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Philadelphia Divinity School [3] Philadelphia Hospital Library [3] Philadelphia Library Association of Colored Brethren [2] Philadelphia Maritime Exchange [3] Philadelphia Museum library [4] Philadelphia Public Library (est.1892), administered by the city Board of Education. Also called City Library [14] Branch no.1: Montgomery Ave. and 17th St ...
As of 2021, there are 151 elementary/K-8 schools, 16 middle schools, and 57 high schools in the School District of Philadelphia, excluding charter schools. [ 1 ] The Thomas K. Finletter School serves kindergarten through 8th grade students in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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.
"Race, Reaction, and Reform: The Three Rs of Philadelphia School Politics, 1965-1971". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 120 (3). The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: 163–216. JSTOR 20093045. An Examination of Philadelphia 's School Desegregation Litigation; A History of School Libraries in Philadelphia, 1874 to 1964
Congregation B'nai Abraham: 523-527 Lombard St. Drake Hotel: 1512–14 Spruce St. Family Court Building: 1801 Vine St. Gravers Station: 300 E. Gravers Ln. Greenwood Cemetery: 930 Adams Ave. Guild House: 711–39 Spring Garden St. Loews Philadelphia Hotel: 1200 Market St. Philadelphia Savings Fund Society building Carl Mackley Houses: 1401 E ...
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, located at 219 S. 6th Street between St. James Place and Locust Street in the Society Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a special collections library and museum founded in 1814. The Athenaeum's purpose, according to its organizational principles, is to collect materials "connected with the history and ...
The Free Library of Philadelphia is a non-Mayoral agency of the City of Philadelphia governed by an independent Board of Trustees as per the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. [4] The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation is a separate 501(c)(3) non-profit with its own board of directors and serves to support the mission of the Free Library ...
YMCA Philadelphia and Western Library Association of Philadelphia [38] founded. 1855 – Girard Avenue Bridge built. 1856 April 12: The 1856 Philadelphia tornado occurred. [39] June: Republican National Convention held [5] 1857 Academy of Music building constructed; Library & Reading Room Assoc. founded. [10] 1858 – Mütter Museum established ...