LCP Blog: Beyond the Reading Room

Library Company Announces Plans for Semiquincentennial

July 10, 2025/by Grace Harrington
Side portrait illustration of Frances Cadwalader Erskine, labeled Mrs. Erskine 1809

Shareholder Spotlight: Anne Bond Travis Erskine (circa 1792-1851)

June 24, 2025/by Dana Dorman
Photograph portrait of Frank Etting that appeared in published book

Shareholder Spotlight: Frank M. Etting (1833-1890)

May 27, 2025/by Dana Dorman
Photograph of miniature depicting Cadwalader Morris

Shareholder Spotlight: Cadwalader Morris (1741-1795)

April 21, 2025/by Dana Dorman

Library Company Acquires the William Woys Weaver Collection of Culinary Ephemera

April 7, 2025/by Grace Harrington
Illustration of the seal of the Library Company, with books pouring knowledge from single large jar to many smaller jars

Statement in Support of NEH

April 7, 2025/by Dana Dorman
Photograph of inside flyleaf of book with Emma M Bouvier incscription

Shareholder Spotlight: Emma M. Bouvier Drexel (1833-1883)

March 20, 2025/by Dana Dorman
Photographic postcard of the exterior of Christ Church

Shareholder Spotlight: Rev. Robert Blackwell (1748-1831)

February 20, 2025/by Dana Dorman

Announcing an Unparalleled Gift from Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg

January 31, 2025/by Grace Harrington

Shareholder Spotlight: Elizabeth Hewson Caldwell (1774-1851)

January 23, 2025/by Dana Dorman
Photograph of William Pepper membership ticket to the First Pan-American Medical Congress

Shareholder Spotlight: Dr. William Pepper (1843-1898)

December 12, 2024/by Dana Dorman
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

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

The Captivating World of 19th-Century American Trade Cards

August 8, 2024/by Dan Shiman

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

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