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Benjamin Ridgway Evans, North Side of Chestnut St., Extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851 (Philadelphia, ca. 1880). Watercolor.

Imperfect History Project

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Imperfect History Exhibition Card

Imperfect History Online Exhibition is now live!

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[Unidentified African American Man], ca. 1875. Albumen mounted on cardboard.

Uncovering Hidden Narratives in American Art

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October 8, 2021
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Life & Age of Man. Stages of Man's Life from the Cradle to the Grave (New York: N. Currier, ca. 1847). Hand-colored lithograph.

Imperfect History

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October 8, 2021
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LCP's first online visual literacy workshop

Virtual Close Looking: The Library Company’s First Visual Literacy Workshop

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July 27, 2021
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Samuel Broadbent, Portrait of an Unidentified African American Woman (Philadelphia, ca. 1850). Daguerreotype.

History and Representation

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June 8, 2021
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Samuel Broadbent, Portrait of an Unidentified African American Woman (Philadelphia, ca. 1850). Daguerreotype.

The Imperfect History: Digital Catalog is Now Live!

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May 5, 2021
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[Mary Venning with her students in Philadelphia school yard], ca. 1945. Gelatin silver print.

Reconfiguring the Gaze

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April 19, 2021
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Portrait photograph of Louise Sanders Venning inserted before page 32 of Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Family Photograph Album, ca. 1860-1925.

(Im)perfect Pages

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March 25, 2021
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John Mackie Falconer, Fulton House, No. 121 South Second Street, Philadelphia. Watercolor, 1861.

Stolen and Recovered, or the Wandering Watercolor

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February 12, 2021
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Wilkinson after John Singleton Copley, [The Wretched State of the Nation] (Philadelphia, January 20, 1766). Etching. Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.

Minding the Gaps

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January 14, 2021
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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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January 14, 2021
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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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January 14, 2021
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Marriott Canby Morris, Midway Plaisance-Dahomans, 1893. Lantern slide.

Seeing Double

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January 14, 2021
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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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January 14, 2021
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Miss Barton, Unidentified landscape, early 19th century. Watercolor.

Women Makers and Caretakers

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January 14, 2021
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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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January 14, 2021
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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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June 16, 2020
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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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June 16, 2020
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Invitation to A Walk on the Wild Side exhibition, 1993.

My Library Company Beginnings

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March 11, 2020
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