Today is the very last day of our exhibition #GiltyPleasures : Sharing Special Collections through Social Media and our visitors have spoken! This trade card of an adorable kitty received the most love with 15 hearts! 

We are happy to say that every image on our wallpaper has at least one heart and we thank everyone for participating in bringing something most of us engage with daily through digital means to the analog. This exhibition was a treat to put together and we loved the inspiration our followers provided! 

Joe Freedman Collection of Philadelphia Trade Cards. 1870-ca.1900. P.2015.55

librarycompany:

Behold, the ruggedly handsome hand-colored hogfish! #fishyfriday #heytheregoodlookin

Catesby, Mark. The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands … . Vol II.  London : Printed for C. Marsh, 1754. 

This week is your last chance to catch #GiltyPleasures : Sharing Special Collections through Social Media! At the end of the week we will share the image that won the most love on our wallpaper mosaic. 

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It’s time for a Sagittarius edition of #MiniatureMonday! This tiny book was published in 1802 and measures just 63 mm. Though small, it features 125 pages of metal-engraved images and printed text.

The Book of nouns, or, Things which may be seen.. Philadelphia: : Published by J. Johnson, no. 147, Market-Street., 1802.. 125, [1] p. :  ill. ;  63 mm

The #GiltyPleasures exhibition is very much a collaboration with our followers. This image originally posted for a #miniaturemonday is one of our most popular posts since beginning the Library Company’s social media initiative and is highlighted in our section on Making Connections. Being an active part of our online community is invaluable to the success of our initiative and we thank YOU our followers for being our co-curators for #GiltyPleasures (open through April 6th!). 

For more info on the exhibit please visit: http://librarycompany.org/giltypleasures/

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It has been exactly a year since we started our new social media initiative, and we thought it fitting to throwback to our humble beginning with Lucy the Elephant (1884). She is a little more animated this time.

We thank our followers for all their support!!

Elephant House, Atlantic City. Taken by Sam [Samuel Buckley Morris]. 1 photograph: glass plate negative; 4 x 5 in. Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. 

In our current exhibition celebrating social media, we highlight our whimsical side with a compilation of gifs and videos we’ve shared. This #librarygif has special meaning, both commemorating our very first post and highlighting one of our favorite collections. This image from the Marriott C. Morris Collection of Lucy the Elephant offers some Jersey Shore nostalgia as well, and I think we all are wishing for those lazy days of summer right now. 

Visit #GiltyPleasures : Sharing Special Collections through Social Media, on display through April 6th. For more information visit : www.librarycompany.org/giltypleasures.

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This week’s publisher’s binding feature is a true Gilty Pleasure ;) 

1882, Lorna Doone. Blackmore, R. D. Philadelphia : Porter & Coates.

This popular post (originally on April 7, 2016) was one of our inspirations for our current exhibition #GiltyPleasures : Sharing Special Collections through Social Media and I think you can see why. This beautiful gilt stamped binding was hidden in an unassuming wrapper, but we can thank that wrapper for preserving this binding so well. 

Visit #GiltyPleasures : Sharing Special Collections through Social Media, on display through April 6th. For more information visit : www.librarycompany.org/giltypleasures.

We’re loving the hand-drawn additions to our #ColorOurCollections handouts, available in our main gallery through April 6 as part of our current exhibition: #GiltyPleasures: Sharing Special Collections through Social Media. 

These handouts are also available for download here: http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/library-company-of-philadelphia-coloring-book/

What is your strategy for love? Visitors to the #GiltyPleasures exhibition are not only filling our wallpaper up with hearts but having fun with placement. .

#GiltyPleasures : Sharing Special Collections through Social Media is on display through April 6th. For more info please visit www.librarycompany.org/giltypleasures  

Our current exhibtion, #GiltyPleasures : Sharing Special Collections through Social Media, is getting some press! Check out what Fine Books & Collections Magazine has to say here. 

#GiltyPleasures is up through April 6, 2018, free and open to the public.

#LCPInsider #LCPGiltyPleasures

Today is the last day of the #ColorOurCollections challenge. We are sad for this week to end, but coloring isn’t over for us. As part of #GiltyPleasures : Sharing Special Collections through Social Media we created a coloring station and display wall for this year’s coloring book! To download the full res version of the coloring book visit: http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/library-company-of-philadelphia-coloring-book/

David Heston, manufacturer of advertising cards. (Philadelphia, late 19th Century)

These marching musicians must be taking part in today’s Eagles parade! However, they are missing a little bit in the team colors department… We congratulate our home team for their Superbowl LII win over the Patriots. Fly Eagles Fly!! 

To download the full res version and give this parade some team spirit visit : 

http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/library-company-of-philadelphia-coloring-book/

Unidentified artist. [Musicians marching.] (ca. 1830).