Delaware Coal Museum

Delaware museum provides history of coal companies
The Post
November 16, 2004

Dan Rottenberg's book, "In the Kingdom of Coal," is the result of meeting former Stonega Coke & Coal and Westmoreland Coal CEO Ted Leisenring Jr.
Rottenberg began his research on the Leisenring family's five generations of coal mining at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, De.

The Hagley is the repository for more than 150 years of corporate documents from the Leisenrings' companies, including Stonega and Westmoreland.

It is a nonprofit institution dedicated to preserving and understanding America's economic and technical heritage. The Hagley houses a massive collection of documents on the history of business and technology, especially in the middle Atlantic region.

The research library was founded by Pierre du Pont as the Longwood Library in 1953. It merged with the Hagley Museum eight years later and moved to the former site of the original du Pont Co. gunpowder works.

Hagley's Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society offers fellowships for graduate and postgraduate research and sponsors conferences, lectures, and a monthly seminar.

Hagley's research collections are open to the public. First-time readers must obtain a research card in order to use the collections. Hagley provides interlibrary loan, online search through the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), and photocopy and photographic services.

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