The Free Library of Philadelphia is the city's public library, with 54 locations serving more than six million users annually. Its main branch on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a grand Beaux-Arts building that houses the largest rare book collection in the country, in addition to a massive print archive. Recently, the Free Library renovated gallery space to showcase more of its extraordinary collections, including a selection of Fraktur, a manuscript-based folk art created by the German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the early 1700s.
