Details
Creator Langenheim, William, 1807-1874, photographer.
Title Jim Steward and his celebrated rocky mountain cat. [graphic] / W.L.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 photograph : transparency on glass, hand colored with wood mount ; 11 x 18 cm (4 x 7 in.) (lantern slide format)
Description Full-length portrait of Jim Steward, an African American man ventriloquist, seated on a wooden chair. Steward, attired in a disheveled sack coat, holds his cat puppet in his lap and looks at the viewer.
Notes Date from manuscript note.
Fifteen cent Civil War revenue stamp lower right corner of mount with manuscript note: W.L. April 1st, 1865.
Purchase 1993.
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.
Biographical / historical note Langenheim was a premier early Philadelphia photographer who with his brother and partner Frederick (1809-1879) introduced lantern slides (glass transparencies) to the United States in 1849.
Subject Steward, Jim -- Portraits.
African American entertainers.
African American men.
Puppets.
Ventriloquists.
Genre Lantern slides -- Color -- 1860-1870.
Portraits -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Lantern slides - Langenheim [P.9439]
Accession number P.9439