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August 21, 2015
Evald Rink: Librarian, Archivist, Bibliographer, Mentor
June 1, 1956 Longwood Library – July 27, 1981 Eleutherian Mills Historical Library  
August 21, 2015
Published Collections: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…a car?
Chalk this up to things you don’t see every day. That’s what I’m doing, because librarians don’t ordinarily get involved with heavy machinery.  
August 20, 2015
A Green Machine from the Green Mountain State: The Robbins & Lawrence Rifling Machine
Hagley Museum & Library’s collection includes material from all over the world. Hagley also has plenty of objects from innovators, and as a native Vermonter, I’d like to highlight one that I think is particularly interesting.
August 20, 2015
Dining on the Rail - The Pennsylvania Railroad's Official Dining Car Cookbook
August 20, 2015
The National Association of Manufacturers’ Women’s Department
One of the most consequential developments in the resurgence of conservatism in the United States from the late 1960s through the 1980s was the New Right’s success in rallying white middle-class women to its cause.
August 17, 2015
Materiality in the Archives, or Why are Circuits Filed with Photographs?
Should you peruse the contents of the vertical files of the Public Affairs Department of the David Sarnoff Research Center (DSRC), you will encounter several folders filled with faxes.
July 17, 2015
From the Object Files - The true tales behind Hagley's most remarkable collections
In any museum collection there are bound to be objects that are rare or unusual. Most of the time a little investigation will reveal a story just as interesting as the object itself. But sometimes you run across an object with a story that is so elusive it may never be fully discovered.
July 17, 2015
The Bifurcated Career of Inventor Arthur D. Hall III
The newly acquired papers of systems engineer Arthur David Hall III (1924-2006) document the many potential slips that lie between invention and innovation and the importance of synergies in the innovative endeavor.

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