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
The sick dolly. [graphic].
You are here
Browse Collections
›
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Back to top
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
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
African American History Photographs
Log In