LCP News

Andrea Krupp's journals.

Note to Future Self: A Project to Do at Home

April 2, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of Honble. Image 3

Another Hamilton in Philadelphia

March 30, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Emily W. Sunstein

Shareholder Spotlight: Emily W. Sunstein

March 26, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
1885 cabinet card showing the Barakat family

The Barakat Family in America

March 26, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
The Game of Philadelphia Buildings Cover

Keeping Ourselves Occupied

March 26, 2020/by Tristan Dahn

Political Cartoons, Redrawn

March 17, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Mural depicting Edward Coles granting freedom to 16 enslaved people

Shareholder Spotlight: Edward Coles

February 26, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Kinaya Hassane, Curatorial Fellow

Henry Luce Foundation Funds Graphic Arts Department Curatorial Fellow and Two-Year Project Imperfect History: Curating the Graphic Arts Collection at Benjamin Franklin’s Public Library

February 26, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
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A Visit from a Senator, and advancing Civic Literacy

February 10, 2020/by Tristan Dahn
Items on display in Ghost River

Ghost River:News That’s Fit to Print

January 10, 2020/by Fran Dolan
Guest View Ghost River

Ghost River Opens

November 26, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Front cover and map from Samuel Hazard’s Santo Domingo, Past and Present: With a Glance at Hayti (1873).

Reader Spotlight: Robert Eskind on 19th-Century Maps of Santo Domingo

October 23, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Samuel Hazard, Santo Domingo, Past and Present: With a Glance at Hayti (New York, 1873).

Before and After

October 21, 2019/by Clare Lowry
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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