Blog: Beyond the Reading Room – The Library Company of Philadelphia

LCP Blog: Beyond the Reading Room

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

Pages from LIBCO_Leaves-of-Green_R3_reduced_date — Leaves of Green
November 8, 2023/by Dan Shiman

baked — Potato Puff
November 3, 2023/by Dan Shiman

Photograph of inside cover of book with two bookplates — The Addition of the Pennsylvania Library of Foreign Literature and Science
November 3, 2023/by Dana Dorman

Portrait of Dr. Mutter — Shareholder Spotlight: Dr. Thomas D. Mütter (1811-1859)
October 16, 2023/by Dana Dorman

BF2 — Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of Franklin’s Arrival in Philadelphia: New Exhibit Opening
October 4, 2023/by Dan Shiman

Photograph of Abigail Guidry using the book scanner to digitize a bound volume at the Library Company — Digitization Work on the Library Company Papers Project
October 2, 2023/by Dana Dorman

20230926_170743 — (Somewhat) Puffy Rolls
September 28, 2023/by Dan Shiman

Photograph of detail from chronological share and directors register — Yellow Fever and the Library Company in 1793
September 25, 2023/by Dana Dorman

Exterior view of Wyck house in Germantown — Shareholder Spotlight: Reuben Haines III (1786-1831) and Jane Bowne Haines (1790-1843)
September 18, 2023/by Dana Dorman

Photograph of illustration in Clarkson memoir of portrait of Matthew Clarkson — Shareholder Spotlight: Matthew Clarkson (1733-1800)
August 21, 2023/by Dana Dorman