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Recent News

September 18, 2017
New Collection: Building American Roads and Streets, 1913 to 1936
The Hagley Library Audiovisual Collection and Digital Initiatives Department is pleased to announce the acquisition of a new collection related to the history of American road building.
September 18, 2017
At the Height of Fashion: Hagley Collections Inform Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s New Books on Fashion
The Enterprise of Culture (EOC) was a three-year, €1 million research project funded by the European Science Foundation, and housed at the University of Leeds under the direction of UD alumna and former Hagley Fellow Regina Lee Blaszczyk.
September 18, 2017
How Historical Research Helped Solve a Civil War Submarine Mystery
I arrived at the Hagley Museum and Library trying to solve a Civil War mystery. In February of 1864, the Confederate submarine H. L.
September 18, 2017
Thomas Lamb and a Happy Monkey Named Bing-O
September 18, 2017
The Pillar: Traditional Japanese Fukurotoji Bookbindings
Traditional Japanese bindings are a bit different from the Western bindings we are accustomed to. The easiest way to describe them, is that they are used exactly the opposite from how we use our books. They are opened from left to right and read from right to left in columns.
September 18, 2017
John Gordon Rideout industrial design collection opens
The Manuscripts and Archives Department is pleased to announce the opening of the John Gordon Rideout papers. The collection was donated to Hagley Museum and Library in 2016 by his daughter, Alyce Rideout.  
September 18, 2017
The Many Diverse Patents of Zera Waters
If an inventor holds more than one patent you might, understandably, assume that those patents would be within the same industry (such as mining, construction, or medicine). However, that is not always the case.
September 18, 2017
The Oshkosh Trunk Company
During the rainy summer months, we found water seeping into our basement at home. We dragged out our wet/dry vacuum and went to work on the problem. We had to move things around to get them out of harm’s way. One of the things that we had to move was an old steamer trunk. I hadn’t paid much atten

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