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April 3, 2014
Marketing to Pregnant Women: Ernest Dichter and the Playtex Nurser in 1962
I am a women’s historian, working on a new book, Counting Chickens Before They Hatch?: Miscarriage in American Culture.
March 25, 2014
The Case of the Insulated Underwear: Dacron and DuPont Brand Awareness
With polar vortexes hitting U.S. cities hard this winter, many Americans are surely turning to the long underwear in their closets with some frequency. What do you do, though, if you have a great long underwear top that keeps you warm and dry, but not the bottoms to match?
March 23, 2014
Quenching the Thirst for Knowledge about Soda Water
A recent visit with relatives in North Carolina took me to the village of Pinehurst, a National Historic Landmark well-known to golf enthusiasts.
March 22, 2014
The Earliest Sound Recordings - A Short History of Cylinders
Hagley holds many different forms of recording media from the nineteenth-century through the present. Included in the collections are phonograph cylinders, which were the very first audio recording technology.
February 26, 2014
Library Receives $5,560 to Rehouse the J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey Collection
Late in December, Hagley Museum and Library learned that it had been awarded $5,560 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to rehouse the J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey Collection photographs.
February 25, 2014
Hagley Library's new Audiovisual and Digital Initiatives Department
On February 1st the Pictorial Collections and Digital Collection Departments at the Hagley Library merged and are now operating as the Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department.
January 29, 2014
"Sizing" up Paper Conservation at the American Academy of Bookbinding
In November I traveled to the American Academy of Bookbinding for a class on Basics in Paper Conservation, one of the required classes for students in the Book Conservation Diploma Program.
January 29, 2014
Hidden Treasures in the Hagley Archives: 1795 Land Survey Map of Southern Chester County and Northern Delaware
​A particularly interesting map has been found in the archives at Hagley Library. The 4.5’ x 5.1’ map was drawn by John Harlan who notated “A map of surveys taken the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th month of 1795 when Sam Sharp was learning the art of surveying.

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