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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, October 30, 2023

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

Monday, June 26, 2023

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

Monday, April 3, 2023

This photograph shows the christening of the freighter Cape Race ...

Friday, March 31, 2023

April is just one day away and we're looking forward ...

Friday, February 24, 2023

Swinging into the weekend with a cozy #FamilyFriday glass plate negative ...

Friday, February 3, 2023

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

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

This 1900 glass negative shows the Wilmington Friends School's football team in uniform ...

Monday, December 5, 2022

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

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

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

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday post joins a November 1951 event celebrating employees of Strawbridge & Clothier ...

Friday, November 11, 2022

This bunting-draped courthouse in downtown Wilmington, Delaware is being posted in recognition of ...

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

This 1910 #WorkerWednesday photograph comes from Hagley Library's collection of Photographs of child labor in Delaware ...

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

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

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday guests are the cooks and kitchen crew of the steamship Queen Anne ...

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

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

Monday, August 8, 2022

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

Friday, June 17, 2022

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

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

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

Monday, April 4, 2022

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

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday journey lands us in the carpenters' shop of the Malleable Iron Company ...

Monday, March 7, 2022

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

Thursday, March 3, 2022

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

Monday, January 24, 2022

Ain't no Christmas party like an Amalgamated Leather Companies party, because an Amalgamated Leather Companies party's got CHAIRS.

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

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

Friday, December 3, 2021

Save the resolutions for next year ...

Thursday, November 11, 2021

This Welcome Arch is being posted in recognition of Veterans’ Day ...

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

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

Monday, October 18, 2021

We’re making a splash this #MaritimeMonday ...

Monday, October 4, 2021

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

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

We've been seeing a lot of back to school photos ....

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

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

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

We're getting warmed up for the 91st annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game today with this photograph of the Pusey and Jones Company's baseball team.

Thursday, July 1, 2021

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

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday guests are a crew of street and sewer workers ...

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

Friday, April 23, 2021

When you work in a library, choosing a single book for World Book Day can be like trying to choose a favorite child ...

Monday, April 5, 2021

Wishing a happy Easter Monday to those who observe the holiday...

Friday, January 22, 2021

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

Monday, January 18, 2021