Gifts of Books, Manuscripts and Collections
The Library owes much of its present greatness to men and women of previous generations...

Gifts of books by:

• Benjamin Franklin
• King Louis XVI of France
• Provost William Smith

Gifts of collections of manuscripts and personal papers including those of:

• Marian Anderson
• Theodore Dreiser
• Dr. Thomas Evans
• James T. Farrell
• John Mauchley
• Lewis Mumford
• Eugene Ormandy

Libraries and collections including:

• Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts
• Henry H. Bonnell Collection
• Daniel G. Brinton Library of American Languages and Archaeology
• Laurie Burrows Grad Cookbook Collection
• Morris Clothier Collection of American Drama
• Curtis Publishing Company Collection of Franklin Imprints
• Robert Dechert Americana Collection
• Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive
• Edwin Forrest Library Collection
• Judah Goldin Library
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library of Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama
• Dr. E. B. Krumbhaar Library of Elsevier Imprints
• Henry Charles Lea Library of Medieval and Renaissance History
• Leutsch Library of Classical Philology
• Francis Macaulay Library of Dante, Petrarch and Tasso
• Fairman Rogers Library on Horses and Equitation
• Singer-Mendenhall Collection of the English Novel
• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection in the History of Chemistry
• Tobias Wagner Library of History and Literature
• Seymour Wishman First Run Features Collection