J. W. Wheeler’s “White Elephant March” of 1884
Examples of craftsmanship of the Library Company of Philadelphia McLean Conservation Department.
Catalogue of the Museo Torlonia (1876) and detail from p. 78.
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Fashioning Philadelphia – The Style of the City, 1720-1940

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The Library Company of Philadelphia presents over 200 years of fashion history in its newest exhibition, which opened July 20. Fashioning Philadelphia – The Style of the City, 1720-1940 tells the largely unheralded story of Philadelphia’s…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

2015 Juneteenth Freedom Symposium with Dr. Danielle Allen

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The Program in African American History (PAAH) welcomed political theorist Dr. Danielle Allen for our annual Juneteenth Freedom Symposium on June 18. PAAH hosts an annual symposium to recognize Juneteenth, one of the oldest known celebrations…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Mellon Scholars Summer Programs

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In June, the Program in African American History (PAAH) held its second annual Mellon Scholars Internship and Workshop under the direction of Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, PAAH Director, and Krystal Appiah, Curator of African American History.…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

New Collections Uploaded to Our Digital Collections Catalog

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Several collections were recently uploaded to ImPAC, the Library Company’s digital collections catalog. Peter Collinson’s annotated first edition of William Maitland’s 1739 History of London, Frederick Gutekunt’s Scenery on the Pennsylvania…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

My First SDS Conference

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  A few weeks ago, hundreds of disability studies scholars, advocates, and activists gathered for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, June 10-13, 2015. I was fortunate to be one of the attendees on…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

The Female Physician: A Deviation from 19th-Century Gender Roles?

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This is the tenth anniversary of the Library Company first working with an intern from Haverford College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities. In their summers at the Library Company, each one has helped increase the digital resources…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Riddle of Independence: Independent but not Free

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Danielle Allen will give the Program in African American History’s 2015 Juneteenth Freedom Symposium talk at the Library Company. While in residence, our Mellon Scholars interns read Dr. Allen’s Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration…