Research & Collections News

As reference librarian in the Imprints Department, I am sometimes surprised that Hagley owns even one item about a particularly obscure topic. Other times, I am surprised at the depth of our holdings on a seemingly mundane topic.

Two-hundred and seventy people jammed Hagley’s Soda House audi

There are certain common packaging materials that seem innocuous to most folks, but cause consternation in the field of conservation.

The history of beer brewing in Wilmington has been a topic of great interest here at Hagley in the past few years.

Do you remember 3 ½-inch floppy disks or better yet, the actual floppies that flopped, the 5 ¼-inch or 8-inch ones? What about other magnetic media like Zip and Jaz disks that were popular in the late 1990s?

Regina Lee Blaszczyk writes about her new book, The Color Revolution, published by the MIT Press in Sept. 2012.

On September 9, 2012, the Hagley Museum and Library opened a new exhibit entitled “100 Years of Picturing the Nation’s Business: Photographs from the Collection of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.” It features some 101 phot