Research & Collections News

Recent News

July 24, 2017
How Cellophane Promoted the Phenomenon of Impulse Buying
July 24, 2017
New Digital Collections: DuPont Company on the Brandywine
Hagley is pleased to announce two new digital collections of photographs that document the DuPont Company powder yards and surrounding area along the Brandywine River in Delaware.
July 24, 2017
The History of New York City's High Line
The “High Line” on Manhattan’s Lower West Side has earned great acclaim as an example of adaptive reuse and as an innovative linear park.
July 24, 2017
Hagley Center Announces Business and Politics Fellow
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library is pleased to announce the 2017–2018 Jefferson Scholars/Hagley Library Fellow in Business and Politics, Jessica Ann Levy.
July 24, 2017
The 'Spirit of Invention' Travels to China
The thrill is on, here we come China! For nearly thirty years the Objects Conservation Laboratory at the Hagley Museum has worked to preserve nineteenth-century patent models in the museum’s collection.
June 28, 2017
The Largest Item (so far) in the NAM Collection
During the late 1930s and 1940s, the National Association of Manufacturers created a public information program to be broadcast across the country.
June 19, 2017
Reading Jane Austen: the du Ponts
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 understood Austen’s work.
June 19, 2017
The History of Making Toast
Toast is a quick and easy breakfast that can be eaten on the go, but it wasn’t always so.

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