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March 18, 2019
The Marshall Johnson Collection: From Concept Design to Final Product
Marshall Johnson’s collection includes the documentation for his whole design process, from concept designs to production drawings, packaging, and marketing materials. It also includes examples for some of his finished products.
March 18, 2019
Digging for Oil in the Boreal Forest
On a wet September day in 1963, Sun Oil President Robert Dunlop visited the site of Sun’s new synthetic oil project in the boreal forests of northeastern Alberta.
March 18, 2019
Nylon and Firearms: The Bruce A. Bydal papers
During the height of the Great Depression, the DuPont Company purchased shares in Remington Arms, America’s oldest gun manufacturer originally founded in 1816.
February 19, 2019
The "lost" film of Charles Lindbergh in Philadelphia, 1927
The Dallin Aerial Survey Company collection at the Hagley Library has been one of our most heavily used collections since it landed here in 1970. The collection of over 13,000 aerial photographs were taken primarily of the mid-Atlantic region over a period from 1924 to 1940.
February 18, 2019
Women in the Workforce
“The influence exercised by women, individually and through women’s organizations, is one of the most constructive forces in this country.
February 18, 2019
Cold War Opera: The RCA, David Sarnoff, and the Cultural Battle with the Soviet Union
In the 1950s and 1960s, the National Broadcasting Corporation funded an opera company that televised and toured new opera productions.
February 18, 2019
DuPont and Commissioned Paintings for Advertising
Within our more than 65,000-piece museum collection, there is a group of approximately seventy watercolor and oil paintings that has fascinated me since I began working at Hagley. Over time I was fortunate to learn what some of them were used for but not all. Last summer I had the time to delve i
February 18, 2019
Happy Retirement to Christopher T. Baer
If you have done research at Hagley’s Manuscripts and Archives Department within the last 40 years, or so, you probably met Chris Baer.  If that research included locomotive, ship, and or steel company records, you not only met Chris, your project was enhanced by his expertise.

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