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Monday, April 28, 2025

Some famous architecture is celebrating an anniversary this week ...

Monday, December 2, 2024

Brr!! Winter weather has arrived ....

Monday, September 30, 2024

September 30th marks the anniversary of the publication of U.S. Patent No. 9020702A, granted in 1902 to chemists ...

Monday, September 9, 2024

We're bringing some better living through chemistry to the cookie pushers in our audience today ....

Monday, July 8, 2024

It's a hot everyone summer again this week, so we're breaking out the short-shorts and hitting the pool ...

Monday, June 10, 2024

This week in the Hagley Vault, we're remembering Dr. Wesley Memeger Jr. ...

Monday, April 29, 2024

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

Monday, January 22, 2024

This week's Hagley Vault image is from a series of photographs taken on January 22, 1921 documenting the aftermath of a wheel mill explosion ...

Monday, January 15, 2024

Hagley Library is bringing you the car of tomorrow today ...

Monday, December 18, 2023

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

Monday, October 30, 2023

It's time to celebrate the creepiest, crawliest, eeriest week of the year ...

Monday, August 14, 2023

One of Hagley Library's newest digital collections offers a curated selection of materials ...

Monday, July 17, 2023

I feel ya' buddy ... we're all looking to beat the heat this month ...

Monday, June 19, 2023

This ca. 1925 cartoon shows an unidentified employee of the DuPont Company ...

Monday, May 8, 2023

This week marks a milestone in the history of textiles ...

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Our guest this #WorkerWednesday is an employee of the Jackson Lab at the DuPont company's plant ...

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

This #WorkerWednesday threatens to become a real blast ...

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

We're sharing our commute this #WorkerWednesday with three employees of the Hanford Engineer Works ...

Thursday, February 16, 2023

On this date, February 16, in 1937, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. was granted U.S. patent ...

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Today's #WorkerWednesday is a real blast ...

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Are you ape for fake snake?

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Our #WorkerWednesday visitors this week are employees of the DuPont company's Organic Chemicals Department ...

Monday, December 12, 2022

There's always room for pie, especially if you've got the Pastri Tower ...

Friday, December 2, 2022

Let's go glamorous this #FashionFriday ....

Friday, November 18, 2022

It’s iconic and ionic …ranging from literature on salt mining to theses on halophilic enzymes ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Today's #TechTuesday post features Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt

Thursday, November 3, 2022

On this date, November 3, in 1952, the inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist Clarence Birdseye ...

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

It's a new month, and today November brings with it the November/December 1948 cover of Better Living magazine ...

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

The DuPont employees in this photograph were part of the company's Lycra production and testing staff ...

Thursday, September 22, 2022

We're ready for Fall, are you?

Friday, August 26, 2022

Pack in those summer weekends while you still can ...

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday features a summer ready employee of the DuPont Company ...

Monday, August 1, 2022

We're saying goodbye to July and hello to August ...

Friday, July 29, 2022

Move over pink sauce ....

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Who couldn't use a little mid-week glow-up?

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Sure, it starts a little slow ....

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday post takes us inside the Hotel DuPont ...

Monday, May 2, 2022

#MotorMonday brings you the cars of tomorrow today with this advertisement ...

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Everyone likes shapes, right?

Friday, April 22, 2022

We're observing Earth Day today with this video ...

Thursday, April 21, 2022

This December 19, 1950 1950 photograph ...

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday image shows DuPont employees performing a check inspection ....

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Feeling a little buried by work? This #WorkerWednesday post can relate ...

Thursday, March 3, 2022

This image of Western Grebes and their grebettes ....

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

What better way to welcome the month of March than with ...

Thursday, February 24, 2022

On this date in 1938 ...

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Here's a behind the curtain look at the "Dancing Molecules" act ...

Friday, February 11, 2022

Today's #FashionFriday photo showcases a "little girl dress" in white nylon tulle ...

Monday, February 7, 2022

#MotorMonday brings you the cars of tomorrow today ...

Friday, February 4, 2022

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

Thursday, January 20, 2022

On this date in 1964 ...

Monday, January 10, 2022

#MotorMonday brings you the cars of tomorrow today with this advertisement ...

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Happy New Year! Hagley Library will be closed tomorrow ...

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Ready or not, #WinterWednesday is here ....

Friday, December 17, 2021

WeWe're bringing you a seasonal #FashionFriday today with this November/December 1959 issue of Better Living magazine ...

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

We’re taking a visit today to the green hills of the California Powder Works ...

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

This 1939 #TextileTuesday photograph is from the public debut of nylon hosiery ...

Thursday, November 18, 2021

We have a wee visitor this #Feathursday ...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

I wouldn’t say that this #WomenWednesday is strictly for the birds ...

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

We’ve got the women of the DuPont Company’s night shift dropping by ...

Monday, November 8, 2021

On this date, November 8, in 1875 ...

Thursday, October 14, 2021

This ca. 1955 photograph shows ...

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Bonjour! Welcome to our #TravelTuesday ...

Friday, October 8, 2021

Today's #FashionFriday film is brought to you by DuPont ...

Monday, October 4, 2021

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

Friday, October 1, 2021

Gowns of rayon, stockings of nylon, plastic jewelry ....

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Du Pont has the best leg show at the fair ...

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Hagley Museum & Library is closed today ....

Friday, August 20, 2021

The child is right, let's all have some chips ...

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday is a real blast ....

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Here’s a #WorkerWednesday from a work in progress ...

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Today marks the anniversary of the July 20, 1969 date when Apollo 11 ....

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday is just a step outside our front door.

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 ...

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Lettuce celebrate! June 17 is Eat Your Vegetables Day ...

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday post introduces Moses Campbell ...

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday post features Helen Anderson, a crane operator at DuPont's Wilmington Shops

Thursday, May 20, 2021

On this date in 1873, Levi Strauss (1829-1902) and Jacob W. Davis (1831–1908) made fashion history ...

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

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

Thursday, April 15, 2021

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

Friday, April 9, 2021

Nothing fishy to see here ...

Friday, April 2, 2021

Rayon! Rayon, rayon, everywhere this #FashionFriday!This photo...

Friday, March 26, 2021

It's iconic and ionic ...ranging from literature on salt...

Thursday, March 25, 2021

William Henry Radebaugh (1909-1996), was a public relations...

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

This #WorkerWednesday, we're making a visit to the Camphor...

Thursday, March 4, 2021

When Dr. Wesley Memeger Jr. started at DuPont in 1964, he was...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

We're excited to announce that tonight, February 24, Hagley, in...

Friday, February 12, 2021

#ValentinesDay is this Sunday, \u00a0and this post goes out to our...

Friday, February 5, 2021

New desserts, pea soup, and noodle dishes ... we're hungry...

Thursday, February 4, 2021

On this date (February 4) in 1941, Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., a...

Friday, January 29, 2021

Brr! It's a chilly day here at Hagley Library, so we hit the...

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

We're taking a #WWIIWednesday trip to the Ballistics Labof...

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Happy National Squirrel Appreciation Day! This bushy-tailed...

Friday, January 15, 2021

A tip of the hat today to theHeadwear Institute of America, the...

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Come visit the house of tomorrow today. It's got no bedrooms,...

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

No ugly Christmas sweaters here...

Thursday, December 10, 2020

The bald eagle became America's national symbol on June 20,...

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Today's #WorkerWednesday photo dates to around 1945...

Friday, October 23, 2020

We're staying tidy and offering no admittance to dirtiness...

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Hello, Sweater Weather! We're cozying up to October...

Wednesday, September 30, 2020