Online Exhibitions

The Library Company’s online exhibitions are curated digital displays that bring together a selection of documents, manuscripts, books, graphics, and other historical artifacts from the collection.

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Link to Exhibit, A United State

A United State: American Identity and Memory in the Stereograph

Link to Exhibit, Ardent Spirits: The Origins of the American Temperance Movement

Ardent Spirits: The Origins of the American Temperance Movement

Art & Artifacts Online Exhibition

Art & Artifacts Online Exhibition

Stepney Station (26); Carpenter Station (81); Twin Oaks Station (86); Holmes Station (104); and Llanwellyn Station (104).

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Photograph Album

Link to Exhibit, Benjamin Franklin: Writer and Printer

Benjamin Franklin: Writer and Printer

Link to Exhibit, Black Founders

Black Founders: The Free Black Community in the Early Republic

Link to Exhibit, Building a City of the Dead: The Creation and Expansion of Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery

Building a City of the Dead: The Creation and Expansion of Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery

Link to Exhibit, Capitalism by Gaslight: The Shadow Economies of 19th-Century America

Capitalism by Gaslight: The Shadow Economies of 19th-Century America

Link to Exhibit, LCP Album Project

Cassey & Dickerson Friendship Album Project

Link to Exhibit, Catching A Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860

Catching A Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860

Link to Exhibit, Celebrating 40 Years: The Print & Photograph Department, 1971-2011

Celebrating 40 Years: The Print & Photograph Department, 1971-2011

Link to Exhibit, Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the BlindExhibit, Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

Link to Exhibit, The Emancipation Proclamation: One Step Toward Freedom

Emancipation Proclamation: One Step Toward Freedom

Link to Exhibit, Endless Amusement: Jesse Lentz VCP Artist-in-Residence Intern, Summer 2012

Endless Amusement: Jesse Lentz VCP Artist-in-Residence Intern

Link to Exhibit, Ephemera!: Featuring the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society

Ephemera!: Featuring the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society

Link to Exhibit, “Every Man His Own Doctor:” Popular Medicine in Early America

Every Man His Own Doctor: Popular Medicine in Early America

Link to Exhibit, John Frank Keith

Faces and Facades of Philadelphia: Three Decades of Portraits by John Frank Keith

Link to Exhibit, Far from the Path of Virtue: Women on the Margins of Morality in Antebellum America

Far from the Path of Virtue: Women on the Margins of Morality in Antebellum America

Link to Exhibit, Zinman Early American Imprints

From the Bottom Up: Popular Reading & Writing in the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints

Link to Exhibit, Bisler Paper Box Inventory

G. A. Bisler, Inc. Paper Box Factory Photograph Collection

Link to Exhibit, The Genesis of Republicanism: The Birth and Growth of the Grand Old Party, 1854-1872

Genesis of Republicanism: The Birth and Growth of the Grand Old Party, 1854-1872

Link to Exhibit, Genius of Freedom

Genius of Freedom: Northern Black Activism and Uplift after the Civil War

Link to Exhibit, Brightbill Postcard Collection

George Brightbill Postcard Collection

Link to Exhibit, Great Central Fair

Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1864

Link to Exhibit, The Hook and the Book: The Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in Early American Popular Culture

Hook and the Book: The Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in Early American Popular Culture

Max Rosenthal, Philadelphia Skating Park, South Second and Mifflin Sts. Philadelphia. ([Philadelphia: L.N. Rosenthal], ca. 1865). Chromolithograph.

Ice Skating in 19th Century America: A Pictorial View

Link to Exhibit, In Disguise: Cross Dressing and Gender Identity

In Disguise: Cross Dressing and Gender Identity

Link to Exhibit, Intersections: Scriptures, Prints and Paintings in Antebellum America

Intersections: Scriptures, Prints and Paintings in Antebellum America

Link to Exhibit, John A. McAllister Collection of Civil War Era Printed Ephemera, Graphics and Manuscripts

John A. McAllister Collection of Civil War Era Printed Ephemera, Graphics and Manuscripts

Link to Exhibit, John A. McAllister’s Civil War: The Philadelphia Home Front

John A. McAllister’s Civil War: The Philadelphia Home Front

Link to Exhibit, John Brown 150

John Brown: 150 Years from the Raid

Link to Exhibit, Living Color: Collecting Color Plate Books at The Library Company of Philadelphia

Living Color: Collecting Color Plate Books at The Library Company of Philadelphia

Making An Impression: James Barton Longacre (1794-1869)

Link to Exhibit, Mirror of a City: Views of Philadelphia Recently Acquired from the Jay T. Snider Collection

Mirror of a City: Views of Philadelphia Recently Acquired from the Jay T. Snider Collection

Link to Exhibit, Mower Hospital Inventory

Mower General Hospital Views, Photographed by John Moran

Link to Exhibit, Municipal Pier Inventory

Municipal Pier Construction Photograph Collection, 1917-1921

Link to Exhibit, Nineteenth-Century Pharmacists’ Trade Cards from the William H. Helfand Collection

Nineteenth-Century Pharmacists’ Trade Cards from the William H. Helfand Collection

Link to Exhibit, Ogontz Album

Ogontz School for Girls Album

Link to Exhibit, Pennsylvania German Broadsides: Windows into an American Culture

Pennsylvania German Broadsides: Windows into an American Culture

Link to Exhibit, Philadelphia Gothic: Murders, Mysteries, Monsters, and Mayhem Inspire American Fiction, 1798-1854

Philadelphia Gothic: Murders, Mysteries, Monsters, and Mayhem Inspire American Fiction, 1798-1854

Link to Exhibit, Philadelphia on Stone

Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828-1878

Exhibition, Portraits of American Women

Portraits of American Women: Women Writers, Women in Religion, and Women of the Republican Court

Paper toy of Washington Crossing the Delaware. Some figures separated and displayed apart from the others with rectangular tabs.

Printed and Graphic Ephemera

Link to Exhibit, Richard Allen

Richard Allen: Apostle of Freedom

Link to Exhibit, Risky Business

Risky Business: Winning and Losing in the Early American Economy, 1780-1850

Link to Exhibit, Gutekunst Inventory

Stereographs of Pennsylvania Railroad Views by Frederick Gutekunst, 1875

Stylish Books: Designing Philadelphia Furniture

Link to Exhibit, That's So Gay

That’s So Gay: Outing Early America

Link to Exhibit, The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

Link to Exhibit, The Liberation of Jane Johnson

The Liberation of Jane Johnson

The Living Book Online Exhibition

The Living Book: New Perspectives on Form and Function

Link to Exhibit, “This Extraordinary Woman”: Portraits of Female Curiosities in Early American Print Culture

This Extraordinary Woman: Portraits of Female Curiosities in Early American Print Culture

Link to Exhibit, Together We Win

Together We Win: The Philadelphia Homefront during the First World War

Snuffbox which Benjamin Franklin gave to Georgiana Shipley in 1779. (Gift of Stuart Karu to the Library Company in 2009)

Treasures from the Library Company of Philadelphia

William Birch, Ingenious Artist, His Life, His Philadelphia Views, And His Legacy

Trade cards depicting a butterfly, a little white girl holding a large bottle, a peach with arms and legs, a white baby, and a bird.

William H. Helfand Collection of Proprietary Medicine Pamphlets

Link to Exhibit, Jennings Inventory

William Nicholson Jennings Photograph Collection Inventory