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ANNUAL REPORT of the LIBRARY COMPANY of PHILADELPHIA the ANNUAL REPORT of the LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA FOR THE YEAR 2018 Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia 1314 Locust Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 2020 1 PRESIDENT TREASURER » Howell K. Rosenberg » Charles B. Landreth VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY » Maude de Schauensee » John F. Meigs TRUSTEES TRUSTEES EMERITI » Rebecca W. Bushnell » Peter A. Benoliel » Harry S. Cherken, Jr. » Lois G. Brodsky » Nicholas D. Constan » Robert J. Christian » B. Robert DeMento » Beatrice W. B. Garvan » Joseph M. Evans, Jr. » William H. Helfand* » Michelle D. Flamer » Roger S. Hillas » Charles P. Keates, Esq. » David W. Maxey » Louise Marshall Kelly » Mrs. William L. McLean III » Michael B. Mann » Martha Hamilton Morris » Randall M. Miller » Charles E. Rosenberg » Stephen P. Mullin » Carol E. Soltis » Daniel K. Richter » Seymour I. Toll* » Richard Wood Snowden » John C. Tuten » Maria M. Thompson » Helen S. Weary » Edward M. Waddington » Michael Zinman » Clarence Wolf *Deceased 2 TABLE of Contents » REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT . 4. » REPORT OF THE TREASURER . 8. » REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR . 10. » EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS . .14 . » PROGRAMS Program in African American History ............................32 Program in Early American Economy and Society ..................34 Visual Culture Program. .36 The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History ................38 » OPERATIONS Digital Humanities and Outreach ...............................44 Cataloging & Conservation ....................................48 » COLLECTIONS The Popular Medicine Collection at the Library Company ............54 Reveling in Artistry: African Americana Music, Poetry & Resistance ....58 Rare 18th-Century American Clock Restored ......................62 An Eye-Catching Collection: Elegant Covers ......................64 Captivating Collections: A Visual Excursion .......................68 Strategic Labels: Popular and Illicit ..............................72 Women’s History: Resisting (or Embracing) Marginalization ..........76 » RECOGNITION Research Fellows .............................................84 Donor Recognition ...........................................90 James Rush Society ...........................................96 Gifts in Kind ................................................97 Staff List ..................................................108 Additional Captions .........................................112 3 Report OF THE PRESIDENT We are sincerely grateful to those who continue to sustain our institution as it continues its centuries-old tradition of education, engagement, and empowerment. 2018 has been a year of growth and EXPLORING EXHIBITIONS expansion for the Library Company on This year, the Library Company launched several fronts. two outstanding exhibitions which highlighted the breadth and scope of our We completed our strategic plan, which collections. Our exhibit, William Birch, acknowledges our strength as a research Ingenious Artist: His Life, His Philadelphia library serving scholars from around Views and His Legacy, curated by Librarian the world, reaffirms the central role that James Green and Curator of Prints the collections and staff serve in our and Photographs Sarah Weatherwax, contributions to the field, challenges us to featured a full-day symposium attended by inspire scholars to use innovative techniques shareholders, members of the public, and to bring history to life for future historians descendants of the Birch family. The event and the broader public, and encourages us included presentations by experts and a to enhance and increase our outreach celebration of the tenth anniversary of our efforts to a wider community. We also Visual Culture Program. We owe Trustee engaged a real estate planning firm, Clarence Wolf a debt of gratitude for AthenianRazak, to provide guidance in the finding and helping us obtain a remarkable use of our properties. We thank Trustee collection of rare Birch materials. Without Richard Wood Snowden whose invaluable this acquisition and an anonymous support, guidance, and expertise have made donation of additional Birch items this it possible for us to obtain and manage groundbreaking exhibition would not our current properties and plan for their have been possible. future use. 4 The Library Company partnered with the A NEW WAY OF CONNECTING Historical Society of Pennsylvania and In January 2018, the Library Company the American Philosophical Society to began its Seminar Series, which was support our shareholder Jay Robert Steifel’s designed to connect the public with our launch of his new book, The Cabinet Maker’s collections by using historians and other Account: John Head’s Record of Craft and professionals to lead small study groups Commerce in Colonial Philadelphia. More in conversations about our original source than 400 fellow scholars and community material and its relationship to the topic members attended the event which of the seminar. Each session was followed proved to be a perfect complement to our by a dinner which provided the opportunity second exhibition, Stylish Books: Designing to further discuss the evening’s themes Philadelphia Furniture, curated by Linda with the seminar leaders in a relaxed August, our curator of Art & Artifacts. social setting. Our first seminar was planned in partnership with the American These successful exhibitions were in Philosophical Society. Librarian James large part the product of enthusiastic Green and Patrick Spero, the Librarian and support from our community. Individuals, Director of the American Philosophical businesses, and foundations joined together Society, taught this four-part course on the to provide both in-kind donations and life and works of Benjamin Franklin. The monetary contributions which in turn second seminar, which focused on the life brought the highest level of scholarship to and works of William Russell Birch, was our audience. taught by shareholder and architectural 5 historian Dr. Emily Cooperman. She is At the Annual Dinner we also awarded an internationally acclaimed expert on the Library Company’s first Annual Book all things Birch. Prize to Dr. Zara Anishanslin for her book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk. We applaud the efforts of Trustee Charles P. Keates, Esquire, whose guidance, input, CELEBRATING COMMUNITY and leadership were greatly responsible In summer 2018, the Pew Center for Arts for making the Birch seminar a resounding & Heritage awarded us a grant for a project success. entitled Redrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives in Colonial America. This grant HONORING LEGACY will enable us to work with the Native On June 6th we celebrated and honored American community to write, illustrate, and the career of John C. Van Horne with an publish our first graphic novel, and create a engaging talk by historian Candice Millard, national teachers’ workshop in partnership a New York Times best-selling author, with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of who discussed Destiny of the Republic: American History and an artistic exhibition A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder based on our historical collections. of a President, a fascinating account of the assassination of President James A. The Library Company is also extremely Garfield. On November 15th we held grateful to those donors who provided our 288th Annual Dinner and were unrestricted leadership gifts. Many thanks treated to a remarkable presentation about go to Lois Brodsky, Ed Kane, Helen Weary, Dr. Benjamin Rush by award-winning Maude de Schauensee, Peter Benoliel journalist, author, and historian Stephen and Willo Carey, and Theodate Coates, Fried. We are proud that Mr. Fried used all of whose philanthropy helped to the Library Company’s collections to aid maintain and expand the operations of him in the research and writing of his the Library Company. excellent book, Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father. 6 We also appreciate the dedicated support have completed their service on the Board. of an anonymous donor who continues to We thank them for their inspired leadership bolster the acquisition endowment, helping and guidance during their years of service. us to grow our collections annually. We welcome them as our newest emeriti. The Library Company family was We constantly seek to expand our collections saddened by the passing of several in order to maintain our standing as an important supporters, including past internationally renowned research library. presidents and Trustees Emeriti Seymour In this report you will read about some of Toll and William Helfand, along with this year’s most notable acquisitions that many other valued members of our we obtained by gift or purchase. community. In this report, you’ll learn more about their tremendous generosity On behalf of the board of trustees and staff, and the long-standing impact their gifts I express our sincere gratitude to those have made on our programs, fellowships who sustain our institution as it continues and more. Each of them was dedicated to its centuries-old tradition of education, the mission of our venerable institution. engagement, and empowerment. They will all be missed. We encourage you to attend our programs The Library Company is grateful to the and events, read our blog and listen to our leadership and guidance provided by podcast. Your support and participation will our trustees. We welcome the return of enable us to sustain the learning community several who have been elected to complete envisioned by Benjamin Franklin
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