Collection: Special Selections

Unattributed “Official War Films 'Flashes of Action' presented by the American Legion Film Service. The Camera's story of the World War,...”

Falls, C.B. “Books Wanted For Our Men in Camp and 'Over There.' Take Your Gifts to the Public Library"

Riesenberg, Sidney “U.S. Marines. Active Service on Land and Sea. Enlist At….” [Earlier version with battleship cage mast]

Kollner, Augustus. “The Principal Breeds of Horses in use in North America..."

Unattributed “Trotting Cracks of Philadelphia Returning from the Race at Point Breeze Park, having a brush past Turner’s Hotel, Rope Ferry Road, Philadelphia, 1870.” [Penrose Avenue at Gateway Drive, South Philadelphia]

Scull, Nicholas & George Heap "A Map of Philadelphia and Parts Adjacent" 1777

Birch, William "Back of the State House, Philadelphia" [framed]

Birch, William Russell "Jail in Walnut Street Philadelphia" uncolored

Frizell, Samuel S. “Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., Manchester, N.H.”

Audubon, John James “Carolina Parrot” Pl. 278

Audubon, John James “Great Blue Heron” Pl. 369

Supplee, N. “Map of the Borough of West Philadelphia as Laid Out and Recorded and of Part of Mantua, Rossville, Powelton and Woodsville"

Akin, James “The Pedlar and his Pack or the Desperate Effort, an Over Balance”

Christy, Howard Chandler “The Spirit of America. Join"

Gould, John “Carpodachus Rhodochlamys.”

Köllner, Augustus “Girard-College"