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Title: Mrs. Kemper
Description: Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Elizabeth Marius Kemper. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Kemper attired in a ruffled bonnet, earrings, necklace, and a fichu shawl over her dress. She was married to Daniel Kemper (1749-1847,) who served as a Colonel during the American Revolution and later was the customs receiver for the port of New York., Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs. Daniel Kemper., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.36]

Title: [Christina Livingston Macomb]
Description: Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Christina Livingston Macomb. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Macomb wearing her curly hair up with a headband and attired in a dress with a ruffled collar. Christina Livingston Macomb was the daughter of Philip P. and Sarah Johnson Livingston of New York. She married merchant John Navarre Maccomb (1774-1810) in 1797., Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs. John Navane Maccomb [sic]., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.37]

Title: [Miss Rogers]
Description: Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin possibly of Sarah Elizabeth Rogers. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Rogers wearing her curly hair up with a headband and attired in a dress with a ruffled collar. Portrait identified by descendants as Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of New York merchant Moses Rogers and Sarah Woolsey Rogers. Sarah Elizabeth Rogers would have been twenty years old, and the sitter appears older. Inscription also reads, Mrs. Rodgers, which is crossed out. [See Elaine Mile. Saint-Memin and the neoclassical profile portrait. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p.382-383.], Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs.[crossed out] Rodgers. Miss Rogers., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.38]

Title: [Edward William Laight]
Description: Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Edward William Laight. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Laight wearing his hair tied back in a bow and attired in a neckerchief and jacket. Edward William Laight graduated from Columbia University and studied law in the office of Aaron Burr. He served as a Major General in the New York militia and was president of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company., Title supplied by cataloger based on entry in Mile. St. Memin. (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1994)., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.39]

Title: [Full-length studio portrait of an unidentified African American clergyman]
Description: Full-length portrait of an African American clergyman, standing, looking slightly right. He wears slicked back hair and a mustache. He is attired in a clergyman's robe and laced shoes. He holds a small book, possibly a Bible, up to his side with his right hand. He stands next to an armless chair with padded seat and draped in a patterned afghan. Potrait also includes a backdrop depicting a palatial window setting., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of photographer at addressed listed in imprint., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., William C. Withers operated from 814 Chestnut Street 1896-1900.
Creator: Withers, William C., photographer
Date: [ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Withers [P.2024.68]

Title: The Dancing Chinaman. An amusing cut-out
Description: Racist caricature of a Chinese man printed as a paper toy marionette. Depicts the man wearing a queue hairstyle, attired in a green tunic with yellow trim, red pants with green trim, yellow socks, and black cloth slip-on shoes, and with long fingernails. He smiles broadly and holds two fingers up on each hand. Printed in segments of head, torso, and separate arms and legs with instructions on how to cut the pieces out and attach them with strings to sticks to make a puppet. In the right, shows a diagram with the constructed toy and two white hands holding the sticks to make him dance., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1909, by the North American Company., Published in the September 12, 1909 Sunday supplement of the North American newspaper., Text printed on recto: Directions: Paste this sheet upon a sheet of heavy cardboard: let it dry thoroughly, and cut out pieces around heavy black lines. Join parts together by knotting a piece of string on either side, as in diagram. (A to A, B to B, C to C, D to D and E to E.) Then take two sticks about eight inches long (two pencils will do), cut two pieces of black thread about twenty-four inches long: fasten them at either side of figure’s head (1 and 2) and at each end of one stick, as in diagram. Cut two pieces of black thread about six inches long, make them fast at bottom of arm and knee (Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6), as in diagram. Cut then at either end of other stick, as in diagram. Hold stick No. 1 in left hand and No. 2 in right hand, let feet of figure touch floor and tilt stick No. 2 up and down in a seesaw manner. With a little practice you will be able to work your marionette in first-class order., RVCDC, Larry Semon (1889-1928) worked as a cartoonist for Philadelphia and New York newspapers before becoming an actor, director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era.
Creator: Semon, Larry, 1889-1928
Date: 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC- Paper toys - Dancing [P.2024.71.1

Title: A Japanese family. A pretty and interesting cut-out
Description: Print depicting a Japanese man, boy, and two women, which could be cut out and made into a paper toy. In the left, shows a Japanese woman attired in a red kimono with green trim tied with a black and yellow obi and wearing her hair up and adorned with a kanzashi hair ornament. She looks left with her left hand at her waist and holds a fan in her right hand. In the right at her feet are white flowers. The Japanese man wears a chonmage hairstyle, which is shaved in the front with a top knot, and is attired in a blue, green, and white kimono and slip on shoes, and has a sword in a scabbard at his waist. He stands with his face in right profile. In the top right, the boy, attired in a white and red kimono and socks, sits on the ground beside a white flower. In the bottom right, a Japanese woman, attired in a blue kimono with gray trim tied with a black obi and wearing her hair up and adorned with a kanzashi hair ornament, sits on the floor with her left hand resting on her leg and her right hand up. She is surrounded by two vases, a black stand with a teapot on top, and a decorative screen depicting a bird. In the top center, shows a diagram depicting how the figures could be cut out and flaps used to stand them upright., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1910, by the North American Company., Published in the March 6, 1910 Sunday supplement of the North American newspaper., Text printed on recto: Directions: Paste this sheet upon a sheet of heavy cardboard: let it dry thoroughly, and cut out pieces around heavy black lines. To make figures stand, bend the flabs backward at the dotted lines, A, B, C, D, E, F, as in the diagram. When ready, stand the figures up and arrange to suit yourself., RVCDC, Larry Semon (1889-1928) worked as a cartoonist for Philadelphia and New York newspapers before becoming an actor, director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era.
Creator: Semon, Larry, 1889-1928
Date: 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC- Paper toys - Japanese [P.2024.71.2]

Title: The Walnut Street Theatre, 119th and 120th season
Description: Program for performance of The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, the opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia in January, 1928. Includes a list of the cast of the two act opera; history of the Mikado; article on the upcoming performance of the musical Chicago; and an article on Winthrop Ames. Cover image shows a decorative stone structure with sphinx, satyr, women, and urns against a red background. Advertisements include: Chinese restaurants, King Joy, Mandarin Cafe, Cathay Tea Garden; Mirador restaurant; Frigidaire; Bonschur & Holmes, opticians; Locust Laundry; Joseph Rieder, money lender; and Stetson Hats., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of the stage production., Cast of performers include: John Barclay, William Williams, Fred Wright, William C. Gordon, J. Humbird Duffey, Lois Bennett, S. Russell Sterling, Bettina Hall, Vera Ross, George C. Lehrian, Paula Langlen. Settings & costumes: Raymond Sovey. Dances: Michio Ito. Stage Manager: John Clements. Winthrop Ames: Managerial sponsor of the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company., Advertisements for Philadelphia Chinese restaurants include: King Joy “Leading Chinese-American Restaurant, S.E. Corner 12th and Chestnut Streets. Art Coogan and His Orchestra, Broadcasting Nightly Thru W.I.P. The city’s most delightful Restaurant to dine and dance” and depicting a Chinese woman, attired in a tunic and pants, holding a parasol; Mandarin Café “1016-18 Chestnut St. Smartest Café in Town, Announcing Ruth Bott and Her Studio Girl Orchestra, First Girl’s Most Unique Orchestra in Philadelphia, Dancing”; and Cathay Tea Garden “Chinese-American Restaurant, 1223 Chestnut Street, Billy Hays, Popular Song Writer and His Cathay Tea Garden Dance Orchestra, Dancing” and depicting a Chinese woman, wearing her hair up and attired in a tunic, pants, and slip on shoes, holding a fan in each hand.
Date: 1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera -- Misc. - Walnut [P.2024.37]

Title: [Olive Cemetery chapel, Girard Avenue between Merion and Belmont Avenues, Philadelphia.]
Description: View showing the chapel at the African American cemetery, Olive Cemetery. African American children sit in the doorway of the chapel, which stands behind a dilapidated stone and wrought iron gate. The cemetery, established in February 1849, was one of the city's largest African American administered business enterprises, which by the late 19th century had gone to ruination due to mismanagement. The Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons is visible in the background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 47 Street no. of Lancaster Ave., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.240], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson240.htm

Title: [Forrest Theatre prior to demolition for the construction of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets, Philadelphia ]
Description: View of the old Forrest Theatre on Broad Street at night shortly before being razed to be replaced by the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building. Spectators watch as laborers, mainly African American men, dismantle and remove building materials through a large hole in the side of the theatre. Signs for "Removal Sale" and "Drugs" are visible on the front of the building. Signage on the upper story window advertises "U.T.A United Tourist Agencies Travel Bureau." The Forrest Theatre, built in 1907, was Philadelphia's leading musical theater until its demolition in 1927., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Inscribed in negative: 1501, Gift of Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS), 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: 1927
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Jennings - Fidelity series [P.9264.1]

Title: The capture of an unprotected female, or the close up of the rebellion
Description: Cartoon satirizing the capture of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, , while wearing his wife’s overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Davis, attired in a bonnet and long-sleeved dress, is surrounded at gunpoint by jeering Union soldiers. Davis holds his hands in the air as one soldier pulls up his dress to reveal trousers and boots with spurs. Mrs. Davis, the lone female figure, begs the soldiers to leave her husband alone as they mockingly comment on his legs., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1865 by Currier & Ives in the clerk's office of the district court of the United States for the southern district of N.Y., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Cameron, John, artist
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1864-31W [P.8978]

Title: The capture of Jeff Davis His last official act "the adoption of a new rebel uniform." He attempts to "clear his skirts," but finds it "all up in Dixie"
Description: Cartoon 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 Union soldiers on horseback riding through marshes and chasing down Davis, who flees on foot. The president wields a dagger and wears a woman's dress and cape as well as a "Blockade Runner" boot. Nearby, Mrs. Davis scolds the soldiers "not to provoke the President." In the background, a horse packing a sack of "Confederate Gold" gallops away ( an allusion to Jefferson's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury)., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Printed above the title: "Don't provoke the President, or he may hurt some of you!", Name of artist supplied by Weitenkampf., Retrospective conversion record; original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Giles, J. L., lithographer
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-18W [6381.F]

Title: The last ditch of chivalry or, a president in petticoats
Description: Cartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Union soldiers chasing a fleeing Davis, who wears a bonnet and dress and carries a bag of gold (an allusion to Davis's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldiers wave pistols and swords and harrass Davis about his surrender, the bounty on his head, his ineffectual disguise, and his having reached his "last ditch." Davis responds that he thought that their government was "more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children." In the background, Davis's wife warns the soldiers "Look out you Yankees, if you make him mad he will hurt some of you.", Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1865 by Currier & Ives in the clerk's office of the district court of the United States for the southern district of N.Y., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-32W [6384.F]

Title: The last of the chevaliers. (End of the play.) Jeff. "I thought your government was more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children."
Description: Comic collecting card satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts a full-length view of Davis, attired in a shawl, a hoop skirt with a patch, and boots with spurs. A bonnet is tied around his neck, the edge of his skirt cage is visible, and he holds up a dagger in his right hand. A disembodied hand with a gun is pointed at him from the left., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by L. Prang & Co., in the Clerk’s Office, of the district court of Mass.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Civil War - Davis [P.2017.22.3]

Title: Jeff. Davis caught at last. Hoop skirts & Southern chivalry
Description: Cartoon 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 Jefferson Davis, attired in a bonnet, long-sleeved dress, and boots, holding a daggar as he is captured by Union soldiers. In the right, one soldier holds a rifle to Davis as another soldier crouches downs and lifts up his hoop skirt revealing his boots with spurs. In the left, two women speak to the soldiers that it is a "poor Grandma" and "poor mother" going to the "well for a bucket of water," and another soldier makes a joke about "Jack and Gill.", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto: The only true picture of the capture of Jeff. Davis, from the account furnished by Col. Prichard of the 4th Mich. Cavalry., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1865-22 [P.2275.30]

Title: [Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building construction, northeast corner of Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Part of a series of progress photographs commissioned by the builders Irwin & Leighton documenting the construction of Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building from March 1927 to beginning of 1928. Documents the clearing of the site, laying of the foundations, the erection of steel framing, the progress of exterior masonry work and the completed building. Also contains interior views of the framing between floors and details of the ornamental doorway., Negative numbers: 4-31, P.9479.6067 negative for photographic print P.9479.31.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: 1927-1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Jennings - Fidelity series [P.9264.4-31]

Title: [Forrest Theatre during demolition for the construction of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building, northeast corner of Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior views of Forrest Theatre before demolition and construction., Negative numbers: 1546 & 1547., Negative inscribed: Mar. 7, 1927. Fidelity Building. Irwin & Leighton, builders. Simon & Simon, architects., Photographs commissioned by Irwin & Leighton.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: March 7, 1927
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Jennings - Fidelity series [P.9264.2-3]

Title: [Sketchbook of Europe, Boston, and the Philadelphia area]
Description: Sketchbook containing pencil and ink drawings of ships, landscapes, sites in Paris, Boston, and the Philadelphia area, including exterior views of buildings and architectural features, and portraits. Sketches include: [Ships on the water]; Willow Tree, Chester Park 6/13/19; Hunting the Hun; Bridge Chester Park June 13, 1919; Musée de Cluny, Paris 7/17/20; 15th Cent. Well-Head from house near Amboise, Musée de Cluny 7/23/20; Top of Stair Tower, Musée de Cluny, Paris 8-10-20; [Exterior view of the wall with windows, probably Musée de Cluny]; Arc de Triomph Aug. 4, 1920; Musée de Cluny 7/4/20; South Side, Notre Dame, Paris, D.R.C.-Aug. 12-1920; Main Door of Deshong Art Gall., Chester, Pa.; Old Friend's Meeting House, Providence Road, Media, 1682, 11/14/20; Stable-Bartram's Gardens 5/21/21; Palmer's Mills, Crum Creek 11/21/20; Paul Taylor at Bartram's Gardens May 21, 1921; Doorway- Bartram's May 21, 1921; D.R.C. by Paul Taylor Bartram's - May 21-'21; [Portrait of a woman resting her head on her hand] 8/21/21; Park Street Church, Boston, Mass. - 8/25/'21; Hancock L.I. Building from Cloister of Trinity Church, Boston 9/1/'21; [exterior view of an unidentified building] 9/3/'21; Charles St. Church, Boston - Sept. 10-'21; Old House Newton Upper Falls, Mass. - 9/18/21; Hinge & Lock on Central Door Trinity Church - Boston, Boston Library Part 1; Elmus Americanus; Plan Pantheon., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from dates written on individual sketches., Cloth binding with "Sketches" embossed on the front cover and stamped "D.R. Cochran" on the back cover., Label pasted on endpaper: F. Weber & Co. Sketch Book. 9 x 6" - Each 30 cts., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Donald Robb Cochran (1897-1986) was born in Chester, Pa. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1921. From 1921 to 1923, he worked as a draftsman at the Boston firm of Frohman, Robb & Little. He then worked at the Philadelphia firm Mellor, Meigs & Howe until 1932. In 1933, he joined Sun Oil Co. as a staff architect.
Creator: Cochran, Donald Robb, 1897-1986
Date: 1919-1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – albums [P.2022.62.3.50]

Title: [Full-length portrait of a Japanese woman and an American Airman who have swapped clothes]
Description: Portrait photograph of a Japanese woman and an American Airman who have swapped clothes probably in Japan during the Allied occupation after World War Two. In the left, the American man, attired in a floral kimono with a patterned obi and black shoes, stands with his left arm around the Japanese woman's waist. In the right, the Japanese woman, attired in a garrison cap with pins, Air Force uniform of a collared, long-sleeved shirt and pants, belt, and geta shoes, smiles at the viewer. They stand in front of a building, and their reflections are visible in the windows. Chairs and a side table can be seen through the window in the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the people., See related: Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.11]., Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History and African American History funds.
Date: [ [ca. 1947]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.10]

Title: [Full-length portrait of a Japanese woman who wears an American Airman's uniform]
Description: Portrait photograph of a Japanese woman who is wearing the uniform of an American Airman probably in Japan during the Allied occupation after World War Two. Shows the Japanese woman, attired in a garrison cap with pins, Air Force uniform of a collared, long-sleeved shirt and pants, Air Force pin with wings, belt, and geta shoes, smiling at the viewer. She stands with her arms at her side in front of a building. The back of a chair can be seen through the window in the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the people., See related: Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.10]., Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History and African American History funds.
Date: [ [ca. 1947]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.11]

Title: [Caricature of the capture of Jefferson Davis May 10, 1865]
Description: Photographic reproduction of a 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 and an African American servant, portrayed in racist caricature with grotesque 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 cataloger., Date 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., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Jefferson Davis and Confederate material. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, 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., See related carte de visite: cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - [P.2016.63].
Creator: Hacker, Francis
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Hacker [5795.F.15a]

Title: A distinguished arrival Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
Description: Cartoon satirizing the imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Va. of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Shows an African American soldier escorting Davis to a cell door at the "Hotel De Monroe." In front of the door a noose hangs. Davis, attired in a bonnet, shawl, and overcoat, holds a money bag labeled "JD. CSA" (an allusion to Davis's confiscation of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldier holds a bayonet to which a skirt hoop is attached and speaks in the vernacular "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room..." In the background, a smiling sun, an African American soldier, and a ship sailing the bay are visible. Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe between 1865 and 1867., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Ent'd according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J. Chapman in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York., Purchase 2004., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2004.6.2]

Title: A distinguished arrival Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
Description: Cartoon satirizing the imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Va. of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Shows an African American soldier escorting Davis to a cell door at the "Hotel De Monroe." In front of the door a noose hangs. Davis, attired in a bonnet, shawl, and overcoat, holds a money bag labeled "JD. CSA" (an allusion to Davis's confiscation of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldier holds a bayonet to which a skirt hoop is attached and speaks in the vernacular "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room..." In the background, a smiling sun, an African American soldier, and a ship sailing the bay are visible. Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe between 1865 and 1867., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Ent'd according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J. Chapman in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York., Purchase 2004., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2004.6.2]

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: [ Montage of caricatures satirizing Southern Democrats]
Description: Includes six captioned vignettes critically satirizing Southern democrats, copperheads, Jefferson Davis, and Andrew Johnson. Shows Democrats represented as an overseer forcing "Black Republicans" depicted as fleeing enslaved African American men, women, and children to vote their "Ticket in the South"; white men soldiers loading a cannon representing "General Grant giving the Rebel Copperhead Democrats some more grape"; Jefferson Davis fleeing in his "wife's petticoats"; "Johnson on a "Bender," after the Impeachment Trials; a skull and cross bones to symbolize that "Copperheads and Rebel Democrats are Poison"; and Johnson attired in torn and worn clothes and carrying a sack on his back as he is "Travelling for Tennessee." Several of caricatures also used as Civil War envelope designs., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, 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. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons [ca. 1868] - Mon [(2)5786.F.176a]

Title: John Brown exhibiting his hangman
Description: Cartoon depicting the imaginary execution of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis with the ghost of John Brown as his executioner. Jefferson, holding a sour apple and attired in a women's dress and bonnet, swings imprisoned in a birdcage which hangs from a gallows. To the left of the cage Brown rises from a hole in the earth and points accusingly at Davis. In actuality Davis had no direct involvement with Brown's execution. Beneath the cage, African American men and women minstrel figures, portrayed in racist caricature, rejoice, dance, clap, and thumb their noses at Davis., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in 1865 by G. Querner in the Clerk's Office of the Sup. Court D.C., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook related to Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. 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: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoon - 1865-16R [5795.F.b]

Title: Japanese bronze stork
Description: View showing a bronze sculpture of a stork on display at the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows the large stork with its beak facing upwards. It stands in front of a painted backdrop of trees with a stone pillar in the right. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.528]

Title: Japanese bazaar
Description: View showing the Japanese bazaar, built by Japanese craftsmen with Japanese material and which sold Japanese goods, at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows the Japanese-style building with a tiled roof. Various sized vases are displayed in the windows. Surrounding the building is a Japanese garden. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.327]

Title: Fragment & decoration for Camden Library. Cooper Library
Description: Pencil sketch for the frieze, "America Receiving the Gifts of the Nations," that decorates the front entrance to the Cooper Library Branch, Camden, New Jersey and depicting a profile portrait of Dante and a fragment of the frieze showing Dante, Walt Whitman, and Molière and people from Europe and Asia giving gifts to America. In the top, shows a bust-length portrait of Dante in right profile. He is attired in a cap with a laurel wreath. In the bottom, shows a partial sketch of the frieze. In the left, poets Dante, Whitman, and Molière stand together. In the center, shows Joannes Gutenberg and William Tyndale giving gifts (ie. the printing press and translated Bible) from Europe to America. In the right, shows people attired in national dress representing Babylonia, Persia, and Japan, who bring gifts of the principles of construction, textiles, and ceramics. The Japanese woman, wearing her hair tied up and attired in a kimono, carries a pot or vase., Title and date from manuscript written on recto., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2025., Nicola D'Ascenzo (1871-1954) was an Italian-born, Philadelphia arist who worked as a stained glass designer, painter, and instructor. He took classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later attended and then taught at the Pennsylvania Museum School. Between 1904 and 1954, his studio, D'Ascenzo Studios, completed more than 7,800 stained glass windows.
Creator: D'Ascenzo, Nicola, 1871-1954, artist
Date: 1917
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2025.75.3]

Title: [Group portrait of two nurses with two African American and an Asian baby at an unidentified hospital]
Description: Group portrait photograph depicting two nurses standing with two African American and an Asian baby at an unidentified Philadelphia hospital. Shows two women nurses, attired in white caps and white nurses' uniforms, standing and flanking a crib. In the crib are three babies, attired in footed-onesies, facing the viewer with their legs hanging through the bars. In the left, the African American child holds the bar of the crib with both hands. In the center, the Asian child holds a doll in their right hand and grabs the bar with their left hand. In the right, the African American child smiles and holds the bar in their left hand. More cribs are visible in the right. Christmas wreaths hang on three windows in the back of the room, and an image of Santa Claus hangs on the wall., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the photographer., Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Creator: Hennigar Studio, photographer
Date: [ [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs – occupations - nurses [P.2025.70]

Title: Chinese section, main building
Description: View depicting ornately carved Chinese furniture displayed in the Chinese section within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. A wooden frame with carved fruits and flowers surrounds the display. In the center, shows a bedstead with carved figures of two men on each corner, lions at the top corners, and decorative leaves set atop a platform. In the right on a platform is a table with claw feet and legs with carved dragons and a pagoda. On top of the table is a glass display case containing carved figures. Behind the table is a wardrobe with carved flowers and leaves. In the center behind the bedstead is a desk with two chairs and a large credenza on top of which are pagodas and a cabinet with doors. In the left is a screen and side table. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., See related: Photo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.8700.4].
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.8700.3]

Title: Chinese section, main building
Description: View depicting ornately carved Chinese furniture displayed in the Chinese section within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. A wooden frame with carved fruits and flowers surrounds the display. In the center, shows a bedstead with carved figures of two men on each corner, lions at the top corners, and decorative leaves set atop a platform. In the right on a platform is a table with claw feet and legs with carved dragons and a pagoda. On top of the table is a glass display case containing carved figures. Behind the table is a wardrobe with carved flowers and leaves. In the center behind the bedstead is a desk with two chairs and a large credenza on top of which are pagodas and a cabinet with doors. In the left is a screen and side table. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., See related: Photo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.8700.3].
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.8700.4]

Title: Chinese comm's office, Main B
Description: View showing screens, sculpture, urns, bowls, and vases on display at the Chinese section within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The top of the display reads, "China" surrounded by carved decorative leaves. Below are four different screen panels depicting scenes with Chinese men, women, and children surrounded by borders of carved leaves. In front of the images are a variety of Chinese objects on a multi-level platform and on wooden shelves, including sculpture of people and horses, bowls, urns, and vases. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.2011.47.527]

Title: Handy guide map through the grounds of the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of Philadelphia, Pa. 1776. 1926
Description: Map showing the exhibition grounds near Broad Street, Pattison Avenue, Packer Avenue, and Moyamensing Avenue in South Philadelphia. Shows the replica Liberty Bell, the lagoon, Edgewater Lake, ships in the Navy Yard, and buildings identified by number. Number 41 is the "Japanese Village"; number 61 is the "White exhibition building of India fashioned after famous Taj Mahal. Arts and crafts of India, profusely displayed"; and number 66 "Chinese village and amusements.", Copyright Applied For., Includes "Notice:" See Corresponding Numbers on Reverse Side for Information. This map is intended as an aid in locating the various buildings and exhibits, but cannot be expected to be absolutely correct in every minute detail., Includes price: 10 [cents]., Includes "Key to Reference Numbers Indicated Upon Map on Reverse Side" numbered 1-76 on verso., Includes advertisements for Howard Biddle Printing Company (314 Locust Street) and Lincoln Photo-Engraving Co. (44 North 4th Street) on verso.
Date: [1926]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps - Philadelphia - 1926 [P.2011.47.2091]

Title: Marriage certificate. We are one forever. This certifies that [Green Allen] and [Mary E. Foster] were united in holy matrimony by me according to the ordinance of God, laws of the state of [Mich] at [Decatur] on the [30] day of October. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [79] [Isaac Moss Minister of the Gospel. Witnesses [Sarah A. Foster] [David Moss]
Description: Marriage certificate containing the bust-length, carte-de-visite studio portrait photographs of Green T. Allen, Jr. and Mary E. Foster surrounded by text, pictorial details, and a geometrically-shaped border. Allen and Foster identified as multiracial in census records. Allen's portrait depicts the young man, looking to the right, and attired in a jacket with a notch lapel, a multi-colored tie, and white shirt with lapel collar. He also has a mustache and wears his hair short and greased flat. Foster's portrait (hand-colored) depicts the young woman, looking to the right, and attired in a garment with ruffle details at the shoulder and a neckerchief with fringe. She wears her long, wavy hair pulled back in the front and loose in the back. She also wears earrings. Between and around the portraits are pictorial details depicting flowers, grapes, vinery, doves (in nests), and scrollwork. Allen, son of Cass County, Michigan farmer Green Allen, Sr. was also a farmer, and a Justice of Township later in life. Allen, Jr. and Mary E. (Foster) Allen, daughter of a Decatur, Michigan farmer, had two children, son Charles F. Allen (1880-1971) and daughter Ethel May Allen Goens (1886-1942). Green T. Allen Jr.'s father was a founder of the prominent Black community of Southwest Michigan that settled in the area via the Underground Railroad., Title from item., Date of printing inferred from manuscript date., Completed in manuscript to Green Allen and Mary E. Foster on October 30, 1879. Signed Isaac Moss, Sarah A. Foster, and David Moss. Sarah A. Foster, later Cannon, was the sister of Mary E. Foster. Isaac Moss was a farmer and reverend. David Moss, son of Isaac Moss, was a farmer., Contains newspaper clipping from a ca. 1918 March edition of "The Cassopolis (Mich.) Vigilant" on verso. Clipping is backing for portrait photographs., RVCDC, W.P. Cooper was a teacher by the 1870s and had previously attended law school.
Creator: Cooper, W.P, 1822-1888, designer
Date: [completed 1879, printed ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Certificates - Marriage [P.2024.46.1]

Title: Salem Lutheran Church
Description: Exterior view of Lutheran church in unidentified location., Sheet number: 50B12., Real photo. Undivided back., Manuscript note in modern hand on verso: Philadelphia, Pa., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Previously misidentified as Philadelphia Lutheran church built in 1913 by John F. Davies after designs by S.W. Milnor, both of Frankford.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: A chart of the northern Pacific Ocean, containing the N.E. coast of Asia & N.W. coast of America, explored in 1778 & 1779 by Captain Cook, and further explored in 1788 & 1789, by John Meares
Description: Appears in: Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the north west coast of America / by John Meares. -- London : Printed at the Logographic Press, 1790. -- f.p. [i]., Map depicting ships' tracks with dates, soundings & notes; Gray's supposed circumnavigation of Vancouver Island; Hearne's exploration of Canada. Shows the northwest portion of North America, including the Western United States, Canada, and Alaska and northeast coast of Asia, including China, Japan, and Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, and partial view of India., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: Novr. 18, 1790
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps-Asia 1790 Log.1303.F.9

Title: Manju Ōsaka saiken zu
Description: Map showing Osaka, Japan oriented with north to the left. The map depicts detailed street grids, numerous waterways, including rivers and canals, with all annotations in Japanese.
Creator: Itamiya, Zembē
Date: [ Bunkyū 3 [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps- Asia 3507.Q.3

Title: [Staged scene, possibly an allusion to the Emancipation Proclamation, depicting a kneeling African American boy, white woman and girls representing figures of Liberty, and a white man dressed as a soldier]
Description: Scene shows, in the right, the back of the kneeling boy, his hands clasped and raised to his chin. He is attired in a long-sleeved garment, pants, and boots. The soldier, attired in a hardee hat and light-colored military jacket, stands beside the boy, looks down at home, and points his right hand in the direction of the woman figure of Liberty, in the left of the image, and seated on a makeshift throne. She wears a crown adorned with stars, a white dress cinched at the waist and adorned with the detail of a striped shield at the chest. She holds a scepter up and across her chest with her left hand. In front of her, and between her and the soldier are three girls of different ages from young to adolescent. The girls wear crowns adorned with a star and white dresses. They each hold a hand over their heart. Scene also includes a plain backdrop, ornamented floor, and possibly a partial view of an American flag in the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Dated inferred from content and active dates of Tunison & Son., Purchased with the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch African American History Fund., RVCDC, Tunison & Son was the partnership between David C. Tunison (ca. 1821-1887) and his son Oscar B. Tunison (1842-1925). The business operated under that name circa 1863-circa 1889. David C. Tunison had previously worked in a partnership with Fabius B. Faye 1855-1863. By 1872, Tunison & Son was advertised as one of the "institutions" of the city of Tiffin.
Creator: Tunison & Son, photographer
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Tunison & Son - Genre [P.2024.45]

Title: [Portrait of unidentified African American man in fashionable attire]
Description: aFull-length itinerant studio portrait of an African American man, holding a derby hat in one hand, and standing in front of a plain portable back drop. He rests is other hand on a posing stand partially visble behind him. He is attired in a jacket with a pocket handkerchief, shirt with cravat tie, vest with a watch fob in the pocket, straight-leg pants, and round-tipped shoes. In the left of the portrait is a plush ottoman with feet. In the right of the image is a portable plain canvas screen/backdrop attached to a frame., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Purhased with the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch African American History Fund., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department tintypes - unid sitter [P.2025.34.2]

Title: Japanese bronzes, main building
Description: View showing three bronzes in a glass case on display at the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows ornately decorated bronzes, probably koro (incense burners). In the center, the large bronze is decorated with trees, a figure of a person, dragons on the feet, and a bird with outstretched wings at the top. Flanking are two bronzes decorated with trees and figures, including a man holding an ax. Partial view of vases in the left and right of the case. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.8700.8]

Title: Rev. C.C. Dunlap, D.D. Pastor of A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pa
Description: Half-length portrait of the A.M.E. clergyman Coleman C. Dunlap, seated on a chair with an ornate back. Rev. Dunlap, looks forward, and is attired in a shirt with stiff collar, straight bow tie, and a jacket. He wears a mustache. Rev. Dunlap was a pastor for over forty years with pastorships in South Carolina, Bermuda, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, including at Mother Bethel in Philadelphia, Pa. Born in South Carolina in 1861, Rev. Dunlap entered Allen University (South Carolina) in 1881 and graduated in 1887. Following his graduation, he pastored appointments in the Columbia Conference, the New England Conference, and the Philadelphia Conference. He pastored at West Chester 1903-1908; at Harrisburg 1908-1912; and Philadelphia at Mother Bethel 1912-1916. He later served at Ward A.M.E. Church in West Philadelphia and Bethel Methodist Church in Reading, Pa. before his death in 1926. Rev. Dunlap was also a delegate to the General Conferences of 1896 and 1912., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of pastorship of sitter at A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pa., Reproduced in Centennial encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church ... (Philadelphia, 1916), 273. Accompanied by biographical entry. LCP copy: *Am 1916 Church 17748.Q (Schimmel)., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitter - Dunlap [P.2025.37]

Title: [Real photo postcard portrait showing two African American World War I soldiers posed with an American flag]
Description: Portrait taken at a European studio and depicting two American infantry men in their uniforms, seated at a small table with an ink well, and with the soldier in the left holding the staff of an America flag in his left hand. He looks toward the viewer and holds a pen with his right hand on a piece of paper. He wears a pinky ring on his right hand. Soldier, seated in right, looks toward the viewer, his legs are crossed and he and holds a book in his lap. Each man is attired in an infantry uniform comprised of a full-button front jacket with closed collar, breeches, leggings, and boots. The soldier in the left also wears a side cap and his jacket contains the insigia of seargent on the arm. Background includes drapery and backdrop depicting the promenade of a pavilion. Two African American combat divisions were formed and saw combat on the Western Front in Europe and included the 92nd Division, under U.S. command and the 93rd Division (comprised of four Infantry Regiments: the 369th, 370th, 371st and 372nd), initially under French command. The 369th Infantry Regiment became renown as the “Harlem Hellfighters” from their excellence in battle. Over two million Black men registered for the draft and nearly 370,000 saw service., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Divided back., Printed on verso: Carte Postale., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program.
Date: [ca. 1918]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Portraits - World [P.2026.2]

Title: [Vivian Glover]
Description: Real photo postcard depicting Vivian Glover, an African American girl, seated outdoors, and holding a white porcelain doll. Glover wears a dark-colored, button-down, V-neck sweater over a light-colored dress, dark tights, and side button boots. She holds the doll, attired in a white bonnet and dress, in a seated position, in her lap. Glover smiles slightly and crosses her legs at her feet. She sits on a wooden chair in a fenced backyard. Dried leaves lay on the ground near her., Title from inscriptions on recto and verso: Vivian Glover., Date inferred from content., Divided back., Azo stamp box printed on verso., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Portraits - Glover [P.2025.77.1]

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