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The Library Company of Philadelphia is a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia. Founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin as a library. It has one of the most significant collections of historically-valuable manuscripts and printed material in the United States."Library Company of Philadelphia," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Works about the Library Company of Philadelphia

  • "Notes for a History of the Library Company of Philadelphia" by J. J. Smith in Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, 16 (26th September, 1835), pp. 201–208
  • "Public Library in Philadelphia" in American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 2 (November, 1835), p. 91
  • "The Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Loganian Library" in Norton's Literary Gazette, 2 (15th July, 1852), p. 127
  • "Early Documents of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1733–1734" in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 39 (1915), pp. 450–453
  • "The First Books Imported by America's First Great Library: 1732" by Albert J. Edmunds in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 30 (1906), pp. 300–308
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