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      • History Hangouts
        • A Crisis of Identity: Sectionalism & The U.S. Navy Officer Corps, 1815-1861 with Roger Bailey
        • A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945
        • A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry & Modern Japan
        • A Stretch of the Imagination: Speculative Design, Performance Fabrics, and the Space Race
        • Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn
        • American Advertising: Researching Capitalism from the Inside Out
        • American Independent Inventors In An Era of Corporate R&D
        • An Artist in the Archive: Researching & Sculpting Nylon
        • An Oral History of the RCA Studio II Console
        • Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
        • Back on Track American Railroad Accidents and Safety 1965-2015
        • Be His Guest: How Conrad Hilton Made Hotels Better than Homes
        • Black Powder, White Lace: The DuPont Irish & Cultural Identity in 19th Century America
        • Born in the USA/Made in the GDR: How Western Popular Music Shaped a Communist Record Market
        • Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture
        • Building an Oral History of DuPont’s Textile Fibers Department
        • Chemistry, Capitalism, & the Commodification of Nitrogen
        • China's Dream of a Red Railway: Technicians & Industrial Power, 1945-1976
        • Commercial Attention: Advertising, Space, & New Media in the U.S.
        • Company Unions & Worker Identity
        • Detroit Muscle: Automobile Manufacturing and the Middle West
        • Digital Archaeology: Rediscovering Early Video Games with Kevin Bunch
        • Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products Incorporated
        • Empire of Steel: Bethlehem in Latin America
        • Forging the Global Industrial Network: International Industrial Conferences, 1957-1997
        • Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s
        • Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
        • Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895
        • Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940
        • Health, Safety, & Risk Communication at DuPont in the Twentieth Century
        • Holy Holes: Mining and Religion in the Americas
        • Home & Hell: Sundown Towns & the Great Migration in Appalachia
        • How Florida Happened
        • How International Business Associations Reacted to Regulations on Multinational Corporations
        • Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
        • Imagining the Future of Business, 1961-1996
        • Industrial Semiotic & Visual Complexes: A Study of the United States Visual Culture from the 1880s to the 1950s
        • Italian Fashion Since 1945: A Cultural History
        • Kerosene Antimonopoly: Standard Oil & the People Who Hated It
        • Labor, Technology, & Race in the Early 19th Century Global Textile Industry
        • Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s
        • Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
        • Making Youth Safe for Democracy:  Education & American Enterprise, 1916-1980
        • Management as Design: Industrial Designers and Business Culture
        • Manufacturing Self-Determination: Industry on Native American Reservations
        • Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of American Brewing
        • Negating Visions: Cultural Memory and Media Negatives
        • New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
        • New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
        • Oil Palm: A Global History
        • Old Brains: How Corporate America Measured Aging
        • On Ice:  America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life
        • Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office
        • Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965
        • Patents Over Planning: Industrial Capital & Postwar Innovation Policy with Dan Traficonte
        • Philadelphia's Pencoyd Iron Works: Forging Along the Schuylkill River
        • Pirates of the Caribbean: US Domestic Satellites & Media Distribution in the Americas in the 1980s
        • Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
        • Plasticizing China: A Cultural History of Everyday Things, 1960-1990
        • Plebian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth Century Colombia
        • Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity
        • Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
        • Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
        • Racial Economies of Early Jazz
        • Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America
        • Ruman Nation: An Environmental History of American Cattle with Nicole Welk-Joerger
        • Screentime: An Interactive Exhibition with Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
        • Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Computer Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013
        • Set the Earth on Fire: The 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike
        • Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: American Tobacco & Broadcast Media
        • Smoking Gun: How Consumerism & Community Made an American Gun Culture, 1870-1920
        • Sound and Music in the du Pont Women's World: From French Revolution to American Civil War
        • Survival is Improvisational: Casual Labor in Postwar America
        • Synthetic Fashion & the Mad Russian
        • TV Town: New York City & Broadcast Media
        • Tasteful Design: Peter Schlumbohm & the Chemex Coffeemaker
        • Tax the Rich: Teachers’ Fight to Fund Public Schools
        • Techno Redux: Technology Competition Policy Lessons from the U.S. vs IBM Trial
        • Technology & Work
        • The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal
        • The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815
        • The Council for a Union Free Environment
        • The Economics of the Empire State Building
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Long Shadow of Kodak: Markets and Scientific in Twentieth Century Photography
        • The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
        • The Nature of War:  An Environmental History of Industrialization in the United States During World War One
        • The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
        • The Not So Inexhaustible Sea: Fisheries Science & Management, 1863-Present
        • The Only Way Is Up:  Self-Employment in Britain, 1950-2000
        • The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 2: The Age of Limits 1917-1933
        • The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933-1968
        • The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal
        • The Shareholder Value Revolution
        • The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
        • Theater of Innovation: Live Performance in the Tech Industry
        • Time-Bombing the Future: Plastics in & Around Us
        • Tired!: Industrial and Workplace Fatigue, 1900-1950
        • Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
        • Unpeeling the Orange Empire: Citrus & Art in the Archive
        • Who Can You Trust?: Brands, Deception, & Markets
        • Willing Communist Collaborators?: DuPont in China, 1946-1953
        • Working Relationships: A Labor-Centric History of the U.S. Public Relations Profession
        • Your Friend the Boss: Corporate Social Responsibility at DuPont, 1900-1940
        • Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York
        • “Keep Within Compass”: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865
        • “People of Some Talent & So Much Virtue”: Forgotten Lives of du Pont Women
      • Author Talks
        • Author Talk: Al Churella
        • Author Talk: Albert Churella
        • Author Talk: David Alff
        • Author Talk: David Suisman
        • Author Talk: Debra Michals
        • Author Talk: Eric S. Hintz
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Black
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
        • Author Talk: Katina Manko, "Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated"
        • Author Talk: Lisa Jacobson
        • Author Talk: Margaret Mulrooney
        • Author Talk: Rachel Gross
        • Author Talk: Rachel Lance
        • Author Talk: Roger Biles and Mark Rose
        • Author Talk: Susan Murray
        • Author Talk: Thomas Zeller
        • Author Talk: Wendy Woloson
      • Conferences
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        • Avon: An International Forum on its Archive
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          • Hidden Capitalism: Beyond, Below, and Outside the Visible Market
      • Research Seminars
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        • Research Seminar Che Yuen
        • Research Seminar: Adam Rome
        • Research Seminar: Ai Hisano
        • Research Seminar: Amanda Marie Martinez
        • Research Seminar: Angus McLeod
        • Research Seminar: Anna Andrzejewski
        • Research Seminar: Brent Cebul
        • Research Seminar: Christopher Morris
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Dylan Gottlieb
        • Research Seminar: Evan Brown
        • Research Seminar: Greg Hargreaves
        • Research Seminar: Hannah Tucker
        • Research Seminar: Isabelle Held
        • Research Seminar: Karen Mahar
        • Research Seminar: Kelly Goodman
        • Research Seminar: Maia Silber
        • Research Seminar: Moeko Yamazaki
        • Research Seminar: Naa Oyo Kwate
        • Research Seminar: Philip Scranton
        • Research Seminar: Richard John
        • Research Seminar: Salem Elzway
        • Research Seminar: Sam Schirvar
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Monday, October 7, 2024

It's starting to feel like Fall on the Hagley grounds, and we love to see it ...

Monday, September 30, 2024

September 30th marks the anniversary of the publication of U.S. Patent No. 9020702A, granted in 1902 to chemists ...

Monday, August 5, 2024

We're getting into the Olympic spirit this week ...

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, May 8, 2023

This week marks a milestone in the history of textiles ...

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

This #WorkerWednesday threatens to become a real blast ...

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

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

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Our #WorkerWednesday visitors this week are employees of the DuPont company's Organic Chemicals Department ...

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 ...

Monday, November 28, 2022

We're back in the office after our long holiday weekend ...

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

This ca. 1880 photograph shows the employees of the Crosby & Hill department store ...

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

The DuPont employees in this photograph were part of the company's Lycra production and testing staff ...

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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

Monday, September 19, 2022

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

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday features a summer ready employee of the DuPont Company ...

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

This #WW2Wednesday post features the pamphlet "American Women at War"...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

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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, April 13, 2022

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

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

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

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

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

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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

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

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Just where do you think you're going ...

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Today's #WorkerWednesday is just a step outside our front door.

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

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

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

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

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Do you look beautiful over the telephone? Then maybe you've got what it takes to be a Super Secretary.

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.

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

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Today's #WorkerWednesday guest is a young Miss Georgiana Yvonne...

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Today's #WorkerWednesday post features Peggy Ward, a "yarn inspectress"...

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        • A Crisis of Identity: Sectionalism & The U.S. Navy Officer Corps, 1815-1861 with Roger Bailey
        • A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945
        • A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry & Modern Japan
        • A Stretch of the Imagination: Speculative Design, Performance Fabrics, and the Space Race
        • Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn
        • American Advertising: Researching Capitalism from the Inside Out
        • American Independent Inventors In An Era of Corporate R&D
        • An Artist in the Archive: Researching & Sculpting Nylon
        • An Oral History of the RCA Studio II Console
        • Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
        • Back on Track American Railroad Accidents and Safety 1965-2015
        • Be His Guest: How Conrad Hilton Made Hotels Better than Homes
        • Black Powder, White Lace: The DuPont Irish & Cultural Identity in 19th Century America
        • Born in the USA/Made in the GDR: How Western Popular Music Shaped a Communist Record Market
        • Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture
        • Building an Oral History of DuPont’s Textile Fibers Department
        • Chemistry, Capitalism, & the Commodification of Nitrogen
        • China's Dream of a Red Railway: Technicians & Industrial Power, 1945-1976
        • Commercial Attention: Advertising, Space, & New Media in the U.S.
        • Company Unions & Worker Identity
        • Detroit Muscle: Automobile Manufacturing and the Middle West
        • Digital Archaeology: Rediscovering Early Video Games with Kevin Bunch
        • Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products Incorporated
        • Empire of Steel: Bethlehem in Latin America
        • Forging the Global Industrial Network: International Industrial Conferences, 1957-1997
        • Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s
        • Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
        • Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895
        • Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940
        • Health, Safety, & Risk Communication at DuPont in the Twentieth Century
        • Holy Holes: Mining and Religion in the Americas
        • Home & Hell: Sundown Towns & the Great Migration in Appalachia
        • How Florida Happened
        • How International Business Associations Reacted to Regulations on Multinational Corporations
        • Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
        • Imagining the Future of Business, 1961-1996
        • Industrial Semiotic & Visual Complexes: A Study of the United States Visual Culture from the 1880s to the 1950s
        • Italian Fashion Since 1945: A Cultural History
        • Kerosene Antimonopoly: Standard Oil & the People Who Hated It
        • Labor, Technology, & Race in the Early 19th Century Global Textile Industry
        • Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s
        • Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
        • Making Youth Safe for Democracy:  Education & American Enterprise, 1916-1980
        • Management as Design: Industrial Designers and Business Culture
        • Manufacturing Self-Determination: Industry on Native American Reservations
        • Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of American Brewing
        • Negating Visions: Cultural Memory and Media Negatives
        • New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
        • New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
        • Oil Palm: A Global History
        • Old Brains: How Corporate America Measured Aging
        • On Ice:  America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life
        • Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office
        • Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965
        • Patents Over Planning: Industrial Capital & Postwar Innovation Policy with Dan Traficonte
        • Philadelphia's Pencoyd Iron Works: Forging Along the Schuylkill River
        • Pirates of the Caribbean: US Domestic Satellites & Media Distribution in the Americas in the 1980s
        • Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
        • Plasticizing China: A Cultural History of Everyday Things, 1960-1990
        • Plebian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth Century Colombia
        • Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity
        • Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
        • Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
        • Racial Economies of Early Jazz
        • Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America
        • Ruman Nation: An Environmental History of American Cattle with Nicole Welk-Joerger
        • Screentime: An Interactive Exhibition with Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
        • Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Computer Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013
        • Set the Earth on Fire: The 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike
        • Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: American Tobacco & Broadcast Media
        • Smoking Gun: How Consumerism & Community Made an American Gun Culture, 1870-1920
        • Sound and Music in the du Pont Women's World: From French Revolution to American Civil War
        • Survival is Improvisational: Casual Labor in Postwar America
        • Synthetic Fashion & the Mad Russian
        • TV Town: New York City & Broadcast Media
        • Tasteful Design: Peter Schlumbohm & the Chemex Coffeemaker
        • Tax the Rich: Teachers’ Fight to Fund Public Schools
        • Techno Redux: Technology Competition Policy Lessons from the U.S. vs IBM Trial
        • Technology & Work
        • The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal
        • The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815
        • The Council for a Union Free Environment
        • The Economics of the Empire State Building
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Long Shadow of Kodak: Markets and Scientific in Twentieth Century Photography
        • The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
        • The Nature of War:  An Environmental History of Industrialization in the United States During World War One
        • The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
        • The Not So Inexhaustible Sea: Fisheries Science & Management, 1863-Present
        • The Only Way Is Up:  Self-Employment in Britain, 1950-2000
        • The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 2: The Age of Limits 1917-1933
        • The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933-1968
        • The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal
        • The Shareholder Value Revolution
        • The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
        • Theater of Innovation: Live Performance in the Tech Industry
        • Time-Bombing the Future: Plastics in & Around Us
        • Tired!: Industrial and Workplace Fatigue, 1900-1950
        • Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
        • Unpeeling the Orange Empire: Citrus & Art in the Archive
        • Who Can You Trust?: Brands, Deception, & Markets
        • Willing Communist Collaborators?: DuPont in China, 1946-1953
        • Working Relationships: A Labor-Centric History of the U.S. Public Relations Profession
        • Your Friend the Boss: Corporate Social Responsibility at DuPont, 1900-1940
        • Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York
        • “Keep Within Compass”: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865
        • “People of Some Talent & So Much Virtue”: Forgotten Lives of du Pont Women
      • Author Talks
        • Author Talk: Al Churella
        • Author Talk: Albert Churella
        • Author Talk: David Alff
        • Author Talk: David Suisman
        • Author Talk: Debra Michals
        • Author Talk: Eric S. Hintz
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Black
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
        • Author Talk: Katina Manko, "Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated"
        • Author Talk: Lisa Jacobson
        • Author Talk: Margaret Mulrooney
        • Author Talk: Rachel Gross
        • Author Talk: Rachel Lance
        • Author Talk: Roger Biles and Mark Rose
        • Author Talk: Susan Murray
        • Author Talk: Thomas Zeller
        • Author Talk: Wendy Woloson
      • Conferences
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        • 2020 Fall Conference
        • 2021 Fall Conference
        • 2022 Fall Conference
        • 2024 Fall Conference
        • 2025 Fall Conference
        • Avon: An International Forum on its Archive
        • Past conferences
          • Hidden Capitalism: Beyond, Below, and Outside the Visible Market
      • Research Seminars
        • Ben Kletzer
        • Research Seminar Che Yuen
        • Research Seminar: Adam Rome
        • Research Seminar: Ai Hisano
        • Research Seminar: Amanda Marie Martinez
        • Research Seminar: Angus McLeod
        • Research Seminar: Anna Andrzejewski
        • Research Seminar: Brent Cebul
        • Research Seminar: Christopher Morris
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Dylan Gottlieb
        • Research Seminar: Evan Brown
        • Research Seminar: Greg Hargreaves
        • Research Seminar: Hannah Tucker
        • Research Seminar: Isabelle Held
        • Research Seminar: Karen Mahar
        • Research Seminar: Kelly Goodman
        • Research Seminar: Maia Silber
        • Research Seminar: Moeko Yamazaki
        • Research Seminar: Naa Oyo Kwate
        • Research Seminar: Philip Scranton
        • Research Seminar: Richard John
        • Research Seminar: Salem Elzway
        • Research Seminar: Sam Schirvar
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Hagley Museum
200 Hagley Creek Road
Wilmington, DE 19807

Hagley Library
298 Buck Road
Wilmington, DE 19807

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P. O. Box 3630
​Wilmington, DE 19807-0630

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(302) 658-2400
AskHagley@hagley.org

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Hagley Museum and Library seeks to inspire all people to be innovative in their own lives through investigation and exploration of our historical collections, original DuPont powder yards, and online resources.

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