Research & Collections News

After several months of working with museum staff and the Vernon Systems personnel who host our website, I am happy to announce that the Museum Collections has a vastly improved and much more user-friendly website.

Watermarks are an often-overlooked source of historical information embedded in many manuscript papers. Watermarks are papermakers identifiers, a kind of a signature woven into the screens used to make sheets of paper.

At the end of April, I had the honor of speaking at a luncheon celebrating the Centennial of Historic Kenmore.

You never know what's waiting to hop out of the Hagley archives. I recently came across this small set of delightfully amphibious advertisements in Hagley's collection from the Philadelphia advertising firm Gray & Rogers.

Anglo-American Catalogers who Read from left to right,

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was founded in 1895 when approximately 600 American manufacturers met to formulate a program for economic recovery from a recent depression.