“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Summer project increases access to early 20th-century photograph collection

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With support from the Samuel S. Fels Fund the Library Company is pleased to make a wonderful collection of photographs available for public research and use. The collection consists of more than 200 portraits taken ca. 1910-1940 by local…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Jane Johnson Marker Dedication

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Jane Marker Dedication Philadelphia: July 7, 2009 – On July 18, 1855, one hundred fifty-four years ago, Jane Johnson, an enslaved woman from North Carolina, found herself in Philadelphia on free soil for the first time. She seized the…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Peter Mancall on the Daily Show

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“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Peter Mancall on the Daily Show

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Peter Mancall will be a guest tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He will discuss his new book: “Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson: A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic ”. Peter is a former fellow and will…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Annual Meeting Re-Cap

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Over one hundred people attended the Library Company’s Annual Meeting on May 12, 2009. This year’s meeting featured Kenneth Finkel, Distinguished Lecturer in Temple University’s American Studies Program, who spoke about the Library Company’s…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Same Old or New Old? Twenty-first Century Thinking About Nineteenth-Century Collections

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(May 12, 2009)   Audio Download (MP3) Watch Video Online (FLV) - with corresponding slides.   Kenneth Finkel, Distinguished Lecturer in Temple University’s American Studies Program and former Library Company Curator of Prints…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Juneteenth Freedom Forum

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Friday, June 19, 2009 Reception at 5:30 p.m., program at 6:00. Join us at the Library Company on Friday, June 19th for our Juneteenth Freedom Forum, featuring three area scholars discussing the African American struggle for freedom in…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

New Exhibition

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On May 4 the Library Company unveiled its new exhibition, Mirror of a City: Views of Philadelphia Recently Acquired from the Jay T. Snider Collection. Mr. Snider, a former Library Company Trustee and avid collector of historical items, sold…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-Century Natural History Exchange

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(April 15, 2009)   Audio Download (MP3) Corresponding Slides (PDF)   Elizabeth P. McLean, garden historian and Library Company Trustee (and former President), speaks about her new biography of Peter Collinson, co-authored by Jean…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War

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(March 19, 2009)   Audio Download (MP3)   Author Marc Egnal challenges the orthodoxy that the Civil War began for moral reasons, contending that more than any other concern, the evolution of the Northern and Southern economies…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

The Women of the Republican Court Revisited

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(March 11, 2009)  Audio Download (MP3)   An evening event in the spirit of Martha Washington! As part of the Library Company's Visual Culture Program, Curator of Women's History Cornelia King brings to life the women depicted in…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Ed Pettit, the “Philly Poe Guy”: Edgar Allan Poe and the Philadelphia Gothic Tradition

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(February 19, 2009)   Audio Download (MP3)  An intriguing glance into the world of Philadelphia Gothic literature, where writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, George Lippard, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Edgar Allan Poe flourished.…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Maurice Jackson: Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism

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(February 5, 2009)  Audio Download (MP3)    In celebration of Black History Month, the Library Company’s Program in African American History and the University of Pennsylvania Press present Maurice Jackson, Assistant Professor…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

2008 LCP Annual Meeting

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“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Christopher Looby, “The Paradox of Philadelphia Gothic”

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(October 29, 2008)   Audio Download (MP3)   In the first half of the 19th century, Philadelphia spawned a literary tradition of Lurid Crime, Weird Hallucination, Brooding Supernatural, and Sheer Horror - largely the work of three…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

The Library Company Celebrates its Newest Exhibition: Philadelphia Gothic

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On October 29 our gallery, Reading Room, and Logan room were overflowing with guests who came to catch the first viewing of “Philadelphia Gothic: Murders, Mysteries, Monsters, and Mayhem Inspire American Fiction, 1798-1854,” and to hear…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

The Library Company Visits Temple University Libraries

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On October 22 a group of Library Company members traveled north of Center City to partake in an intimate tour of some very special collections housed within Temple University Libraries. The pictures were taken in the Urban Archive department…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Thomas Slaughter, The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman

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(October 14, 2008)  Audio Download (MP3)   John Woolman (1720-1772), a Quaker tailor from New Jersey, had an extraordinary commitment to attaining self-purification through the rejection of slavery, war taxes, and rampant consumerism.…
“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Library Company Receives Grant for Preservation

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The Library Company has received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to upgrade our environmental monitoring equipment. The grant funds will be used to purchase new dataloggers, a light meter, and a wireless receiver…