Be it remembered, in honor of the Philadelphian youth, (then chiefly artificers) that in MDCCXXXI they cheerfully, at the instance of Benjamin Franklin, one of their number, instituted the Philadelphia Library : which, though small at first, is become highly valuable, and extensively useful; and which the walls of this edifice are now destined to contain and preserve: the first stone of whole foundation, was here placed the thirty-first day of August, MDCCLXXXIX.

Author/creator Library Company of Philadelphia
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Zachariah Poulson], [1789]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 45504. ^A478749
General noteAscribed to the press of Zachariah Poulson by Bristol.
General noteIncorrectly recorded in Bristol as Shipton & Mooney 45502.
References Bristol B6972
References Shipton & Mooney 45504
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45504).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Other titleBe it remembered, in honor of the Philadelphian youth ...

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