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Photo-Illustrators, [Interior of a medical clinic], ca. 1930. Gelatin silver print.

Exploring Racism in Medicine through LCP Graphics

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Interior of Library Company of Philadelphia, Locust Street Branch, ca. 1885. Platinum print in Library Company of Philadelphia scrapbook, ca. 1865-ca. 1971.

Upstairs, Downstairs at the Library Company of Philadelphia

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Marriott Canby Morris, Midway Plaisance-Dahomans, 1893. Lantern slide.

Seeing Double

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Remembering Library Company Volunteer Louise Beardwood

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“The Irrepressible Conflict” or the Republican Barge in Danger (New York: Currier & Ives, ca. 1860). Lithograph.

One Lithograph, Two “Readings”

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Miss Barton, Unidentified landscape, early 19th century. Watercolor.

Women Makers and Caretakers

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Joseph Pennell, Water Street Stairs (Philadelphia). Etching. Two shadowy figures stand at the top of an alley stairway in background, alley has many bills posted, man in sailor outfit in the bottom foreground.

My Beginnings at the Library Company

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Edward Williams Clay, The Smokers (New York: H. R. Robinson, 1837). Lithograph.

Wanting to Kick Myself: My First Days in the Graphic Arts Department

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John L. Magee, Death of George Shifler in Kensington. Born Jan 24 1825. Murdered May 6 1844 (Philadelphia: William Smith, after 1850). Hand-colored lithograph.

Working with Graphics is Not Just Fun

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Depicts a "Quick Delivery" truck standing in the middle of the street, the driver napping and the horse eating grass from the street. A cop leans on a lamppost and twirls his nightstick. Children play marbles in the street, and a dog sleeps. The building in the background resembles Independence Hall.

Special Delivery

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