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August 23, 2021
Inventor Emily Evans Tassey and The Hunt for Red October
Skip Tyler: “This, this could be a caterpillar.” Jack Ryan: “A what?” Tyler: “A caterpillar drive.  Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion.  You follow?” Ryan: “No.” Tyler: “It’s like a, uh, jet engine for the water.  Goes in the front, gets squirted out the back.”
August 23, 2021
Library Awarded Film Preservation Grant
The Hagley Library has been awarded a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve The Heart of Cleveland, a film produced in 1924 for the Cleveland Illuminating Company.
July 27, 2021
'You Bet Your Life' - Cinecraft's First Film (1939)
You Bet Your Life (1939) was Cinecraft founders Betty and Ray Culley's first film from start to finish under the Cinecraft name.
July 20, 2021
Big Bang Theory: Fireworks Catalogs at Hagley
July is a traditional time for Americans to celebrate our country with displays of fireworks. Hagley has offered a spectacular fireworks show since 198
July 20, 2021
Celebrating Innovation: The Catalyst Awards
One of the most exciting parts of the Catalyst, Inc. collection held by the Hagley Library is the body of material related to the organization’s annual Catalyst Awards.
July 20, 2021
Museum Collections: What the Ban-Lon?!
One of the craziest things about working in a museum is that you never quite know what you will be doing from one day to another. Sometimes this fact can be frustrating – like when you realize that there is water leaking somewhere where water should not be leaking.
June 22, 2021
Hagley and Cinecraft Featured on Fox 8 News in Cleveland
Back in February, we wrote about how FOX 8 News in Cleveland
June 21, 2021
Endpapers Prime the Reading Experience
Conventional wisdom holds that one can’t judge a book simply by its cover, it is the content that counts.  The next best place to gauge my interest in an illustrated book is an appraisal of its endpapers.  Pastedowns and flyleaves are the sheets that attach the body of printed pages known as the

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