• 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...
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    the directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Gilbert Stuart referred to the city using this phrase, referring to Philadelphia's reputation for...
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    Mercantile Library Company was a library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, that operated from 1821 to 1989. Like other "Mercantile Libraries" of the...
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    Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the 16th-largest public library system...
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    introduction of the idea of a congressional library. In the years after the Revolutionary War, the Philadelphia Library Company and New York Society Library served...
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    Joseph Breintnall (category Year of birth missing)
    Secretary of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the sheriff of Philadelphia from 1735–1738. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his friend...
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    including the Library Company of Philadelphia, established in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin at 1314 Locust Street, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, founded in...
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    small loaf of bread", according to a 1987 exhibition catalog published by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania...
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  • in business. 1731 – Library Company of Philadelphia established 1735 – Pennsylvania State House built 1736 – Union Fire Company formed 1740 – Kahal Kadosh...
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    Philadelphia Almanac and Citizens' Manual (1995 ed.). Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia. pp. 156–170. ISBN 0-914076-89-2. Philadelphia Neighborhoods...
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    of the City of Philadelphia which began in 1854 and, within three years, had a library that compared to that of the Philadelphia Library Company of Colored...
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    United States after the Library Company of Philadelphia (founded 1731 by Benjamin Franklin) and the Redwood Library and Athenaeum of Newport, Rhode Island...
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     513–514. ISBN 0-520-22569-4. Library Company of Philadelphia (1996). 1995 Annual Report. Library Company of Philadelphia. p. 28. ISBN 1-4223-6128-4. DeCosta-Willis...
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    The Reading Company (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing) was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania...
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    "Manayunk near Philadelphia". The Library Company of Philadelphia. World Digital Library. Retrieved January 5, 2014. Early History of the Falls of Schuylkill...
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    William Thornton (category Alumni of the University of Aberdeen)
    competition for the Library Company of Philadelphia's new hall. His design won but was somewhat departed from during actual construction. Library Hall was described...
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    Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences (category Collection of the Winterthur Museum, Gallery and Library)
    collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia, this work is the earliest known American painting promoting abolitionism in the United States. The Library Company...
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    1842, from collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospital, circa 1840, Library Company of Philadelphia Reps, John William, and J...
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    organized the Library Company of Philadelphia – it remains one of the oldest libraries in the United States. Although it was a subscription library until 1898...
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    Culture, Library Company of Philadelphia Crime broadsides Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library; a digitized collection of 500 crime...
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    Join, or Die (category National symbols of the United States)
    Journal of the American Revolution. Retrieved August 3, 2023. "Political cartoon: MAGNA Britannia: her Colonies REDUC'D". Library Company of Philadelphia. Retrieved...
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    policy of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Wilson library quarterly, 55: 316–318; Farren, D. (1976). The library of James Logan of Philadelphia, 1674–1751...
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    Finkel, Kenneth, ed. (1995), Philadelphia Almanac and Citizens' Manual, Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, pp. 156–170, ISBN 0-914076-89-2...
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  • Kenneth Finkel, ed. (1995). Philadelphia Almanac and Citizen's Manual. Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia. p. 86. "Philly Via Italy". thirty...
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  • Written in 1987 and A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Edwin Wolf 2nd. Philadelphia: Library Co. of Philadelphia. “Goff, Frederick R. (1916–82).”...
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    Frank Furness (category Architects from Philadelphia)
    of Pennsylvania Library, now the Fisher Fine Arts Library, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia,...
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    of libraries located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, active in the 19th century. Included are public libraries, academic libraries, medical libraries,...
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    Years of Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia. Library Company of Philadelphia. Provides an historic overview of the commercial trade in Philadelphia and...
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    in Philadelphia on May 26, 1869. He left $1,000,000 for the Philadelphia Library Company for the erection of the Ridgeway Branch of the Philadelphia Library...
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    In the American colonies, the Library Company of Philadelphia was started in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By paying an initial...
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