1900s
Monday, July 22, 2024
This week, we're sharing a 1900 catalog of sales premiums from L.H. Parke & Company ...
Monday, May 20, 2024
Like the old joke says, "how do you know if a man who travels has opinions of the Blickensderfer as a traveling companion?"
Monday, April 29, 2024
It's shaping up to be a beautiful day on the grounds of Hagley Museum and Library ...
Monday, January 8, 2024
This undated collage based on a cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper ...
Monday, December 11, 2023
After a relatively snowless winter last year, we're hoping for some scenic winter wonderland days ...
Monday, November 13, 2023
The New York and Harlem, the world's first street-railroad, began rolling this week in ...
Monday, October 30, 2023
It's time to celebrate the creepiest, crawliest, eeriest week of the year ...
Monday, September 25, 2023
We're making a visit today to this display booth by Francis Bannerman Sons ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
On March 15, 1892, the American inventor and engineer ....
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
In 1972, sisters Ellen Stanley and Mary Lynne Rave registered March 1st as "Pig Day" in Chase’s Calendar of Annual Events ....
Monday, February 27, 2023
This undated (ca. 1895?) image shows workers and a Bessemer converter for making steel ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
This photographic negative of a docked boat was taken in Beach Haven, New Jersey ...
Monday, January 30, 2023
Can you keep a secret? Because I can't. So I'll tell you right now ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
This 1900 glass negative shows the Wilmington Friends School's football team in uniform ...
Monday, January 9, 2023
Children, gather round. Grampa wants to tell you about his sphere again ...
Thursday, December 29, 2022
It's not Dry January yet ....
Monday, November 28, 2022
We're back in the office after our long holiday weekend ...
Friday, November 11, 2022
This bunting-draped courthouse in downtown Wilmington, Delaware is being posted in recognition of ...
Thursday, October 20, 2022
On this date in 1906, inventor and electronics pioneer ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Today's #TradeCardTuesday is brought to us by the Columbia Perfume Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Today's #ThirstyThursday entertainment is being provided courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania's Houston Hall ...
Thursday, August 25, 2022
This photograph shows the Adele Post Office in Manoa, Pennsylvania ...
Friday, August 19, 2022
Say cheese! On this day in 1839 ....
Friday, July 15, 2022
Let's head out for the weekend, rescued from our bed of suffering and with a bloom of health ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
It's #TradeCardTuesday and we're stuck on this advertisement for cement glue ...
Friday, June 17, 2022
A summer weekend lies on the other side of the workday ....
Monday, June 13, 2022
Monday? Again? And so soon ....
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Hot girl summer, but make it old-timey ....
Monday, April 11, 2022
Awww .... wait, what?
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
This photograph from ca. 1900 looks west along the Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Company's West Chester Pike ...
Monday, February 14, 2022
We're crushing hard on every last one of you today ...
Thursday, February 3, 2022
This ca.1900 photograph looks west along West Chester Pike in Millbourne borough ...
Monday, January 31, 2022
In 1875, the inventors, photographers, photochemists, and brothers ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Today's #WorkerWednesday heads underground for a ca. 1909 photograph ...
Thursday, January 13, 2022
For when, like, your usual horse just isn't doing it for you anymore...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
On this date in 1896 ...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Today's #WorkerWednesday has us visiting workers in a silk mill in Patterson, New Jersey ...
Thursday, November 11, 2021
This Welcome Arch is being posted in recognition of Veterans’ Day ...
Monday, November 1, 2021
The world’s first all-steel railroad bridge went into service on this date ...
Monday, October 11, 2021
In recognition of this year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Today’s #TravelTuesday image takes us all the way to Jīzah, Egypt ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
We’re traveling further than usual for today’s #WorkerWednesday ...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Today's #WorkerWednesday is a real pick-me-up ...
Monday, June 28, 2021
June has traditionally been the most popular month to for weddings ...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
This #WorkerWednesday trip takes us to the interior of the soda house at its Carney's Point Works in Carney's Point, New Jersey ...
Monday, June 7, 2021
Take your pick of early autos this #MotorMonday with a visit to the Atlas Automobile Company ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
We're expecting beautiful weather here at Hagley today ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
We're wishing a .... .- .--. .--. -.-- / -... .. .-. - .... -.. .- -.-- today to Samuel Finley Breese Morse ...
Monday, April 19, 2021
We're flashing back to 1900 in celebration of Bicycle Day...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
It's true that the three-leafed shamrock clover is the...
Monday, March 8, 2021
International Women's Day is being observed around the world...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Today's #WorkerWednesday post brings us inside the tool room of...
Monday, March 1, 2021
Today's train wreck of a post features photographs taken on this...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Today's #TradeCardTuesday is quite the sticky situation. This...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
As the snowflakes continue to fall on the scenic grounds of the...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Next stop, #TransitTuesday. This photograph shows New York...
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Smell ya later 2020, and don't let the second hand hit you on...
Thursday, December 17, 2020
On this day, December 17, in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright's...
Friday, November 20, 2020
We don't host a lot of #FreemasonFridays over here at Hagley,...
Monday, November 9, 2020
On this day, November 9, in 1906, Theodore Roosevelt...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Our celebration of all things that go bump in the night...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020