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Title: Leaves of Grass
Description: First edition, purchased 1855.
Creator: Whitman, Walt, creator
Date: 1855.

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

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

Title: Journal of the Proceedings of Congress.
Description: Provenance: Gift of Owen Biddle, 1779.
Creator: United States, Continental Congress., creator
Date: 1774

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: Valentine Poem to Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
Description: Transcribed in Ferguson's Poemata Juvenilia. Gift of Mrs. Howard Aley, 1985.
Creator: Smith, Rev. William, creator
Date: 1759

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: Picturesque Views of American Scenery
Description: Provenance: From the library of James Cox, 1834.
Creator: Shaw, Joshua, creator
Date: 1820.

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: 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: Jacob Ridgway, James Rush, and Phoebe Anne Ridgway Rush
Description: Watercolor on ivory. James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator: Peale, Anna C., creator
Date: 1829

Title: Common Sense
Creator: Paine, Thomas, creator
Date: 1776

Title: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, a
Creator: Newton, Isaac, creator
Date: 1687

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

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: Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People.
Description: Gift of the authors, 1794.
Creator: Jones, Absalom and Richard Allen., creator
Date: 1794.

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

Title: Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences or The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks.
Description: Oil on canvas, London. Gift of the artist, 1792.
Creator: Jennings, Samuel., creator
Date: 1792.

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: Le Theatre Du Monde Ou Nouvel Atlas
Description: Bequest of Samuel Preston, 1803.
Creator: Janzoon, Willem and Jan Blaeu, creator
Date: 1644-46.

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

Title: A Mapp of ye Improved Part of Pensilvania in America
Description: Engraving.
Creator: Holme, Thomas, creator

Title: Selenographia
Description: With movable volvelles. Purchased 1955.
Creator: Hevelius, Johannes, creator
Date: 1647

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

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: Juniper and Locust Street Building.
Description: Ink and wash drawing.
Creator: Furness, Frank, creator
Date: ca. 1879.

Title: Das Buch der Schatzbehalter
Description: Purchased 1878.
Creator: [Fridolin, Stephan], creator
Date: 1491.

Title: Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduc'd.
Description: Only known copy; Du Simitière Collection, 1785.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, creator
Date: London, 1765-1766.

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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