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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: Chess Automaton
Description: Allen Chess collection, 1884.

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

Title: Confessions
Creator: Turner, Nat, creator
Date: 1831

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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: "Geranium Maculatum" for Vegetable Materia Medica
Description: Watercolor, gift of Elizabeth S. Abbot, 1961.
Creator: Barton, William P. C., 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: Grandma Toppan
Description: Daguerreotype. Purchased 1986.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, creator
Date: ca. 1841.

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

Title: The Homilies of Michael
Description: Ethiopian manuscript. Gift of Countess Van Cuelenbroeck, 1900.
Date: ca. 1682.

Title: Hortus Sanitatis
Description: Collins Collection, 1832.
Date: 1497.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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