The Athenæum of Philadelphia is a special collections library with a concentration in architecture and decorative arts, featuring trade catalogues, pattern books, periodicals documenting interior design, and an extensive reference collection of directories, bibliographies, monographs, manuscripts and archives of architectural firms, stained glass studios, and decorative painters. This 1867 globe by Thomas Malby & Son of London cannot be missed:

Compiled from the latest & most authentic sources
INCLUDING ALL THE RECENT
GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES
Manufactured & published under the superintendence of the
SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
BY THOS. MALBY & SON.
Map & Globe Sellers to the Admiralty

06.27.24