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
![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 "Wilkinson after John Singleton Copley, [The Wretched State of the Nation] (Philadelphia, January 20, 1766). Etching. Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.")
Minding the Gaps
![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 "Photo-Illustrators, [Interior of a medical clinic], ca. 1930. Gelatin silver print.")
Exploring Racism in Medicine through LCP Graphics
Upstairs, Downstairs at the Library Company of Philadelphia
Seeing Double
One Lithograph, Two “Readings”
Women Makers and Caretakers
My Beginnings at the Library Company
Wanting to Kick Myself: My First Days in the Graphic Arts Department
Working with Graphics is Not Just Fun
My Library Company Beginnings
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
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.
