Mellon Scholars Program: “A life changing and motivating experience”
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All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Mellon Scholars ProgramFashioning 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…
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 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.…
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…
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…
The Female Physician: A Deviation from 19th-Century Gender Roles?
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomThis 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 Program: Restoring Our Historical Memory
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Mellon Scholars ProgramRiddle 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…
Mellon Scholars Program: The Burgeoning Expedition to Community Camaraderie
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Mellon Scholars ProgramA Dead Prostitute, a Male Impersonator, and a Medium: Three Sensational Pamphlets
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Our Curator of Printed Books Rachel D’Agostino found these three sensational pamphlets at a recent book fair. Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund, they are the sort of lowbrow items our 19th-century predecessors…
The Union Library Company of Hatboro
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The Union Library Company of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, founded in 1755, is one of the oldest public libraries in America and one of many that imitated the Library Company of Philadelphia in name, mission, and organization. Recently the Board…
Human Trafficking in Early America Conference
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On Thursday, April 23, the Library Company will host the keynote address for a conference titled "Human Trafficking in Early America," co-sponsored with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Department of History at the University…
The Union Library Company of Hatboro
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The Union Library Company of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, founded in 1755, is one of the oldest public libraries in America and one of many that imitated the Library Company of Philadelphia in name, mission, and organization. Recently the…
Frocks and Frills: Children’s Fashion at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Marriott C. Morris took this photograph of his son, Marriott Jr., in 1903 outside their house on Cresheim Road in the Mt. Airy neighborhood. Young Marriott’s attire was typical for a boy of three at the time: skirted sailor suit, long…
Preserving the Legacy of the Pennsylvania Railroad
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomThe following is a guest post by Michael Froio who is a professional photographer, associate professor and facilities manager for the Photography Program, part of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University…