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Monday, April 7, 2025

Marital ... well, something short of bliss, at just 0.25 cents a bottle.

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

There are a lot of national and international Coffee Days out...