Member Profiles

Museum and Library -- Natural Sciences. Founded in 1812, the library's resources focus on natural history and the environment from the 16th century to the present; holdings include over 200,000 volumes, plus archives, photographs, art, and artifacts

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Library. Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the Society houses one of the nation's principal collections in the history of science, anthropology, and early America.

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Museum and Library. Founded in 1814, the Athenaeum houses a nationally significant collection on architecture and design history.

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Academic Library. British and American literary history; European travel accounts to Africa, Asia and Latin America; Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and books; women's history, especially suffrage; women writers and artists; history of London; art study collections; archaeological and ethnographic materials; decorative arts.

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Library, archives and museum. CHF's collections represents centuries of the material culture of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries.

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Museum, Library and Archive. Founded in 1893, the collections document all aspects of Chester County's past. Chester County Historical Society administers the Chester County Archives, www.chesco.org/archives

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Municipal Archive. City records not in current use and possessing historical, administrative, legal, research, cultural or other important value. Home of the www.phillyhistory.org online archive of historic photographs.

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Museum and Library. Library collections focus on medical history: books, journals, prints/photographs, physician papers, and institutional archives. The Mütter Museum is known for its nineteenth-century collection of anatomical and pathological specimens.

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The Helen Farr Sloan Library and Archives houses over 38,000 volumes that include monographs, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, reference works, and extensive vertical files relating to individual artists, and over 2,000 linear feet of archives. The scope of the Library reflects the Museum's permanent art collection, with a focus on Howard Pyle and American Illustration, John Sloan, and the Pre-Raphaelites.

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Library and Archive. Materials documenting Pennsylvania-German culture, the classics, the natural sciences, exploration, the United States Civil War, Benjamin Franklin, and the history of Franklin and Marshall College.

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Public Library. Collections include illuminated manuscripts, Americana, common law, children's literature and illustrations, and Pennsylvania German Fraktur. The Central Library houses special collections in other departments; consult website.

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Library and Archives. The library houses more than 70,000 volumes; three-quarters are in German. The collections also include German-American newspapers and a German-American archive documenting life in the United States since 1683.

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Museum and Library. Founded by Pierre S. du Pont. The library's collections of 36,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 225,000 titles, and more than 2 million images document the history of American business and technology.

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Academic Library. Quaker books and mss, 17th century to present, especially regarding Native Americans, civil rights and women's rights, Quakers in Japan; other rare books and manuscripts dating back to the 13th century; photographs and historic maps.

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Library - Local, Regional, National, and Family History. Strengths in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, with additional material on the original 13 states. Incorporates the collections of The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies (through a merger in 2002) and The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (through a Strategic Alliance in 2006). view full profile >>

Library, Archives and Museum. The J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library at Independence Seaport Museum is a regional maritime research center, offering resources that document Philadelphia's relationship with its rivers and the greater Delaware River Valley.  

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Academic Library. Strengths include Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War, the Holocaust, and Trauma Literatures; the Owen Wister Collection; the life and work of Bob Dylan; Illustrated Woodcut Bibles; Charles Willson Peale; Tea Ceremony and other local historical documents relating to La Salle's heritage and grounds. view full profile >>

The Library Company of Philadelphia is an independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Open to the public free of charge, the Library Company houses an extensive non-circulating collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art. The mission of the Library Company is to preserve, interpret, make available, and augment the valuable materials within its care. We serve a diverse constituency throughout Philadelphia and nationally and internationally, offering comprehensive reader services, an internationally renowned fellowship program, online catalogs, and regular exhibitions and public programs. view full profile >>

Library-Religion. Original Reformation-era publications; Lutheran liturgical publications from the 16th to 18th century; early printed Bibles and Books of Hours. The Seminary campus also hosts the Lutheran Archives for the region. view full profile >>

Archive. Historically significant records of Federal agencies and courts from the region -- immigration records, landmark court cases, military records, more -- documenting the rights of Americans, the actions of the Federal government, and the American experience.

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Library. America's first horticultural society. Strong collection of American and European gardening classics, as well as books, catalogs and images documenting history of Delaware Valley horticulture. view full profile >>

Museum and Library—Fine Arts. The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Library, Archives, and Albert M. Greenfield Visual and Digital Resources Center, located in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, constitute a comprehensive resource for art history research and study, with an emphasis on the collections of the Museum. They serve the Museum's staff--curators, conservators, educators, and guides--as well as visiting scholars, college and university students, and the general public.
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Founded in 1852 and serving as the national archives of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), includes official records, personal papers, books, and images documenting the history of the church and the Reformed tradition in America.

 

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Museum and Library. Collections are especially strong in manuscript and printed American History, British literature, and book illustration; also large special collections of James Joyce, Marianne Moore, and Maurice Sendak.

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Library. The State Library of Pennsylvania collects and preserves our written heritage through materials published for, by, and about Pennsylvania. Collection strengths are Pennsylvania Newspapers, Genealogy, Pamphlets, and General Assembly Collection.

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Academic and Research Libraries. Quaker history, doctrine, and activity in various fields; Indian rights, women's rights, and abolition of slavery; the history of the peace movement. Additional telephone numbers: 610-328-8496 (Friends Historical Library); 610-328-8557 (Peace Collection) view full profile >>

Academic Library. The Urban Archives Center; the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection; Special Collections Department ( science fiction and fantasy, 60s-70's underground/alternative publications, artists' books, printing/publishing archives, Templana - the University Archives, Philadelphia Dance Collection )

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Library. Specializing in American Civil War, American and European History, World War I and II, regional history, biographies and early 20th century travel.

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.Academic Library. Books, manuscripts, and other materials from the fifteenth to the twentieth century with particular strengths in the arts; English, Irish, and American literature; history and Delawareana; horticulture; and history of science and technology

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Academic Library. American, British, & Continental history, literature, & philosophy; medieval & Renaissance studies; Shakespeare; history of science & technology, esp. chemistry; cookery; book history & arts; local arts history; South Asia; Judaica.

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Academic Library. Augustiana, European imprints to 1800, Hubbard/Roycrofter Press, Irish and Irish-American history, incunabula, fine bindings, North American imprints to 1820. Also hosts university archives and the Augustinian Historical Institute.

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Museum and Library. Founded in 1855 as a free educational institution. The library collections focus on natural and physical sciences, engineering, education, and technology from the 17th through the early 20th century.

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Museum and Library. American decorative arts and material culture. Includes architecture and design pattern books, trade catalogs, manuscripts, printed ephemera, Shaker Collection, Decorative Arts Photographic Collection.

 

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