Research & Collections News

The history of beer brewing in Wilmington has been a topic of great interest here at Hagley in the past few years.

Do you remember 3 ½-inch floppy disks or better yet, the actual floppies that flopped, the 5 ¼-inch or 8-inch ones? What about other magnetic media like Zip and Jaz disks that were popular in the late 1990s?

Regina Lee Blaszczyk writes about her new book, The Color Revolution, published by the MIT Press in Sept. 2012.

On September 9, 2012, the Hagley Museum and Library opened a new exhibit entitled “100 Years of Picturing the Nation’s Business: Photographs from the Collection of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.” It features some 101 phot

We are surrounded by historic buildings and structures. We work in them, shop in them, and eat in them.

In the Spring of 2012, Hagley’s Imprints Department received a spate of inquiries from three different people, all looking for information about musical instruments.  As a reference librarian, I hadn’t had the opportunity to researc