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Title: [Henry Howard Houston, 1820-1895]
Description: Portrait of Houston as a young man. He has a full head of hair, and is wearing a wide black tie. Houston was a prominent Philadelphia businessman with interests in railroads, shipping and oil. His real estate dealings led to the development of the Chestnut Hill neighborhood in Philadelphia., Previously attributed to Robert Cornelius. See Rachel K. Wetzel, "The Robert Cornelius Project: Formulating Attributions Through a Collaborative Research Process," Daguerreian Annual 2019, fig. 21., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Brown felt. Manuscript note under pad: Augusta, Georgia February 1840. Henry Howard Houston., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso., Reproduced in Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography by William F. Stapp (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1983), plate 14. See also Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), fig. 53., Gift of Mrs. James Dallett, 1981.
Creator: Mifflin, J. Houston (John Houston), 1807-1888, photographer
Date: 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8896.1]

Title: Judge Bouvier
Description: Bouvier was a Philadelphia lawyer and judge, best known for his Law Dictionary., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Case: In square brass frame. Paper label on verso: Daguerreotype miniatures, by R. Cornelius, Eighth Street, above Chesnut, Philadelphia. Manuscript note on verso: Judge Bouvier., See also research file; LCP Annual Report for 1991, pgs. 51-52; Board Report, November 19, 1991; and Sarah Weatherwax, "Picturing the Law: Images of John Bouvier," The Daguerreian Society Quarterly 32 (January-March 2020), 5-7. See also P.9357.2 for another daguerreotype of John Bouvier.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: 1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9357.1]

Title: [Robert B. Davidson, 1808-1876.]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia broker and recording secretary of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society. Davidson, attired in a white collared shirt, a black cravat, a waistcoat, and a dark colored jacket, faces slightly right. The Pennsylvania Colonization Society promoted Black American emigration to resolve the problem of race inequality and to dissolve the institution of slavery., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on paper label on verso of plate., Mounted in square ornamented brass frame with yellow painted borders., Manuscript note in pencil on verso: "7-6-37 #25" and "Robt. B. Davidson, 1838.", Purchase 1988., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cornelius operated the first commercial daguerreotype portrait studio in the United States.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, daguerreotypist
Date: May 1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - photographer - Cornelius [P.9251]

Title: Grandma Toppan
Description: Portrait of elderly woman looking slightly to her right. She is wearing a white lace cap tied under her chin., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk - design obliterated., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. Cornelius, Philada., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9137.5]

Title: [Portrait of an unsmiling, unidentified woman with white cotton cap.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk - design obliterated., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. Cornelius, Philada., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso., Gift of Robert C. Langmuir, Jr.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9081]

Title: [Portrait of an unsmiling, unidentified woman with white cotton cap.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk - design obliterated., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. Cornelius, Philada., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso., Gift of Robert C. Langmuir, Jr.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9081]

Title: [Portrait of an unsmiling, unidentified woman with white cotton cap.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk - design obliterated., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. Cornelius, Philada., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso., Gift of Robert C. Langmuir, Jr.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9081]

Title: [Portrait of an unsmiling, unidentified woman with white cotton cap.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk - design obliterated., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. Cornelius, Philada., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso., Gift of Robert C. Langmuir, Jr.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9081]

Title: [Portrait of a frowning, unidentified man with his right arm is resting on a table.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk. The date 1841 is barely visible on the silk., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. Cornelius, Philada., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso., Loaned to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for an exhibition entitled Legacies of Light, May 26 - August 12, 1990.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9104]

Title: Chestnut Street at Strawberry St. about 18[43]
Description: Title from manuscript note pasted to lower edge of case., Pad: Dark green velvet., Mat: Lacking mat., Case: Leather. No design., Gift of John Archibald McAllister., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Resealed by CRH [Christine Hindle] 1/79.
Creator: Mason, William G.
Date: ca. 1843
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Mason [59542.D]

Title: North-east corner of Third & Dock Street. Girard Bank, at the time the latter was occupied by the military during the riots
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Small central circle surrounded by flowers and leaves within a larger circle. Circles surrounded by diamond shaped scroll pattern with additional scrolls at each corner. All within rectangular border. Photographer's blindstamp appears running vertically along the edge of the border nearest the clasps. No design on verso., Quarter of a Millennium #199., Gift of John A. McAllister., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 90., Arcadia caption text: This daguerreotype image is the earliest extant photograph of America’s oldest bank building. Constructed between 1795 and 1797 as the First Bank of the United States after designs by Samuel Blodget, Jr., the building still stands at 120 South Third Street. Photographers William and Frederick Langenheim captured this view of a crowd gathered in front of the bank, the temporary headquarters of the militia in the aftermath of anti-Catholic riots, on May 9, 1844, creating the earliest known Philadelphia “news” photograph.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim, photographer
Date: May 9, 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [59541.D]

Title: [Three quarter length, seated portrait of an unidentified man in formal clothes, wearing a top hat and holding a cane in his left hand.]
Description: A column and drapery visible in background., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red silk. No design. Manuscript note: 1844., Mat: Rectangular., Case: Leather. Horizontal design of a bouquet of mixed flowers in a vase on a short pedestal within an oval. No design on verso., Gift of Mr. E. Perot Walker, May 23, 1980.
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8514.7]

Title: [George Thompson, 1794-1876]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet with a small spray of flowers in the center and swirls all around. Note on pad reads George Thompson, brother of my grandfather, James B. Thompson - John T. Morris., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather. A bouquet of mixed flowers in a modified octagonal border, with scroll work all around. Same design on verso., See the article The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) pgs. 210-221 for information about the Roberts and Thompson Families. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.2]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified elderly man, looking slightly to his left.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Burgundy velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Large spray of mixed flowers and leaves. Butterflies at each corner. No design on verso., Originally part of the Powel Family Papers., Sitter might be Col. John Hare Powel (1786-1856).
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8421.F.1]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood in a dark dress, holding a daguerreotype portrait of a Richard D. Wood in her right hand.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. (Design is horizontal) A wavy spray of mixed flowers and leaves is in an oval. No design on verso., See P.8926.4 for the daguerreotype portrait of Richard D. Wood that Julianna holds in this image. See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.10]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified woman holding a baby.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Eagle at top, scroll work around. Embossed: Root, 140 Chestnut St., Philada., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. On front: One rose in center surrounded by leaves and other flowers within a nonpareil like border. On verso: A variation of the rose design within a fanciful nonpareil border.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.26]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, older woman, wearing a white cap, looking slightly to her right.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design with F scrolls in center and interlocking scrolls at top and bottom. No design on verso., Originally part of the Powel Family Papers.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8421.F.2]

Title: [Unidentified family]
Description: Family portrait of mother, father, son, and daughter. Pink color applied to cheeks and mother's dress collar., Pad: Red velvet. Spray of flowers in center, floral border. Embossed: W. & F. Langenheim Philada., Mat: Elliptical., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers, leaves, and grapes within an octagon leafy border. No design on verso., Case is broken at spine with large areas of leather lost, particularly on verso. Plate is badly tarnished.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.2]

Title: Grandmother Abigail D. Dreer
Description: Wife of Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Julius Dreer. Image depicts Dreer, hair parted severely in the middle, looking slightly to her right. She is wearing a long sleeved black taffeta dress. Her left arm is resting on a table. Hand colored vase of flowers sits on the table. Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Gold colored velvet. Spray of flowers in center, geometric border. Embossed: W. & F. Langenheim Philada., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers and leaves within an octagonal border. No design on verso. Label with manuscript note pasted on recto: Grandmother Abigail D. Dreer, See Research file for additional information about Abigail Dreer.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9416]

Title: [Madame Marie-Athenaide Le Febvre Buchey, 1800-1874, headmistress of Mrs. Buchey's French & English Seminary for Young Ladies, 260 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Portrait of Madame Buchey wearing a dark dress with a long, wide white collar. Her hair is parted tightly in the middle, with two curls coming forward over her ears. She is holding a fan in her left hand., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather, with a horizontal floral bouquet in an oval., Madame Buchey was Headmistress of the Seminary at No. 240 Spruce St. (now 626) from September 1833 to June 1853. Buchey, born in St. Domingue (i.e., Haiti), emigrated to Cuba circa 1803 following the uprisings of the enslaved people of the island. She settled with her mother in Philadelphia in 1809. See Research File - Buchey., Gift of Francis James Dallett, great-great grandson of Madam Buchey, 2003., LCP AR (Annual Report) 2003 p. 61-63., Filed under: Unid. photographer - Sitter - Buchey.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2003.11.2]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, bespectacled woman.]
Description: She wears a white lace cap tied under her chin, a white lace trimmed collar, and a paisley shawl., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. Embossed: W. & F. Langenheim Philadelphia Exchange, Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Small circle surrounded by flowers and leaves within a larger circle. Scrolls at each corner. No design on verso., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pg. 38.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9585.1]

Title: [Portrait of seated unidentified man.]
Description: Bust length portrait of middle-aged man facing left. He wears a high collared shirt, wide necktie, vest, and jacket. Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Design obscured., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. No visible design. Casemaker/photographer's imprint "M.P. Simons, Phila." on verso., Simons was listed as a case manufacturer in McElroy's Philadelphia directories from 1843 until 1847. By 1845 he was taking his own daguerreotypes and became one of Philadelphia's leading daguerreotypists.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9593]

Title: [Richard Davis Wood, 1799-1869]
Description: Portrait of Wood with his left arm is resting on a table., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. No design. Manuscript note pasted to spine: Richd. D. Wood 1844-5., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.4]

Title: [Portrait of two sisters, Martha and Mandana Ball, as young girls]
Description: Portrait of the two girls arms intertwined wearing identical checked dresses and each holding a book., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Very faded red velvet with a rose and several leaves., Mat: Elliptical., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers in a nonpareil like border. Same design on verso., Accompanied by manuscript note: Martha and Mandana sisters [of] Milo Ball.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.17]

Title: [Portrait of two unidentified young women.]
Description: Seated woman, with long curls, has her hands crossed over a book on her lap; the standing woman, with her hair, parted in the middle, severely pulled back, has a cross around her neck., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Octagonal. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: M. P. Simons, Philada., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. Spray of roses in a square border. The design of the case is called The Delicate Roses, variant and is plate 124 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Generally produced in large quantity, ca. 1845., See Board Report November 9, 1999.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9746]

Title: [John J. Thompson, 1815-1886.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet embossed W & F. Langenheim Philadelphia Exchange., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Within an ocatgonal border is a bouquet of mixed flowers. No design on verso., Manuscript note pasted to pad reads "John J. Thompson, my mother's brother and my dear uncle. - John T. Morris." Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 214. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.3]

Title: [Elsie Todd]
Description: Portrait of an elderly Todd in Quaker dress. She wears eye glasses and a high white bonnet., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Very dark faded purple velvet., Mat: Paper. Ornamented octagonal., Case: Leather. Within a double oval is one large open flower surrounded by scrolls. No design on verso. Manuscript note inside case reads: Elsie Todd ask Cousin Lydia., Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 212. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.8]

Title: [James Lea, Jr., 1759-1825]
Description: Reproduction of a painting showing a bust-length, hand-tinted portrait of rather somber James Lea, Jr. facing very slightly right. Wisps of his hair are on his forehead, Pad: Faded red silk. No design., Mat: Elliptical., Case: Leather with an overall geometric pattern of fancy scrolls, semi-circles and a small cross-hatched oval in the center. Same design on back., Handwritten note pinned on pad: James Lea Jr., Born 28 March 1759; Died 30 September 1825. Born in Wilmington; Died at Cincinnati, Ohio., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.13]

Title: Anna Caroline Jaudon, 1824-1912
Description: Anna Caroline Jaudon, age 20, is looking very slightly left. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled away from her face, Pad: Burgundy velvet, No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Very dark green leather with a central medallion of an eagle. Embossed on back: June, 1845., Anna Caroline Jaudon married Henry Charles Lea, May 27, 1850. Lock of Anna Caroline Jaudon's hair with note reading "A.C.J. June 10th 1845" is folded in case., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.4]

Title: Henry Charles Lea, 1825-1909
Description: Facing very slightly right is young, handsome Henry Charles Lea. His long hair, parted on the side, frames his face. Pale hand-colored pink on his cheeks., Pad: Burgundy velvet, No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. The design is three concentric circles. A cross is in the smallest circle., Included in the case is a lock of Henry Charles Lea's hair., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.10]

Title: [Ralston family cased photograph collection]
Description: Collection of daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits, several by Norristown daguerreotypist William Stroud, portraying clergyman and founder of Oakland Female Institute James Grier Ralston, his wife Mary Anderson Larimore Ralston, their daughters, and his and his wife’s female siblings, and women teachers at the Institute. Contains bust-, half-, three-quarter, and full-length portraits of individual and pairs of sitters. Sitters are often seated, but a number of the portrait depicts sitters in a standing pose. The women’s and girl’s attire includes bonnets; off-the-shoulder bateau neckline dresses; high-neck, long-sleeved dresses with lace collars and cuffs; brooch and belt chatelaines; and earrings. Dresses worn by the female sitters are often a solid dark color, but occasionally are of a pattern design or light color. James Grier Ralston’s attire included broad bow ties, vests, jackets, and suits. Many of the images also contain props, including covered side tables, chairs, flowers, possibly an ambrotype, and a crumpled piece of cloth., Sitters in addition to James Grier Ralston and Mary Anderson Larimore Ralston include their daughters Anna Larimore Ralston, Ella Grier Ralston, Lilly Grier Ralston (who died at 11 months old), and Cora (Cara) Ralston; Institute music teacher Mrs. John Hunsicker, i.e., Fannie Henry Hunsicker (married by James G. Ralston); Mary’s sister and Institute graduate, Hetty Clark Larimore; and Institute teacher and sister of James, Agnes Caldwell Ralston; Institute graduate Martha (Mattie) Divine (Mrs. Fleming); and an unidentified woman., Posed portrait pairs include images of Mary Anderson Larimore Ralston and daughter Anna Larimore Ralston (P.2012.5.6) in which Anna sits in Mary’s lap with her mother’s hand on her head; and Anna Larimore Ralston and Ella Grier Ralston (P.2012.5.8) which Anna stands next to Ella who sits on a chair, while she rests her arm on a covered side table adorned with a basket of flowers; Anna Larimore Ralston and Fanny Hunsicker (P.2012.5.16) in which Fanny, seated, has her one hand at her hip and her other hand and arm around the waist of Anna who stands; and Hetty Clark Larimore and Mary Larimore Ralston (p.2012.5.17) in which the women are seated, side by side, and Hetty holds a bound object, possibly an ambrotype and Mary holds a crumpled white cloth., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and age and attire of sitters., Photographers include William Stroud (Norristown, Pa.) and Theodore L. Chase (Philadelphia, Pa.)., Various-shaped mats, including oval, elliptical, double elliptical, and non pareil., Various colored pads, including blue, red, and maroon velvet or silk, several with embossing. Embossings include photographer’s imprints and/or imagery. Imagery includes floral and geometric designs, scroll work, and eagles., Primarily leather cases, and one thermoplastic case. Case designs vary, but are predominantly rose and mixed flower designs, in addition to geometric, scroll, and quatrefoil designs. Designs also include Pressed Flower, plate 154; The Delicate Roses, variant, plate 123; A Spray of Roses, plate 131; Mixed Garden Flowers, plate 133; Two Lilies, variant, see plate 112 and 113 in American miniature case art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969)., Majority of sitters identified by accompanying slips of paper with manuscript notes., Several of the images contain pink tinting on the cheeks of the sitters., P.2012.5.4, P.2012.5.8, P.2012.5.11-15, P.2012.5.21 contains daguerrean's imprint on pad or inside rim of case. Various imprints include: William Stroud, Norristown; William Stroud's Skylight Gallery, Norristown, Pa.; Stroud’s Ambrotypes Norristown, Pa., P.2012.5.6 contains dagurrean's imprint on pad: Theodore L. Chase, N.E. cor. Chestnut & Fifth Sts., Fannie Henry Hunsicker was a woman of Chinese descent. Official records are conflicting as to whether she was born in China, at sea, or in Connecticut., Several of the images contain weeping glass deterioration, tarnished plates, or other damage., Inventory of collection available at repository., See Sarah Weatherwax, "Revealing the Ralston Family," The Daguerreian Society Quarterly (July-September 2021), p. 3-6., Clergyman James Grier Ralston (1815-1880) founded Oakland Female Institute in 1845 in Norristown, Pa. Ralston studied at the Theological Seminary at Princeton and headed the Female Seminary at Oxford, Chester Country, PA before establishing Oakland. He married Mary A. Larimore (1822-1891) in 1842 and they had four children Anna L. (1848-1902), Ella M.(1847-1924), Lillie G. (1852-1853) and Cara G. (1856-1928), with Lillie dying in infancy. Ralston’s children were educated and/or taught at Oakland, as did his sister Agnes C. Ralston. The Institute operated until 1880 and the death of Ralston
Date: [ca. 1845-ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cased photos - Ralston Family [P.2012.5.1-22]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified man]
Description: Bust-length, forward facing portrait of a white man. Sitter has dark hair, parted to the left with long sideburns. He is attired in a white shirt with a high collar, a broad bowtie, and a jacket., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred from manuscript note enclosed in case: The property of Hannah W. Sterling, 1515 Arch St., Phila taken in 1845., Gift of David Doret., Pad: Red velvet embossed with photographer’s imprint “Root, 140 Chestnut St. Philada.” in the bottom edge of an ornamental frame composed of decorative scrolls. In the center, above photographer’s imprint, is a bouquet of flowers in a vase., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Bouquet of mixed flowers surrounded by an embossed border. Geometric design of interlocking circles with flower details in each corner and within a border of decorative scrolls on the verso., Marcus A. Root operated from 140 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia between 1845 and 1846.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2021.34.1]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of Frances W. Bruce]
Description: Three-quarter length, forward facing, seated portrait of Frances W. Bruce. Sitter has dark hair parted in the middle with ringlet curls at the sides of her face. She is attired in a dress made of a patterned fabric of decorative scrolls and with a white lace collar and cuffs. She wears two rings on her right hand. Sitter rests her right elbow on a tableclothed side table in the left. Her left hand rests on her lap and slightly clasps her right hand. Frances Wardale Bruce (1815-1892) was William Y. McAllister’s sister and spouse of physician George D. Bruce., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date and name of photographer from manuscript note on label attached to case: Frances Bruce, Feb. 1845., Pad: Red velvet., Mat: Octagon., Case: Leather. Bouquet of mixed flowers in a vase. No design on verso., William Y. McAllister was an optician and cane manufacturer in Philadelphia from 1845 to 1860.
Creator: McAllister, W. Y. (William Young), 1812-1896, photographer
Date: Feb. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cased photos – McAllister [P.2021.37]

Title: [Amos G. Dubree as a young man.]
Description: Portrait of a young, handsome Dubree looking slightly to his left. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Very faded red silk., Mat: Octagonal. Blue paper mat., Case: Leather. No design. Printed label with manuscript insertions (noted in brackets) on verso of plate: M[r. Amos G. Dubree]. Daguerreotyped [April 14] 184[6] by M.P. Simons, No. 120 Chestnut Street, below Fourth, south side, Philadelphia. Miniatures of all sizes, Family Groups, &c., taken in the most faithful manner. Oil Paintings and Pictures Of all kinds Copied and Colored in Imitation of the Original, upon the most reasonable terms. Addtional manuscript notes above and below label read Amos Dubree and John Dubree respectively., Dubree is listed in city directories in the late 1840s as a wood corder and later as a brushmaker. See Board Report, November 12, 1997. See also 1997 Acquisitions folder., LCP purchase.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: April 14, 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9560.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified woman wearing an ornate shawl over her dress.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. Photographer's imprint in central oval: M.A. Root 140 Chestnut St. Philada., Mat: Elliptical., Case: Leather. A small circle is within a larger circle. Scrolls at each corner and around the larger circle. No design on verso.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: ca. 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8468.26]

Title: [Portrait of seated unidentified couple.]
Description: She is wearing a striped dress and is sitting primly, hands folded across her lap. He is turned slightly to his left and is wearing eye glasses and a black waistcoat., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet with swirls., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. No visible design. Photographer's imprint "M. A. Simons, Phila." on verso., Photographer's imprint repeated on verso of plate: "Daguerreotyped June 1, 1846 by M.P. Simons, No. 120 Chestnut Street, Phila."
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: June 1, 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8656]

Title: [Pennsylvania militia man in full uniform.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet embossed Root's Gallery 140 Chestnut St. Philada., Mat: Ornamented octagonal., Case: Leather. A smalll circle is within a larger circle. Both are enclosed within an ornamented diamond. Octagonal border. No design on verso.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: ca. 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8293.F]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified man, left hand on his hip, right hand resting on a table beside his top hat.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet, embossed in center Root's Gallery, 140 Chestnut St. Philada., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. A smalll circle is within a larger circle. Scrolls at each corner and around the larger circle. No design on verso.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: ca. 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8468.27]

Title: Liny Borie, 2 years and 2 months old
Description: Sits on a big chair, with her left leg tucked under her. She has long curls. Hand colored pink on her cheeks, and hand colored yellow on her dress. Slightly burred from movement., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Small central circle surrounded by flowers and leaves within a larger circle. Circles surrounded by diamond shaped scroll pattern with additional scrolls at each corner. All within rectangular border.Photographer's blindstamp appears running vertically along the edge of the border nearest the clasps. No design on verso., Title from accompanying manuscript note., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pg. 38.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8648.28]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood, 1810-1885]
Description: Portrait of Wood wearing a white lace cap and a checked dress buttoned down the front. She is sitting, resting her right arm on a table. Very pale pink hand coloring on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red silk. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of two roses in a leafy border. The design of the case is called Delicate Roses, Variant and is plate 123 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Generally produced in large quantity, ca. 1844. Same design on verso. The Die-engraver was David Pretlove., See also P.8926.8 for a different pose. Richard Davis Wood (1799-1869), Julianna's husband, notes in his diary on May 1, 1846, "Took wife and daughters Mary and Caroline to Langenheim's, and had their daguerreotypes taken, succeeding very well.", See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [May 1, 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.7]

Title: [Portrait of two sisters, Caroline and Mary Wood.]
Description: Mary is standing with her arm around seated Caroline. Both girls are wearing the same patterned dress, but the dresses are hand colored different colors. Very pale hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Within a double oval is an open flower surrounded by scrolls. No design on verso., Richard Davis Wood (1799-1869), the girls' father notes in his diary on May 1, 1846, "Took wife and daughters Mary and Caroline to Langenheim's, and had their daguerreotypes taken, succeeding very well." Inside case is the poem "Watching for the Prodigal" clipped from a newspaper., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [May 1, 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.22]

Title: [Elizabeth Lea Jaudon (later Bakewell) as a young woman.]
Description: Seated portrait. She wears a dark dress with a lace collar, white gloves and a brooch at her throat., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red silk. No design. In ink: Sept. 1846., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Geometric design with intertwined rectangles. No design on verso., See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: September 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.2]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood, 1810-1885]
Description: Portrait of Wood wearing a white lace cap and a checked dress buttoned down the front, is in a prim pose, with her hands clasped at her waist. The image is off center. Very pale pink hand coloring on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red silk. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of two roses in a leafy border. The design of the case is called Delicate Roses, Variant and is plate 123 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Generally produced in large quantity, ca. 1844. Same design on verso. The die-engraver was David Pretlove., See also P.8926.7 for a different pose. Richard Davis Wood (1799-1869), Julianna's husband, notes in his diary on May 1, 1846, "Took wife and daughters Mary and Caroline to Langenheim's, and had their daguerreotypes taken, succeeding very well.", See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [May 1, 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.8]

Title: [Portrait of a young boy and girl]
Description: A young boy and a girl sit on wooden chairs looking directly at the photographer. The boy holds a book in his lap., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded red velvet embossed: Van Loan & Mayall, Phila., Mat: Plain octagonal., Case: Leather. Floral design border., Samuel Van Loan and John Jabez Edwin Mayll were partners in a studio at 140 Chestnut Street in 1845 and 1846.
Creator: Van Loan & Mayall, photographer
Date: ca. 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2008.2]

Title: George Washington Roberts, son of Algernon & Tacy Roberts. 1802-1857
Description: Portrait of Roberts, son of Algernon and Tacy Roberts. He has a half smile on his face, and is resting his right arm on a table., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red silk with a large leaf design in the center. Manuscript note pasted to pad reads: George W. Roberts, 1802-1857., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Scrolls stamped in gold on all four sides of cover. No design on verso., Accompanying manuscript note reads: George Washington Roberts, son of Algernon & Tacy Roberts. 1802-1857., Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 219. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Date: ca. 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.6]

Title: Aunt Kate Richardson
Description: Richardson is sitting toward her left, wearing a high necked dress with a very tight bodice. Her left arm is resting on a table, and there is a ring on her second finger., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric designs at each corner. No design in center. Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: M. A. Root, 140 Chestnut St., Philada., Accompanying manuscript note reads: Aunt Kate Richardson Kate. Sister of S.K. McCay. Richardson was the aunt of Ellanor C. Thompson who married Thomas Williams Roberts in 1915. Reproduced in The Ties That Bind by Sarah Weatherwax in the 1999 Daguerreian Annual (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 213. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: ca. 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.4]

Title: Hannah Davis Wood, b. 1809
Description: Wood is sitting primly, hands folded in her lap. She is wearing a high necked dress with a triangular collar., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet. A floral spray in blue is in the center., Mat: Oval. Stamped on mat: M. P. Simons, Philada., Case: Leather. Stamped in gold in center with a bird surrounded by leaves. Gold stamping in leaf pattern along all four edges. Same design on verso without central stamp of bird., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.19]

Title: [Richard Davis Wood, 1799-1869.]
Description: Wood is posed facing to his right. He is wearing a high white collar and a big black tie., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint: M. P. Simons, Philada., Case: Leather. No design., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8928.1]

Title: [Jonah Thompson with an open book in his left hand.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red silk. No design. Manuscript note pasted on pad reads: Jonah Thompson, brother of my grandfather, James B. Thompson. - J. T. Morris., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Within an oval border is an urn with a bouquet of mixed flowers. No design on verso. Case opens horizontally., Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 216. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Date: ca. 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified elderly couple.]
Description: She is wearing a white lace cap and bodice, as has a half smile. Her hands are folded across her lap. His white hair is very neatly combed. His right hand is behind his back., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded blue velvet. No design., Mat: Elliptical., Case: Leather. Geometrical design. Small diamond in center surrounded by many swirls. Photographer's imprint "M. A. Simons, Phila." on verso., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1980, pg. 51.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8439]

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