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September 23, 2019
Museum Collection:The Short Life of DuPont’s Corfam
Not everything can be successful, even if you have had an enormously successful product like nylon.  Corfam is an excellent example of a synthetic product that simply did not live up to its expectations over time for DuPont. 
September 23, 2019
Two New Industrial Design Collections Opened for Research: Ken White and Marshall Johnson papers
After nearly two years of intensive work, the papers of industrial and product designers Ken White and Marshall Johnson are open for research.
September 23, 2019
An Electric Eye to Scan the World
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was founded in 1919 when Owen D. Young, the president of General Electric, bought the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America and used it to form a radio patent monopoly.
September 22, 2019
Du Bois Infographics Expose the American “Color Line” at 1900 Paris Fair
An earlier post this year explored the engaging process of data visualization through a recent acquisition entitled
August 19, 2019
NAM Summer Internship Reflection
For this month’s article, I am turning things over to summer intern, Christina, to reflect on her experience:
August 19, 2019
William Rau Photographs of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
In July, Hagley Library released a new Digital Archives collection of colored lantern slides from renowned photographer William H. Rau.
August 19, 2019
Museum Collection: This Inventor Worked Like a Dog!
Would you believe me if I told you that the pet food industry we know today likely wouldn’t be in existence if it wasn’t for lightning rods? Before you run off, exclaiming that the staff at Hagley have lost their minds – hear me out!
August 19, 2019
An Eye Toward the Future from 1970
With growing prosperity at home and a lack of competition abroad, U.S. corporations seemed to enter a golden age after WWII. But by the 1970s, all that appeared to be changing.

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