{"id":200,"date":"2025-01-28T19:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:24:45","slug":"how-to-search","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/how-to-search\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The best place to search for more information about items in the Library Company of Philadelphia records (MSS00270) is in the collection\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarycompany.org\/FindingAids\/MSS00270-LCP-records-finding-aid_final.pdf\">finding aid<\/a>, available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarycompany.org\/FindingAids\/MSS00270-LCP-records-finding-aid_final.pdf\">https:\/\/www.librarycompany.org\/FindingAids\/MSS00270-LCP-records-finding-aid_final.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most unique items dating from 1731 to 1881 have also been digitized, and are available either on the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lcppapersproject\">Internet Archive<\/a> or in the <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.librarycompany.org\/islandora\/object\/islandora%3ALCPP1\">Library Company\u2019s Digital Library<\/a>, or both. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/documents\/#arrangement\">browse digitized holdings by finding aid arrangement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, please keep in mind that searchable metadata for digitized images does not necessarily include word-for-word transcriptions of each item\u2019s full text. Therefore, keyword searching may not give you the results you seek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, you may need to use the collection\u2019s finding aid first to identify a likely resource, then navigate to that digitized resource to view the material you\u2019re seeking. You can also find <a href=\"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subject guides related to graphic materials and artifacts<\/a> that are related to the collection on this site&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Documents page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For an overview of how to do research at the Library Company, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/research\/\">https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/research\/<\/a> Still have questions about how to find materials in the Library Company\u2019s collections? <a href=\"mailto:reference@librarycompany.org\">Contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best place to search for more information about items in the Library Company of Philadelphia records (MSS00270) is in the collection\u2019s finding aid, available at https:\/\/www.librarycompany.org\/FindingAids\/MSS00270-LCP-records-finding-aid_final.pdf. Most unique items dating from 1731 to 1881 have also been digitized, and are available either on the Internet Archive or in the Library Company\u2019s Digital Library, or&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/how-to-search\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Search<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}