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Photograph of detail from chronological share and directors register

Yellow Fever and the Library Company in 1793

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September 25, 2023
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Exterior view of Wyck house in Germantown

Shareholder Spotlight: Reuben Haines III (1786-1831) and Jane Bowne Haines (1790-1843)

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September 18, 2023
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Photograph of illustration in Clarkson memoir of portrait of Matthew Clarkson

Shareholder Spotlight: Matthew Clarkson (1733-1800)

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August 21, 2023
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Photograph of bookpates from Association Library, Amicable Library, and Union Library Company

Comparing 18th-Century Subscription Libraries in Philadelphia

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August 2, 2023
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Photograph of silhouette of Elizabeth Bordley Gibson pasted inside 1865 biography

Shareholder Spotlight: Elizabeth Bordley Gibson (1777-1863)

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July 14, 2023
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Photograph of detail from March 31, 1732 minutes

Following the Early Evolution of the Library Company Month by Month

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June 29, 2023
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Print of black and white portrait photograph of Edward Drinker Cope

Shareholder Spotlight: Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897)

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June 29, 2023
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Photograph of paper wrapper used around folded records

Taking a Deep Dive into the Library Company’s Institutional Archives

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May 31, 2023
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Photograph of William Rawle to next Library Company secretary about adding old papers to the archive

Library Company Awarded $350,000 from NEH to Process Institutional Papers

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May 23, 2023
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Receipt for a Library Company share dated 1733

Shareholder Spotlight: Elizabeth Marshall (1768-1836)

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May 15, 2023
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Old News: Kate Douglas Wiggin’s Children’s Rights and Modern Anti-trans Legislation

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May 15, 2023
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Chinatown: The History of a Philadelphia Neighborhood

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May 1, 2023
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Grandma Toppan’s Daguerreotype

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April 19, 2023
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Black and white version of portrait of Tench Coxe at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Shareholder Spotlight: Tench Coxe (1755-1824)

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April 17, 2023
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Photograph of medal with woman kneeling with raised arms in chains and text that reads Am I Not a Woman and a Sister 1838

Shareholder Spotlight: Anna G. Hubbell (1801-1895)

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March 20, 2023
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Black and white photograph of exterior of Millbourne Mills in Upper Darby showing horse-drawn wagons lined up outside

Shareholder Spotlight: Abraham L. Pennock (1786-1868)

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February 21, 2023
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Cordelia Sanders’ Ambrotype

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January 25, 2023
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Photograph of the title page of the first annual report of the managers of the Ladies' Depository in 1834

Shareholder Spotlight: Elizabeth Stott

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January 25, 2023
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John Bouvier’s Daguerreotype

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November 23, 2022
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Photograph of print showing landscape of Belmont estate

Shareholder Spotlight: Benjamin Eastburn (1695-1741)

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November 23, 2022
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