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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.
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.
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 ...
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is the school district that includes all school district-operated public schools in Philadelphia. [9] Established in 1818, it is largest school district in Pennsylvania and the eighth-largest school district in the nation, serving over 197,000 students as of 2022.
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historical society founded in 1824. Membership was regulated by the statutory of the association. Article IV of the statute states that, "the members of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shall be deemed qualified voters at the meetings and elections, who have subscribed to the Constitution, and who have paid all their dues to the Society".
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 ...