Collections

Browse or search the Free Library's collection of more than 3,000 online images. The Free Library’s digital manuscript collection includes… view complete listing>>

The Free Library's interest in historical children's books was established in 1947 with the gift by A.S.W. Rosenbach of his personal collection.… view complete listing>>

In 1886 Philadelphia antiquarian John A. McAllister (1822-1896) presented his collection of Civil War era printed ephemera, graphics, and manuscripts to… view complete listing>>

The manuscript folk art produced by the Pennsylvania Germans is called Fraktur, a name inspired by the broken character of the… view complete listing>>

Incunabula are books printed before the year 1501. In 1899, P.A.B. Widener presented the Free Library with its very first rare… view complete listing>>

The images contained in this digital collection document Philadelphia’s past through its neighborhoods, buildings, and events. They are drawn from the Philadelphiana… view complete listing>>