Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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.…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Preserving the Legacy of the Pennsylvania Railroad

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The 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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Keeping the Highways and Byways Safe

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In 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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Behind the Scenes

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As 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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

2nd Annual Library Company Lecture in Honor of John Van Horne

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On 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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Teacher’s Guide to The Genius of Freedom

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Although 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…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

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…