Research & Collections News

We at Hagley Library are pleased to release our new user interface for Hagley Finding Aids. If you have researched our archival collections, the finding aid database will look and function differently but includes all of the same data.

Question: Why did the du Pont family build their black powder business in Wilmington, Delaware?

Question: What’s an interesting thing I may miss when I take a tour of Hagley? 

In our home, the kids’ bedrooms are on the second floor. None of these rooms have a porch or roof below their windows.

Archivists and the archive field, like so many fields, have their own vocabulary that might be unfamiliar to researchers and the public.

Recently while handling family papers collected by my grandmother in North Carolina, I came across a packet of color magazine ads from Springs Cotton Mills.

Question: My ancestor worked for the DuPont Company…what records do you have on DuPont employees?

We have spent the summer at Hagley continuing to process films, still images, and paper from the Cinecraft collection.