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November 16, 2020
NAM Project Complete
As I sit here, I cannot believe four years have gone by since I first started on the National Association of Manufacturers processing project.
November 16, 2020
Inside Joseph V. Baker Associate’s “Inside Brown America”
November 16, 2020
Tru-Vue: "Enjoy Travel and Adventures from Home"
Last month, while I was cataloging from home, I leafed through a box of miscellaneous trade catalogs that Hagley had purchased, and something interesting caught my eye.
October 22, 2020
Romance of Iron and Steel: The Earliest Film from the Cinecraft Archive
Last month, we brought you a “lost” silent film found in the Cinecraft collection called “The Heart of Cleveland.” That film from 1925 pre-dated the founding of Cinecraft in 1937 so it wasn't somethin
October 20, 2020
Hagley Finding Aid Database Has a New User Interface
We at Hagley Library are pleased to release our new user interface for Hagley Finding Aids. If you have researched our archival collections, the finding aid database will look and function differently but includes all of the same data.
October 19, 2020
Ask the Hagley Historian! What’s an interesting thing I may miss when I take a tour of Hagley?
Question: What’s an interesting thing I may miss when I take a tour of Hagley? 
October 19, 2020
Ask the Hagley Historian! Why did the du Pont family build their black powder business in Wilmington, Delaware?
Question: Why did the du Pont family build their black powder business in Wilmington, Delaware?
October 16, 2020
Museum Collection: In Case of Fire…Disassemble Bed?
In our home, the kids’ bedrooms are on the second floor. None of these rooms have a porch or roof below their windows. Although that decreases the likelihood that my kids will sneak out as teenagers, in an emergency the kids would have a long and dangerous jump to safety.

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