Central Library's 75th Anniversary Collection

The Central Library, on Philadelphia's beautiful Benjamin Franklin Parkway, was dedicated on June 2, 1927. Seventy-five years later, it is a dynamic, evolving destination where the world is at your fingertips and you can travel anywhere in time or place through books and multiple electronic media. Learn more about this collection. For advanced searching filters for this collection, please use the link "Advanced."

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Rules and regulations of the Philadelphia Public Library
Specification for the erection of the building for the Free Library of Philadelphia
The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1926-1927
Specification of metal furniture consisting of metal tables, desks, museum cases, bulletin boards, standing newspaper racks, chairs, etc. in building of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Vine Twentieth, Wood and Nineteenth Streets
Julian Abele with daughter Nadia in the garden of their Philadelphia home
Portrait of John E. Reyburn, Mayor of Philadelphia, 1907-1911
Portrait of Julian Abele
Architectural Society at the University of Pennsylvania with its president Julian Abele seated in center, 1902
Julian Abele, 1927
Horace Trumbauer, ca. 1890
Ceremonial start of construction of the Fairmount Parkway, Philadelphia, February 22, 1907
Model of Fairmount Parkway with the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia on Logan Square, constructed for the
Logan Square, Philadelphia, April 16, 1910
Letter of explanation to the Art Jury of the iconographic program of the pediment sculptures for the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Alexander Stirling Calder's Fountain of three rivers plaster maquette, general view showing Wissahickon and the Indian (Delaware), 1923
Letter of explanation to the Art Jury of the iconographic program of the pediment sculptures for the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Formal garden at Whitemarsh Hall by Horace Trumbauer, residence for E.T. Stotesbury, Springfield, Pennsylvania, 1919
Main Entrance Hall of Whitemarsh Hall by Horace Trumbauer, residence for E.T. Stotesbury, Springfield, Pennsylvania, 1919
Rotunda of Whitemarsh Hall by Horace Trumbauer, residence for E.T. Stotesbury, Springfield, Pennsylvania, 1919
Facade of Whitemarsh Hall by Horace Trumbauer, residence for E.T. Stotesbury, Springfield, Pennsylvania, 1919