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The Athenaeum will be closed Monday, September 1 for Labor Day Exploring the Athenaeum: Tips of the Iceberg Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 12:00-1:00PM. Join Gladys Brooks Curator of Architecture Bruce Laverty for the next talk in this monthly series. September will focus on the work of photographer Jacob Stelman (1905-1974). Free. To RSVP, call 215-925-2688 or email events@philaathenaeum.org. Socrates Cafe Discussion Group Tuesday, September 9, 11:00AM. More information. RSVP to gsfesq@verizon.net. Genealogy Workshop Wednesday, September 10, 2:00-4:00PM. More information. To RSVP, call 215-925-2688 or email events@philaathenaeum.org. Lecture C. Ford Peatross, “Curator’s Choice: Favorites from Forty Years of Collecting for the Nation.” More Information. Free. To RSVP, call 215-925-2688 or email events@philaathenaeum.org. Gallery Talk William Williams, “Photographs Talk: But Seeing What They Are Saying Is Another Matter.” A discussion of photographs in the Treasures of The Athenaeum exhibition. More Information. Free. To RSVP, call 215-925-2688 or email events@philaathenaeum.org. Treasures of the Athenaeum: 200 Years of Collecting
September 12-November 15, 2014 2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize Competition
Above: 2014 Peterson Prize Jurors: Hyman Myers (Athenaeum), Mark Schara (NPS), and Jonathan Spodek (AIA). Helen F. Faust Book and Conservation Fund
Right: Helen F. Faust.
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As
we continue to celebrate the Athenaeum's 200th Anniversary, we also want
to remind everyone that the Athenaeum from the very beginning was a
library and an institution interested in collecting objects. Our bust of
Minerva by George M. Miller came to the Athenaeum rental rooms in 1814;
and since that time furniture, paintings, sculpture, and, of course, books
have poured into the collections. A selection of items acquired over the
200 years will be on display. 
A
student competition of measured drawings, the Charles E. Peterson Prize is
presented jointly by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the
National Park Service, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, and the American
Institute of Architects. The annual competition, currently in its 32nd year,
honors Charles E. Peterson, FAIA (1906-2004), founder of the HABS program, and
is intended to heighten awareness about historic buildings in the United
States and to augment the HABS collection of measured drawings at the Library
of Congress. This year's first place team represented the Polytechnic
University of Puerto Rico, School of Architecture. For the complete list
of winners, 
Dagmar
E. Magill has established a new book and conservation fund in honor of Helen
F. Faust (1909-2011), who became an Athenaeum shareholder in 1980. This
fund is to be used for the acquisition, processing, and conservation of books
written by women authors and likely to be of permanent value to the Athenaeum
collections. Ms. Faust was a longtime advocate for young women's education.
Among her many activities, she was a founding member of Public Citizens
for Children and Youth, and part of the first Women's Commission of
Philadelphia. Her 
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you are interested in joining other Athenaeum members to play chess, please
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