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January 23, 2017
Museum Collections: Stay on Track with this Patent Model
As I go about unpacking and cataloging the Rothschild Patent Model Collection, I get excited when I recognize a familiar name or place.  The patent models in the collection represent inventors from all over the United States – even the world.
January 23, 2017
The Saul Zalesch Collection of American Ephemera
Saul Zalesch teaches art history in Louisiana, and he is passionate about collecting. He began collecting while working at Winterthur as a Research Fellow in the 1990's.
January 23, 2017
Library Admin: Amrys O. Williams Joins Library Staff
Amrys O. Williams has joined the library staff as its oral historian and associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society. She started January 3.
January 23, 2017
Conservation: An Interview with Library Conservator Laura Wahl
In this video, and accompanying interview, we go behind the scenes with Hagley's Library Conservator in the conservation lab.
January 20, 2017
Welcome! National Association of Manufacturers project
Hello, and welcome to the news site for the National Association of Manufacturers processing project. This is a four-year project to process the post-1970 records of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). The project is broken into two segments.
December 19, 2016
Conservation: The Correspondence of Xanthus Smith and Sophie Du Pont
When perusing the bookshelves at a library, it is not uncommon to chance upon a serendipitous find completely unrelated to the original book that was sought. It just occurred to me that the same thing can happen when searching through the Hagley Digital Archives.
December 19, 2016
Delaware Coach Company Records Open for Research
So many times, history focuses upon the wealthiest, most powerful individuals, as well as those who pushed for and achieved significant social and political change.
December 19, 2016
Keeping Time: Improvements to Clocks
All of us are governed by time - mostly by the lack of it. Keeping track of time through the use of clocks and watches has evolved over thousands of years. Here in the United States, during the nineteenth century, many inventors received patents for their “novel” improvements in both clocks and w

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