Helping us celebrate our 275th birthday is the Swann Galleries in New York, where selections from our Afro-Americana Collection are on display through the month of February (Black History Month). Swann’s annual Afro-Americana auction, now in its twelfth year, the largest assembly of rare Afro-Americana on sale anywhere, is a major event for dealers, collectors […]
Early in 2006 several representatives of Levenger, the company that makes “tools for serious readers,” visited the Library Company to explore the possibility of creating products based on the Library Company’s collections. CEO Steve Leveen and his staff were excited by what they saw here, and Levenger has produced two items replicating objects in our […]
Recently Todd Pattison gave the Library Company his collection of 183 books with decorated endpapers. Some may remember that Mr. Pattison gave a colorful lunchtime talk in January titled “Decorated Endpapers, 1831 -1875.” The talk focused on this unique collection which includes examples of all kinds of endpapers from the 19th century: machine ruled, type […]
Last March the Library Company’s Program in Early American Economy and Society co-sponsored, with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, a talk by University of Delaware economics professor Farley Grubb on “Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy.” That engaging talk has now been published by the Philadelphia Fed as a handsomely […]
Over one hundred members and guests of the Library Company attended the book launch celebration for Center City Philadelphia in the 19th Century on Thursday October 26th. Attendees enjoyed an illustrated lecture by Associate Curator Jenny Ambrose, a champagne toast, door prize giveaways, and a mini-exhibit displaying original materials from the graphics collections. Released in […]
Material from the diverse collections of the Library Company is currently on view in exhibitions around the United States. The New-York Historical Society’s tremendously popular exhibition Slavery in New York, which includes four satirical prints from Edward Clay’s Life in New York series from our collection, has been extended through March 26. The Addison Gallery […]