Central Library's 75th Anniversary Collection

The Central Library, on Philadelphia's beautiful Benjamin Franklin Parkway, was dedicated on June 2, 1927. Seventy-five years later, it is a dynamic, evolving destination where the world is at your fingertips and you can travel anywhere in time or place through books and multiple electronic media. Learn more about this collection. For advanced searching filters for this collection, please use the link "Advanced."

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Aerial view of Whitemarsh Hall by Horace Trumbauer, residence for E.T. Stotesbury, Springfield, Pennsylvania, 1919
Mr. Stotesbury, Mrs. Stotesbury, Oliver Stotesbury, and Horace Trumbauer
Specification of interior finish of building of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Vine Twentieth, Wood and Nineteenth Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Invitation to the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 24, 1923
Ordinance of December 29, 1910 authorizing the Mayor of Philadelphia to borrow one million dollars for the building of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Opening exercises of public library over WIP
John Thomson, librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Why not keep at the good work and let the ashcart drive on?
Letter from Horace Trumbauer to John Thomson accepting appointment as architect of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, June 10, 1911
Invitation to a preview tour of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, May 25, 1927
Getting ready: Free Library opening
Proposed site of a new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia on the west side of Broad Street at Locust Street, 1902
Programme for the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 24, 1923
Opening dinner, the Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, Tues. evening, Jan. the thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, menu frontispiece
Plan of the roof of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, late 1911 version
Plan of the second floor of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, late 1911 version
Plan of the first floor of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, late 1911 version
Plan of the sub-basement of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, late 1911 version
Front elevation, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library for Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Invitation card to the opening ceremony of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, June 2, 1927