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Library Company of Philadelphia

Ask Welcome to the Library Company of Philadelphia's Tumblr page! Founded by Ben Franklin in 1731, we are an independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. This page highlights materials from LCP's extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art.

Happy Caturday! We are total suckers for interspecies friendships.

Hooper, Mary. Ways and tricks of animals, : with stories about Aunt Mary’s pets. / by Mary Hooper, author of “Wives and housewives,” “Little dinners,” “Cookery for invalids,” “Every day meals,” etc. With twenty-three illustrations by Harrison Weir and others. [London] : Griffith and Farran, successors to Newberry and Harris), west corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard, London. ; New York: : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1880.

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Hannah Morris shows us cross-species friendships were around way before the World Wide Web. Happy Caturday!

Han [Hannah Morris], cat & dog. [Olney] Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. April 26, 1888. 1 photograph: glass plate negative; 4 x 5 in.

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