


Juneteenth 2013
All News, Podcasts"African American Women in the Era of Emancipation"
The Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia hosted its annual Juneteenth Freedom seminar on Friday, June 21, 2013. The theme, "African American Women…

Dr. Ellen Gruber Garvey: Writing With Scissors
All News, PodcastsMay 21, 2013 Lecture
Presented at the 282nd Annual Meeting of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Dr. Ellen Gruber Garvey discussed the history of scrap-booking based on her recent book Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from…

282nd Annual Meeting
All News, Podcasts282nd Annual Meeting of The Library Company of Philadelphia
May 21, 2013
2013 Annual Meeting from Library Company on Vimeo.

Understanding the Pennsylvania Railroad
All News, PodcastsCoContemporary Photographs in Response to the Historic Works of William H. Rau
Michael Froio
Thursday, March 7, 2013
This lecture by Michael Froio looks at W. H. Rau's 1890s photographs of the Pennsylvania Railroad and explores their…

Picturing Women: The Visual Politics of the Woman Suffrage Movement
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(February 28, 2013)
This talk by 2012 - 2013 William H. Helfand Visual Culture Fellow Allison Lange discussed how images became powerful political tools for suffragists and their opponents, and the ways in which reformers used pictures to…

Philadelphia on Stone: Lithography Demonstration
All News, Podcasts(October 23, 2012)
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmU6TDqYszw
Lithography demonstration by Ron Wyffels, Master Printer at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

How to See a Story: Representations for Children in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
All News, Podcasts(April 12, 2012)
Visual Culture Program Fellow Catherine Walsh discussed the ways in which children learned to construct visual narratives by thinking about a variety of sources, including textbooks, primers and readers, illustrated…

Poulsons and Peales at the Library by Carol Soltis
All News, Podcasts(October 17, 2011)
Audio Download (MP3) - Program
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Carol Soltis, Library Company Trustee and Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Center for American Art, will discuss the work of the artist James…