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World’s Fair Exhibit Programs In conjunction with the for July 19. Jill MacKenzie, exhibit “Centuries of Progress: Hagley’s Head of External American World’s Fairs, 1853- Affairs and Development, 1982” Hagley is hosting a will run the discussion on wide variety of complementary this popular historical novel programs throughout 2005. Former fairgoers and fair aficionados will be able to enjoy a book club, a lecture series, and a scrapbooking workshop.

Book Club The monthly book club discussions will feature a variety of titles related to world’s fairs. The discussions will be free and open to the public and held at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month at Barnes and Noble Booksellers at 4801 Concord Pike in Wilmington, . Hagley staff members will lead the discussions. On May 17, Shari Rathet, library acquisitions assistant, will tackle World’s Fair by E. L. Doctorow. This novel, about a young boy’s life in depression- era New York City, includes details on his visits to the 1939 World’s Fair. In the summer discussions, Barb Hall, archival specialist, will take the lead on June 21 with 1939: The Lost World of the set amidst the 1893 Chicago Hagley staff member Fair by David Hillel Gelertner. World’s Fair. August features Candy Dunson leads In this account of the 1939 an exhaustive study of American a book club discussion World’s Fair, the reader is world’s fairs from 1876- at Barnes & Noble in treated to a thorough account 1915. Readers will find lots of Wilmington. of the fair and its amazing historical research, including exhibits and pavilions. The photographs, in All the World’s Devil in the White City: Murder, a Fair: Visions of Empire Magic, and Madness at the at American International Fair that Changed America by Expositions, 1876-1916 by Erik Larson is on the schedule Robert W. Rydell. Mike Wilson,

NEWSLETTER continued World’s Fairs Exhibit (continued from cover) formerly of Hagley’s education on Thursday, June 2, at 7 p.m. 1939 World’s Fair to chart the department, will lead this The lecture series will rise of this previously obscure discussion on August 16. kick off again in the fall form of sausage to prominence The fall sessions begin with a screening of the film as one of America’s most with a discussion led by the Leisureama on Saturday, ubiquitous meat products. The curator of Hagley’s World’s September 24. In this one- lecture, drawn from Horowitz’s Fairs exhibit, Terry Snyder, hour documentary, Jake Gorst recently published Putting deputy director of library will present the story of the Meat on the American Table, administration, and her “leisureama” house as told will include slides and a book selection, The Black Maria through on-camera interviews signing. (Mystery of Old Philadelphia) by of original and current house Each lecture is free and Mark Graham. The exploration owners, the architect, builder, open to the public and will be of this murder mystery set in the and historians. The program held in Hagley’s Soda House. wonderful 1870s atmosphere begins at 2 p.m. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East of the Philadelphia Centennial “Fan Dancing and Fan entrance via Route 100 in Exposition will take place on Belts: Selling Optimism at the Wilmington, Delaware. September 20. Another murder 1933 Chicago World’s Fair” is The series is partly mystery, this one placed in on the calendar for Thursday, funded by a grant from turn-of-the-century Buffalo as October 6. Cheryl Ganz of the Delaware Humanities the city prepares for the Pan- the University of Chicago will Forum, a state program of the American Exposition, is on the discuss the 1933-1934 Chicago National Endowment for the schedule for October 18. Suzy World’s Fair including visuals Humanities. Rogers, Hagley’s marketing of the fair’s architecture, arts, manager, will moderate this events, and corporate exhibits Scrapbooking Workshop look at Lauren Belfer’s debut from the fan dancing of Sally The hobby of novel, City of Light. On Rand on the Midway to the “scrapbooking,” which enjoys a Tuesday, November 15, 2005, opulent displays of America’s renewed popularity today, owes Hagley Director, George L. automotive industries. This at least part of its inception to Vogt, will cover an all-time lecture begins at 7 p.m. enthusiasm for collecting and favorite inspired by the 1893 On Thursday, November preserving world’s fair trade World Columbian Exposition— 3, the University of Delaware’s cards in the nineteenth century. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Gene Castellano will present As a result, Hagley will host Baum. “The Centennial and the a scrapbooking workshop on Most of the books will be Democratization of Tourism” Saturday, October 8, from 1 available for purchase at the with a discussion of how the to 3 p.m. Materials to make a Hagley Museum Store and 1876 Centennial World’s Fair travel scrapbook page will be Barnes and Noble. The book initiated the formation of a included. Admission is $20 club discussions are free and vast travel infrastructure that (includes exhibit admission and open to the public. enabled millions of Americans materials). Use the museum’s to leave home for the first time main entrance off of Route 141 Lecture Series and participate in the event. in Wilmington, Delaware. The remaining offering in The lecture will begin at Hagley is grateful to the the spring portion of the lecture 7 p.m. following corporations and series is entitled “World’s Fairs Hagley’s own Roger individuals for their support of in the Space Age: A Tale of Horowitz, associate director the exhibit: Haverford Trust Two Spacecraft.” Catherine of the Center for the History Company, Discover Bank, Lewis of the Smithsonian of Business, Technology, and Happy Harry’s Discount National Air and Space Museum Society, marks the series finale Drugstores, Heinz, Mr. and will discuss the presentations of with “’I Wish I Was an Oscar Mrs. Eugene Castellano, Debra The Rocket space travel by the USA and the Meyer Wiener’: Hot Dogs and Hughes, The News Journal, Thrower, by USSR at the World’s Fairs in the 1939 World’s Fair” on Linda Stanley, and WJBR. Donald De Lue, 1958 (Brussels), 1962 (Seattle), Thursday, December 1, at 1964-1965 New York 1964 (New York), and 1967 7 p.m. Horowitz will use the World’s Fair. (Montreal). The lecture will be prominence of hot dogs at the

PAGE 2 The Hagley Annual Fund The Hagley Annual Fund is annual fund for support. To used for unrestricted operating make a tax-deductible gift to expenses for the museum and the annual fund, please contact library. This year’s solicitation the development office at (302) runs through June 30 and we 658-2400, ext. 302. encourage you to support this important effort. Each year, new challenges are presented to keep Hagley in showcase condition for the thousands of Hagley’s millrace. people who come each year to visit the museum or learn from our collections. Everything at Hagley, including the care and repair of the millrace shown here, is dependent on the Collections Highlight Hagley recently acquired musk, citric acid, tartaric acid, the Lanman and Kemp archive, magnesia, sulphur quinine, a rich resource on a leading althea pastilles, pulivis hidrariri New York drug firm during the rubrium, casiophilorum, lemon, second half of the nineteenth creosote, essence of rose, century. bergamont, opium, phosphorus, Peter Lanman founded and tea. They offered prepared the company in 1808. His son medicines including Perry David continued the enterprise, Davis pain killers and Brandreth and with the addition of Vegetable pills, as well as their George Kemp in 1853, the own line of patent medicines company advertised itself as including Bristol’s Sarsaparilla, Lanman and Company, and Kemp’s Worm Pastilles, Bristol’s then by 1858 as Lanman and Sugar Coated pills, Oriental Kemp. Lanman and Kemp Hair-Tonic, Compound conducted business throughout Pectoral of Anacahuita, and the , South D.T. Lanman’s Pure Cod Liver America, Central America, the Oil. Much of their success may Caribbean, Europe, the Pacific, be found in their trade in opium India, Turkey, and Asia Minor. and in their manufacturing and It is a prime collection of sale of their Florida Water, a letters, account books, ledgers, cologne containing 75 percent memoranda, and ephemera alcohol, which they distributed dating from 1853 to 1896 that widely and in large volume. documents the pharmaceutical The collection comes to Florida Water cologne industry and a rising global us through a combined gift advertisements, market. and purchase arrangement with Lanman and Kemp Lanman and Kemp Diane DeBlois and Robert archive. supplied medicine and other Dalton Harris. We are grateful necessities for drugstore to them for the generous gift operations throughout the and for their work in arranging world. They provided drug and indexing the collection by ingredients such as soda, cream correspondent. Most especially, of tartar, sulfuric acid, liquid we are delighted to make the ammonia, Peruvian balsam, collection available for research. gum of frankincense, bismuth,

PAGE 3 Happening at Hagley

Volunteer Recognition Hagley’s annual volunteer service. A special thanks was Penn Station exhibit; the “Easy reception was held on given to twelve volunteers Does It!” exhibit; the object Wednesday, May 4, to honor who gave more than 300 conservation lab; Pictorial and recognize the achievements, hours of service: Dorothy Collections; the Machine Shop; commitment, and milestones Brandenberger, Chuck Workers’ Hill; the handwork of this important group of Carisch, Jane Collier, Michael group; the membership office; individuals. In 2004, Hagley Connair, Meg Dickhart, Frank the External Affairs and volunteers gave more than Forshey, Al Hirschle, T.J. Development Department; 22,000 volunteer hours. Malandruccolo, Liz Parrish, J.B. the Car Show Committee; the Forty-eight volunteers gave Platz, Leo Sears, and Carole Service Division (care of the between 100 and 200 hours of Wardeh. These individuals E. I. du Pont Garden); and service and twelve volunteers gave their time in a variety of Hagley special events. gave 200 and 300 hours of areas at Hagley including the Farber to Speak on Raskob History Project David Farber, historian and to the national stage. He worked significant collection of papers author, is currently researching to abolish Prohibition, served in the spring of 2004. and writing the biography of as chairman of the Democratic Farber received his Ph.D. John J. Raskob. A former National Committee, supported from the University of Chicago. executive of the Governor Alfred E. Smith’s run He is currently a Professor of DuPont Company for the 1928 presidency, served History at Temple University. and General as vice president of Empire Farber is an accomplished Motors, Raskob State Inc., helped to found the writer, teacher, and speaker. played an American Liberty League, and In 2002 Farber published a important role formed the Raskob Foundation biography of Alfred Sloan, a in a variety for Catholic Activities in business associate of Raskob’s. of business, Delaware. Last year Farber’s most recent political, The personal and book, Taken Hostage: The Iran social, and professional papers of John J. Hostage Crisis and America’s philanthropic Raskob are among Hagley’s First Encounter with Political arenas. Farber most important holdings. Islam was published by will speak Thanks to a grant from the Princeton University Press. about Raskob on Raskob Foundation with This lecture is free and Wednesday, May 18, additional support from The open to the public. Come 2005, at 7:30 p.m. in the Longwood Foundation, and meet the author, share John J. Raskob Soda House on his related work Hagley’s Manuscripts and stories and anecdotes about in progress. Archives Department began a Raskob, and learn about a very It was Raskob’s success in three-year project to arrange, important figure in American the business world that led him describe, and preserve this history. Thank You to our Corporate Members July is Corporate Associates B. Frank Shinn Paint; USA, Inc.; Nuclear Electric Appreciation Month at Commerce Capital Markets; Insurance; PNC Bank; PQ Hagley. As a special thank you, Conectiv; Discover Bank; Corporate Foundation; Premcor members of Hagley’s corporate Diver Chevrolet; Diversified Refinery Group; Rohm and membership group will receive Properties; DuPont Company; Haas; Sunoco, Inc.; Unisys; complimentary passes, which are Endo Pharmaceuticals; Verizon; and good for a one-time use during Fish and Richardson, Company. the month of July. P.C.; Friess Associates We appreciate your Current corporate members of Delaware; Glenmede ongoing support of Hagley include: Agilent Technologies, Trust Company; Griffiths Museum and Library. Inc.; Allied Properties; Construction; Haverford Trust Artisans’ Bank; AstraZeneca; Company; Juniper Bank; Marsh

PAGE 4 The Creek Kids Visit Hagley on five cherry cobbler. this visit, you can talk with Tuesdays this summer, June Appropriately, July 5 will soldiers from Camp DuPont, 28, July 5, 12, 19, and 26, focus on Patriotism and the march to fife and drum music, when Hagley’s Creek Kids will Workers’ Community. You can and drill with wooden muskets. once again give you the chance talk with Civil War soldiers and There will be a rousing game of to participate in hands-on musicians and practice drills nineteenth-century baseball, an nineteenth-century activities. with Quaker muskets. There 1860s ladies fashion show, and Each Tuesday afternoon will will be a variety of nineteenth- sips of homemade lemonade have something different to century games to play such to enjoy along with freshly demonstrate how families as hoops, graces, crown a whipped cream on a gingersnap. lived and worked along the king, and ball and cup. In the The final Creek Kids Brandywine Creek in the 1800s. kitchen, take a turn at churning afternoon, July 26, will be Activities each Tuesday run butter and a taste of corn bread all about the Irish, as Irish from 12:30 to 4 p.m. and take hot and fresh from the wood- Immigrants Come to America place on Hagley’s Workers’ Hill burning stove. takes the spotlight. Enjoy Irish and in the Powder Yard. A Day in the DuPont music, write Gaelic poems with On June 28, the theme is Powder Yard is on the itinerary a quill pen, sew a lavender Life Along the Brandywine. You for July 12. Enjoy floating a sachet for your linen drawer, can enjoy textile arts including wooden boat in the millrace, taste fresh vegetables and herbs spinning wool with a drop learn about gunpowder, and from the garden, and more. spindle and weaving on a lap watch stone splitting. You can The Creek Kids activities loom. At the Sunday school you also try riveting in the Machine are included with regular can write with a quill pen, read Shop, fish with a bamboo pole admission and are free for the 1834 Rebus ABCs, and play in the Brandywine, and taste ice Hagley members. The Creek nineteenth-century games. In cream after cranking it the old- Kids program is sponsored the Gibbon’s House you can fashioned way. by the DaimlerChrysler beat the dust out of a carpet, The impact that the Civil Corporation Fund. make a pew doll, and sample War had on the workers will homemade ice cream and be the theme on July 19. On Car Show Special Feature to the Rescue Emergency vehicles, American LaFrance Pumper, Hours for the Hagley Car Hagley Car Show. including police cars, fire and a 1966 Dodge Police Show are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. trucks and ambulances, will Cruiser. General admission parking is be the special feature of the Vehicle parades, music, at Barley Mill Plaza, at the tenth annual Hagley Car Show food, and great shopping will intersection of Delaware on Sunday, September 18. round out the activities. Routes 141 and Since the show’s inception in This year, we are once 48, with frequent 1996 as 100 Years of Cars, again offering our members the shuttle run to the volunteers from regional car opportunity to purchase on-site Hagley grounds. clubs have been instrumental parking at this favorite event. For Admission is $7 in identifying and recruiting as little as $50 for members, for adults, $4 for the excellent array of cars $80 for nonmembers, you can children six to displayed in both the feature purchase an on-site parking fourteen, free and general fields. This year is space located in a spot perfect for members no exception. The president for watching the day’s vehicle and children five and secretary-treasurer of the parades. Admission to the event and under. Historic Police Car Honor for everyone in your vehicle Guard have joined the planning is included. Space is limited team. Some special vehicles in and reservations are required. the 2005 show include a 1935 To reserve your space, call the Ford Paddy Wagon, a 1970 membership office at (302) 658- Pontiac Ambulance, a 1937 2400, ext. 235.

PAGE 5 Travel Opportunities

New York World’s Fairs Day Trip Join Hagley Associates Lunch at the Waters for a day trip on Wednesday, Edge Restaurant, overlooking September 14, to Queens, the East River, will be at New York, to further explore approximately 1 p.m. Your the topic of American world’s choice of entrées is as follows: fairs. This trip includes a lot seared diver sea scallops, crisp of walking both indoors at the gnocchi, Cremini mushrooms Queens Museum and outdoors and shellfish broth, or roasted during a two-hour tour. The Amish-farmed chicken, whipped trip includes a wonderful potatoes, and roasted chicken late lunch after the tour. We jus. A salad and dessert are recommend that you bring your included. Please indicate own water and snacks to keep your choice of entrée upon your energy level high. reservation. Upon arrival in Queens, Cost is $111 for members our tour guide will be Pierre and nonmembers. Full payment Montiel who is a world’s fair per person is due with each historian. Our tour with Mr. reservation and reservations Montiel will include the New must be received by August 15, York City Building in the 2005. No refunds after August Queens Museum of Art, the 15 unless replaced by another site of the 1939 and 1964 passenger. Trip includes round- New York World’s Fairs, the trip transportation by chartered Unisphere, site of the 1939 motor coach, admission to the and 1964 Westinghouse time Queens Museum and guided capsules, Philip Johnson’s walking tour, lunch at the New York State Pavilion and Waters Edge Restaurant, and towers, the Heliport, the sites taxes and gratuities for included of the Vatican Pavilion and Billy lunch and motor coach driver. Billy Rose’s Aquacade, Rose’s Aquacade in 1939, as Departure will be at 7 a.m. Identification 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair. well as various statues from the from Hagley’s Hall of Records Statement 1964 World’s Fair which are upper parking lot, located next Publication Title: still located in the park. Montiel to the Delaware Safety Council. Hagley Museum has an extensive personal color Anticipate returning to Hagley and Library slide collection on both fairs at approximately 6 p.m. Statement of and will share some of them Frequency: Published Quarterly with us after the walking tour. Name and Address: Hagley Museum TRIPS RESERVATION FORM and Library NEW YORK TRIP • SEPTEMBER 14, 2005 P.O. Box 3630 Name: Wilmington, Delaware Guest(s) Name(s): Please reserve _____ spaces ($111/person) 19807-0630 Address: Choose one entrée: Phone: (302) 658-2400 o Seared diver sea scallops Editing: Jill MacKenzie Telephone: o Amish-farmed chicken Suzanna Rogers Payment: o Check (make payable to Hagley Associates) Design: Adam Albright o VISA o MC Name on Card: Please return this tear slip along with payment to: Photography: Membership Office • Hagley Museum and Library Kathleen Buckalew Number: Exp. Date: P.O. Box 3630 • Wilmington, DE 19807-0630

PAGE 6 To order any of the items in this column, please contact the Hagley Store at (302) 658-2400, ext. 274. Additional items available at www.hagley.org.

Shop at the Hagley Store and find many interesting products and books to enhance your visit to our new exhibit “Centuries of Progress: American World’s Fairs, 1853 to 1982.” Some of the items include reproduction of images from Hagley’s collection developed on note cards, posters, prints, postcards, journals, mugs, and t-shirts. Books and educational gift items Fireworks at Hagley will be available as well. Have you ever traveled to your friends and relatives The season of gardening is upon us and you will find many new gardening to another town over the so that they, too, can enjoy a books to help make you a horticultural genius and also teach your young Independence Day holiday full year of benefits. For each gardeners how to develop a garden. and been treated to a fireworks new member who joins as a program? The crowd goes result of your recommendation, Please visit us often for all of your gift needs. “ohhhh” and “ahhhh” over you’ll receive a special thank every burst, yet the Hagley you gift of twenty tickets for fireworks’ connoisseur sits there the raffle held at each fireworks The 1939-1940 New York and thinks, “They haven’t seen show. To qualify for your gift, World’s Fair promised a new anything until they’ve seen simply bring your friends and age of global communication, Hagley’s fireworks!” family to the raffle booth at nationwide superhighways, Our commitment to this year’s show, Fireworks on and suburban living—and it outstanding pyrotechnics is the March on Fridays, June 17 delivered. 125pp., ill. the hallmark of a Hagley show, and 24, and have them join #6912, $19.99 an annual event that’s been at any membership level. You bringing the faithful to Hagley will then receive your twenty since 1982. As a benefit of complimentary raffle tickets membership, it ranks at the top which you can use immediately of the list! Each June Hagley to take a chance on any members extend this benefit to fireworks raffle item. their friends and relatives when Hagley thanks the they make plans to attend the Wilmington Trust Company, show. Often members purchase a major contributor to The San Francisco Fair, held in the the maximum allotment, be it fireworks. Fireworks is also burgeoning city’s Golden Gate Park, eight, ten, sixteen, or twenty supported by Commerce was the first U.S.-hosted Exposition adult tickets. Capital Markets, Inc., Friess west of the Mississippi River. When This year, we would like Associates of Delaware, and the fair closed in June of 1894, to roll out the welcome mat Minuteman Press. more than two million people had seen its incredible exhibits as well as this promising new land. DMNH Free Admission Offer 128pp., ill. Now that the Delaware Do common house cats and #6908, $19.95 Museum of Natural History’s the big cats of Africa still have building renovations are common traits? What is the complete, their doors will most dangerous animal in the reopen as of Saturday, June 4. ocean? “Predators” is packed Also as of that date, Hagley with animal models ranging The 1964-1965 New York members can visit the Delaware from life-size to larger-than-life, World’s Fair was the largest Museum of Natural History to give you an adventurous, international exhibition ever at no charge through April 4, hands-on learning experience. built in the United States. 2006. The Delaware Museum of More than 150 pavilions and Check out their newest Natural History is located on exhibits spread over 640 acres exhibit, “Predators,” which Route 52, north of Greenville. helped the fair live up to its runs through September 5. This For directions, call (302) 658- reputation as “the Billion- exhibit explores the lives of the 7600 or visit www.delmnh.org, Dollar Fair.” most dangerous animals on and don’t forget to bring your 128pp., ill. land, sea, and sky. How did the Hagley membership card. #6907, $19.95 dinosaurs track their prey, and what was their favorite meal? PAGE PAGE From the Director

On March 12, Hagley emphasis on safety lack dedicated funding for changing reopened Eleutherian Mills, the • Excavation of the remains of exhibitions and reinvigoration of original du Pont residence, for a press mill that was blown into a older exhibits in different parts public tours. I would like to salute hillside by an explosion of the powder yards. And we all the members of the Museum • A demonstration of line need assistance to flesh out the and Service Divisions who carefully shafting, the use of turning metal “people” stories that we want to packed and removed 12,000 shafts to transfer power from water tell about Hagley workers and the objects–many irreplaceable–so that turbines to mills and other facilities members. restoration work could proceed, and on hillsides above the millraces I am confident that our then returned all 12,000 in time • Improved signage and staff and our friends will rise to for the reopening. I’m delighted to orientation maps throughout the these challenges and bring to the report that we finished the entire powder yards museum a level of excitement that million-dollar project on time and • New boardwalks in areas we haven’t seen in many years. Hagley Museum under budget—a remarkable feat for where tree roots or terrain have Finally, let me remind you of and Library Director a major historic preservation project. made passage difficult our Hagley tour to France next George L. Vogt Following this successful • Selection of a marketing firm fall from September 9 to 18. For project, we began a series of major to develop a marketing campaign details, call the director’s office at improvements to the rest of our for the museum (302) 658-2400, ext. 301. We will museum, focusing particularly on We know that the museum be glad to send you a brochure. the powder yards. Using previously will require more help than that, raised funds, we will complete these and we are committed to finding projects before the end of 2005: the funds necessary. For example, • A new exhibit in vacant our collection storage spaces do not powder mills about the history meet national standards for control George L. Vogt of explosions at Hagley and the of temperature and humidity. We Director

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