![Still displaying his fondness for costumes and props, Persifor sat for a cdv in the late 1860s while in Freiburg, Germany studying mineralogy.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cfav_frazer04-1-250x400.jpg)
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
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Curator's Favorites![Fig. 1. John H. Webster, Jr., [Stouton, Webster family residence, Kensington and Indiana Avenues, Philadelphia, Pa.], ca. 1890. Glass plate negative.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cfav_03a-1-495x400.jpg)
Curator’s Favorite: Webster Family Photographic Negative Collection
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Curator's Favorites![Fairmount, (Philadelphia: Thomas S. Wagner’s Lith., 38 Franklin Place, ca. 1859).](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cfav02_lg-1-495x400.jpg)
![Lithograph of Birthplace of Benjamin Franklin, in Milk St., Boston, Jan. 6. 1705-6. O.S. as reproduced at the Fair of The Boston Young Men's Christian Association, Decr. 25 1858. J.H. Buffords lith., 1858.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cfav_01_lg-1-495x400.jpg)