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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: Phasianidae
Description: Gift of Mrs. Wharton Sinkler, 1976.
Creator: Elliot, Daniel Girauad, creator
Date: 1872

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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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