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Imperfect History Blog

The Imperfect History blog will share insights and progress about a project that provides an essential, illustrated chapter in the history of a centuries-old American institution that exists to empower and ideologically challenge the citizenry through knowledge acquired by visual works and printed words.

John Mackie Falconer, Fulton House, No. 121 South Second Street, Philadelphia. Watercolor, 1861.

Stolen and Recovered, or the Wandering Watercolor

February 12, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Wilkinson after John Singleton Copley, [The Wretched State of the Nation] (Philadelphia, January 20, 1766). Etching. Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.

Minding the Gaps

January 14, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Photo-Illustrators, [Interior of a medical clinic], ca. 1930. Gelatin silver print.

Exploring Racism in Medicine through LCP Graphics

November 13, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Interior of Library Company of Philadelphia, Locust Street Branch, ca. 1885. Platinum print in Library Company of Philadelphia scrapbook, ca. 1865-ca. 1971.

Upstairs, Downstairs at the Library Company of Philadelphia

October 2, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Marriott Canby Morris, Midway Plaisance-Dahomans, 1893. Lantern slide.

Seeing Double

October 2, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
“The Irrepressible Conflict” or the Republican Barge in Danger (New York: Currier & Ives, ca. 1860). Lithograph.

One Lithograph, Two “Readings”

August 24, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Miss Barton, Unidentified landscape, early 19th century. Watercolor.

Women Makers and Caretakers

July 22, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Joseph Pennell, Water Street Stairs (Philadelphia). Etching. Two shadowy figures stand at the top of an alley stairway in background, alley has many bills posted, man in sailor outfit in the bottom foreground.

My Beginnings at the Library Company

July 17, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Edward Williams Clay, The Smokers (New York: H. R. Robinson, 1837). Lithograph.

Wanting to Kick Myself: My First Days in the Graphic Arts Department

June 16, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
John L. Magee, Death of George Shifler in Kensington. Born Jan 24 1825. Murdered May 6 1844 (Philadelphia: William Smith, after 1850). Hand-colored lithograph.

Working with Graphics is Not Just Fun

May 28, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Invitation to A Walk on the Wild Side exhibition, 1993.

My Library Company Beginnings

March 11, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Kinaya Hassane, Curatorial Fellow

Henry Luce Foundation Funds Graphic Arts Department Curatorial Fellow and Two-Year Project Imperfect History: Curating the Graphic Arts Collection at Benjamin Franklin’s Public Library

February 26, 2020/by Tristan Dahn

Imperfect History is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, Walter J. Miller Trust, Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Terra Foundation for American Art.

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