Details
Title The sick dolly. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St. Stereoscopes and views, wholesale and retail
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 17.5 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Genre photograph showing a young white girl, wearing her hair in ringlets and attired in a dark-colored dress with decorative white piping, white stockings, and black shoes, sitting in a rocking chair in front of a chaise lounge. She holds her white porcelain doll in her arms like a baby. A doll's cradle sits at the girl's feet along with doll’s chair on which a cloth white doll sits. A Black cloth doll is propped on the lounge behind the girl. In the right is a small side table with a glass mug.
Is part of Stereoscopic treasures No. 312
Notes Title printed on verso.
Photographer's label pasted on verso over the printed text of another photographer or publisher.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of David Doret, 2010.
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.
Subject Black dolls.
Doll furniture.
Dolls.
Girls.
Play (Recreation)
Portraits and genre.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Genre photographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.2010.6.1]
Accession number P.2010.6.1