CU HAND OPENING RARE HISTORICAL BOOK

EXTERIOR OF LIBRARY COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. GREEK
REVIVAL BUILDING

CU EARLY MAP OF PHILADELPHIA DATED 1794, WHEN CAPITOL
OF THE UNITED STATES

CU 1773 POSTER "TO CAPT. AYRES" WARNING DELAWARE
RIVER PILOTS NOT TO TO GUIDE AN ENGLISH TEASHIP TO
PORT

CU VELVET BOUND DOCUMENT COPY OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN
UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND OUTLAWING SLAVE TRADE WITH
AFRICA, 1824

CU PLAYBILL LISTING PLAYS 1833, PHILADELPHIA'S
THEATRICAL CULTURE. "RHYME & REASON" "KING LEAR AND
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS"

CU HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENT WRITTEN BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN
OUTLINING THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF FREEDOM FOR THE
SLAVES LEADING UP TO EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

CU SARCOPHAGUS, COFFINS, MONUMENTS TO DR. JAMES RUSH
AND HIS WIFE BURIED IN THE LIBRARY.

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 IMPORTANT HISTORICAL DOCUMENT

LIBRARIAN SHOWS "LOGIC OR THE ART OF THINKING" A BOOK
GIVEN BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1733. CU BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN'S SIGNATURE

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

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.

SCHOLAR DR. ROY F. NICHOLS, DEAN OF UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA'S GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENTISTS
INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE RARE BOOK LIBRARY. ACADEMIA.

CU LIBRARY'S ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. CU BEN
FRANKLIN SIGNATURE

TILT DOWN MODEL OF NEW MODERN LIBRARY BUILDING
ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING

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