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Linda Kimiko August. Curator of Art & Artifacts and Visual Materials Cataloger at the Library Company of Philadelphia

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These landscapes were painted by architect William Strickland, who helped establish the Greek Revival movement. You can see the neoclassical elements in the Second Bank and the Merchant Exchange buildings he designed. #ArchivesLandscape #ArchivesHashtagParty

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The Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS) is offering $1,000 stipends for three interns in registration or collections management this Spring. Applications are due February 21, 2025. Please see here for more details and to apply: https://t.co/alzeeE2lbK.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Shoveling snow, children making their way to school, and traffic going down the street. This print shows the West Chester Public School in circa 1855.

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Famous for its organ and large eagle sculpture, as well as its elaborate Christmas display.

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Meet me at the Eagle! Macy's has announced it is leaving the old Wanamaker building, the department store first opened in 1911.

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Eiichi Hirose sent the Library Company seventeen of his bookplates as a gift in 1935. He collected bookplates and asked for some LCP ones in return. #AAPIHeritageMonth

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Please join us this Thursday, May 16 at 7pm for a virtual talk from Dr. Michelle Lee on “Apparatuses of Footbinding: Tracing a Genealogy of Violence against Asian Women.” https://t.co/4CqSwfgR3w #AAPIHeritageMonth

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Chinese diplomat and statemen, Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), visited Philadelphia in 1896. He protested the Chinese Exclusion Act and the poor treatment of Chinese people in America. Learn more about him here: https://t.co/OXwiZtb0KH #AAPIHeritageMonth

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This month's #ArchivesHashtagParty highlights #ArchivesGames. Game of Authors, Milton Bradley's card game, contains famous 19th century writers and fun game play cards about book bindings and engravings.

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May is #AAPIHeritageMonth Japanese opera singer Takane Nambu traveled from Tokyo to Philadelphia to make her debut at the Academy of Music on January 12, 1928. She is greeted coming off the train.

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Amateur photographer John Frank Keith (1883-1947) documented hundreds of working-class residents of South Philadelphia and Kensington. The majority of the photos capture people on their front stoops and sidewalks. #ArchivesSnapshot #archiveshashtagparty

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We are celebrating #ArchivesWomenInSTEM! This 1895 geology field trip shows students from the Ogontz School for Girls holding rock picks and notebooks. #ArchivesHashtagParty #WomensHistoryMonth

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Celebrating the Lunar New Year with this new acquisition. Kiriu Kosho Kuwaisha exhibited Japanese decorative arts at the 1876 Centennial in Philadelphia. #YearOfTheDragon #LunarNewYear2024

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The gentle, steady ticking clock. The soft sound of pen on paper and pages turning. Today's #ArchivesASMR #ArchivesHashtagParty

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Happy 215th birthday to Edgar Allan Poe! #EdgarAllanPoe

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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! #MerryChristmas #SantaClaus

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I came across "The Bicycle Race of the Pussy-Cat Family" in the December, 1896 issue of Leslie's Illustrated. I felt it needed to be shared.

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It's the first day of winter! Depicted is the 1865 print showing the skate park in South Philadelphia near the Sharp & Thomson Foundry, who manufactured stoves. #WinterSolstice #FirstDayOfWinter

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I had to share these wonderful boxes that our Head of Conservation Sharon Hildebrand made to house objects from the Wood Webb Collection. It's incredibly satisfying to see a place for everything, and everything in its place.

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The Cathay Tea Garden at 1221 Chestnut was more than just a restaurant. The Cathay was also a dance and music hall, with blocks of time dedicated to dancing and live music, and the home of a live broadcast radio show. This menu dates from ca. 1930; the restaurant closed in 1973.