1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Established
1731; 293 years ago (1731)
Collection
Size
500,000 books; 70,000 other items
Access and use
Circulation
Non-circulating collection
Population served
Free and open to the public
Members
Benjamin Franklin originally
Other information
Director
Dr. Michael J. Barsanti[1]
Employees
28
Website
http://www.librarycompany.org/
The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant collections of historically valuable manuscripts and printed material in the United States.
The current collection size is approximately 500,000 books and 70,000 other items, including 2,150 items that once belonged to Franklin, the Mayflower Compact, major collections of 17th-century and Revolution-era pamphlets and ephemera, maps, and whole libraries assembled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection also includes first editions of Moby-Dick and Leaves of Grass.[2]
^"LCP Staff Biographies". The Library Company of Philadelphia. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
^Wolf, Edwin (1976). At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin: A Brief History of the Library Company of Philadelphia(PDF). Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia. ISBN 0-914076-73-6.
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