On this date, February 26, in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson...

On this date, February 26, in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park as the 15th park in the U.S. national parks system.

As a 102nd birthday present, we're offering this 1917 photograph of a mule ride on the Bright Angel Trail, a six mile trail still traveled by mules and humans alike. The riders in this photograph included the party of P.S. du Pont and Alice Belin du Pont, who traveled to the Grand Canyon that year in the company of Nathaniel Gould Robertson, May B. Robertson, Charles A. Belin, John P. Nields, Mary Blanchard (Craven) Nields, Louisa d'Andelot (du Pont) Copeland, and Charles Copeland.

This photograph is part of Hagley Library's P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002). To view more photographs from this collection in our Digital Archive, click here.

The National Society of Professional Engineers has been...

The National Society of Professional Engineers has been sponsoring Engineers Weekevery February since 1951 as a means of calling attention to engineers' contributions to society and advocating for the importance of education in math, science, and technical skills.

Today's Engineers Week theme is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, so we're sharing this December 1949 photograph of Florence Naum (1922-2006) testing a generator regular quality control machine at the Ford Motor Company's plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The device tested regulators for 1950 Fords under simulated road conditions.

Naum was a resident of Farmington, Michigan. She began her career at Ford as a stock handler in 1939 after graduating high school and, by 1949, was the only woman electrical technician at the company and one of only two women enrolled at the University of Detroit in pursuit of an engineering degree. She eventually earned an electrical engineering degree from the University of Michigan and later became the first female electrical engineer employed at the company.

We're excited to announce that tonight, February 24, Hagley, in...

We're excited to announce that tonight, February 24, Hagley, in partnership with Clark Atlanta University andBloomfield College, will be premiering Dr. Wesley Memeger, Jr., Science Into Art, a special documentary chronicling the lifeof Dr. Wesley Memeger, Jr.

Memeger was a long-time DuPont chemist at the Pioneering Research Laboratory. He began working for DuPont's Pioneering Research Laboratory in 1964 and continued his career there until his retirement in 1997. His research enabled the company to streamline the production of Kevlar, a synthetic fiberdeveloped at DuPont by Stephanie Kwolek in 1965, by discovering a faster polymerization process to help scale for industrial production. Memeger and his wife, a fiber artist, are also accomplished artists, with Memeger's work taking inspiration from the geometric shapes found in molecular compounds.

Today's #TradeCardTuesday is quite the sticky situation. This...

Today's #TradeCardTuesday is quite the sticky situation. This advertising card was produced by the Tenexine Company of Boston, Massachusetts to promote its line of Egyptian Te-nex-ine glue. The item is undated, but was probably created between 1880 and 1913.

This card is part of Hagley Library's Fingerman ephemera collection (Accession 2009.213), a collection of mixed-format ephemeraassembled by collectors Arlene and Gerald Fingerman. Advertising cards and labels compose a large portion of this collection, but it also includes billheads, blotters, bookmarks, business cards, catalogs, checks, envelopes, flyers, letterheads, newsletters, packaging, postcards, and stamps.

The collection has not been digitized in its entirety, but you can view a curated selection of materials from it online now in our Digital Archive. Just click here!

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Hagley Gingerbread Contest People's Choice

See the entries in Hagley's 2020 Gingerbread House Contest!

Winners received a $100 Amazon gift card and a Hagley membership. Thanks to all who participated and to all the Hometown Heroes who are working to keep us healthy and safe!  

Congratulations to the winners chosen by Hagley's guest panel of judges:
Adult/Family: Wample Family
Youth: Alex & Henrik Jacobson
 

 

Congratulations to the People's Choice winners:
People’s Choice Adult Family: Schatz Family
People’s Choice Youth: Rebecca Mack-Weber

 

Adult/Family entries

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Youth entries

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