Collections News
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Hagley Library Adds Harwood Railroad Collection of Photographs
April 19, 2019
The collection of nearly 150,000 images include notable photographs of railroads throughout the twentieth century.
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The H. W. Lende Manuscript Collection
September 11, 2018
The Smithsonian Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has recently acquired the splendid manuscript collection of the late Henry Willard Lende, Jr, notable history of s
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The Records of the Consumer Health Information Center and the Records of Philly Health Info
September 11, 2018
The Historical Medical Library is pleased to announce that the Records of the Consumer Health Information Center (CHIC) and the records of its successor, Philly Health Info (PHI), have been fully processed and are ready for researcher use.
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Hagley Library Acquires the James W. Cortada Collection of Information Technology Publications
July 26, 2018
This collection consists of an estimated 5,000 titles on the general subject of computers, information technology, society, the internet and the economic and business issues involving computers from the 1940s through 2017.
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Rockefeller Archive Center Opens Collection on 1980s Ford Foundation AIDS Initiative
May 3, 2018
Ford Foundation records, Rights and Social Justice Program, AIDS Initiative provides important information on early attempts to address the AIDS epidemic.
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Hagley Patent Model Collection on Exhibition in China
May 2, 2018
In partnership with Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Hagley Museum and Library is exhibiting dozens of nineteenth-century patent models in four Chinese cities.
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APS Catalog of Duhamel du Monceau/Fougeroux de Bondaroy Papers Updated
March 22, 2018
The American Philosophical Society Archivist Tracey deJong has finished cataloging to current standards the papers of Duhamel du Monceau and his nephew Fougeroux de Bondaroy, important men of scien
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Smithsonian Libraries Adds Teratology Collection
November 24, 2017
The Smithsonian's Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has received a significant book collection donated by J. Bruce Beckwith, MD, encompassing 800 rare books on pediatric anomalies in humans, animals and plants.
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Britton Chance's Papers Open to Researchers at American Philosophical Society
September 20, 2017
Britton Chance's (1913-2010) papers, now open to researchers, make up the largest fully-processed collection at APS and features materials relating to Chance's pursuits in biochemistry, biophysics, and yachting.
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David Sarnoff Library Collection Opens to the Public at Hagley
September 18, 2017
This large collection holds material from the long-serving president of one of the most important American technology companies in the twentieth century.