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Photograph of inside flyleaf of book with Emma M Bouvier incscription

Shareholder Spotlight: Emma M. Bouvier Drexel (1833-1883)

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March 20, 2025
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Photographic postcard of the exterior of Christ Church

Shareholder Spotlight: Rev. Robert Blackwell (1748-1831)

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February 20, 2025
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Shareholder Spotlight: Elizabeth Hewson Caldwell (1774-1851)

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January 23, 2025
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Photograph of William Pepper membership ticket to the First Pan-American Medical Congress

Shareholder Spotlight: Dr. William Pepper (1843-1898)

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December 12, 2024
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Lithograph portrait of Margaret Morris sitting in a chair holding a book

Shareholder Spotlight: Margaret Morris (1737-1816)

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November 15, 2024
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Photograph of cover of bound volume titled Minutes of the Committee for Fixing the Value of Lost Books

Finding Aid Now Available for Library Company Institutional Records

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November 7, 2024
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Photograph of signature of Jacob Duche on 1731 document

Shareholder Spotlight: Jacob Duché, Sr. (1708-1788)

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October 14, 2024
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Illustration of exterior of Loganian Library with smaller inset sketches of other buildings at edge of page

Looking Back at the Loganian Library

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October 4, 2024
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Illustration of large brick house and market next to it with pedestrians and cart out front

Shareholder Spotlight: Sarah Lukens Keene (circa 1783-1866)

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September 16, 2024
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Photo of text in minute book about Rees Lloyd's widow wanting share to be held in trust by her brother for her children

Shareholder Spotlight: Rees Lloyd (1709-1743)

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August 14, 2024
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Photograph of text from Share Record Book C

Shareholder Spotlight: Anne Biddle Tatum (b. 1780)

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July 12, 2024
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Photograph of Carpenters' Hall visible down a long alleyway, mounted on yellow paper with handwritten notations of place, date, and photographer

A Tour of the Library Company’s Buildings Over its First 150 Years

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June 24, 2024
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Portrait of Eli Kirk Price

Shareholder Spotlight: Eli Kirk Price (1797-1884)

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June 12, 2024
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Photograph of title page of Worthy Women book

Shareholder Spotlight: Agnes Irwin (1841-1914)

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May 13, 2024
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Lithograph portrait of Miers Fisher with his signature below

Shareholder Spotlight: Miers Fisher (1748-1819)

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April 16, 2024
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Shareholder Spotlight: Sophia Borie (1789-1876)

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March 15, 2024
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Photograph of a white woman with short brown hair and glasses putting a box of archival items back on a shelf

Updates from the Library Company Papers Project

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March 4, 2024
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Photograph of front exterior of Library Company building with statue in niche above front door

Shareholder Spotlight: William Bingham (1752-1804)

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February 20, 2024
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Photo of the title page of the 1793 pamphlet published by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen

The Library Company’s Relationship with the Free Black Community in Philadelphia

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February 9, 2024
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Photo of page in share record book

Shareholder Spotlight: Rebecca Clifford

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January 10, 2024
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