Hagley Museum and Library, Digital Collections

Hagley Museum and Library, Digital Collections, http://digital.hagley.org/. Created by the Hagley Museum and Library. Managed by Kevin Martin, curator ot digital collections. Reviewed May 14-16, 2009

"The chief business of America is business," Calvin Coolidge once remarked to a meeting of newspaper editors. Thus it is not surprising that much ot the history of the nation can be found in the archives ot the entrepreneurs and companies that developed the American economy.

The Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delawate, offers one ot the richest collections ot materials on the history of American enterprise in the country: more than 34,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archives, nearly two million images in its pictorial collections, and 280,000 printed volumes among its imprints....