A Bee Farmer’s Ode to Summer
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All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department NewsThen and Now: Cataloging Aero Service Negatives using Google Maps
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Marriott C. Morris took this photograph of his son, Marriott Jr., in 1903 outside their house on Cresheim Road in the Mt. Airy neighborhood. Young Marriott’s attire was typical for a boy of three at the time: skirted sailor suit, long…
Down the Shore with Marriott C. Morris
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionAbout seven miles north of Avocado, the Morris family shore house located in Sea Girt, New Jersey, is the small town of Ocean Grove. Founded in 1869 by a group of devout Methodists as a permanent camp meeting location, Ocean Grove became a…
LCP Demand in Cyberspace
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Partnerships with a range of online publications are giving the Library Company’s collections and curatorial insights new visibility. The Print Department’s charming and informative blog posts began to reach an audience of a whole new…
WWI Graphics on ImPAC
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On the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand this June, a consortium of archival institutions in the Delaware Valley launched "Home Before the Leaves Fall: The Great War," a digital resource highlighting little-known…
Negative/Positive
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionThe way we experience photographs today is very different from the way people experienced them 120 years ago. We press the shutter on our digital cameras without concern; if the photograph doesn’t turn out it can easily be deleted. We…