Oldest subscription library posters & prints

Philadelphia Library, 1875 George Bacon Wood

Benjamin Franklin opening first subscription library in Philadelphia, Mills Anonymous

A Subscription Ticket for 'A Harlot's Progress', 1731 William Hogarth

Amusements at the People's Palace, Mile End Road, a Subscription Dance, London Anonymous

Old Books to Read Frederick Spencer

The Obelisks in the Oldest Part of Karnak Anonymous

The Great Subscription Room, interior of the Brooks's Club, St James's Street, London Augustus Charles Pugin

Interior view of Lloyds Subscription Room in the Royal Exchange, City of London Augustus Charles Pugin

The Dome of the Rock, built AD 692 Islamic School

Poster advertising the subscription for a dirigible balloon in the shape of a fish French School

Portrait of Johann Joseph Hermann, the Artist's Father-in-Law, with his Grandchild Ida Schwartze, the Artist's oldest Daughter Johann Georg Schwartze