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Title
Edwin Wolf 2nd.
Description
Photograph. Librarian from 1955 to 1984.
Date
1952
Title
Austin K. Gray
Description
Photograph. Librarian from 1931 to 1943.
Date
1930
Title
Motion Studies
Description
Photograph. Gift of Elizabeth G. Coates, 1982.
Creator
Eakins, Thomas, creator
Date
1884
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
Birds of Great Britain
Description
Collection of Francis R. Cope, Jr., 1922.
Creator
Gould, John, creator
Date
1873
Title
Anne Hampton Brewster
Description
Pencil on paper. Brewster bequest, 1892.
Creator
Jerichau, Jans Adolf, creator
Date
1872
Title
Phasianidae
Description
Gift of Mrs. Wharton Sinkler, 1976.
Creator
Elliot, Daniel Girauad, creator
Date
1872
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
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
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
Leaves of Grass
Description
First edition, purchased 1855.
Creator
Whitman, Walt, creator
Date
1855.
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
Views of Ancient Monuments
Description
Provenance: James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator
Catherwood, Frederick, creator
Date
1844
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
Grandma Toppan
Description
Daguerreotype. Purchased 1986.
Creator
Cornelius, Robert, creator
Date
ca. 1841.
Title
Rural Residences
Description
Gift of Anthony N. B. Garvan, 1978. Unique copy, with extra ink-and-wash plans.
Creator
Davis, Alexander Jackson, creator
Date
1837
Title
The Liberator
Description
Gift of the Pennsylvania Abolition society, 1866.
Date
January 1, 1831.
Title
Minute Book
Description
Lists the number and value of books affected by the fire on January 6, 1831.
Date
March 1831.
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
Confessions
Creator
Turner, Nat, creator
Date
1831
Title
Mas-has-kah, Chief of the Ioways-(White Cloud)
Description
Colored lithograph. Gift of John A. McAllister, 1884. A trial proof, never used, intended for Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Creator
Childs, Cephas Grier, creator
Date
1830
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
Poems
Description
Provenance: From the library of James Cox, 1834.
Creator
Keats, John, creator
Date
1817
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
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
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.
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
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