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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
American Weekly Mercury
Description
Joseph Breintnall's copy, and the only known copy of the first issue.
Date
December 22, 1719.
Title
Anne Hampton Brewster
Description
Pencil on paper. Brewster bequest, 1892.
Creator
Jerichau, Jans Adolf, creator
Date
1872
Title
Austin K. Gray
Description
Photograph. Librarian from 1931 to 1943.
Date
1930
Title
Birds of Great Britain
Description
Collection of Francis R. Cope, Jr., 1922.
Creator
Gould, John, creator
Date
1873
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
Confessions
Creator
Turner, Nat, creator
Date
1831
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
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
Edwin Wolf 2nd.
Description
Photograph. Librarian from 1955 to 1984.
Date
1952
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
For Sale at Public Vendue
Description
Broadside announcing the post-mortem sale of the Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.
Date
1785.
Title
For the Young Ladies' Academy
Description
Printed cover of an exercise book. James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator
[Rush, Benjamin], creator
Date
1787.
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
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
Grandma Toppan
Description
Daguerreotype. Purchased 1986.
Creator
Cornelius, Robert, creator
Date
ca. 1841.
Title
Historia Naturale
Description
Mackenzie bequest, 1828.
Creator
Secundus, Caius Plinius, creator
Date
1476.
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
History of the Jews
Description
Gift of Edwin Wolf 2nd, 1980.
Creator
Ben Gurion, Joseph, creator
Date
1722
Title
The Homilies of Michael
Description
Ethiopian manuscript. Gift of Countess Van Cuelenbroeck, 1900.
Date
ca. 1682.
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
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
Leaves of Grass
Description
First edition, purchased 1855.
Creator
Whitman, Walt, creator
Date
1855.
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