This collection is composed of 64 volumes of the bound, handwritten diaries of Jacob R. Elfreth, Jr. The majority of entries detail day-to day activities; family news, news of Elfreth's carpet business, attendance at Quaker meetings, social calls, accounts of weather, and births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community. He also records and draws Philadelphia buildings which are being torn down.

George Lehman engraving, between 1840 and 1870. The scene includes people, animals, boats on the Delaware and a view of Philadelphia as well as the treaty elm.

1905 Photograph

Photograph by unknown artist, 1915.

1995 photo by Harvey Finkle.

Nancy Hellebrand photo, c. 1985.

Stephen Bye, 1981

Randy Bye photograph, 1986.

Dox Thrash carbon ground print, ca. 1930s

Ron Tarver photograph, 1997.

Charles L. Mitchell, platinum print photograph, 1890.

Stephen Perloff photograph, 1989.

William Herman Rau, albumen photograph, c. 1900

William Herman Rau, albumen photograph, c. 1900

Robert Asman, 1979. Photograph, from the portfolio "Urban Trees."

Peter Sekaer, photograph, c. 1938-1939.

F.J. Wade, color lithograph, from the Centennial City.

Daniel Traub photograph, 2008

Sol Mednick, photograph, 1950s

Sol Mednick, photograph, 1950s.

Arnold Anderson, drawing, 1931.

Benjamin West, engraving, 1775.