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April 24, 2017
Twin Brother Inventors and the Yeast Business
The outstanding variety of the Rothschild patent model collection simply amazes me each day I review records of models that have been unpacked and cataloged by Caroline Western, our Special Projects Cataloger. One patent model recently caught my eye so I decided to find out more about it. Most of
April 24, 2017
Workplace Safety Films from Thomas Edison Studios
Two of the oldest items in the National Association of Manufacturers collection are The Workman’s Lesson and Crime of Carelessness from 1912.
April 24, 2017
All The Vintage Books About Cats You Could Possibly Need
April 24, 2017
The Carol Litchfield Collection on the History of Salt
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably never thought about salt all that much. It’s just one of those things that does great things to your food but does bad things to your blood pressure, and that’s where your knowledge (and probably interest) stop. 
April 17, 2017
Re-housing 16mm Film
April 10, 2017
Americade Traveling Exposition: There’s a Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow
In 1955, the National Association of Manufacturers presented "Americade," a traveling exposition. According to the press handbook, it was “a dramatic exposition of America’s progress and opportunity in the important phases of our American Way of Life.”
March 20, 2017
Company Spies & Strikes: Union-Busting on the Pennsylvania Railroad
The book project I am researching involves understanding the Pennsylvania Railroad management’s fierce determination to resist, reduce, and eliminate unionism among its employees in the 1920s.
March 20, 2017
Success and Tragedy: An Inventor's Story
One common question about patent model inventors is, “Were they successful?” For some well-known inventors such as Thomas Edison, the answer is yes. For others, it isn’t so easy to determine and perhaps their patent is all that is known about them. Whether the patent itself was successful, well t

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