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May 8, 2025
Industrial Movie Night at the Screening Room @ 1313
April 28, 2025
2025 National History Day Hagley Award Winners
At the 2025 National History Day Delaware State event in April, Hagley Museum and Library was honored to award the Hagley American Innovation prize to a group participating students.
April 28, 2025
Navigating a Friendship in Letters: The Correspondence of Baroness Henriette Hyde de Neuville & Gabrielle Joséphine du Pont, 1810-1835
The New-York Historical Society recently rediscovered Baroness Henriette Hyde de Neuville’s artistic production at the exhibition Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville; the eponymous book was published in 2019.
April 25, 2025
A Moon Landing Rehearsal
Have you been wondering what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (better known as NASA) was working on exactly 56 years ago this month? Wonder no more! Thanks to the agency's Aeronautics and Space Report, as well as the Cinecraft, Inc.
April 1, 2025
I'll Meet You at the Eagle?
April 1, 2025
RCA and the Origins of Women in Gaming
The world of leisure activities (and the industries that support them) entered a new era 63 years ago this April.
April 1, 2025
Rose Cot: A “Favorite Resort” of Victorine du Pont and Rebecca Ralston
While perusing a folder of miscellaneous drawings in the archives at Hagley, I came across an image that I had never seen but recognized immediately (see below). The drawing shows a small cottage situated within a hilly landscape.
February 26, 2025
Unlocking the Future of Archives: Earning My Digital Archives Specialist Certification
My name is Alexis Jimenez, and I am a Processing Archivist at Hagley. I have been an archivist for 3 years now after earning my Master of Science in Information degree from Drexel in 2022.

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