Library Company of Philadelphia

150px The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant collections of historically valuable manuscripts and printed material in the United States.

The current collection size is approximately 500,000 books and 70,000 other items, including 2,150 items that once belonged to Franklin, major collections of 17th-century and Revolution-era pamphlets and ephemera, maps, and whole libraries assembled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection also includes first editions of ''Moby-Dick'' and ''Leaves of Grass''. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Common touch : the art of the senses in the history of the blind /
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    Warner family letters 1869-1902
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    Library Company of Philadelphia papers 1746-1747
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    Library Company of Philadelphia Collection 1778-1947
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    Author: Wolf, Edwin, 1911-1991
    Published 1984
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    China on our shelves : an exhibition of books about China acquired by the Library Company of Philadelphia mostly before and during the heyday of the American China trade, 1784-1840, July to October 1984
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    Published 1980
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    Bibliophiles Philadelphia style : an exhibit of sixty rare books once owned by notable Philadelphians : Library Company of Philadelphia, May-October 1982
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    Author: Finkel, Kenneth, 1951-
    Published 1980
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    Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia
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    Published 1977
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    A flock of beautiful birds : the ornithological Collection of Louise Elkins Sinkler
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    Author: Green, James N.
    Published 1985
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    Mathew Carey, publisher and patriot
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    Published 1990
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    Poor Richard's books : an exhibition of books owned by Benjamin Franklin now on the shelves of the Library Company of Philadelphia
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    Published 1980
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    Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia : 250 historic prints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
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    Published 1993
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    Philadelphia almanac and citizens' manual for
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    Author: Larrabee, Denise M.
    Published 1992
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    Anne Hampton Brewster : 19th-century author and "social outlaw" : an exhibition 16 March-31 August 1992
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    Published 1966
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    Bibliothesauri : or, Jewels from the shelves of the Library Company of Philadelphia : being a catalogue of a selection of rare, old, curious, valuable, important, unusual, beautiful, influential, and historic books in the fields of religion, law, science, medicine, history, travel, art and literature : to which is prefixed a brief introduction by Edwin Wolf 2nd
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    Published 1966
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    Bibliothesauri, or, Jewels from the shelves of the Library Company of Philadelphia : being a catalogue of a selection of rare, old, curious, valuable, important, unusual, beautiful, influential, and historic books in the fields of religion, law, science, medicine, history, travel, art and literature, to which is prefixed a brief introduction
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    Published 1960
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    Why the Library Company should move : a description of the Library stressing its fundamental values and the reasons why the Ridgway Building can no longer be considered an adequate or safe home
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    Published 1963
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    American song sheets, slip ballads, and poetical broadsides, 1850-1870 : a catalogue of the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia
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    Published 1993
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    A walk on the wild side, the Wissahickon Creek 1800 to 1940 : an exhibition at the Library Company of Philadelphia, October 18, 1993 to March 18, 1994
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    Published 1996
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    An African American miscellany selections from a quarter century of collecting, 1970-1995 : an exhibition February 5 through September 27, 1996
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    Published 1980
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    America's first news photo

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