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March 18, 2019
du Pont Women and Their Hand Fans 
A lady’s hand fan was one of the most important clothing accessories during the nineteenth-century. Not only decorative, but they also had a practical purpose of moving air for cooling. Color, design and style indicated not only moods and events but also the highest in modern styles. There were a
March 18, 2019
I Brake for Slow Data : My Experiment With Dear Data
Have you ever indulged yourself in a moment of déjà vu?
March 18, 2019
The Easter Parade in Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1950
Our featured motion picture this month from the Hagley Library comes from our Strawbridge & Clothier collection. The film is titled Easter on the Boardwalk (c.
March 18, 2019
Video Gaming On the Campaign Trail
As mentioned in my post The Halfway Point - Reflecting Back,  one of the interesting things I found in the manuscript portion was a series of folders related to a computer simulation gam
February 19, 2019
The "lost" film of Charles Lindbergh in Philadelphia, 1927
The Dallin Aerial Survey Company collection at the Hagley Library has been one of our most heavily used collections since it landed here in 1970. The collection of over 13,000 aerial photographs were taken primarily of the mid-Atlantic region over a period from 1924 to 1940.
February 18, 2019
Cold War Opera: The RCA, David Sarnoff, and the Cultural Battle with the Soviet Union
In the 1950s and 1960s, the National Broadcasting Corporation funded an opera company that televised and toured new opera productions.
February 18, 2019
Women in the Workforce
“The influence exercised by women, individually and through women’s organizations, is one of the most constructive forces in this country.
February 18, 2019
DuPont and Commissioned Paintings for Advertising
Within our more than 65,000-piece museum collection, there is a group of approximately seventy watercolor and oil paintings that has fascinated me since I began working at Hagley. Over time I was fortunate to learn what some of them were used for but not all. Last summer I had the time to delve i

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