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Monday, May 5, 2025

Spring weather means wonderful things for the Hagley Museum and Library grounds ...

Monday, January 6, 2025

Hagley Library is starting the week off with a snow day!

Monday, June 3, 2024

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

Monday, March 4, 2024

March has brought some early Spring weather to the grounds of Hagley Museum and Library ...

Monday, December 18, 2023

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

Monday, December 4, 2023

This coming week will include Repeal Day, an annual event celebrating the repeal of thirteen years of Prohibition ...

Monday, June 26, 2023

This week marks a moment in transportation history; on June 26, 1819 ....

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 ...

Monday, December 5, 2022

Happy Repeal Day! On this day, December 5, in 1933, the repeal of thirteen years of Prohibition ...

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

We've got a troublesome little visitor with us today ....

Monday, September 26, 2022

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

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Hello, September!

Monday, August 8, 2022

Today, we're joining the women of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (W.O.N.P.R.) ....

Monday, July 18, 2022

Today's featured photo hits close to home ...

Friday, June 24, 2022

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

Monday, April 25, 2022

It's a perfect day for a walk here at Hagley ....

Monday, March 7, 2022

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

Monday, October 4, 2021

I'm spending some time this week doing metadata cleanup in Hagley Library's fabulous Digital Archive ...

Thursday, July 22, 2021

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

Monday, June 28, 2021

June has traditionally been the most popular month to for weddings ...

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 ...

Friday, June 11, 2021

It's a lovely day to get outside for a stroll in the gardens (so long as you bring an umbrella) ...

Thursday, June 3, 2021

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

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Cinco de Mayo

Friday, April 30, 2021

We say goodbye to April showers today, but before we turn our attention to May flowers ...

Thursday, April 15, 2021

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

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Today's #ThursDIY post has us sharing this cover for a brochure...

Friday, February 26, 2021

On this date, February 26, in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson...

Friday, January 22, 2021

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

Friday, October 30, 2020