Press releases are made available to promote the Library's programs and activities. You may use any part of this information, however, it is requested that the Library Company be notified of when and where it is being used.

• Press Release - 5/23/2013: Dr. John C. Van Horne to Step Down as Director of the Library Company

• Press Release - 5/06/2013: Ephemera Exhibition Uses Everyday Texts to Provide Insight into Victorian Era

• Press Release - 4/17/2013: The Library Company of Philadelphia Receives Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Support Scholarship in Early African American History

• Press Release - 1/24/2013: The Library Company Highlights the American Republic's Black Founders in Online Exhibition

Past Press Releases

• Press Release - 9/5/2012: The Library Company of Philadelphia is "Working on the Railroads"

• Press Release - 7/27/2012: Lokadot Announces Philadelphia Arts and Cultural Organizations Embracing Its Location-based Audio Platform for Smartphones

• Press Release - 6/7/2012: Rare 19th-Century African American Women’s Friendship Albums Online Cassey and Dickerson Albums Document Prominent Abolitionist Circles, Contain Earliest Signed Paintings by African American Women

• Press Release - 6/7/2012: Library Company Acquires Rare 1739 Text Owned by Peter Collinson

• Press Release - 6/7/2012: Pioneer in African American History Retires After 41-Year Career

• Press Release - 12/19/2011: The Library Company of Philadelphia Takes a Look at Crime (PDF)

• Events: 2012 Spring Summer Events Brochure (PDF)

• Press Release - 6/23/2011: The Library Company of Philadelphia Commemorates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War (PDF)

• Press Release - 3/17/2010: Slavery at Sixth & Market Streets: Eight Years of Controversy at the President’s House. Juneteenth 2010 (PDF)

• Press Release - 1/22/2010: Library Company of Philadelphia Displays Exhibition: Philadelphia On Stone:The First Fifty Years of Commercial Years of Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia, 1828-1878 (PDF) (Click here for POS website)

• Press Release - 10/5/09: New Online Exhibition Explores Life and Work of Photographer John Frank Keith (PDF)

• Press Release - 9/22/09: Catching A Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860 (PDF)

• Press Release - 7/7/09: Jane Johnson Marker Dedication (PDF)

• Press Release - 6/3/09: Library Company of Philadelphia Celebrates “Juneteenth” with a Freedom Forum of Area Scholars (PDF)

• Press Release - 5/7/09: Library Company of Philadelphia Displays a New Exhibition: Mirror of a City: Views of Philadelphia Recently Acquired from the Jay T. Snider Collection (PDF)

• Press Release: Word and Image in American Autobiography, 1790-1850
  Christopher Hunter, the Library Company’s 2008-2009 William H. Helfand Fellow in Visual Culture presents his research on Benjamin Franklin images within the context of his autobiography. (PDF)

• Press Release: Gazing through History: Program in Visual Culture Launches at the Library Company with the Philadelphia Print Shop’s “Talking Prints” (PDF)

• Press Release: Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Funds New Program in African American History (PDF)

• Press Release: New Grant Funds Library Company's Exploration of Philadelphia's Colorful Past (PDF)

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Alison McMenamin, Publicity, Events, & Program Coordinator: amcmenamin@librarycompany.org

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