Jump to navigation
Main menu
LCP Home
Search
Search Library Catalog
Search Digital Collections
How to Search the Collections
Access Terms Used in Our Catalogs
Finding Aids
Explore
Browse Collections
LCP News
Social Media
Exhibitions
Podcast
Academic Programs
Overview
Fellowships
Innovation Award
Biennial First Book Award
Seminars
Program in African American History
Program in Early American Economy and Society
The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History
Visual Culture Program
Research
Overview
Subject Guides
Finding Aids
Online Exhibitions
Bookbinding Research
Using the Library
Overview
Hours, Access, & Location
Rights & Reproductions
How to Search Collections
Potentially Harmful Materials and Descriptions Statement
Online Resources
Events
Upcoming Events
Seminars
LCP News
LCP Press Resources
Projects
Beyond Glass Cases
Library Company Papers Project
Hearing Voices
Imperfect History
Fireside Chats
Support the Library
Overview
Donate Online!
Join & Renew Membership Online
Support: Shareholding
Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne
Membership Benefits
Planned Giving
Annual Dinner
Junto
About LCP
Annual Reports
Staff
Board of Trustees
Employment
Affiliations
LCP Blog
Press Resources
LCP Privacy Policy
Overview and History
LCP FAQ Sheet
A mark of friendship's pleasing power...
Grid view
List view
13859.Q.73
You are here
Browse Collections
›
Dickerson Family Collection
›
Martina Dickerson Album
Back to top
Primary tabs
View
Pages
(active tab)
Details
Contributor
Hinton, Ada Howell, artist.
Title
A mark of friendship's pleasing power... [graphic] / A.H.H.
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1840
Date
ca. 1840
Physical Description
1 drawing: gouache; overall 28 x 23 cm. (11 x 9 in.)
Description
Album page with embossed border and containing a drawing depicting a bunch of flowers above a four-line sentimental poem about friendship and rememberance. Flowers include a rose. Other flowers are depicted in the colors of orange, red, and violet. Image also includes a stem and leaves.
Notes
Title from manuscript verse.
Probably by civil rights activist and educator Ada Howell Hinton who founded a school in 1849. Hinton was daughter of Philadelphia African American elite community member, barber, perfumer, and abolitionist Frederick Augustus Hinton.
Contains four lines of verse: A mark of friendship pleasing power,/In this small trifle see/And sometimes in a lonely hour,/View it and think of me.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Subject
Flowers.
Poetry.
Friendship
African American women artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Gouaches -- 1840-1850.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Martina Dickerson album [13859.Q.73]
Accession number
13859.Q.73
In Collections
Martina Dickerson Album
Album Collection
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1801-1865
Log In