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Title: Facade of 1314 Locust Street Building
Description: Photograph
Date: 1995

Title: Book from Christ Church Library
Description: Donated by the Rev. Thomas Bray ca. 1700, deposited with the Library Company 1966

Title: Articles of Association.
Description: Manuscript on vellum.
Date: July 1, 1731

Title: A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Description: The earliest extant catalogue of the Library Company; Franklin also printed broadside catalogues in 1733 and 1735, of which no copies have survived.
Date: 1741

Title: Bookplates of the Amicable Library, the Association Library, and the Union Library Company.
Description: These early subscription libraries were absorbed by the Library Company in 1769.
Date: 1769

Title: American Weekly Mercury
Description: Joseph Breintnall's copy, and the only known copy of the first issue.
Date: December 22, 1719.

Title: For Sale at Public Vendue
Description: Broadside announcing the post-mortem sale of the Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.
Date: 1785.

Title: Austin K. Gray
Description: Photograph. Librarian from 1931 to 1943.
Date: 1930

Title: Examples of the Crafsmanship of the Conservation Workshop.
Description: Photograph.
Date: 1995

Title: The Ridgway Building, Broad and Christian Streets.
Date: ca. 1940.

Title: The Homilies of Michael
Description: Ethiopian manuscript. Gift of Countess Van Cuelenbroeck, 1900.
Date: ca. 1682.

Title: The Liberator
Description: Gift of the Pennsylvania Abolition society, 1866.
Date: January 1, 1831.

Title: The Revolution, Vol. I, No. I.
Description: Inscribed to Lucretia Mott from Susan B. Anthony. Gift of Edward W. Davis, 1883.
Date: January 8, 1868.

Title: Taufschein for Elisabeth Romich
Description: George Allen Collection, purchased 1959.
Date: 1786.

Title: Handwritten cards from the original card catalogue.
Date: after 1856.

Title: Hoch-Deutsches Lutherishes ABC
Description: George Allen Collection, purchased 1959.
Date: 1802

Title: Hortus Sanitatis
Description: Collins Collection, 1832.
Date: 1497.

Title: Interior of the Ridgway Building
Description: .
Date: ca. 1940.

Title: William Penn's William and Mary Secretary Desk.
Description: England. Displayed at the Great Central Fair, 1864., Provenance: Gift of John Jay Smith, 1873.
Date: ca. 1700

Title: Women's Room of the Juniper and Locust Street Building.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Moran album

Title: Loganian Library
Description: Ink and wash drawing
Date: [1797?]

Title: Mary Rebecca Darby Smith.
Description: Frontispiece from Leaves for the Past. Gift of the author.
Date: 1872

Title: Louis L. Peck
Description: Tinted Lithograph
Date: ca. 1855.

Title: Original Charter, signed on behalf of the Proprietors of Pennsylvania.
Description: Manuscript on vellum.
Date: Maarch 25, 1742

Title: Minute Book
Description: Lists the number and value of books affected by the fire on January 6, 1831.
Date: March 1831.

Title: Peace, Liberty, and Independence
Description: Only known copy of the first announcement of the preliminary peace agreement ending the Revolutionary War. Anonymous gift, 1992.
Date: 1783

Title: Original Cornerstone of the Library Company's Building on Fifth Street.
Date: 1789

Title: Receipt for a Library Company share
Date: January 20, 1733

Title: Translation of the Laws, Orders, and Contracts, on Colonization.
Description: Provenance: Purchased at the sale of the library of Henry D. Gilpin, 1878.
Date: November 1829.

Title: U. S. Constitution
Description: First printed draft. John Dickinson's copy with his manuscript notes. Gift of Robert R. Logan, 1943.
Date: August 7, 1787

Title: The Spectator
Description: Franklin's copy; gift of Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 1801. Franklin taught himself to write by copying the style of this English periodical.
Date: 1711.

Title: Tin Suggestion Box
Date: ca. 1750

Title: Leviathan, Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth.
Description: John Dickinson's copy.
Date: 1781.

Title: John C. Van Horne
Description: Photograph. Librarian from 1985.
Date: 1995

Title: Chess Automaton
Description: Allen Chess collection, 1884.

Title: Edwin Wolf 2nd.
Description: Photograph. Librarian from 1955 to 1984.
Date: 1952

Title: Mummy's Hand.
Description: "Woman's Hand taken from an Egyptian Mummy: presented to the Library Company of Philadelphia by Mr. Benjamin West fomerly of this City, but now of London - Historical Painter - Novemr. 1767.", Provenance: Gift of the artist Benjamin West., The Library Company acknowledges that in the past it regarded the mummified hand as a curiosity, which is harmful and offensive. The Library Company aims to correct this by showing dignity and respect to the remains of a once living person.

Title: Library Company Loan Slip for Common Sense.
Description: Signed by George Walton.
Date: 1781.

Title: Sketch of a Meschianza Costume
Description: The Meschianza was an extravagant fete orchestrated by Major André for the British officers on the eve of their withdrawal from Philadelphia., Provenance: Gift of John Fanning Watson, 1830.
Creator: André, John, creator
Date: 1778.

Title: Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking.
Description: Benjamin Franklin's copy, given to the Library Company in 1733. In his Autobiography Franklin said that this book helped him form "an Exactness of Judgment."
Creator: Antoine Arnaud and Pierre Nicole, creator
Date: 1717

Title: "Geranium Maculatum" for Vegetable Materia Medica
Description: Watercolor, gift of Elizabeth S. Abbot, 1961.
Creator: Barton, William P. C., creator

Title: History of the Jews
Description: Gift of Edwin Wolf 2nd, 1980.
Creator: Ben Gurion, Joseph, creator
Date: 1722

Title: Specimen of Printing Types
Description: The publisher Mathew Carey's copy; gift of Isaac Lea, ca. 1850.
Creator: Binney, Archibald and James Ronaldson, creator
Date: 1812.

Title: Library and Surgeon's Hall, Fifth-street
Description: Engraving, from The City of Philadelphia.
Creator: Birch, William, creator
Date: 1800.

Title: Nature Prints of Leaves
Description: Provenance: Gift of his widow.
Creator: Breintnall, Joseph, creator
Date: 1746

Title: Letter to Thomas Hopkinson
Description: The first order of books
Creator: Breintnall, Joseph, creator
Date: March 31, 1732.

Title: Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States.
Description: Gift of Lloyd P. Smith, 1883.
Creator: Brown, John, creator
Date: 1858

Title: A Catalogue of Books
Description: Manuscript. In the Library at Westover. William Mackenzie bequest, 1828. The Library Company published a critical edition of this catalogue in 1995.
Creator: Byrd, William, creator
Date: ca. 1751.

Title: Views of Ancient Monuments
Description: Provenance: James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator: Catherwood, Frederick, creator
Date: 1844

Title: Minerva as the Patroness of American Liberty.
Description: Painted terra cotta, Philadelphia. This monumental sculpture loomed over the Speaker's chair in Congress Hall while the federal capital was in Philadelphia.
Creator: Ceracchi, Giuseppe, creator
Date: 1791.

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