Research & Collections News

In the records of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company – well-known as the dominant electric supplier for central eastern Pennsylvania since the early twentieth century – is a 17-foot long by 22-inch wide map of the Lower Susquehanna River o

Jane Austen’s Emma, first published in the United States over 200 years ago, remains a beloved classic to this day. It was this novel that brought me to Hagley in a quest to uncover how nineteenth-century Americans read and understoo

This month, we're launching a new feature for the Collection and Research News called Video of the Month.

Thanks to an exploratory research grant, I spent a week at the Hagley Library in June of 2016 researching the correspondence of Pierre-Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and Marie-Anne Lavoisier (1758-1836). Hagley owns 143 manuscript lett

Recently, Hagley received a generous gift of the diaries of Simón Bolívar Camacho (1859-1906), the great grand-nephew of Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, and the son of a Venezuelan diplomat and his American wife.

Working at Hagley gives me the daily opportunity to hear voices from the past that speak to pressing concerns of today, such as immigration.

Hagley is pleased to announce the launch of a new digital collection from the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) that includes historic publications, press releases, photographs, ephemera, and video. 

On November 26, 1872 Alvah Washburn patented an Improvement in Paper-Folding Machines.