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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Art Metal Windsor chair designed for the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, c. 1926
First Municipal City Planning Exhibition in America : to be held in the City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., May 15 to June 15, 1911
Site of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia at the corner of 19th and Vine Streets prior to the demolition of extant buildings, 1909
Philadelphia City Hall in 1899, designed by John McArthur, Jr., architect, and built between 1871 and 1901
Boys rafting in the water-filled hole excavated for the foundations of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, c. 1919
Aerial view of Logan Circle, the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Municipal Court Building under construction, October 21, 1939
Free Library of Philadelphia truck, October 2, 1925
Model by John Donnelly for the west pediment sculptural group on the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1925
Ange-Jacques Gabriel's Ministry of Marine at Place de la Concorde, Paris built between 1760 and 1775
Place de la Concorde, Paris, built between 1757 and 1772, with the Seine and Pont de la Concorde in the foreground
Old Mint Building, William Strickland, architect, Chestnut and Juniper Streets, 1829-1933
Librarian John Thomson at his desk in Free Library of Philadelphia at City Hall, 1894
Librarian Helen Sartain at the Free Library of Philadelphia at City Hall, 1894
Free Library of Philadelphia booth at the Philadelphia To-day and To-morrow Exhibition, 1916
Periodical Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia at 13th and Locust Streets
Art Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia at 13th and Locust Streets
Reference Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia at 13th and Locust Streets
Young patron browsing in the Children's Room in the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
10,000 boys marched down the Parkway to celebrate Boy Week, May 4, 1930
Pneumatic tube station in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia