The Academy of Natural Sciences
Ewell Stewart Sale Library
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1195
Phone: 215-299-1040
Founded in 1812, the library’s resources focus on natural history and the environment from the 16th century to the present; holdings include over 200,000 volumes, plus archives, photographs, art, and artifacts

• Jennifer Vess, PACSCL representative, jav99@drexel.edu

American Philosophical Society
105 South 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-440-3400
Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the Society houses one of the nation’s principal collections in the history of science, anthropology, and early America.

• Patrick Spero, PACSCL representative, pspero@amphilsoc.org

Athenaeum of Philadelphia
219 South 6th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-925-2688
Museum and Library. Founded in 1814, the Athenaeum houses a nationally significant collection on architecture and design history.

• Beth Hessel, PACSCL Representative, bhessel@philaathenaeum.org

Bryn Mawr CollegeMariam Coffin Canaday Library
101 N. Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
Phone: 610-526-6576
Academic Library. British and American literary history; European travel accounts to Africa, Asia and Latin America; Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and books; women’s history, especially suffrage; women writers and artists; history of London; art study collections; archaeological and ethnographic materials; decorative arts.

• Eric Pumroy, PACSCL representative, epumroy@brynmawr.edu

City of Philadelphia Department of Records — Philadelphia City Archives
548 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
215-685-9401

City records not in current use and possessing historical, administrative, legal, research, cultural or other important value. Home of the www.phillyhistory.org online archive of historic photographs.

• Tracey T. Williams, Deputy Commissioner of Records, representative, tracey.t.williams@phila.gov

Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
6740 Roosevelt Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19149
Phone: (215) 904-8149
CHRC contains the archives of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the collections of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia.

• Leslie O’Neill, PACSCL representative, leoneill@archphila.org

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Historical Medical Library
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-399-2304
Library collections focus on medical history: books, journals, prints/photographs, physician papers, and institutional archives. The Mütter Museum is known for its nineteenth-century collection of anatomical and pathological specimens.

• Beth Lander,  PACSCL representative, blander@collegeofphysicians.org

Curtis Institute of Music
John de Lancie Library and Curtis Archives
1720 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-893-5265
The Curtis Institute of Music Special Collections and Archives holds over 340 linear feet of materials, including 66 donated manuscript collections, more than 400 audiovisual materials, and 8000 photographs.

• Michelle Oswell,  Ph.D.,  PACSCL representative,  michelle.oswell@curtis.edu

Drexel University Archives and Special Collections
33rd and Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-895-6706
Drexel University Archives and Special Collections collects the records created by Drexel University administrative offices and academic departments from 1892 to the present.

• Matthew Lyons, ml3342@drexel.edu

Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center
2900 West Queen Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19129
Phone: 215-991-8340
The Legacy Center: Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Homeopathy is the repository for records documenting the history of the College and its predecessor institutions    including Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University.

• Margaret Graham, PACSCL representative, mmg24@drexel.edu

Franklin & Marshall CollegeShadek Fackenthal Library
P. O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
Phone: 717-291-4225
Materials documenting Pennsylvania-German culture, the classics, the natural sciences, exploration, the United States Civil War, Benjamin Franklin, and the history of Franklin and Marshall College.

• Christopher Raab, PACSCL representative, craab@fandm.edu

Free Library of Philadelphia – Special Collections Division
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-686-5415
Collections include illuminated manuscripts, Americana, common law, children’s literature and illustrations, and Pennsylvania German Fraktur. The Central Library houses special collections in other departments; consult website.

• Janine Pollock, PACSCL representative, pollockj@freelibrary.org
• Chris Brown, Curator, Children’s Literature Research Collection,  brownc@freelibrary.org
• Willhem Echevarria, Curator, Digital Collections, Echevarriaw@freelibrary.org
• Gary Galván, Curator, Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music,  galvang@freelibrary.org
• Caitlin Goodman, Curator, Rare Book Department,  goodmanca@freelibrary.org
• Megan MacCall, Curator, Map Collection,  maccallm@freelibrary.org
• Laura Stroffolino, Curator, Print and Picture Collection,  stroffolinol@freelibrary.org
• Karin Suni, Curator, Theatre Collection,  sunik@freelibrary.org

German Society of Pennsylvania
Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library
611 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Phone: 215-627-2332
The library houses approximately 60,000 volumes; three-quarters are in German. The library’s collections include the historic reading library of the German Society, with rare holdings in German and American history, literature and culture since the 18th century. Other special collections document German-American life in the United States since 1683, including books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and German-American newspapers and periodicals.

• Bettina Hess,  PACSCL representative, librarian@germansociety.org

Hagley Museum & Library
298 Buck Road
Wilmington, DE 19807
Phone: 302-658-2400
Founded by Pierre S. du Pont. The library’s collections of 37,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 290,000 titles, more than 2 million images, and over 320,000 digital artifacts document the history of American business and technology.

• Erik Rau, PACSCL representative, erau@hagley.org

Haverford College
Quaker & Special Collections
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
Phone: 610-896-1161
Quaker books and manuscripts, 17th century to present, especially regarding Native Americans, civil rights and women’s rights, Quakers in Japan; other rare books and manuscripts dating back to the 13th century; photographs and historic maps.

• Sarah Horowitz, PACSCL Representative, shorowitz@haverford.edu

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215-732-6200
Strengths in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, with additional material on the original 13 states. Incorporates the collections of The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies (through a merger in 2002) and The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (through a Strategic Alliance in 2006).

• Caroline Hayden, PACSCL representative, chayden@hsp.org

Independence Seaport Museum
J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library
211 South Columbus Blvd. and Walnut Street
Penn’s Landing
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-413-8640
The J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library at Independence Seaport Museum is a regional maritime research center, offering resources that document Philadelphia’s relationship with its rivers and the greater Delaware River Valley.

• Craig Bruns, PACSCL representeative pro tem, cbruns@phillyseaport.org

Jefferson University, East Falls
4201 Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Phone: 215-951-2840
Special collections strengths include the history of textile management and production in the 19th and 20th century; the Philadelphia Centennial; local history of the Germantown and East Falls neighborhoods; and a Philadelphia post card collection. The library has also received the complete archives of Senator Arlen Specter’s 30 year career in the United State Senate.

• Sarah Slate, PACSCL representative, sarah.slate@jefferson.edu

See also: Jefferson University, Center City

La Salle UniversityConnelly Library
1900 West Olney Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199
Phone: 215-951-1285
Strengths include Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War, the Holocaust, and Trauma Literatures; the Owen Wister Collection; the life and work of Bob Dylan; Illustrated Woodcut Bibles; Tea Ceremony and other local historical documents relating to La Salle’s heritage and grounds.

• Heather Willever-Farr, PACSCL representative, willeverfarr@lasalle.edu

Lehigh University, Linderman Library
30 Library Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: 610-758-5185

Lehigh University’s Special Collections holds a rare book collection of over 40,00 volumes, with first editions of English and American literature dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

• Lois Fischer Black, PACSCL representative, lob206@lehigh.edu

The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215-546-3181

Independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries, housing an extensive non-circulating collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art.

• Rachel d’Agostino, PACSCL representative, rdagostino@librarycompany.org