Research & Collections News

This week while I was processing the Ken White collection I came across a box labeled “GPO Bookstore.” Although I had no idea what GPO stood for, I assumed it was nothing special - perhaps the initials of the bookstore owner?

During Super Bowl XI in 1977, Xerox debuted perhaps the first “viral” commercial – one that featured “Brother Dominic” – and remains one of the most popular Super Bowl commercials to this day.

While reading through the patent document for Andrew Dougherty’s Improvement in Registering Mechanism for Printing-Presses, I was surprised to find his claim that the invention was “especially serviceable in printing… playing-cards” (Patent No.

Researchers interested in all sorts of topics come from far and wide to use Hagley’s collections. While printed matter can explain a lot about historical objects, there are times when examining the real thing is most useful.

Winter weather changes are fast approaching – and it won’t be too long before we see our first big storm.

The Hagley Library is excited to announce a new digital collection of Be

NAM’s fourth president was James W. Van Cleave, who served from 1906 to May 1909.