Iconographic Treasures at the Library Company of Philadelphia
Posted by Jean Benoit on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Iconographic Treasures at the Library Company of Philadelphia In the summer of 1731, Benjamin Franklin later recounted in his autobiography, “I set on foot my first Project of a public Nature, that for a Subscription Library.” He encouraged fifty subscribers to contribute forty shillings each for the purchase of books that were considered indispensable to colonial Americans, but were generally too expensive for any one individual alone to...read more