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        • Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
        • Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895
        • Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940
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        • Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s
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        • Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of American Brewing
        • Negating Visions: Cultural Memory and Media Negatives
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        • Oil Palm: A Global History
        • Old Brains: How Corporate America Measured Aging
        • On Ice:  America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life
        • Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office
        • Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965
        • Patents Over Planning: Industrial Capital & Postwar Innovation Policy with Dan Traficonte
        • Philadelphia's Pencoyd Iron Works: Forging Along the Schuylkill River
        • Pirates of the Caribbean: US Domestic Satellites & Media Distribution in the Americas in the 1980s
        • Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
        • Plasticizing China: A Cultural History of Everyday Things, 1960-1990
        • Plebian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth Century Colombia
        • Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity
        • Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
        • Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
        • Racial Economies of Early Jazz
        • Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America
        • Ruman Nation: An Environmental History of American Cattle with Nicole Welk-Joerger
        • Screentime: An Interactive Exhibition with Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
        • Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Computer Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013
        • Set the Earth on Fire: The 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike
        • Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: American Tobacco & Broadcast Media
        • Smoking Gun: How Consumerism & Community Made an American Gun Culture, 1870-1920
        • Sound and Music in the du Pont Women's World: From French Revolution to American Civil War
        • Survival is Improvisational: Casual Labor in Postwar America
        • Synthetic Fashion & the Mad Russian
        • TV Town: New York City & Broadcast Media
        • Tasteful Design: Peter Schlumbohm & the Chemex Coffeemaker
        • Tax the Rich: Teachers’ Fight to Fund Public Schools
        • Techno Redux: Technology Competition Policy Lessons from the U.S. vs IBM Trial
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        • The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal
        • The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815
        • The Council for a Union Free Environment
        • The Economics of the Empire State Building
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Long Shadow of Kodak: Markets and Scientific in Twentieth Century Photography
        • The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
        • The Nature of War:  An Environmental History of Industrialization in the United States During World War One
        • The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
        • The Not So Inexhaustible Sea: Fisheries Science & Management, 1863-Present
        • The Only Way Is Up:  Self-Employment in Britain, 1950-2000
        • The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 2: The Age of Limits 1917-1933
        • The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933-1968
        • The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal
        • The Shareholder Value Revolution
        • The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
        • Theater of Innovation: Live Performance in the Tech Industry
        • Time-Bombing the Future: Plastics in & Around Us
        • Tired!: Industrial and Workplace Fatigue, 1900-1950
        • Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
        • Unpeeling the Orange Empire: Citrus & Art in the Archive
        • Who Can You Trust?: Brands, Deception, & Markets
        • Willing Communist Collaborators?: DuPont in China, 1946-1953
        • Working Relationships: A Labor-Centric History of the U.S. Public Relations Profession
        • Your Friend the Boss: Corporate Social Responsibility at DuPont, 1900-1940
        • Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York
        • “Keep Within Compass”: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865
        • “People of Some Talent & So Much Virtue”: Forgotten Lives of du Pont Women
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Oops! This Hagley Vault post is a bit belated ....

Monday, May 12, 2025

Here's to making falling asleep on the bus look classy.

Monday, April 28, 2025

Some famous architecture is celebrating an anniversary this week ...

Monday, December 9, 2024

We're in the midst of some of the busiest travel days of the year, so it seems a fine time to share this 1930 travel footage ...

Monday, November 25, 2024

This week, we're observing the upcoming holiday (and all the accompanying labor in the kitchen) ...

Monday, September 30, 2024

September 30th marks the anniversary of the publication of U.S. Patent No. 9020702A, granted in 1902 to chemists ...

Monday, September 2, 2024

Hagley Library is closed for the Labor Day holiday, so we're posting today to celebrate ...

Monday, June 24, 2024

It's hot out there! That's why we're staying cool this week ...

Monday, May 6, 2024

Don't forget about the moms in your life this Sunday!

Monday, March 18, 2024

Saint Patrick's Day has come and gone, but good fortune may still await ...

Monday, December 4, 2023

This coming week will include Repeal Day, an annual event celebrating the repeal of thirteen years of Prohibition ...

Monday, October 16, 2023

According to the internet, we'll be celebrating International Roller Skating Day this week ...

Monday, September 4, 2023

Hagley Library is closed on Monday, September 4th in observation of the Labor Day holiday ...

Monday, April 17, 2023

Hey there, procrastinators!

Monday, April 10, 2023

Today, Arbor Day is recognized on the last Friday of April ....

Thursday, February 16, 2023

On this date, February 16, in 1937, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. was granted U.S. patent ...

Friday, December 16, 2022

This post is for all our pals out there ...

Monday, December 5, 2022

Happy Repeal Day! On this day, December 5, in 1933, the repeal of thirteen years of Prohibition ...

Monday, November 21, 2022

Today's photograph is being posted in recognition of World Television Day ...

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

We've got a full house this #TrainTuesday ...

Monday, October 24, 2022

Today's post comes courtesy of a little extra coffee on a Monday morning ...

Monday, October 17, 2022

The internet says that today International Roller Skating Day ...

Monday, October 3, 2022

This #MovieMonday clip is a promotion from Kodak Cinegraphs & Kodascope Libraries for 1930s feature films ...

Friday, September 16, 2022

It's a #FoodieFriday for the fellas ...

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Here's to the start of a new school year!

Monday, August 29, 2022

We're having a ball today with the Wilson Lines ....

Monday, August 22, 2022

Here's hoping that this pamphlet helps manifest an easy commute ...

Monday, August 8, 2022

Today, we're joining the women of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (W.O.N.P.R.) ....

Thursday, July 14, 2022

We're posting this 1930 catalog for bedroom furniture today on account of Sarah Elisabeth Goode ...

Monday, July 11, 2022

This photograph shows Maj. William Kepner, Lorena Berry ....

Thursday, July 7, 2022

This photograph, taken #OTD in 1931, shows June Croll ...

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

This 1930 #TextileTuesday cartoon was created for the 'The Eddystone Print and Dye-Jest' ...

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

On this date, May 24, in 1938 ....

Monday, May 23, 2022

I don't know about you, but I heard a man there pays folks money to sing into a can ...

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

I know that it doesn't *look* like we're excited ....

Thursday, April 28, 2022

This ca. 1930 lantern slide was once used to illustrate ...

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Some seasonal and adorable little visitors are waddling their way into our feed ...

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday shows employees of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co.'s ...

Thursday, March 24, 2022

April showers have turned up early to Hagley this year ...

Monday, March 14, 2022

This ca. 1930 lantern slide was once used to illustrate the elements of the Munsell Color System ...

Thursday, February 24, 2022

On this date in 1938 ...

Monday, February 14, 2022

We're crushing hard on every last one of you today ...

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

The first observance of Groundhog Day in Punxsatawney, Pennsylvania ...

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

On this date in 1896 ...

Friday, January 7, 2022

If you're also starting out your morning with the shovel and salt, here's a little snow inspo to get you going ...

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

This 1939 #TextileTuesday photograph is from the public debut of nylon hosiery ...

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Talk about a bright idea ...

Friday, October 15, 2021

Working on that sweater weather body ....

Monday, October 4, 2021

I'm spending some time this week doing metadata cleanup in Hagley Library's fabulous Digital Archive ...

Friday, October 1, 2021

Gowns of rayon, stockings of nylon, plastic jewelry ....

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Du Pont has the best leg show at the fair ...

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam ...

Thursday, August 26, 2021

As we get ready to say goodbye to August ....

Thursday, August 12, 2021

On this date, August 12, in 1851 ....

Thursday, July 15, 2021

On this date, July 15, in 1916 ....

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Today’s #WetNoseWednesday is going to the dogs ...

Monday, May 24, 2021

While I have been considering my Adam's Apple lately ...

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

This film from Cinecraft documents the General Electric Company's 1935 corporate retreat in Cleveland, Ohio's Nela Park ...

Friday, May 7, 2021

Don't forget about the moms in your life this Sunday!

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Cinco de Mayo

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday post takes us to the floor of the Budd Company ...

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

As anyone who knows me can tell you this #TechTuesday ...

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Hagley Library's John Gordon Rideout papers(Accession 2701)...

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Spring has sprung and love is in the air this...

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

In 1924, Colonel J. (John) Victor Dallin (1897-1991)founded...

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

We're celebrating Mardis Gras today with this ca. 1940 postcard...

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

On this date in 1883, the first electric lighting system used...

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

I'm feeling udderly delighted to have this bucolic duo stop by...

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began on this date,...

Monday, January 4, 2021

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Monday, December 14, 2020

It's a drizzly day at Hagley Library but, like much of the...

Friday, December 11, 2020

This December 12th marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of...

Monday, November 23, 2020

On this day in 1899, San Francisco's Palais Royale...

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

On this brisk fall day, we're getting on board #TrainTuesday...

Thursday, November 5, 2020

We're raising a glass today to International Stout Day...

Friday, October 23, 2020

We're staying tidy and offering no admittance to dirtiness...

Friday, October 16, 2020

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        • A Crisis of Identity: Sectionalism & The U.S. Navy Officer Corps, 1815-1861 with Roger Bailey
        • A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945
        • A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry & Modern Japan
        • A Stretch of the Imagination: Speculative Design, Performance Fabrics, and the Space Race
        • Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn
        • American Advertising: Researching Capitalism from the Inside Out
        • American Independent Inventors In An Era of Corporate R&D
        • An Artist in the Archive: Researching & Sculpting Nylon
        • An Oral History of the RCA Studio II Console
        • Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
        • Back on Track American Railroad Accidents and Safety 1965-2015
        • Be His Guest: How Conrad Hilton Made Hotels Better than Homes
        • Black Powder, White Lace: The DuPont Irish & Cultural Identity in 19th Century America
        • Born in the USA/Made in the GDR: How Western Popular Music Shaped a Communist Record Market
        • Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture
        • Building an Oral History of DuPont’s Textile Fibers Department
        • Chemistry, Capitalism, & the Commodification of Nitrogen
        • China's Dream of a Red Railway: Technicians & Industrial Power, 1945-1976
        • Commercial Attention: Advertising, Space, & New Media in the U.S.
        • Company Unions & Worker Identity
        • Detroit Muscle: Automobile Manufacturing and the Middle West
        • Digital Archaeology: Rediscovering Early Video Games with Kevin Bunch
        • Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products Incorporated
        • Empire of Steel: Bethlehem in Latin America
        • Forging the Global Industrial Network: International Industrial Conferences, 1957-1997
        • Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s
        • Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
        • Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895
        • Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940
        • Health, Safety, & Risk Communication at DuPont in the Twentieth Century
        • Holy Holes: Mining and Religion in the Americas
        • Home & Hell: Sundown Towns & the Great Migration in Appalachia
        • How Florida Happened
        • How International Business Associations Reacted to Regulations on Multinational Corporations
        • Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
        • Imagining the Future of Business, 1961-1996
        • Industrial Semiotic & Visual Complexes: A Study of the United States Visual Culture from the 1880s to the 1950s
        • Italian Fashion Since 1945: A Cultural History
        • Kerosene Antimonopoly: Standard Oil & the People Who Hated It
        • Labor, Technology, & Race in the Early 19th Century Global Textile Industry
        • Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s
        • Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
        • Making Youth Safe for Democracy:  Education & American Enterprise, 1916-1980
        • Management as Design: Industrial Designers and Business Culture
        • Manufacturing Self-Determination: Industry on Native American Reservations
        • Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of American Brewing
        • Negating Visions: Cultural Memory and Media Negatives
        • New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
        • New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
        • Oil Palm: A Global History
        • Old Brains: How Corporate America Measured Aging
        • On Ice:  America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life
        • Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office
        • Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965
        • Patents Over Planning: Industrial Capital & Postwar Innovation Policy with Dan Traficonte
        • Philadelphia's Pencoyd Iron Works: Forging Along the Schuylkill River
        • Pirates of the Caribbean: US Domestic Satellites & Media Distribution in the Americas in the 1980s
        • Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
        • Plasticizing China: A Cultural History of Everyday Things, 1960-1990
        • Plebian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth Century Colombia
        • Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity
        • Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
        • Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
        • Racial Economies of Early Jazz
        • Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America
        • Ruman Nation: An Environmental History of American Cattle with Nicole Welk-Joerger
        • Screentime: An Interactive Exhibition with Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
        • Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Computer Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013
        • Set the Earth on Fire: The 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike
        • Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: American Tobacco & Broadcast Media
        • Smoking Gun: How Consumerism & Community Made an American Gun Culture, 1870-1920
        • Sound and Music in the du Pont Women's World: From French Revolution to American Civil War
        • Survival is Improvisational: Casual Labor in Postwar America
        • Synthetic Fashion & the Mad Russian
        • TV Town: New York City & Broadcast Media
        • Tasteful Design: Peter Schlumbohm & the Chemex Coffeemaker
        • Tax the Rich: Teachers’ Fight to Fund Public Schools
        • Techno Redux: Technology Competition Policy Lessons from the U.S. vs IBM Trial
        • Technology & Work
        • The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal
        • The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815
        • The Council for a Union Free Environment
        • The Economics of the Empire State Building
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Long Shadow of Kodak: Markets and Scientific in Twentieth Century Photography
        • The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
        • The Nature of War:  An Environmental History of Industrialization in the United States During World War One
        • The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
        • The Not So Inexhaustible Sea: Fisheries Science & Management, 1863-Present
        • The Only Way Is Up:  Self-Employment in Britain, 1950-2000
        • The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 2: The Age of Limits 1917-1933
        • The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933-1968
        • The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal
        • The Shareholder Value Revolution
        • The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
        • Theater of Innovation: Live Performance in the Tech Industry
        • Time-Bombing the Future: Plastics in & Around Us
        • Tired!: Industrial and Workplace Fatigue, 1900-1950
        • Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
        • Unpeeling the Orange Empire: Citrus & Art in the Archive
        • Who Can You Trust?: Brands, Deception, & Markets
        • Willing Communist Collaborators?: DuPont in China, 1946-1953
        • Working Relationships: A Labor-Centric History of the U.S. Public Relations Profession
        • Your Friend the Boss: Corporate Social Responsibility at DuPont, 1900-1940
        • Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York
        • “Keep Within Compass”: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865
        • “People of Some Talent & So Much Virtue”: Forgotten Lives of du Pont Women
      • Author Talks
        • Author Talk: Al Churella
        • Author Talk: Albert Churella
        • Author Talk: David Alff
        • Author Talk: David Suisman
        • Author Talk: Debra Michals
        • Author Talk: Eric S. Hintz
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Black
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
        • Author Talk: Katina Manko, "Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated"
        • Author Talk: Lisa Jacobson
        • Author Talk: Margaret Mulrooney
        • Author Talk: Rachel Gross
        • Author Talk: Rachel Lance
        • Author Talk: Roger Biles and Mark Rose
        • Author Talk: Susan Murray
        • Author Talk: Thomas Zeller
        • Author Talk: Wendy Woloson
      • Conferences
        • 2019 FALL CONFERENCE
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        • 2021 Fall Conference
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        • 2024 Fall Conference
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        • Avon: An International Forum on its Archive
        • Past conferences
          • Hidden Capitalism: Beyond, Below, and Outside the Visible Market
      • Research Seminars
        • Ben Kletzer
        • Research Seminar Che Yuen
        • Research Seminar: Adam Rome
        • Research Seminar: Ai Hisano
        • Research Seminar: Amanda Marie Martinez
        • Research Seminar: Angus McLeod
        • Research Seminar: Anna Andrzejewski
        • Research Seminar: Brent Cebul
        • Research Seminar: Christopher Morris
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Dylan Gottlieb
        • Research Seminar: Evan Brown
        • Research Seminar: Greg Hargreaves
        • Research Seminar: Hannah Tucker
        • Research Seminar: Isabelle Held
        • Research Seminar: Karen Mahar
        • Research Seminar: Kelly Goodman
        • Research Seminar: Maia Silber
        • Research Seminar: Moeko Yamazaki
        • Research Seminar: Naa Oyo Kwate
        • Research Seminar: Philip Scranton
        • Research Seminar: Richard John
        • Research Seminar: Salem Elzway
        • Research Seminar: Sam Schirvar
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Hagley Museum
200 Hagley Creek Road
Wilmington, DE 19807

Hagley Library
298 Buck Road
Wilmington, DE 19807

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​Wilmington, DE 19807-0630

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