Research & Collections News

I acquired my first Munsell Soil Chart during archaeology field school in upstate New York back in 2003.

In 1816, the first savings bank in America, the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS), was founded. It began as a single office next to a tavern on Sixth Street in Philadelphia.

After forty years of exemplary service, Marjorie McNinch, Hagley’s extraordinary Reference Archivist, is retiring.

Since the beginning of the automotive age, there has been almost no end to the specialization found among commercial vehicles. The business community quickly sought to utilize and profit from the new horseless carriage, yet it took a while fo

Since its earliest days, the Hagley Museum and Library has collected records on the iron and steel industry in America.

In his book Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America, Steven Gelber points out that prior to 1950 less than one-third of American homeowners painted their own houses.