Volume 40

2023-04-27

§ Micro-editions

§ Voices and Perspectives: Interviews and Conversations

§ Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record

§ Essays

§ The College and University Classroom

Visual Literacy, Close Looking, and a Pivot to the Virtual: The Library Company of Philadelphia’s Urban In-sights Workshop

Erika Piola, Sarah Weatherwax and Anne Verplanck

Soon after its inception in 1731, administrators of the Library Company of Philadelphia, a subscription library–turned–independent research library specializing in American history and culture, collected graphic material.1 In more recent decades, the Library’s administration hired a Curator of Prints to steward the collection, formed a Graphic Arts Department, and implemented a Visual Culture Program (VCP), including an associated fellowship.

§ Reviews