![Jasmine Smith, African American History Subject Specialist and Reference Librarian](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-10-10-jsmith-495x400.jpg)
![Aunt Phebe, Mcaboy's, N.C. [graphic].](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Aunt-Phebe-Mcaboys-N.C.-graphic.-495x400.jpg)
African Americans and Lost History
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris Collection, VCP News![Lambdin, James Reid. Benjamin Franklin. (ca. 1880). Oil on canvas ; 50 x 40 inches ; Framed: 57 x 47 1/4 x (2 1/4+1 3/4)4 inches. https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A59324](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Benjamin-Franklin--495x400.png)
![Augustus L. Weise. General Grant and His Family (Philadelphia: Joseph Hoover, 1866). Hand-colored lithograph. Purchased with funds from the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund.Currently on display at the entrance to the Reading Room is a small exhibition entitled “’And His Family’: Prints Depicting Famous Men at Home.”](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2l-grant-p-2013-2-495x400.jpg)
![Katherine Ibbett](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/kibbett-1-480x400.jpg)
![Judy Giesberg](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/judygiesberg-1-495x400.jpg)
![Alice Shipley & Bessie in woods near overflow, [Sea Girt, NJ] [graphic].](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Alice-Shipley-Bessie-in-woods-near-overflow-Sea-Girt-NJ-graphic.-495x400.jpg)
White Clothing and Victorian Laundry
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris Collection![Undivided sheet of Continental Currency, printed on blue paper for use as a counterfeit detector (Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1776).](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/ch03-11-Am1775Con-5815-F-Money-1-495x400.jpg)
LCP in the News: Meet Ben Franklin’s tragic pal who made Pa.’s paper money hack-proof
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News![](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/am1842nichols-104613-d-p105-d-1-495x400.jpg)
![Ashley Council, Mellon Scholar 2017](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-mellon-scholars-07-sm-1-495x400.jpg)
![Abi Bernard, Mellon Scholar 2017](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-mellon-scholars-04-sm-1-495x400.jpg)
![Ashley Council, Mellon Scholar 2017](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-mellon-scholars-07-sm-1-495x400.jpg)
![Abi Bernard, Mellon Scholar 2017](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-mellon-scholars-04-sm-1-495x400.jpg)
![](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Music-Player-at-Jersey-Wash-Manasquan-Beach-graphic.-495x400.jpg)
![2017 Mellon Scholars. Back left to right: Andrew Aldridge, Nafeece Beeks, and Amos Tarley. Front left to right: Ashley Council, Camara Brown, Lucero Smith, and Abi Bernard](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-mellon-scholars-16-sm-1-495x400.jpg)
![2017 Mellon Scholars. Back left to right: Andrew Aldridge, Nafeece Beeks, and Amos Tarley. Front left to right: Ashley Council, Camara Brown, Lucero Smith, and Abi Bernard](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-mellon-scholars-16-sm-1-495x400.jpg)
![Visitors in the Louis Lux-Sions and Harry Sions Gallery at the Library Company of Philadelphia.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/LibrCo_0359-495x400.jpg)
![J. W. Brown & Co., High Grade Canned Goods, No. 103 Arch Street, Phila. (Philadelphia, ca. 1890). Nellie Bly is shown walking away from Phileas Fogg, the main character of Jules Vernes’ Around the World in Eighty Days.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/bly-p-2015-56-411-1-495x400.jpg)
![Veteran Wheelman Asso[ciation] at the Penn Hotel [graphic].](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Veteran-Wheelman-Association-at-the-Penn-Hotel-graphic.-495x400.jpg)
The History of the Bicycle
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris Collection![Wilson Biscuit Co., Manufacturers of Faultless Biscuit, Cakes, and Crackers, 210, 212, 214 N. Front Street, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, ca. 1890). Bly rides a bicycle on a ring around Saturn.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/9-5b-3321-f-145-selection-1030x935-495x400.jpg)