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Mellon Scholars Program: The Burgeoning Expedition to Community Camaraderie
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A 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Keeping the Highways and Byways Safe
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomIn 1906 the Keystone Automobile Club was established, and fifteen years later became affiliated with the newly formed National Motorists' Association, a group promoting national standards for roads, pedestrian and motorist safety, as well as…
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Behind the Scenes
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomAs a visitor to the Library Company, you might see any of the thousands of objects in our collection in a variety of ways. You could view prints, pamphlets, and paintings as part of an exhibition in the gallery, study rare books in the reading…
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2nd Annual Library Company Lecture in Honor of John Van Horne
All News, LCP NewsOn April 8, Library Company members will gather at the Union League of Philadelphia for the 2nd Annual Library Company Lecture in Honor of John Van Horne. The annual series honors the former Library Company director who served for over 29 years…
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Teacher’s Guide to The Genius of Freedom
All News, LCP NewsAlthough exhibitions rotate through our Louise Lux-Sions and Harry Sions Gallery, many find new lives as online exhibitions. K-12 teachers reference and utilize these online resources, and to encourage further classroom use, we are creating…
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Library Company Shows Off its German-American Folk Art
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As part of Philadelphia’s three-month long celebration Framing Fraktur, the Library Company has a small selection of our printed and manuscript fraktur on exhibition through May 22, 2015. From birth certificates to bookplates, these…
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Digital Humanities Outreach: Turning Library Records into Data Workshop
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One of the hallmarks of the Digital Humanities is collaborative education and outreach. The Library Company continues to work with digital managers and support staff among area colleges, cultural organizations and museums. This past December…
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Love is in the Air
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomPerhaps as a distraction from yet another month of winter weather, turning the calendars to February focuses some of our thoughts on Valentine’s Day and romance. While we are all familiar with today’s ubiquitous visual records of weddings,…
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Down the Shore with Marriott C. Morris
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionAbout seven miles north of Avocado, the Morris family shore house located in Sea Girt, New Jersey, is the small town of Ocean Grove. Founded in 1869 by a group of devout Methodists as a permanent camp meeting location, Ocean Grove became a…
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A New View of an Old Graveyard
All News, Beyond the Reading RoomA wide variety of projects have resulted from readers using our historical collections. Occasionally we like to feature them in our blog. In late 2014 I had the pleasure to meet Ronald Shaffer, who among his many activities serves as the president…
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Open Saturdays
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To celebrate the popularity of our current exhibition “Genius of Freedom: Northern Black Activism and Uplift after the Civil War” and to make it possible for more people to visit our gallery, the Library Company will be open from 10…
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Gutekunst Album Gift
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In December, the Greer family gave the Library Company an oversized album of 19th century photos taken by Frederick Gutekunst. A native of Germantown, Gutekunst was a celebrated post-bellum photographer whose subjects included Walt Whitman,…