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Monday, January 27, 2025

We're sending a postcard this week from a digital road trip ...

Monday, January 6, 2025

Hagley Library is starting the week off with a snow day! 

Monday, November 27, 2023

These industrial design drawings were created on November 29, 1949 ...

Monday, October 9, 2023

These early Tex-Mex recipes come from 'Mexican Cookery for American Homes' ...

Monday, September 11, 2023

It might feel like beach weather outside, but school is back in session ...

Monday, June 12, 2023

This clip comes from the 1948 industrial film "The Talking Hoist" ...

Monday, May 22, 2023

We're presenting you with a little mystery this week ...

Monday, May 15, 2023

We're back in the stacks this Monday and offering some belated Mother's Day wishes ....

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Our guest this #WorkerWednesday is an employee of the Jackson Lab at the DuPont company's plant ...

Monday, April 3, 2023

This photograph shows the christening of the freighter Cape Race ...

Friday, March 10, 2023

This ca. 1943 poster was produced and distributed by the National Association of Manufacturers as one of ten posters ...

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

We're sharing our commute this #WorkerWednesday with three employees of the Hanford Engineer Works ...

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

We're saying "love" the modern way today with a Valentine's Day radiogram post ...

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

This photograph was taken on October 21, 1943 at the launching of the S.S. U.S.O., a Liberty Ship ...

Friday, January 6, 2023

On this date, January 9th, in 1951, Zenith Radio Corporation ...

Monday, December 12, 2022

There's always room for pie, especially if you've got the Pastri Tower ...

Friday, December 9, 2022

It's not Saturday just yet ...

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

sts this #WorkerWednesday are the women of the Sperry Gyroscope Company ...

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

The Railway Labor Executivess Association (RLEA) is joining you at the polls this Election Day ...

Monday, November 7, 2022

Today's #MotorMonday image features the cover of a brochure advertising the 1941 line of Nash automobiles ...

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

It's a new month, and today November brings with it the November/December 1948 cover of Better Living magazine ...

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Today's #TrainTuesday post has us visiting a safety meeting ....

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

This #WWIIWednesday, we're sharing a poster from the Seagram Company ...

Friday, September 2, 2022

Hagley Library will be closed on Monday, September 8 ....

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

We're turning up the heat this #TechTuesday with a ca. 1947 pamphlet ....

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn’t enjoy a good sit?

Monday, August 15, 2022

On this date in 1877, inventor Thomas Edison suggested "Hello" to the president ...

Thursday, August 4, 2022

I've always said that the worst thing about having to do household chores is ....

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

This September 1948 pamphlet was number 200 in a series ....

Monday, August 1, 2022

We're saying goodbye to July and hello to August ...

Friday, July 29, 2022

Move over pink sauce ....

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Got some extra fat lying around? Feeling patriotic and practical?

Monday, July 25, 2022

On this date, July 25, in 1946 the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering completed work on ....

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Your hosts this #WorkerWednesday are the men and women of New Zealand Ford ...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday visitor is ....

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Our labors are eased this #WorkerWednesday ...

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday post takes us inside the Hotel DuPont ...

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

We're celebrating International Museum Day today with this photograph ....

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

I know that it doesn't *look* like we're excited ....

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday image shows DuPont employees performing a check inspection ....

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Some seasonal and adorable little visitors are waddling their way into our feed ...

Thursday, March 31, 2022

This is an exciting time of year for the green thumbs of the northeast ...

Friday, March 25, 2022

Yee-haw! Here's to horsing around on the weekend ....

Thursday, March 10, 2022

On this date in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell conveyed the now-famous line ...

Friday, March 4, 2022

Remember kids, don't do what Dazzy does ...

Monday, February 28, 2022

#MakeupMonday? Do we dare?

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday post has us joining T. A. Morgan, president of the Sperry Corporation ...

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

I always did say that about Joe Vaughn. Knows his onions.

Monday, January 24, 2022

Ain't no Christmas party like an Amalgamated Leather Companies party, because an Amalgamated Leather Companies party's got CHAIRS.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

On this date in 1964 ...

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

On this date in 1896 ...

Monday, January 3, 2022

It's our first post of 2022! And it struts!

Friday, November 12, 2021

For those of you that prefer your household shopping to come with a touch of noir ...

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

On this date in 1860 ...

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

This ca. 1940 photograph shows workers assembling Chrysler roofs ...

Friday, September 17, 2021

We're feeling rather dapper this #FashionFriday ....

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Happy birthday, California!

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Here's a little midweek celebration of summer weekends!

Monday, July 12, 2021

We're starting the week off on the right track today with this photograph of steam-powered Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive traveling over the Elkview Viaduct near Oxford, Pennsylvania.

Thursday, June 17, 2021

It's a *little* late to arrange for a Radiogram (a portmanteau of radio telegram), but a telephone call would be nice ...

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

We're taking flight this #TravelTuesday and brushing up on our airline etiquette after a long year on the ground ...

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

On this date, June 2, in 1940, over 160,000 people gathered in Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium for Cardinal Dennis Joseph Dougherty’s Golden Jubilee Mass...

Friday, May 28, 2021

The Hagley Library will be closed on Monday, May 31, in observance of Memorial Day. As we head out the door on this holiday weekend, we’re leaving you with this May 26, 1944 Memorial Day issue of Lukens Plate, a newsletter of the Lukens Steel Company.

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday post features Helen Anderson, a crane operator at DuPont's Wilmington Shops

Monday, April 19, 2021

We're flashing back to 1900 in celebration of Bicycle Day...

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

After having to drop out of high school to help financially support his family ...

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Today's #ThursDIY post has us sharing this cover for a brochure...

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

On this date in 1822, the U.S. Congress merged the recently...

Friday, March 5, 2021

Happy Industrial Design Day! Industrial design the practice of...

Thursday, February 25, 2021

The National Society of Professional Engineers has been...

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

We're celebrating Mardis Gras today with this ca. 1940 postcard...

Monday, February 15, 2021

We're observing ENIAC day today and the people that made IT...

Friday, February 5, 2021

New desserts, pea soup, and noodle dishes ... we're hungry...

Thursday, February 4, 2021

On this date (February 4) in 1941, Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., a...

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

We're taking a #WWIIWednesday trip to the Ballistics Labof...

Monday, January 4, 2021

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

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

On this date, December 29, in 1845 the United States annexed the Republic of Texas...

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

No ugly Christmas sweaters here...

Monday, December 21, 2020

Still struggling with last minute gift ideas? Have all the...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

As we wait to find out whether today's snow storm will be a...

Monday, November 30, 2020

Be the envy of all this #MotorMonday with an Aerocar...

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Whatever your Thanksgiving looks like this year...

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Today's #TechTuesday post comes from a February 1941 issue...

Monday, November 23, 2020

On this day in 1899, San Francisco's Palais Royale...

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

We're observing Veterans' Day today with this 1943 catalog...

Thursday, November 5, 2020

We're raising a glass today to International Stout Day...

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Today's #WorkerWednesday photo dates to around 1945...

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Feeling the call of the open road this #TravelTuesday?

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day...