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Portrait of Gail Hamilton in Gail Hamilton’s Life in Letters (1901).

Getting One’s Due: An Episode in the 19th-Century Book Industry

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Wm. A. Selser, Bee Farmer and Breeder of Italian Bees & Queens. Blossom Nectar and Beeswax. Jenkintown, Pa. (Philadelphia: Craig, Finley & Co., ca. 1900).

A Bee Farmer’s Ode to Summer

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]: Selection of trade cards from the Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection. Gift of David Doret.

The Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection

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Detail from William Russell Birch’s hand-colored engraving, “Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia, Designed & Published by W. Birch Enamel Painter 1804” at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

LCP in the News: Fine Books & Collections Magazine

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Hand-colored lithograph depicting diadelphia in flower, from Botanical Specimens (Liverpool, 1828).

A Portfolio of Botanical Illustrations at the Library Company

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18 Juneteenth

Black Liberation Past and Present

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Fellow Spotlight: Dr. Nazera Wright

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Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Director of the Program in African American History

LCP in the News: The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now

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Mellon Scholars Recap

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Discovering Freedom Dreams

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