Undated draft of the Parkway Memorial letter. The final version, dated February 9, 1912, was presented to Mayor Blankenburg by Librarian John Thomson and Board of Trustees President Henry R. Edmunds on February 14, 1912

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Portrait of librarian John Thomson

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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

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John Thomson, librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia

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Librarian John Thomson at his desk in Free Library of Philadelphia at City Hall, 1894

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