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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: Tin Suggestion Box
Date: ca. 1750

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

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.

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

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

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

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