ADVISORY/Library Company Becomes Literary Landmark.Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Monday (Jan. 27) PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2003 The Library Company of Philadelphia The Library Company of Philadelphia is a non-profit institution that has accumulated one of the United States' richest collections of manuscript and printed materials. The Mayflower Compact, major collections of 17th century and Revolutionary War-era pamphlets and ephemera, maps (www.librarycompany.org), founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, has been named a Literary Landmark by Friends of Libraries USA (FOLUSA FOLUSA Friends Of the Library USA ), and a brief dedication ceremony will be held on Monday, January 27th at 4 PM at The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust locust, in botany locust, in botany, any species of the genus Robinia, deciduous trees or shrubs of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) native to the United States and Mexico. Street. The Literary Landmarks Association was founded in 1986 by former FOLUSA president Frederick G. Ruffner to encourage the recognition of historic literary sites. Literary Landmarks have included homes of famous writers (Tennessee Williams, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)[1] was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. , William Faulkner), libraries and museum collections, literary scenes (such as John's Grill in San Francisco, immortalized by Dashiell Hammett, and Willa Cather's Prairie near Red Cloud, Nebraska Red Cloud is a city in Webster County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,131 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Webster CountyGR6. History Red Cloud was founded in 1871. ), and now The Library Company of Philadelphia. The Library Company of Philadelphia, (www.librarycompany.org), is an independent research library which preserves over half a million rare books, prints, and photographs documenting every aspect of American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. It is a research center serving a national and international constituency of scholars, and its exhibitions and programs are open to the public free of charge. |
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