Press Releases
- Press Release – 07/08/2024: Philadelphia’s Collections Lab Explores History, Art, and Education with Riveting Exhibitions Throughout 2024
- Press Release – 06/03/2024: Library Company of Philadelphia Acquires the Kathryn S. Alpert Collection of Women’s History Postcards and Ephemera
- Press Release – 04/25/2024: The American Philosophical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia Look to a Future of Greater Collaboration
Past Press Releases
- Press Release – 08/20/2021: New Exhibition Reveals Visual Cues of Bigotry and Inequality Over Hundreds of Years in America
- Press Release – 05/08/2019: New Exhibition at The Library Company of Philadelphia Explores Lives of Free Black People in Early America
- Press Release – 10-10-2018: Stylish Books: Designing Philadelphia Furniture Exhibition to Open at the Library Company
- Press Release – 02/06/2018: #GiltyPleasures Opens at the Library Company of Philadelphia – Tuesday, February 6, 2018 (PDF)
- Press Release – 03/20/2017: The Living Book: New Perspectives on Form and Function Opens at the Library Company of Philadelphia – Wednesday, April 20 2017 (PDF)
- Press Release – 01/17/2017: The Library Company of Philadelphia names Dr. Michael J. Barsanti as the new Edwin Wolf 2nd Director Philadelphia, PA – Tuesday, January 17, 2017 (PDF)
- Press Release – 08/16/2016: Library Company of Philadelphia and Prof. Lori Ginzberg Receive NEH Grant (PDF)
- Press Release – 06/28/2016: Harriet Young appointed CFO of the Library Company of Philadelphia (PDF)
- Press Release – 06/09/2016: Director Resigns from the Library Company of Philadelphia (PDF)
- Press Release – 03/15/2016: Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind (PDF)
- Press Release – 02/02/2016: New USPS Stamp of Richard Allen Uses Library Company Image (PDF)
- Press Release – 07/08/2015: Fashioning Philadelphia – The Style of the City, 1720-1940 (PDF)
- Press Release – 12/12/2014: Benjamin Franklin Printing Blocks Discovered (PDF)
- Press Release – 11/06/2014: “The Genius of Freedom” Opens at the Library Company November 11 (PDF)
- Press Release – 08/13/2014: Book Art at the Library Company (PDF)
- Press Release – 01/30/2014: Philadelphia History Organizations Take the Lion’s Share of National Endowment for the Humanities Funding (PDF)
- Press Release – 01/30/2014: The Library Company of Philadelphia Receives $500,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PDF)
- Press Release – 01/27/2014: Library Company Opens Groundbreaking Exhibition on Gay History in Early America (PDF)
- Press Release – 12/12/2013: Dr. Richard S. Newman Appointed to Succeed John C. Van Horne as Director of the Library Company of Philadelphia (PDF)
- Press Release – 9/27/2013: Library Company Acquires the Joe Freedman Collection of Philadelphia Ephemera (PDF)
- Press Release – 5/23/2013: Dr. John C. Van Horne to Step Down as Director of the Library Company (PDF)
- Press Release – 5/06/2013: Ephemera Exhibition Uses Everyday Texts to Provide Insight into Victorian Era (PDF)
- Press Release – 4/17/2013: The Library Company of Philadelphia Receives Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Support Scholarship in Early African American History (PDF)
- Press Release – 1/24/2013: The Library Company Highlights the American Republic’s Black Founders in Online Exhibition (PDF)
- Press Release – 9/5/2012: The Library Company of Philadelphia is “Working on the Railroads”
- Press Release – 7/27/2012: Lokadot Announces Philadelphia Arts and Cultural Organizations Embracing Its Location-based Audio Platform for Smartphones
- Press Release – 6/7/2012: Rare 19th-Century African American Women’s Friendship Albums Online Cassey and Dickerson Albums Document Prominent Abolitionist Circles, Contain Earliest Signed Paintings by African American Women
- Press Release – 6/7/2012: Library Company Acquires Rare 1739 Text Owned by Peter Collinson
- Press Release – 6/7/2012: Pioneer in African American History Retires After 41-Year Career
- Press Release – 12/19/2011: The Library Company of Philadelphia Takes a Look at Crime (PDF)
- Press Release – 6/23/2011: The Library Company of Philadelphia Commemorates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War (PDF)
- Press Release – 3/17/2010: Slavery at Sixth & Market Streets: Eight Years of Controversy at the President’s House. Juneteenth 2010 (PDF)
- Press Release – 1/22/2010: Library Company of Philadelphia Displays Exhibition: Philadelphia On Stone:The First Fifty Years of Commercial Years of Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia, 1828-1878 (PDF) (Click here for POS website)
- Press Release – 10/5/09: New Online Exhibition Explores Life and Work of Photographer John Frank Keith (PDF)
- Press Release – 9/22/09: Catching A Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860 (PDF)
- Press Release – 7/7/09: Jane Johnson Marker Dedication (PDF)
- Press Release – 6/3/09: Library Company of Philadelphia Celebrates “Juneteenth” with a Freedom Forum of Area Scholars (PDF)
- Press Release – 5/7/09: Library Company of Philadelphia Displays a New Exhibition: Mirror of a City: Views of Philadelphia Recently Acquired from the Jay T. Snider Collection (PDF)
- Press Release: Word and Image in American Autobiography, 1790-1850 Christopher Hunter, the Library Company’s 2008-2009 William H. Helfand Fellow in Visual Culture presents his research on Benjamin Franklin images within the context of his autobiography. (PDF)
- Press Release: Gazing through History: Program in Visual Culture Launches at the Library Company with the Philadelphia Print Shop’s “Talking Prints” (PDF)
- Press Release: Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Funds New Program in African American History (PDF)
- Press Release: New Grant Funds Library Company’s Exploration of Philadelphia’s Colorful Past (PDF)