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

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: 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: Views of Ancient Monuments
Description: Provenance: James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator: Catherwood, Frederick, creator
Date: 1844

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

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: U. S. Constitution
Description: First printed draft. John Dickinson's copy with his manuscript notes. Gift of Robert R. Logan, 1943.
Date: August 7, 1787

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: Tin Suggestion Box
Date: ca. 1750

Title: Taufschein for Elisabeth Romich
Description: George Allen Collection, purchased 1959.
Date: 1786.

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: The Spectator
Description: Franklin's copy; gift of Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 1801. Franklin taught himself to write by copying the style of this English periodical.
Date: 1711.

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 South East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia.
Description: Oil on canvas, ca. 1720. Gift of George Mifflin Dallas. The earliest painting of a North American city, found in a London curiosity shop in 1857.
Creator: Cooper, Peter, creator
Date: ca. 1720.

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

Title: Scrapbook
Description: Gift of John A. McAllister, 1886.
Creator: McAllister, John A., creator

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

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

Title: Receipt for a Library Company share
Date: January 20, 1733

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: Poems
Description: Provenance: From the library of James Cox, 1834.
Creator: Keats, John, creator
Date: 1817

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

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

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

Title: Peace, Liberty, and Independence
Description: Only known copy of the first announcement of the preliminary peace agreement ending the Revolutionary War. Anonymous gift, 1992.
Date: 1783

Title: Original Cornerstone of the Library Company's Building on Fifth Street.
Date: 1789

Title: Original Charter, signed on behalf of the Proprietors of Pennsylvania.
Description: Manuscript on vellum.
Date: Maarch 25, 1742

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: Nature Prints of Leaves
Description: Provenance: Gift of his widow.
Creator: Breintnall, Joseph, creator
Date: 1746

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

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

Title: Mummy's Hand.
Description: "Woman's Hand taken from an Egyptian Mummy: presented to the Library Company of Philadelphia by Mr. Benjamin West fomerly of this City, but now of London - Historical Painter - Novemr. 1767.", Provenance: Gift of the artist Benjamin West., The Library Company acknowledges that in the past it regarded the mummified hand as a curiosity, which is harmful and offensive. The Library Company aims to correct this by showing dignity and respect to the remains of a once living person.

Title: Motion Studies
Description: Photograph. Gift of Elizabeth G. Coates, 1982.
Creator: Eakins, Thomas, creator
Date: 1884

Title: Minute Book
Description: Lists the number and value of books affected by the fire on January 6, 1831.
Date: March 1831.

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: Mechanick Exercises
Description: Franklin's copy of the first printer's manual. Purchased 1986.
Creator: Moxon, Joseph, creator
Date: 1683

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

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

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

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

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