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Monday, April 7, 2025

Marital ... well, something short of bliss, at just 0.25 cents a bottle.

Monday, February 17, 2025

We're pedaling away from a Valentine's Day weekend today on our Columbia Valentine bicycles

Monday, June 3, 2024

Summer is just around the corner! We're starting our June ...

Friday, April 14, 2023

From Pierre S. and Alice Belin du Pont's famed gardens at Longwood, to Henry Francis and Ruth Wales du Pont's gardens ...

Friday, February 17, 2023

We present to you today, a tower of du Pont children ...

Friday, February 3, 2023

This ca. 1888 glass plate negative, presumably a family portrait, is from Hagley Library’s collection ...

Friday, January 13, 2023

Today's tintype photograph comes from Hagley Library's collection of ...

Thursday, November 10, 2022

On this date, November 10, in 1885 the 17 year old son of the German inventor and engineer Gottlieb Daimler ...

Thursday, October 27, 2022

On this date, October 27, in 1873, the farmer and inventor Joseph Farwell Glidden (1813-1906) filed a patent for an "improvement in wire-fences" ...

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

This ca. 1880 photograph shows the employees of the Crosby & Hill department store ...

Friday, October 7, 2022

America's first intentionally constructed roller coaster opened on June 16, 1884 ...

Monday, September 26, 2022

Here's to squeezing in those last weekends at the shore while you still can ...

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

We're posting this undated (ca. 1888?) glass negative today in celebration of National Book Lovers Day ...

Friday, August 5, 2022

This undated glass plate negative shows two people on a bridge ....

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Today's #TradeCardTuesday is inspired by Gilbert and Sullivan ...

Friday, July 15, 2022

Let's head out for the weekend, rescued from our bed of suffering and with a bloom of health ...

Thursday, July 14, 2022

We're posting this 1930 catalog for bedroom furniture today on account of Sarah Elisabeth Goode ...

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

It's #TradeCardTuesday and we're stuck on this advertisement for cement glue ...

Friday, June 24, 2022

We're digging out some old summer vacation photos this Friday ....

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Today's #TradeCardTuesday comes courtesy of the E.S. Wells Medical Company ...

Monday, April 4, 2022

This ca. 1888 image is from Hagley Library’s collection ...

Friday, February 4, 2022

This ca. 1888 tintype shows Walter Dore, William Fenn, and William Poland ...

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

The first observance of Groundhog Day in Punxsatawney, Pennsylvania ...

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Today's #TrainTuesday takes us to a town that trains built ...

Monday, January 31, 2022

In 1875, the inventors, photographers, photochemists, and brothers ...

Thursday, January 13, 2022

For when, like, your usual horse just isn't doing it for you anymore...

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

If a delicious drink for mental and physical exhaustion would hit the spot right now, then get that water and sugar ready ...

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Here's a cozy little domestic scene for a wintry #WhiskersWednesday ...

Thursday, December 16, 2021

The first U.S. patent for an automatic liquid vending machine ...

Friday, December 3, 2021

Save the resolutions for next year ...

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Brr! December means indoor kid weather, so here’s a #ThursDIY post for all you cozy crafters ...

Monday, November 1, 2021

The world’s first all-steel railroad bridge went into service on this date ...

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Today’s #TravelTuesday image takes us all the way to Jīzah, Egypt ...

Monday, September 27, 2021

We’re starting off the work week today with a look at the "Tippencanoe" Harrison and Morton Club ...

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Cocaine was first used as a local anesthetic on this date in 1884 ...

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Today's #TradeCardTuesday features the front side of a ca. 1881 advertising card ...

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Doing work to uncover the commercial roots of Hammock Day ...

Thursday, June 3, 2021

No, I'm totally not daydreaming about a beach vacation during work hours, why do you ask?

Monday, April 12, 2021

We're extending a hearty welcome and thank you today ...

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Today's #TradeCardTuesday is quite the sticky situation. This...

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Today's #TradeCardTuesday brings us this ca. 1880? advertisement...

Monday, November 2, 2020

We're posting this dancing skeleton today in the spirit of the...

Friday, October 30, 2020

Whatever your Halloween looks like this wild year...

Tuesday, October 6, 2020