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Timothy O’Sullivan, Santa Maria del Real, from Tropical Scenery. Darien Expedition. Comd’r Selfridge, Comd’g. (Washington, D.C.: J.F. Jarvis, 1870 or 1871).

Curator's Favorite: Expedition Stereographs

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Dec2011_01-1.jpg 458 800 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2011-11-24 10:38:472018-01-26 15:16:58Curator's Favorite: Expedition Stereographs
The Philadelphia Wagon Manufactured by Rech-Marbaker Co. Girard Ave & 8th St. Philadelphia Pa. ([Philadelphia], 1913).

Curator's Favorite: Soaking Up History

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/CFavOct2011Image-4-p-2011-10-50v-1.jpg 345 800 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2011-10-04 11:37:552018-01-29 11:58:42Curator's Favorite: Soaking Up History
R. Newell & Son, “Herod’s Palace and Towers,” No. 6 in Cyclorama of Jerusalem and the Crucifixion. Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. Albumen print on stereograph mount. Recto.

Curator's Favorite: Cyclorama in Philadelphia

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/stereo-Newell-cyclorama_lg-1.jpg 518 800 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2010-10-01 19:15:592018-01-26 15:30:48Curator's Favorite: Cyclorama in Philadelphia
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Curator's Favorite: William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946)

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Jennings-P-2010-12-8-RalphSaraBill.jpg 800 647 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2010-09-04 11:03:042018-01-29 15:12:08Curator's Favorite: William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946)
Library Company of Philadelphia Scrapbook

Curator's Favorite: Library Company of Philadelphia Scrapbook

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_6676-1.jpg 591 800 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2010-07-04 11:31:572018-01-29 15:00:21Curator's Favorite: Library Company of Philadelphia Scrapbook
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Curator's Favorite: The Jessie Willcox Smith Collection

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/LGWillcoxAm1935Skin-13873-Q-pg284-1.jpg 800 562 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2009-08-18 12:15:172018-01-29 15:43:40Curator's Favorite: The Jessie Willcox Smith Collection
Detail depicting excited dogs.

Curator's Favorite: Bergner & Engel's Brewery

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cfav_BergenerEngeldogdetail-1.jpg 560 800 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2008-10-01 17:31:402018-01-29 16:21:20Curator's Favorite: Bergner & Engel's Brewery
Still displaying his fondness for costumes and props, Persifor sat for a cdv in the late 1860s while in Freiburg, Germany studying mineralogy.

Curator's Favorite: Frazer Family Photograph Collection

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cfav_frazer04-1.jpg 405 250 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2008-07-01 18:49:142018-01-29 16:04:24Curator's Favorite: Frazer Family Photograph Collection
Compiled by the contractor’s son Paul, the palm-size booklet opens with a portrait of the recipient, “Old Faithful,” which is then followed by images depicting the offices, shops, yards, construction sites, completed jobs, and employees associated with Dinkelacker.

Curator's Favorite: H.F. Dinkelacker Photograph Album

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Dinkel1-lg-2.jpg 800 615 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2008-04-18 14:01:382018-01-29 16:40:36Curator's Favorite: H.F. Dinkelacker Photograph Album
[William Chamberlain, photographer] Mrs. M. A. Maxwell’s Rocky Mountain Museum, albumen print stereograph, 1875. In this stereograph, Martha Maxwell poses with her specimens at her Boulder museum.

Curator's Favorite: Martha Maxwell’s exhibit at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition in 1876

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http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/MaxwellP200712_lg-1.jpg 451 800 Ann McShane http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lcp_print.png Ann McShane2007-10-01 17:17:402018-01-29 15:50:20Curator's Favorite: Martha Maxwell’s exhibit at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition in 1876
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