LCP News

Getting Even: The Mighty Pen of Lady Bulwer Lytton

May 10, 2022/by Tristan Dahn

Cocoa-nut Cake

May 4, 2022/by Tristan Dahn

Sadakichi Hartmann in the Library Company of Philadelphia

May 3, 2022/by Tristan Dahn

Cream Puffs

April 28, 2022/by Tristan Dahn

Imperfect History Comes to a Close with Symposium

April 13, 2022/by Tristan Dahn
Chicken salad served on a platter with hard boiled eggs and stuffed grape leaves

Chicken Salad with Homemade Mayonnaise

March 30, 2022/by Tristan Dahn
Sarah Heim Delivered the 2022 Women’s History Month Lecture

Sarah Heim Delivered the 2022 Women’s History Month Lecture

March 22, 2022/by Tristan Dahn
The Antiquarian (Boston: Senefelder & Co., 1830 or 1831). Hand-colored lithograph. American Antiquarian Society.

Visual Antiquarianism

March 15, 2022/by Tristan Dahn
Pound cake, served

Francatelli’s Pound Cake

March 3, 2022/by Tristan Dahn
William Jennings, Jamaican Belle, ca. 1920. Lantern slide.

A Philadelphia Photographer’s Visions of Race and Empire

February 15, 2022/by Tristan Dahn
Chopping potatoes

Potato Salad

February 1, 2022/by Tristan Dahn
Benjamin Ridgway Evans, North Side of Chestnut St., Extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851 (Philadelphia, ca. 1880). Watercolor.

Imperfect History Project

January 7, 2022/by Tristan Dahn
Pumpkin pie sliced and served

Pumpkin Pie In Verse

December 2, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Imperfect History Exhibition Card

Imperfect History Online Exhibition is now live!

November 9, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Bobotje wrapped in puff pastry

Babotje

October 27, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (June 2, 1877)

Fitz-Greene Halleck: The Most Famous Gay Poet You’ve Never Heard Of

October 25, 2021/by Tristan Dahn

The World at Your Fingertips: Restoration of the Library Company’s Globes

October 12, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
[Unidentified African American Man], ca. 1875. Albumen mounted on cardboard.

Uncovering Hidden Narratives in American Art

October 8, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Cheesecake served with cranberry jam

Cheesecake the Common Way

September 29, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Life & Age of Man. Stages of Man's Life from the Cradle to the Grave (New York: N. Currier, ca. 1847). Hand-colored lithograph.

Imperfect History

September 14, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Fish house punch, served

Fish House Punch

September 1, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Ingredients for dandelion salad with scallion dressing

Dandelion and Scallion Salad with Dressing

July 29, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Title page from Sex in Education

Period Politics: The 19th-Century Debate over Menstruation

July 28, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
LCP's first online visual literacy workshop

Virtual Close Looking: The Library Company’s First Visual Literacy Workshop

July 27, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Mellon Scholars Program Workshop 2021 Participants: Victoria Shepard

Mellon Scholars Program Workshop 2021 Participants: Victoria Shepard

July 12, 2021/by Tristan Dahn