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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Hallahan Catholic Girls High School students using the Periodical Room in the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
West hallway, second floor in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Bindery worker running an oversewing machine at the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Aerial view of Logan Circle, the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway, and Art Museum, looking to the northwest, ca. 1929
Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia rooftop terrace, April 1932
Cyrus Adler, the president of the Board of Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia (left), presents the keys to the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia to Librarian John Ashhurst (right) as Clinton Rogers Woodruff
Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, looking northeast across Fairmount Parkway at Logan Circle from 20th Street, on opening day, June 2, 1927
Sorting books in the Periodical Room during the move into the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
Moving books into the Children's Room in the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
Moving books into the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
View of the completed Bookstacks prior to the movement of the library's collection to the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Moving books into the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
Stone carvers from the John Donnelly Company completing Corinthian capitals at the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, ca. 1924-1925
Detail of the decorative plaster ceiling in the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Sculptor working on the model for the west pediment sculptural group of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1925
Sculptor from the John Donnelly Company carving one of the pairs of griffins on the main stairway of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1926
Putting the finishing touches on the Music Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, now the Education, Philosophy, and Religion Department, late 1926
Model by John Donnelly for the east pediment sculptural group of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1925
Stone carver from the John Donnelly Company beginning a Corinthian capital at the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, ca. 1924-1925
Mayor J. Hampton Moore laying the cornerstone of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 24, 1923