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January 23, 2025
Industrial Movie Night at the Screening Room @ 1313
Hagley Museum and Library curator, Kevin Martin, will introduce a series of films sponsored by the Hercules Powder Company at the Screening Room @ 1313 in Wilmington, Delaware on January 23, 2025 at 7pm. Tickets will be available at the door or you can purchase tickets in advance here:
November 25, 2024
Astronomy within the Stacks
Are you hoping to check out the Geminid meteor shower, which peaks in mid-December? Do you find enjoyment searching for constellations, such as Orion, or spotting Sirius, the Dog Star?
November 25, 2024
The Art and Business of the Christmas Card: American Artists Group
Do you still send personal, paper holiday greetings? If you’ve gotten out of the habit, Hagley Library’s new collection from the American Artists Group (AAG) might prompt you to start up again.
November 25, 2024
Inventing Christmas: Toy Patents
Through patenting, American inventors contributed to the development of practically any consumer product you can imagine. Hagley’s collection of over 5,000 patent models reflects that.
November 25, 2024
Identifying 19th & 20th-Century Photographic Prints
Some of the most commercially important advances in the photographic arts came during the final two decades of the nineteenth century.
October 24, 2024
Hagley Awarded Grant to Preserve Film about Modern Kitchens
The National Film Preservation Foundation has awarded a grant to the Hagley Museum and Library to preserve It Happened in the Kitchen
October 23, 2024
Lukens Steel Goes to the White House
Hagley recently began digitizing an addition of approximately 40 films to the Lukens Steel Company photographs and audiovisual materials collection. Lukens is a medium-sized, non-integrated steel company that began operating in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, in 1810.
October 23, 2024
Tupperware: The Party's Over?
One morning in September, I read the news that the Tupperware company had filed for bankruptcy. The article began:

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