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Monday, April 21, 2025

This week's visitor to the Hagley Vault is the E.S. Wells Medical Company ...

Monday, April 7, 2025

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

Monday, January 20, 2025

This 1893 cyanotype photograph was taken in Roxbury, Massachusetts ...

Monday, April 29, 2024

It's shaping up to be a beautiful day on the grounds of Hagley Museum and Library ...

Monday, April 8, 2024

Believe it or not, the life of an archivist isn't always glamorous ...

Monday, January 8, 2024

This undated collage based on a cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper ...

Monday, December 18, 2023

This glass negative showing the interior of a E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company boiler house ...

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

On March 15, 1892, the American inventor and engineer ....

Monday, February 27, 2023

This undated (ca. 1895?) image shows workers and a Bessemer converter for making steel ...

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

This ca. 1892 advertisement for Hires root beer was produced by the Charles E. Hires Company ...

Friday, February 3, 2023

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

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

'Tis the season for shopping, but we could all use a break ...

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Here's a special sneak peek ....

Thursday, August 25, 2022

This photograph shows the Adele Post Office in Manoa, Pennsylvania ...

Friday, August 12, 2022

Today's post is an homage to summer weekends at the shore ....

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

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

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 ...

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

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

Monday, June 27, 2022

Let's see ... head (check), neck (check), teeny tiny waist (check) ....

Thursday, June 23, 2022

This ca. 1890(?) trade card is from Hagley Library's Fingerman ephemera collection ...

Monday, June 20, 2022

This cyanotype of the Maryland Steel Company of Baltimore County's fitting out shop was taken on this date ...

Friday, June 17, 2022

A summer weekend lies on the other side of the workday ....

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

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

Friday, May 13, 2022

Thank cod, it's #FishFriday ...

Friday, May 6, 2022

It may be a rainy day out there today ....

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

#OTD in 1831, the Allegheny Portage Railroad began work on the the first railroad tunnel ...

Monday, April 4, 2022

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

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

This photograph from ca. 1900 looks west along the Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Company's West Chester Pike ...

Monday, March 7, 2022

This photograph of students in front of the outside Alexis I. du Pont School (School for the Brandywine) ....

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 ...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

On this date, November 16, 1896, the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power & Manufacturing Company ...

Monday, November 1, 2021

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

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday photo dates to around 1890 ...

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

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

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

We’re traveling further than usual for today’s #WorkerWednesday ...

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

This #WorkerWednesday excursion brings us to the floor of a textile mill ...

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Summer school is in session in this 1898 glass negative image ...

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

This #WorkerWednesday trip takes us to the interior of the soda house at its Carney's Point Works in Carney's Point, New Jersey ...

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

According to some accounts, Benjamin Franklin conducted his now famous, possibly apocryphal, electrical experiment with a kite in a lightning storm on this date, June 15, in 1752.

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

We're expecting beautiful weather here at Hagley today ...

Monday, May 3, 2021

It's the first #MotorMonday of May and we're digging deep into automotive history today ...

Thursday, April 15, 2021

This ca. 1893 photograph shows the women of Bryn Mawr College gathered ...

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

It's #TradeCatalogTuesday and we're answering the question...

Thursday, March 11, 2021

In 1887, the Pennsylvania Steel Company constructed a steel...

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Today is National Inventors' Day in the United States, and has...

Friday, January 22, 2021

We could all use a bit of #FridayFun this week, so I was tickled...

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

On this date, December 15, in 1890, the Hunkpapa Lakota...

Monday, November 23, 2020

On this day in 1899, San Francisco's Palais Royale...

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Long-distance vacations are still on hold, but we'll always have...

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Our celebration of all things that go bump in the night...

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Light Company began operations...

Thursday, October 8, 2020

To get you through the home stretch of a tough week...

Tuesday, September 29, 2020