Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley’s collections document the interaction between business and the cultural, social, and political dimensions of our society from the late 18th century to the present.

The library is organized into six departments: Manuscripts and Archives, Pictorial Collections, Imprints, Digital Archives, Conservation, and the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society.

Current holdings comprise 34,000 linear feet in the Manuscripts and Archives Department, 2 million visual items in the Pictorial Collections Department, and 280,000 printed volumes in the Imprints Department. The Center sponsors conferences and seminars and manages a research grant program.

Learn more about making a donation to the library and our Adopt-a-Book program.

Our staff is ready to assist you; we invite you to contact us using our Ask Hagley online form or call at 302-658-2400 ext 232.


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Check out the latest Hagley Library and Archives Newsletter!

Hagley Symposium: Reflections on Method and Practice in Business History

New Digital Exhibit: 100 Years of Picturing the Nation's Business

Film: A Separate Place : The Schools P.S. du Pont Built

New Z. Taylor Vinson Transportation Blog and a preview of the Vinson Digital Collection are now open for business!

Donate to the Marge McNinch Endowment Fund

Hagley Exhibit: An Oath of Allegiance: The du Ponts and the Civil War

New Digital Exhibit: Delaware's Industrial Brandywine

Digital Exhibit: The DuPont Company on the Brandywine

Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society:
Hagley Research Seminars, 2011-2012

2011 Hagley Prize: Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885