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  Hagley Museum and Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution located in Wilmington, Delaware.
The museum and grounds include the first du Pont family home and garden in the United States, the powder yards, and a nineteenth-century machine shop.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hagley_Museum_and_Library   (158 words)

  
 WHYY Pressroom
The one-hour documentary, produced by the Hagley Museum and Library, is about the ambiguous legacy of segregation, and ultimate desegregation in 1967, of Delaware’s public school system.
Hagley Museum and Library and the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state agency of the National Endowment for the Humanities, also supported the making of the program.
The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to the preservation and understanding of America’s economic and technological heritage.
www.whyy.org /about/pressroom/a_sepa.html   (889 words)

  
 H, Alphabetized, Museums, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
Hagley Home Page Hagley Museum and Library The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to the preservation and understanding of America's economic and technological heritage.
The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, is a private, non-profit museum founded in 1929 by Dwight B. and Maie Bartlett Heard to house their personal collection of cultural and fine art.
Hecht Museum Welcome Page Welcome to Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum's permanent archaeological exhibition is based on the private collection of the late Dr. Reuben Hecht, which he donated to Haifa University.
www.wwar.com /categories/Museums/Alphabetized/H   (908 words)

  
 Graduate Fellowships
Hagley Museum and Library, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society: Hagley-Winterthur Fellowships in Arts and Industries
Research is in residency at the Hagley Museum and Library and the Winterthur Museum, Gardens, and Library.
Low-cost housing may be available on the museum grounds.
cuinfo.cornell.edu /Student/GRFN/record.phtml?code=A1071   (160 words)

  
 Hagley Museum: Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Effort is concentrated in Hagley's areas of research and collection interest: American economic, business, industrial, and technological history.
Access to Hagley's rich collections is an important benefit of the center's programs as is the collegial association these programs provide.
With its focus on advanced study, the center fosters a community of scholars that include Hagley staff, faculty in area colleges and universities, fellows and research associates, and visiting scholars from around the world.
www.hagley.lib.de.us /center.html   (181 words)

  
 Hagley Program in the History of Industrial America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Hagley Museum and Library is a major institution located on the 230-acre site of the DuPont Company's original fl powder manufacturing complex, which included production facilities and homes for owners, managers, and workers (1802-1921).
Hagley's Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society regularly sponsors conferences and supports doctoral and post-doctoral research in Hagley's areas of research and collecting.
Formal courses, taught by members of the University faculty and Hagley staff, are combined with unique opportunities at the Museum and Library to study, observe, and experience the work of historical agencies and to do primary research in outstanding collections.
www.udel.edu /gradcat/gradcat94/17/2.html   (398 words)

  
 RR Museum of PA - Library and Archives
The Museum Library and Archives preserve the written and visual legacy of railroading in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Library reference sources include a wide range of books, periodicals, railroad association and union publications, government documents and trade catalogues.
The Museum's archival holdings on the Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, Maryland and Pennsylvania, Reading Company, and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad are particularly strong.
www.rrmuseumpa.org /about/library/library.htm   (855 words)

  
 Graduate Fellowships
Fellows are in residence at Hagley Museum and Library for 4 months.
Doctoral candidates who have completed all coursework and who are engaged in dissertation research that would benefit from use of the Hagley research collections.
Fellows give a seminar at the end of their residency and provide Hagley with a copy of their final dissertation.
cuinfo.cornell.edu /Student/GRFN/record.phtml?code=A0639   (158 words)

  
 Learn more about List of museums in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The list of museums is a link page for any museum anywhere.
Museum of Jurassic Technology - Culver City, California
Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago, Illinois
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_museums.html   (194 words)

  
 director>>Welcome to the Museum
The mission of the Swedish American Museum center is to preserve and present the Swedish American heritage in the United States, through a variety of events and exhibits, for people of all ages and...
The Frye Art Museum preserves, exhibits and interprets representational art of the highest quality created by artists of the past and present, with an emphasis on European and American painting of the...
Hagley is located on 235 acres by the Brandywine River...
www.irandirector.com /search-Welcome-to-the-Museum.aspx   (343 words)

  
 Flower Show | Promotions and Coupons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With a premier historical collection and the world’s largest map of the city, the Atwater Kent exhibits the 300-year story of Philadelphia.
Hagley Museum’s stunning riverside landscape reveals a remarkable combination of experiences that illustrate a chapter of American History, featuring the original du Pont mills, estate and gardens.
Celebrating our nation’s heritage of freedom and the wonderful diverse society it has produced, the Museum features contemporary glass art to represent the fragile qualities of freedom.
www.theflowershow.com /attractions/BFPmuseums1.html   (144 words)

  
 UD-Hagley Program in Comparative History of Industrialization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Hagley Museum and Library is a major institution located on the 230- acre site of the DuPont Company's original fl powder manufacturing complex, which included production facilities and homes for owners, managers, and workers (1802-1921).
Formal courses, taught by members of the University faculty at UD are combined with unique opportunities at the Museum and Library to study, observe, and experience the work of historical agencies and to do primary research in outstanding collections.
The University's Museum Studies Program is designed to supplement the UD-Hagley Program's strong academic focus with the fundamentals of museum theory and practice.
www.udel.edu /gradcat/gradcat95/17/2.html   (369 words)

  
 Greenwood Publishing Group I1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Traditionally, scholars have used Hagley to study the history of business and technology, but in the 1990s, they have begun to use Hagley's collections to examine such issues as gender and the workplace, domesticity, female entrepreneurs, engendering business, gender and consumption, and fashion in the women's clothing industry.
The volume describes over 300 manuscript, archival, and pictorial collections, covering in six topical chapters such subjects as 18th and 19th century women in France and America, the leisure class, employment and entrepreneurship, the culture of consumption, and benevolence, reform, religion, and politics.
LYNN ANN CATANESE is an archivist at Hagley Museum and Library and specializes in women's history.
info.greenwood.com /books/0313302/0313302707.html   (302 words)

  
 Jetset - Designs for Modern Living: Loewy Conference, Hagley Museum and Library
The Hagley's exhibit on Loewy is open through August 3 and features artifacts, photographs, advertisements, drawings, and films that trace his fifty-year career.
Loewy designed streamlined locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad (the Hagley Library has extensive records from the Pennsylvania Railroad), the Lucky Strike cigarette packet, the postwar Studebaker, and countless more.
The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to the preservation and understanding of America's business and technological history.
www.jetsetmodern.com /loewyhagley.htm   (649 words)

  
 Hagley - Chateau Country
Hagley’s nineteenth century French garden is filled with flowers and vegetables which are grown in “parterres,” or sections.
A stone quarry is a reminder of the granite that was used to build many of Hagley’s structures.
Interpreters in period dress introduce visitors to the late nineteenth century in the Gibbons House, which was home to foreman John Gibbons from the late 1850s to the 1880s.
www.chateaucountry.org /chateaus/hagley_tours.html   (606 words)

  
 Coalfield.com
Rottenberg and Ted Leisenring, the son of Edward B. Leisenring Jr., traveled from Philadelphia to speak to students and teachers who were in the Hagley Library scanning photographs from Westmoreland Coal Co. archives for a pictorial history book on coal camps.
The archives of Westmoreland Coal Co. were donated to the Hagley Museum and Library by Edward B. "Ted" Leisenring Jr.
In addition to the photographs, which are stored in the library, the paper archives of the company are stored in a separate but nearby building.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13457694&BRD=1283&PAG=461&dept_id=158544&rfi=6   (1439 words)

  
 Pens & Accessories
The Hagley Museum and Library has advertisements for ink erasers with metal blades dating to 1847, c.
The Hagley Museum and Library has an 1847 ad for Rodger's pen-knives and a c.
The Hagley Museum and Library has an 1878 ad for Moore's cushioned rocker blotters.
www.officemuseum.com /Pens.htm   (888 words)

  
 IALHI News Service: World's Fairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On April 15, 2005, the Hagley Museum and Library will sponsor a symposium on utopian visions at world's fairs and international expositions.
The symposium is being held in conjunction with an exhibition at Hagley on world's fairs and international expositions.
Proposals are due by November 1, 2004 and should be sent to Dr. Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington DE 19807, email rh@udel.edu, fax 302-655-3188.
www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0408_3.html   (218 words)

  
 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum
Excluded are most papers of Members of Congress and the Senate and most collections in other Presidential Libraries.
Roosevelt Library has a copy of the shelf list for the collections marked (*).
Please notify the Library if you know of any collection that could be added to this list.
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /repos.html   (135 words)

  
 National Building Museum: John McShain and The American Construction Industry
The Man Who Built Washington is a traveling exhibition organized by the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware.
McShain's personal and business papers are housed at Hagley whose mission is to preserve and interpret the history of business in national life.
The exhibition's appearance at the National Building Museum is supported by the Museum's F. Stuart Fitzpatrick Memorial Exhibition Fund.
www.nbm.org /Exhibits/past/2000_1996/McShain.html   (456 words)

  
 TheAvanti.com-Raymond Loewy Exhibits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A catalog is available from Hagley that can be ordered on their web site.
His designs became a part of the fabric of our lives in the mid-twentieth century; the Sears Coldspot refrigerator, Greyhound buses, the Studebaker Avanti automobile, and the streamlined locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Raymond Loewy, the most famous industrial designer in America, will be the focus of an exhibition at Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, from August 17 through December 31, 2002.
www.theavanti.com /LoewyHagley.html   (508 words)

  
 Hagley Museum: Welcome!
Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise.
Hagley is located on 235 acres by the Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware.
If you are interested in upcoming events at Hagley, visit our events page (link) for the most current information and announcements.
www.hagley.lib.de.us   (142 words)

  
 IALHI News Service: Hagley Research Seminars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For its 2004-05 research seminar series, the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library invites paper proposals from advanced scholars in the history, sociology, or anthropology of work, technology and/or enterprise.
Hagley will cover travel and local expenses, and will also provide an honorarium to seminar presenters.
Kindly send a 1-2 page statement regarding the work in progress and a short vita to: Dr. Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington DE 19807, or email same to rh@udel.edu.
www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0402_6.html   (162 words)

  
 Oral History Survey Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Please scroll through the list of names to locate your subject, note the code letters then match the code letters with the agency or museum and their phone number.
Once you know your subject, where the oral history is located and the phone number you can call to set an appointment to hear the history.
Hagley Museum and Library - Hagley Powder Workers
www.state.de.us /heritage/survey.htm   (188 words)

  
 Trade Catalogs from the Hagley Museum and Library: Transportation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Setting as its goal the preservation of America’s business, industrial, and technological heritage, The Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, many years ago began to collect early trade catalogs.
Now an important part of The Hagley’s holdings, the catalogs on transportation are key artifacts from America’s past and valuable reference tools for students of the history of technology.
Accompanying the collection is a printed finding aid with a subject and organization index and an introduction to the collection by Heddy A. Richter of The Hagley Museum and Library.
lxusnexus.com /academic/2upa/Abe/TradeCatalogsHagleyMuseumLibrary.asp   (361 words)

  
 Independent Research Libraries Association
The Independent Research Libraries Association was established in 1972 in order to address the future of independent, privately-supported research libraries.
Our seventeen member institutions have diverse origins, ranging from the eighteenth-century beginnings of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the American Philosophical Society through the mid-twentieth century founding of the Linda Hall Library and the Hagley Museum and Library.
Many, such as the Newberry, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the American Antiquarian Society, are national centers of scholarship in the humanities.
irla.lindahall.org   (512 words)

  
 Hagley Museum and Library - Wilmington - Reviews of Hagley Museum and Library - TripAdvisor
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On a recent trip from Brooklyn to DC, we decided to break the trip in half and visit and stay overnight...
Gardens, outdoor activities and kid-friendly museums make the Wilmington area a great choice for a family getaway.
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 CBHL 2005 Annual Meetings -Program Info [Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries]
A graduate of Columbia University's School of Library Service, Susan began her career at NYBG's library in 1984, where she held positions in administration, archives and special collections, and information services.
Eileen served as project manager of two large projects: an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant, in which early Academy publications were digitized and made accessible via the web; and a Getty Grant Project where art and artifacts of the Academy were digitized.
In 1999 David became president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; he is president of the board of directors for the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collection Libraries (PACSCL) and serves on the board of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.
www.cbhl.net /meetings/meeting2005.htm   (1679 words)

  
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Women's history : a guide to sources at Hagley Museum and Library
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