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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Portrait of John Ashhurst 3rd, librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Concert hall and theatre, Chestnut Street and Twelfth (north side)
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, by architects Napoleon LeBrun and John Notman, 1846-1864
Study from the life
A metropolitan cathedral: a study in the advanced course in design of the graduate year
Residence at Fifth Avenue and Seventy-eighth Street, New York
Haupt: best arrangement of city streets
Borrower's card for the Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holmes Branch, Holmesburg for George W. Mayberry, Engine Co. no.36, ca. 1907
The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1926
Art Metal in the Free Library of Philadelphia
Map of the Grand Avenue to the Park, Philadelphia, 1884
Letter from librarian John Thomson to Peter A.B. Widener certifying Horace Trumbauer as the architect for the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, April 15, 1911
Letter from Horace Trumbauer to John Thomson presenting the first plans for the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, June 7, 1911
Sketch of the seal of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Moving day: cartoon, Evening bulletin, Jan. 21, 1927
Horace Trumbauer, the Elms, residence for Edward J. Berwind, Newport, Rhode Island, 1899
Proposed site for a new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia at the corner of City Hall, bounded by Broad and 15th Streets on the east and west and Arch and Filbert Streets on the north and south, 1902
Notice announcing the closing of the Free Library of Philadelphia at 13th and Locust Streets for the opening ceremony of the new Central Library, June 2, 1927
Announcement card for the opening ceremony of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, June 2, 1927
Knee-Hi, the Free Library of Philadelphia mascot