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March 19, 2018
Ken White's Award Winning Designs
Typically when I open up a new box of Ken White material I find a lot of over-stuffed folders and folded up blueprints that I need to sort through page by page, re-foldering and re-labeling so everything is organized and can be found easily by future researchers. 
March 19, 2018
The Evolution of Linoleum
I received an interesting reference question a few months ago from researchers trying to identify a vintage floral linoleum pattern that was used in a work of art created in the 1960s. They asked if we could find the pattern in some of the linoleum trade catalogs in our library collection.
March 18, 2018
Storing Materials that Were Never Meant to Last
You wouldn’t be entirely wrong if in your minds’ eye you picture an archives as a space with reams of paper, or rows of binders and ledgers. Sometimes we receive collections with 3-D artifacts composed of more than cellulose and leather.
March 18, 2018
Numa: P.S. du Pont's Unrealized Agricultural Colony
I came to the Hagley Library on a research grant last summer to carry out preparatory research for my dissertation on French trading migrations in the Ohio Valley between 1789 and 1815.
March 18, 2018
Discovering Inventions by Women in the Hagley Patent Model Collection
During the nineteenth century, women were awarded less than 1% of all United States patents. Every day that a woman’s patent model is unpacked and processed here at Hagley, our ability to tell the story of women and invention in the nineteenth century grows.
February 20, 2018
New Collection: Frank Schoonover Photographs
The Hagley Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Frank Schoonover Negatives Collection from the Delaware Art Museum.
February 19, 2018
Campaign funding and PACs
How campaigns are funded has long been a concern of Congress, particularly when it came to political parties, political action committees, unions, and other groups. In 1910, the Federal Corrupt Practice Act was enacted and amended in 1911 and 1925.
February 19, 2018
Digging into Magnetic Recording Technology
Not many people, and not even many music historians, know that the history of magnetic recording technology is virtually coextensive with that of sound recording, dating all the way back to the 1880s.

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