HagleyMUSEUM AND LIBRARY VOL. 32 NO. 2 SUMMER 2003

Summer Brings Changes To Hagley With this issue, you will strong “people skills” to her notice the addition of a calendar position at Hagley. Her role will of events, which is our way of be to coordinate the three main encouraging you and others to library sections (Manuscripts and keep coming back to Hagley for new and exciting things. We are working hard to make the Hagley experience as diverse and rewarding as we can, and we hope that you find numerous things on the calendar that appeal to you, your family, and your friends. That’s the “visible” part of our effort. In addition, we are creating a new, institution-wide Programming Committee that will bring all of our expertise and skills to bear on exhibits, special events, and other programs. In coming months, we hope to provide numerous related programs for our major events such as lectures, workshops, publications, and tours, to make certain that we are marketing them appropriately. Though well endowed, Hagley still relies upon admissions for a large part of the budget, and we want our customers to have many, many Be sure to visit Hagley reasons to return. We would Archives, Pictorial Collections, to see what’s in bloom appreciate hearing your and Imprints), direct our active in the E. I. du Pont ideas, too. program of grant writing, and Garden! Another major change participate in strategic planning occurs on June 2, when Hagley for the institution. We expect welcomes our new Deputy that computers and the Internet Director for Libraries. She is Dr. will be a major part of Hagley’s Theresa (Terry) Snyder, currently future, and Terry is well the associate archivist for the equipped to help us. University of Pennsylvania. Enjoy spring and summer, Terry brings a record of and please enjoy it often at achievement in building the Hagley! university’s archives and records management programs and George L. Vogt NEWSLETTER Bienvenue à Chateau Country DirectorHagley has received a participating restaurants and $16,500 matching grant from evening entertainment venues. the Delaware Tourism Office Chateau Country is a (DTO) to market the Chateau freshened branding idea for Country travel package. DTO the four partnering du Pont- offers the matching grants related attractions who feel that program annually to encourage the new phrase might conjure partnerships and overnight a more immediate image than visitor stays. “Brandywine Valley” does when Delaware’s Chateau used outside of the region. Country Package will The Chateau Country include admission to Hagley, marketing and advertising Winterthur, Nemours, campaign will target greater and Longwood Gardens; New Jersey and Westchester accommodations at one of County, New York. five participating hotels; and To learn more about the a coupon book of special package, visit the web site, discounts or added bonuses at www.chateaucountry.org.

Summer Science Sundays

Science is fun and science Sunday on August 10. Visitors Wheels, Wonders, and is everywhere. Hagley’s will meet some critters, plant How Things Work is the Summer Science Sundays are seeds, make paper butterflies, focus for Sunday, August 24. back this August with a line work in a garden, and Hagley’s dramatic machinery up of chemistry shows, nature watercolor insect and animal demonstrations and the workshops, and even some sketches drawn by Sophie museum’s hands-on “Easy Does robotics. du Pont almost 200 years ago. It” exhibit, which is all about Cool Chemistry is the To celebrate the centennial levers, pulleys, and gears, will theme for Sunday, August 3, of the first successful airplane be the main features for the day. when local science teacher Dr. flight, Fascinating Flight is The Miracle Workerz team and Michael Stemniski will reprise the theme of Hagley’s Science their Miracle of Engineering his exciting and “explosive” Sunday on August 17. William (MOE) robots will be on the chemistry show in the Power Hazel, a pilot and volunteer property as well. This team, Plant. There will also be hands- coordinator at the Mid- sponsored by the DuPont on science activities in the Atlantic Air Museum, will tell Company, will show the Wheelwright Shop, kitchen the story of how Orville and amazing things their student- chemistry demonstrations in Wilbur Wright took to the sky. built machines can do. the Gibbons House, the chance This humorous, engaging, Summer Science Sunday to visit Lammot du Pont’s and interactive experience activities take place between 12: chemistry lab, and more. for the whole family is not to 30 to 4 p.m. The activities are Hagley’s property is full be missed. Visitors may also included with regular museum of interesting plant and animal engineer airplanes to take home, admission and are free for life which will be the subject of watch cannonballs fly, and Hagley Associates. the Naturally Nature Science more.

PAGE 2 Loewy Project Receives NEH Funding Hagley has been awarded August 3. The Philadelphia industry and the role that an $84,000 grant from the Inquirer described the exhibit advertising, industrial, and National Endowment for as “one of the most enjoyable package design has played the Humanities (NEH) to exhibitions of its kind that one in defining the American conserve and organize the could ever expect to see.” aesthetic. Raymond Loewy archive. The portion of the The Loewy papers will The museum acquired archive that has perhaps the be opened for research as soon approximately fifty linear feet highest research value is the as they are organized and of materials in May of 2001 information from the post-war conserved, in late 2004 or from the archives of Raymond period that describes Loewy’s in 2005. Loewy, the world’s most role in creating the modern successful and best-known consumer society. Materials industrial designer, at auction. describing shopping center, The collection documents supermarket, and department the full scope of Loewy’s store development are certain to life and career. The earliest attract considerable interest. materials provide a window on his childhood in France. America’s culture of Journals from the 1906 to consumption has been at the 1908 period include sketches center of historical inquiry for of speedboats, automobiles, much of the past decade. And and locomotives that for nearly fifty years, Raymond foreshadow Loewy’s interest Loewy was a key figure in in transportation, speed, and creating the designs for this streamlining. The photographs consumer culture. Along with his and papers describe most of colleagues and competitors, he Loewy’s major projects from helped develop what historian, the 1930s through the 1970s. and Director of Hagley’s Center Of particular importance are for the History of Business, the files on the Pennsylvania Technology, and Society, Philip Railroad, Sears, Greyhound, Scranton, has described as the Studebaker, and the wide “endless novelty” that drove array of consumer product the American economy. The companies that defined post- new business history, with war America. its focus on the relationship While much of Loewy’s between business, culture, and business correspondence from society, sees industrial design as the 1930s and early 1940s inextricably connected to the was destroyed, forty surviving evolution of mass distribution scrapbooks provide an and merchandising as it emerged unusually important resource during the inter-war years. for this period. Hagley’s The Loewy archive Views from the Raymond Loewy exhibit at Hagley, open through August 3 curatorial staff relied on them will also have audiences far Top: Loewy with the streamlined S-1 locomotive at the 1939 New York for much of the research that beyond the discipline of World’s Fair. Bottom: Dole Deluxe Coca-Cola fountain dispenser, developed was done for the exhibit, business history. Art historians, during World War II and introduced in 1947; and UPB-100 Jukebox, “Raymond Loewy: Designs for students of material culture, United Music Corp., introduced in 1958. Raymond and Viola Loewy placed a Consumer Culture,“ which social history, and American one of these in their New York apartment for their guests’ enjoyment. is on display in the Henry studies are now exploring the Clay Mill Gallery through relationship between art and

PAGE 3 Upcoming Events

New Route for Bike and Hike

New areas of Hagley’s to Henry Clay Mill. This three- Designs for a Consumer spectacular grounds will be mile route will offer plenty of Culture” and “DuPont Science open to visitors during the options including level areas for and Discovery,” will be open Wednesday Bike and Hike the smallest bikers and hikers to visitors as well. Bike and evenings in August. Bikers as well as some challenging Hike hours are 5 to 8 p.m. and hikers will be welcome inclines for those looking for a every Wednesday evening in to venture beyond the steam more intense workout. These August, weather permitting. No engine, under the Iron Bridge, special evenings hours are skateboarding, roller skating, past the DuPont Company also the perfect opportunity or in-line skating allowed. Cost 150th anniversary marker, up to picnic on the banks of the is $1 per person and free for Carpenter Hill, past the Soda Brandywine River. Hagley Associates. Use Hagley’s House and library, loop around The exhibits in Hagley’s Route 141 entrance. Eleutherian Mills, and then Henry Clay Mill building, coast downhill all the way back including “Raymond Loewy:

Fall Concert Series

Hagley Museum’s concert Ensemble will perform on musical director for more than series, sponsored by the Hagley Sunday, October 5, from 2 to seventy-five musical theater Associates, will be back again 4 p.m. The audience can expect productions and has worked as this fall. The three-part series an afternoon of scintillating an accompanist and coach for will feature a variety of music, music filled with Judith Kay’s Broadway performers. Ward from jazzy Brazilian rhythms to jazzy Brazilian rhythms. The will perform solo on an electric popular Broadway standards. ensemble features Judith Kay piano. The series kicks off on on guitar and vocals, Tony All concerts will be held Sunday, September 7, from 4 to Miceli on the vibraphone; and at Hagley’s Soda House. 6 p.m., with “Music Through Madison Rast on bass. They Complimentary light the Ages,” performed by The will perform sambas to ballads, refreshments will be served Magical Madrigals. Madrigal Gershwin to Ellington, and all and wine will be available for member Louis Lynch plays a with the mesmerizing rhythms purchase during intermission. six-foot pedal harp, Jane Ellen of Brazil. Cost is $5 for Hagley Associates Borg plays flute as well as sings, An afternoon of Gershwin, and $7 for the general and John Varner plays guitar Porter, and Friends is scheduled public. Advance tickets may and sings. This performance for Sunday, November 16, be purchased by calling the will include early classical from 4 to 6 p.m. when Scott volunteer and membership instrumental pieces, Broadway Ward will present a program office weekdays at (302) 658- and jazz favorites, some celebrating the golden era of 2400, ext. 235. When available, Motown sounds of the 1960s, American musical theater. His tickets will also be sold at the and a few highlights from the repertoire will include many door. Use the Buck Road East 1970s and 1980s. well-known songs from the entrance via Route 100. Back by popular demand, finest musicals written between Judith Kay’s ChamberJazz™ 1925 and 1945. Ward has been

PAGE 4 The Creek Kids

Every Tuesday afternoon servings of freshly-squeezed in July, Hagley’s Creek Kids lemonade and whipped cream will welcome visitors to enjoy atop gingersnaps will be the a whole new perspective treats for the day. The day’s on nineteenth-century life. handicraft will be a twirling toy This lively group of youth called a whizgig. Fashions from volunteers will add games, the 1860s, rounders, and other music, tasty treats, and hands- historic games will also be on activities to a museum visit presented by the Creek Kids. on Tuesdays, July 1, 8, 15, 22, Tuesday, July 15, will focus and 29, from 12:30 to 4 p.m. on the expansion of industry The series kicks off on and how the black powder Tuesday, July 1, with a look mills at Hagley contributed at how nineteenth-century to America’s growth. Visitors children helped their families can learn to make and test while finding time for school as gunpowder and watch a well. Home-life demonstrations stone-splitting demonstration. will include spinning, weaving, There will be riveting and and sewing. In the kitchen, threading to try in the Machine visitors may try their hands Shop. Some water-related The Creek Kids final day at churning butter. Pieces of fun will include fishing in of activities, Tuesday, July 29, corn bread, fresh and hot from the Brandywine and floating will look at work and play. The the woodburning stove, will sailboats in the millrace. Tastes work activities will include also be available. The day’s of hand-cranked ice cream are quilting, grain grinding, make-and-take handicrafts sure to please. washing clothes, and scrubbing will be five-point stars and On Tuesday, July 22, floors. Play will include a the little cloth dolls used for the Creek Kids activities will variety of nineteenth-century quiet play time in church, recognize the contributions games such as hoop rolling; known as pew dolls. The of the Irish immigrants who called graces. Almost a sport, Brandywine Manufacturers’ worked and lived along the it involves tossing hoops on Sunday School will present Brandywine River in the sticks. Sample servings of the perfect setting to try out nineteenth century. Visitors hand-cranked ice cream and the role of nineteenth-century will enjoy Irish music, writing cherry cobbler will be the scholar. Outside, young visitors Gaelic poems with a feather treats for the day. And children can try walking on stilts, hoop pen, sewing lavender or can make a nineteenth-century catching, and other nineteenth- mint sachets, working in the toy called a GeeHaw and learn century games. garden, and tasting the fresh its secret. The Civil War will be the vegetables grown there. Inside, The activities are free for theme for Tuesday, July 8. visitors can enjoy the parlor Hagley Associates and included There will be a soldier from games, organ music, and the with museum admission the Brandywine encampment, stereoscope, a nineteenth- for visitors. The Creek Kids fife and drum music, and century device that makes activities are funded in part by drills performed with wooden special photos look three- the MBNA Foundation. Quaker muskets. Sample dimensional.

PAGE 5 Collections Highlight

Hagley recently purchased an album of forty photographs that show the aftermath of the famous Johnstown Flood. On May 31, 1889, a thirty-five foot high wall of water hit Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after the South Fork Dam, fourteen miles above the town on the Conemaugh River, broke during a terrific rain storm. The pictures in the album, taken immediately after the flood between June 1 and 3, show people in rowboats on city streets, the tent city built for troops that came to assist in the cleanup, as well as the immense devastation throughout the valley. One site particularly hard hit was the Cambria Iron Works, a major industry in town that was eventually purchased by the Bethlehem Steel Company. This album complements photographs of the Cambria Works that are housed at Hagley as part of the Bethlehem Steel Company archives. Unfortunately, the photographer is not identified in the album.

Identification New Trustee Elected Statement The Hagley Board of chairman of the investment Publication Title: Trustees recently elected committees of Hagley Museum Hagley Museum Edward J. Bassett to a term and Library and the University and Library on the Board. Mr. Bassett is of Delaware and serves on Statement of Vice President of DuPont the investment committee Frequency: Published Quarterly Capital Management (DCM) of Longwood Foundation. and is responsible for the He serves on the board of Name and Address: business focus of DCM and the directors of the Historical Hagley Museum overall relationship with the Society of Delaware. He is and Library parent company DuPont. He past chairman of the Delaware P.O. Box 3630 has worked in the financial Community Foundation and of Wilmington, Delaware services industry since 1973. its investment committee. 19807-0630 Mr. Bassett graduated Reelected for another Phone: (302) 658-2400 Magna Cum Laude from the term were William Becker, Editing: Jill MacKenzie University of Maryland with professor of history at George Suzanna Rogers a Bachelor of Science degree Washington University, and Design: Adam Albright Photography: in Finance. He is a Chartered Eldon duP. Homsey, president Financial Analyst and is of Homsey Architects, Inc.

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.

Brandywine Village: The Story of a Milling Community by Carol E. Hoffecker is the story of one of early America’s most important industrial communities. It is also the story of the efforts of a small group of citizens to preserve a part of this community and its history. Softcover, 112 pages, $7.50 plus s/h.

V olunteer Recognition

On Tuesday, April 29, Clarke, Carleton Conrad, Impressions of Hagley 2003, Hagley Museum Rosemarie Nicholl, Dick gives those not already and Library held its annual Stephens, Ruth Ann Stephens, acquainted with Hagley volunteer recognition ceremony and Wil Zimmerschied. an overview of our history to honor their dedication and The Hagley Choir, a along with spectacular commitment. talented group of volunteers views from all over the 235- During 2002, Hagley who sing at the Festival of acre site. Softcover, 48 pages, volunteers gave more than Museum Shopping and the $7.95 plus s/h. 23,000 hours to the institution. museum’s Christmas events Sixty-eight volunteers gave each year, performed at this more than 100 hours of year’s reception. service, and twenty volunteers Hagley currently has more gave more than 200 hours of than 425 active volunteers. service. Special recognition was Seventy-five of these volunteers awarded to Hagley volunteers are teenagers. There is always a Chuck Carisch, Mike Connair, need for volunteers to work as Jennifer Lane, and Bill Wills interpreters on Blacksmith Hill who each gave more than 300 and in the Machine Shop, to Eleutherian Mills hours of service in a diversity assist at special events, to help focuses on the home of programs including the Car in the cutting garden during the that served as the hub Show Planning Committee, summer, to assist in the summer of du Pont family the object conservation lab, the camp program, or to participate business operations public relations department, in the new Creek Kids program, and social life for and the model railroad club. among others. For more nearly a century. Hagley also acknowledged the information on any of these Paperback, 92 pages, following volunteers who have opportunities, please contact $11.95 plus s/h. given twenty years of service: the volunteer and membership Karl Blumenberg, Jim Bond, office weekdays at (302) 658- Dorothy Brandenberger, Elaine 2400, ext. 235.

PAGE 7 May 10, 17, 24, 31 August 6, 13, 20, and 27 Workshops, “How Your Garden Grows.” Bike and Hike at Hagley. Bring your bike and ride along the Brandywine River at Hagley. Or, hike around the museum’s scenic history. Bike and Hike presents a special opportunity to June 13 & 20 do either or both on these special evenings. Visitors are also (Rain dates are the following Saturdays and Sundays) welcome to bring a picnic. 5 to 8 p.m. $1 per person, Hagley Fireworks at Hagley. Hagley’s annual fireworks spectacular is Associates admitted free. Use the main museum entrance off a full evening of celebration including family picnicking, an Route 141. outdoor concert, Kids Central, the popular Hagley Associates raffle, and culminating with a finale of fireworks. Hagley Museum and Library wishes to thank Wilmington Trust September 14 Company as a major contributor to this event. Tickets are $25 The Hagley Car Show. Hundreds of cars on the general show for adults; $10 for children fourteen and under. Tickets available field will reflect the variety of makes and models that are a for purchase by Hagley Associates only. part of automotive history. This year’s show celebrates the centennial of Buick and Ford.. July and August - Saturdays Dollar Days Discount. For the first time, Hagley’s summer October 18, 19 Dollar Day discount will be valid all day. Visitors arriving at Hagley’s Craft Fair. Featuring talented artisans from the any time on Saturdays in July and August (July 5, 12, 19, 26, mid-Atlantic area demonstrating, displaying, and selling their August 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30) will be admitted to the museum crafts in Hagley’s Library building and Soda House. From 10 for a $1 admission charge. a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Daily admission is $4 and free for children under six. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East entrance via Route 100 to the Library building and Soda House. MARCH 16, 2003, TO JANUARY 1, 2004 July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 (REGULAR HOURS) Hagley’s Creek Kids. On Tuesdays this summer, Hagley’s Closed Nov. 27 and Dec. 25 group of youth volunteer interpreters bring history to life with October 31, November 1 and 2 Museum Hours: games, music, hands-on activities, and treats to sample. Sip Hagley’s Festival of Museum Shopping. Gift shops from Daily, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. freshly squeezed lemonade, play nineteenth-century games, regional museums will be open at Hagley for the weekend. enjoy fife and drum music, sew a sachet, taste hand-cranked ice Great gifts await shoppers at this holiday shopping Library Hours: Monday through Friday cream, fish in the Brandywine, and so much more. 12:30 to opportunity. Gifts of art, history, science, fine food, music, and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 4 p.m. each Tuesday. Included in regular museum admission, more abound in a range of prices. Friday, October 31, Hagley Associates admitted free. Use the main museum 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2, Second Saturday of each month 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Daily admission is $4 and free for children 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. entrance off Route 141. See story on page 5. under six. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East entrance via Route JANUARY 2, 2004, TO MARCH 15, 2003 100 to the Library building and Soda House. (WINTER HOURS) August 3, 10, 17, and 24 Museum Hours: These special days will offer families a fun new way to experience the museum. From “cool chemistry” to rocket Weekends, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. VISIT US AT Weekdays, tour at 1:30 p.m. science, each Sunday afternoon in August will explore a Library Hours: different science theme. Activities are included in regular Monday through Friday museum admission, $11 for adults; $9 for seniors and students; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $4 for children six to fourteen; five and under, free; and $30 WWW.HAGLEY.ORG Second Saturday of each month for a household. See story on page 2. FOR THE LATEST HAGLEY NEWS 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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