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Francis Johnson at the Roots of American Music

October 1, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Dr. Susan Goodier

Fellow Highlight: Dr. Susan Goodier

October 1, 2019/by Clare Lowry
The Electrical Machine

The Recipient(s) of the Biennial Innovation Award

October 1, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Ghost River:Back to School

September 20, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Talking in the Library: Season 2 Episode 2

September 13, 2019/by Ann McShane

Mocking the “Other”: The Irish American Experience

September 6, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Jasmine Smith, African American History Subject Specialist and Reference Librarian

African American History Specialist Awarded Rare Book School Diversity Fellowship

September 3, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Illustration [or Illustrations] from an article on Boffin’s Bower, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper 26 June, 1875.

Independence through Self-Education: The Importance of Books and Reading in the Working Women’s Movement

August 22, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Teacher Seminar Group in front of the Library Company

Ghost River Goes to Summer School

August 20, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Re-Visiting the John Frank Keith Photograph Collection

August 16, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Picture Something Sweet: The LCP Fall Seminars Series

July 29, 2019/by Clare Lowry

You’re So Extra (Illustrated): Joseph Y. Jeanes and the Annals of Philadelphia

July 29, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Ghost River Digital Edition Detail

Digital Edition(s): It Takes a Village

July 12, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Talking in the Library: Season 1 Bonus Episode

July 9, 2019/by Ann McShane

See America First with Janet Morris

July 8, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Shareholder Spotlight: The Dickinson-Logan Family

July 2, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Juneteenth Freedom Seminar: How to Be an Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi

July 1, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Ibram Kendi at 2019 Juneteenth

LCP in the News: Author Ibram Kendi chimes in on reparations, touts new book

June 28, 2019/by Clare Lowry

My time at the Library Company of Philadelphia

June 28, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Through the Eyes of Black Women: Intersectionality, Sexual Violence, and Reproductive Rights

June 26, 2019/by Clare Lowry

“We’re still here:” Reflections on HASTAC 2019

June 19, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Jasmine Smith, LCP African American history subject specialist, holds a rare friendship album.

LCP in the News: Exhibit Shines New Light on Black People in Early America

June 12, 2019/by Ann McShane
Sarah Mapps Douglass, A Token of Love from Me to Thee from the Amy Matilda Cassey Friendship Album (circa 1836). Watercolor and gouache.

LCP in the News: New Philly Exhibit Plays Homage to Black Past, Looks to Future

June 12, 2019/by Ann McShane
Jasmine Smith, LCP African American history subject specialist, holds a rare trading card type photo of abolitionist speaker Sojourner Truth.

LCP in the News: A new exhibit at LCP focuses on ‘ordinary creativity’ of African Americans in early Philadelphia

June 12, 2019/by Ann McShane

LCP in the News: How Black Americans portrayed themselves

June 12, 2019/by Clare Lowry