Library Company of Philadelphia

The Library Company is pleased to announce the pilot website for “In Her Own Right: Women Asserting Their Civil Rights, 1820-1920”, including the Library Company’s Cassey and Dickerson albums, is now live. A pilot project executed by members of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), with funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the site showcases Philadelphia-area collections highlighting women’s struggle leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment.

http://inherownright.org/

View the digitized Cassey album here: https://goo.gl/oLPZjf

and the digitized Dickerson album here: https://goo.gl/nBsBbo

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#BensLibrary #HerOwnRight #PACSCL #NEH #Women #CivilRights #womens suffrage #SpecialCollections #LCPprints #Tumblarians

Is wallpaper making a come back? It was certainly popular for this 1880s youth. Word to the wise: Do not paste wallpaper to the floor. #homeimprovement

Farmer, Livermore & Co., [J.C. Finn & Son trade cards] [graphic]. [United States] ca. 1881. Chromolithograph ; 10 x 16 cm. (4 x 6.25 in.)

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#LCPtradecards #LCPephemera #TradeCardThursday #genrescene #homeimprovement #ephemera #chromolithography #lithography #neh #lcpprints #vcpatlcp #SpecialCollections #BensLibrary #1880s #tumblarians