# @wooder_ice on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd89LduRk2c
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71289226-wooder-ice-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-01T12:55:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wooder Ice (@wooder_ice) — https://gondola.cc/wooder_ice

## Caption

📚✨ Ever wondered what a book can tell you beyond its words?

Free Library of Philadelphia’s ( on the Parkway) newest exhibit, “Well-Read, Well-Loved, Well-Used: Evidence of Readership in the Modified Book,” takes you inside the margins — literally. Think centuries-old annotations, a 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablet, a book literally eaten by a worm 🐛, and even a lock of hair tucked between the pages (yes, really).
One of our favorite finds? A 1793 pamphlet about Philly’s yellow fever outbreak, where the original owner scribbled his own survival story in the margins — spoiler: it involves a bottle of brandy and fleeing the city. Peak Philly. 

The exhibit features books from all over the world spanning 5,000+ years of history, and it’s completely FREE to visit — Monday–Saturday, 9 AM–5 PM, from Oct. 2nd through April 17th.

Want the full story behind the pages? Join a curator-led tour daily at 11 AM.

📍 Free Library of Philadelphia — Rare Book Department
🗓️ Now through April 17th
💵 Free admission
Tag a fellow book lover and go explore the stories hidden in the pages. 📖👀

#FreeLibraryPhilly #RareBooks #PhillyExhibits #BookLovers #ThingsToDoInPhilly WooderIce

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