site of Sun’s new synthetic oil project in the boreal forests of northeastern Alberta.
March 18, 2019
Nylon and Firearms: The Bruce A. Bydal papers
During the height of the Great Depression, the DuPont Company purchased shares in Remington Arms, America’s oldest gun manufacturer originally founded in 1816.
March 18, 2019
du Pont Women and Their Hand Fans 
A lady’s hand fan was one of the most important clothing accessories during the nineteenth-century. Not only decorative, but they also had a practical purpose of moving air for cooling. Color, design and style indicated not only moods and events but also the highest in modern styles. There were a
March 18, 2019
I Brake for Slow Data : My Experiment With Dear Data
Have you ever indulged yourself in a moment of déjà vu?
March 18, 2019
The Easter Parade in Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1950
Our featured motion picture this month from the Hagley Library comes from our Strawbridge & Clothier collection. The film is titled Easter on the Boardwalk (c.
February 19, 2019
The "lost" film of Charles Lindbergh in Philadelphia, 1927
The Dallin Aerial Survey Company collection at the Hagley Library has been one of our most heavily used collections since it landed here in 1970. The collection of over 13,000 aerial photographs were taken primarily of the mid-Atlantic region over a period from 1924 to 1940.

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