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July 22, 2022
Museum Collections Has a New Website
After several months of working with museum staff and the Vernon Systems personnel who host our website, I am happy to announce that the Museum Collections has a vastly improved and much more user-friendly website.
June 23, 2022
Breaking Down a Unique Motivational Broadside
Anglo-American Catalogers who Read from left to right, Ought sometimes
June 23, 2022
Museum Collections: Hagley Goes to Kenmore
At the end of April, I had the honor of speaking at a luncheon celebrating the Centennial of Historic Kenmore. Located in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Kenmore was the home of George Washington’s sister, Betty Washington Lewis, and her husband, Fielding Lewis.
June 23, 2022
How I learned to stop worrying and love the frog
You never know what's waiting to hop out of the Hagley archives. I recently came across this small set of delightfully amphibious advertisements in Hagley's collection from the Philadelphia advertising firm Gray & Rogers.
May 25, 2022
Hercules Powder Company Films in the Cinecraft Collection
May 24, 2022
A New Industrial Revolution: Womanpower, NAM, and the Labor Shortage During World War II
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was founded in 1895 when approximately 600 American manufacturers met to formulate a program for economic recovery from a recent depression.
May 23, 2022
They studied what?! BBDO’s Research Department and marketing reports
The Research Department at BBDO studied, seemingly, everything under the sun. While not in reality, they did do studies and market research on a plethora of topics.
May 23, 2022
Beautiful Bureaucracy: General Electric & Changing Forms of Management

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