| Title |
John Jay Smith and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith Family photograph album [graphic]. |
| Date |
ca. 1856-ca. 1885 |
| Physical Description |
1 album (99 photographs and 1 print): albumen and silhouette; album 31 x 24 cm. (12 x 9.5 in.) |
| Description |
Photograph album containing predominantly posed portraits of the family, extended family, and friends of prominent Philadelphia
Quakers John Jay and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith. Also contains views of family residences, including Ivy Lodge (John Jay
Smith, Germantown), Robert P. Smith's residence (below Grumblethorpe, Germantown), The Cedars (Whitall family summer home,
Haddonfield, N.J.), and The “Mansion” at Millville, New Jersey ("Lloyd Logan Smith's birthplace"). Other portraiture includes
group portraits showing the Haverford and Bryn Mawr Classes of 1885, "The Spices" cooking Club, "The Band of Cousins, a wedding
banquet, and the Grange (London, England). Album also contains photographs showing family treks to Wyoming and Yellowstone
(1879 and 1881); "H[annah] W. S[mith] at her table in 1315 Filbert St. Phila. Writing Life of John M. Whitall"; and a full-length
silhouette of Robert P. Smith's daughter Gulielma who died in childhood.
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Sitters include John Jay and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith; their children and their spouses Lloyd P. Smith; Robert Pearsall
Smith and his wife feminist evangelical Hannah Whitall; Horace J. Smith and his wife Margaret L.; and Elizabeth P. Smith;
their grandchildren Mary Whitall, Alice (Alys) Whitall (wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell), Ray Pearsall, and Lloyd Logan
Smith; members of the Whitall and Thomas families (R.P. Smith in-laws and relatives of M. Carey Thomas); and Haverford students
and other young Quakers, including William. S. Hilles; Charles Baily; Emma and Patty Mellor; Birdee Shoemaker; Carrie Cope;
Katie Stokes; and Annie Bacon.
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| Notes |
Brown cloth binding. |
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Damaged morocco label on front cover: Por[traits].... &c. Vol. |
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Majority of contents identified by inscriptions on album page. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
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Album housed in phase box with index to sitters. |
| Biographical / historical note |
John Jay Smith, Quaker editor and librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia married Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith,
granddaugher of noted Quaker printer Isaac Collins on April 12, 1821. The couple had six children: Lloyd Pearsall Smith, librarian
of the Library Company; Albanus Smith (1823-1842); Robert Pearsall Smith, printer, businessman, and evangelical leader; Gulielma
Smith (died in childhood); Horace J. Smith, agriculturist and author; and Elizabeth Pearsall Smith, editor of "Recollections
of John Jay Smith." Richard P. Smith was a proprietor of Whitall, Tatum & Co. glass manufactory in New Jersey during the 1860s.
He and his brother Horace J. relocated to England in the later 19th century.
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| Subject |
Smith, Elizabeth P. -- Portraits. |
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Smith, Hannah Whitall 1832-1911 -- Portraits. |
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Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881 -- Portraits. -- Portraits. |
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Smith, Lloyd P. (Lloyd Pearsall), 1822-1886 -- Portraits. |
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Smith, Rachel C. Pearsall 1800-1873 -- Portraits. |
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Smith, Robert Pearsall, 1827-1898 -- Portraits. |
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Smith Family -- Portraits. |
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Thomas Family -- Portraits. |
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Whitall Family -- Portraits. |
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Haverford College -- People. |
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Bryn Mawr College -- People. |
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Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Dwellings -- New Jersey. |
| Geographic subject |
Wyoming. |
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Yellowstone National Park. |
| Genre |
Photograph albums -- 1870-1890. |
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Albumen prints -- 1870-1890. |
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Group portrait photographs -- 1870-1890. |
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Portrait photographs -- 1870-1890. |
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Silhouettes -- 1850-1860. |
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Cloth bindings (Binding), |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums [P.2008.15] |
| Accession number |
P.2008.15 |
