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Library Company Conservator Alice Austin in New Yorker Blog
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New Online Digital Catalog
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomPlease Note: In 2017, we moved to a new digital repository.
We have recently upgraded ImPAC, our digital collections catalog, to DigiTool, a Digital Asset Management System that replaces ENCompass, our former platform. The new ImPAC provides…
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Slavery’s Constitution
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Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
Wednesday, October 14, 6:00 p.m.
David Waldstreicher, Professor of History at Temple University and author of Runaway America and In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes;…
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Exhibition Opening and Daguerreotype Lecture by Keith Davis
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Exhibition Opening: Catching a Shadow
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Reception at 5:30 p.m., program at 6:00
Keith F. Davis, Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, in Kansas City, and author of numerous books…
![“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/LGWillcoxAm1935Skin-13873-Q-pg284-1-495x400.jpg)
Curator’s Favorite: The Jessie Willcox Smith Collection
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Summer project increases access to early 20th-century photograph collection
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With support from the Samuel S. Fels Fund the Library Company is pleased to make a wonderful collection of photographs available for public research and use. The collection consists of more than 200 portraits taken ca. 1910-1940 by local…
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Jane Johnson Marker Dedication
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Jane Marker Dedication
Philadelphia: July 7, 2009 – On July 18, 1855, one hundred fifty-four years ago, Jane Johnson, an enslaved woman from North Carolina, found herself in Philadelphia on free soil for the first time. She seized the…
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Peter Mancall on the Daily Show
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Peter Mancall on the Daily Show
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Peter Mancall will be a guest tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He will discuss his new book: “Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson: A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic ”. Peter is a former fellow and will…
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Annual Meeting Re-Cap
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomOver one hundred people attended the Library Company’s Annual Meeting on May 12, 2009. This year’s meeting featured Kenneth Finkel, Distinguished Lecturer in Temple University’s American Studies Program, who spoke about the Library Company’s…
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Juneteenth Freedom Forum
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomFriday, June 19, 2009
Reception at 5:30 p.m., program at 6:00.
Join us at the Library Company on Friday, June 19th for our Juneteenth Freedom Forum, featuring three area scholars discussing the African American struggle for freedom in…
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New Exhibition
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomOn May 4 the Library Company unveiled its new exhibition, Mirror of a City: Views of Philadelphia Recently Acquired from the Jay T. Snider Collection. Mr. Snider, a former Library Company Trustee and avid collector of historical items, sold…
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Curator’s Favorite: Frazer Family Photograph Collection
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Curator's Favorites![Compiled by the contractor’s son Paul, the palm-size booklet opens with a portrait of the recipient, “Old Faithful,” which is then followed by images depicting the offices, shops, yards, construction sites, completed jobs, and employees associated with Dinkelacker.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Dinkel1-lg-2-495x400.jpg)
Curator’s Favorite: H.F. Dinkelacker Photograph Album
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Curator's Favorites![[William Chamberlain, photographer] Mrs. M. A. Maxwell’s Rocky Mountain Museum, albumen print stereograph, 1875. In this stereograph, Martha Maxwell poses with her specimens at her Boulder museum.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/MaxwellP200712_lg-1-495x400.jpg)
Curator’s Favorite: Martha Maxwell’s exhibit at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition in 1876
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Curator's Favorites![The central vignette showing a chauffeured carriage on a dirt road transporting a wealthy couple past an indigent man, presumably a victim of the Panic of 1893, epitomizes this sentiment.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Vickroycentralvignette-1-1-495x400.jpg)
![M. Nefferdorf, Library Company of Philadelphia--Last Tea, Sketch, New Jersey: November 28, 1939.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cfav04_lg-1-454x400.jpg)
Curator’s Favorite: Library Company of Philadelphia — Last Tea
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Curator’s Favorite: Webster Family Photographic Negative Collection
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