Details
Creator J. Gurney & Son photographer.
Title Dr. Theo. Parker [graphic] / Gurney & Son Photo. N.Y.
Publisher [New York]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (4 x 2.25 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Bust-length portrait of the Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist who personally aided and housed freedom seekers as a member of several abolitionist organizations, including the New England Emancipation Aid Society. Parker, wearing spectacles and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right.
Notes Title from manuscript note on mount.
Photographer's imprint stamped on mount.
Dated based on the presented age of the sitter.
Accessioned 1979.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Societies, etc.
Unitarian Universalist churches -- Clergy -- United States.
Genre Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department | cdv portraits - sitter - Parker [P.2282.116]
Accession number P.2282.116