Library Company of Philadelphia
There’s still time to see our current exhibition, From Negro Pasts to Afro-Futures: Black Creative Re-Imaginings, free and open to the public in our main gallery through Friday, October 18.
Included in the exhibition is this photograph from our Stevens-Cogdell / Sanders Venning Collection showing members of the Treble Clef Mandolin and Guitar Club, circa 1905.
#FlashbackFriday to the Wissahickon Falls, circa 1874.
This hand-colored lithograph shows the Wissahickon Falls at the junction of Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park.
In the background, carriages are seen departing and arriving at Wissahickon Hall, erected circa 1849 by Harry Lippen at Wissahickon Drive (i.e., Lincoln Drive) below Gypsy Lane.
The Wissahickon remains one of the gems of Philadelphia, especially as the leaves begin to change