Research & Collections News

Thanks to an exploratory research grant, I spent a week at the Hagley Library in June of 2016 researching the correspondence of Pierre-Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and Marie-Anne Lavoisier (1758-1836). Hagley owns 143 manuscript lett

Recently, Hagley received a generous gift of the diaries of Simón Bolívar Camacho (1859-1906), the great grand-nephew of Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, and the son of a Venezuelan diplomat and his American wife.

Working at Hagley gives me the daily opportunity to hear voices from the past that speak to pressing concerns of today, such as immigration.

With the AVD portion of the project complete, I have recently transferred to the Manuscripts and Archives (M&A) department for the second, and larger, part of the project.

We are pleased to announce the photograph and audiovisual portion of the NAM collection is now fully processed and available to rese

Sometimes as an archivist, you open a box and have to ask: “What is this?”

Two of the oldest items in the National Association of Manufacturers collection are The Workman’s Lesson and Crime of Carelessness from 1912.