Research & Collections News

I received an interesting reference question a few months ago from researchers trying to identify a vintage floral linoleum pattern that was used in a work of art created in the 1960s.

On September 16, 1920, a telephone message from Callender I.

Typically when I open up a new box of Ken White material I find a lot of over-stuffed folders and folded up blueprints that I need to sort through page by page, re-foldering and re-labeling so everything is organized and can be found easily b

I came to the Hagley Library on a research grant last summer to carry out preparatory research for my dissertation on French trading migrations in the Ohio Valley between 1789 and 1815.

During the nineteenth century, women were awarded less than 1% of all United States patents.

You wouldn’t be entirely wrong if in your minds’ eye you picture an archives as a space with reams of paper, or rows of binders and ledgers. Sometimes we receive collections with 3-D artifacts composed of more than cellulose and leather.

The Hagley Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Frank Schoonover Negatives Collection from the Delaware Art Museum.

Hagley’s museum collection covers more than two hundred years of DuPont products from gunpowder to holograms.