Hmuseum and libraryaglvol.e 36 no. 1 yspring 2007

Hagley’s Fiftieth Anniversary anniversaries seem extra the company. It is also one of special for Hagley, since it was considerable importance to a an anniversary that inspired the proper appreciation of American creation of the institution. This history,” du Pont noted in his May, Hagley celebrates with a speech. “History, whether it is special ceremony and exhibit, of a country, an institution, or “Hagley at Fifty: Exploding with a family, is meaningless unless History.” The exhibit opens its lessons can, by precept and to the public on Monday, May 21, with festivities to include a ceremony at the Visitor Center. On Thursday, May 24, the actual anniversary, the museum will be open to the public free of charge with extended hours, from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Be sure to mark your calendars for both dates and read on to relive some of the highlights of Hagley’s inception and history. early in the discussions of how to celebrate an important DuPont Company anniversary, the idea of a permanent example, be brought home to commemorative was considered. future generations. The history As Henry B. du Pont, a great- of the Brandywine and its early great-grandson of E. I. du Pont mills is an eloquent testimonial and vice president of the DuPont of a lesson and ideal which Company, noted at a ceremony should never be forgotten….” for Hagley on May 23, 1957, so began the plans for a “the idea behind this museum historic site, open to the public, and the opening of the grounds that today is known as Hagley as a historic park goes back to Museum and Library. The 1952 when we were making museum opened to the public on plans for the company’s 150th May 24, 1957, and the stream of anniversary.” visitors began. Like the company, the remnants of E. I. which grew from a small, one- du Pont’s early powder mills, product, family-run business the dams, the millraces, and to an international corporation the family residence were in whose plants and products a rustic setting of great and spanned the world, Hagley would natural beauty on the banks of see progress and change. the Brandywine. “This site is by the time of the museum one of great sentimental value opening a professional staff was to many of us in the family and in place and had been working n e w s l e t t e r continued Hagley’s Fiftieth Anniversary (continued) for several years. Henry Clay Birkenhead Mills once again in nineteenth-century lifestyle, Mill, formerly a textile mill, was turned in the Hagley Yard, and visitors could now see the renovated and famed industrial attention shifted to the “upper foreman’s home on Workers’ designer Walter Dorwin Teague property” with an archaeological Hill, the Sunday school where the children were educated, and an operating machine shop along the millrace. with the success of the educational program on Workers’ Hill, more programs Louise du Pont for families were created in the Crowninshield on 1990s to bring new audiences the steps of the Visitor to Hagley. These included the Center, 1957 Storybook Garden Party event, the Powder Keg Kids club, the Kid Central area at Fireworks, and the Hagley Car Show. in 2002 another DuPont Company anniversary, this time the bicentennial, brought marked improvements to Hagley. The museum’s 1884 Power Plant was renovated to be the new home of the school program. Also, two exhibits were added to the museum’s Visitor Center. “DuPont: The Explosives Era” focuses on the company’s first 100 years and its contribution was selected to design the dig where the garden had been to building the infrastructure exhibits. The introductory and restoration of the First of America. The DuPont exhibit was a large relief map Office. In 1964, the Eleutherian Company’s story is continued of the Brandywine Valley with Mills Residence was opened in the “DuPont Science and narration and light sequence. In to the public as part of the Discovery” exhibit, which takes addition to working models and museum. visitors through the company’s displays of artifacts, dioramas Jacqueline A. Hinsley, who transition from a nineteenth- Identification told the story of early industry headed the museum research century manufacturer of Statement on the Brandywine. department for many years, explosives to the research-based Publication Title: the decade of the 1960s noted: “By the end of its second firm that has helped transform Hagley Museum was a time of growth for Hagley decade, in the mid-seventies— everyday life in the twentieth and Library in its collections, programs, with full-scale restorations, century. With the opening of Statement of restorations, and research. In operating machinery, and some these exhibits, the museum Frequency: Published Quarterly 1961 the Longwood Library, two-dozen buildings connected offered visitors a complete look which contained du Pont family by hillside and river paths, or at 200 years of the DuPont Name and Address: Hagley Museum and DuPont Company papers by bus—Hagley had clearly Company’s history. and Library collected by Pierre S. du Pont, become an indoor/outdoor as the anniversary P.O. Box 3630 merged with Hagley and was museum with a major focus on approaches, you can look Wilmington, Delaware relocated to a new building education.” forward to a year of related 19807-0630 on the Brandywine. Later by the early 1980s, activities (see details in the Phone: (302) 658-2400 that decade the Millwright the museum’s emphasis had Director’s Column) plus some Editing: Jill MacKenzie Shop opened and brought shifted to encompass the lives exciting changes on the property Suzanna Rogers the technology of gunpowder of the workers who worked that will be announced in the Design: Adam Albright manufacture to life for in the mills. Building on the next issue of this newsletter. Photography: Kathleen Buckalew visitors. The waterwheel in the museum’s educational program

Page  Collections Highlight The DuPont Magazine operations, including product Photograph Collection, 1960-1965 research, design, testing, and marketing. In 1955, Time as a corporation based on Magazine cited the monthly scientific discovery, E. I. du Pont as one the country’s best de Nemours and Company corporate publications. has promoted its technological The DuPont Magazine contributions to American society Photograph Collection, 1960- in a variety of ways. Before the 1965, consists of more than advent of the internet and the 1,000 photographs organized company’s web-based Daily News into 280 sets of negatives Report, The DuPont Magazine was and prints created for use in its prime source of communication particular articles, many of with the American public and its which were never published business clients. in the magazine. The photos beginning as a pocket were shot by a number of tabloid in 1913, The DuPont photographers, including Magazine and Agricultural Cornell Capa, Ezra Stoller, Blaster featured columns such and Larry Keighley. The as “Farming with Dynamite,” collection includes images of with reports from “blasters” DuPont products used in a around the country. In 1918 variety of consumer goods, the magazine moved to a larger such as clothing, kitchenware, magazine layout with a color home furnishings, and cover, geared to attract a more firearms. It also includes urban audience with articles such images of workers on the job as “A Topcoat for Your Car.” using DuPont explosives, after World War II, The paints, fabrics, plastics, DuPont Magazine introduced and other products in the color photography and modeled construction, auto, aerospace, itself after publications such publication, food packing, and as Life Magazine. The new telecommunications industries. format emphasized the many The collection is open for uses of a broad range of research, and an inventory is DuPont products in the home available in the online catalog at and on the job. Readers were www.hagley.org. also provided with a behind- the-scenes look at company

Top: Promotional photo used for the 1964 DuPont Touring Fashion Show. The glen plaid suit was by Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner and was made of DuPont Antron®, a wool and metallic yarn fabric.

Middle: View of the construction of the Goodyear blimp Columbia at the company’s hangar in Litchfield Park, Arizona, in 1963. The Columbia flew advertising missions over public events on the West Coast until 1998 and was constructed of DuPont Dacron® fabric.

Right: Interior view of the Trans World Airlines passenger terminal, shot shortly after its completion in 1963. The terminal’s free form was designed by Eero Saarinen and employed DuPont Tontine Triglas® fabric for its vertical blinds.

Page  Happening at Hagley

Art and Antiques the Delaware Foundation collections, including that of the in the DFVA tradition, for the Visual Arts (DFVA) . this year’s show will present an proudly presents the eighth an impressive group extraordinary opportunity to own edition of its Art and Antiques of more than seventy other a collection of framed miniatures Show at the Hagley Soda House. well-known artists from the painted by outstanding artists of This year’s show, featuring the Brandywine Valley area will the area. The silent auction for work of local artist (and owner also exhibit and sell new works the miniature collection benefits of Newark’s Hardcastle Gallery) created for the event. They the DFVA. Michael Brock, will take place include Charles Allmond, Larry Hagley members are invited on Saturday and Sunday, March Anderson, Kathy Ruck, Roy to a special preview reception 24 and 25. Brock is a DFVA Blankenship, Thomas Frey, on Friday, March 23, from 5 to member and a self-taught artist Lorann Jacobs, Joyce Ziegler, 7 p.m. Show hours are 10 a.m. whose Brandywine-influenced and Harold Howell. This to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and More than work includes landscapes, exceptional collection of original 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. seventy area still life, wildlife, and aviation art, sculpture, porcelain, and Admission is free for Hagley artists are paintings. His work is included jewelry will be complemented by members and $5 for guests. featured at Art in many private and corporate a choice selection of furniture. and Antiques.

New Spring Program: Workers’ Heritage Fest visit the museum on savor fine French cheese; and along the Brandywine River. Sunday, April 22, to celebrate play bocce like the Italian Hours are noon to 4 p.m. The the cultures of the French, children of the Squirrel Run day’s activities are included Irish, and Italian immigrants community. Other activities with regular admission. Hagley who lived and worked at include first-person storytelling, members are admitted free. Hagley in the nineteenth Irish step-dance performances, Use Hagley’s main entrance off century. Workers’ Hill will stone-cutting demonstrations, Route 141 in Wilmington. come alive with the food, foreign-language challenges, music, dance, and customs of and presentations on how to Hagley’s diverse powder-yard conduct genealogical research. communities. You’ll enjoy a Activities are geared for all traditional Irish tea, complete ages, so bring the whole family with scones baked on the to learn how this vital industry Gibbons House woodstove; created a mini-melting pot

Fireworks “Fireworks: The Nifty the years and are now enjoyed by and under. Invitations will Fifties”—the fireworks theme near sell-out crowds. be mailed in April. For more for 2007—commemorates mark your calendars for information or to confirm your Hagley’s fiftieth anniversary. Fridays, June 15 and 22. The membership category, contact The museum opened in 1957, evenings include picnicking, a the membership office weekdays, and twenty-five years later raffle of fine prizes, Kid Central (302) 658-2400, ext. 235. Hagley’s first fireworks show was activities from 6 to 8 p.m., created to celebrate its quarter- and the dazzling show at dark. century anniversary. The shows Tickets are $30 per adult and have grown in popularity over $12 for children ages fourteen

Page  Francis B. Crowninshield’s Watercolors Exhibit a new exhibit, “Surprising met Louise in Marblehead, and Marblehead, , Artistry: Francis B. Crowninshield within six months they were which was the Crowninshields’ Watercolors,” will be part of the married. summer home; views of ships; Eleutherian Mills Residence tour Frank’s interests were and some images of people. beginning Monday, March 12. typical of someone born to his thus far approximately the current interpretation class and wealth and included seventy-five of Frank’s of Eleutherian Mills focuses hunting, fishing, and sailing. watercolors have been on the du Pont family. Little is Less typical, and surprising, discovered, and Hagley is said about one of the last two was his interest and skill as a fortunate to have twenty-six of Watercolor by Francis inhabitants of the home, Francis watercolorist—despite having them. The exhibit will include B. Crowninshield Boardman Crowninshield no formal art training. He representations of each of the (known as Frank), who married began to paint in 1924 and three homes and gardens where Louise Evelina du Pont in 1900. created a unique three-pointed Frank and Louise du Pont The Crowninshield family was crown within a shield for his Crowninshield lived. known for its financial success signature. He painted subjects the exhibit will be in the shipping industry. Born that were around him daily such included with residence tours in 1869 and an 1891 Harvard as the colorful gardens at the through December 31, 2007. graduate, Frank served as one of Crowninshields’ winter home of Hours are 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Theodore Roosevelt’s “Rough Las Olas on the island of Boca Regular museum admission Riders” during the 1898 Cuban Grande, Florida. Las Olas is is charged; free for members. campaign of the Spanish- also where Frank designed and Use Hagley’s main entrance off American War. While in Cuba, built his studio. His paintings Route 141 in Wilmington. he contracted typhoid fever and also represent various views was sent home to Marblehead, of Eleutherian Mills; Seaside Massachusetts, to recover. He Farm on Peaches Point in New Themes and Features for Hagley’s 2007 Summer Camp this summer, Hagley’s camp as they discover how people July 30 through August 3, will program will offer four weeks of entertained themselves in the explore the Brandywine River’s varying themes appropriate for time before television and video environment while sketching children and teens ages seven to games. Activities will include flowers, identifying trees, watching fourteen. A new extended care outdoor sports, board and parlor birds, testing soil, and more. option is now available. games, making toys, and other For more information or “Lost Skills and Arts” is the nineteenth-century amusements. to enroll, contact Education theme for July 9 through 13. the “Arts and Technology” Coordinator Brianna Campers will try some of the week, July 23 through 27, will Flinchbaugh at (302) 658-2400, skills children used every day explore the roles engineering and ext. 285, or bflinchbaugh@ in the 1800s. Before shopping technology play in supporting hagley.org. Camp hours are malls and fast food restaurants, the arts and humanities. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and extended children learned to make their participating in behind-the- care is available from 7:30 own clothes and toys, prepare scenes museum conservation to 9 a.m. and 3 to 5:30 p.m. snacks from fresh ingredients, work to creating beautiful Weekly tuition is $200 for work with wood, fish with a industrial designs, campers will nonmembers and $175 for A camper discovers bamboo pole, and more. see the link between art and members. Use Hagley’s main an “artifact” during During the week of July 16 science in a whole new way. entrance off Route 141 in an archaeological dig. through 20, “Fun and Games of Campers attending the Wilmington. the 1800s” will delight campers “Brandywine Naturalists” week,

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Fall Foliage Trip to the Hudson River Valley Join Hagley members Mohonk Mountain House castle perched above Lake for a three-day escape to the Resort, located on thousands Mohonk. The resort includes a historic Hudson River Valley of acres of unspoiled scenery heated indoor pool, a spa, and from October 17 through 19 at the top of the Shawangunk numerous activities. for sightseeing, fine dining, and Ridge near New Paltz, New For more information, luxurious accommodations. York. The hotel at this National contact Kim Kelleher at During your time in the valley, Historic Landmark resort is (302) 658-2400, ext. 235 or you’ll stay at the spectacular an extraordinary Victorian [email protected]. Spring Trip to take a fresh look at lovely day two begins with a visit be at the National Hotel in the Newport and Block Island with to the Blithewold Mansion, town of Old Harbor, listed on the Hagley membership group. Gardens, and Arboretum. In this the National Register of Historic You’ll tour lovely gardens, the tranquil setting you’re invited to Places. You’ll have time for former estate of Doris Duke, explore one of the finest garden independent sightseeing and and an island bordered by Block estates in New England. In the shopping before returning by Island Sound and the Atlantic forty-five-room English-style ferry to the mainland and your Ocean. Scheduled for May 14 manor house, you’ll discover a hotel in Newport. Dinner this through 17, this trip promises a rich social history of the lives of evening will be at the Mooring breath of spring in the tiny state one family over a span of more Restaurant. of Rhode Island. than 100 years. Next it’s on to you’ll bid farewell to Rhode en route to Rhode Island tour Rough Point, the Newport Island on day four after breakfast. on day one, you’ll stop for home of Doris Duke, heiress, There will be a stop for an lunch at the Old Lyme Inn in philanthropist, and world traveler. independent lunch, and arrival in Connecticut. It’s always a favorite. Visitors to this Gilded Age estate Wilmington is scheduled for 4 p.m. Nearby is the Mashantucket see a remarkable collection of Cost is $799 per person Pequot Museum. Considered fine art, Chinese porcelains, and for Hagley members and their the world’s largest and most magnificent carpets, tapestries, guests; $76 for single supplement. comprehensive Native American and furniture. A $100 deposit is due with each museum, it offers an array of after breakfast on day three, reservation. Final payment is due experiences. You can explore you’ll head to Point Judith and March 31, 2007. Trip includes dioramas, exhibits, artwork, and board a ferry to Block Island round-trip transportation by traditional crafts of the history for a narrated bus tour of this motorcoach; accommodations and culture of the Pequot Indians special island. The picturesque for three nights at the Mainstay as well as of other Eastern scenery is one of grassy moors, Inn; admission to all sightseeing Woodland tribes. The museum is bayberry-covered fields, lovely as per itinerary; meals including considered a gem. From there it’s beaches, and more than two three breakfasts, two lunches, and on to Newport, Rhode Island, hundred fresh-water ponds. Block three dinners; local guide; taxes for a three-night stay at the Island is where the American and gratuities for hotel, included Mainstay Inn; dinner will be at Eagle, the ship that carried the meals, and local guide; and the Atlantic Beach Club. du Pont family, landed in the luggage handling. Driver gratuity . Your lunch will is not included.

reservation form - rhode island

Name: Rhode Island • May 14-17, 2007 Guest(s) Name(s): Please reserve ______spaces Address: $799/person $76/single supplement Telephone: total Enclosed: ______Payment: o Check (payable to Hagley) o VISA o MC o disc o AMEX Name on Card: Please return this tear slip along with payment to: Membership Office • Hagley Museum and Library Number: Exp. Date: P.O. Box 3630 • Wilmington, DE 19807-0630

Page  To order any of the items in this column, please contact the Hagley Store at (302)658-2400, ext. 274. Additional items are available at www.hagley.org. Research Seminars “Making and Selling Marksmanship Cultures in the America’s First Consumer United States.” Comment will Durable: The Cast-Iron Stove be offered by Arwen Mohun, Challenger—America’s Favorite and Stove Industry in Victorian director of the Hagley Program Eagle by Margot Theis Raven America” is the subject of at the University of Delaware. was written in cooperation Hagley’s research seminar on seminars meet at 6:30 p.m. with the American Eagle Thursday, April 12. Professor in the Copeland Room of the Foundation. The book tells Howell Harris, who teaches at Library building and are preceded the extraordinary story of an Durham University in England, by an informal reception. Papers orphaned eagle who came to will draw on considerable are all unpublished works in live with humans and became research conducted in Hagley’s progress and are circulated in an ambassador for his species. collections. Comment will be advance to seminar participants. $17.95 offered by Philip Scranton, Those interested in attending a director of Hagley’s Center seminar are strongly encouraged for the History of Business, to read the paper in advance. Technology, and Society. To join the seminar mailing list on Thursday, May 10, and obtain copies of the papers, Bruce Hevly, of the University contact Carol Lockman at of Washington, will discuss [email protected] or (302) his paper “Shooting Truer: 658-2400, ext. 243. Spring Conference the Hagley Fellows The Fellows have invited papers conference will take place that consider how research on Saturday, March 31, in on underrepresented themes Hagley’s Soda House. The can contribute to a broader annual conference is organized understanding of the history by the Hagley Fellows at the of business, technology, University of Delaware with consumption, and work. For A silk Hagley’s support. This year’s further information, e-mail tie, designed with theme is “Missing Subjects.” [email protected]. flasks, formulas, atoms, and microscopes, is perfect for the scientist in your life. Made by Museum Crowninshield Society Artifacts. $29 membership in the always involve the assistance of Crowninshield Society is an attorney who specializes in extended to those who have this area. The planning process Laying the Elegant Table: China, designated Hagley as a beneficiary can’t begin too early. Death Faience, Porcelain, Majolica, in their estate plans. This includes often comes unexpectedly, and Glassware, Flatware, Tureens, monetary bequests as well as each of us needs to give thought Platters, Trays, Centerpieces, trusts and gifts of property. to how we want to distribute Tea Sets, by Ines Heugel, with the purpose of the society what we own. photographs by Christian is to recognize the generosity of including charitable giving Sarramon, is a “must have” for these donors. The group started in an estate plan can help achieve anyone who enjoys entertaining. with seven members, grew to personal goals and significantly Heugel, who is a journalist twenty-two members in its first reduce taxes as well as advance a specializing in decorative arts year, and continues to grow. favorite cause in the future. and interior design, covers the while tax reduction For more information, charm and history of the many is a legitimate and proper contact Jill MacKenzie at items detailed and includes consideration, the benefits of (302) 658-2400, ext. 302, or at notes on manufacturers, estate planning are not limited to [email protected]. brands, and styles. $40 those with taxable estates. because planning an estate can be complex, one should Page  Page  From the Director

this is a golden year but plans were taking shape ways to share Hagley’s rich for Hagley, as it marks the for the Longwood Library to heritage with new audiences. fiftieth anniversary of Hagley merge with Hagley, creating Museum’s opening in May our present institution. This of 1957. We will celebrate September the Hagley Car the occasion in several ways Show’s special feature will be throughout the year. First of cars of the 1950s, a decade of Dan Muir all, in May of 2007 we will dramatic change in styling as Interim Director open a retrospective exhibit the modest cars of 1950 gave examining how Hagley evolved way to chrome and fins. from a somewhat vague vision other exciting activities into a dynamic, ever growing and exhibits of 2007 are museum. In June, Fireworks described in this issue of the at Hagley will celebrate the newsletter. We look forward decade of the 1950s. The idea to another lively year at of preserving, sharing, and Hagley. As we reflect on the interpreting this site developed accomplishments of our first early in the decade. By the end fifty years, we will be looking of the decade, not only had to the future and developing a museum come into being,

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