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Title: Eliza Y. McAllister
Description: Portrait of a seated older woman resting her arm on a table. She wears a lace bonnet, a dress with a lace collar, a fringed shawl held together by a brooch and gloves. Eliza M. Young McAllister (1790-1853) married John McAllister (1786-1877) in 1811., Title from accompanying ms. note on paper., Pad: Red velvet embossed Root's Gallery 140 Chestnut St. Philada., Mat: Plain octagonal., Case: Leather. Floral and grape design. No design on verso. Attached to case is ms. note on paper: Mrs. E. Y. McAllister, 1851/62.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Root [P.2010.15]

Title: [William Spencer]
Description: Portrait of a young, handsome Spencer wearing a vest and a fancy tie., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Thermoplastic. Lacking cover. Geometric design. This design is #3-119 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647: Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as scarce., Gift of Mrs. A Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.8a]

Title: William A.K. Martin, 1817-1867
Description: Hand painted pink on cheeks. Sitter was landscape, marine and historical painter who worked primarily in Philadelphia., Pad: Red velvet. Flower in center within scrolling border., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Design is called The Bird and the Grape Vine and is plate 89 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced ca. 1854. Geometric design on verso., Adhesive label on cover glass: W.A.K. Martin Artist., Case spine is broken.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.3]

Title: [Walter Wood as a young child.]
Description: Three year old Walter Wood, hair parted neatly on the side, is wearing checked pants and is looking straight ahead. His left arm is resting on a table on which there is a toy horse., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded and scratched purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. A floral spray with one rose and several buds within a border of scrolls and swirls. Geometric design on back. Manuscript note inside case reads: Walter Wood, 1852., 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: 1852
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.16]

Title: [Walter Wood, 1849-1934]
Description: A sweet faced, seated, nine year old Wood is wearing a jacket with buttons down the front and a white collar. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. No design on front or back., 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: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.17]

Title: [Walter Graham, wholesale & retail grocer, northwest corner of Market and Sixteenth Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view showing storefront at 1601 Market Street. Also depicts adjoining businesses including John S. Hansell, produce dealer at 1605 Market. Image includes two delivery wagons, barrels lining the sidewalk, and street railway tracks. Graham and Hansell are first listed in city directories simultaneously at this location in 1862., Nonpareil brass mat., Leather case with geometric design. Front cover separated. Losses in leather., Deep blue velvet pad, stamped., Image damaged at upper right along roofline., Similar view reproduced in Robert Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976) page 98.
Date: ca. 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - unidentified [P.9669.17]

Title: [Vignette portrait of young woman in off the shoulder dress]
Description: Sitter's cheeks are hand-painted pink., Pad: Red with central floral design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: McClees & Germon Phila., Case: Leather. Woman wearing feather headdress with bird perched on her upraised hand. The design of the case is called Oriental Lady with Falcon and is plate 4-47 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul Berg (Paul Berg, 1995). No design on verso.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.7]

Title: [Vignette portrait of an unidentified woman, hair parted in the middle, wearing a brooch.]
Description: Sitter's cheeks are hand-painted pink., Pad: Green velvet embossed Willard No.1628 Market St., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather with no design., P.8638 may be the same sitter.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., d. 1876, photographer
Date: ca. 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.5]

Title: [Vignette portrait of an unidentified woman, hair parted in the middle]
Description: Sitter's cheeks are hand-painted pink., Pad: Dark purple Willard No.1628 Market St., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather with no design.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., d. 1876, photographer
Date: ca. 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.6]

Title: [Unidentified young woman, hands folded, wearing a square pin on her lace collar.]
Description: Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded tan velvet, embossed Bradley's Gallery 340 Market St., Philadelphia. Eagle with outstretched wings on top., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Within a large oval, a geometric design with modified scrolls. Narrow gold border at edges of case. Same design on verso.
Creator: Bradley's Gallery, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.2]

Title: [Unidentified young woman]
Description: Bust-length painted portrait of a young woman. Her curly hair is pulled back from her face. Underneath her ruffled white collar is a pink rose., Pad: Dark burgundy velvet., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather., Gold-toned pendant., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.16]

Title: [Unidentified young man with his left hand resting on a table.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet, embossed Bradley's Gallery 340 Market St., Philadelphia. Eagle with outstretched wings on top., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. A floral spray with one rose in the center within a nonpareil like border. No design on verso.
Creator: Bradley's Gallery, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.3]

Title: [Unidentified, somber looking, little girl wearing an off the shoulder black dress, her hands folded in her lap.]
Description: Hand colored dark pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Rust colored velvet embossed D. F. Bower's 317 Nth Second St. Philadelphia. Scroll border., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather. In center a striated eight pointed star. Fancy scroll work all around. Same design on verso.
Creator: Bowers, D. F., photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.1]

Title: [Unidentified residence, Long Island, New York]
Description: View, taken through trees, focuses on the doorway of the frame house., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet . Urn with flowers in center. Scroll border., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. A large scalloped oval with an ornate scrolled border., See Board report of November 17, 1992. Mr. Dorman purchased this daguerreotype at Weschler's auction in Washington, D.C. in 1958., Gift of Charles Dorman, November 2, 1992.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9403.2]

Title: [Unidentified middle-aged man]
Description: Bust-length, hand-painted portrait of an unidentified middle-aged man facing slightly right. He has a high forehead, his hair is neatly combed, and he has white sideburns., Pad: Faded ivory silk on sides of open case; Dull gold velvet in center surrounding the portrait., Mat: Oval., Case: Oval leather double door case designed to stand up. Inscribed on the inside "The Bailey, Banks And Biddle Co., Philadelphia., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.17]

Title: [Unidentified man with mustache, in profile with high white collar and cravat.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet, embossed Bailey, 198 Chesnut St. Philada. Eagle embossed at top, scroll work on three sides., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers and leaves, with one rose in the center, a bird sitting on one stem, all within a nonpareil-like border. No design on verso., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Bailey, Jason, fl. 1853-1855, photographer
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.5]

Title: [Unidentified family portrait including three women of various ages, a young girl and a baby.]
Description: Pale hand colored pink on cheeks. Possibly depicts four generations., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet embossed Van Loan's Gallery 118 Chestnut St. Philada., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers within an octagonal border. No design on back.
Creator: Van Loan, Samuel, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8640]

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: [Unidentified child]
Description: Half-length, hand-tinted portrait of a young girl wearing an off the shoulder black dress cinched at the waist. Her short hair is parted in the middle with a soft curl on either side of her forehead., Pad:, Mat: Non pareil., Case: Leather with a geometric design. Fancy scrolled border, modified diamond shape in center with circles and scrolls., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.15]

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: [Three quarter length portrait of two unidentified young men.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet with geometric design in center and scroll work all around., Mat: Elliptical. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: McClees & Germon Phila., Case: Leather. A spray of mixed flowers is within an ornamented octagonal border. All around the case are scrolls and leaves, etc. Same design on verso.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.8]

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: [Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified, seated woman]
Description: Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified, seated white woman. Sitter has dark hair parted in the middle with ringlet curls at the sides of her face. She is attired in a lace cap, a white chemisette, and a dark-colored, long-sleeved, silk dress with a lace collar and cuffs. She also wears earrings, a ring on her right hand, and a cameo brooch and pocket watch chain that adorn her chest and waist, respectively. Gilt is applied to the photographic details of her earrings, ring, right cuff, cameo brooch, and pocket watch chain. She sits holding a card in her left hand on her lap. It is inscribed with the number, 50, which may signify the portrait is in honor of her 50th birthday. She rests her right arm on a cloth-covered side table in the left. Possibly her bonnet lies on top of the table. Her cheeks are tinted pink., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on cheeks., Gilt on sitter’s jewelry and card., Gift of Michael Zinman, 2016., Pad: Red velvet with a spray of flowers., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Case is shaped like a book with gilt edges and a spine labeled “Bijou.” Papier-mache, black lacquer with a spray of flowers made of mother of pearl inlay. Verso design composed of an ornamental scroll in gold, green, and red with a gold border., Edges of daguerreotype plate are tarnished.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2016.85]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified man, standing]
Description: Ambrotype stereograph in stereoscope case depicting a three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified white man, standing. Sitter has dark hair, combed and parted to the left, and a beard. He is attired in white shirt with a turned-up collar, a white waistcoat, a dark-colored bowtie, a dark-colored jacket with tails, and light-colored pants. His cheeks are tinted pink. He stands with his right hand touching the top rail of a wooden chair in the left. His left arm is bent and his hand holds the edge of his open jacket at his waist. In the right, a straw hat with a patterned scarf hanging out of it, lies on a side table. The pictorial detail of the scarf is hand tinted pink., Title supplied by cataloger., Pink tinting on cheeks and scarf., Labeled on the stereoscope: “Macher’s Improved Stereoscope. Philada. Patent, March 8th 1853.” “Stereoscopic Ambrotype. Pictures, Surpassing any thing for Depth, Clearness, and Relief, which the Art has yet produced. Also Ambrotype & Mezzograph pictures taken at the Gallery of Photography by Isaac Rehn. No. 126 Arch Street, above Sixth, South side, Philadelphia., Mat: Oval. Engraved on metal plate, ”Ambrotype by Rehn 260 Chestnut St.” “Patented July 4 & 11, 1854.”, Case: Leather., Isaac Rehn is listed as a photographer in the Philadelphia directories from 1850 to-1861. Rehn has been credited with the first ambrotype in the United States.
Creator: Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – photographer – Rehn [P.2018.52]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of a young boy]
Description: Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of a young, white boy. The boy, with rosy cheeks, is attired in a brimmed hat decorated with a ribbon, as well as a long-sleeved shirt with buttons down the front, and pants. He has a slight frown to his expression. He stands with his right hand at his waist with his thumb hooked into his pants and his left hand resting on an object in front of him., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium, attire of the sitter, and address of photographer and dates of operation., Pink tinting on cheeks., Pad: Red velvet embossed with photographer’s imprint “W & F Langenheim, 216 Chestnut St., Philadelphia” in the center and within an ornamental frame with decorative scrolls., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of various flowers surrounded by a border of vines and flowers. Wavy line design on verso., Contains weeping glass deterioration., Gift of Jane Hastings, 2011., The Langenheim firm operated from 216 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia in 1851.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – photographer – Langenheim [P.2011.56.1]

Title: [Three quarter length portrait of a seated, unidentified young woman, hair parted in middle, wearing dress with lace collar and cuffs.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet embossed in center: Root Gallery. Cook Artist. Cor Chestnut & Fifth. Phila., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Leather. No design on front or back.
Creator: Cook, George S. (George Smith), 1819-1902, photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Root [P.9841.25]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of a rather stern looking, unidentified man, wearing a high white collar.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Fancy leaf and scroll designs in center and corners., Mat: Oval. Label on mat: Collins, 3d & Chesnut., Case: Deep blue velvet. Gold stamped design of leaves, grapes, apples and birds on front and back. Gold stamped on spine: The Token. Gilt edges on top, bottom and left side.
Creator: Collins, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8941]

Title: [Stuart Wood as a young child.]
Description: Three year old Wood, hair parted neatly on the side, is looking straight ahead. His left arm is resting on a table, and he seems to be holding a hoop in his right hand., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded and scratched purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. No design on front or back. Note inside case reads: Stuart Wood, about 1856., 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: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.14]

Title: [Standing portrait of a little girl posed next to a chair.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Rose in an oval in the center with scrolls all around., Mat: Onamented ornate elliptical., Case: Leather. In center, an urn overflowing with flowers and leaves within a modified nonpareil border. The design of the case is called The Romanesque Urn and is plate 141 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in large quantity and a number of variants, ca. 1857., Gift of Mr. E. Perot Walker, May 23, 1980.
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8514.3]

Title: [Small bust length portrait of an unidentified young man with mustache and small beard.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. Patent July 4th & 11th 1854, Case: Leather. No design on front or back., Gift of Mr. E. Perot Walker, May 23, 1980.
Creator: Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8514.1]

Title: Sister Emma
Description: Portrait of a serene woman, hair parted severely in the middle. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. No design.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.18]

Title: [Seated portrait of an unidentified young woman.]
Description: Her hair parted severely on the middle. She is wearing a short black jacket with embroidered edges over a white blouse, and a checked shirt. Her left arm is resting on a table. Drapery is visible. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet with a geometric design of large and small scrolls., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Thermoplastic. Geometric design. A ten point star is surrounded by coiled scrolls within an oval. Same design on verso. This design is #3-74 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. : Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as common. The design of the case is called Ten Point Star and is plate 200 American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Uncommon, circa 1856. The case maker was Samuel Peck and Co. Die-engraver was J. Smith.
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8647 ]

Title: [Seated portrait of an unidentified young man wearing striped trousers, with his right hand resting on a low table.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., 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: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8514.8]

Title: [Seated portrait of an unidentified woman looking slightly to her right and wearing a small white collar.]
Description: Hand painted pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Eagle with wings outstretched in center. Embossed: Evan's 380 Market St. Philada., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed leaves and tiny flowers in a nonpareil-like border. Geometric design on verso., Gift of Mr. E. Perot Walker, May 23, 1980.
Creator: Evans, C. (Charles), fl. 1848-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8514.5]

Title: [Seated portrait of an unidentified unidentified woman resting her left arm on a column on which there is a vase of flowers.]
Description: Hand colored., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet with geometric design., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather with fanciful gold stamped floral and leaf design. This design is The Lily Motif and is reproduced opposite page 65 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) A thin gold border is on the back, but no design., Sitter may possibly be one of Henry B. Swift's sisters, Caroline, Hannah or Mary, or possibly his wife, Emma. See Henry B. Swift research file.
Creator: Swift, Henry B., photographer
Date: ca. 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2004.9.4]

Title: [Seated portrait of a unidentified woman, her hair parted in the middle, arms crossed on her lap, white collar at her neck.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded burgundy velvet., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. It is shaped like a book and is similar to Fig. 42 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) The case manufacturer is identified as H. A. Eichmeyer of Philadelphia.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.28]

Title: [Seated musician holding a brass horn in his right hand.]
Description: His left arm is resting on his lap. Painted back drop of trees and landscape are behind him., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded gold velvet. Eagle with wings outstretched on top of sun. Embossed within two concentric circles forming the core of the sun: Evans, 380 Market Street, Girard Row. Original Sun Beam., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Leather with a geometric design. An oval is in the center of a curved corner rectangle. Same design on verso., See Research file., Gift of David Long, 2002.
Creator: Evans, C. (Charles), fl. 1848-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2002.51.1]

Title: Sarah Wilkinson. Born Feb 15 1788. Married (John) Wm. Trautwine, Apr 27 1809 (Mother of John C. Trautwine, Civ. engr. March 30 1810 Died 1883) Died July 25 1855
Description: Trautwine is wearing a white cap and collar, and is holding a folded fan in her left hand., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical., Case: Uncased., Title from typed note pasted on verso of plate.
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9577.11]

Title: Sally Shober Lewis and Mrs. Francis Gray of Boston
Description: Copy photograph of sentimental painted portrait of the two sisters by Alexander Gottfried, a Philadelphia portrait painter, dated 1855., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. No design., Sitters were the great aunts of the donor, Mr. Pemberton H. Shober. Accession book entry reads: Daguerreotype of painting signed and dated 'Alexander Gottfried 1855.' See also portrait of Mrs. Wm. Geo. Spencer., Gift of Mr. Pemberton H. Shober, May 23, 1980.
Date: after 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8515]

Title: [Sallie Sherrel Bonnell Houston, 1829-1913]
Description: Portrait of Bonnell wearing a plaid dress with a white lace collar. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back widely from her face. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded gold colored velvet., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather, in the shape of a book. No design. See Fig. 42 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Stamped at bottom of inside front cover H. A. Eichmeyer. Patent Feb. 27, 1855. Henry Adolph Eichmeyer, of Philadelphia, was a case manufacturer., Filed under Eichmeyer. The portrait was taken at the time of her April 8, 1856 marriage to Henry Howard Houston (See P.8896 for a daguerreotype of Houston.) See Research File., Gift of Charlotte Dallett, great granddaughter of Sallie Bonnell, 2003.
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2003.11.1]

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: [Richard Wood, 1833-1910]
Description: Depicts Wood as a young man. He is looking slightly to his right. His hair is parted neatly on the side, and he has a short beard under his chin. Pale hand painted pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. A tall spray of mixed flowers and leaves, with a fancy scolled border. Same design on verso., Probably taken at the same time as P.8926.24., 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: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.25]

Title: [Richard Wood, 1833-1910]
Description: Depicts Wood as a young man, hair parted neatly on the side with a short beard. Pale hand painted pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Geometric design with scrolls and leaves., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Thermoplastic. Geometric design with scrolls and leaves. This design is #3-32 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647. Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as scarce. Same design on verso., Probably taken at the same time as P.8926.25., 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: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.24]

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: [Richard Davis Wood, 1799-1869]
Description: Bust length portrait., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Green velvet. Spray of flowers in center with floral border., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Large spray of flowers within an octagonal border. No design on verso. Same design on cover as Richards image of George W. Connaroe (8259.F.1)., 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: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.5]

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: [Reverend Henry Reeves as a young man.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet embossed Van Loan & Ennis Gallery 11 Chesnut St. Philada. Geometric border., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. Spray of flowers and leaves in a pseudo octagonal border. No design on verso. Same case design on P.9577.10.
Creator: Van Loan & Ennis, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.14]

Title: [Reverend Henry Nixon.]
Description: Portrait of Nixon, wearing a high white collar. Nixon was the photographer's brother-law-in, married to Swift's sister Elizabeth., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Raised red velvet with geometric design. Gilt border., Mat: Ornamented modified nonpareil., Case: Black laquer, shaped like a book, with mother of pearl inlay in the shape of a spray of roses. Spine is leather, with repeated floral design stamped in gold. Gilt edges. No design on verso. Single ornamented brass clasp., Accompanying manuscript note reads: "Great uncle Henry Nixon Presby. Clergyman. Taken by Henry B. Swift, brother in law, 312 Markt St. formerly partner of S. F. B. Morse." The note identifies Nixon as a Presbyterian clergyman. However, the couple's 1852 marriage announcement identifies him as a Methodist Episcopal minister., See Henry B. Swift research file.
Creator: Swift, Henry B., photographer
Date: ca. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2004.9.2]

Title: [Reverend Bird Wilson, 1777-1859.]
Description: Portrait of an elderly Wilson, looking slightly to his right, wearing glasses., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet, embossed Brady's Gallery 205 & 207 Broadway, New York. Fancy design surrounds broken scroll border., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. A small oval surrounded by leaves and flowers is within a modified nonpareil like border. Scroll work all around., Bird Wilson, D.D., LL.D, was a lawyer, a President Judge of the Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 7th Circuit 1806-1807, and chair of Systematic Divinity at the General Theological Seminary in New York, 1821-1850. See collection folder for additional biographical information. See Board Report for September 21, 1993.
Creator: Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9419]

Title: Rev. Samuel Clark
Description: Three quarter length portrait of Clark seated with his hands clasped on his lap. He has a short beard, and is wearing a high white collar., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Case: Uncased., Accompanied by manuscript note: With the affectionate regards of the victim of the photographic art. Rev. Samuel Clark, Gift of Edwin Wolf, 2nd, March 14, 1989.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9255.2]

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