Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

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…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Love is in the Air

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Perhaps 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,…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Down the Shore with Marriott C. Morris

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About 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…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

A New View of an Old Graveyard

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A 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…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

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…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

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,…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

February 28 Teachers Workshop

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The Library Company is pleased to partner with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for a teachers workshop that examines African American agency in procuring equal rights and freedom before and after the Civil War. First, teachers will…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Guide to the Stranger Gets Noticed

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When Wendy Woloson, guest curator of the Library Company’s 2012 Capitalism by Gaslight exhibition, selected an 1849 guidebook to Philadelphia’s seamy underbelly—A Guide to the Stranger—to exhibit, she may not have realized how much…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

LCP Demand in Cyberspace

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Partnerships with a range of online publications are giving the Library Company’s collections and curatorial insights new visibility. The Print Department’s charming and informative blog posts began to reach an audience of a whole new…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

WWI Graphics on ImPAC

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On the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand this June, a consortium of archival institutions in the Delaware Valley launched "Home Before the Leaves Fall:  The Great War," a digital resource highlighting little-known…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Over There, Over Everywhere: The Aero Service Collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia

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The following post is by guest blogger Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr. who is mining our Aero Service Collection looking for photographs of company personnel and aircraft.  A former Aero Service employee, Winnefeld and colleagues are compiling…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Word Pictures

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The Morris Collection keeps on growing!  David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox and William Perot Morris recently added to the Library Company’s holdings of over 1600 of their grandfather’s photographs with a gift of travel journals…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Two “van”-Tastic Persons

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LCP’s Print Department boasts a collection of some 4000 printed portraits, stored within 52 archival boxes, ranging from Augustus H. Abbott to Ulrich Zwingli. Needless to say, entering all of these priceless items into the LCP database presents…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

“Genius of Freedom “ Opens

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On November 11, the Library Company unveiled our newest exhibition, which documents African American political and social activism in the North in the decades after Emancipation.  “The Genius of Freedom: Northern Black Activism and Uplift…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Librarian Jim Green Talks Junto

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  In September 2013 Geoff DiMasi, principal at the South Philadelphia web design firm P’unk Avenue, organized a two-day meeting that he called the Junto Retreat.  According its website, it was “a place for business leaders to talk about…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

LCP’s Digital Guestbook

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Thanks to a simple online form builder called JotForm, visitors are now able to sign in to the Library Company electronically.  For fellows who come in and out several times a day, for a period of weeks, the convenience and time savings is…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Giving Tuesday

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After the traditional day of family togetherness and gluttony that is the fourth Thursday in November, and the somewhat newer traditions of commercial mayhem that are the following Friday and Monday, the non-profit community has thoughtfully…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Reconstructing Fragments of African American Life

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The Library Company’s next major exhibition, The Genius of Freedom: Northern Black Activism and Uplift after the Civil War, will be on display from November 11, 2014, through June 26, 2015. One of the more unusual items in the exhibition…
Ethiopian bookbinding class. October 10, 2011.

Negative/Positive

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The way we experience photographs today is very different from the way people experienced them 120 years ago.  We press the shutter on our digital cameras without concern; if the photograph doesn’t turn out it can easily be deleted.  We…