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The Loganian Library of Philadelphia

James Logan was apparently an already established figure when Ben Franklin and his young chums started in the library business. Logan had a large private library which he had been collecting for about fifty years. He decided to make this into a “public” library and erected the building pictured below in 1745. The editors of [...]

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