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Title
Leaves of Grass
Description
First edition, purchased 1855.
Creator
Whitman, Walt, creator
Date
1855.
Title
Confessions
Creator
Turner, Nat, creator
Date
1831
Title
Zachariah Poulson, Jr.
Description
Oil on canvas, Philadelphia. Librarian from 1785 to 1806. Commissioned from the artist.
Creator
Sully, Thomas, creator
Date
1843
Title
George Campbell
Description
Oil on canvas. Librarian from 1806 to 1829. Gift of Edwin Wolf 2nd, 1960.
Creator
Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, artist., creator
Date
1856
Title
James Logan
Description
Oil on canvas. Philadelphia. After an original by Gustavus Hesselius. Commissioned to replace a portrait lost by fire in 1831.
Creator
Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, artist., creator
Date
1831
Title
Discourses on Several Public Occasions
Description
The pencilled shelfmark, C113 N20, on the pastedown endpaper was the key to Edwin Wolf's reconstruction of Franklin's library., Provenance: Mackenzie bequest, 1828.
Creator
Smith, William, creator
Date
1759
Title
Plays and Poems
Description
Thomas McKean's copy, with stencilled American eagles, signed at the foot of the spines by the binder, John Lightbody of Philadelphia. Purchased 1954.
Creator
Shakespeare, William, creator
Date
1795-96
Title
Historia Naturale
Description
Mackenzie bequest, 1828.
Creator
Secundus, Caius Plinius, creator
Date
1476.
Title
For the Young Ladies' Academy
Description
Printed cover of an exercise book. James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator
[Rush, Benjamin], creator
Date
1787.
Title
Manuscript Journal
Description
Page for November 1790 listing fees charged various patients, including the family of Vice President John Adams. James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, creator
Date
1790
Title
William Mackenzie
Description
Oil on canvas. After an original, now lost, given by Dr. James Abercrombie in 1828.
Creator
Neagle, John, creator
Date
1829
Title
Mechanick Exercises
Description
Franklin's copy of the first printer's manual. Purchased 1986.
Creator
Moxon, Joseph, creator
Date
1683
Title
Nos. 114 & 116 North Water St.
Description
From A Collection of Photographic Views in Philadelphia & Its Vicinity. Albumen print photograph. Purchased from the photographer, 1870.
Creator
Moran, John, creator
Date
1868.
Title
Fireplace tile
Description
From the Librarian's office in the Ridgway Building, depicting coat of arms.
Creator
Minton, Hollis & Co., creator
Date
1882
Title
Scrapbook
Description
Gift of John A. McAllister, 1886.
Creator
McAllister, John A., creator
Title
Difficiliorum quorundam Elucidatio
Description
Manuscript explanations of certain of Newton's propositions tipped into the front of Logan's copy of the Principia.
Creator
Logan, James, creator
Title
Girard Bank
Description
Daguerreotype. Gift of John A. McAllister, 1896. This view of militia gathering in the wake of an anti-Catholic riot is Philadelphia's first news photograph.
Creator
Langenheim, William and Frederick, creator
Date
1844
Title
Lloyd Pearsall Smith
Description
Oil on canvas. Librarian from 1851 to 1886., Provenance: Gift of L. M. Smith, 1915.
Creator
Lambdin, James Reid, creator
Date
date unknown.
Title
John Jay Smith
Description
Oil on canvas, date unknown. Librarian from 1829 to 1850., Provenance: Gift of the Smith family, 1883.
Creator
Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889, artist., creator
Date
Unknown
Title
Poems
Description
Provenance: From the library of James Cox, 1834.
Creator
Keats, John, creator
Date
1817
Title
Anne Hampton Brewster
Description
Pencil on paper. Brewster bequest, 1892.
Creator
Jerichau, Jans Adolf, creator
Date
1872
Title
Selenographia
Description
With movable volvelles. Purchased 1955.
Creator
Hevelius, Johannes, creator
Date
1647
Title
Air-Pump Case
Description
Built to house a gift of scientific glassware from John Penn, which Franklin used in his electrical experiments. It is the earliest surviving piece of architectural furniture in the Palladian style made in America.
Creator
Harrison, John, creator
Date
Philadelphia, 1739.
Title
Birds of Great Britain
Description
Collection of Francis R. Cope, Jr., 1922.
Creator
Gould, John, creator
Date
1873
Title
Works
Description
Given to the Loganian Library in 1776 by William Logan of Bristol. Inscribed in 1553 by John Dee, first English translator of Euclid.
Creator
Euclid, creator
Date
1533
Title
Phasianidae
Description
Gift of Mrs. Wharton Sinkler, 1976.
Creator
Elliot, Daniel Girauad, creator
Date
1872
Title
Motion Studies
Description
Photograph. Gift of Elizabeth G. Coates, 1982.
Creator
Eakins, Thomas, creator
Date
1884
Title
Musiciens d'un Calinda
Description
Ink and wash drawing. Du Simitière Collection, 1785.
Creator
Du Simitière, Pierre Eugéne, creator
Date
ca. 1760.
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