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March 11, 2016
Celebrating American Innovation at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876
I was recently doing some research on the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, and I realized that May of this year will mark the 140th anniversary of the opening day.
March 11, 2016
Mission to be Accomplished: The Processing of Patent Models
My experiences with Hagley Museum and Library have been diverse. I first started as an intern right after I graduated from the Univerity of Delaware in 2013. During my internship I was responsible for the processing of the Amram-Brick Collection of Women Inventors.
March 9, 2016
Solar Power: The Direct Acting Solar Engine
Many people believe that our experiments with solar energy in America date to the energy crisis of the 1970s.
February 22, 2016
Rothschild Patent Model Collection
As I write this, news about the Hagley acquisition of the Rothschild Patent Model Collection has just been announced to the public to great fanfare.  Inspired by E. I.
February 19, 2016
The Manager as Motivator - Ernest Dichter's "Top Man" Training Seminars
Ernest Dichter is most well-known as a pioneer of motivational marketing research, an approach to marketing that emphasized the unconscious nature of consumer motives.
February 19, 2016
Audiovisual Collections: Processing and Preserving our Film & Video
In 2015, Hagley Library’s Audiovisual and Digital Initiatives Department launched a 3-year plan to enhance access to our collections of photographs, motion pictures, and sound recordings.
February 19, 2016
Published Collections: Exploring News and Views through Broadsides
Recent acquisitions in our department have inspired me to feature broadsides as a fascinating category of Published Collections. The typical broadside is a single sheet of paper printed with text on one side and posted for public viewing.  After the printing press with moveable type made its way
February 19, 2016
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company’s Technical Libraries’ Records Open
The Manuscripts and Archives Department is pleased to announce that records from the DuPont Company’s technical libraries for the Chestnut Run and the Experimental Station laboratories are open for research at Hagley.

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