Research & Collections News

Amrys O. Williams has joined the library staff as its oral historian and associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society. She started January 3.

As I go about unpacking and cataloging the Rothschild Patent Model Collection, I get excited when I recognize a familiar name or place.  The patent models in the collection represent inventors from all over the United States – even the world.

The anger over trade in the 2016 elections calls to mind the fights about trade in the 1990's over President Bill Clinton’s campaign to ratify North American Free Trade Act in Congress, the “Battle for Seattle” at the World Trade Organization’s 19

In this video, and accompanying interview, we go behind the scenes with Hagley's Library Conservator in the conservation lab.

Do you ever wish someone had recorded your grandmother’s stories before she passed away?

Saul Zalesch teaches art history in Louisiana, and he is passionate about collecting. He began collecting while working at Winterthur as a Research Fellow in the 1990's.

Hello, and welcome to the news site for the National Association of Manufacturers processing project. This is a four-year project to process the post-1970 records of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

One word…Plastics