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February 17, 2020
It’s About Time: A New Perspective on Chronological Files
In today’s article, rather than highlight a specific topic or item, I decided to discuss an entire series, or grouping of materials. When the National Association of Manufacturers collection first came to Hagley in 1973 it had two large chunks of material – what today is Series I and Series II.
January 20, 2020
Designing Space for Work
The Steelcase Mobiles Space Planner (1969) in the collections of the Hagley Library was designed as a space planning tool for Steelcase’s Mobiles furniture system line.
January 20, 2020
Prohibition Centennial
As the clock struck midnight on January 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect. With this amendment, the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages became illegal in the United States.
January 20, 2020
Making Couture DuPont Qiana Dresses at Home
What happens when you develop a new type of fabric which consumers then purchase and must figure out how to use it?  That’s what happened when DuPont introduced Qiana nylon to the public in 1968 as a replacement for high cost silk.  
January 20, 2020
Storied Covers : Trade Magazines Promote Rubber Technology on Page One
In August 1939, the Du Pont Rubber Chemicals Division released a new monthly trade magazine entitled News About Du Pont Rubber Chemicals and targeted it “to our friends in the rubber industry.”  The Hagley Published Collections Department recently added over 100 issues through December 1
January 20, 2020
Conservation: Restoring Painted Lantern Slides, Part 2
Last month I described the first step in the conservation journey of our painted lantern slide scenes.
January 20, 2020
Curbing the Toxic Work Environment: The Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine
William Deichmann faced a challenge. He sat inside a new state-of-the-art laboratory as a recently hired junior pharmacologist. He had a bottle of a new compound in his hand, a compound that became deadly when used in excess. Deichmann’s challenge was to determine the exact point of excess: the “
January 20, 2020
Awarding Manufacturing Legislation Excellence
January 2020 marks the beginning of a new decade and the beginning of a new session in Congress.

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