Participating Libraries

The Library Company of Philadelphia is an independent research library specialising in the society and culture of America between 1600 and 1900. This resource draws on LCP’s outstanding collection of medical material, much of which has been donated by renowned scholars and collectors Charles E. Rosenberg and William H. Helfand, both of whom have acted as consultant editors for Popular Medicine in America.

The museum’s collection features world-class art from America and beyond. Popular Medicine in America incorporates carefully selected material from the museum’s famed Ars Medica Collection, which comprises a rich variety of sources relating to eighteenth and nineteenth century pharmacy and medicine.