The kick-off to Night of Lights 2026, the Chestnut Hill Conservancy’s free outdoor public history, architecture, and design exhibition celebrating more than 250 years of history, landscapes, and architecture in Northwest Philadelphia with family-friendly activities, projected exhibitions, illuminated buildings, live music, and more.
Come explore esoteric medicine at The Legacy Center Archives! Continue reading
People’s Media Camp makes a comeback this year, Saturday and Sunday, October 3–4, as a a two-day gathering for grassroots preservationists, archivists, community historians, artists, and memory workers to share skills, stories, and strategies for resisting erasure and imagining free collective futures.
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A free outdoor public history, architecture, and design exhibition celebrating more than 250 years of history, landscapes, and architecture in Northwest Philadelphia. Continue reading
Explore the lives of three modern Philadelphia women — Cora Cassard Toogood, Mary Febiger Fife, and Hilda Emery Davis — and the private urban gardens they created. Continue reading
Join PACSCL’s Harmful Language Working Group (HLWG) as they announce their best practices for reparative description.
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Highlights tour of the Gantz Sesqui-Centennial Exposition Collection of more than 1,800-objects exploring the cross-section of consumerism and patriotism in 1926. Continue reading
Get a behind-the-scenes peek at the inner workings of one of the largest conservation centers in the country during CCAHA’s Open House.
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Celebrate Archives Month Philly in the Wagner’s historic lecture hall as we view glass lantern slides from local special collections! Continue reading
An introduction to PAB and step-by-step lessons in searching and exploring the resources it contains. Continue reading
Sam Katz is a well-known Philadelphia history film-maker.
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The Free Library of Philadelphia, in partnership with the Delaware Valley Archivists Group, is hosting a free, interactive community fair featuring pop-up exhibitions, demonstrations, and table-top activities that showcase how sports, games, and play are documented in and catalyzed by archives and special collections. Continue reading
OYRHS Lecture Series returns with History’s Mysteries: The Revolutionary War – 1776 (What they didn’t teach you in high school.) by Herb Kaufman, M.Ed., Historian Continue reading
Join the Historical Medical Library as we step ‘Out of the Archives’ for our Fall Open House! Meet our team, explore fascinating collections materials hand-picked by staff, and discover what makes us one of the world’s premier research collections in the history of medicine. Continue reading
Night of Lights continues beyond the four-night exhibition with the 10×10 History Jam, a fast-paced community storytelling program featuring 10 speakers, each with 10 slides and 5 minutes to share a story about Chestnut Hill and/or Northwest Philadelphia. Continue reading
What’s your Germantown story? Continue reading
Open House where you will engage with The Alexander Artway Archive’s historic black and white photography from the 1920’s – 1940’s of New York’s architectural heyday, meet the stewards of the collection, and learn about methods for preserving artwork for future generations. Continue reading
Come join us for a program at Founding Forward’s Philadelphia campus (within The Union League of Philadelphia), featuring items from our collections about how the Union League has celebrated major milestones in American history.
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OYRHS Open House and Book Sale Continue reading
Join this intimate tour to explore life after the Revolution through getting up close and personal with household artifacts and their archival links. Continue reading
Journey into the stacks and see some neat stuff! Continue reading
This panel event will discuss the challenges of managing born digital institutional records. Continue reading
Get an exclusive peek behind the scenes of the archives and check out the new exhibit. Continue reading
Take a guided walking tour behind the 10-foot wall of Girard College, using archival maps and photographs to document the campus’s history and growth Continue reading
Dr. Jenny Spinner, student writers, and alumni, will discuss the importance of preserving University history through student media and displays of past issues will be shown. Continue reading
Celebrate Archives Month Philly with a special live edition of Unique at Penn, the blog series showcasing the fascinating discoveries found in Penn’s special collections and archives. Continue reading
Seldom-seen weird and wonderful short films from Philadelphia archives and museums! Continue reading
Go behind the scenes at Chester County Archives to discover the work behind the records, from preserving historic documents to making Chester County’s history accessible to everyone! Continue reading
A walking tour through our historic neighborhood, using archival records and photos to explore past and present neighborhood sites. Continue reading
Visit Swarthmore College this Halloween to learn about the Spiritualism movement that swept mid 19th century America. What did Quakers – some alive at the time, some already deceased and sending messages from the Spirit World – have to say about the trend? Continue reading
Through photographs, documents and archival materials, Celebrating Labor and Local Workers with Special Collections offers a glimpse into the people, places and partnerships that shaped Delaware’s labor history and reminds us of the enduring impact of workers on our communities. Continue reading
Through books, event programs, menus, maps and ephemera, visitors are invited to explore the many shrines and tributes to Lincoln across our land and reflect on the unique place he holds in American memory. Continue reading
Where Do We Go From Here? The History and Future of Sex Education in the United States brings together school curricula, legal documents addressing the implementation of sex education in public schools, as well as advice books aimed at both parents and adolescents to explore this complex history from the early 20th century to the present. Continue reading
In Personal Lives: Staff Selections from Special Collections, visitors are invited to explore collection materials chosen by individual staff members that highlight a personal connection, interest or story. Continue reading
“A Seminary in Mt. Airy” explores theological education, campus life, and architecture at the Lutheran seminary in Philadelphia. The exhibit is part of the Bicentennial Celebrations of United Lutheran Seminary, the institution formed by the merger of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Continue reading
What does it mean to be a good citizen? As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, find out how Girard College has grappled with this question over the past two centuries Continue reading
Celebrating one hundred years of Rutgers University-Camden and the Ben Franklin Bridge, with photos and items from the Paul Robeson Library’s Special Collections Continue reading
Researchers know that the NYPL collection of FSA images differs from that at
The Library of Congress. We also know that the rich pictorial representation of African American life at NYPL — both in the Picture Collection and the Schomburg Collection — owes a great deal to the collaboration between these two forceful curators. This paper will discuss evidence of the ways in which Javitz and Schomburg worked together as shown in terms of photography and print material at the NYPL.
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