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EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR LIBRARY COMPANY OF
PHILADELPHIA. COLUMNS, RELIEF IN PEDIMENT BOOKS AND
DOCUMENTS. STATUE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. DOCUMENTS OF
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE GREEK REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE
00:44:15 42.67
CU HAND OPENING RARE HISTORICAL BOOK
00:45:47 134.67
NARRATOR SPEAKS TO THE CAMERA. TROMPE LOEIL PAINTING
OF BOOKS IN BOOKCASE IN BKGD
00:46:19 166.67
EXTERIOR OF LIBRARY COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. GREEK
REVIVAL BUILDING
00:46:26 173.67
INTERIOR LIBRARY. LIBRARY ARCHIVAL MATERIALS. CU
EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPER "THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
MERCURY" ONE OF ONLY TWO COPIES IN EXISTENCE. DATED
DECEMBER 22, 1719.
00:46:51 198.67
CU EARLY MAP OF PHILADELPHIA DATED 1794, WHEN CAPITOL
OF THE UNITED STATES
00:47:03 210.67
CU CIVIL WAR BALLADS JOHN BROWN'S MARCHING SONG. MAN-
OF-WAR REFLECT ISSUES AND ATTITUDES OF THE DAY
00:47:19 226.67
CU 1773 POSTER "TO CAPT. AYRES" WARNING DELAWARE
RIVER PILOTS NOT TO TO GUIDE AN ENGLISH TEASHIP TO
PORT
00:47:30 237.67
CU BOOK FROM 1622 FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF THE
LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS IN NEW ENGLAND. MAYFLOWER.
MILES STANDISH.
00:47:45 252.67
CU VELVET BOUND DOCUMENT COPY OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN
UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND OUTLAWING SLAVE TRADE WITH
AFRICA, 1824
00:48:01 268.67
PAINTING OF CITY LIFE AT FIRST AND WALNUT STREETS
MID-19TH CENTURY, LIBRARY COMPANY BUILDING
00:48:14 281.67
CU PLAYBILL LISTING PLAYS 1833, PHILADELPHIA'S
THEATRICAL CULTURE. "RHYME & REASON" "KING LEAR AND
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS"
00:48:32 299.67
CU IMPORTANT HISTORICAL LETTERS WRITTEN BY JOHN PAUL
JONES, THOMAS JEFFERSON, JAMES MONROE
00:48:42 309.67
CU HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENT WRITTEN BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN
OUTLINING THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF FREEDOM FOR THE
SLAVES LEADING UP TO EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
00:48:56 323.67
LIBRARIAN EDWIN WOLF II IN HIS OFFICE INTERVIEWED
TALKS ABOUT LIBRARY FORMATION HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY
COMPANY. HISTORICAL DISCUSSION. MAN SWINGS IN HIS
CHAIR AS HE TALKS
00:53:52 619.67
CU SARCOPHAGUS, COFFINS, MONUMENTS TO DR. JAMES RUSH
AND HIS WIFE BURIED IN THE LIBRARY.
00:54:17 644.67
CU STATUE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DRAPED IN A ROMAN TOGA
00:55:56 743.67
LIBRARIAN EDWIN WOLF SHOWS INTERVIEWER RARE BOOKS
COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY COMPANY RARE BOOK ROOM.
PULLS OUT BOOK BY THOMAS JEFFERSON "SUMMARY REVIEW OF
THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA" 1744. JEFFERSON'S
FIRST PUBLISHED WORK. CU JEFFERSON'S OWN CORRECTIONS
AT PAGE BOTTOM. IMPORTANT HISTORICAL DOCUMENT
00:57:14 821.67
WOLF SHOWS WOMAN A PRIVATELY PRINTED PRELIMINARY
DRAFT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 1787 JOHN
DICKENSON'S COPY WITH NOTES OF THE CHANGES
00:58:00 867.67
LIBRARIAN SHOWS "LOGIC OR THE ART OF THINKING" A BOOK
GIVEN BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1733. CU BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN'S SIGNATURE
00:58:46 913.67
LIBRARIAN SHOWS COPY OF THE PENNSYLVANIAN GAZETTE.
SEPTEMBER 25, 1729. LIBRARIAN TRACES WORDS WITH
FINGER, READS FROM NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. NEWSPAPER FROM
THE COLONIES
00:59:58 985.67
LIBRARIAN SHOWS RARE BOOK "THE HISTORY OF LOUISIANA"
1774 OWNED BY BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, BOTANIST "FATHER
OF AMERICAN BOTANY" LIBRARIAN TRACES WORDS WITH HIS
FINGERS. READS FROM THE BOOK. CU MERIWEATHER LEWIS
SIGNATURE. THE BOOK CROSSED THE CONTINENT WITH LEWIS
AND CLARK
01:01:15 1062.67
LIBRARIAN EXPLAINS OLD PAPER WAS NOT MADE WITH
SULFITE ACID WHICH DETERIORATES PAPER WHICH EXPLAINS
WHY THE BOOKS ARE IN SUCH GOOD CONDITION. TALK ABOUT
PRESERVING PRESENT HISTORIC DOCUMENTS MADE WITH PULP
PAPER WITH SULFURIC ACID WHICH STARTED ABOUT 1870.
ACID DETERIORATION
01:03:00 1167.67
LIBRARIAN SHOWS A BOOK FROM THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS
BELONGING TO JAMES LOGAN, IMPORTANT FIGURE OF THE
18TH CENTURY IN PENNSYLVANIA. CU BOOK ON ASTRONOMY
PRINTED IN 1580.
01:05:05 1292.67
RARE BOOKS ROOM. RARE BOOKS ON BOOK SHELVES
"COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF EUROPE" "CATESBY'S NATURAL
HISTORY" COLLECTION OF CATESBY'S BOOKS.
01:05:24 1311.67
SCHOLAR DR. ROY F. NICHOLS, DEAN OF UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA'S GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENTISTS
INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE RARE BOOK LIBRARY. ACADEMIA.
01:06:20 1367.67
HOLDS UP POSTER ACCOUNT OF THE BOSTON MASSACRE. CIVIL
WAR RECRUITING POSTER. COL. RUSH COMMANDER
PHILADELPHIA LIGHT CAVALRY.
01:08:58 1525.67
CU LIBRARY'S ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. CU BEN
FRANKLIN SIGNATURE
01:09:12 1539.67
LIBRARIAN INTERVIEWED IN HIS OFFICE. TALKS ABOUT THE
LIBRARY'S MOVE TO A MORE MODERN BUILDING.
01:10:15 1602.67
TILT DOWN MODEL OF NEW MODERN LIBRARY BUILDING
ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING
01:10:36 1623.67
PAINTING OF PHILADELPHIA LIBRARY COMPANY, MID 19TH
CENTURY PAINTING
01:10:46 1633.67
CU HISTORICAL DOCUMENT, CONSTITUTION
01:11:12 1659.67
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Year: 1960-1969  Color: Black & White
Genre: AMERICANA

Description: THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA MOVING TO A NEW MODERN BUILDING, 1960s IMPORTANT ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS SHOWN. EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY. RARE BOOKS

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