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Library Company of Philadelphia

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The Library Company of Philadelphia is an independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Open to the public free of charge, the Library Company houses an extensive non-circulating collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art. The mission of the Library Company is to preserve, interpret, make available, and augment the valuable materials within its care. We serve a diverse constituency throughout Philadelphia and nationally and internationally, offering comprehensive reader services, an internationally renowned fellowship program, online catalogs, and regular exhibitions and public programs.

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The last upload was June 2017.

Ring it again, Buy a United States Government Bond uploaded June 2017
Come On! Buy more Liberty Bonds uploaded June 2017
Over the Top for You uploaded June 2017
Keep Him Free, Buy War Savings Stamps uploaded June 2017
And They Thought We Couldn't Fight uploaded June 2017
Liberty Loan, Wear Your Button uploaded June 2017
Ring it again, Have you bought you bond? uploaded June 2017
Pull Together, Boys! uploaded June 2017
All-America Thinks and Acts on National Thrift Day, Feb. 3 uploaded June 2017
"Over the Top," Make this a Red Cross Christmas uploaded June 2017
Save--Buy--for Victory, W.S.S. uploaded June 2017
Feed a Fighter uploaded June 2017
V Invest uploaded June 2017
"Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons" uploaded June 2017
The Hun- his Mark, Blot it Out uploaded June 2017

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Send the Eagle's Answer

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Shore Sitter said:
Above the eagle there looks as if there was another darker coloured bird coming down on it. Does anyone else see that?

Belmont Mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

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jimboylan2 said:
At the time of this photo, the abandoned Philadelphia & Columbia RR is being used by the Fairmount Park Trolley. The footbridge in the right center over it still exists. Off the right of the photo is the Columbia bridge and the Montgomery Dr. interchange of the Schuylkill Expwy.