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February 13, 2017
The Modern Pioneer Awards
In 1965, for the first time in 25 years, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) presented the Modern Pioneer Awards. These awards were presented to individuals who had made outstanding contributions to industrial research and development.
January 23, 2017
Museum Collections: Stay on Track with this Patent Model
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.
January 23, 2017
The Saul Zalesch Collection of American Ephemera
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.
January 23, 2017
Library Admin: Amrys O. Williams Joins Library Staff
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.
January 23, 2017
Conservation: An Interview with Library Conservator Laura Wahl
In this video, and accompanying interview, we go behind the scenes with Hagley's Library Conservator in the conservation lab.
January 23, 2017
Audiovisual Collections: Bootleggers and Bloomer Girls
Do you ever wish someone had recorded your grandmother’s stories before she passed away?
January 23, 2017
Hagley’s Roger Horowitz wins Outstanding Academic Book Award for 2016!
We are proud to announce that Roger Horowitz, Director of Hagley’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, has received the 2016 Outstanding Academic Book Award by Choice for his book Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food.
January 23, 2017
Center for the History of Business: Fighting Over Free Trade
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 1999 ministerial conference, and the way free trade

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