Research & Collections News

Lurelle Van Arsdale Guild, one of the most prolific and popular industrial designers in America, and a founding member of the Society of Industrial Designers in New York, designed many of the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company’s (later the ALCO

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 an

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.

As mentioned in my post The Halfway Point - Reflecting Back,  one of the interesting things I found in the manuscript portion

Have you ever indulged yourself in a moment of déjà vu?

During the height of the Great Depression, the DuPont Company purchased shares in Remington Arms, America’s oldest gun manufacturer originally founded in 1816.

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.

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.