Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Juneteenth 2013

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"African American Women in the Era of Emancipation"    The Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia hosted its annual Juneteenth Freedom seminar on Friday, June 21, 2013. The theme, "African American Women…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Dr. Ellen Gruber Garvey: Writing With Scissors

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May 21, 2013 Lecture  Presented at the 282nd Annual Meeting of the Library Company of Philadelphia Dr. Ellen Gruber Garvey discussed the history of scrap-booking based on her recent book Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

282nd Annual Meeting

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282nd Annual Meeting of The Library Company of Philadelphia May 21, 2013 2013 Annual Meeting from Library Company on Vimeo.
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Understanding the Pennsylvania Railroad

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CoContemporary Photographs in Response to the Historic Works of William H. Rau Michael Froio Thursday, March 7, 2013 This lecture by Michael Froio looks at W. H. Rau's 1890s photographs of the Pennsylvania Railroad and explores their…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Picturing Women: The Visual Politics of the Woman Suffrage Movement

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(February 28, 2013) This talk by 2012 - 2013 William H. Helfand Visual Culture Fellow Allison Lange discussed how images became powerful political tools for suffragists and their opponents, and the ways in which reformers used pictures to…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Philadelphia on Stone: Lithography Demonstration

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(October 23, 2012) Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmU6TDqYszw Lithography demonstration by Ron Wyffels, Master Printer at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

How to See a Story: Representations for Children in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture

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(April 12, 2012)   Visual Culture Program Fellow Catherine Walsh discussed the ways in which children learned to construct visual narratives by thinking about a variety of sources, including textbooks, primers and readers, illustrated…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Poulsons and Peales at the Library by Carol Soltis

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(October 17, 2011)   Audio Download (MP3) - Program Adobe PDF Document - Slides Carol Soltis, Library Company Trustee and Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Center for American Art, will discuss the work of the artist James…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Audio Tour of ““Building a City of the Dead: The Creation and Expansion of Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery” by Curator Aaron Wunsch

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Laurel Hill Cemetery is among the most celebrated – and most densely populated – swaths of Greater Philadelphia. Beneath seventy-eight acres of lawn, trees, and monuments lie some 70,000 bodies – a sprawling and silent subdivision that…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Laurel Hill Cemetery Exhibition in the Daily News

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Guest Curator Aaron Wunsch points out the highlights of our current exhibition “Building a City of the Dead: The Creation and Expansion of Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery” in the following video courtesy of Jon Snyder of the Philadelphia…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Juneteenth 2010 Panel Discussion: The President’s House Slave Quarters

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(June 21, 2010)   Audio Download (MP3) - Main Program Audio Download (MP3) - Audience Discussion   The Library Company commemorated Juneteenth on June 21, 2010 with a panel discussion on the past eight years of controversy surrounding…
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Simon and Schuster: 2017. https://a.co/i9VbKfj

Juneteenth Freedom Forum

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(June 19, 2009)   Audio Download (MP3)  This Juneteenth Freedom Forum event featured three area scholars discussing the African American struggle for freedom in the era of the Civil War and beyond. Dr. Robert Francis Engs, Professor…