CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Open to the public in the Library Company’s Louise Lux-Sions and Harry Sions Gallery
Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828-1878
This exhibition explores the history of 19th-century Philadelphia lithography and its impact on contemporary visual culture. Philadelphia on Stone explicates the history and process of lithography, documents the professional and personal lives of premier and journeymen lithographers, and includes lithographs from the collections of the Library Company and several other institutions whose collections were surveyed. In addition, the work of contemporary lithographers Kip Deeds and Roberta Delaney will be on display to represent the continuing influence of this trade on the printed arts.
The Library Company is pleased to acknowledge generous funding of the Philadelphia on Stone project from the William Penn Foundation.
Philadelphia on Stone is an Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international festival celebrating print in contemporary art.
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Above right inset image: Christian Schussele, Chromo lithography (Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, 1850). Chromolithograph. Library Company of Philadelphia
EXHIBITIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE
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NEW: Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828-1878
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Online exhibitions are arranged by title, click on image to view.
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Ardent Spirits: The Origins of the American Temperance Movement |
Art & Artifacts: Discover the Library Company's Art and Artifact Collection |
Benjamin Franklin: Writer and Printer |
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Catching A Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860
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The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA |
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 |
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Faces and Facades of Philadelphia: Three Decades of Portraits by John Frank Keith |
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Far from the Path of Virtue: Women on the Margins of Morality in Antebellum America
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From the Bottom Up: Popular Reading & Writing in the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints |
The Genesis of Republicanism: The Birth and Growth of the Grand Old Party, 1854-1872 |
The Hook and the Book: The Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in Early American Popular Culture |
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Ice Skating in 19th Century America: A Pictorial View |
Intersections: Scriptures, Prints and Paintings in Antebellum America |
The Liberation of Jane Johnson |
Living Color: Collecting Color Plate Books at The Library Company of Philadelphia |
Nineteenth-Century Pharmacists’ Trade Cards from the William H. Helfand Collection |
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Philadelphia Gothic: Murders, Mysteries, Monsters, and Mayhem Inspire American Fiction, 1798-1854 |
Picturing Women: An exhibition about how women are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative |
Portraits of American Women: Women Writers, Women in Religion, and Women of the Republican Court |
Pennsylvania German Broadsides: Windows into an American Culture |
Risky Business: Winning and Losing in the Early American Economy, 1780-1850 |
