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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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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