Research & Collections News

The Steelcase Mobiles Space Planner (1969) in the collections of the Hagley Library was designed as a space planning tool for Steelcase’s Mobiles furniture system line.

William Deichmann faced a challenge. He sat inside a new state-of-the-art laboratory as a recently hired junior pharmacologist. He had a bottle of a new compound in his hand, a compound that became deadly when used in excess. Deichm

In August 1939, the Du Pont Rubber Chemicals Division released a new monthly trade magazine entitled News About Du Pont Rubber Chemicals and targeted it “to our friends in the rubber industry.”  The Hagley Published Collections Depar

We are pleased (and relieved) to report that the Cinecraft film collection has arrived safely at Hagley after a 423 mile journey from Cleveland, Ohio.

The Hagley Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Cinecraft Productions film archive.

The main goal of the museum’s inventor research project is to learn as much as we can about the people behind the patent models in our collection.

Thanks to a Hagley Exploratory Research Grant, I was recently able to spend a week at Hagley’s Library to conduct research for my dissertation, which examines the material culture of exploration and field science in the nineteenth and early twenti