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Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
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Compliments of Homer, Colladay & Co. Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1879). Chromolithograph trade card.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
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Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
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The Library Company of Philadelphia strongly opposes the recent actions by the Department of Government Efficiency to terminate already awarded National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants, including funding for the Library Company of Philadelphia. This is an unprecedented and damaging move that puts critical community programs and cultural organizations across Pennsylvania at risk.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
Image: Bookplates of the Amicable Library, the Association Library, and the Union Library Company (1769). | The Library Company of Philadelphia
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Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
If you have followed the collecting of the Library Company over the past half-century, you already will be familiar with the contributions of emeritus Trustee Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg. Since the 1960s, Dr. Rosenberg has been the preeminent American voice in the study of the history of medicine, and particularly in how that history intersects and interacts with the history of society at large. Through his career, he has authored numerous essays, articles, and monographs on the history of medic...| The Library Company of Philadelphia
On July 1, 1731, at the instigation of Benjamin Franklin, the founding shareholders drew up “Articles of Agreement” to establish a library. Fifty subscribers invested forty shillings each and promised to pay ten shillings a year thereafter to buy books and support operations. Thus, “the Mother of all North American Subscription Libraries”—as Franklin proudly referred to it in his Autobiography—was born.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
Image: Receipt for a Library Company share, 1733.| The Library Company of Philadelphia
Over the course of its long history, the Library Company of Philadelphia has had many homes. Our ongoing work in the Library Company Papers Project is helping to provide new access to the records that document those moves over our first 150 years of operations.| The Library Company of Philadelphia