Research & Collections News

Recent News

November 7, 2011
The Pullman Palace Car Company
This past summer, I had the opportunity to attend the American Library Association Conference in New Orleans.  As my husband and I planned our trip, we decided that it would be interesting to make the trip by taking a train.
September 26, 2011
Unearthing the Keystone Mushroom Farm Collection
Tucked away in the quiet darkness of the Pictorial Collections stacks, among a thousand other gray boxes, sits an unassuming gray box lab
September 1, 2011
Conservation Department: My Summer Internship
This summer, like many summers past, young students and graduates come to the Hagley Museum and Library as interns.
May 7, 2011
From "Home Sweet Home" to "Karn Evil 9" : Hagley Documents the Origins of the Synthesizer
Hagley has recently opened the files of RCA engineer Herbert Belar (1901-1997), part of the former David Sarnoff Library, to researchers.  Relatively unknown today, Belar and his superior, Harry F. Olson (1901-1982), developed the first music synthesizers in the 1950s.
April 25, 2011
Quantifying Color - The Munsell Color System and the ISCC Collection
I acquired my first Munsell Soil Chart during archaeology field school in upstate New York back in 2003.
April 7, 2011
Philadelphia's PSFS Building in the Hagley Digital Archives
In 1816, the first savings bank in America, the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS), was founded. It began as a single office next to a tavern on Sixth Street in Philadelphia.
February 15, 2011
William Pahlmann: Furniture in Motion
February 10, 2011
Marge McNinch Departs Hagley
After forty years of exemplary service, Marjorie McNinch, Hagley’s extraordinary Reference Archivist, is retiring. It is often said that Marge delivers “the gold standard” of public services, and time and time again, scholars have written to us, celebrating her contribution to their success.

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