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…
Marriott C. Morris Collection Online
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, LCP News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionOver the next year, more than 1600 glass negatives, photographic prints, film negatives, and lantern slides by Philadelphia photographer Marriott Canby Morris (1863-1948) will be processed, digitized, and used to create a permanent online exhibition. …
The Marriott C. Morris Photograph Collection
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A young woman leans against a painted brick wall, her back straight and her hair dark hair pulled into a knot at the top of her head. She holds a baby in her arms wrapped snugly in a knitted blanket. The baby’s left hand is a blur of motion;…
Fine and Popular: Print Department at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, July 17-20, 2016
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On September 19th, Curator Sarah Weatherwax and Associate Curator Erika Piola happily joined over 500 fellow scholars and academics of early 19th-century history at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic 36th Annual…
Print Department Welcomes Alison Van Denend
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For the past month Alison Van Denend has been hard at work in the Print Department as our International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Foundation summer curatorial intern. Alison completed her MA in Art History with a Certificate…
Canoeing the Pine Barrens
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Though a desolate landscape, Philadelphians have long been drawn to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey for various reasons such as relaxation, trade, and industry. The Marriott C. Morris collection of photographs includes views of amateur…
Digital Archives Specialist Certificate Awarded to Nicole Joniec
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The Library Company’s Print Department Assistant and Digital Collections Manager Nicole Joniec has been awarded the Digital Archives Specialist certificate put forth by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). In pursuing this certificate,…
Library Company Digital Collections on Flickr Commons
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The Library Company of Philadelphia is excited to announce its new membership to the Flickr Commons. Flickr Commons promotes the sharing of digital collections from cultural heritage institutions and encourages further sharing, commenting…
More Library Company Prints Added to World Digital Library
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Almost 100 lithographs and chromolithographs from the Philadelphia on Stone project are now included in the World Digital Library. The WDL, created by the Library of Congress in 2005 with support from the United Nations Education,…
A Few of Our Favorite Things, Part Eight: Marriott C. Morris Photograph Collection
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionOne of my Print Department favorites is the Marriott C. Morris collection of photographic prints and negatives. Morris (1863-1948) was an amateur photographer who lived in Philadelphia, and the more than 1,500 photographs in this collection…
World War One Digital Humanities Project Begins
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The Library Company has recently become a participant in the Great War in the Delaware Valley Project, a digital humanities collaboration currently existing between Villanova University, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the…
LSTA Grant Funds Digitization of Library Company of Philadelphia’s African Americana Graphics Collection
All News, Graphic Art Department NewsThrough the generous support of a grant from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), over 800 prints, photographs, and pieces of ephemera documenting the African American experience will be digitized and added to the Library Company’s…
O Canada
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Erika Piola, Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs, recently traveled to Montreal, Quebec to attend the annual meeting of the Print Council of America (PCA), June 19-21, 2013. The Council, an organization of graphics curators, professors,…
Print Department Welcomes Summer Intern Kat Poje
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The Print Department is again fortunate to have some extra help for the summer. Kat Poje, a rising sophomore at Haverford College, is assisting in the processing of the Raymond Holstein Stereograph Collection thanks to the college’s…
Philadelphia on Stone Wins Award
All News, Graphic Art Department NewsIn May Curator of Prints and Photographs Sarah Weatherwax attended the annual meeting of the American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS). Held this year in Cincinnati, the group’s annual gatherings include lectures and behind the…