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May 23, 2023
Charles Bronson in General Electric promotional film, 1959
On November 3rd, 1921, a boy named Charles Buchinsky was born in rural Pennsylvania.
May 23, 2023
Bits, Bytes, and Checksums: Working with Hagley’s Born Digital Materials
As the Processing and Digital Archivist, I work with a variety of materials: paper, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, and born-digital materials. Each has its own unique properties and handling requirements. But today, I’m going to focus on the born-digital materials specifically.
May 23, 2023
Hilton Makes Hotels Better Than Home
I am writing a biography of the hotelier Conrad Hilton. The biography tells the story of how Hilton and the hospitality industry as we know it came of age together in the United States in the 20th century.
April 27, 2023
For the Love of Archives: Working in the Hagley Library
The gates to Hagley Library from my first day 10 years ago.
April 25, 2023
The Montauts' Marvelous Modern Machines
Sitting in my office staring out at a cloudless sky on a beautiful spring afternoon, my thoughts wandered to the days of early flight.
April 25, 2023
Gorham Silversmiths film (c. 1926)
Hagley recently acquired and digitized a film produced for the Gorham Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode Island. Gorham, founded in 1831, was among the most prominent American manufacturers of sterling and silverplate and also operated a foundry for bronze sculptures.
April 17, 2023
Bain in the USA: The FAX Behind a Rediscovered Telecommunications Patent Model
When do you think the fax machine was invented? Would you be surprised to hear it was way back in the 1840s?
March 20, 2023
The Lincoln Highway: At the Intersection of a Leisure Read and a Research Need
For me, the hard part of writing is knowing where to begin, but for eight-year-old Billy Watson, the hard part is knowing where the middle is.

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