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August 21, 2017
Tax on Knowledge: Newspaper Taxation
As I was going through condition reporting The Anti-Gallican Monitor and Anti-Corsican Chronicle, a weekly newspaper published in London from 1811-1815, I noticed on every front page, in the lower right corner, an inked handstamp.
August 21, 2017
Lessons from Putting Museum Collections Online
If you weren't aware yet, Hagley has been slowly digitizing the objects in our museum collections and putting them online. Along the way, it has given us a chance to consider the way in which we catalog the objects in our collection.
August 21, 2017
The History of Back-to-School Sales and Trade Catalogs
The arrival of an email announcing back-to-school specials on library goods signaled the end of summer vacation. I sense that “the most wonderful time of the year” is upon us!
August 21, 2017
New Digital Collection: Business Screen Magazine
The Hagley Library is excited to announce a new digital collection of the Business Screen Magazine, a publication for filmmakers and distributors of industrial films covering a period from 1938 to 1973.
August 21, 2017
U.S. Presidents in the NAM Photograph Collection
Since its beginnings in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers has interacted with a variety of government officials: senators, representatives, cabinet members, governors, and even presidents.
August 21, 2017
DuPont Men’s Fashion Forecasts, 1978-1980
August 15, 2017
Historical Eclipses and Library Collections
How did you learn about the solar eclipse on August 21? Was it on the radio? In the newspaper? On TV? The internet or social media? From a friend? If you had lived two hundred years ago, how might you have heard?
July 24, 2017
How Cellophane Promoted the Phenomenon of Impulse Buying

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