William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Interns Happily Invade the Print Department

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The Print Department is greatly benefiting from the help of college interns this winter and spring. In early January between semesters, Haverford College sophomore Jon William Sweitzer-Lamme volunteered his time in the department processing…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Staff News

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This past summer, Digitization Technician Concetta Barbera embarked on a Practicum project at the Library Company as part of her Library and Information Science master’s degree in Archives at Drexel University. During the 120 hours required…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Raymond Holstein Stereograph Collection Donated to the Library Company

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The Raymond Holstein Stereograph Collection consists of approximately 2000 Philadelphia images and represents five decades of collecting. Mr. Holstein and his wife began collecting stereographs in the early 1960s after finding approximately…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Street Views from the Library Company on HistoryPin.com

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  The Library Company has contributed several early photographs of Philadelphia to HistoryPin, a site on which the public is invited to overlay historic images on present-day Google street views. Archives and individuals around the world…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Digitizing the Teitelman Collection of American Sunday-School Union Woodblocks and Imprints: A Pilot Project in Summer 2011

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This past summer, we completed a pilot project to catalog and digitize a sample of the woodblocks that came to the Library Company from the estate of S. Robert Teitelman. The Teitelman Collection of American Sunday-School Union Woodblocks and…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Photograph Collections from the Library Company now on PhillyHistory.org

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The Library Company has recently partnered with PhillyHistory.org, providing several photographic collections to its website. Run by the Philadelphia Department of Records, PhillyHistory.org includes photographs and maps from the Free Library…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Civil War Collections now on Flickr

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With the advent of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, the Library Company’s volunteer intern, Brett Tobias, has been busy uploading Civil War imagery from the McAllister Collection onto our Flickr website. He has selected…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Staff News

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Following her participation in two recently-completed grant projects, Associate Curator Erika Piola presented a paper and had an article published based on her work. At the recent Center for Historic American Visual Culture conference “Historical…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Cased Photograph Collection Now Online

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Thanks to a grant received from the Abington Foundation and the Ed Lee and Jean Campe Foundation, the Library Company digitized its entire cased photograph collection and is making it available to the public on ImPAC, our digital collections…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

LCP Artist in Residence: Jennifer Levonian

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Thanks to a generous grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Heritage Philadelphia Program, the Library Company will be collaborating with artist Jennifer Levonian, who is creating an animated video to coincide with the upcoming exhibition John…
William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Library Company Receives NEH Grant to Catalog and Digitize Its 18th- and 19th-Century Ephemera Collections

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With the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Library Company will catalog, conserve, and selectively digitize between Spring 2010 and 2012 its uncataloged and recently donated collections of printed and graphic…