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Title: Library Company Buildings: Architectural Drawings

Title: Library Company Buildings: Graphic Materials

Title: Record Group 5: Association Library Company of Philadelphia

Title: Record Group 3: Union Library Company

Title: Record Group 4: Amicable Library

Title: Library Company: Scrapbooks

Title: John F. Patton, York, Penn'a
Description: Trade card promoting John D. Patton and depicting a catamaran with a dragon on the sail. Shows a vignette of a wooden catamaran with a red sail decorated with a dragon traveling on the water. Four men, attired in white shorts, sit and stand on the boat. A large crane and other birds fly in the sky. Vignette is set over a red background with decorative leaves and a scroll with the advertising text. John F. Patton relocated to York, Pennsylvania from Baltimore and started his drug business in 1869., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Advertising text printed on verso: You will never go amiss, if you go to Wallick’s Book Store, to make your purchases, books and stationery, pictures & frames, and a great variety of fancy goods. Remember Wallick’s Book Store. The city drug store is the best place in York, to buy drugs, medicines, chemicals, toilet articles, perfumery, &c., &c. and John F. Patton, is the man to sell them to you, and don’t you forger it., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Patton [P.9828.6582]

Title: Third supplement to the catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Description: Third supplement to the 1789 Library Company printed catalog., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., The insertion was found in and remains in the front cover., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: June 30, 1796
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v030

Title: A catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia ; to which is prefixed, a short account of the institution, with the charter, laws, and regulations
Description: The Library Company printed catalog of 1807., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., Only the covers and notice on the front endpaper have been digitized. For the full text, see MSS00270v035., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1807
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v037

Title: The second part of the catalogue of books, of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Description: Part 2 of the Library Company printed catalog of 1775., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., Text block only, no cover. Bookplate (in box) marks this as a gift of Robert R. Logan from the papers of John Dickinson. A slip of paper with a Library Company of Philadelphia border marks this as a gift of C. Newbold Tayor in 1955. John Dickinson's name is inscribed on the title page. The first two signatures have separated from the rest., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: [MDCCLXXV [1775]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v023

Title: Li brary Company annual reports
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1879
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v099

Title: On the classification of books: a paper read before the American Library Association, May, 1882
Description: A paper outlining Lloyd P. Smith's book classification system, which he presented to the American Library Assocation in May 1882., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., The front endpaper is inscribed, "George M. Abbott Esq with the kindest regards of the author. Euge serve bone, et fidelis : quia super pauca fuisti fidelis, super multa te constituam." Contains considerable marginalia. The text is the same as MSS00270v184., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Smith, Lloyd P. (Lloyd Pearsall), 1822-1886
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v105

Title: F.P. Louderbough, graduate in pharmacy, cor. Tenth & Jefferson Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Trade card promoting pharmacist F.P. Louderbough and depicting racist caricatures of Japanese acrobats. Shows four barefooted, Japanese men, attired in red patterned kimonos, balancing, swinging, and flipping on two bamboo beams., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Series no. on recto: 1700., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Louderbough [P.9828.6374]

Title: A catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia : a facsimile of the edition of 1741
Description: A facsimile of the 1741 edition of the Library Company Catalog., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., Marked copy, with call numbers noted in the margins. The text is the same as MSS00270v004, with different marginalia., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1956
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v003

Title: The original articles of assocation of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Description: The first printing of the Library Company's Articles of Association with the Charter, originally written in 1731., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v097

Title: James Logan estate records
Description: Title devised by cataloger., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., Handwritten account and inventory of James Logan's estate. A paper pasted to the front cover is inscribed, "Copy of Will of James Logan who was lost at sea in 1804 With Inventory his Estate.", These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Loganian Library
Date: 1804-1805
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270v128

Title: On the classification of books : a paper read before the American Library Association, May, 1882
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v184

Title: The charter, laws, and catalogue of books, of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Description: The Library Company printed catalog of 1764., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., Owned by Samuel Allen. Because of the stiffness in the binding, only the bookplate and covers have been digitized. See MSS00270v012 for the full text., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: [MDCCLXIV [1764]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v014

Title: A catalogue of books belonging to the Union Library Company of Philadelphia. To which is prefixed, the articles of the Company, with the names of the present members, and rules observed by the clerk in letting out books, &c
Description: The Union Library Company printed catalog of 1754., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., Some pages after page 40 are misnumbered., Gift of James Thackara., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Union Library of Philadelphia
Date: 1754
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v007

Title: China. E.F. Keeler, druggist, Groton, Ct
Description: Trade card promoting druggist E.F. Keeler and depicting a racist caricature of a Chinese woman, symbolizing China, attired in a dress of the Imperial yellow dragon flag. Shows a Chinese woman, wearing her hair in a long braid and attired in a conical hat, a yellow dress with a green dragon on the front, yellow gloves, and white dress shoes. She stands on her toes with her hands up., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Keeler [P.9828.6242]

Title: A catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Description: Oldest surviving catalog of the Library Company of Philadelphia, printed by Benjamin Franklin and bound at a later date. Includes a short account of the Library Company on the final page, likely written by Franklin., Last page unnumbered., Book plate inscribed, "Gift of Joseph Parker Norris Feb. 1827.", These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1741
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v001

Title: Th e charter of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Bound with Books added to the Library Since the Year 1741
Description: The charter of the Library Company of Philadelphia and supplement to the 1741 catalog., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: [M,DCC,XLVI [1746]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v006

Title: A copious alphabetical index as well of subjects as of authors, to vols. I, II, and III, of the catalogue of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Complete to 1856
Description: Includes the pre-catalog contents of the Library Company printed catalog of 1835 Volume I (Account of the Library, Charter, Laws, Rules and Regulations, State of the Library, List of Members, and Synopsis), the pre-catalog contents of the Loganian Library printed catalog of 1837 (Account of the Library, Act for annexing the Loganian Library to the Library belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, Genealogical Table of the Family of the Founder, Rules and Regulations, Synopsis, and State of the Library), and the index to the 1835-1856 Library Company printed catalog., Only an inserted note and the subsequent page have been digitized. For the full text, see volumes 055, 071, and 149. The error mentioned in the note is in the first entry of page 0718 in volume 071., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1835
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v083

Title: A catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia ; to which is prefixed, a short account of the institution, with the charter, laws, and regulations. Vol. I-III. Containing the titles added from 1835 to 1856. Together with an alphabetical index to the whole
Description: Volumes I - III of the Library Company printed catalog of 1835 and 1856., Title page inscribed "Anne Hampton Brewster 1850," but perhaps not in her hand. Only the newspaper clippings on the front end papers have been digitized. For the full text, see volumes 055, 051, and 071., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1835
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v076

Title: Fi rst supplement to the catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v062

Title: Supplement to the catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Description: Supplement to the Library Company printed catalog of 1835. Includes Religion, Jurisprudence, Sciences and Arts, Belles Lettres, and History., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., Marked copy, missing title page. Some pages in the back are detached. Insertion 06 is the receipt for Library Company share no. 661, paid for by Dr. Alfred Woodward in May 1873, signed by Lloyd Smith., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v061

Title: A catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia. Volume II--Part I
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1813
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v042

Title: Minutes of the committee for fixing the value of lost books
Description: 37 numbered pages with an additional 25 blank leaves at the back., Title taken from the front cover., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., Records from the Committee for Fixing the Value of Lost Books beginning in December 1785 and ending in May 1848. Most of the book is blank, with one final page of manuscript inserted in the back., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1785-1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270v111

Title: The last will and testament of Dr. James Rush, of the city of Philadelphia
Description: Dr. James Rush's last will and testament, proven in 1869, with amendments to the Charter of the Library Company of Philadelphia., Pagination statement has been simplified by cataloger., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Rush, James, 1786-1869
Date: 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v109

Title: Pamp hlets related to James Rush will and subsequent court cases
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Books & Other Texts | Rare MSS00270v100

Title: Fund to erect a fire proof building
Description: Title devised by cataloger., A list of subscriptions to the Building Fund from 1855 to 1880 with an appeal to the importance of erecting a fire proof building. This fund was used in part to pruchase lots on Juniper and Locust Streets., These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1855-1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270v120

Title: Order book
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1819-1824
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270v116

Title: The Library Company Papers Project
Description: The Library Company Papers Project is a three-year, NEH-funded project to review, process, and digitize institutional records from the institution’s founding in 1731 through 1881.

Title: F.P. Louderbough, graduate in pharmacy, cor. Tenth & Jefferson Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Trade card promoting pharmacist F.P. Louderbough and depicting racist caricatures of two Chinese men and a crane. In the left, shows the Chinese man, attired in a yellow robe with a red sash around the waist, standing and holding a pot by the handle in his right hand. To the right, the Chinese man, wearing a mustache and goatee and attired in a black hat, yellow robe, and a pink shirt with long sleeves, holds a bowl towards a crane. Decorative border surrounds the scene., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Series no. on recto: 1700., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Louderbough [P.9828.6373]

Title: Luncheon for rebuilding Japanese College, Tsuda College
Description: Portrait photograph of Yonako Tsuda Abiko, Narcissa C. Vanderlip, and Anna C. Hartshorne fundraising for the Tsuda College Emergency Committee to raise money to rebuild Tsuda College in Tokyo which was damaged in the 1923 earthquake. In the left, Yonako, attired in a kimono, stands and holds a Japanese tea bowl in her hands. In the center, Narcissa, attired in a kimono, geta shoes, a wristwatch, a pearl necklace, and a ring, stands and looks down at the bowl. In the right, Anna, attired in a brimmed hat, a dark-colored dress, two necklaces, and heeled shoes, holds a beaded purse, and looks to the left towards the bowl. Yonako Tsuda Abiko (1880-1944) was the younger sister of Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929) who founded Tsuda College in 1900. The College was a girls school that taught English and trained women to become English teachers. An earthquake and subsequent fire destroyed the school in 1923. Abiko, Hartshorne, and Vanderlip organized the Tsuda College Emergency Committee to help fundraise to rebuild the school. Anna Cope Hartshorne (1860-1944) was a Philadelphia Quaker who met Umeko Tsuda at Bryn Mawr College. She taught at Tsuda College from 1902 to 1940. Narcissa Cox Vanderlip (1880-1966) was active in the women's suffrage movement and worked towards improving relations between the United States and Japan. Yonako Tsuda Abiko moved to San Francisco in 1909. Her husband Kyutaro Abiko founded the Japanese language Nichibei Shimbun newspaper, which she ran after his death in 1936. In 1912, she helped establish Joshi Seinen Kai, a boarding house for Japanese women, and was active with the Y.M.C.A., Title and date from label on verso., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: World Wide Photos, [illegible] U.S. Pat. Off., [This picture may not be reproduced] rented or loaned, must not be used for advertising [illegible] written permission., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso partially covered by label: [King] Features Syndicate, Inc. [illegible]., Typewritten label pasted on verso: Watch your credit, Photos from Wide World. 309963 Luncheon for rebuilding Japanese College, Tsuda College: Our photo shows a scene today during the luncheon tendered by Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip in the drive for funds to rebuild Tsuda College which was destroyed in Japan during the quake. Left to right; we have, Mrs. Yona Tsuda Abiko, Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip and Miss Anna C. Hartshorne, of Philadelphia. The subject is the photo that Mrs. Vanderlip becomes acquainted with the intricate beauty of a Japanese tea bowl.
Creator: Wide World Photos, Inc., photographer
Date: February 26, 1924
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs – organizations - Tsuda College Emergency Committee [P.2024.17.1]

Title: Roland S. Morris, new ambassador to Japan, given farewell luncheon
Description: Portrait photograph showing the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Japan Roland S. Morris with Japanese and American guests at a luncheon before his trip to Japan at the Hotel Astor in New York on September 20, 1917. The seven men sit and stand outside in front of stones, shrubs, and flowers. Seated in the front are Japanese Consul General Yudo, Ambassador Roland Morris, and Hamilton Holt. Standing in a row behind them are Alcan Hirsch, Toyokichi Iyenaga, Sidney Gulick, and Jōkichi Takamine. Roland S. Morris (1874-1945) founded the Philadelphia-based law firm Duane Morris and served as the Ambassador to Japan from 1917 to 1920., Title and date from label on verso., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso mostly covered by label pasted on top of it. [Underwood & Und]erwood, N.Y. [illegible] rented or loaned [illegible] use only [illegible] used for advertising [illegible] written permission., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: Central Press Ass'n, Reference Dept., Sept. 23 1917. No. [A-949]., Series no. on negative: S.226596., Typewritten label pasted on verso: Roland S. Morris, new ambassador to Japan, given farewell luncheon. Mr. Roland S. Morris, recently appointed Ambassador to Japan, was tendered a farewell luncheon by prominent Japanese and friends at the Hotel Astor, New York City on the eve of his departure for his new post. In the group are from left to right (sitting) Consul General Yudo, Mr. Roland S. Morris, and Mr. Hamilton Holt, (standing) Dr. Alcon(sic) Hirsch, Dr. Iyenaga and Mr. Tokonino (sic). Ambassador Morris succeeds the late George W. Guthrie who died at his post. His body was brought back to America on a Japanese warship. Ambassador Morris is a distinguished Philadelphia lawyer.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood, photographers
Date: September 20, 1917
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs – occupations - ambassadors [P.2024.17.2]

Title: Famous Japanese Prima Donna arrives in Philadelphia to make her American debut
Description: Portrait photograph showing Philadelphia Grand Opera Company manager Kathryn O'Gorman Hammer greeting Takane Nambu arriving by train. In the left, Nambu, attired in a kimono, a fur coat, and dress shoes, steps down the stairs of a train and looks at the viewer. She shakes hands with Hammer, attired in a hat, a dress, a fur coat, and heeled shoes, who stands on the tracks. Takane Nambu performed as Cio-cio-san in Madame Butterfly for the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company at the Academy of Music on January 12, 1928. She also performed for the Company as Ah-Joe in L'Oracolo at the Academy of Music on November 15, 1928., Title and date from label on verso., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso partially covered by label: [illegible] photo is supplied by [Ac]me News Pictures, 461 Eighth Ave, New York City, not to be used for syndication or advertising purposes without written permission., Typewritten label pasted on verso: P82244. Famous Japanese Prima Donna arrives in Philadelphia to make her American debut. Philadelphia. Takane Nambu, Japanese Prima Donna of the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo arrived here for her American debut, which will be on January 12th, at the Academy of Music, with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. She will appear in "Madame Butterfly." She is shown being greeted upon her arrival by Mrs. William C. Hammer, assistant manager of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Your credit line must read [illegible]., Stamped on verso: Refered-E. Dept. Jan 18 28 CAM. N.E.A., Manuscript note written on verso: A20389., Typewritten note on verso: Same subject used N.Y.
Date: January 18, 1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs – organizations - Philadelphia Grand Opera Company [P.2024.17.3]

Title: Japan
Description: Trade card promoting coffee manufacturers Arbuckle Brothers and depicting Japanese men acrobats, jugglers, and dancers in a festival. In the left, shows a Japanese man acrobat wearing a chonmage hairstyle, a white headband, a pink kimono, and pink pants. He balances upside down on a flagpole with a pink banner and holds a fan in his right hand. In the right, a Japanese man, wearing a blue kimono, juggles a bottle and bowls. In the center is a fan with a vignette depicting three barefooted Japanese men, attired in black hats, yellow shirts, and blue pants, dancing holding branches. A Japanese man stands, attired in a black hat and green shirt, and holds a pink banner on a pole. Arbuckle's Coffee was founded by brothers John and Charles Arbuckle following the Civil War. The company was one of the first to sell roasted coffee and to place it in one pound packages. Arbuckle often included trade cards in the packages., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, 1893, by Arbuckle Bros. N.Y., Series no. on verso: No. 34., Advertising text on verso: Grind your coffee at home…. Japan. The Japanese have the most advance civilization of any nation on Asiatic soil. Indeed in some regards they are even more advanced than the proudest of western countries. But in many ways they are ludicrously far behind. They cling to ancient forms of government and the Mikado is an autocrat, absolute almost over the life and death of his subjects. A country which yields such power to the individual, can never hope to work out its highest possibilities. So even the sports and pastimes of such a nation can never be the spontaneous expression of the animal spirits of the young of that land. Juggling is a fine art in Japan. Beside the Japanese juggler, the man of legerdemain of other countries is a clumsy bungler. The feats performed by the former are beyond all comparison. To achieve such dexterity, it may well be presumed that the wizard has been taught from earliest childhood. In fact the jugglers are sometimes a caste, so that the child often starts with the hereditary traits of forefather in the same line, and of the added experience of these. Of the acrobats of Japan who are also super-eminent much the same can be said. One would scarcely believe that the human body could be so sinuous and might be so contorted at will. The Japanese Festivals or Feasts are frequent. The main celebrations are held after dark; then fireworks are displayed, and lanterns are hung. These latter transform the most commonplace scenes into fairyland. The dancing indulged in on these occasions in most picturesque. As the figures flit from light into dark and back again, they form scenes never to be forgotten. The Japanese wrestlers are world-famed, and their contests are most skillful. This is one of a series of Fifty (50) cards giving a pictorial History of Sports and Pastimes of all Nations., RVCDC
Date: 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Arbuckle [P.2025.35.1]

Title: " Bixby's Royal Polish." The perfection of blacking for ladies' and children's shoes
Description: Trade card promoting S.M. Bixby & Co. and depicting a racist caricature of a Chinese woman kneeling before Columbia holding up a woman's shoe. In the center, shows Columbia, depicted as a white woman attired in a blue Phrygian cap, white dress with a blue drape, and sandals, placing her left hand on an American flag crested shield. She holds aloft a black, woman's boot in her right hand, which emanates light. At her feet, a Chinese woman, wearing her hair up with decorative sticks and attired in a red dress decorated with a blue dragon, a white shawl, and red shoes, kneels on the ground with her right hand up as she looks up at the shoe and Columbia. The western-style woman's shoe is displayed as superior to and a critique of Chinese footbinding. In the right, a group of six women look on, many attired in crowns and crests, likely meant to represent European countries. In the left background is an oversized black bottle labeled, "Bixby's Royal Polish." Samuel M. Bixby began manufacturing and selling shoe blacking in 1860 and founded S.M. Bixby & Co. in 1862. F.F. Dailey Corporation acquired the firm in 1920., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised and active dates of the lithographers., Advertising text printed on verso: A new compound, producing a durable polish, elastic, waterproof and harmless to all kinds of leather, one coat of which is equal to two of any other. Bixby’s new bottle and combination stopper for sponge blacking is the most perfect package ever invented for forms of liquid blacking or shoe dressing. The wood top is of such size and shape as to form a convenient and firm handle; and the cork is inserted into the wood top, and fastened by the wire and glue, so that it is very much stronger than the old style. The bottle has a broad base and will not upset easily; the mouth has a wide projecting flange, and an air chamber below to prevent the overflow of the liquid in taking out and putting in the sponge, which perfectly insures cleanliness. “Royal Polish” is strictly a first class dressing, elegant in style, convenient for use, and is designed to retail at 15 cents per bottle, which in larger than the old square bottle. One trial will satisfy the most fastidious, that it is superior in all particulars to any dressing ever offered for ladies’ use. Patent applied for. S.M. Bixby & Co., New York., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - S.M. Bixby & Co. [P.2025.38]

Title: Celluloid waterproof collars, cuffs & shirt bosoms
Description: Trade card advertising celluloid collars and cuffs and depicting a caricature of a Japanese woman. Shows the Japanese woman wearing her hair up and adorned with kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in a multi-colored kimono with a celluloid collar and cuffs and geta shoes with celluloid on the bottom. She walks with her right hand holding her kimono up and carries a parasol made of celluloid. She walks through grass with pink flowers in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on verso: Celluloid (Waterproof linen.) Collars, cuffs and shirt bosoms. The following will commend the use of these goods to all who study convenience, neatness and economy. The interior is fine linen. The exterior is Celluloid – the union of which combines the strength of Linen with the Waterproof qualities of Celluloid. The Trouble and expense of washing is saved. When soiled simply rub with soap and water (hot or cold) used freely with a stiff brush. They are perspiration proof and are invaluable to travelers, saving all care of laundrying. Advice. In wearing the turn-down Collar, always slip the Necktie under the roll. Do not attempt to straighten the fold. The goods will give better satisfaction if the Separable Sleeve Button and Collar Button is used. Twist a small rubber elastic or chamois washer around the post of Sleeve Button to prevent possible rattling of Button. To remove Yellow Stains, which may come from long wearing, use Sapolio, Soap or Saleratus water or Celluline, which latter is a new preparation for cleansing Celluloid. Goods for sale by all dealers., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Celluloid [P.2025.35.2]

Title: A cup for His Excellency
Description: Group portrait photograph showing Japanese ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saitō receiving an award from representatives of the Northeast High School located at 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia. The men, attired in suits and ties, stand in a line, from left to right: Dr. Theodore Rowland, Principal of Northeast High School; Ambassador Saito; Charles A. Yahn, Director of Assemblies; Briggs Kaesshaefer, President of the "A" class; and Charles P. Malloy, Assistant Director of Assemblies. A silver, two handled trophy cup is presented. In the right, Kaesshaefer holds the handle; in the center, Yahn holds the base; and in the left, Saito grasps the base and looks down towards it. A framed painting hangs on the wall, and coats and fedora hats are visible on a table in the right. Hiroshi Saitō (1886-1939) was the Japanese ambassador to the United States from 1934 to 1938. The Washington Naval Treaty was an agreement to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction signed by the Allies of World War I in 1922. On December 29, 1934, the Japanese government gave formal notice that it intended to terminate the treaty., Title and date from label on verso., Typewritten label pasted on verso: P 285546. A Cup for His Excellency. Students of Northeast High School, Philadelphia, Pa., Shown presenting Hiroshi Saito, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, with a loving cup, during his visit there on November 22. From left to right, are: Dr. Theodore Rowland, Principal of the School; Ambassador Saito; Charles A. Yahn, Director of Assemblies; Briggs Kaesshaefer, Presidents of the "A" class, and Charles P. Malloy, Assistant Director of Assemblies. Saito predicted that Japan will termiate the Washington Naval Treaty "regardless of the developments at the preliminary conference at London." Credit line (Acme). 11/22/34., Stamped on verso: Ref. Dept. Nov 27 1934 N.E.A., Manuscript note written on verso: A30474., Gift of Linda Kimiko August, 2024.
Date: November 22, 1934
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs – education - Northeast High School [P.2024.31.4]

Title: C.C. Hughes, druggist & chemist, S.W. cor. 8th & Race Sts., Phila
Description: Trade card promoting druggist C.C. Hughes in the style of trompe l'oeil depicting a landscape with ships and a vignette portrait of a Japanese woman portrayed in caricature. Shows a landscape view with people standing on a path leading to a pagoda on a cliff. In the right, ships sail on the water. In the background are mountains. In the left, shows the Japanese woman wearing her hair up and decorated with Kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in gold hoop earrings; a yellow, patterned kimono with red trim; and a black obi. A green parrot sits on her left arm. Decorated border surrounds the scene., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1881 by Geo. M. Hayes., Advertising text printed on verso: Alhambra hair restorer. Restores gray hair to its natural color with three or four application, making it soft and beautiful; removes dandruff and itching of the scalp; prevents premature baldness; stops hair from falling out; will not soil the finest linen: an excellent dressing, nicely perfumed. Price, 75 Cts., large bottle. Manufactured by C.C. Hughes, druggist & chemist, S.W. Cor. Eighth and Race Streets, Philadelphia. Hughes’ Corn & Bunion Plasters. Give instant relief and effect a cure. (They are not pads to relieve the pressure.) Each 25 cents per box; 12 corn or 6 bunion in each box. Sent by mail on receipt of price. C.C. Hughes, Druggist, Eighth and Race Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand., RVCDC
Creator: Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Hughes [P.9828.6166]

Title: China. J.M. Jellison, registered druggist, B. & M. Drug Co., Haymarket Street, Boston Keep this card
Description: Trade card promoting druggist James M. Jellison and depicting the Chinese Imperial yellow dragon flag. Shows the triangular, yellow flag decorated with a blue dragon on a bamboo flag pole., Title from item., Date from active dates of advertised business., Series no. on recto: 360., Text printed on recto: Buker Press, Advertising Novelties, Providence, R.I., Gift of William Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Jellison [P.9828.6206]

Title: Reformed Mission School, Sendai, Japan
Description: Group portrait of Elizabeth R. Poorbaugh, Mary Ault, and over forty students from Miyagi Jogakko, a school for girls, in Sendai, Japan. Shows the young women and girl students, attired in kimonos, and sitting and standing in rows. In the left, Mary Ault sits with the youngest girls. In the center, Elizabeth Poorbaugh sits with her young niece Kitty, attired in a white apron, on her lap. Shrubs and potted plants are in the foreground. The school building and trees are visible in the background. Elizabeth R. Poorbaugh Cort (1854-1927) was born in Berlin, Pennsylvania. She traveled to Japan with her niece, whom she raised following the death of her sister-in-law. She founded Miyagi Jogakko, a school for girls, with Mary Ault in 1886 in Sendai, Japan. She served as principal for seven years. She married Rev. Cyrus Cort in 1893. Mary Ault Hoy (1863-1937) was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. She served as a teacher at Miyagi Jogakko. She married Rev. William Edwin Hoy. She died in Hankou, China., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto: Founded in September 1886, by Miss Lizzie R. Poorbaugh and Miss Mary B. Ault, Missionaries of the Reformed Church in the United States. Miss Ault is on the left side of the picture among the smaller girls. Miss Poorbaugh is seated near the centre, with her niece Kitty on her lap. Kitty is known by her white apron.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait prints – education - Reformed Mission School [P.2024.28]

Title: Kaufman Plush Co
Description: Bird’s Eye view drawing for an advertisement depicting the Kaufman Plush Co. factory at Pensdale and Mitchell Streets, Philadelphia built circa 1922. Shows the factory complex, including a five-story mill with a tower labeled, Kaufman Plush Co, and a one-story building with a steam tower labeled, Kaufman. On the grounds between the buildings, a worker loads goods onto a truck near two other trucks, one parked and one departing. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk in front of the factory. In the right foreground, a line of trees grows along the fence outside the complex. In the background, the skyline of the Manayunk neighborhood is visible. Founded in 1919 by Harry Kaufman, the Kaufman Plush Co. operated through circa 1970s., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner., Accompanying label reads: To [Kaufman Plush Co. Roxborough] From Grocke Art Co., Aerial View Illustrating of Manufacturing Plants. 1507 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Grocke Art Co. was a Philadelphia firm that specialized in bird's eye views in the 1920s.
Creator: Grocke, Max J., artist
Date: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.25]

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