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Leola (illustration with woman's portrait, possibly a book cover design)
Letter from R.L.M. Camden to his son, July 4, 1877
Letter from R.L.M. Camden to his son, October 4, 1876
Letter to J.C. Blair Co. from War Dept. re: official mark for American airplanes
Letter to Mrs. E.R. Camden re: Monro & Co. knitting yarns
Letter to R.L.M. Camden from Treasury Dept., re: importing of insects
Letter to Virginia Camden from Pvt. Walter Dietrich, April 16, 1919
Letter to Virginia Camden from Pvt. Walter Dietrich, Feb. 3, 1919
Letter to Virginia Camden from Pvt. Walter Dietrich, Jan. 16, 1919
Letter to Virginia from Dr. H.A. Arnold, Sept. 20, 1911
Edwin O. Lewis (1879-1974) was a long-time member of the Athenaeum and its President from 1950 to 1955. Born in Richmond, VA, Lewis came to Philadelphia at the age of eighteen to attend the University Of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1923 he was elected Judge of Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, a position he held for thirty-four years.
Lewis's distinguished record of public service is highlighted by his efforts to restore the Independence Hall area. He was the leader of the drive which created both Independence Mall and the Independence National Historical Park in the 1950s. The Mall's Lewis Quadrangle and the Lewis fountain were named for him.
In this portrait, by Agnes Allen (b. 1897), Lewis holds the Independence Mall blueprints. A native Philadelphian, Allen specialized in portraiture; she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Barnes Foundation. Frame is an early 20th-century reproduction, installed in 2001.
Howard W. Lewis was a member of the Athenaeum Board of Directors for fifty-two years, serving as Treasurer from 1888 to 1926 and as Vice President from 1926 until his death in 1940. A banker by profession, Lewis was also a philanthropist, historian, and sports enthusiast. This portrait was acquired in 1949 by bequest of Lewis's widow, Mabel Potter Lewis, who also served on the Athenæum Board of Directors. Molarsky, born 1885 in Kiev, emigrated to Philadelphia where he became a student at the School of Industrial Arts. An accomplished portrait and still life painter, he won many awards, including a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco (1915), a gold medal from the Art Club of Philadelphia (1919), and a silver medal at the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition (1926).
Liberty Bond Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Library and Flower Shop, Acker Quality Shop
The lines of this portrait are actually calligraphy which tells the life story of Winfield Scott.
Light on Life's Highway (religious illustration)
Lincoln Highway and Overbrook Presbyteruan Church at city Limits
Lincoln Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Lit Brothers, Philadelphia's most popular department store
Little Folk's Books, "The Story of Hans in Luck" booklet
Livberty Federal Savings and Loan Association
Loch Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
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Logan Square showing R. C. Cathedral and City Hall
Looking N on S Broad St from Bellevue Hotel
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879
Loyal Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Isaiah Lukens (1779-1846) was best known in his own day as a maker of town clocks, but his mechanical genius led him also into the manufacture of machine tools, mathematical and surgical instruments. His father made clocks (see example on first floor) and the son made the towering clock at the Athenaeum (Busch Reading Room).
This portrait descended in the family of Franklin Williams along with a number of other Lukens items later donated by his widow in his memory. Charles Willson Peale is known to have painted Lukens (1816; Franklin Institute), but the Peale experts are not in agreement about which Peale did this painting; all agree it is a member of the family.
Lydia H. and Charles Sigourney to Sarah Josepha Hale
Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865
Watercolor of Madame LaCoste painted by Charlotte Bonaparte at Point Breeze. Signed and dated in lower left corner. Emilie Lacoste was the beautiful Creole wife of Felix Lacoste, publisher of Joseph Bonaparte's New York City newspaper, Le Courrier des Etats-Unis. She was brought to "Point Breeze" as a companion for Charlotte Bonaparte during her three years in America. After Charlotte returned to Europe, Emilie remained at "Point Breeze" to comfort the lonely ex-king as his mistress. (She later returned to Paris where she engaged in a tempestuous love affair with the poet Prosper Merimee which ended in a duel between the poet and her husband.)
Main Buildings, University of Pennsylvania
Main Concourse, 30th Street Station, Pennsylvania Railroad
Main corridor, second floor, New U.S. Mint
Main Dining Room , Hotel Walnut Park Plaza
Main Dining Room of Lew Tendler's Tavern