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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Plan for an access boulevard from Broad Street to Fairmount Park
Ground floor plan of the New York Public Library, designed by Carráere & Hastings, completed 1911
Horace Trumbauer, architect Widener Cripples' Instn. and homes of Widener, Elkins, Berwind, Harrison, Huhn, et al.
Percival M. Sax, C.E., Sax & Abbott Civil Engineers
Union League of Philadelphia, Fifteenth Street elevation
Young Men's Christian Association, Philadelphia
Jefferson Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gothic House, Tours, France
Proposed plan of developments for City Hall Plaza at eastern end of Parkway, with Palace of Justice in center of picture
Caricature of John Ashhurst, assistant librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia, by Hugh Doyle, c. 1902
Plan of the Parkway from City Hall to Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
The superb parkway elevation of the new Free Library Building
Free Library of Philadelphia, Oct. 2, 1925
Letter from Horace Trumbauer to John Thomson about beginning construction of one of the four sections of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Letter from Horace Trumbauer to John Thomson about beginning construction of one of the four sections of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Philadelphia Free Library Building, Twentieth and Vine Streets: history and facts dealing with the progress schedule showing causes of delay in carrying out this contract: correspondence, details, and photographs
Fourth annual report, 1899
Racquet Club Building, Philadelphia
Debt may be increased : loan ballot which includes first official step toward the construction of the Central Library of theFree Library of Philadelphia
Exercises at the opening of the main building of the Free Library of Philadelphia, facing Logan Square, June 2, 1927, at four o'clock