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January 20, 2017
Welcome! National Association of Manufacturers project
Hello, and welcome to the news site for the National Association of Manufacturers processing project. This is a four-year project to process the post-1970 records of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). The project is broken into two segments.
December 19, 2016
Conservation: The Correspondence of Xanthus Smith and Sophie Du Pont
When perusing the bookshelves at a library, it is not uncommon to chance upon a serendipitous find completely unrelated to the original book that was sought. It just occurred to me that the same thing can happen when searching through the Hagley Digital Archives.
December 19, 2016
Delaware Coach Company Records Open for Research
So many times, history focuses upon the wealthiest, most powerful individuals, as well as those who pushed for and achieved significant social and political change.
December 19, 2016
Keeping Time: Improvements to Clocks
All of us are governed by time - mostly by the lack of it. Keeping track of time through the use of clocks and watches has evolved over thousands of years. Here in the United States, during the nineteenth century, many inventors received patents for their “novel” improvements in both clocks and w
December 19, 2016
Bakelite: Retro Plastic Treasures
One word…Plastics
December 19, 2016
Digitizing Early DuPont TV Commercials from the 1950s
In last month's news, we reported on our progress in digitizing and preserving video tape here at the Hagley Library. This month we have news about another motion picture format that makes up a significant portion of our Audiovisual Collections.
November 21, 2016
New Video Digitization System
In 2016, Hagley’s Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department made significant infrastructure improvements for the digitization and preservation of videotape. Hagley holds an estimated 20,000 videotapes related to the history of business and technology.
November 21, 2016
Center for the History of Business: Researching the Women who Opposed American Prohibition
Coffee is usually my first thought in the morning, but I kept forgetting my morning java the week I was at Hagley for my research on the repeal of Prohibition, supported by a grant from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society.

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