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July 30, 2013
Rolf Dessauer papers open for research
The Manuscripts and Archives Department is pleased to announce the opening of the Rolf Dessauer papers. Dessauer began working for E. I.
July 9, 2013
The Baker Bowl: Played-out Ball
Among the some 11,000 aerial photographs in the Dallin Aerial Survey Company collection housed at the Hagley Museum and Library, there are several that show sites of sporting events or the events themselv
July 5, 2013
Hagley Library’s New Archival Collections Database
Hagley Museum and Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new database of research finding aids — a new way to assist researchers in finding primary source materials.
July 5, 2013
Sewing Industry Blogs of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
May 29, 2013
The David Sarnoff Library Collection: The Weisbecker Papers
May 29, 2013
Automobile Engineer: Joseph Ledwinka
"Who sees, through a gloom of congested roads and declining production figures, many encouraging possibilities ..." - Joseph Ledwinka, January 1932. In The North American Review, pp. 59-64.
May 10, 2013
Back to the Future with DuPont?
Browsing the Huffington Post one evening earlier this month, I came across the following headline: "Mystery of 1938 ‘Time Traveler’ with Cell Phone Solved?" I couldn’t resist, so I clicked to learn more.
May 8, 2013
Emily Dickinson’s Window Culture
My Yale art history dissertation, “Emily Dickinson’s Window Culture, 1830-1886,” explores how the poet Emily Dickinson drew upon the visual and material qualities of her windows, the views they framed, and the atmospheric effects they produced, to compose “window pictures” in the spaces of her ho

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