General Info
The Hagley Museum and Library is open to the public 8:30 - 4:30, Monday through Friday. Photocopying is available at .10 per page. Hagley's collections are accessible through an on-line public access catalog at their web site listed above.

Partial Summary of Industrial Design Collections

• Raymond Loewy (1893-1986): (Papers. The Loewy archive includes: client files, photographs, press releases, scrapbooks, project files, brochures, publications, oral history interviews, and ephemera. These materials document Loewy's career from the 1930s through the 1970s. Among the hundreds of projects represented in the collection are the Pennsylvania Railroad's S1 locomotive, Studebaker, Hupmobile, NASA's Skylab; and the Greyhound bus. Also included are files relating to the design of the Borg Flight Scale, Arvin dinette set, Lucent dinnerware, Form 2000 Rosenthal china, and the Universal juke box. The Loewy firm was deeply involved in the redesign of many of the suburban shopping malls and supermarkets during the 1950s and 1960s. There are records describing work done for Gimbel's, Lord & Taylor, R. H. Macy's, and the Foley Store in Houston, Texas.)
  
  
• Irv Koons (b. 1922): (Papers. During a career that spanned nearly fifty years Irv Koons earned a reputation as being one of the most influential package designers of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. His clients included Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Clairol/Bristol-Meyers, Johnson & Johnson, Revlon, Scott Paper, Dixie Cup, and Proctor & Gamble. The Koons archive includes business correspondence, market research studies, public relations files, and materials drawn from the industrial design course that he taught at New York University. Also included is a large slide collection, original artwork, and artifacts that document all of Koons' major design projects.)
  
  
• Thomas Lamb (1896-1984): (Papers. Thomas Lamb worked was a children's book illustrator and textile designer in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s he became known as the "handle man" after he developed the wedge-lock handle that was used with crutches, cutlery, surgical instruments, luggage, sporting goods equipment, and many other consumer and industrial products. The Lamb archive includes business correspondence, drawings, photographs, molds, models, prototypes, and advertising materials.
  
  
• Marc Harrison (1936-1998): (Papers. Marc Harrison taught industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design for more than thirty years. He was one of the pioneers of the Universal Design movement and headed the Rhode Island School of Design's Universal Kitchen project in the early and mid-1990s. His most notable project was the Cuisinart redesign of the 1970s and 1980s. The Harrison archive includes business papers, teaching materials, drawings, artifacts, and photographs.
  
  
• Lippincott & Margulies (Company magazine Design Sense, 1956-1999)
  
  
• International Housewares Association Records: (Records of the International Housewares Association include: Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial records, promotional materials relating to the Association's annual design award, press clippings, and video tapes promoting the annual housewares exposition.)
  
  
• Records of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company: (Include photographs and artifacts documenting package and product design of plastics, textile fibers, Teflon, car products, housewares, and cellophane.)
  
  
• Records of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons: (Include photographs and papers documenting bottle and package design.)
  
  
• Records of Avon Products, Inc.: (Include cosmetic bottles, product packaging, and advertisements describing fifty years (1936-1986) of product and package design at Avon.)
  
  
• The Pennsylvania Railroad Archive: (Includes Raymond Loewy's sketches of locomotives, passenger cars, and dining car menus as well as his correspondence with company officers and technical personnel.)
  
  
• World's Fair Guidebooks and Promotional Materials: (Documents the overlapping worlds of design, advertising, marketing, and public relations. These collections show how designers such as Walter Dorwin Teague and Norman Bel Geddes related their artistic visions to corporate needs as they depicted consumer products as representations of "the world of tomorrow" and the "century of progress.")

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