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Title: Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking.
Description: Benjamin Franklin's copy, given to the Library Company in 1733. In his Autobiography Franklin said that this book helped him form "an Exactness of Judgment."
Creator: Antoine Arnaud and Pierre Nicole, creator
Date: 1717

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

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: Library Company Loan Slip for Common Sense.
Description: Signed by George Walton.
Date: 1781.

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

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: The Liberator
Description: Gift of the Pennsylvania Abolition society, 1866.
Date: January 1, 1831.

Title: Leviathan, Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth.
Description: John Dickinson's copy.
Date: 1781.

Title: Letter to Thomas Hopkinson
Description: The first order of books
Creator: Breintnall, Joseph, creator
Date: March 31, 1732.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: History of the Jews
Description: Gift of Edwin Wolf 2nd, 1980.
Creator: Ben Gurion, Joseph, creator
Date: 1722

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: 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: Historia Naturale
Description: Mackenzie bequest, 1828.
Creator: Secundus, Caius Plinius, creator
Date: 1476.

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

Title: Grandma Toppan
Description: Daguerreotype. Purchased 1986.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, creator
Date: ca. 1841.

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: "Geranium Maculatum" for Vegetable Materia Medica
Description: Watercolor, gift of Elizabeth S. Abbot, 1961.
Creator: Barton, William P. C., creator

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

Title: For the Young Ladies' Academy
Description: Printed cover of an exercise book. James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator: [Rush, Benjamin], creator
Date: 1787.

Title: For Sale at Public Vendue
Description: Broadside announcing the post-mortem sale of the Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.
Date: 1785.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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 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.

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