LCP News

Scrapple pizza

Scrapple

March 31, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Prof. Michele Navakas (Miami University of Ohio) Delivered Women's History Month Lecture

Prof. Michele Navakas (Miami University of Ohio) Delivered Women’s History Month Lecture

March 31, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Claret with whipped syllabub

Whipped Syllabub

March 26, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Portrait photograph of Louise Sanders Venning inserted before page 32 of Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Family Photograph Album, ca. 1860-1925.

(Im)perfect Pages

March 25, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Title page from Elisabeth Sweerts’s 1657 Dutch Bible

Women Get Things Done during COVID

March 18, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
White-Billed Woodpecker

Elizabeth Nodder and The Naturalist’s Miscellany

March 4, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Celestial Globe.

Fellowships: Gone Digital

February 24, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Ingredients for Good Meat Soup

Good Meat Soup

February 17, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Anne C. Lewis, Frontispiece in Memories of the Homes of Grandma Lewis, 1896. Library Company of Philadelphia, P.9829.2.

Albums as/in Archives: Whose Identity is Preserved?

February 16, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
John Mackie Falconer, Fulton House, No. 121 South Second Street, Philadelphia. Watercolor, 1861.

Stolen and Recovered, or the Wandering Watercolor

February 12, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Second attempt, finished and sliced

Indian Pound Cake

February 5, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Advertising broadside. The Chinese Lady, Afong Moy. Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1835. Detail.

Remembering Afong Moy

February 1, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Croquettes, ready to eat

Augustine’s Chicken Croquettes

January 15, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
Wilkinson after John Singleton Copley, [The Wretched State of the Nation] (Philadelphia, January 20, 1766). Etching. Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.

Minding the Gaps

January 14, 2021/by Tristan Dahn
George Lehman, Coal Mine at Mauch Chunk(Philadelphia: C.G. Childs, ca.1837). Lithograph.

We Dig: 200 Years of Extraction in the Anthracite Fields of Pennsylvania

January 8, 2021/by Tristan Dahn

Christmas Blossoms – Mid-Nineteenth Century Juvenile Annuals

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December 17, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Vermicelli and cheese, served

Vermicelli and Cheese

December 10, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Scorcher Sheet Music Cover Image

Featured Acquisition: The Scorcher (1897)

December 4, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Photo-Illustrators, [Interior of a medical clinic], ca. 1930. Gelatin silver print.

Exploring Racism in Medicine through LCP Graphics

November 13, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
A slice of Barnard Cake, served

Barnard Cake

November 13, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Women Get Things Done Banner

Women Get Things Done VIRTUALLY!

October 29, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Serving a slice of the finished pie

Quarterly Meeting Pie

October 21, 2020/by Tristan Dahn

Benjamin Franklin and Alchemy

October 14, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Interior of Library Company of Philadelphia, Locust Street Branch, ca. 1885. Platinum print in Library Company of Philadelphia scrapbook, ca. 1865-ca. 1971.

Upstairs, Downstairs at the Library Company of Philadelphia

October 2, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Marriott Canby Morris, Midway Plaisance-Dahomans, 1893. Lantern slide.

Seeing Double

October 2, 2020/by Tristan Dahn