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June 26, 2020
History Hangout: William H. Rau, James Zellner, & the Mauch Chunk Lantern Slides
In the Fall of 2019, Skylar Harris, the Hagley Library's Digitization and Metadata Coordinator began a project to digitize the library's unprocessed collections of glass plate images associated with the Ph
June 26, 2020
History Hangout: Photographic Processes and Preservation of Family Collections
Since the daguerreotype process was introduced in 1839, many methods have been developed for making photographs. Some surprising materials were used, such as egg whites for albumen prints.
June 15, 2020
Ask the Hagley Historian! The Library's Oldest Item
Question: What is the oldest item in the library? 
June 15, 2020
Documenting the COVID-19 Pandemic at the Hagley Libary
As it is with nearly everyone around the world, daily life and operations for staff at the Hagley Library have been completely altered by the COVID-19 health crisis.  
June 12, 2020
History Hangout: The World in Color
It’s hard to imagine not being surrounded by color in the human-made things around us.
June 12, 2020
The Zoom of Yesteryear
Like so many people, I have had more Zoom meetings in the last month than I had in the last five years.
May 28, 2020
A Civil War Confederate's Coat in Delaware? A Research Odyssey with the Hagley Historian
While putting together a Civil War exhibit for the Hagley Museum in 2012, Hagley historian Lucas Clawson found a curious thing in the Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont Collection: an item identified as a Confederate coat.
May 27, 2020
Song of the Iron Road (1956): An 'industrial musical' about railroad taxes!
What do you get when you combine New Jersey history, cartoon freight trains, a singing narrator, and a lesson on tax rates? Hagley’s next showcase film, a colorful sponsored piece titled Song of the Iron Road.

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