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LCP Blog: Beyond the Reading Room

Lithograph portrait of Margaret Morris sitting in a chair holding a book — Shareholder Spotlight: Margaret Morris (1737-1816)
November 15, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Photograph of cover of bound volume titled Minutes of the Committee for Fixing the Value of Lost Books — Finding Aid Now Available for Library Company Institutional Records
November 7, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Photograph of signature of Jacob Duche on 1731 document — Shareholder Spotlight: Jacob Duché, Sr. (1708-1788)
October 14, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Illustration of exterior of Loganian Library with smaller inset sketches of other buildings at edge of page — Looking Back at the Loganian Library
October 4, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Illustration of large brick house and market next to it with pedestrians and cart out front — Shareholder Spotlight: Sarah Lukens Keene (circa 1783-1866)
September 16, 2024/by Dana Dorman

dollslives1 — Are You A Molly?: August Program Bridges American Girl’s Past and Present
August 28, 2024/by Dan Shiman

Photo of text in minute book about Rees Lloyd's widow wanting share to be held in trust by her brother for her children — Shareholder Spotlight: Rees Lloyd (1709-1743)
August 14, 2024/by Dana Dorman

p.2014.14-p54 row2 boy on turtle_access2 — The Captivating World of 19th-Century American Trade Cards
August 8, 2024/by Dan Shiman

mcallister-p-2011-10-4-p70-d1 — Leafing Through the Mid-19th Century with Cartes de Visite
July 15, 2024/by Dan Shiman

Photograph of text from Share Record Book C — Shareholder Spotlight: Anne Biddle Tatum (b. 1780)
July 12, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Photograph of Carpenters' Hall visible down a long alleyway, mounted on yellow paper with handwritten notations of place, date, and photographer — A Tour of the Library Company’s Buildings Over its First 150 Years
June 24, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Portrait of Eli Kirk Price — Shareholder Spotlight: Eli Kirk Price (1797-1884)
June 12, 2024/by Dana Dorman

p-2024-32-unacc2 — Library Company Acquires the Kathryn S. Alpert Collection of Women’s History Postcards and Ephemera
May 22, 2024/by Dan Shiman

Photograph of title page of Worthy Women book — Shareholder Spotlight: Agnes Irwin (1841-1914)
May 13, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Li Hongzhang and Chinese Representation in America
May 2, 2024/by Dan Shiman

Two of Franklin’s Institutions Look to a Future of Greater Collaboration

April 25, 2024/by Library Company

Lithograph portrait of Miers Fisher with his signature below — Shareholder Spotlight: Miers Fisher (1748-1819)
April 16, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Am1827Harv_6377_O frontispiece cr sm — Shareholder Spotlight: Sophia Borie (1789-1876)
March 15, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Photograph of a white woman with short brown hair and glasses putting a box of archival items back on a shelf — Updates from the Library Company Papers Project
March 4, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Photograph of front exterior of Library Company building with statue in niche above front door — Shareholder Spotlight: William Bingham (1752-1804)
February 20, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Photo of the title page of the 1793 pamphlet published by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen — The Library Company’s Relationship with the Free Black Community in Philadelphia
February 9, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Photo of page in share record book — Shareholder Spotlight: Rebecca Clifford
January 10, 2024/by Dana Dorman

Photograph of printed broadside advertising Robert Aitken's shop — Shareholder Spotlight: Robert Aitken (1734-1802)
December 15, 2023/by Dana Dorman

Photograph of LCP directors minutes from 1775 describing Robert Aitkin share transaction — Learning More About Our Shareholders Through the Library Company Papers Project
December 4, 2023/by Dana Dorman

Image of title page of Gentlefolks and Others book — Shareholder Spotlight: Julia Duhring (1836-1892)
November 17, 2023/by Dana Dorman