Research & Collections News

From the small window of the plane flying over Washington state, Franklin “Frank” T. Matthias (1908-1993) watched as a swath of desert dotted with small bushes passed beneath him.

Have you ever looked at the back of a food can or box or in a magazine and wondered where the recipe came from? My family has several of these clipped recipes that we make throughout the year. Church window cookies. Sweet and sour chicken.

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.

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.

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,

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