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Before the fictional likes of Peggy Olson and Joan Harris in Mad Men, there was Jean Wade Rindlaub. She worked for BBDO for thirty-three years, rising to become the only woman member of the Board of Directors and vice president.

As a recent hire, I am still becoming familiar with Hagley and its collections.  Sure, I spend most of my time laser-focused on patent models, but the models are only a part of the museum collection.  And I have not had the opportunity t

Conventional wisdom holds that one can’t judge a book simply by its cover, it is the content that counts.  The next best place to gauge my interest in an illustrated book is an appraisal of its endpapers.  Pastedowns and flyleaves are th

My dissertation project, “Checking Out of Urban America: Supermarkets, Segregation, and Late-20th Century Racial Capitalism,” seeks to transform our understanding of why and how supermarkets abandoned Black and working-class neighborhoo

The Cinecraft collection at Hagley is among the most extensive intact collections from an industrial film producer in the country.

I had decided to come to the Hagley Library and Museum to better understand how corporate managers responded to the activities of shareholder activists featured in my dissertation. Hagley had been recommended to me as a great repository of ma

If you stand on the piazza, which is located outside the ground floor of the residence, on the left side of the house, and look out over the left side railing, you will see the swimming pool, which is part of the Crowninshield Garden.