Featured Collections: Books and Printed Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection consists of approximately 1,000 books, pamphlets, and advertisements relating to 19th-century American popular, patent, and proprietary medicines. Often referred to as “quack” remedies, these medicines entered the American market in the late 18th century.
Biographies and prints feature women of all periods. Many portrait prints appear as plates in books, for which the Library Company has an ongoing project.
A beautiful album once owned by Amy Matilda Cassey, wife of rich African American abolitionist, businessman, and community leader Joseph Cassey. The album is filled with poetry, essays, sketches and floral watercolors collected by Cassey between 1833 and 1856.
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