



Imperfect History Comes to a Close with Symposium
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Virtual Close Looking: The Library Company’s First Visual Literacy Workshop
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Albums as/in Archives: Whose Identity is Preserved?
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PLOT: In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission Rebecca Kamen in Collaboration with Tim Chrepta
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Celebrating Ten Years of the Visual Culture Program
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A Bee Farmer’s Ode to Summer
All News, Curator's Favorites, Featured Collections, Graphic Art Department News, LCP News, VCP News![Aunt Phebe, Mcaboy's, N.C. [graphic].](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Aunt-Phebe-Mcaboys-N.C.-graphic.-495x400.jpg)
African Americans and Lost History
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Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind Comes to a Close
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Curator’s Favorite: A Tunnel Book by Any Other Name …
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Common Touch: An Artist’s Multi-Sensory Exhibition Exploring the History of the Education of the Blind at the Library Company of Philadelphia
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![Camera Obscura! [United States, ca. 1853]. Printed handbill. 11.5 x 5 in. Picture shows a handbill illustrated with a decorative border. The document will be described from the top of the page to the bottom. Text reads: Camera Obscura! [new line] There will be an Exhibition [new line] of [new line] Paintings! [new line] Given this [blank] Even[in]g, [new line] at 7 o’clock, [blank] 185[blank] [new line]. In the [blank] [new line] at [blank]. [new line] At which [new line] Prof. W. F. Johnson, [new line] A Colored Gentleman, of the N. Y. In-[new line] stitute for the Blind, will introduce to the citizens [new line] of this vicinity, and the public generally, without [new line] reference to Party or Politics, Fifteen Scenes, illus-[new line] trative of some of the features of the American In- [new line] stitution of Slavery, accompanied by some ap- [new line]propriate odes, “The Slave Mothers’s La-[new line] ment,” “Appeal to Christina,” “Un- [new line] cle Tom’s Religion.” To conclude with ten interesting Changing [new line] Views, magnified, active, and as large as life. [new line] Admission One Shilling. [new line] Children Under 10 years of age sixpence. [new line] [picture of pointed finger] Complimentary to Press and Clergy. [new line] Opinion of the Press.- Mr. Johnson, has been a re- [new line] sident of our village, when at home, for some 20 years, during much of [new line] which time we have been acquainted with him. Blind since his youth, [new line] he has, with untiring perseverance [sic], educated himself. During three [new line] years’ residence in New York Institute for the blind, he made him [new line] self acquainted with the science of Phrenology, under the instruction of [new line] Prof. Fowler. The independence and strength of character exhibited by [new line] Mr. J. in procuring an education, with the privilege of sight denied him, [new line] is worthy of admirati[o]n; and those who know him, stand ready at all [new line] times to attend his lectures and exhibitions. He has an instructive and [new line] entertaining exhibition. – Ithaca Journal. [End of description]](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/smxam1853john-5741-f-2-3-495x400.jpg)
Rev. W.F. Johnson: Blind Phrenologist, Abolitionist, and Picture Show Lecturer
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, VCP News![Picture shows one woman and three men, seated next to each other, and holding instruments. The woman holds an accordion in her lap and she looks slightly down. To her left is a man, his eyes closed, who holds a viola perpendicular to his lap with one hand and a bow in his other. To his left is a man resting a cello between his legs. He holds a bow across the base of the cello with his right hand. To his left is the last man, his eyes closed, who holds a violin by his left shoulder and a raised bow in in his right hand. The woman, as well as the man who holds a cello, wear glasses. The woman wears a dark dash colored corseted dress with long sleeves and a long skirt. The men, who look toward the viewer, are bearded and wear dark dash colored suits. [End of description]](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/hostetler-music-p-2014-60-1-cdv-1-495x400.jpg)