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.

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. Wilkinson after John Singleton Copley, [The Wretched State of the Nation] (Philadelphia, January 20, 1766). Etching. Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Cartoon1766Wre-395-F-3-705x465.jpg)
Minding the Gaps
January 14, 2021/by Tristan Dahn![Photo-Illustrators, [Interior of a medical clinic], ca. 1930. Gelatin silver print. Photo-Illustrators, [Interior of a medical clinic], ca. 1930. Gelatin silver print.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/JPG_digitool_130021_Interior-of-a-medical-clinic.jpg)
Exploring Racism in Medicine through LCP Graphics
November 13, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Upstairs, Downstairs at the Library Company of Philadelphia
October 2, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Seeing Double
October 2, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
One Lithograph, Two “Readings”
August 24, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Women Makers and Caretakers
July 22, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
My Beginnings at the Library Company
July 17, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Wanting to Kick Myself: My First Days in the Graphic Arts Department
June 16, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Working with Graphics is Not Just Fun
May 28, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
My Library Company Beginnings
March 11, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
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 DahnImperfect 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.