Contributor |
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888, artist. |
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Delnoce, Louis, -approximately 1888, engraver. |
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American Bank Note Company, printer. |
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Bald, Cousland & Co., printer. |
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Baldwin, Bald, & Cousland, printer. |
Title |
[Print specimens depicting African Americans from the Thomas Richardson and American Bank Note Company scrapbook] [graphic]. |
Publisher |
UNITED STATES. 1855-1857 |
Date |
[ca. 1855-ca. 1857] |
Physical Description |
10 prints in 1 scrapbook : engravings ; sheet 19 x 14 cm (7.5 x 5.5 in.) or smaller, scrapbook 45 x 36 cm (16.75 x 14.25 in.) |
Description |
Includes predominantly banknote specimens showing enslaved, free, and possibly free African American men, women, and children.
Images depict an African American man driver hauling a wagon filled with hay (p. 38); an African American man farm hand tending
to horse in a farmyard (p. 38); enslaved men harvesting a field of grain (p. 45); an African American man cart driver hauling
bundles up an incline (p. 50); enslaved men picking cotton juxtaposed with a townscape vista (p. 54); African American men
workers collecting sap from trees under the view of a white foreman on horseback (p. 61); enslaved men, women, and children
cutting and loading sugar cane onto a wagon at a “Sugar Plantation” (p. 66); an African American man driver leading “The Mule
Team” on a country road (p. 67); African American men workers “Breaking Hemp” (p. 68); and a proof copy of an illustration
from Susan Fenimore Cooper's "Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper" (New York, 1861) depicting a
scene by a hearth from “The Spy” with an African American male servant looking over the shoulder of a white woman housekeeper
(p. 26). Majority of specimens include roadside scenery or plantation or residential buildings in the background. “Sugar Plantation”
view also shows a steamboat on a river in the background.
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Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Date inferred from the active dates of the partnerships of the printers in the imprints and content. |
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Artists include F. O. C. Darley and Louis Denoce. |
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Printers include American Bank Note Co.; Baldwin, Bald & Cousland; and Bald, Cousland & Co. |
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Some items contain specimen number printed in lower right corner. Includes 131, 144, and 212. |
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RVCDC |
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Accessioned 2012. |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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Biographical / historical note |
Thomas Richardson (b. ca. 1802) was a Philadelphia plate printer who served as the foreman of printing at the Philadelphia
branch of the American Bank Note Company formed in 1858. He retired from the trade by 1880.
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Subject |
African American children. |
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African American men. |
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African American women. |
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African Americans. |
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Agriculture. |
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Animals. |
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Carts & wagons. |
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Horse-drawn vehicles. |
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Plantations. |
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Servants. |
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Slaves. |
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Steamboats. |
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Women. |
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Work. |
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African American laborers. |
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Enslaved children. |
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Enslaved men. |
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Enslaved women. |
Geographic subject |
Southern States -- Civilization -- 1775-1865. |
Genre |
Engravings -- 1850-1860. |
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Illustrations -- 1850-1860. |
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Proofs -- 1850-1860. |
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Specimens -- 1850-1860. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *albums (flat) [P.2012.6] |
Accession number |
P.2012.6 |