02505ckm a22004571i 4500 000137179 20230712140518.0 khobo 010316s1880 nyunnn kneng d (UPvMLC)mrc04202280 pdrc4961EP 3 ppl PPL dcrmg Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer. 4045 [John Greenleaf Whittier] [graphic] / Sarony, 37 Union Sqr. N.Y. [New York], [ca. 1880] 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 17 x 11 cm (6.5 x 4.25 in.) (cabinet card format) Title supplied by cataloger. Date inferred from presented age of the sitter. Photographer's imprint stamped on mount. Sitter incorrectly identified as Ralph Waldo Emerson on verso. Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, with white hair and beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket with velvet on the lapels, faces left. Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer as opposed to technician of the portraits. Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991. Description revised 2021. Access points revised 2021. Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. 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. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807- 1892, Portraits. Abolitionists United States. lctgm 84337 Editors United States. 85082 Journalists American United States. lctgm Poets. lctgm 78174 Cabinet photographs 1870-1880. gmgpc Portrait photographs 1870-1880. gmgpc SP3 African American History Imprint N.Y. New York. 1880 Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT cabinet card portraits - sitter - Whittier [P.9363.14] P.9363.14 P-9363-14 130301 130301 000137179 CONV 00 20051208 1945 000137179 BATCH-UPD 00 20051211 0836 000137179 20060120 1807 000137179 20060201 1533 000137179 20071018 1952 000137179 SARAH 40 20110427 0958 000137179 ERIKA 40 20131210 1028 000137179 LINDA 40 20211207 1526 000137179 LINDA 40 20211213 1429 000137179 LINDA 40 20211207 1528 ppl N.Y. New York. 1880 Imprint