Research & Collections News

In 1956, renowned interior designer William Pahlmann (1900-1987) was approached by Jerome Brody of Restaurant Associates, Incorporated to help create a new upscale restaurant to be located at 57 West 48th Street in New York City’s Rockefeller Cent

When you hear the name “Levi Strauss,” chances are that jeans come to mind.  The company name is now synonymous with the product that made it famous.

Among the most visited collections in the Hagley Dig

This past summer, I had the opportunity to attend the American Library Association Conference in New Orleans.  As my husband and I planned our trip, we decided that it would be interesting to make the trip by taking a train.

Tucked away in the quiet darkness of the Pictorial Collections stacks, among a thousand othe

This summer, like many summers past, young students and graduates come to the Hagley Mu

Hagley has recently opened the files of RCA engineer Herbert Belar (1901-1997), part of the former David Sarnoff Library, to researchers.  Relatively unknown today, Belar and his superior, Harry F.