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 almost an additional term of service, including three hundred years ago. Michael B. Mann, Dr. Randall M. Miller, Sincerely, and Robert DeMento. I am excited to welcome Joseph M. Evans, Jr., to our Howell K. Rosenberg, President Executive Committee as the Library Company’s newest treasurer. Regrettably, Charlie Landreth and Rebecca Bushnell

7 Report OF THE TREASURER 2018

WITHOUT DONOR WITH DONOR RESTRICTIONS RESTRICTIONS REVENUES AND SUPPORT: Contributions and grants $574,256 $1,837,900 Dues $115,703 — Interest and dividend income, net of fees $110,572 $325,496 Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments ($412,123) ($1,598,537) Rental income $105,477 — Other library services $53,439 $57,021 Net assets released from restrictions $1,841,186 ($1,841,186) $2,388,510 ($1,219,306)

EXPENSES: Program $2,425,721 — Management and general $782,907 — Fundraising $313,504 — $3,522,132 —

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS ($1,133,622) ($1,219,306)

NET ASSETS AT BEGINNING OF YEAR $10,842,407 $25,248,175

NET ASSETS AT END OF YEAR $9,708,785 $24,028,869

The complete financial statements, along with the report of our certified public accountants are available at the Library Company. — Charles B. Landreth | Treasurer 8 OPERATING EXPENSES

22% MANAGEMENT AND GENERAL LIBRARY SERVICES FUNDRAISING AND 60% DEVELOPMENT 9% ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS 2% FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH STIPENDS 7% TOTAL

$2,412,156 OPERATING REVENUE $115,703 $436,068 RENTAL INCOME 3% LIBRARY SERVICES 3% ($2,010,660) $105,477 INTEREST AND CONTRIBUTIONS DIVIDEND INCOME $110,460 AND GRANTS 14% — 76% $1,169,204 DUES 4%

$2,425,721 $782,907 $313,504 CHANGE IN ENDOWMENT (IN MILLIONS) $3,522,132 $30,833 $29,971 $28,481 $29,020 ($2,352,928) $27,016

$36,090,582 2017 2015 2018 2016 $33,737,654 2014

9 Report OF THE DIRECTOR

Our new mission statement: To foster a learning community grounded in our historic collections that contributes to and amplifies knowledge of American culture and society and works for the benefit of all.

Few words strike fear into the heart quite planning is the investment and engagement like “strategic planning.” In one of my of leadership. If an organization’s leaders past lives, I spent a lot of time talking to and especially its Executive Director feel nonprofit organizations about strategic that strategic planning is a rote compliance plans. It is an exercise much more loved exercise, it will turn out to be exactly that. As by funders than by organizations. From the new director of the Library Company, the outside, it looks like a reasonable and though, I felt a lot of urgency around a business-like process for an organization strategic plan. I had a vision for the Library to take stock of itself and its environment, Company and some ideas for how to achieve and to reach consensus about where it, but I didn’t have a good sense of how our to go in the future. From the inside, it many constituents — our staff and board, often looks like an endless grim parade but also our fellows and shareholders and of meetings, memos, and data-gathering, peers — would react to them. I was also all leading to an all-too-predictable set keenly aware that lurking just around the of conclusions that are then summarily corner was a major anniversary — the 300th ignored, only to grow quickly outdated. anniversary of our founding coming up in 2031. Our strategic planning process became A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE a way for my vision to be passed through the In 2018, the Library Company set out to alembic of our constituents, and come out do things differently. The most important much more refined and improved. factor in the success or failure of strategic

10 CALLING IN THE degree of work and trust on our part to PROFESSIONALS supply them with all the information Back in 2017, we hired a Boston-based they needed. company called TDC to help us with our strategic planning process. TDC PROCESSING SUCCESS is well-known in Philadelphia for the The process had four basic steps: first, work it has done with other historical articulate a vision of our future; second, organizations, as well as the work it has identify and examine our existing done for major foundations like the strengths and weaknesses; third, revisit William Penn Foundation and The Pew the initial vision in light of that research Charitable Trusts, looking at the strengths and recalibrate, using a staff and board and weaknesses of the Philadelphia retreat to gather reactions and build arts and culture community as a whole. consensus; fourth, establish goals to drive We liked their strong emphasis on the organization towards the vision and understanding underlying financials, we set up a plan for accomplishing those liked their awareness of the Philadelphia goals. Once this process was complete, our environment, we liked their national consultants left the picture, and we have scope and experience, and we liked their been running forward with the goals ever strong connections to the philanthropic since. But 2018 was the year we really community here. It was a great choice, wrestled with these four steps. though it also demanded a considerable

11 Much of the value of a strategic planning off the rails. Instead, we chose to focus on process is found in the process itself — developing broad goals defined by a set of the conversations around future visions, “dashboard” metrics, leaving the method the way in which so many particular needs for reaching those metrics and those goals within the organization can be organized fluid. This allows us to take a more flexible into larger cross-departmental issues, the approach to reaching the goals, modifying illumination (sometimes painful) that strategies and changing metrics when they comes from learning about how others don’t seem to be working. see you. I especially value how the process provided an opportunity for everyone Here are the goals we came up with: involved with the Library Company to 1. Maintain the relevance of the Library articulate why they love this place, how Company’s collections for future they fell in love with it, and what they generations. would like to see changed. The process allowed us to see how aligned we were 2. Continue to foster an inclusive, around our mission and vision, and we welcoming, and forward-looking were pretty well aligned. scholarly learning community.

MAKING IT HAPPEN 3. Unlock potential of the collections This emphasis on process also carries over for public benefit through scholarly into the implementation of the plan. Many innovation and community strategic plans fail because they come with partnerships. an elaborate implementation scheme, long lists of things the organization will do 4. Ensure that public-facing programs and who will do them and by when. This and academic programs fit capacity and is great for a project plan, but a strategic align with strategic goals. plan needs to take into account that there 5. Build organizational capacity to are always changes in the environment, achieve goals. changes in staffing, changes in funding that can knock any intricate list of tasks

12 These goals are much further elaborated Junto. It is brief and focused, but best of all, in the plan document, which you can find it clearly links back to the founding idea, on our website, but taken together, they of a group of friends sharing their resources affirm key ideas we learned about through for their collective improvement and the the process. We learned that our greatest improvement of their city. strength is in serving researchers, and that the community of scholars who have Those of you reading this report now are worked with our collections are our biggest presumably members of that community, fans. We learned that our community or I hope you soon will be. Being a part of researchers was an underused asset, of the community does not require making but also a key constituency that needed any kind of financial contribution (though our help in adapting to a new, perilous we don’t mind those) or even being environment for the academic humanities. physically present at our programs. It just We also learned that the research side requires curiosity about the past, a desire of the Library Company was not as to learn from others, as well as a desire to well connected to our members and share what you have yourself learned. As shareholders as it should, or could, be. we have put this plan into action I have been able to get a greater sense of this We also adopted a new mission statement, community, and I am only more excited as is customary with a strategic plan — about its continued growth. we now define our mission as “To foster a learning community grounded in our Sincerely, historic collections that contributes to Michael J. Barsanti, PhD and amplifies knowledge of American Edwin Wolf 2nd Director culture and society and works for the benefit of all.” This statement emphasizes the Library Company as a learning community centered around our collection, which is what it always has been from its earliest days as an outgrowth of Franklin’s

13 HIS LIFE, HIS PHILADELPHIA WILLIAM BIRCH

JAMES GREEN LIBRARIAN | SARAH WEATHERWAX CURATOR OF PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS

IN GRATITUDE Thank you to Trustee Clarence Wolf for his leadership, support, and guidance in acquiring the William Birch Collection in 2017. The Library Company also recognizes an anonymous donor whose contribution of Birch collection items substantially enhanced our existing holdings. Their unwavering support is a testament to the strength and vibrancy of the Library Company’s community.

14 VIEWS, AND HIS LEGACY WILLIAM BIRCH Ingenious Artist In May, the Library Company opened the exhibition William Birch, Ingenious Artist: His Life, His Philadelphia Views, and His Legacy, which gave us the opportunity to show off the wonderful new Birch material we had recently acquired in 2017 as well as to bring out some of our Birch treasures that had not been on view for a long time.

Curated by James Green and Sarah Our recent acquisitions from Birch’s Weatherwax, the exhibition also included personal archive shed new light on his numerous loans from private individuals artistic career in the first half of his life, and local Philadelphia institutions before he emigrated to Philadelphia in including the Historical Society of 1794. We learned that he was trained as Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia History a painter of enamel miniatures, which Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy were prized because their colors were of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia clear, brilliant, and permanent. From his Museum of Art. Although the general first public exhibition at age 20, he styled outlines of William Birch’s life are fairly himself “William Birch, Enamel Painter.” well-known and most of those familiar His portrait miniatures brought him to with Philadelphia iconography recognize the attention of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the significance of his late 18th century who commissioned him to make tiny views of the city and his early 19th reproductions of his fashionable portraits. century views of American country seats, He continued to work in enamels after the exhibition delved into lesser known he came to America; in fact he first aspects of Birch’s life and works. made his name here with innumerable reproductions of Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of Washington. Previously, we had not a single one of his enamels, and we were delighted to exhibit several good examples of his work in that medium.

15 Through Reynolds, Birch met many rich (The City of Philadelphia, 1800) and the and powerful patrons, who encouraged other of picturesque landscapes (The the publication by subscription of his Country Seats of the United States, 1808). first view book, a collection of engraved reproductions of British landscape One exhibition section examined how paintings and city views in the fashionable Birch utilized his ideas of the picturesque picturesque mode, which he called Delices and country living to establish his own de la Grande Bretagne (London, 1791). country estate, Springland; and yet another Delices established Birch’s reputation as an section looked at how Birch’s vision of authority on the picturesque and on the Philadelphia impacted how we see the British school of painting more generally. city’s past even up to contemporary times. It also directly prefigured his two famous Reproductions of Birch’s views appeared American view books, one of city views on both American and English ceramics within his lifetime and served as the basis Descendants of William Birch during the Library Company of Philadelphia visit in July.

ThankFOR YOUR SUPPORT you

WE GRATEFULLY VISIONARY » ACKNOWLEDGE THE Anonymous » GENEROSITY OF THOSE Davida T. Deutsch » Maude de Schauensee WHO MADE THIS » Charles P. Keates, Esq. EXHIBITION AND » Howell K. Rosenberg PROGRAMS POSSIBLE. » Richard Wood Snowden » Helen S. Weary » Clarence Wolf » Wyeth Foundation for American Art

16 for illustrations in numerous 19th-century books. As Philadelphia looked to its own past, such as the 225th anniversary of the city’s establishment by William Penn in 1908, Birch’s views were reproduced as postcards and other inexpensive souvenirs. The 200th anniversary of the publication of Birch’s Philadelphia views even prompted a book and exhibition project to photographically revisit each of the sites engraved by Birch.

William Birch became the topic of the A NOTE OF GRATITUDE Library Company’s second seminar series, a series of four evening sessions led by As we were planning this exhibition, we Birch scholar Dr. Emily Cooperman. learned that our board member Charles Other programming included a thought- P. Keates, Esq., owned a unique prospectus provoking day-long symposium, William to Delices, which he kindly loaned to us, Birch and the Complexities of American and which became the starting point Visual Culture, an event undertaken to of the exhibition as well as a powerful commemorate the tenth anniversary of link to the other sections of the exhibition the Library Company’s Visual Culture featuring the American view books. Program and supported by both the When Mr. Keates saw his prospectus in Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Center for the exhibition, he decided to give it to us. American Art and the Terra Foundation And so one great acquisition begat another. for American Art.

FOUNDING SUPPORTING » Center for American Art, » Lois G. & Julian A. Brodsky Philadelphia Museum of Art » Harry S. Cherken, Jr. » Pennsylvania Council on the Arts » Nicholas D. Constan » Terra Foundation for American Art » Elizabeth H. Gemmill » The Walter J. Miller Trust » Mrs. J. Welles Henderson » John C. Tuten » Randall M. Miller, PhD » David Rowland CORE » Freeman’s » Steven Peitzman

17 The Library Company launched a robust array of programs and events for our members, shareholders, and guests. We focused on Women’s History, African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction, Early American Art, and more. Programs teach participants about our rich and expansive history while strengthening our learning community. HIGHLIGHTED EVENTS

CLARISSA LOWRY EVENTSand & PROGRAMS COORDINATORprograms

In February, to celebrate Valentine’s Spring events highlighted the Library Day, the Library Company hosted a Company Board of Trustees. Trustee lecture with author and historian and Professor of History at St. Joseph’s Dr. Judith Giesberg about her book MARCH University Dr. Randall M. Miller

FEBRUARY Sex and the Civil War. Taking an and Professor of History at Fordham in-depth look at erotica in the 19th University Dr. Paul A. Cimbala gave a century, this lecture addressed the joint lecture on their book, The Northern links between sex and the post-Civil Home Front during the Civil War. Miller War attempts to redefine human and Cimbala gave guests a look into relations. the daily lives of those affected by the Civil War, including women, children, immigrants, and African Americans.

18 CATTO | CIVIL WAR | KATE FIELD | BIRCH | COPYRIGHT | PEALES | JAMES GARFIELD JUNETEENTH | WOMEN OF COLOR | PEACE | POLITICAL CARTOONS | LGBT NOVEL S BENJAMIN RUSH | STYLISH BOOKS | JOSEPH BREINTNALL | CLOTH BINDINGS

Shareholders and trustees attended Later in the spring, the Library partnered

MAY the Annual Business Meeting in MAY with the Philadelphia Museum of early May. Edwin Wolf 2nd Director Art (PMA) and Trustee Emerita and Dr. Michael J. Barsanti provided Associate Curator at the PMA, Carol an update to the strategic planning E. Soltis for two companion programs. process and a preview of the direction On May 8, Soltis lectured on her book the Library Company would take The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia moving forward. The Annual Business Museum of Art. She took a deeper look Meeting was accompanied by the at engaging works by the Peale family, opening reception for the exhibition including Charles Willson Peale and William Birch, Ingenious Artist: His Rubens Peale and examined America’s Life, His Philadelphia Views, and His first artistic dynasty. The following week, Legacy curated by Librarian James Soltis gave a guided tour of the PMA’s Green and Curator of Prints and Peales collection to a group of Library Photographs Sarah Weatherwax. Company members and shareholders.

19 In September, with support from Later in the month, former Library Trustee Michelle Flamer, the Company fellow Dr. Michael J. Goode Library Company partnered with lectured on his book The Specter of Peace: the local chapter of the Association Rethinking Violence and Power in the for the Study of African American Colonial Atlantic. Drawing upon a wide SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER Life and History, Philadelphia range of archival sources at the Library Heritage. On a Saturday afternoon, Company, Goode shows how peace in the Dr. Marion T. Lane’s lecture colonial Americas was not just an absence “12 Women of Color Who Made of war, but a complex and contested a Difference during the Era of process of violent negotiation through the American Revolution” was which European, Indigenous, and African presented to a packed room of peoples asserted their notions of “right Library Company shareholders, ordering,” even if the desired endpoint was board trustees, and new faces. This never fully reached. important partnership helped the Library Company bring forgotten or buried stories of marginalized women to the forefront.

20 Led by Dr. Will Fenton, the Fall November 2nd marked the opening of 2018 Library Company seminar the exhibition Stylish Books: Designing “Graphic Materials: Early American Philadelphia Furniture curated by Political Cartoons and Propaganda” Reference Librarian and Curator of Art OCTOBER excavated the broadsides, engravings, and Artifacts Linda August. Guests at NOVEMBER political cartoons, caricatures, and the opening reception viewed items on ephemera that transformed early display including: Thomas Chippendale’s American politics. Canvassing book, A Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s the African American History, Director; the only known copy of the John A. McAllister, and Political tradecard of Benjamin Randolph Cartoon collections, Fenton offered (a Library Company member); and participants hands-on access to the colorful plates by Désiré Guilmard, who Library Company’s vaunted visual inspired Philadelphia cabinetmaker culture materials. In addition to an George Henkels. The exhibition and its eye-opening companion to election- programs were supported by the Center year politicking, Graphic Material for American Art, Philadelphia Museum connected participants with leading of Art, Freeman’s, and Jay Robert Stiefel, practitioners, including award- and featured an opening reception, a winning editorial cartoonists Signe curated gallery tour, and a symposium Wilkinson, Dwayne Booth, Ben (April 2019). Passmore, and John Cole.

The Library Company continued hosting collection reviews for our members, shareholders, and other guests. In 2018, we covered a variety of items and topics present in the collections including political cartoons, women and photography, Joseph Breintnall, and Octavius Catto. Each collection review gives attendees a sneak peek into some of the Library Company’s rich and expansive history while strengthening our learning community of scholars and life-long learners.

21 5TH ANNUAL JOHN C. VAN HORNE Lecture The Library Company hosted the 5th Annual Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne at the Science History Institute. More than 100 guests attended best-selling author and historian Candice Millard’s lecture “Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President” centered on her book Destiny of the Republic about President James Garfield and how his sudden and tragic assassination left the country forever transformed. The lecture was followed by a dinner with the author.

ThankTO THE FOUNDING youDONORS

» Anonymous » Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Lenfest » Peter A. Benoliel and Willo Carey » Mrs. William L. McLean III » Harry S. Cherken, Jr. » Martha Hamilton Morris » Robert J. Christian » Neubauer Family Foundation » Cornerstone Advisors Asset » Howell K. Rosenberg Management, Inc. » Richard Wood Snowden » Mr. and Mrs. B. Robert DeMento » Christine and Alice Van Horne » Maude de Schauensee » Helen S. Weary » Davida T. Deutsch

22 Lecture

Howell K. Rosenberg, Sandy Rosenberg, Candice Millard, Christine K. Van Horne, John C. Van Horne (from left to right). Picture taken by Stephen Ehrlich. 23 THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA’S 287TH ANNUAL DINNER

Award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Fried was the speaker for the 287th Annual Dinner. On November 15th, over 140 guests joined the Library Company at the Union League of Philadelphia for dinner and a lecture on Fried’s new book, Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father. The 287th Annual Dinner was also the inaugural year for the Library Company Book Prize. Awarded to Zara Anishanslin for her book A Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World, the Book Prize will be presented every two years to an outstanding recent publication and author who uses Library Company collections in their research.

ThankTO THE 287TH ANNUAL you DINNER SPONSORS

DIRECTOR SPONSORS CURATOR SPONSORS » Cornerstone Asset Management Inc. » Peter A. Benoliel and Willo Carey » Anonymous » Brown Brothers Harriman » Michael B. Mann & Rhonda Chatzkel » Harry S. Cherken, Jr. » Freeman’s » Louise M. and Peter J. Kelly » John F. Meigs » PNC » Howell K. Rosenberg » Saul Ewing LLP » Hannah H. R. Shipley » Richard Wood Snowden » John C. and Christine K. Van Horne

24 THE LIBRARY COMPANY RAISED ALMOST

$80,000 TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS, THE FIRST LIBRARY FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA SERVICES . BOOK PRIZE WINNER Zara Anishanslin, PhD FOR HER BOOK Portrait of a Woman in Silk Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World Dr. Anishanslin was the Library Company’s 2012-2013 American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies Fellow. She is now Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware.

Stephen Fried and Michael J. Basanti, PhD, (from left to right). Picture taken by Michael Pearson.

ARCHIVIST SPONSORS SPONSOR A FELLOW » Raechel and Michael Hammer » Nicholas Wood Carper » The Crown Publishing Group » Louise M. and Peter J. Kelly » Penguin Random House » Carol J. and Richard W. Lang » The Historical Society of Pennsylvania » Dr. Randall M. Miller » The Haverford Trust Company » Rosalind Remer and James Green » Jay T. Snider » Caroline Schimmel

DINNER SPONSORS » Elizabeth H. Gemmill » Stewart Greenleaf, Jr. » Mrs. William L. McLean III

25 THE 23RD ANNUAL JUNTO THE TODD AND SHARON PATTISON COLLECTION

As always, we closed the year with an event celebrating the Library Company’s Annual Junto. The 23rd Annual Junto raised funds to support the acquisition of the Todd & Sharon Pattison Patterned Cloth Binding Collection. Todd Pattison spoke on the history of these bindings and their importance to scholars interested in the material culture of the book. He shared his 25 years of insight as he built this phenomenal collection. The evening’s presentation was combined with a special showing of select materials from the collection curated by Jennifer Rosner, Chief of Conservation.

THE 23RD ANNUAL JUNTO RAISED MORE THAN

$30,000 IN SUPPORT OF THIS IMPORTANT COLLECTION .

26 ThankTO THE 23RD ANNUAL you JUNTO DONORS

» George Ahern » David W. and Catharine E. Maxey » Charles Austermuhl » Elizabeth Ray McLean » Steven Beare » Mrs. William L. McLean III » Claudia M. Becker » John F. Meigs » Peter A. Benoliel and Willo Carey » Faith & John Midwood » Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky » Dr. Randall M. Miller » Kerry L. Bryan » Christopher L. Miller » Harry S. Cherken, Jr. » Dr. Vernon Raymond Morris, Jr. » Robert R. Chew » Carla Mulford and Ted Conklin » Howell Cohen » Hyman Myers » Margaret Darby » Thomas S. Nicely » Maude de Schauensee » Steven Peitzman » Daniel De Simone » Gordon A. Pfeiffer » Mr. & Mrs. B. Robert DeMento » Carol Jane Porter » Richard S. and Mary Maples Dunn » Kyle Roberts and Crisostomo Gouveia » Joseph M. Evans » Howell K. Rosenberg » Joseph J. Felcone » Mary Coxe Schlosser » Michelle D. Flamer » Walter E. and Frances B. Smith » Peter O. Gante » David Sorber » Elizabeth H. Gemmill » Gus Spector » Nancy J. Halli » Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum » Bruce and Nora James » Maria M. Thompson » Ivan J. Jurin » John C. and Christine K. Van Horne » Louise M. and Peter J. Kelly » Edward M. Waddington » Janet and Lewis Klein » Thomas Whitehead » Charles B. and Lucinda Landreth » Joan P. Wohl » Susan G. Lea and Edward D. Frank II » Clarence Wolf » Julia Bissell Leisenring » Stephanie G. and Albert E. Wolf » James MacElderry and Marilyn Fishman » Kirsten Wood » Michael B. Mann & Rhonda Chatzkel » Michael Zuckerman » Bruce H. Mann

27 FELLOW’S

THE NEXT CHAPTERSPerspective OF HISTORY

AREA OF RESEARCH I am a historian of early America and the Atlantic World, with a particular focus on religion and political culture in the early modern British Empire, Native American history, slavery and abolition, and peace studies. I research and write about how early modern peoples understood peace in relationship to colonial violence and warfare. My current book project, A Colonizing Peace, advances a new conceptualization of peace as a process of “right ordering” that shaped how Euro-Americans, Native Americans, and people of African descent governed their households and communities. As a focus for my book, I look specifically at the Quaker colonization of Pennsylvania. I argue that peacemaking in the Delaware and Susquehanna Valleys was central to violence regulation and colonial and imperial governance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

ADVANCED BY THE LIBRARY COMPANY The Library Company has a wealth of print and ephemera collection on colonial Pennsylvania. I have consulted a range of pamphlets, printed sermons, and colonial newspapers for such topics as the Keithian schism, the debate over Benjamin Franklin’s Defense Association in 1747-1748, the Seven Years’ War, and the Paxton Boys.

The reference librarians in the reading room and the curators in the Print and Photograph Department were especially helpful and attentive in orienting me to their collections.

28 MICHAEL GOODE UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY W’S ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOW | 2009 erspective

MOST MEMORABLE 2018 PUBLICATIONS COLLECTION ITEMS » The Specter of Peace: Rethinking Violence and I’ve really enjoyed both contributing Power in the Colonial Atlantic, eds Michael to and using the Digital Paxton online Goode and John Smolenski (Brill, 2018). archive, which allows me to access broadsides, political cartoons, and EARLIER PUBLICATIONS correspondence related to the Paxton » “Dangerous Spirits: Alcohol, Native Boys and their massacre of Conestoga Revivalism, and Quaker Reform.” Early Indians in 1763, a key turning point for American Studies 14 (Spring 2016): 258–83. indigenous peoples and colonists in the » Susquehanna Valley and beyond on the “Native American-Pennsylvania eve of the American Revolution. Relations, 1681–1753.” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (Rutgers, 2015).

» “Pontiac’s War and the Paxton Boys.” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (Rutgers, 2014).

UPCOMING PUBLICATION » “‘Rancontyn Marenit’: Lenape Peacemaking Before William Penn.” The Worlds of William Penn, eds Andrew Murphy and John Smolenski (Rutgers University Press, 2019): 217-31.

29 The Library Company draws on a history of forward motion

that allows this great institution to adapt to new times, new audiences,

and new understandings of the world.

ENGAGE, INSTRUCT & AMAZE PRO GRAMS

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VISUAL CULTURE PROGRAM INEARLY PROGRAM INAFRICAN THE DAVIDA T. DEUTSCH AND SOCIETY AMERICAN ECONOMY AMERICAN HISTORY HISTORY PROGRAM INWOMEN’S PROGRAM

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31 PROGRAM IN AFRICAN AMERICAN

DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS, PhD DIRECTOR, PROGRAMHistory IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

The Program in African American History remains a vital aspect of the Library Company and to the larger academic and public community.

The Program in African American History As briefly mentioned, the interns were also (PAAH) proudly continues its practice given a transcription project early in the of affording research and professional program to develop their ability to interpret development to our scholars, student historical documents. Jasmine Smith helped fellows, and researchers through the Mellon guide the interns through this process. This Scholars Program. Fortunately, we have year, the students were given documents from also extended our offerings to the larger the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Philadelphia community through our to transcribe. The organization was founded public programming. In 2018, the Library in late-18th-century Philadelphia to help Company hired a new director for this people of African descent secure and maintain program, Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD. freedom. Specifically, the interns worked with She continues to work with the Program’s committee minutes detailing how African African American History Specialist and Americans, free and enslaved, actively solicited Reference Librarian, Jasmine Smith, doing the help of the PAS for themselves, friends, programmatic work, finalizing budgets, and loved ones. The interns were joined by and creating coalitions and partnerships a group of additional students during the with local Philadelphia organizations, third week of June. This year there were seven institutions, and vendors, especially those workshop students, each with great promise: that are African American. » Lindsay Gary » Casey Johnson » » This year, the Program in African American Shayla Sanders Dakota Hodges » » History was able to award two post-doctoral John Gillespie Kamina Gates fellowships, four short-term fellowships, » Maryama Dahir and three summer internships and four It is extremely rare for an institution founded workshop fellowships. Data shows that the in early America to have an anchor rooted in majority of scholars who have participated early African American history. By continuing in the program have thoroughly enjoyed to make accessible the rare materials, PAAH exploring our African American history continues to follow the mission of its founders. collection as well as their time conversing with like-minded scholars and staff.

32 HIGHLIGHTS

MELLON SCHOLARS PROGRAM » THE ANDREW W . MELLON FOUNDATION AWARDED THE LIBRARY COMPANY A RENEWAL GRANT IN 2018 The Mellon Scholars Program provides the Library Company with the opportunity to engage and promote scholarly research within underrepresented communities. By providing fellowships, internships, and workshops to students and faculty whose area of focus ranges from colonial to antebellum era African American history, the Library Company is helping transform the dynamics of the academic world. We proudly recognize the accomplishments of the following fellows: • Cheryl Hicks, post-doctoral fellow, is finishing her manuscript on black women and criminality in her new position at the University of Delaware. • Nazera Wright, former post-doctoral fellow, submitted an article based on her research conducted at the Library Company for publication in a Global History of Black Girlhood. 11TH ANNUAL JUNETEENTH FREEDOM SEMINAR » COMMEMORATING “COMPLICATED FREEDOM” FOR THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPANTS OF THIS IMPORTANT HOLIDAY The Library Company celebrated the completion of its Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to permanently endow the Program in African American History. Highlights from the evening included: • Keisha Hutchins, singer-songwriter • Husnaa Hashim, Philadelphia’s 2017 Youth Poet Laureate • Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, the Program in African American History’s first program director. Dr. Michael J. Barsanti thanked her for her many contributions to the Library Company throughout her years of service. • Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Program Director. She was grateful to speak about the history and origin of Juneteenth, emphasizing the politics of black resistance and love as major instruments relied upon in the long fight towards black liberation. Thank you to Bryant Greene of Always Best Care, event sponsor.

33 PROGRAM IN EARLY AMERICAN ECONOMY

CATHY MATSON, PhD DIRECTOR,and PROGRAM IN EARLYSociety AMERICAN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

As the Program in Early American PEAES welcomed to the Library Company Economy and Society (PEAES) progressed a large number of new postdoctoral and through its nineteenth year of activities dissertation fellows. One only has to consult during 2018, the Library Company staff the lists of current and past PEAES fellows continued to fulfill the program’s mission on its website to appreciate the diverse array to augment Library Company collections of scholars who are attracted to the rich related to the economy, in areas such as collections related to the Atlantic economy commerce, business, banking, technology, from the 1600s down to the 1850s, as well as political economy, and more. During new scholarship in the areas of finance and the year, Dr. Matson also updated and institutional development, the cultures of expanded the PEAES regional survey of business and money, local and international scholarly resources (on its website). The year commerce, manufacturing, labor, political was also filled with activities surrounding economy, households, gender, and technology. PEAES public conferences and scholarly Among 2018’s fellows, Bruce Spadaccini publications, and the fellowships program conducted intensive research in the collections was more vibrant than ever. of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, and the

BOOK HIGHLIGHTS Matson ushered monograph titles through s

» DANIEL PEART’S NEW BOOK: LOBBYISTS AND THE MAKING OF US TARIFF POLICY, 1816−1861

Now available in bookstores and online, Peart’s study was made possible because of the Library Company’s rich resources related to the economic and commercial policy in the 19th century.

34 HIGHLIGHTS

PLANS FOR 2019 » MAKING THE REPUBLIC IMPERIAL and Society Two dozen scholars will employ a variety of archival approaches to investigate how and why the new North American nation became an empire during the two generations after the Revolution. Co- sponsored with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Department of History at Princeton University, and Iona College’s Institute of Thomas Paine Studies, Library Company for his project, “‘To this conference will occur in March 2019. the best of your knowledge and ability’: » INVESTIGATING MID-ATLANTIC American Ship Captains, Commerce, and PLANTATIONS: SLAVERY, the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1763-1812.” ECONOMIES, AND SPACE He found scores of hidden gems about the Atlantic World’s ship captains in the Co-sponsored with four other scholarly Library Company’s printed books and institutions, this conference will explore newspapers, as well as treatises on political the qualities of plantations in the mid- economy and advice manuals on operating Atlantic region, where life and labor ships in uncertain 18th-century commerce. were both distinct from, and similar to Southern and Caribbean plantations. ough stages of production in the book series that she edits with Johns Hopkins.

UPCOMING TITLES IN THE PEAES SERIES » Knowing Your Place: Women and Work on » Calculating the Cost of Freedom: a Massachusetts Landscape Venezuela, the U. S., and the Spanish Marla Miller American Age of Revolutions » The Fabric of Empire: Material and Edward Pompeian Literacy Cultures of the Global Atlantic » Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Danielle Skeehan Reform, the Rural North, and the » The Market of the Western World: Slaveholding Republic The Mississippi, the Founders, and the Ariel Ron Forging of a Nation, 1783-1804 Susan Gaunt Stearns

35 THE VISUAL CULTURE

ERIKA PIOLA DIRECTOR, VISUAL CULTURE PROGRAMProgram

The year 2018 was a monumental one for the Visual Culture Program as we celebrated its tenth anniversary.

Over the decade since its inception, the On October 5, 2018, to mark this milestone Visual Culture Program has implemented, anniversary, the Program exuberantly hosted shepherded, and collaborated on a number the William Birch and the Complexities of of initiatives that confront, explore, and American Visual Culture symposium. In complicate the social construction of collaboration with the Library Company what we see, how we see it, and why we exhibition William Birch, Ingenious Artist, the see it as we do. In this spirit, over the symposium explored the visual, cultural, and years, the Program has had a role in a social themes elicited from the work of the wide-range of projects. The Philadelphia immigrant Philadelphia artist William Birch on Stone book, digital catalog, and online (1755-1834). Supported by the Center for exhibition showcases eight institutions’ American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art 19th-century lithographs documenting the and the Terra Foundation for American Art, visual culture of the city (librarycompany. Complexities facilitated many conversations org/pos/index.htm). A partnership with that reflected broadly on the continual the International Airport of Philadelphia resonance in American visual culture of the produced an off-site exhibition of street life work of this premier enamel miniaturist, photographs reproduced from the Library aspiring gentleman, and artist of the first Company’s collection. Implemented American view books. with the Program in African American History and professors and their students, Dedicated to the memory of long-time the Cassey and Dickerson Albums website Program supporter William H. Helfand provides interactive access to our three (1926-2018), the symposium attracted nearly of the five known antebellum friendship seventy attendees who engaged in a day of albums compiled by African American insights and dialogs through panels composed women (https://lcpalbumproject.org). of art historians, curators, and media artists And most recently, Common Touch, the who explored Birch’s professional networks as benchmark, artist-in-residence, sensory an architect and landscape painter, as well as exhibition inspired by the Michael Zinman themes of “liveliness,” urban and commercial Printing for the Blind Collection, filled aesthetics, critical looking, and artistic our gallery with art and visitors (https:// innovation. commontouch.librarycompany.org).

36 Program HIGHLIGHTS

ENGAGING PRESENTATIONS » IMAGES, COPYRIGHT, AND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library Director Piola examined the effect of copyright on the social and cultural role of frame makers/picture dealers and the antebellum popular print market.

» VISUAL CULTURE HOLDINGS Library Company of Philadelphia Students explored graphics and topics ranging from “Revolutionary Prints” to vernacular images documenting the history of Philadelphia immigration and migration to the rhetorical interplay of text and images in advertising prints. $5,000 AWARD FOR PROGRAMMING AND CONSERVATION » FROM THE TERRA FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF MICHAEL LEJA, TERRA BOARD MEMBER & UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ART HISTORY PROFESSOR In support of a 2019 roundtable of three women visual culture scholars who study the history of moving images in a discussion about the digital relevancy and history of moving pictures before the 20th century. WILLIAM H. HELFAND VISUAL CULTURE FELLOWSHIP » 2018-19 FELLOWSHIP AWARDED TO JULIA GRUMMITT, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PHD CANDIDATE IN HISTORY Grummitt’s research explores connections between U.S. Indian Policy and print illustration during the 19th century. Her work places landscape painting, cartographic practice and representations of Native American/First Nations peoples into dialogue with histories of territorial sovereignty, treaty making, and the continental expansion of the United States.

37 THE DAVIDA T. DEUTSCH PROGRAM IN WOMEN’S

CORNELIA KING CURATOR OF WOMEN’S HISTORYHistory

The Program is committed to the ongoing work of recovering women’s history, because so often women have been omitted or marginalized in historical narratives.

From its inception in 2013, the Davida Other women who were contemporaries of T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History Kate Field chafed at the social strictures society has highlighted the multitude of ways placed on them. For her internship at the end women are represented in the tapestry of her senior year at Friends Select School, of the historical record, some as strands Lydia Shaw examined the life and work of the of gold and others concealed but no less writer Mary Abigail Dodge (1833-1896), who important for the strength of the fabric. wrote under the pseudonym Gail Hamilton. Kate Field (1838-1896) was a bright strand Dodge became outraged in 1867 when she of gold. At various times, Field was a singer, discovered that her publisher (Ticknor & an actress, a lecturer, an entrepreneur, and Fields) paid her less than they were paying a publicist. (See p. 79 to read about her male writers. We posted Lydia’s essay (“Getting work as Alexander Graham Bell’s publicist.) One’s Due: An Episode in the 19th-century For our Women’s History Month event, Book Industry”) to promote Women’s Equality Bryn Mawr College professor Kate Thomas Day on August 26. In it, Lydia tells how the spoke on her own research on Field, noting “feud between Mary Abigail Dodge and how Field was keenly savvy about new Ticknor & Fields lasted eighteen months and media. Field predicted future technological ended her friendship with both James and developments that sound a lot like the Annie Fields.” Dodge did get her revenge in television and Skype. a writerly way: she wrote a thinly-veiled novel

38 History

about the experience. Her A Battle of the HIGHLIGHT Books went through three editions and was, in Lydia’s words, “not just a win for her, but CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN SOCIETY for female writers everywhere.” In 2018, the Library Company advanced Annie Fields also figured in our LGBT its support of programming about History Month event on October 16. After LGBT history by creating the Charlotte her husband’s death in 1881, Annie Fields Cushman Society, a society dedicated and the writer Helen Orne Jewett (1849- to recovering and sharing LGBT 1909) became close. They were said to be history as well as supporting ongoing in a “Boston marriage,” the then-current initiatives and exploration. Our founding term for two women who lived together members include: as partners. In his lecture, University of • Lois G. Brodsky Tulsa professor Don James McLaughlin • Dr. Jessica C. Linker made the case that Jewett’s A Marsh Island • John W. Cunningham Jr. (1885) was the first American gay novel. • Susan Branson According to Professor McLaughlin, • Christopher J. Looby Jewett created characters and plot elements • Elizabeth Milroy and Diana Post with unmistakable dog whistles—to signal • Carmen D. Valentino to readers that she was indeed depicting • Richard Russell Jr. gay characters negotiating heteronormative • Don James McLaughlin expectations. Happily, we now have a • copy of Jewett’s A Marsh Island, purchased Cornelia King with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s The Society has a promising future, and History Fund. we welcome more to become members.

COMING SOON from the 2018 Davida T . Deutsch Fellows in Women’s History

Dr. Chiara Cillerai of St. John’s University and Dr. Lisa Logan of the University of Central Florida examined our manuscript holdings for Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801). Not only do they plan to produce a scholarly edition of Fergusson’s works, but they also will be producing the Elizabeth Fergusson Digital Archive, a more focused electronic version that will place Fergusson in the context of her network of correspondents.

39 FELLOW’S

THE NEXT CHAPTERSPerspective OF HISTORY

AREA OF RESEARCH I am a scholar of slavery and emancipation, spanning from the mid-18th to the mid-19th centuries. My work directly connects to U.S. history, but always situates the United States within the context of the many other nations and empires that existed in North America and the wider Atlantic World. The project that brought me to the Library Company is a book-length study of re-enslavement, captivity, and human-trafficking in the Atlantic World entitled Carried Back. It spans from the 1750s to the 1850s and looks at free and formerly enslaved people of African descent who were carried across international lines and enslaved in foreign lands: such as the people taken from Philadelphia to Jamaica or Saint-Domingue, or others kidnapped from Jamaica to Cuba, or Barbados to Texas. It explores what it means to belong: to belong to families and kin networks, to belong as citizens and subjects of nations and empires, and, most insidiously, to belong as human property to a slave master.

ADVANCED BY THE LIBRARY COMPANY I haven’t the space to detail all of the ways the Library Company helped advance my scholarship. My semester allowed me to consult a wide swath of manuscript and printed material, and allowed me to be a member of an intellectual community that helped me understand how I might best use those materials. Most importantly, the staff in the reading rooms helped guide me to items within collections that I would have missed without them. The cohort of fellows, readers, and the general public also enriched my time there by helping me expand the nature of my research, the scope of my book project, and to think about its significance in new ways. Of course, the community of scholars exists to work in the Library Company’s incredibly rich and important archival holdings. I consulted a wide range of material that will appear in several chapters of my book manuscript. To have such a large quantity of material directly relevant to my project, and for it to range across decades and continents speaks to the unrivaled strength of the Library Company holdings.

Being in residence is so helpful because I made use of the collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the American Philosophical Society, and enjoyed participating in the McNeil Center for Early American Studies seminars. My time was so productive and rewarding because I managed to draw on all of these resources.

40 M. SCOTT HEERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | NEH POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW W’S 2018/2019 erspective

MOST MEMORABLE UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS COLLECTION ITEMS IN 2020 The most memorable items in the » “Abolishing Slavery in Motion: Foreign collection were a group of 19th-century Captivity and International Abolitionism pamphlets concerning the suppression of in the Early United States.” William and the slave trade. As a topic of study, slave Mary Quarterly 77 no 2 (April, 2020): trade suppression in the 19th century has accepted and forthcoming. not received the attention it deserves. As » “More than Maroons: Black Migration a result, the accounts of the illegal slave and Freedom Villages in Antebellum trade, the pamphlets lobbying for its more Illinois.” Emancipations, Reconstructions, effective suppression and the studies of Revolutions: African American Politics and its scale and scope have not yet been U.S. History from the First to the Second fully used by historians. In truth, I did Civil War, eds David Waldstreicher and not expect to find so many of these gems Van Gosse (Philadelphia: University of in the collections, because they are not Pennsylvania Press, 2020), forthcoming. routinely cited by scholars. Finding such a trove of material about this important and 2018 PUBLICATIONS understudied topic enriched my project. » “‘Reducing Freedmen to Slavery’: Black Kidnapping and the Politics of Abolition in Antebellum Illinois.” Journal of the Early Republic 38 no 2 (Summer 2018): 261-91.

41 We serve a diverse constituency throughout Philadelphia and

the nation, offering comprehensive reader services, online catalogs,

regular exhibitions, and public programs.

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magnify 43 DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND INFORMATION

ANN MCSHANE DIGITAL COLLECTIONSTechnology ARCHIVIST

INCREASING ACCESS their historical collections and resources In June, the Library Company of through the DPLA portal. Their mission Philadelphia contributed the metadata is to make the digital collections of of a select number of collections from the Commonwealth’s cultural heritage our digital repository to PA Digital. This institutions widely discoverable. launched a partnership to expand the Ann McShane loaded over 15,000 reach of our collections to new audiences. new items into the digital repository, PA Digital is the Pennsylvania service including the Library Company Historic hub for the Digital Public Library of Shareholders Database, the Delegates America (DPLA). They work with Library, and the Civil War Graphics & libraries, historical societies, museums, Ephemera Collection. There were also and related cultural heritage institutions several thousand additional items reloaded in the Commonwealth to showcase with high-resolution images.

THANK YOU TO THE WYETH FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART Due to a generous grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, Concetta Barbera, Visual Materials and Digital Outreach Librarian, digitized over 223 William Russell Birch Collection items. This allowed Nicole Scalessa, Chief Information Officer, to design the William Birch, Ingenious Artist online exhibition, increasing access for generations to come.

44 HIGHLIGHTS GAINING NEW SKILLS Conferences attended by staff • Computers in Libraries Conference in Arlington, Virginia. April 16-20, 2018 • The NDSR Art Capstone: Preserving Media Art & Digital Art Information event at the University of Pennsylvania. June 29, 2018 • The American Philosophical Society Library’s Interdisciplinary Conference, September 28, 2018 • The Independent Research Libraries Association (IRLA) Tech Summit hosted by the American Philosophical Society. MAPPING HISTORY March 15-16, 2018 Throughout the summer and early fall, • Islandora Camp at Mount Saint Vincent Scalessa and McShane worked with University in Halifax, Nova Scotia July Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright, Associate 18-20, 2018 Professor, University of Kentucky, to create a mapping tool to highlight her • The Society of American Archivists’ yearly work, the movements of women in the conference, August 12-18, 2018 Venning family throughout Philadelphia. SHARING KNOWLEDGE The locations were derived from albums AND EXPERIENCE and event programs found in the Library Presentations by staff Company collections. The map was • Visual Resources Association Annual presented by Dr. Wright at the African Conference in Philadelphia, PA, on American History, Culture and Digital March 27, 2018. Humanities conference, “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black,” held October • Delaware Valley Archivists group 18-20 at the University of Maryland. post-conference event and blog. • Upper Mid-West Digital Collections Dr. Wright was a National Endowment Conference at St. Catherine’s University for the Humanities Fellow and an in St. Paul Minnesota. November 8-9, Andrew W. Mellon Program in African 2018. American History Postdoctoral Fellow at the Library Company to complete research on her second book, Literary Legacies: Early African American Women Writers and Their Libraries. 45 SOCIAL

ARIELLE RAMBO ANDMedia CONCETTA BARBARA DIGITAL OUTREACH LIBRARIANS

The Digital Outreach program kicked off challenge as well as display their colored-in 2018 with the exhibition #GiltyPleasures: pages in the gallery. #GiltyPleasures called Sharing Special Collections through Social attention to how information and imagery Media. Curated by Digital Outreach are processed in the world today, while Librarians Concetta Barbera and Arielle celebrating the material culture of special Rambo, the exhibition brought the digital collections. back to analog, telling stories about the collections in a traditional gallery space The exhibition brought the power of social while incorporating the online audience in media to life in the Library Company’s its development. This was most highlighted gallery space and digital communications. by a large wallpaper mosaic of Library Social media outreach also inspired new Company collection images. Visitors were research, Shareholder Spotlights. Barbera and encouraged to like their favorite social media Rambo researched and wrote about historic post in person using heart-shaped stickers shareholders on the Library Company available with the display. A coloring station blog, promoting the blog posts using social was also provided so visitors could take media and email. Ms. Mary Jeanes, Robert part in the annual Color Our Collections Grace, and William Swain were among the shareholders highlighted.

46 HIGHLIGHTS DIGITAL OUTREACH » 5,855 New followers » 263 Original social media posts » 49,963 Social media engagements from followers, including likes, shares, and comments

47 CATALOGING

ARIELLE RAMBO CHIEF OF CATALOGINGDepartment

At the end of 2017, there were several staff ensuring Ricciardi continues the Library changes in the Cataloging Department. Company tradition of high-level Holly Phelps retired after serving as Chief cataloging of our rare books and materials. of Cataloging for five years and serving the Library Company of Philadelphia Rambo represented the Library Company for more than 26 years in total. In 2018, at the annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Arielle Rambo was promoted to Chief of (RBMS) Conference, held in New Orleans Cataloging. Em Ricciardi was promoted in June 2018. Each year, the RBMS to Cataloger and officially moved to the conference provides an important venue for Cataloging Department in September after the Library Company’s national visibility, working in the Reading Room as Curatorial as well as networking opportunities for the Assistant for three years.

To prepare for their move to the Cataloging Department, Ricciardi completed the Rare Book Cataloging course at Rare Book School in July. This week-long course focused on current national standards and best practices in rare materials cataloging,

48 HIGHLIGHTS CATALOGING DEPARTMENT » 3,299 Records for books and serials to the online catalog added » 279 Additional legacy records updated

PRINT AND PHOTOGRAPH DEPARTMENT » 135 New records added for 2,707 items to the online catalog

attendees. Additionally, Rambo completed In addition to our own catalog, we added The Politics of Classification, a month- our holdings to 101 English Short Title long online course through Library Juice Catalogue (ESTC) records. The Library Academy. This course offered students an Company began contributing records to opportunity to discuss ways to de-colonize the ESTC under Edwin Wolf 2nd, and we the library catalog by bringing attention continue to supply information and answer to the inherent biases and problematic queries from the ESTC headquarters at hierarchies present in controlled the British Library and from the North vocabularies. American Imprints Program at the American Antiquarian Society.

ALL CATALOGING WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE DEDICATED STAFF OF THE CATALOGING DEPARTMENT:

Arielle Rambo, Chief of Cataloging, and Em Ricciardi, Cataloger. Cataloging efforts also benefit from the work of the subject specialists: Cornelia King, Curator of Women’s History, Jasmine Smith, African American History Subject Specialist, and Linda August, Curator of Art and Artifacts. Erika Piola, Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs, catalogs all Print and Photograph Department items.

49 THE MCLEAN CONSERVATION

JENNIFER ROSNER CHIEF OFDepartment CONSERVATION

In addition to the care and conservation of The broadside was a gift from Ann Upton the collection, the conservators prepared and we are very grateful to her for it. and installed three gallery exhibitions: Librarian Jim Green attributed the printing #GiltyPleasures: Sharing Special Collections, mainly on the grounds of the typeface, William Birch, Ingenious Artist, and Stylish especially the titling type used for the Books: Designing Philadelphia Furniture. first line, which is identical to that used in They also installed several “pop-up” and several other Franklin and Hall imprints mini exhibits on diverse topics such as the of the time. But his other, perhaps more Arctic, Photo Illustrator photographs of conclusive, reason is that the workbook food, women’s suffrage, Sarah Jewett, shells, of Franklin and Hall at the American needlework, “Join or Die” and the 76ers Philosophical Society shows that they logo, Kate Field, urban history and the printed another edition of the Articles African American community, The Darby of the American Fire Company in 1762, Library Company anniversary, and calico- which suggests an affiliation between wrapped books. the printers and the Company. No copy of that later edition is known, nor is A PIECE OF HISTORY SAVED! there another recorded copy of this new broadside. At the Library Company, This year, we undertook a very satisfying the discovery of an unrecorded Franklin project conserving the only recorded imprint is cause for rejoicing. copy of the Articles of the American Fire Company, printed by Benjamin Franklin’s The broadside was in very poor condition successor firm, Franklin and Hall, in 1752. and the word “American” was at first not

50 Articles of the American-Fire-Company, in the City of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia, 1752). After conservation and before conservation.

visible. It had been lined with a piece of linen and had been folded, rolled up, and water damaged. After removing the cloth lining and flattening all the edges and loose parts, the word “American,” though still in bits and pieces, was found. The broadside was washed and while still wet and easily slid around, the tears were lined up. Then all of the loose pieces, having been carefully washed separately, were put back in place — not unlike a jigsaw puzzle. HIGHLIGHTS At first, tiny Japanese paper patches were CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT applied to the front so that the words » 1,367 lined up correctly. Then, the broadside was Items treated by staff turned over and carefully and completely repaired from the back. All the temporary » 3,000 repairs on the front were removed. The Pamphlets from bound volumes results were very successful and now one separated and stabilized can see that the broadside clearly says “Articles of the American Fire Company » 16 in the City of Philadelphia.” Even more Exhibitions designed and mounted reason to rejoice!

51 We hope to unlock the potential of our collections for public benefit

through scholarly innovation and community partnerships.

COLLEC T CONNECTING CITIZENS TO OUR NATION’S TREASURED PAST

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WOMEN’S HISTORY VISUAL CULTURE PRINTS &PHOTOGRAPHS PATTERNED CLOTH ART &ARTIFACTS AFRICAN AMERICANA LIBRARIAN’S REPORT BINDINGS

connect 53 THE POPULAR MEDICINE

AT THE LIBRARYCollection COMPANY

From 1965 to 2016 Charles Rosenberg donated nearly 7,000 titles from his pre-eminent collection of popular medical books to the Library Company. In 2017 and 2018, as a result of retirement and downsizing, he donated another 5,000 titles.

JAMES GREEN LIBRARIAN

With the addition of Dr. Rosenberg’s Though even common medical books have books, the Library Company has become taken on a new significance in the context one of the largest collections of popular of the Library Company’s collections, medical literature anywhere, totaling it must be acknowledged that many of over 35,000 books, pamphlets, prints, Dr. Rosenberg’s books are absolutely rare, and pieces of ephemera. Many of those even unique. For example, this year, Dr. books can be found in specialized medical Rosenberg gave us the first medical book libraries, mixed in with much larger written by an African American woman, numbers of professional and scientific Rebecca Crumpler’s A Book of Medical publications, but there they are divorced Discourses (Boston, 1883). There are only from their proper social history context. three other copies known, but none of At the Library Company, his collection those has the prepublication advertisement will strengthen and be strengthened by for the book that was pasted into our our other great social history collections copy. Amazingly it includes a blurb from in African American history, women’s the now canonical black poet, novelist, history, economic history, social reform, journalist, and activist Frances Ellen popular literature, and visual culture, not to Watkins Harper. Another example: many mention our collections in the history of popular medical books include recipes for books and reading. herbal medicines supposedly learned from

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wall Paper. Boston: Small, Maynard, & Co., 1899. Gift of Charles Rosenberg, 2018. This short story about a depressed woman confined in an attic room by her physician husband for a so-called rest cure is now regarded as a feminist classic. In real life Charlotte Perkins Gilman suffered the rest cure at the hands of its inventor, the Philadelphia physician S. Weir Mitchell. This first book edition, published in 1899, is in its original binding, which depicts the revolting wallpaper in that attic room, which literally drove the narrator crazy. She saw in its pattern an imprisoned woman struggling to break free.

Dr. Rosenberg was one of the first historians to see popular medical books as a distinct genre within the

Advertisement from Rebecca Crumpler, A Book of Medical Discourses (Boston, 1883). larger category of medical literature. Gift of Charles Rosenberg.

Native Americans, but very few of these unknown to the Whites.” The first edition books can be attributed to actual Native of 1846 survives in only a single copy at authors. Perhaps the most famous example the Tennessee State Library. Our second of this very rare genre is The Cherokee edition, which is said to have corrected Physician, Or Indian Guide to Health, as “innumerable errors,” is known in four given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee doctor other copies. We could cite many more (2nd ed., Asheville, N.C., 1849). The title examples, but these give perhaps some page states that it “contains a description indication of how unique this collection of a variety of Herbs and Roots [whose] is and how transformative it will be to the medical virtues have hitherto been Library Company.

55 CHARLES ROSENBERG A PIONEER IN POPULAR MEDICAL HIS

These magnificent gifts provide an scholarship. In 1992 he wrote, with opportunity to reflect on the impact of characteristic diffidence: Dr. Rosenberg’s book collecting on his scholarship and of his scholarship on the “One can make a strong case for William field of medical history. Dr. Rosenberg was Buchan’s Domestic Medicine being the one of the first historians to see popular most widely read — non-religious — book medical books—which can be defined as in English during the century following its medical books aimed at lay readers—as a Edinburgh publication in 1769. … I had distinct genre within the larger category of long felt a bookshop browser’s interest in medical literature. He was also perhaps the Buchan’s treatise; it was the only pre-1850 first to collect that genre in a focused way, medical text that one was almost certain beginning in about 1960. Back in those to find in the “old medical” section of any days it was much more common than it is used or rare bookshop. But when I began now for professors to collect the primary my academic work in the early 1960s, it sources for their scholarship, but even then, had not seemed an appropriately dignified collecting on such a scale was exceptional. subject for research. [By the mid-1970s, It is easy to see why a medical historian however], material that had seemed marginal would want to own a few representative — quaint and anecdotal — when I began editions of William Buchan’s Domestic graduate school … had gradually become Medicine, a very popular home medical acceptable, even exciting to a growing adviser. It is, however, quite another thing number of professional historians. By the to own 135 editions published between early 1980s … popular health and healing 1769 and 1871, all of which came to us in and ideas about the body seemed well on the Dr. Rosenberg’s 2017 gift. This may seem way to fashionable status — as approaches at first glance to be a case of bibliomania, that called themselves “cultural history” and but in fact the process of collecting Buchan “cultural studies” moved from the periphery profoundly influenced Dr. Rosenberg’s to the center of academic concern.”

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John Gunn’s Domestic Medicine The American rival to Buchan was John Gunn’s Domestic Medicine, first published in Knoxville in 1830 with a Jacksonian Greek revival frontispiece, showing Apollo and Esculapius In short, Dr. Rosenberg’s long study of the teaching the art of medicine to the popular medical texts in his library has led centaur Chiron, who represents the him to see that the practice of medicine Tennessee frontiersman, half animal, in history is only partly determined by the half human, sort of like Davy Crockett. progress of medical science and the skill The book became a huge best-seller, of physicians. It is also, and perhaps even reaching its 200th edition by 1880. primarily, a complex of social and cultural By then, as its gilt embossed binding practices, constructed in these texts by shows, it had become a book to be their countless readers, who are always the displayed in the middle-class parlor, like primary providers of health care, not only a family bible. The recent Rosenberg in the age of Buchan, but in the present gift included some thirty editions. as well. This insight informed his many books and articles, which together have redefined the field of medical history.

57 REVELING IN Artistry AFRICAN AMERICANA: MUSIC, POETRY & RESISTANCE

With support from the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund along with trustees of the Library Company, the Program in African American History continues to acquire materials that provide historical context to the African American experience during the antebellum period and reconstruction era.

JASMINE SMITH AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY SUBJECT SPECIALIST & REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

The study of African American history FOLK SONGS AND is constantly emerging with scholars FOLK TALES worldwide interested in the history, culture, The Library Company is fortunate to religion, and struggle of Black people have trustees who donate materials to our during the 19th century. Recognizing collections. Trustee Rich Snowden gifted that Black people throughout the African all four volumes of the Hampton Series diaspora overcame many trials despite their Negro Folk-Songs recorded by Natalie circumstances and still managed to succeed Curtis Burlin. The volumes consist of with achievements in literature, politics, “songs that upheld the soul of the Negro and education is just one of the many race during the long years of bondage reasons why people are intrigued with the in America.” These books include a subject and immerse themselves within description of the song, the song lyrics the Library Company’s Afro-Americana (in black vernacular) along with the collection. sheet music. The songs were designed for a quartet male group and were played by students at the Hampton Normal

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& Agricultural Institute in Hampton Virginia. Many of the men who sang the songs while at Hampton went into the military where they sang to troops. The songs not only inspired the Black troops but the white troops as well. Hampton Alfred Pettitt, Mrs. Amanda Smith ([1878]). Carte-de-visite. Institute dedicated the songs in book four tigers and in order for him to survive, to Henry T. Burleigh. He was a popular he gives the tigers his fancy new colorful African American singer/composer and clothing made by his mother along with was known for arranging spirituals for an umbrella. The book has a negative solo voices and always placing a select reputation due to the depiction of Black amount of Negro spirituals on his people as uncivilized and the names of the programs. Another trustee, Louise Kelly, characters being racial slurs for African donated The Story of Little Black Sambo Americans at the time. It wasn’t until the by Helen Bannerman (1900). Little Black 20th century that civil rights activists took Sambo is a children’s book based in India heed and perceived the book as racist and about a boy who encounters four hungry the illustrations and text were changed.

59 FICTION VS. TRUTH We acquired a rare racist broadside STRENGTH IN SPIRIT entitled Grand Celumbrashum Ob De Bobalation Socity, Ob De Fift Ob Uly, 1833 that displays a satire of the July Each year, PAAH expands the 1807 festivities. In the early part of the photographs and prints collection related 1800s, many “bobalition” broadsides were to African American history. Before the issued mocking the annual celebration 20th century, self-representation and that took place by Black residents in depicting Black people in a positive light Boston celebrating the abolition of the wasn’t as common as it is now. Therefore, Atlantic slave trade in 1807. Currently, it is important that we acquire images this is the only edition of this particular that reflect Black people as such. In 2018, broadside catalogued in OCLC. Written several images were purchased including in black vernacular, the text is in two cartes-de-visite of Amanda Smith and columns divided by type ornament and Millie Christine McCoy. Amanda Smith has woodcut imagery. Another purchase was born enslaved in Maryland but was a rare edition of Light and Truth became free shortly after when her father by Robert Benjamin Lewis who was of purchased her freedom. In her later years, mixed African and Native American she was an evangelist preacher teaching the descent. Light and Truth is known as gospel at Methodist Episcopal churches the first history book about African throughout the East Coast and Midwest Americans and the Indian race. In the before taking her missionary work introduction Lewis states, “we published international. this volume of collections from sacred Millie Christine McCoy were enslaved and profane history, with a determination conjoined twins from North Carolina. that a correct knowledge of the Colored They were exhibited nationally and and Indian people, ancient and modern, internationally under various owners and may be extended freely, unbiased by managers. By the end of the 1880s, the any prejudicial effects from descent or twins retired to a farm in their home state station.” Although the Library Company of North Carolina. Although the Library owns a different copy of this book, this Company has another portrait of Millie particular edition has a frontispiece of a Christine, this newly acquired portrait is Native American. not only uncommon but also unique in that it has a poem printed on verso:

60 “I was born in the State of North Carolina, Columbus Co., Anno Domini, 1851. And pronounced by scientists to be the 8th wonder of the world.

’Tis not modest of one’s self to speak, But, daily scanned from head to feet, I freely talk of everything, Sometimes to persons wondering. Some people say I must be two! The doctors say it is not true, Some cry out humbug, till they see, And then exclaim, “great mystery.”

Horace Ollivier, [Portrait of Millie and Christine McCoy] Two head, four arms, four feet, ([ca. 1881]). Carte-de-visite. Recto. All in one perfect body meet. I am most wonderfully made, All scientific men have said. None like me since the days of Eve, None such perhaps shall ever live. If marvel to myself am I, Why not to all who pass me by? I am happy too, because content; For some wise purpose I was sent. Our maker knows what he has done, Whether I’m created two or one. Respectfully, Millie Christine. The Carolina twin, surnamed the 2-headed Nightingale.”

The Program in African American History thanks Davida T. Deutsch for her generous monetary support that ensures the African American history collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia continues to Horace Ollivier, [Portrait of Millie and Christine McCoy] ([ca. 1881]). Carte-de-visite. Verso. support the institute’s mission.

61 RARE 18TH-CENTURY AMERICAN CLOCK Restored

Thanks to the generosity of the McLean Contributionship, we are grateful that another object in our extraordinary Art & Artifacts Collection could be conserved.

LINDA AUGUST CURATOR OF ART & ARTIFACTS

This tall case clock, made in Germantown, because one must work so far away in the Pa., by Christopher Sauer (1695-1758) houses round about, if one does not live in (also spelled Saur, Souer, Souers, or the city. I have therefore made clocks up to Sower), has recently been restored and now. I sell a new clock, which I can make is chiming once again. Sauer emigrated in three or four weeks, for forty, fifty, sixty, from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1724 seventy, or eighty florins. I have made three with his wife and young son. Sauer clocks during the three quarters of a year had amazing ingenuity and versatility, that I have been here. As there is no tinker working in his lifetime in as many as thirty here, I do much of that kind of work. The different trades, including as an apothecary, rest of the time I make clocks.” surgeon and bloodletter, optician, joiner and cabinetmaker; he had a lathe shop, Our clock is made of pine with a brass glazier shop, became a papermaker, made dial engraved “Christopher Souers.” An his own ink and bound his own books. aperture at the top shows stages of the He is most widely known as a printer, moon while the aperture at the bottom setting up a printing press in 1738 and displays the date of the month. Clock publishing the Bible in German in 1743, conservator Lili von Baeyer restored the the first Bible printed in America in a clock, which needed repairs due to age and European language. (The first English corrosion. Additionally, the clock lacked a Bible was printed in America by Robert number of parts, including a key to wind Aitken in 1782.) But when Sauer first the clock and the pendulum, which Ms. arrived in Pennsylvania, he earned income von Baeyer had custom made. The bell, an by clockmaking. In a letter to his friends ill-sized replacement, was changed with a in Germany, dated August 1, 1725, he more appropriate one, which now gives a wrote, “I have done little tailor work so far, pleasing sound as it rings on the hour.

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Above left: Conservator Lili von Baeyer installing the restored clock. Right: Christopher Sauer (1695-1758). Tall Case Clock, ca. 1735. Germantown, Penn. Bequest of Charles G. Sower, 1904.

The Library Company hosted Ms. Von Baeyer’s talk on her work with the clock, which was open to the public and co- sponsored with the Philadelphia Area Conservation Association (PACA). Her lecture, Saving Time: Restoration of a Rare Christopher Souers Clock, discussed how, as a horologist, she confronted many difficult choices, including the delicate balance between honoring the integrity of the clock’s past with the integrity of making it continue to run as a functioning clock in the future.

63 AN EYE-CATCHING

ELEGANTCollection COVERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

This year, the Library Company acquired Todd and Sharon Pattison’s remarkable collection of patterned cloth bindings. The collection consists of over 800 volumes and perfectly augments the Library’s already excellent holdings of publishers’ bindings. It is likely that we now have the largest number of patterned cloth bindings anywhere. The Pattisons, esteemed collectors and scholars, spent over 25 years compiling this extensive collection.

JENNIFER ROSNER CHIEF OF CONSERVATION

Printed cloth bindings were produced for EXPERIMENTAL PATTERNS a short time in the 1830s and again, at a The earlier books in the collection are much larger scale, from about 1845 to the interesting because they can be viewed early 1850s. The elegant combination of as somewhat experimental. Bookbinders gold stamping over patterned bookcloth tried various book-covering techniques produced lovely bindings that were and materials with mixed success. Most of intended to appeal to a growing market of the patterned fabrics on these early books female and juvenile readers. During this were simply finished with a glazed surface, time, publishers were trying to outdo each possibly by the bookbinder himself, and other in order to reach this market and the had little gold stamping. Technological period is rich in innovative binding styles. advances during the 1840s perfected Book buyers wanted books to read, but the manufacturing process. Standard also to have out on view in their homes bookcloth was generally of one color and or to hold in their hands when having a was stiffened and grained with various photographic portrait taken.

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Rufus W. Griswold, The Sacred Poets of England and America (New York,1849)

tactile patterns. The bookcloth highlighted The collection also includes books covered in the Pattison collection, by contrast, in bookcloth specially made for specific was printed with a pattern, often calico- titles. The cloth was stiffened and printed style, before it was stiffened and grained. in several colors and included the title The patterning, often in multiple colors, and decorations, ready-made to fit the along with profuse gold stamping that covers. Only a few publishers produced was popular during this time, made for these for a short period and they are very beautiful bindings. The same title scarce. The collection also includes a rare would sometimes be offered in different sample sheet from the Journal of Design patterned cloths, adding even more variety and Manufactures (London, 1849) with from which the customer could make examples of patterned cloth made by a selection. Vying for their customers’ Cussons and Co. for London bookbinders business, publishers had to produce books W. Bone and Son. in ever more eye-catching styles.

65 INCREASING ACCESS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

The Library Company has an online database of 4,000 19th-century publishers’ bindings that includes bibliographic information, high resolution images, and data about the binding attributes compiled by our Conservation Department. This unique database promotes and reinforces the role of books as part of our visual and material culture, and serves as an invaluable tool for bookbinding scholarship worldwide. The Pattison collection of patterned cloth bindings, with their beautiful covers, will be a significant and exciting addition to the online database. They will soon be available for anyone to see.

More than 40 donors supported the campaign through the 23rd Annual Junto and raised more than $30,000 to support the acquisition of the Todd and Sharon Pattison Patterned Cloth Binding Collection

G.W. Septimus Piesse, Chymical Natural and Physical Magic (London, 1859).

66 Two copies of N.P. Willis, Sacred Poems (New York, 1847).

It is likely that we now have the largest number of patterned cloth bindings anywhere. The Pattisons, esteemed collectors and scholars, spent over twenty-five years compiling this extensive collection.

Two copies of The Art of Conversing. (Boston, 1848).

67 CAPTIVATING

A VISUALCollections EXCURSION

This year saw the continued growth of the David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection, the establishment of which was highlighted in last year’s Annual Report. From ink drawings created by artist and antiquarian David McNeely Stauffer (1845-1913) to extra-illustrate Scharf and Westcott’s History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 to manuscript maps to pencil sketches and watercolors of Philadelphia landmarks, the collection is filled with visual delights.

SARAH WEATHERWAX CURATOR OF PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS

AN ARTIST’S MYSTERY name appears on the recto since there is Abbie A. Peacock (ca. 1865-1927) drew no evidence that Debbie Peacock had any at least two scenes of Haddonfield, NJ, artistic training. Abbie Peacock graduated during the winter of 1882 when she was from art school in 1884, but it is not a student at the Philadelphia School of known what she did upon completion Design for Women, now Moore College of her general course of study. She did, of Art & Design. The pencil drawing however, identify herself as an artist even shown in the upper right corner allowed during her long institutionalization for Peacock to try her hand at rendering mental illness. Sometime in the late buildings, trees, and human figures as well 1890s, Abbie Peacock became a patient as work on her command of perspective at the Friends Asylum for the Insane in with Kings Highway receding into the Philadelphia. By 1905, she had been placed distance beyond the train. Abbie Peacock in the Camden County Hospital for the signed her name to the verso of each Insane in Gloucester, NJ where she seems drawing and it remains a mystery as to to have remained until her death. why her younger sister Debbie Peacock’s

Above: William Rau, Group of people including Frederick deBourg Richards, late 19th century. Albumen photograph. Gift of Jon Randall Plummer.

68 Abigail Peacock, Too Late (Kings Highway, Haddonfield, NJ), December 1, 1882. Pencil sketch. Gift of David Doret & Linda G. Mitchell.

Collections

James W. Turner, Hero (Boston: W. L. Goss & Co., 1869). Albumen carte-de-visite.

CANINES AND CAPTIVITY where large crowds “gloated, and wondered One of this year’s purchases illustrates the over his [Hero’s] huge proportions, his extreme measures taken to keep prisoners massive jaws, his bloody eyes, his terrible of war confined during the Civil War. teeth, and speculated how many Union Weighing in at just shy of 200 pounds, prisoners they had emasculated.” Although Hero, a Russian bloodhound who served some descriptions, particularly those from as a guard dog at Castle Thunder, a the South, described Hero as a gentle dog Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia, unless provoked, most of the press coverage glowers at the camera in the carte-de-visite fed into the perception of his ferocity, as shown here. did choosing to depict Hero chained to the floor of the photographer’s studio. Warren We also purchased a similar carte-de- Lee Goss (1835-1925), the copyright visite of Spot, a guard dog at the infamous holder of the images of Spot and Hero, Andersonville Prison. A brief history most likely wanted to portray the dogs as of each dog and its formidable size is vicious. Goss, who survived his time as provided on the verso of each photograph. a Civil War prisoner at Belle Island and At the conclusion of the Civil War both Andersonville, served as president of the Spot and Hero toured Northern cities Union of Ex-Prisoners of War Association.

69 The Library Company holds Goss’s book about his military experience entitled The Soldier’s Story (1866) in which he related the hair-raising tale of initially escaping pursuit by a pack of dogs during a prison break only to be soon found again by the canines and returned to captivity. Seeing powerful dogs such as Hero and Spot reduced to something akin to a sideshow must have provided a cathartic measure of satisfaction for Goss and other former prisoners of war.

GRAPPLING WITH MODERNITY During 2018 we received a large collection of graphic items from Shareholder and former Library Company Trustee Jay T. Joseph Pennell, Water Street Stairs, (Philadelphia, n.d.). Snider consisting of approximately 150 Etching. Gift of Jay T. Snider. Philadelphia-related prints dating from the 1770s through the end of the 19th century. When Joseph Pennell etched this view of Particularly noteworthy in this gift are four the Water Street steps, the stairs were still prints by irascible Philadelphia artist Joseph a vibrant part of the city’s urban fabric. Pennell (1857-1926). Born in Philadelphia Theatrical and other broadsides have been and trained at the Pennsylvania Academy plastered on the brick walls of the adjacent of the Fine Arts and what is now the buildings and Pennell has chosen to portray University of the Arts, Pennell travelled the scene with pedestrians ascending and the world writing and sketching, frequently descending the steps. Running from the in collaboration with his wife Elizabeth higher ground of Front Street down to Robins Pennell (1855-1936). Pennell was Water Street, the stairs were mandated by artistically inspired by industrial scenes and William Penn as a way to provide access for busy streetscapes as subject matter, but at the city’s inhabitants to the Delaware River, the same time bemoaned the changes of a destination hinted at by the inclusion the modern world. His critical eye and pen of rigging and sails in the background of did not spare his hometown. He inscribed the view. Close to a dozen of these sets of below his 1920 view of the Fairmount Park steps were built south of Callowhill Street Waterworks, stand pipe and pump house, and north of South Street. Today only the for example, the sentiment, “What the City steps just south of Callowhill remain—their built beautifully [it] destroys ruthlessly.” significance to Penn’s overall civic plan now recognized with an historical marker.

70 CAPTURING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS

This year we were also delighted to be Richards was able to make the transition the recipient of a large and important gift from daguerreotyping to working with from Jon Randall Plummer. Beginning paper-based photographic processes and in the 1970s, Plummer and his then our new collection includes a wide range partner, Harvey S. Shipley Miller, amassed of his work from cased photographs to one of this country’s most significant many wonderful examples of his blue- photographic collections and Plummer’s hued cyanotypes, particularly along the gift to us includes over 450 items relating New Jersey shoreline. The collection also to artist and photographer Frederick includes several of Richards’ journals, deBourg Richards (1822-1903). family photographs, and many pieces of genealogical ephemera. Combined with Richards trained as a painter in New York the Library Company’s existing holdings City and took up daguerreotyping upon of Richards photographs, we now own, moving to Philadelphia in the mid-1840s, thanks to Mr. Plummer, the most extensive but continued to paint throughout his institutional collection of Richards material life. Unlike many of his contemporaries, documenting his life and career.

Portrait of Frederick deBourg Richards, late 19th century. Albumen photograph. Gift of Jon Randall Plummer.

71 STRATEGIC

POPULAR ANDLabels ILLICIT

Works about the history of medicine and medical practices—domestic, popular, and professional—in America have lined our shelves for centuries. More recently, the social history and material culture of American medical practices and practitioners has garnered dedicated study. Society’s relationship with the makers, distributors, and consumers of pharmaceuticals reflects the illicit, popular, and/or therapeutic nature of substances that affect almost everyone in some way.

ERIKA PIOLA DIRECTOR, VISUAL CULTURE PROGRAM

LATIN LABELS Such mass production of pre-printed With the purchase of Latest Edition of Latin druggists’ labels began after 1850 when the Labels for Druggist & Apothecaries, Compiled Philadelphia College of Pharmacy began from the United States Pharmacopoea, and publishing printed paper ones. The College Other Reliable and Standard Authorities, … was responding to incomplete and incorrect (Philadelphia: J. Haehnlen, [1859]) we labels in use among wholesale druggists. have acquired an artifact that provides a Soon thereafter, a number of lithographers, microcosm of the practices and visual culture including Haehnlen, began to follow suit, of the antebellum drug trade with broad near concurrent to the formation of the implications of its historical significance. American Pharmaceutical Association in The early druggists’ label book provides Philadelphia in 1852. The book filled a a visual narrative of the ways and means practical niche in both trades, while also druggists protected themselves and their serving as a tool to prevent malpractice patrons, as well as evidence of the work from improper distribution of drugs. of Jacob Haehnlen (1824-1892). Despite Labels in the universal language of Latin in operating the most extensive lithographic which meanings of words did not change firm in Philadelphia by the late 1860s, and proved distinct from their national or extant specimens of this branch of regional name protected against this risk as Haehnlen’s work remain elusive. the field of pharmacy professionalized.

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Latest Edition of Latin Labels for Druggist & Apothecaries, Compiled from the United States Pharmacopoea, and Other Reliable and Standard Authorities, … (Philadelphia: J. Haehnlen, [1859]).

Haehnlen marketed his edition of Acquisitions for our visual Latin labels as the “most perfect book of culture collections, materials that the kind ever published.” It contains over 1000 bronze-printed labels, of various address the visual construction sizes, for hundreds of different types of of our social world and vice versa, pharmaceuticals, including acids, extracts, elixirs, liquors, pills, syrups, tinctures, wines, are diverse, intersectional, and and powders. Non-pharmaceutical products interdisciplinary. sold by druggists, such as map varnish, are also represented. The volume literally and figuratively shimmers with information. Latin form like “Caffeina” or “Opium.” Created through a process of quick-drying, Some labels, like “Hydrargyrum Cum sticky ink applied with bronze powder from Creta,” i.e., mercury with chalk, require a cotton pad, the double-bordered labels translation. Small ornamental details are printed on blue gloss-coated paper for provide flourishes of artistry to enliven the maximum contrast. Strategically placed mundane articles, some of which are blank on pages sideways, upside down, and right for customization. Edges of select pages side up to optimize use of space, the labels in the volume are lined with alphabets to list drugs with recognizable names in their allow for this necessary measure.

73 An article of the visual culture of the contrasted labels, the inclusion of an drug trade, the piece also documents extensive index to locate specific ones, and Haehnlen’s marketing style, as well as detailed explanations for their application the daily life of a druggist. Through with “spirit varnish” on drawers or bottles. three pages of introductory text and the Conspicuously, almost every page contains back cover, the lithographer informs his an excision. A druggist used this book and “two classes of consumers” of the book’s its labels, and in turn, with a Philadelphia utility. He notes the volume meeting lithographer created a visual archive of the needs of wholesalers and retailers antebellum medicinal practices. through different sized, shaped, and color LABELED LEWD

Lewd, licentious, and/or obscene would have all been labels attached to a series of prints like our eight recently acquired circa 1860s hand-colored, wood engravings depicting suggestive scenes. Possibly [Suggestive scene between a woman and two harassing boys] from the collection of British stationer ([London: Johnathan King?], ca. 1860s). Hand-colored Jonathan King (1836-1912), the images wood engraving. are transatlantic in provenance and context. Themes of voyeurism, titillation, sexual An Islington general fancy stationer, allusions, and the objectification of the King produced and sold sentimental and female body thread through the ribald comic valentines, greeting cards, and other scenes set in the home, at marketplaces, novelties that were distributed in Europe during promenades, and in other public and the United States. Partnered with his spaces. Women expose their legs, wear mother Clarissa King (1813-1892) through garish attire, and exhibit provocative the early 1870s, and then his wife Emily, behaviors, while men and boys ogle, harass, King also collected specimens of his stock compete with each other, and “enjoy the until his retirement around 1905. Sold after view” in often quotidian scenarios. Visually his death in parts, the collection measured tame by modern conventions, prescribed in the tons. Crude imagery like our prints Victorian roles are iterated and blurred. comprised the material. A sizeable portion Men are typically rendered either in a found its way to the Museum of London dominant role or tempted by a “seductress” and possibly a small selection is now with during daily activities. A market trip the Library Company. becomes prurient when a woman, in a

74 [Suggestive scene between a woman and a street vendor] ([London: Johnathan King?], ca. 1860s). Hand-colored wood engraving. calf-length skirt, hands the cabbage she is stationers, booksellers, and print shops, the purchasing to a produce vendor while by mail, and being hawked in the streets. This happenstance he points a carrot toward was a period when obscenity laws existed, below her waist. Another scene depicts but when arrests and prosecutions were two “mischievous” boys lifting a passing not often made. By consequence, when woman’s skirt with the hook at the end in February 1855, Philadelphia Mayor of a fishing pole, while another depicts a Richard Conrad derided child peddlers “peeping Tom” looking through a hole in a hawking obscene prints like The Broadway wall and watching a couple as they court. Belle and called for the arrest of the dealers Untitled, as likely print specimens, the who supplied them, charges were likely prints allow for multiple interpretations never filed. Nor were charges ever likely by today’s viewers about the visual culture leveraged against any dealer of the King of prescribed, actual, and fantasized suggestive prints. Following the social gender roles and relationships as depicted and cultural upheaval of the Civil War, in Victorian ribald prints that for their arrests of dealers and seizures of obscene contemporary viewers were less complex. materials grew as the federal Comstock Laws took effect against the “Trade in, and Intended for the male consumer, mid- Circulation of, Obscene Literature and 19th-century prints of this nature found Articles of Immoral Use.” Nonetheless, their way to their British and American graphics with the label “obscene” remain a purchasers through fancy good stores, part of the nation’s visual culture.

75 WOMEN’S History RESISTING (OR EMBRACING) MARGINALIZATION

Linden Hall Seminary for Young Ladies, founded in 1746, was among the first boarding schools for young women in Pennsylvania. This past year we purchased an 1809 broadside with funds donated by Davida T. Deutsch in honor of Lisa Unger Baskin.

CORNELIA KING CURATOR OF WOMEN’S HISTORY

DRESS TO IMPRESS A CONTROVERSY: THE WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE Parents of daughters, then as now, sought to prepare girls for successful adulthood For 19th-century women one of the despite de facto gender inequality. The mainstays of instruction on social behavior text on Linden Hall’s broadside directs was magazines, especially Godey’s Lady’s prospective female students to “avoid Book. Based in Philadelphia and edited extravagance” in dress. Given the cost of by Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), the tuition, the girls who went to Linden Hall magazine had a national audience. Thanks to likely came from well-to-do families who donations from former fellow Jessica Linker could afford to send them off to boarding and Holly Phelps (the Library Company’s school with expensive clothing. From recently retired Chief of Cataloging) we reading 19th-century conduct manuals, now have many more issues of Godey’s in the we think there’s a coded message here. original wrappers, the form in which they “Young ladies” should distinguish would have been read by the 19th-century themselves by wearing modest clothing, subscribers. Hale, like many other women at because wearing fashionable clothing the time, did not support woman suffrage. could suggest that they were parvenues As editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, she often trying to climb the social ladder. Thus, encouraged women to see their “moral perhaps paradoxically, dressing modestly power” as more important than voting. Thus, helped preserve a wealthy young woman’s again paradoxically, Hale and other female dominant social status. opinion leaders of the day often discouraged women from seeking political equality.

76 in public life in Philadelphia in the 1790s, which we have previously featured in an

Terms and Conditions of the Boarding School for Female online exhibition—created with the help of Education in Litiz (1809). Purchased in honor of Lisa U. Haverford College students and volunteers. Baskin with funds donated by Davida T. Deutsch. In writing the capsule biographies for the website, they often noted how these women were defined by the prominent men who COUNTING PORTRAITS OF were their husbands (from Abigail Adams AMERICAN WOMEN and Jane Beekman to Martha Washington Beautifully bound volumes containing and Elizabeth Winthrop). Thus, the original biographies of historical women were key owners of copies of these luxury volumes sources for women readers on what women got the message that women’s identities could be and do. In past years, we have could depend to a large extent on their had only temporary access to the copy relationships with men. of the 1855 edition of Rufus Griswold’s More humble publications suggested The Republican Court, or, American Society in other ways women could be in the world, the Days of Washington, but happily we now including as actresses and circus performers. have not one but two copies of this scarce An example of this is the image of Mlle. item—one gift from Trustee Emerita Fredericks, a slack wire performer who Beatrice Garvan and one a recent purchase appears on a playbill for a performance of with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s Van Amburgh’s Zoological & Equestrian History Fund. Our in-house binding Co. Concert Company. According to circus historian Jennifer Rosner is especially historian William L. Slout, Mlle. Fredericks pleased to have the two copies to compare, performed with Van Amburgh in 1859 only. since the bindings do vary. Griswold’s Our attempts to locate more information Republican Court is the source of the about her were unsuccessful. Perhaps she remarkable set of twenty-five engraved married and retired from the circus. Perhaps portraits of women who were prominent she suffered a career-ending fall.

77 Needless to say, Mlle. Fredericks is now part of our on-going Portraits of American Women project, thanks to Concetta Barbera’s digitization. As of December 2018, 375 women are represented in our Portraits database, and earlier this year, with the help of Nicole Scalessa, our Chief Information Officer, we have an interactive “pop chart”: http://librarycompany.org/women/chart.htm.

Predictably, Martha Washington wins the “popularity contest” with 18 published portraits, followed by poet Lydia Sigourney (14), missionary Emily Judson (14), missionary Ann Judson (11), writer Grace Greenwood (11), and so forth. Presidents’ wives, female writers, and missionaries’ wives were the rock stars of 19th-century womanhood. But if you reverse the order, you see women whose portraits appeared only once. They range from women preachers (Antoinette Blackwell) to murderers (Polly Bodine) to child savants (Ella Burns) to peddlers (Elizabeth Carl) to teachers (Sophia Cornell) and slack wire performer Mlle. Fredericks. As a set, our Portraits of American Women database is surprisingly diverse in terms of race, class, and occupation. While it confirms the status of privileged women whose names are still familiar, it also provides many glimpses of women on the margins, such as women who were seduced by clergymen, women who killed their offspring, women who channeled spirits, and women who supported themselves despite severe disabilities. The sum is as interesting as the parts, so we invite our readers to take a look at our new interactive “pop chart” for pre-1861 Van Amburgh’s Zoological & Equestrian Co. Concert Company. Fun for the million! (Philadelphia, 1859). Purchased with the published portraits of American women. Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund.

78 KATE FIELD: A PIONEER IN PUBLISHING, MARKETING AND MORE!

In terms of popularity, Kate Field (1838- 1896) is in a class by herself. Indeed, she has been identified as the first professional publicist. Alexander Graham Bell hired Field in 1877 to promote the telephone in Great Britain. In her column in the Whitehall Review, she called Bell’s telephone the “eighth wonder of the world.” Similar articles appeared unsigned in the London Telegraph, the Manchester Guardian, and elsewhere. On January 14, 1878, at the Cover of All about the Telephone and Phonograph (London, 1878). request of Queen Victoria, Bell presented Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund. a demonstration of the telephone. For the material for Bell’s telephone. Instead, it’s event, Kate Field sang several songs over an amateurs’ manual that suggests that the telephone wires, and two days later the people “possessed of mechanical ingenuity Queen bought two of Bell’s telephones. may construct for themselves [their own] Field immediately held a press conference apparatus.” Its publisher, Ward, Lock about the purchase, and later wrote about and Company, produced many amateurs’ the event, referring to herself in the third manuals for a range of items. One wonders person. She was paid in stock, which in 1) how many people actually attempted to June 1878 she estimated to be worth make their own telephone, and 2) how they $40,000—over a million dollars today! used it, assuming they also had to hardwire The first professional publicist was also the a network. The marketability of this manual, first successful professional publicist! with its cover depicting the demonstration Field staged for Queen Victoria, indicates One of our key 2018 acquisitions with that Field’s publicity stunt became a the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History marketing tool for others as well as for Fund was a London pamphlet detailing the Bell’s telephone and Field herself! wonders of the newly invented telephone, All about the Telephone (1878). Initially, we assumed that this was one of Every woman represented in the many items produced by Kate Field in her publicity campaign. However, on our collections negotiated gender closer look, this pamphlet is not advertising norms in her own way.

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THE NEXT CHAPTERSPerspective OF HISTORY

AREA OF RESEARCH My research focuses on the intersection of nature and politics in early America. My first book, Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), argues that Florida’s “liquid landscape” transformed the larger story of U.S. founding and expansion by generating models of adaptation to changing land. My current book project is called Early American Coral: Reef Thinking for the Anthropocene and it will be a cultural history of coral in early America and a history of what I’m calling “political thinking with coral.” The book focuses on a large archive of imaginative reflections on coral—in songs, poems, drawings, short stories, novels, and other media—and it reveals that coral was important in the early republic, circulating through everyday life as material and metaphor, while shaping the imagination of labor, race, and empire.

ADVANCED BY THE LIBRARY COMPANY My month at the Library Company was transformative. I already knew that the collections held several significant items for a cultural history of coral in early America, and I knew how to find those items on my own. However, no amount of searching on my own would have turned up an additional store of crucial materials that now play a significant role in my study. That took the curatorial and research expertise of the Library Company staff, along with their dedication, curiosity, ingenuity, and accessibility.

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MOST MEMORABLE AWARD WINNING COLLECTION ITEMS PUBLICATION I was in residence at the Library » Liquid Landscape: Geography and Company for a month in Spring 2018, Settlement at the Edge of Early America conducting research for my book-in- (University of Pennsylvania, 2018). progress, Early American Coral: Reef – Winner of the 2019 Rembert Thinking for the Anthropocene, and one Patrick Award from the Florida day toward the end of my stay Connie Historical Society King handed me a book and suggested – Winner of the 2019 Stetson Kennedy there might be something in it about Award from the Florida Historical coral. The book is calledThe Stories Mother Society Nature Told Her Children (Boston, 1889), by Massachusetts editor Jane Andrews, UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS and it is the single most amazing item » “Antebellum Coral.” American Literature I encountered during my month in 91.2 (2019): 263-293. residence. This book is a collection of » “Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Florida.” short stories for children, and one of FORUM: The Magazine of the Florida these stories is “Sea-Life,” in which a Humanities Council (Fall 2019): 42-45. speaking star-fish swims south from » “Coral, Labor, Slavery, and Silence New England to visit a Caribbean reef in the Archives.” Age of Revolutions, called “Coraltown.” The reef also speaks, Revolutionary Material Cultures Essay and it tells the star-fish of its origins in Series (April 22, 2019). the communal labor of countless polyps » “Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden across multiple generations, each new Scientific History of the Early American wave of polyp “settlers” contributing to Southeast.” Book review essay, Cameron a reef that expands by sustaining and B. Strang’s Frontiers of Science: Imperialism absorbing their bodies. Connie was right: and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South there is definitely something about coral Borderlands, 1500-1850 (UNC Press, in this book—and also many, many things 2018). Southern Spaces (May 2019). about the complex political imagery of labor in the early republic!

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95 » Daniel S. Prince » Wilson L. Smith » Robert T. Rambo » Marjorie P. Snelling » Marcus Rediker » Lita H. Solis-Cohen » Myron E. Resnick » Marsha York Solmssen » David J. Richards » Daniel M. Sossaman, Sr. » E. Graham Robb » Mary Anne Drott Squyres » Donald H. Roberts, Jr. » Edward M. Strauss » Seth Rockman » Tony and Neferteri Strickland » Suzanne Root » Patricia Tyson Stroud » William Roseman and Judith Hernstadt » Arthur K. Sudler » Diane F. Rossheim » Lance J. Sussman » Steven Rothman » Stuart Teacher » Richard Russell Jr. » Anonymous » Robert Russo » Larry E. Tise » Brian M. Salzberg » Daniel Traister » Brandon Sargent » Susan Troxell » Lawrence Schaffzin, MD » Dell Upton » Lori and Stuart Scherr » Joseph Urbano » Beverly Schlesinger » John R. Urofsky » Andrew M. Schocket » R. Neil Vance » Roy Schreffler » Mr. and Mrs. Henry Voigt » Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schwartz » Eleanor T. West » Paul M. Schyve » Mr. A. Morris Williams, Jr. » Mortimer N. Sellers » Andrew M. Wilson » John H. Serembus » Richard Wolgin » Mr. and Mrs. John A. Simkiss, Jr. » John J. Wood » Margot Sklar » Nicholas Wrightson » Carl Smith » Jamie Wyper » Robert Smith and Maris Ogg » Mark Zecca

THE JAMES RUSH Society » Lisa Unger Baskin » Peter O. Gante » Mary Ivy Bayard * » Beatrice W. B. Garvan » Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky » William H. Helfand * » Paul K. Bunting » Charles P. Keates, Esq. » Donald H. Cresswell and Nancy Nitzberg » David W. and Catharine E. Maxey » Mr. & Mrs. B. Robert DeMento » Mrs. William L. McLean III » Davida T. Deutsch » Edward A. Montgomery, Jr.

96 Gifts IN KIND » American Antiquarian Society » Ira A. Lipman » John C. Aird » David Long » George R. Allen » Tim Long » Debbie Andrews » Mary Gaither Marshall » Brooke Baerman » Robert J. Milevski » Will & Emily Brown » Randall M. Miller, PhD » Bryn Mawr College » Richard P. Morgan » William P. Bryson » David Marriott Morris » Rebecca Bushnell and John Toner » Todd and Sharon Pattison » Kenneth E. Carpenter » Mike Pinsent » Christie’s » Jon Randall Plummer » Ann Condon » William S. Reese* » Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox » Rose Roberto » John C. Dann » Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg » Kitty and Bob DeMento » Caroline Schimmel » Tom Doherty » John H. Serembus » Margaret Chew Dolan » Jay T. Snider » David M. Doret & Linda G. Mitchell » Richard Wood Snowden » Alan L. Eisen » Sotheby’s » Robert Eskind » Dr. Carol E. Soltis » Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Historical Society » Gus Spector » Kenneth Finkel » Roger E. Stoddard » Michelle D. Flamer » Gigi Pugh Sundstrom » William H. Helfand* » Maria M. Thompson » Neill Hough » Daniel Traister » Neil Houghton » Ann Wetherill Upton » Ivan J. Jurin » John C. Van Horne » Charles P. Keates, Esq. » Thomas Birch Walters » Louise M. Kelly » Helen S. Weary » Cornelia S. King » Clarence Wolf » Maria E. Korey in memory of Richard Landon » Wendy Woloson » David L. Larson » Nazera Wright » Dr. Jessica C. Linker » Aaron Wunsch

» Martha Hamilton Morris » Seymour I. Toll * » Roger W. Moss » John C. and Christine K. Van Horne » Mrs. Milo M. Naeve » Helen S. Weary » William S. Reese * » Beverly Werner Caplan Freeman » Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg » Richard Wood Snowden *Deceased in 2018 » Dr. Carol E. Soltis

97 AnnouncingTHE LEA FAMILY CHIEF OF CONSERVATION AT THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA

The Library Company is pleased to Known as Libby, she graduated from announce a significant gift in support of the Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont, PA the McLean Conservation Department. in 1941 and was employed by The Atlantic In 2018, the Library Company was Refining Company in the mid-1940s. honored by a major gift of $1.2 million A certified professional genealogist, from the Estate of Elizabeth Lea Oliver. she was active in a number of historical The bequest will support the conservation societies and independent research libraries and preservation of rare books, graphic in both Philadelphia and Baltimore. works, and art and artifacts in the Library Mrs. Oliver was Vice President of the Company’s collection. Director Emeritus Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania John C. Van Horne notes that Mrs. Oliver and served as Program Chair for three was immensely proud of her family’s years. She was a member of and former relationship with the Library Company genealogist and registrar for The National going back more than 200 years, and Society of the Colonial Dames. her desire to direct her generous bequest toward conservation speaks to her Mrs. Oliver was the great-great-great commitment to preserving the Library grand-daughter of Mathew Carey, the Company’s resources for future generations. early American publisher and political economist who, in 1785, founded what Elizabeth Oliver died on August 5, 2017 at became the Lea and Febiger publishing the age of 93. Mrs. Oliver was predeceased firm of Philadelphia. Mrs. Oliver held the by her beloved husband, Alan Douglas Library Company share of Mathew Carey, Oliver, on September 24, 1983. Mrs. Oliver who had become a shareholder in 1808. joined the Library Company in December Her great-great-grandfather Isaac Lea, the of 1973 and enjoyed almost 44 years of prominent publisher and natural historian shareholding. who specialized in mollusks, also held the same share. His significant collection of freshwater mussels is now housed at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.

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To honor this meaningful gift, the Library Company will name its Chief of Conservation position in her family’s honor.

Mrs. Oliver was passionate about antiques and the arts and traveled the world with her husband. She was a loyal Library Company Shareholder and donated in-kind gifts connected to her family’s history, as well. Mrs. Oliver’s niece, Susan G. Lea, continues to be active at the Library Company, as does her great niece, Eleanor Talbott West, who inherited Mrs. Oliver’s share.

99 CelebratingA PROGRAM’S PERMANENT ENDOWMENT

$100,000+ $5,000+ » Albert M. Greenfield Foundation » Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky » Peter A. Benoliel and Willo Carey » Rebecca Bushnell and John Toner » Anonymous » Maude de Schauensee » National Endowment for the Humanities » Daniel and Sarah Barringer Gordon » The Estate of William H. Scheide » William H. Helfand » The McLean Contributionship » Charles P. Keates, Esq. » Charles B. and Lucinda Landreth $25,000+ » Carol J. and Richard W. Lang » Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox » John F. Meigs » Davida T. Deutsch » Merck Partnership for Giving » Louise M. and Peter J. Kelly » Richard Newman and Lisa Hermsen » Anonymous » Richard Wood Snowden » The Estate of Paul Mellon* » Harrison M. Wright » Randall M. Miller, PhD » David Marriott Morris $2,500+ » The Walter J. Miller Trust » Mary Ivy Bayard* » John C. Tuten » Lisa Unger Baskin » John C. and Christine K. Van Horne » Erica Armstrong Dunbar » Helen S. Weary » Mrs. Milo M. Naeve » The Pennsylvania Abolition Society $10,000+ Endowment Fund of The Philadelphia » Foundation Philippa H. Campbell » » Nicholas D. Constan Carla L. Peterson » » Clarence Wolf Mr. & Mrs. B. Robert DeMento » » Beatrice W. B. Garvan Nicholas Wrightson » Independence Foundation » $1,000+ William S. Reese* » » Michael B. Mann & Rhonda Chatzkel Stefan & Kabria Baumgartner » » Harry S. Cherken, Jr. Mrs. William L. McLean III » » Martha Hamilton Morris (The Cotswold Robert R. Chew Foundation) » Michelle D. Flamer » Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg and Dr. Drew » Raechel and Michael Hammer Gilpin Faust » Anonymous » Howell K. Rosenberg » Sidney Lapidus 100 Thank you to the donors of our Light and Liberty Campaign (2013-2018) who helped us permanently endow the Program in African American History. WMENT

» Limbach Company LLC $200+ » Morison Cogen LLP » George Ahern » Stephen P. Mullin » Dee E. Andrews » Gary B. Nash » Anna Lou Ashby » Leslie Patrick » Ashmead Insurance Associates » Steven Peitzman » Robert Ridgway Bishop » Daniel K. Richter » Matthew P. Brown » Rittenhouse Foundation » Sandra Cadwalader » Hannah H. R. Shipley » David Crosby » Michael F. Suarez, S.J. » Steven Dorfman » Edward M. Waddington » Murray Dubin $500+ » E. Murdoch Family Foundation » Joslyn Ewart » Claudia M. Becker » William Forbes » Gene & Joann Bissell » Pier Gabrielle Foreman » BWA Architecture + Planning » Samuel M. Freeman II* » Donald H. Cresswell » Peter O. Gante » Margaret Darby » Holly A. Phelps & Joel R. Gardner » Richard S. & Mary Maples* Dunn » Marvin Getman » Elinor I. Goff » Autumn Graves » Historians Against Slavery » Francis R. Grebe » David A. Kimball » Leroy T. Hopkins » Kipp AMP Academy Charter School » Bruce and Nora James » Mr. & Mrs. Howard H. Lewis » William J. D. Jordan » Robert Alan Lukens » William Kelly » Mr. and Mrs. Roderick A. McDonald » Julia Bissell Leisenring » Sandra L. McLean » James MacElderry and Marilyn Fishman » Faith & John Midwood » Elizabeth Ray McLean » John M. Murrin » Robert J. Murphy, Jr. » Karen Nathan » Janneke Seton Neilson » Gordon A. Pfeiffer » Donald Neiman » Judith Ramirez » Arthur F. Oppenheimer » Caroline Schimmel » Paul & Gaye Painten » Mary Coxe Schlosser » Arielle Rambo » James B. Stewart » Harriet Young 101 » Harry Carl Schaub and » Marcus Rediker Kathryn Deans-Schaub » Seth Rockman » Dr. Carol E. Soltis » David P. Roselle » David M. Szewczyk » Sue and Harold Rosenthal » Maria M. Thompson » Marion Roydhouse » Beverly Werner Caplan Freeman » Beverly Schlesinger » Anne Wetzel » Ronald K Smeltzer » Signe Wilkinson » Marsha York Solmssen » Jean K. Wolf » Carol M. Spawn* » Lisa Zinman » Katharine S. Thomas » Coxey Toogood $100+ » Richard Tyler » Joan H. Behr » Elizabeth E. R. & Duncan W.* Van Dusen » Kerry L. Bryan » Marianne S. Wokeck » Kenneth E. Carpenter » Stephanie G. and Albert E. Wolf » Nicholas Wood Carper » Nic Wood » Katherine Carte » Michael Zuckerman » Michael Carwile » Susan W. and Cummins Catherwood, Jr. UP TO $100 » Alfred M. Cavalari » Emily Batista » Arleen Dallery » Michael Benedict » James M. Davidson » Charlotte Biddle » Volker Depkat » Hester Blum » Carolyn Eastman » Wayne Bodle » Paul J. Erickson » Emily Bogue » Leonard Evelev » Anny Candelario » Exelon Foundation » Lara Cohen » Donald Farren » Kathleen Conklin » Joseph J. Felcone » William Conners » Kenneth Finkel » Linda P. Cooper » James Foley » Kate Crafford » Laura Keim & Stephen Hague » Eileen Crehan » Nancy J. Halli » Leigh Creveling » Carol Hauptfuhrer » Jennifer Davis » Sharon L. Haynie » Bruce Dorsey » Erin Hill » Robbin Douglas » Joel Hirsh & Toby Gang » Rebecca Edwards » Michael Jacobson » Ariana Evarts » Samuel P. Katz » Melissa Flaherty » Nancy Lewis » Amy Frane-Gower » Brian Luskey » Sarah Frank » John J. McCusker » Oliver St. Clair Franklin » Rachel McGraw » Giuliana Funkhouser » Anita McKelvey » Maxine Gaiber » Jeanne Miller » Frances M. Gallagher » Norma Martin Milner » Susan C. Gerow » Sharon Ann Murphy, PhD » Brendon Gillis » Theodore T. Newbold* » Brooke Grandle » Robert Smith and Maris Ogg 102 » Joel L. Grantham » Bonnie Park » Shannon Graving » Liz Parker Gagne » Alissa Greenwald » Sharmistha Patnaik » Tripti Gupta » Kathy Peiss » Erika Hanna » Beverly Penn » Stephen J. Harlen » Kristin Perry » Nicole Hatem » Niko Phillips-Dias » Allyson Haut » Carol Jane Porter » Jessica Holzer » Kimberly Priore » Sabrina Hom » Aditi Rao » Ivan J. Jurin » Brooke Richardson » Sara Kabot » James Robb » Aarthi Kannan » Jerome Roberts » Molly Koren » Renee Robichaud » Sue Kozel » Katharine Ruhl » Julia Kuglen » James H. Scott » Stephenie Landry » Catherine D. Siegl » Pam Lessard » Pamela Sinkler-Todd » Dr. Jessica C. Linker » Liat Spiro » Meagan Lizarazo » Sarah St. Germain » Helen Lyons » Danielle Steinmann » Esther Marshall » Heather Stone » Jennifer McCrickerd » Edward Strauss » Catherine Mealey » Art Sudler » Bob Meditz » Daniel Traister » Donna Miller » David Vana » Lisa Mogolov » Karyn Walden-Forrest » Andrew Murphy » Jessica Watson » Katherine Murr » Jamayca Williams » Alyson Nakamura » Michael Winship » Heather Nathans » Aaron Wunsch » Bevin O’Brien » Elizabeth Della Zazzera » Patricia Oldham *Deceased NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS The Library Company is proud to announce the following new endowment funds, created through the success of this campaign. We greatly appreciate the generosity and support of numerous donors and foundations that made these opportunities possible, including the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation, the McLean Contributionship, the Walter J. Miller Trust, David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and Randall M. Miller, PhD.

• The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation • The Dr. Richard S. Newman Dissertation Fellowship Short Term Fellowship • The McLean Contributionship • The Samuel Rhoads Short Term Fellowship Educational Initiative • The Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar • The Walter J. Miller Short Term Fellowship Short Term Fellowship

103 InMEMORIAM

SEYMOUR I. (“SPENCE”) TOLL

Spence Toll died on June 5, 2018 at age hospitalization for several months. He 93, surrounded by his loving family. At was awarded a Purple Heart and Combat a memorial service held at the Baldwin Infantryman’s Badge for his service. School in Bryn Mawr, many spoke movingly of this exceptional man of talent After the war, Spence received his bachelor’s and grace. Spence was a dear friend degree from Yale College, followed by a law for those of us who served with him degree from Yale Law School. He married on the board of the Library Company. Jean Barth, an editor at Harper and Row, He became a member of the Library in 1951. Jean was the light of Spence’s Company in 1981. He was elected to its life. They shared together several lasting board in 1988, and served as the board enthusiasms, beginning with the house they chair from 1992 to 1998, giving his wise built in Phippsburg, Maine, where they counsel and direction to an institution vacationed summer after summer. After whose history and mission he deeply Jean’s death in 1999, Spence found solace respected. in returning to their place in Maine.

Born in Philadelphia in 1925, Spence Both Spence and Jean were dedicated graduated from Central High School in Francophiles, delighting in the culture of 1942. He entered the Army in 1943 and that country and the joys offered à table. served as a combat infantryman with the A gifted writer on many subjects, Spence 28th Infantry Division. On the first night was a frequent contributor over the years to of the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, he the prestigious literary journal The Sewanee was wounded in his right arm, requiring Review, which published articles of his on Americans who also fell in love with France

THEY WILL BE MISSED, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.

» H.F. Lenfest, Shareholder since 2009 » Mary Ivy Bayard, Shareholder since 1976 » Arthur Solmssen, Shareholder since 1986 » Seymour Toll, Shareholder since 1981 » Duncan Van Dusen, Shareholder since 2001 » Sinclair Hitchings, Shareholder since 2007

104 and Paris, like A. J. Liebling, Gertrude Stein, and Alexander Calder.

In any attempt to do justice to this true “renaissance man,” we need to acknowledge Spence Toll, the lawyer, for that is, after all, how he earned his living over a long and distinguished career at the bar. He and his partner Stuart Ebby (who paid warm tribute to Spence at the Baldwin School memorial service) practiced law together for many years in All of us who could call the Philadelphia firm of Toll & Ebby. Spence Toll our friend may Spence was a skilled litigator, making his points quietly and effectively in the count ourselves fortunate courtroom. That he was “a lawyer’s lawyer” that he came our way. is demonstrated by the fact that, when law firms needed to retain a lawyer to defend their interests, they repeatedly turned to Spence Toll. They knew that they were getting the very best representation possible.

– David Maxey, Trustee Emeritus

» Theodore Newbold,Shareholder since 1967 » William H. Helfand, Shareholder since 1984 » Janneke Neilson, Shareholder since 1995 » William Reese, Shareholder since 1980

105 InMEMORIAM

WILLIAM H. HELFAND

Bill Helfand, one of the most generous In 1998, his old friend Charles Rosenberg benefactors we have ever had, died on brought him to the Library Company. October 2, 2018, in Branford Connecticut, One result of this momentous introduction aged 92. He was a noted historian of was an exhibition drawn from both their pharmacy, patent medicines, and quackery, collections, as well as our own, called “Every and a major collector of medical prints Man His Own Doctor”: Popular Medicine and advertising ephemera. He began in Early America. When that show came his career in his father’s drugstore in the down, Mr. Helfand donated much of what Olney section of Philadelphia, where he we had exhibited, the first of a long series of remembered being surrounded by medical annual gifts of American materials from his imagery. In 1950, while attending the collection, eventually totaling over 15,000 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, he took items. Also, in 1998, he joined our Board a class at the Barnes Foundation, which of Trustees, which he chaired from 2003 to sharpened his eye for images. In 1954, 2005, and began making annual cash gifts, he began work in the marketing division giving almost $1.5 million to the Library of the pharmaceutical company Merck, Company throughout his life. In 2001, and soon began seriously collecting. That he began funding an annual fellowship in same year he married Audrey Real (who the history of medicine, and in 2008 he died in 2002), and with a young family to helped launch our Visual Culture Program support he could not afford paintings or with another fellowship. In his bequest, he even many prints; but he bought quantities endowed both fellowships. Dr. Rosenberg of trade cards, sheet music, bookplates, called him “a creative and far-sighted and any other paper bearing medical collector, able to see scholarly opportunity images. By 1970, however, when Merck as well as aesthetic quality.” Michael sent him to Paris as senior vice president Barsanti said, “Bill did something for the of international operations, he was able to Library Company that only a few truly afford all the prints he wanted, including great board members can do — he built the the giant color advertising posters by organization’s confidence and sense of its own major artists that he gave to the Ars potential through the transformative power Medica collection at the Philadelphia of his belief in the institution and its staff.” Museum of Art. – James Green, Librarian 106 107 STAFF

ADMINISTRATION READING ROOM » Dr. Michael J. Barsanti » Cornelia S. King Edwin Wolf 2nd Director Chief of Reference and Curator of » Harriet Young Women’s History Chief Financial Officer » Linda August » James N. Green Curator of Art and Artifacts & Librarian Reference Librarian » Rachel A. D’Agostino » Jasmine Smith Curator of Printed Books African Americana History Specialist » Dr. William D. Fenton and Reference Librarian Director of Scholarly Innovation » Em Ricciardi » Charlene Knight Curatorial and Reading Room Assistant Visitor Services Coordinator PRINT & PHOTOGRAPH DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS AND MEMBERSHIP » » Raechel Hammer Sarah Weatherwax Chief Development Officer Curator of Prints & Photographs » » Colleen Gill Erika Piola Development and Membership Associate Curator of Prints & Photographs » Coordinator Concetta Barbera » Clarissa Lowry Visual Materials and Digital Outreach Events and Program Coordinator Librarian CATALOGING DEPARTMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY » » Nicole H. Scalessa Arielle Rambo Chief Information Officer Chief of Cataloging and Digital Outreach Librarian » Ann McShane Digital Collections Archivist CONSERVATION » Jennifer W. Rosner, Chief of Conservation » Andrea Krupp, Conservator » Alice Austin, Conservator

108 MAINTENANCE & SECURITY MELLON SCHOLARS INTERNS » Fran Dolan » Andrew Aldridge Operations & Facilities Manager » Canaan Kennedy » Jose Placeres » RayLee Otero-Bell Facilities Assistant VOLUNTEERS PROGRAM IN AFRICAN » Louise Beardwood AMERICAN HISTORY » Eileen Goldman » Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Director » Alette Kinebanian » Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Director » Cheryl Klimaszewski PROGRAM IN EARLY AMERICAN » Ann Nista ECONOMY AND SOCIETY » Gus Spector » Dr. Cathy D. Matson, Director DIRECTOR EMERITUS VISUAL CULTURE PROGRAM » Dr. John C. Van Horne » Erika Piola, Director STAFF EMERITUS INTERNS » Phillip S. Lapsansky » Mathilde Denegre READEX/NEWSBANK AFRICAN Haverford College, Print and AMERICAN DIGITIZATION Photograph Department Intern PROJECT » Vanesa Evers » Jessica Brino Drexel University, Graduate Intern Rare Materials Scanning Technician for the Mclean Contributionship and Site Coordinator Educational Outreach Initiative » Samantha Spott » Eleanor Grace Andersen Rare Materials Scanning Technician Temple University, Digital Paxton » Lydia Shaw Friends Select School, Women’s Equality Day Intern

109 RecognizingA CAREER OF DEDICATED SERVICE

Library Company Chief of Cataloging It was Snyder, along with former Library Holly Phelps announced that she would Company Director Edwin Wolf 2nd, who retire in December 2017 after 26 years secured the first of many grant-funded with the library. Phelps has summed up cataloging projects at the Library Company her career simply by saying, “I came, I saw, that were dependent on Phelps’ expertise. I cataloged,” a statement that belies the Phelps cataloged Library Company enormous contributions she made to local materials to be included in the ESTC and national cataloging practices over database from 1986-1991. She left the nearly 40 years. Library Company in 1991 to catalog at the Free Library of Philadelphia, returning Phelps received a Bachelor’s Degree in for good in 1996. Phelps was promoted the humanities (1974) and a Master’s to Chief of Cataloging in 2012. Degree in liberal arts (1978) from Johns Hopkins University, where she was part During her time at the Library Company, of the first coed graduating class. She Phelps created over 80,000 cataloging went on to receive her Master’s Degree in records, or approximately a third of the library science and Advanced Certificate total book records in the Library Company’s in bibliography (1979) from the University online catalog. In addition to this impressive of California, Los Angeles. number, Phelps also updated the Cataloger’s Desk Reference, an essential reference After graduating from UCLA, Phelps source for Library Company catalogers. was the second person hired for the North American office of the Eighteenth- At the Library Company, Phelps is known Century Short Title Catalogue, which later for being a consummate professional who became the English Short Title Catalog works to the highest standards set by the (ESTC), then headquartered at Louisiana profession, and higher standards she State University. She cataloged for ESTC set for herself. Beyond cataloging, Phelps from 1980 to 1985, where she worked has been an unmatched source of wisdom under ESTC North America Director and humor to those who have had the Henry Snyder. honor of working with her.

– Arielle Rambo, Chief of Cataloging 110 Recognizing

Phelps is known nationally as the gold-standard in special collections cataloging.

111 ADDITIONAL CAPTIONS

COVER PAGE 14 » William Russell Birch, Library and Surgeon’s Hall, Fifth-street » Picture of exhibition space. Picture taken by Raechel Hammer. (Philadelphia, 1800). Engraving. Private Collection. » John Neagle, William Birch (Philadelphia, 1824). Oil on canvas. INSIDE FRONT COVER Private Collection. » » William Russell Birch, State House garden, Philadelphia William Russell Birch, Sedgley the seat of Mr. Wm. Crammond ([Philadelphia, 1804]). Engraving. Pennsylva. (Philadelphia, [1809]). Engraving. Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner. PAGE 2 » W. Birch & Son, » Arch Street, with the Second Presbyterian Church William Russell Birch, View from Belmont Pennsyla. the Seat (Philadelphia, 1799). Engraving. of Judge Peters (Philadelphia, [1809]). Engraving. Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner. PAGE 17 » William Russell Birch, Delices de la Grande Bretagne ([London, PAGE 5 1789?]). Gift of Charles P. Keates, Esq. » William Russell Birch, The house intended for the President of the PAGE 18 United States, in Ninth Street Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1799). » Hand-colored engraving. Image of Paul A. Cimbala, PhD, speaking to Library Company » Benjamin Duvivier, De Fleury at Stony Point Medal (Paris, 1780). shareholders and guests at the March 2018 book talk, The Gift of Benjamin Franklin. Northern Home Front during the Civil War. Pictures taken by Raechel Hammer. PAGE 6 » PAGE 19 Image of the Library Company Executive Committee at the the » 287th Annual Dinner. From left to right: Maude de Schauensee, Thomas Nast, “President Abraham Lincoln’s Coffin.”Harper’s Weekly (New York), April 29, 1865. Howell K. Rosenberg, Michael J. Barsanti, PhD, Charles B. » Landreth, John F. Meigs. Pictures taken by Stephen Ehrlich. William Russell Birch, Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia (Springland, » 1800). Hand-colored engraving. Thomas Birch,Independence . Oil on canvas. Bequest of » Dr. James Rush. Image of Carol Soltis, PhD, signing books at her book launch and signing in May 2018. Pictures taken by Raechel Hammer. PAGE 7 » PAGE 20 Image of Library Company Shareholders at the 287th Annual » Dinner. From left to right: Howell K. Rosenberg, Louise Gaye Painten and Michelle Flamer (from left to right) at Library M. Kelly, Peter J. Kelly (from left to right). Pictures taken by Company’s September event in partnership with ASALH, 12 Michael Pearson. Women of Color Who Made a Difference. Pictures taken by » Raechel Hammer. Image of Library Company Staff, Shareholder and Guests » at the 287th Annual Dinner. From left to right: Michael J. ASALH and Library Company members at the September event Barsanti, PhD, Howell K. Rosenberg, Stephen Fried, Diane in partnership with ASALH, 12 Women of Color Who Made a Difference. Pictures taken by Raechel Hammer. Ayres, William Fenton, Terry Wilson. Pictures taken by » Michael Pearson. Peter Kramer, The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Lith. of L. Rosenthal, 1850). Lithograph. PAGE 9 » PAGE 21 William Russell Birch, [Title page for Birch’s country seats of the » United States containing a view of the unfinished capitol building Jay Robert Stiefel reviewing an early American cartoon at the in Washington, D.C.] (Philadelphia, c1809). Hand-colored 2018 Graphic Materials Seminar. Picture taken by Raechel engraving. Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner. Hammer. » Alette Kine’banian, Library Company Volunteer at the Stylish PAGE 11 Books Exhibition Opening. Picture taken by Raechel Hammer. » William Russell Birch, High Street, from the country market- » Michael J. Barsanti, PhD, Linda August, Jay Robert Stiefel (from place Philadelphia ([Philadelphia, 1804]). Engraving. In City of left to right) at the Stylish Books Exhibition Opening. Picture Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania North America. Second taken by Raechel Hammer. edition (1804). » PAGE 22 J. & W. Ridgway, Library Company Blue Plate ([England, » between 1814 and 1830]). Blue and white transferware. Candice Millard’s Books, Destiny of the Republic. Pictures taken by Gift of Donald H. Cresswell. Stephen Ehrlich at the Library Company’s 5th Annual Lecture in Honor of John Van Horne. PAGE 12 » Carolyn Adams, Candice Millard, John F. Miegs (from left to » Image of Michael J. Barsanti, PhD, speaking with fellows, right) at the Lecture in Honor of John Van Horne. Pictures taken shareholders and guests with featured guest and speaker, Candice by Stephen Ehrlich. Millard. Picture taken by Stephen Ehrlich. » PAGE 23 Image of Marian T. Lane, Michael J. Barsanti, PhD, and Regina » Vaughn (from left to right) at Library Company’s September Library Company Trustee, Harry S. Cherken, Jr. with Keynote Speaker, Candice Millard. Picture taken by Raechel Hammer. event in partnership with ASALH, 12 Women of Color Who » Made a Difference. Candice Millard. Picture taken by Steven Ehrlich at the Library Company’s 5th Annual Lecture in Honor of John Van Horne. PAGE 13 » Library Company Fellows attending the 5th Annual Lecture in » Image of Michael J. Barsanti, PhD, at the Lecture In Honor of Honor of John Van Horne. Picture taken by Stephen Ehrlich. John Van Horne. Picture taken by Stephen Ehrlich. » Geo. S. Harris & Sons print specimen (Philadelphia: G. S. Harris » William Russell Birch, Sedgley the seat of Mr. Wm. Crammond & Sons, ca. 1881). Chromolithograph. Pennsylva. (Philadelphia, [1809]). Engraving. Gift of Mrs. S. » From the Cradle to the Grave. Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Marguerite Brenner. Gen. James A. Garfield (Toledo, 1881). Wood engraving. » Image at the 23 Annual Junto with guest speaker Todd Pattison. From left to right: Michael J. Barsanti, PhD, Todd Pattison, and Jennifer Rosner. Picture taken by Raechel Hammer. 112 PAGE 27 » John Caspar Wild, Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House » Two copies of Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo, The Flower Vase Steeple. East (Philadelphia: Lith. of Wild & Chevalier, 1838). (Lowell, 1847). Lithograph. » Two copies of N.P. Willis, Sacred poems (New York, 1847). PAGE 38 PAGE 28 » Cover detail of Emily C. Judson, Memoir of Sarah B. Judson of the » Nathaniel Currier, Wm. Penn’s treaty with the Indians, when American mission to Burmah (New York, 1852). Gift of Todd & he founded the province of Pennsa. 1681 (New York, ca. 1845). Sharon Pattison. Lithograph. » Kate Thomas, PhD, speaks to Library Company shareholder » Benjamin West, The Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet and guests during the Women’s History Month event, Kate Field (London, 1766). Engraving from An historical account of the and Her Networks on March 3, 2018. Pictures taken by Raechel expedition against the Ohio Indians (London, 1766). Hammer. » PAGE 29 Engraving by William Humphrys, from scrapbook of engravings » Mathew Carey, Plat of the Seven Ranges of Townships (ca. 1817-1845). Engraving. (Philadelphia, 1814). PAGE 39 » PAGE 30 & 31 Charlotte Saunders Cushman (ca. 1870). Albumen on carte de » James W. Watts, Reading the Emancipation Proclamation visite mount. ([Hartford, Conn.], c1864). Engraving. PAGE 42 & 43 » Thomas Sully,Charlotte Saunders Cushman “of the Walnut Street » Image of the exhibition, #GiltyPleasures: Sharing Special Collections Theater”(1843). Oil on canvas. through Social Media. Pictures taken by Concetta Barbera. » Thomas Birch,Picture of a sailing ship in a stormy sea. Oil on » Article of the American Fire-Company in the City of Philadelphia canvas. Bequest of Dr. James Rush. (Philadelphia, 1732). » Thomas Addison Richards,The romance of American landscape » Library Company card catalog. Picture taken by Jordan Cassway. (New York, [1854]). Papier-mache binding detail. Michael » Library Company staff. Picture taken by Jordan Cassway. Zinman Binding Collection. » Centennial medal (1876). Bronze. Gift of F. Lynwood Garrison, Esq. » Anti-slavery Token (New Jersey, 1838). Brass. » William Russell Birch, Hoboken in New Jersey, the seat of Mr. John » William Russell Birch, China Retreat Pennsylva. the seat of Mr. Stevens (Philadelphia, [1809]). Engraving. Gift of S. Marguerite Manigault (Philadelphia, [1809]). Engraving mounted on paper, Brenner. hand-colored. Gift of Mrs.S. Marguerite Brenner. PAGE 44 PAGE 33 » Concetta Barbera digitizing Library Company collections. » Sarah Mapps Douglass, “A token of love from me, to thee” (ca. 1833). Pictures taken by Jordan Cassway. Watercolor and gouache. From Amy Matilda Cassey Album. PAGE 45 » Currier & Ives, The colored beauty (New York, c1872). Hand- » Nicole Scalessa and Ann McShane collaborating on a digital colored lithograph in frame. humanities project. Pictures taken by Jordan Cassway. » Lindsay Gary, Maryama Dahir, Michael Dickinson, John PAGE 46 & 47 Gillespie (from left to right). Picture taken by Raechel Hammer » at the 11th Annual Juneteenth Freedom Seminar. Images of the exhibition, #GiltyPleasures: Sharing Special » Michael J. Barsanti, PhD, Howell K. Rosenberg, Erica Armstrong Collections through Social Media. Pictures taken by Concetta Dunbar, Michelle Flamer (from left to right). Picture taken Barbera. by Raechel Hammer at the 11th Annual Juneteenth Freedom PAGE 48 Seminar. » Holly Phelps processing collections in the Catalog Department. PAGE 34 Pictures taken by Jordan Cassway. » » Picture of Daniel Peart. Picture taken by Gary Schwartz. Arielle Rambo cataloging bindings in the collection. Pictures taken by Jordan Cassway. PAGE 35 » PAGE 49 Thomas Birch,Picture of a sailing ship in a stormy sea. Oil on » canvas. Bequest of Dr. James Rush. Library Company card catalog. Pictures taken by Jordan Cassway. » D. Wilmot Richardson, fashionable hatter, 2024 & 2026 Callowhill PAGE 50 St., Philadelphia (Philadelphia, c1881). Chromolithograph. » Andrea Krupp and Alice Austin in the McLean Conservation » Shipped by the grace of God, in good order and well conditioned … Department. Pictures taken by Jordan Cassway. [Virginia, not after 1762]. Michael Zinman Collection of PAGE 51 Early American Imprints. » Library Company conservation tools. Pictures taken by Jordan PAGE 37 Cassaway. » William Russell Birch, Woodlands the Seat of Mr. Wm. Hamilton PAGE 52 & 53 Pennsylva. (Philadelphia: W. Birch, 1809). Hand-colored » Binding detail of Charlotte Perkins Stetson. The yellow wallpaper engraving mounted on paper. Gift of Marguerite Brenner. » (Boston, 1899). Gift of Charles Rosenberg. William H. Oakford, Hatter and Furrier (Philadelphia, ca. 1885). » [Suggestive scene between a woman and a street vendor] ([London: Chromolithograph. » Johnathan King?], ca. 1860s). Hand-colored wood engraving. Picture taken by Raechel Hammer from the William Birch and » N.P. Willis, Sacred poems (New York, 1847). the Complexities of American Visual Culture symposium on » Detail from Van Amburgh’s Zoological & Equestrian Co. October 5, 2018. » Concert Company. Fun for the million! (Philadelphia, 1859). Christian Schussele, Specimen of Chromo-lith. From P.S. Duval & Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund. Co.’s Lithographic Establishment (Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Co., » Lewis Pingo, William Penn medal (1775). Silver. Reverse. Gift of 1853). Chromolithograph. John Fothergill. » William Russell Birch, State House garden, Philadelphia ([Philadelphia, 1804]). Engraving, hand-colored. 113 PAGE 54 PAGE 91 » Jas. W. Mahoney, The Cherokee physician, or Indian guide to health » Georgia Barnhill, Jessica Todd Smith, Shelley Langdale (from left (Asheville, 1849). Gift of Charles Rosenberg. to right). Picture taken by the Raechel Hammer. » PAGE 56 Image of Randall M. Miller, PhD, speaking to Library Company » Spine, title page, and marbled end paper of William Buchan, shareholders and guests at the March 2018 book talk, The Domestic Medicine; or, the Family Physician (Philadelphia, 1772). Northern Home Front during the Civil War. Pictures taken by Bound by Robert Aitken. Gift of Charles Rosenberg, 2017. Raechel Hammer. » Image of Todd Snovel and Michelle Flamer at the Library PAGE 57 Company Gay History Pride Program in October 2018. Picture » Frontispiece and cover of Gunn’s domestic medicine, or Poor man’s taken by Raechel Hammer. friend (Knoxville, 1830). Gift of Charles Rosenberg. » Image of Maude de Schauensee and Candice Millard. Picture PAGE 58 taken by Stephen Ehrlich. » William L. Breton, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, PAGE 99 Philada. (Philadelphia, 1829). Lithograph. » Mrs. Isaac Lea (Philadelphia, ca. 1870). Ivorytype. Gift of Mrs. A. PAGE 59 Douglas Oliver. » Patrick Henry Reason, The Wife (1839). Calligraphy in ink. » John Neagle, Mathew Carey (1825). Oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. H. PAGE 61 Lea Hudson. » John Caspar Wild, » Mary Anne Dickerson, “Frehsia” (ca. 1833). Watercolor. Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House From Mary Anne Dickerson Album. Steeple. West (Philadelphia, c1838). Lithograph. Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver. PAGE 63 » PAGE 101 Picture of conservator Lili von Baeyer presenting a talk at the » Library Company. Picture taken by Linda August. P.S. Duval & Son, United States soldiers at Camp “William Penn” » Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia, [1863]). Chromolithograph. Rupert Schmid. Bronze plaque of Christopher Sower, Sr. (1886). » Bronze plaque. Scipio Moorhead, Wheatley, Phillis (London, [1773?]) in Wheatley, P. (London, 1773), » Frederick De Bourg Richards, Christopher Sower’s house (1859). Poems on various subjects, religious and moral Salted paper. frontispiece. » Johann Jacob Haid, L’Amerique (Augsbourg, Germany, [ca. 1755]). PAGE 77 Mezzotint. » Christian Schussele, Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818 (New York, » Howard Helmick, A plantation “corn-shucking” ([Hartford, 1897]). [1856?]). Engraving. In Griswold, R.W. The Republican Court, Photomechanical print, in Mary Ashton Rice Livermore’s The Story or, American society in the days of Washington. New and rev. ed. of my Life, or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years(Hartford: (New York, 1856), plate opposite p. 169. A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897), p. 336. PAGE 80 & 81 PAGE 109 » Plates from James Dwight Dana, Corals and coral islands » Dickinson family funeral hatchment (ca. 1808). Funeral hatchment. (New York, 1872). Gift of the Heirs of John Dickinson. PAGE 82 & 83 » Thomas Birch,Picture of a sailing ship in a stormy sea. Oil on canvas. » James Reid Lambdin, Benjamin Franklin (ca. 1880). Oil on Bequest of Dr. James Rush. canvas. » Anne Leslie, Benjamin Franklin. Oil on canvas. Gift of Eliza Leslie. » Clarence Wolf and Howell K. Rosenberg (left to right). Picture » Thomas Addison Richards,The romance of American landscape taken by Raechel Hammer. (New York, [1854]). Papier-mache binding detail. Michael Zinman » Tombstone of Dr. James Rush and Phoebe Ann Ridgway Rush Binding Collection. (1869). Bequest of Dr. James Rush. PAGE 111 » Maria M. Thompson, Charles B. Landreth, and Kevin Connors. » Pictures of Holly Phelps, taken by Jordan Cassway and Concetta Picture taken by Raechel Hammer. Barbera. » Images of Stephen Fried’s Books, Rush: Revolution, Madness, PAGE 115 & the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father. Picture » taken by Michael Pearson. Minton, Hollis & Co., Fireplace tile (1882). » » Anne Leslie, Benjamin Franklin. Oil on canvas. Gift of Eliza Leslie. Benjamin Duvivier, De Fleury at Stony Point medal (Paris 1780). » Medal. Gift of Benjamin Franklin. Picture of conservation tools, taken by Jordan Cassway. » Philip Syng, (ca. 1731- » William Russell Birch, Andalusia (ca. 1808). Watercolor. Seal of the Library Company of Philadelphia Bequest of Charles A. Poulson. 1733). Brass. PAGE 84 BACK COVER » Bausch and Lomb Optical Co., » William Russell Birch, Mount Sidney, the seat of Genl. John Franklin Bifocal Sesquicentennial, 1784-1934 (1934). Bronze. Gift of Donald Oresman. Barker, Pennsylva. (Philadelphia, [1809]). Engraving. Gift of » Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner. Thomas Birch,Picture of a sailing ship in a stormy sea. Oil on canvas. Bequest of Dr. James Rush. PAGE 86 » A Catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia » Benjamin Ridgway Evans, Interior of Phila; Library, Fifth and ([Philadelphia], 1741). Library Streets, 1878 (Philadelphia, 1878). Watercolor. » Dickinson family funeral hatchment (ca. 1808). Funeral hatchment. PAGE 88 Gift of the Heirs of John Dickinson. » Jean-Jacques Caffieri,Benjamin Franklin (ca. 1779-1784). Plaster. Gift of Walter Franklin. PAGE 89 » Library Company of Philadelphia, Articles of Association (Philadelphia, 1731). Manuscript on vellum. 114 To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.

– Benjamin Franklin

115 2018 in Action

FIRST ROW » Left Picture: From left to right: Nicole Scalessa, David Rowland, Maude de Schauensee, William J.D. Jordan at the 287th Annual Dinner. Pictures taken by Michael Pearson. » Middle Picture: Arielle Rambo cataloging collections. Picture taken by Jordan Cassaway. » Right Picture: James Green, Librarian. Picture taken by Jordan Cassaway. SECOND ROW » Left Picture: Charles B. and Lucinda Landreth at Juneteenth Freedom Seminar. Picture taken by Raechel Hammer. » Middle Picture: Cornelia King providing support in our reading room. Picture taken by Jordan Cassaway. » Right picture: Michelle Flamer and Claudia Becker at the 23rd Annual Junto. Picture taken by Raechel Hammer. THIRD ROW » Daniel K. Richter, PhD (on far right) with Library Company Fellows at the 287th Annual Dinner. Picture taken by Michael Pearson. » Library Company Shareholder James Fratto (on left) with other participants and guests. Picture taken by Raechel Hammer.

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