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June 19, 2017
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company and Latrobe’s 1801 Susquehanna River Survey
In the records of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company – well-known as the dominant electric supplier for central eastern Pennsylvania since the early twentieth century – is a 17-foot long by 22-inch wide map of the Lower Susquehanna River originally created 216 years ago.
June 19, 2017
Patent Models – Were they ever manufactured?
This is a question I get all the time about patent models. It is difficult to answer mostly due to the lack of information we have about each model. Due to targeted research, every day we learn more about these wonderful one-of-a-kind treasures. Today, there are more and more that I can positivel
June 19, 2017
The DuPont Story (1950)
This month’s video is a 1950 production titled “The DuPont Story” produced by the DuPont Company and the Apex Film Corporation.
June 19, 2017
Doing Your Part to Win: WWI Propaganda Posters
2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the United States entering World War I. Until 1917, the United States had remained neutral.
Jims Test
May 22, 2017
Life of a Salesman: The Diaries of Simón Bolívar Camacho
Recently, Hagley received a generous gift of the diaries of Simón Bolívar Camacho (1859-1906), the great grand-nephew of Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, and the son of a Venezuelan diplomat and his American wife. A patrician of two hemispheres, Camacho was equally at home in both worlds.
May 22, 2017
Mixing business and pleasure: 'Emotional accounting' in P.S. du Pont’s letters to Marie-Anne Lavoisier
Thanks to an exploratory research grant, I spent a week at the Hagley Library in June of 2016 researching the correspondence of Pierre-Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and Marie-Anne Lavoisier (1758-1836). Hagley owns 143 manuscript letters between the two. While many of them are simple one-
May 22, 2017
What do bees, spiders, and sheep have in common? An inventor!
On November 26, 1872 Alvah Washburn patented an Improvement in Paper-Folding Machines.
May 22, 2017
New Digital Collection Opens from the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA)
Hagley is pleased to announce the launch of a new digital collection from the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) that includes historic publications, press releases, photographs, ephemera, and video. 

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