The Library Company of Philadelphia is a non-profit organization located on Locust Street in Center City, Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company of Philad
Franklin opening 1st subscription library in Phila., a 1914 illustration depicting Benjamin Franklin's role in founding the Library Company of Philadelphia now housed at the Library of Congress
Library and Surgeon's Hall, Fifth-street, an 1800 engraving of the library by English painter William Birch
The former Ridgway Library at 901 South Broad Street, built between 1873 and 1878, has been occupied by the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts since 1997.
James Logan (statesman)
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James Logan was a Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia and held a number of other public offices.
An illustration of Logan and his signature, c. 1740
A present-day plaque honoring Logan in the city of his birth, in Lurgan, in Northern Ireland
James Logan, engraving