Featured Collections – The Library Company of Philadelphia

This image drawn by Frank H. Taylor shows a canal boat packed with passengers upon a horse-drawn railcar that was making its way through Philadelphia to points west. The scene was at Dock Street, by the Merchant’s Exchange Building.

LCP Collections Featured in Hidden City Philadelphia: Riding The Rails On Pennsylvania’s Original Turnpike

We have 300 years' worth of the stuff that gets thrown away...

In the early years, the Library Company acquired works of literature through purchases from London booksellers made by agents on our behalf or through gifts. The 1741 catalog, published on our tenth anniversary, listed a set of Montaigne’s…

Link to Exhibit, McAllister Civil War Homefront

Treasures from the Library Company of Philadelphia

Featured Collections

The minutes of the Library Company Board of Directors meeting of April 4, 1886, relate that "a communication was received from Mr. John A. McAllister offering to give the company a collection of illustrations and printed matter relating…