Research & Collections News

In 2013, through a generous donation, a treasure trove of industrial design ideas and sketches from Lunt Silversmiths arrived at Hagley Museum and Library. Lunt Silversmiths was incorporated in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1901.

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing into the early 1980s, Hagley staff interviewed 175 people from the Brandywine Valley area in Delaware, creating a phenomenal archive of daily life and work in the region going back to the late nineteenth

In 1965, for the first time in 25 years, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) presented the Modern Pioneer Awards.

As I go about unpacking and cataloging the Rothschild Patent Model Collection, I get excited when I recognize a familiar name or place.  The patent models in the collection represent inventors from all over the United States – even the world.

The anger over trade in the 2016 elections calls to mind the fights about trade in the 1990's over President Bill Clinton’s campaign to ratify North American Free Trade Act in Congress, the “Battle for Seattle” at the World Trade Organization’s 19

In this video, and accompanying interview, we go behind the scenes with Hagley's Library Conservator in the conservation lab.

Do you ever wish someone had recorded your grandmother’s stories before she passed away?