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

Title: Musiciens d'un Calinda
Description: Ink and wash drawing. Du Simitière Collection, 1785.
Creator: Du Simitière, Pierre Eugéne, creator
Date: ca. 1760.

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

Title: Buildings of the Great Central Fair, in Aid of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, Logan Square.
Description: Lithograph., Provenance: Gift of John A McAllister, 1886.
Creator: Queen, James, creator
Date: 1864.

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

Title: Anne Hampton Brewster
Description: Pencil on paper. Brewster bequest, 1892.
Creator: Jerichau, Jans Adolf, creator
Date: 1872

Title: Birds of Great Britain
Description: Collection of Francis R. Cope, Jr., 1922.
Creator: Gould, John, creator
Date: 1873

Title: A View of the State House in Philadelphia.
Description: Engraving from The Gentleman's Magazine,
Creator: Heap, George, creator
Date: 1752

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

Title: An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of...George Whitefield.
Description: Only known perfect copy; Du Simitière Collection, 1785.
Creator: Wheatley, Phillis, creator
Date: 1770

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: 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: For the Young Ladies' Academy
Description: Printed cover of an exercise book. James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator: [Rush, Benjamin], creator
Date: 1787.

Title: Gallery of Arts & Manufactures
Description: Gift of Marguerite Brenner, 1984.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, creator
Date: [1871]

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: Encyclopedia; Or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.
Description: Benjamin Rush's copy, James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator: Dobson, Thomas, creator

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

Title: A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Description: With Jefferson's manuscript corrections, acquired before 1789.
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, creator
Date: [1774]

Title: A Chart of the Harbour of Rhode Island [from] The Atlantic Neptune
Description: This atlas was taken as a prize from a British brig and was used by the Continental Congress during the Revolution., Provenance: Gift of Joseph Parker Norris, 1824.
Creator: Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet, creator
Date: 1777

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: 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 Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and The Bahama Islands.
Description: Purchased 1722.
Creator: Mark Catesby, creator
Date: 1771

Title: The Reverend Samuel Preston, of Chevening in Kent.
Description: Oil on canvas. Gift of Elizabeth West, 1803.
Creator: West, Benjamin, creator
Date: 1797.

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: 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: The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Part of Virginia and Carolina.
Description: Purchased 1823 at the sale of the library of Benjamin Smith Barton. Barton previously lent this copy to Meriwether Lewis, who took it on the famous expedition. Inscription on fly-leaf by Meriwether Lewis, Philadelphia, May 7, 1807.
Creator: Du Pratz, Antoine Simon Le Page, creator
Date: 1774.

Title: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles.
Description: Gift of the naturalist Peter Collinson, with his manuscript notes.
Creator: Smith, John, creator
Date: 1624.

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: Historia Naturale
Description: Mackenzie bequest, 1828.
Creator: Secundus, Caius Plinius, creator
Date: 1476.

Title: Historique et Description des Procédés du Daguerréotype et du Diorama.
Description: First printing of the first description of photography.
Creator: Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, creator
Date: 1839

Title: Grandma Toppan
Description: Daguerreotype. Purchased 1986.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, creator
Date: ca. 1841.

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

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

Title: Instructions for Sr Arthure Chicester.
Description: Manuscript on vellum. Gift of Henry Cox, 1799.
Creator: James I, creator
Date: June 5, 1614.

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: Zachariah Poulson, Jr.
Description: Oil on canvas, Philadelphia. Librarian from 1785 to 1806. Commissioned from the artist.
Creator: Sully, Thomas, creator
Date: 1843

Title: Works
Description: James Logan's copy, originally bound for Henry, Prince of Wales, with his arms and feather insignia.
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey, creator
Date: 1602

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

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