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Horner Memorial Library -- The German Society of Pennsylvania

611 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123

United States

Web site: http://www.germansociety.org/library.html

Events: http://www.germansociety.org/events.html (updated February 2009)

Catalog URL: http://www.germansociety.org/library_catalog.…

Description: The Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library is both a lending library and a research facility, housed in an original 1888 reading room built for that purpose and recently restored by the Society. The library houses more than 70,000 volumes, three-quarters are in German. It is considered the largest private collection of German books in the United States (outside of universities).

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Mondays, 10:00am-4:00pm
Tuesdays, 10:00am-4:00pm

Added by: johnandlisa.  Contacted: Not contacted.  Venue ID: 40588

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