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What is the purpose of a corporation? Do businesses exist to do anything other than to make money for their shareholders?

How does one manage the motivation to toil and the impulse to enjoy the daily grind?  This is a paradox I sometimes ponder in a profession that both demands focus and offers diversion.  As a child of the Mary Poppins era, I still believe

 “Said lessee shall replace all glass broken in said leased premises during the term of this lease unless the same is caused by the lessor or his employees.” This clause on a lease makes me wonder what had transpired prior for Orlando B.

The Hagley Library has been awarded a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve The Heart of Cleveland, a film produced in 1924 for the Cleveland Illuminating Company.

My recent research at Hagley Library dealt with the role of railroad construction contractors in the development of the American building construction industry in the nineteenth century.

Skip Tyler: “This, this could be a caterpillar.” Jack Ryan: “A what?” Tyler: “A caterpillar drive.  Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion.  You follow?” Ryan: “No.”

You Bet Your Life (1939) was Cinecraft founders Betty and Ray Culley's first film from start to finish under the Cinecraft name.

One of the craziest things about working in a museum is that you never quite know what you will be doing from one day to another.