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Mirror of a City: Views of Philadelphia Recently Acquired from the Jay T. Snider Collection
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Ardent Spirits

Ardent Spirits: The Origins of the American Temperence Movement

Art & Artifacts

Art & Artifacts: Discover the Library Company's Art and Artifact Collection

Benjamin Franklin: Writer and Printer

Benjamin Franklin: Writer and Printer

The Centennial Exhibition

The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

Crisis of the Union

The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the U.S. Civil War

"Everyman His Own Doctor:" Popular Medicine in Early America

"Everyman His Own Doctor:" Popular Medicine in Early America

From the Bottom Up

From the Bottom Up: Popular Reading & Writing in the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints

The Genisis of Republicanism

The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the U.S. Civil War

The Hook and the Book

The Hook and the Book: The Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in Early American Popular Culture

Ice Skating

Ice Skating in 19th Century America: A Pictorial View

Intersections

Intersections: Scriptures, Prints and Paintings in Antebellum America

The Liberation of Jane Johnson

The Liberation of Jane Johnson

Living Color

Living Color: Collecting Color Plate Books at The Library Company of Philadelphia

Nineteenth-Century Pharmacists’ Trade Cards from the William H. Helfand Collection

Nineteenth-Century Pharmacists’ Trade Cards from the William H. Helfand Collection

Philadelphia Gothic

Philadelphia Gothic: Murders, Mysteries, Monsters, and Mayhem Inspire American Fiction, 1798-1854

Picturing Women

Picturing Women:

Portraits of American Women

Portraits of American Women

Pennsylvania German Broadsides: Windows into an American Culture

Pennsylvania German Broadsides: Windows into an American Culture

Risky Business: Winning and Losing in the Early American Economy, 1780-1850

Risky Business: Winning and Losing in the Early American Economy, 1780-1850