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Monday, April 7, 2025

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

Monday, March 31, 2025

This week's Hagley Vault post documents a train wreck that occurred in February 1917 ...

Monday, March 3, 2025

This image of a worker at the Pennsylvania Railroad's car shops ...

Monday, April 29, 2024

It's shaping up to be a beautiful day on the grounds of Hagley Museum and Library ...

Monday, March 11, 2024

This image of a woman working in the Pennsylvania Railroad's tin shop was scanned from a negative created 105 years ago this week ...

Monday, January 8, 2024

This undated collage based on a cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper ...

Monday, December 4, 2023

This coming week will include Repeal Day, an annual event celebrating the repeal of thirteen years of Prohibition ...

Monday, September 25, 2023

We're making a visit today to this display booth by Francis Bannerman Sons ...

Monday, April 24, 2023

This coming Friday is Workers Memorial Day ...

Friday, March 24, 2023

This weekend will mark the historic anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire ...

Friday, February 24, 2023

Swinging into the weekend with a cozy #FamilyFriday glass plate negative ...

Monday, February 13, 2023

Happy Galentine's Day, ladies!

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

This photographic negative of a docked boat was taken in Beach Haven, New Jersey ...

Monday, January 23, 2023

We're starting the week off with a jaunty little warning for #MotorMonday enthusiasts ...

Friday, November 18, 2022

It’s iconic and ionic …ranging from literature on salt mining to theses on halophilic enzymes ...

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

This 1910 #WorkerWednesday photograph comes from Hagley Library's collection of Photographs of child labor in Delaware ...

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday guests are the cooks and kitchen crew of the steamship Queen Anne ...

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Today's #TradeCardTuesday is brought to us by the Columbia Perfume Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...

Monday, September 19, 2022

On this date, September 19, in 1876 ....

Monday, September 12, 2022

We're offering up some words of wisdom to start off the week this #MotorMonday ...

Friday, August 26, 2022

Pack in those summer weekends while you still can ...

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday photograph is a real catch ...

Friday, June 17, 2022

A summer weekend lies on the other side of the workday ....

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The Vulcan Iron Works was founded in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1849 ...

Friday, May 27, 2022

Hagley Library will be closed on Monday, May 30 ....

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

#WorkerWednesday is off to the races ....

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

This ca. 1912 photograph shows a pine mill in Bogalusa, Lousiana ....

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday journey lands us in the carpenters' shop of the Malleable Iron Company ...

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

This photograph from ca. 1900 looks west along the Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Company's West Chester Pike ...

Friday, March 11, 2022

We're joining these veggies on parade for #FoodieFriday ...

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Are you ready to hand over some cash to someone who can prove to you ...

Monday, February 14, 2022

We're crushing hard on every last one of you today ...

Thursday, February 10, 2022

The first U.S. patent on a fire extinguishing system for buildings was granted on this date ...

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 ...

Friday, January 7, 2022

If you're also starting out your morning with the shovel and salt, here's a little snow inspo to get you going ...

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

We pulled some strings today to bring you all this fletching #WorkerWednesday photograph ...

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

#TrainTuesday brings us this glass negative ...

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

We're back (for now - we'll be closed again on Friday for the New Year's holiday) ...

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Your patent history fact of the day today is a little less auspicious than our usual fare, but perhaps a bit tastier ..

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

The Athletic Association members of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company's South Philadelphia Works ...

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday has us visiting workers in a silk mill in Patterson, New Jersey ...

Monday, November 29, 2021

The first U.S. patent for a traffic signal was issued on this date ...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

I wouldn’t say that this #WomenWednesday is strictly for the birds ...

Monday, November 15, 2021

This #MusicMonday (or, perhaps #Moo-sicMonday), we’re sharing the cover to the 1911 sheet music composition ...

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

We’ve got the women of the DuPont Company’s night shift dropping by ...

Monday, November 8, 2021

On this date, November 8, in 1875 ...

Thursday, November 4, 2021

You may have known that the Victor Talking Machine Company was a pioneer in the fields of sound recording and phonograph manufacturing . . .

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Here’s a creepy half-truth for Halloween . . .

Monday, October 11, 2021

In recognition of this year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day ...

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Today's Hagley Vault post has got class ....

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Here’s wishing you all a ferry merry World Maritime Day today!

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Today’s #TravelTuesday image takes us all the way to Jīzah, Egypt ...

Monday, September 13, 2021

Here's a little fun for a Monday morning ....

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday post ....

Friday, September 3, 2021

The Hagley Library will be closed on Monday ...

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday is a work in progress ...

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday is a real blast ....

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Today appears to be National Watermelon Day!

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Here’s a #WorkerWednesday from a work in progress ...

Monday, July 19, 2021

It's a #MotorMonday kind of morning ...

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

We're getting warmed up for the 91st annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game today with this photograph of the Pusey and Jones Company's baseball team.

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday excursion takes us to the Pennsylvania Railroad's yards in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday guests are a crew of street and sewer workers ...

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 14, 2021

The internet says that today is Strawberry Shortcake Day, so it must be true ...

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

We're expecting beautiful weather here at Hagley today ...

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday visits the gear filers in the Reduction Gear Erecting Shop of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company's South Philadelphia Works.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

On this date in 1910, the U.S. Congress created Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana. 

Thursday, May 6, 2021

May 6th is National Nurses Day! The observance, which kicks off National Nurses Week, was timed to coincide with the May 12th birthdate of Florence Nightingale (1820 -1910).

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Here at Hagley, we love inventions, big and small ...

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

We turn our attention to accident prevention today ...

Monday, March 8, 2021

International Women's Day is being observed around the world...

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Today is Read Across America Day, an event promoted by the...

Friday, February 26, 2021

On this date, February 26, in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson...

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...

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Get your children interested in chickens this #Feathursday with...

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Next stop, #TransitTuesday. This photograph shows New York...

Monday, January 25, 2021

On this date, January 25, in 1915, Alexander Graham Bell...

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

This #WorkerWednesday, we're stopping in to visitMarie...

Monday, January 4, 2021

As a little celebration of the new year, here's engine #2021,...

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Someday soon we all will be together If the fates allowUntil...

Thursday, December 10, 2020

The bald eagle became America's national symbol on June 20,...

Friday, December 4, 2020

It's a frugal #FoodieFriday today as we turn to Columbus...

Friday, November 20, 2020

We don't host a lot of #FreemasonFridays over here at Hagley,...

Friday, November 13, 2020

What's that you say? Friday the 13th? In 2020. Cool. Cool cool...

Monday, November 9, 2020

On this day, November 9, in 1906, Theodore Roosevelt...

Friday, November 6, 2020

James Naismith, the Canadian-American gym teacher who invented...

Monday, October 19, 2020

Fret not; finding a subject for today's #MusicMonday post was no...

Monday, October 12, 2020

In recognition of this year's Indigenous Peoples' Day, we're...

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

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