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- Title
- [Trio gem lantern slide of scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin]
- Description
- Lantern slide with three sequential scenes from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin." Depicts scenes from chapters 26, 40, and 41. Chapter 26 image shows the deathbed scene of Eva St. Clair. Shows Eva in bed, seated up, holding a bouquet of flowers in her lap, and surrounded by people. Eva's parents Mr. and Mrs. St. Clare sit on either side of the bed and Miss Ophelia kneels and cries behind Mr. St. Clare. Mrs. St. Clare holds a fan, has a handkerchief in her lap, and looks toward Eva. Mr. St. Claire, rests his head in one hand, and has his other hand on the bed. In front of Eva, the enslaved men and women of the household, including Tom, kneel, stand, pray, hold handkerchiefs, and cry. The setting also includes a window with open drapes, a curtain behind Eva's bed, and a side table adorned with a vase of flowers. Chapter 40 scene represents the beating of Tom by his enslaver Simon Legree following the escape of the enslaved Cassy and Emmeline. Shows Tom, with grey hair, a grey beard, and barefooted, lying on a pile of cotton on the floor of a shed. Legree stands over him with one hand clenched in a fist toward his chest and the other clenched by his side as he raises up one of his feet. Chapter 41 scene shows an adult George Shelby visiting with the beaten and dying Tom after locating him in order to see if he "couldn't buy him back." Shows Tom lying on a pile of cotton near the opening to a shed. An open book lies near him by his hand. Shelby leans over Tom and holds his hand. In the background, outside of the opening, Legree stands, with his hands in his pant pockets and watching the men., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from format., Printed on cover glass: Gem Slide. Gem Slide., Contains ornamental pictorial details in the corners of the cover glass., Contains label with series number: 107., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Photographs [P.2020.39.9]
- Title
- [Caricature of capture of Jefferson Davis May 10, 1865]
- Description
- Carte-de-visite caricature satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Davis being inspected by Union soldiers as he emerges from a tent, holding a basket, while attired in a hood and skirt. His wife, Varina Davis, stands next to him. An African American enslaved servant depicted with oversize and exagerrated features peers from behind the tent flap. Bottles and a case marked "Silver Spoons, C.S.A." (an allusion to Jefferson's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury) lay on the ground in front of the tent. Also shows a saddle hanging in a tree to the right of the tent., Title supplied by cataloguer., Publication information from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Francis Hacker, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Island., See photo - Hacker [5795.F.15a]., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Creator
- Hacker, Francis
- Date
- 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - [P.2016.63]
- Title
- [Photographic reproduction of an allegorical view including Abraham Lincoln, a pavilion, and marching soldiers]
- Description
- Boudoir card depicting a photographic reproduction of an allegorical Civil War painting by Paul Philippoteaux, possibly a panel from one of his four versions of "The Gettysburg Cyclorama." Shows a figure resembling General George McClellan pointing to Lincoln, his hand on his chest and standing on the steps of a pavilion. A white and African American man stand next to Lincoln. The pavilion is comprised of a tent adorned with ornate shields and stone columns marked "Union" and "Liberty." Urns rest atop the columns. Smoke rises from them. A large statue of the figure of Liberty rises over the pavilion. Inside the pavilion, men in suits sit at a long table at which two other men, one in shirt sleeves, stand and sign documents. A crowd of men stand behind and beside the table. Near the "Liberty" column in the right, a white man breaks the shackles of a male slave as armed African Americans rush by. Troops of soldiers march around the pavilion in front of cheering men, women, and children, including blacksmiths near an anvil, flags, and a shield in the right foreground. In the left foreground, an older man holds the reigns of a rider less grey horse next to a man astride a black horse. In the left background, the U.S. Capitol is visible and in the right background ironclads sail on the ocean. French artist Paul Phillipoteaux was commissioned to create the Gettysburg Cyclorama painting in 1879. Depicting Pickett's charge, he created four versions, with the first completed in 1883 and displayed in Chicago. The second version was first shown in Boston in 1884, with the third and fourth versions shown in Philadelphia and New York in 1886. Two of the four versions are known to be extant (Chicago and Boston). Contemporary descriptions of the extant cyclorama paintings do not include the scene reproduced by Allen & Rowell, who also reproduced "The Gettysburg Cyclorama" as boudoir cards circa 1884., Date inferred from possible provenance and its year of display in Boston., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)
- Creator
- Allen & Rowell
- Date
- [ca. 1884]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Allen & Rowell [P.2017.83]
- Title
- Cliveden 1911
- Description
- Series of exterior and interior views of the Germantown estate Cliveden built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Benjamin Chew (1722-1820), the patriarch of an influential Quaker family, was one of Pennsylvania’s largest enslavers. Images depict front, front oblique, and "rear" views of the façade of the residence, including outbuildings and landscaped lawns and grounds; the front "doorway" with steps and sculptures; the "pump" near an ivy-covered wall; the "barn" near which a horse-drawn cart loaded with hay rests across from a cow out to pasture; a cracked "fireback" resting against a tree; "servant’s quarters," i.e. quarters for enslaved persons; and multiple views of the "hall at Cliveden" modestly furnished with chairs, a desk, side table, a long rifle, and framed prints and a painting. Hall views also depict columns fronting a hallway and stairway., Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Series title from manuscript note on mounts., Date from title., Many of the images accompanied by captions written on the mounts., Two of the mounts (P.2017.88.4.2-5 and P.2017.88.4.6-9) contain manuscript note: Cliveden 11-7-1911., Verso of mount P.2017.88.44.1 contains manuscript note: New York Public Library 1911., Copies of images included in “Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture” (PAEAA), PAEAA PA 51-Germ, 64D-1, assembled by the Library of Congress during the 1930s., Three of images (P.2017.88.4& 7 &11) published in Harry M. Tinkom, Margaret Tinkom and Grant Miles Simon, Historic Germantown: ... (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1955)., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Date
- 1911
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.4.1-13]
- Title
- " We's done all dis s'mornin'."
- Description
- Racist scene showing, in the foreground, a young, African American girl and boy standing behind a large basket of cotton in a cotton field. The girl faces the camera and the boy looks behind him and with his head turned away. The girl wears a bonnet, dark-color, long-sleeved shirt, and a light-color skirt. The boy wears a long-sleeve, light-color, smock-like shirt. In the background, African American men, women, boys, and girls work in the field or are posed to stand and face the camera. One man sits, high up, on bales., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1899, by B. L. Singley., Title from item., Title printed in five different languages, including Italian, French, and German, on verso., Cruved buff mount with rounded corners., Several lines of text printed on verso about the "rich resources" of the state of Arkansas, including fertile soil for a "variety of crops"; "grazing lands"; mountains: "all kinds of building stones"; rivers; "excellent common school system and several higher institutions of learning"; and "Hot Springs." Text concludes: "The cotton fields once the dread of the Virginia slave, have lost nothing of their picturesqueness with the abolition of slavery, and nowhere in the United States can primitive negro life be better studied.", Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Keystone View Company was founded in 1892 by B.L. Singley, an amateur photographer from Meadville, Pennsylvania. Keystone View Company was the leader in promoting stereographs for educational purposes. In 1912 the company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. The company remained in business until 1970.
- Creator
- Keystone View Company
- Date
- 1899
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Work [P.2018.16.2]
- Title
- Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence A redeemed slave child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia, by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863
- Description
- Full-length portrait of the acclaimed girl emancipated from enslavement. Depicts Lawrence, attired in a lavish off-the-shoulder dress, seated, and holding a hat adorned with a ribbon and feathers in her lap. She is posed next to a basket and in front of a maritime backdrop. An outstretched drape covers her seat., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by C. S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York., Purchase 2014., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., See Kathleen Collin, "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September, 1985), p. 187-210.
- Creator
- Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Lawrence [P.2014.13]
- Title
- Happy contraband
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of a caricature depicting a half-length, cameo portrait of an African American man playing a fife. Shows the man, posed to the right, looking up with his eyes, and holding up with both his hands, a fife to his pursed lips. He leans slightly forward, is portrayed with a furrowed brow, and is attired in a wide-brimmed hat adorned with a ribbon, white shirt with long sleeves, and a dark-colored vest. While commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, General Benjamin Butler declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861. During the war, several visual materials, often satires, depicting Black persons as "contraband" were published., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of publisher., RVCDC, Philadelphia Photographic Company operated from 730 Chestnut Street circa 1864-1865 before relocating to 24 N. 8th Street. Active until about circa 1869, the firm, per advertisements, issued a catalog, sold "specialties" for albums, including "from original drawings by artists of high quality," and published "[Thomas H.] Johnson's Photographic Views of the Whole Oil Regions," as well as sold election campaign cards and badges.
- Creator
- Philadelphia Photographic Company
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - non-portrait -Philadelphia Photographic Company - Happy [P.2022.50]
- Title
- [Emma Louisa Gutekunst as the "Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe"]
- Description
- Full-length portrait of Emma Louisa Gutekunst depicted as the Mother Goose character, the old woman who lived in a shoe. She wears her hair in bangs and is attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white collar and cuffs. She stands inside an oversized shoe and holds a doll in her right hand. A variety of different sized dolls are all over the shoe and also on the floor, including two African American dolls., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the photographer at the address and depicted age of the sitter., Photographer's imprint on verso: F. Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia., Manuscript note written on verso: F. Gutekunst's daughter as the "Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe" (photo he gave me, together with childhood picture of Adelina Patti)., Gift of David Doret, 2017.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection – Photos [P.2017.120.140]
- Title
- Emancipation
- Description
- Reproduction of a George Gardner Fish allegorical painting celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) originally photographed by Boston photographer J. P. Soule. Depicts the white female figure Columbia holding out the Emancipation Proclamation and standing between a kneeling enslaved African American man and woman (attired in a head wrap). The bare-chested man holds up the pole of an American flag, while the woman drapes the flag around her naked body. Columbia, attired in a tiara and drapey gown, also holds a bunch of sprigs of laurel, as well as stands on a whip. A partial view of a wagon wheel is visible in the left background., Title from item., Artist and photographer from copy in the collections of the Library of Congress. LC copy "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by John Sowle [sic], in clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.", George Gardner Fish was a Nantucket portrait painter who specialized in pastels. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design between 1858 and 1863., John P. Soule was a Boston photographer who also published stereographs and cartes de visite. He served in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts at the end of the Civil War., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [P.2014.22]
- Title
- [Copy photograph of African American woman caregiver with her young white charges]
- Description
- Copy photograph of a circa 1860 three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman caregiver, seated, and with a white baby on her lap and a young white boy standing to her left. The caregiver has her right hand resting on the head of the baby and her left arm wrapped around his/her waist. The baby wears a medium-colored dress, which their nanny's hand has slightly tugged up. The baby has their left hand in their mouth. The nanny wears her long, wavy dark hair, parted in the center, and pulled away from her face. She is attired in a patterned shirt waist and dark satin skirt with crinoline underneath. The boy to her left wears a dark-colored, mandarin-style jacket and dark pants. All the sitters look straight at the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on type of mount and address of photographer., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount and verso. Imprint on verso includes decorative insignia composed of an ornamented letter "G" with a coat of arms in its interior. The coat of arms includes a lion and bird., Inscribed in pencil on verso: 100801., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photo - Gutekunst [P.2016.17.2]
- Title
- "A guard of colored soldiers"
- Description
- Full-length group portrait depicting three African American Union soldiers, attired in uniform, standing with bayoneted Springfield rifle muskets and non-commissioned officer swords in hand. The soldiers include a sergeant (center left) who wears a regular belt plate, three chevrons on his sleeve, a kepi with a tarred cover, and a non-commissioned officer baldrick on his sword. The African American private (center) wears an infantry bugle and brass insignia on top of his kepi. The private (right) wears an unadorned kepi. In the left, is a white man soldier, probably a junior officer, attired in a great coat and slouch hat and holding possibly an 1850 foot officer's sword. Possibly soldiers from Camp William Penn, the African American training camp near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Title from manuscript note on recto., Name of photographer/publisher attributed from copy of photograph available in Hindman February 27, 2024 auction. Copy included revenue stamp and was stamped on verso: O.H. Willard's New Galleries, 1203 Chestnut St. No. [4485] Phl. Copy of listing included in Willard research file at repository., Date inferred from revenue stamp on verso of copy at Hindman auction, February 2024., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2024 with information from 2024 Hindman auction listing., Access points revised 2024., 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.
- Creator
- Willard, Oliver H., -1875
- Date
- [ca. 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits- group - Military [5779.F.3d]
- Title
- Learning is wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, slaves from New Orleans
- Description
- Abolitionist group portrait of propagandized people emancipated enslavement in New Orleans by General Benjamin Butler. Fair-skinned children Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, Rosina Downs, and dark-skinned adult Wilson Chinn, his forehead branded with the initials of his former enslaver, all hold books and read together. The emancipated people were touring the North to raise funds for the Louisiana schools for formerly enslaved people established by Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen, Phillip Bacon., Title from item., Date from copyright information. Copyright by S. Tackaberry., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: N.B.- All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent,[National Freedmen's Relief Association], No. 1 Mercer Street, New York., Stamped on verso: No. 6., Stamped on verso: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of the Colored People in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen'l Banks., See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864)., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 19855), p. 187-210., Purchase 2001., 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.
- Creator
- Paxson, Chas. (Charles), -1880, photographer
- Date
- 1864
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits-group-Emancipated Enslaved Children [P.9879]
- Title
- [Benjamin F. Butler]
- Description
- Reproduction of a bust-length portrait print of the Massachusetts Governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in uniform, sits facing slightly left. As commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, he declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on depicted age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits- sitter - Butler [P.2282.107]
- Title
- Fannie Lawrence
- Description
- Full-length portrait of the acclaimed girl emancipated from enslavement. Freed in Virginia by military nurse Catherine S. Lawrence, Fannie was publicized as the "redeemed slave child" baptized by Henry Ward Beecher at age five at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn in May 1863. Depicts Lawrence, dressed in a fancy hat and cape, leaning against a balustrade., Probably by Boston photographer James Wallace Black., Title from manuscript note on verso., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September, 1985), p. 187-210., Purchase 1987., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Lawrence [P.9194]
- Title
- Brady's Album Gallery
- Description
- Incomplete series of the "Brady Album Gallery" of Civil War views first published in 1862 by New York publishers, E. & H.T. Anthony. Contains camp scenes, views of historic residences and military fortifications, and group portraits predominately photographed by unattributed Brady technicians, James F. Gibson and George N. Barnard. Gibson and Barnard hold copyright to twenty-six of the series. Contains series No. 1, 100, 100 (variant), 289, 302 - photographed by Barnard; No. 355, 360-361, 363-372, 377-380, 382-384, 388 - photographed by Gibson; No. 423-424, 427 - copyrighted and probably photographed by Brady., Views include: the incomplete Capitol in Washington, D.C.; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula including Union artillery batteries near Yorktown and Union headquarters of Generals McClellan, Scott, and Lafayette; and the inflation and ascent of the Union reconnaissance air balloon, "Intrepid." Group portraits depict African American Civil War freedom seekers, Union officers, and Union soldiers., Copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson and Mathew Brady., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister and Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the series., Names of the photographers supplied by "Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war from the gallery of Alexander Gardner (Washington: H. Polkinhorn, 1863)." (Transcription in LCP research file)., Gift of Jesse G. Haydock, 1981., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Forms part of Small Civil War Photograph Collection., 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.
- Date
- 1862
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department small Civil War photo collection - Brady cdv's [P.9877.1-29]
- Title
- Rebecca A slave girl from New Orleans
- Description
- Full-length, abolitionist portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned child emancipated from enslavement, Rebecca Huger. Depicts Huger, attired in a long-sleeved dress with decorative stripes, standing between scenery props of a stone window adorned with ivy and a full-length mirror, which reflects her profile. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the child toured through the North with other people emancipated from enslavement to raise funds for the schools of Louisiana for the formerly enslaved established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen. Huger, daughter of her enslaver, was one of three touring children denied entrance to a Philadelphia hotel in December 1863., Title from item., Attributed to Charles Paxson., Date from copyright information and content. Copyrighted by S. Tackaberry., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: N.B. - All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent, [National Freedman's Relief Association], Box 809, P.O. Boston, Mass., Stamped on verso: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored people in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Major General Banks., Contains cancelled 2 cents revenue stamp on verso., See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864)., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210., Purchase 2001., 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.
- Creator
- Paxson, Chas. (Charles), -1880, photographer
- Date
- 1864
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - Huger (sitter) [P.9971]
- Title
- A Virginia slave child in 1863
- Description
- Three-quarter length portrait of five-year old child emancipated from enslavement, Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, with her adoptive mother Catherine S. Lawrence. Freed in Virginia by Lawrence, a military nurse, Fannie was publicized as the "redeemed slave child" baptized by Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn in May 1863. Depicts the fair-skinned Fannie, attired in a straw hat, a cape, and a dress, standing and holding the gloved hand of the seated Catherine Lawrence, attired in a bonnet with a black lace veil and a bow under her chin, a dark-colored dress, and a cape., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by T.C. Fanning, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Plymouth Church., Copyrighted by T.C. Fanning. Possibly New York publisher, Thomas C. Fanning., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children" History of photography 9 (July-September, 1985), p. 187-210., Purchase 2002., 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.
- Creator
- Van Dorn, photographer
- Date
- 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Lawrence [P.9995]
- Title
- Diorama - Washington at Yorktown
- Description
- View of the diorama with mannequin figures and a painted backdrop exhibited during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 recreating a scene from the Battle at Yorktown in October 1781. Shows troops marching and parading before officers, including Washington, on horseback. An African American man stands beside a horse, who is possibly a portrayal of Washington's enslaved valet William Lee. The diorama by Colonel F. Lienard was displayed within a skating rink at Twenty-Third and Chestnut Streets. Figures of Generals Lafayette and Rochambeau were also portrayed., Title from item., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., See "Washington at Yorktown," Philadelphia inquirer, December 13, 1875., See related print [Philadelphia roller skating rink, Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia] (trade card - Philadelphia [P.9839])., Purchase 2001.
- Creator
- Centennial Photographic Co.
- Date
- Centennial Photographic Company
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Company [P.9982.2]
- Title
- Rebecca A slave girl from New Orleans
- Description
- Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned child emancipated from enslavement, Rebecca Huger. Depicts a bust-length portrait of Huger attired in a crocheted jacket and bonnet. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the child toured through the North with other people emancipated from enslavement to raise funds for the schools of Louisiana for the formerly enslaved established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen. Huger, daughter of her enslaver, was one of three touring children denied entrance to a Philadelphia hotel in December 1863., Title from item., Date from copyright information and content., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: N.B. - All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent, [National Freedman's Relief Association], Box 809, P.O. Boston, Mass., Printed on verso: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored people in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Major General Banks., See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864)., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210., Created postfreeze., Purchase 2005., 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.
- Creator
- Paxson, Chas. (Charles), -1880, photographer
- Date
- 1864
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Huger [P.2005.22.1]
- Title
- Cartes de visite reproductions of Civil War era sketches by H.C. Bispham
- Description
- Collection of fifteen cartes de visite of sentimental, satiric, and racist Civil War era scenes, predominately depicting white men soldiers, by Philadelphia artist Henry Collins Bispham. Includes scenes of soldiers flushing out a sharpshooter, engaged in battle, wielding a knife, being thwarted from stealing a chicken and honey, dozing on watch, and confronted on horseback by a growling dog, as well as contrasting views of a Union and Confederate amputee soldier returning home. Racist caricatures show an ape walking with a cane, Lincoln spoon feeding a white man soldier the "Black Draft," and a downtrodden Southern white woman on the defense with an enslaved African American man on crutches and an African American boy. Other images show Abraham Lincoln as a dog confronting opossum Jefferson Davis on a tree and an itinerant white man musician with a monkey and dog. One scene includes a zouave., Two of the images signed by artist., Thirteen of the images attributed to Bispham., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - Bispham [5780.F.51 a, d, & h; 52a, l, p & q, u & v; 53 a,c, l&m, o&p]
- Title
- Charley A slave boy from New Orleans
- Description
- Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned child emancipated from enslavement, Charles Taylor. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the child toured through the North with other people emancipated from enslavement to raise funds for schools of Louisiana for the formerly enslaved established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen. Taylor, son of his enslaver, was one of three touring children denied entrance to a Philadelphia hotel in December 1863., Probably by Philadelphia photographer James E. McClees., Title from item., Date inferred from content., In McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Portraits. (LCP Print Room (1)Uy 5 5775.F.15). McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864)., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War Portrait Scrapbook album [(1)Uy 5 5775.F.15]
- Title
- "Nick Biddle" Of Pottsville, Pa., the first man wounded in the Great American Rebellion, "Baltimore, April 18, 1861."
- Description
- Half-length portrait of the older African American volunteer Union soldier, attired in uniform. Biddle, a freedom seeker, sustained his wound - a gash to the head - as his troop, the Washington Artillerists, en route to defend the Capitol, was violently harassed by secessionists., Title from item., Forms part of: McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Portraits. [(1)5775.F]. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [ca. 1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - McAllister Civil War scrapbook of portraits [(1)5775.F.8]
- Title
- Marriage certificate. This certifies that [Washington C. Young/of Philadelphia/state of Pennsylvania] [Amanda L. West/of Goshen/state of New Jersey] were by me united in marriage according to the ordinance of God and the laws of the state of [Pennsylvania] at [Philadelphia] on the 24 day of [May] 188[3]. [Philip L. Sanborn?]/ [Sarah A. Ross]/ [Rev. W.H. Ross officiating minster]
- Description
- Marriage certificate with gold touches and containing the bust-length, carte-de-visite studio portrait photographs of Washington C. Young and Amanda L. West, who are African American, surrounded by text, pictorial details, and an ornate border. Young's portrait depicts the young man, looking to the left, and attired in a jacket with a notch lapel, a dark-colored tie, and white, straight shirt collar. He also has a mustache and wears his hair short and with a side part. West's portrait depicts the young woman, looking to the right, and attired in a garment with small puffs at the shoulder and a high-collar neckline adorned with a fabric flower. She wears her wavy hair pulled back, parted in the middle and with side bangs. She also wears earrings. Between the portraits are ornaments with text reading, "It Is Not Good That Man Should Be Alone, Gen 2.18" and "I Will Make Him An Help Meet For Him Gen 2.18." The certificate also contains pictorial details of flowers and vinery, a bell, doves, and a banner. The border is composed of scrollwork, floral shapes, and cornice ornaments. At the time of their marriage, Washington C. Young was a clerk. He would continue in this profession throughout his life. Amanda (West) Young worked as a dressmaker by 1910 and was later listed as a housekeeper in census records. The couple had four children, including a daughter who worked as a dressmaker., Title from item., Date of printing inferred from printed and manuscript date., Completed in manuscript to Washington C. Young and Amanda L. West on May 24, 1883. Signed Philip L. [Sanborn?], Sarah A. Ross, and Rev. W.H. Ross, Officiating Minister., RVCDC
- Date
- [completed 1883, printed ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Certificates - Marriage [P.2023.59]
- Title
- Dickerson Family miscellaneous photograph collection
- Description
- Collection of studio portraits of the multiracial descendants of the Philadelphia middle-class African American family, the Dickersons. Contains portraits of six women and girls, two boys, and a baby. Identified sitters are predominately children, including Catherine and Thomas Brown (P.9427.23), Emma R. Newlin (P.9427.17), and Wilson Newlin (P.9427.19). Also identified is Anna M. Newlin (P.9427.18)., Title supplied by cataloger., Dates inferred from presented age and attire of sitters., Accessioned 1993., Description revised 2024., Access points revised 2021., Housed in phase box with albums., 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., Various Philadelphia and Baltimore photographers, including Philadelphia photographers William Curtis Taylor, Frank W. Street, and O.M. Olsen Studio.
- Date
- [ca. 1885 -ca. 1910]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.17-24]