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Title: The Savoy Co. 13th year producing Gilbert & Sullivan of era the Mikado at the Broad Street Theatre May 1913
Description: Program for performance of The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, the opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan at the Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia from May 14 to 17, 1913 for the benefit of Philadelphia Lying-In Charity Hospital. Includes a list of the Savoy Company's previous performances from 1901; history of the Savoy Company; article on Gilbert and Sullivan's operas; list of members of the Savoy Company; cast of performers of the Mikado; article on the Philadelphia Lying-In Charity Hospital; and cast of performers of every previous Savoy Company production. Cover image by artist Franz de Merlier and depicts the Mikado, or Emperior standing attired in a red hat and patterned kimono. In the right, a Japanese man, wearing a chonmage hairstyle and red kimono, sits on the floor. A line of four men, wearing chonmage hairstyles and patterned kimonos, hold swords in their right hands., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of the stage production., Advertisements on the inside covers and 7 p. of ads at the back.
Date: 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera -- Misc. - Savoy [P.2024.36]

Title: The First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, L Rev. Benjamin M. Palmer, D.D. Pastor
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-Revival style church built in 1857 after the designs of architect Henry Howard. Shows the front entrance of the church with the large steeple. Men, women, and children pedestrians walk on the sidewalks and cross the street in front of the church. The church building was destroyed by fire in 1854. The newly rebuilt church opened in 1857 and was destroyed by a hurricane in 1915. Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902) served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans from 1856 to 1902. He advocated for Louisiana to secede and join the Confederacy., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and publisher and content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Churches & Meetinghouses - First [P.2010.35.1]

Title: Eugenie Empress of France and ladies of her court
Description: Print depicting the Empress of France, Eugénie de Montijo, and eight of her ladies-in-waiting seated on the grass surrounded by trees. The Empress, attired in a white, off-the-shoulder dress with a red bow and a crown of flowers, holds a bouquet of flowers in her left hand. From right to left in a circle, the eight ladies sit and stand: Anne d'Essling, attired in a blue, off-the-shoulder dress; Louise Poitelon du Tarde, attired in white-and-black striped, off-the-shoulder dress and a black bow choker necklace; Jane Mary Thorne, attired in a white and peach colored, off-the-shoulder dress; Adrienne de Villeneuve-Bargemont, attired in a blue, off-the-shoulder dress, holds a bouquet of roses; Anne Mortier de Trévise, attired in a dark blue, off-the-shoulder dress, holds a hat with a blue ribbon in her right hand; Claire Emilie MacDonell, attired in a white and peach, off-the-shoulder dress; Nathalie de Ségur, attired in a light blue, off-the-shoulder dress; and Pauline Marie Ghislaine de Bassano, attired in a white, off-the-shoulder dress and a red shawl. Empress Eugénie de Montijo commissioned Franz Xaver Winterhalter to create this painting in 1855 to be exhibited at the painting salon of the Exposition Universelle., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and content., Text printed below image: Me La Mse de Latour-Maubourg, Me La Mse Marismias, Me La Anne de Malaret, Me La Ctesce de Montebello, Me La Desse de Bassana, S. M. L'Impertrice, Mc La Vtessa de Lezay-Marnezia, Me La Bnne de Pierres, Me La Pcesse D'Esseling., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Recreation [P.2010.35.2]

Title: The Hawks Nest or Marshalls Pillar A celebrated cliff on the Kenawha River, Virginia
Description: View of the Kanawha River at Hawks Nest or Marshalls Pillar near Ansted, West Virginia. In the right foreground, shows three men fishing on a large rock. The large Kanawha River flows towards the viewer. Trees grow along the shorelines and on the cliffs that rise in the background. The area was called Marshalls Pillar after Chief Justice John Marshall, who visited. By the Civil War, the area was named Hawks Nest. It was established as a State Park in 1935., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the lithographer and content., Text printed below image: Measuring 1200 feet from the top of the cliff to the river beneath., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Bowen, John T, approximately 1801-1856?, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - United States - Virginia [P.2010.35.7]

Title: U.S.P.O. & C., Lancaster, PA
Description: Exterior view of the United States Post Office and Courthouse built in 1892 after the designs of architect William Alfred Freret Jr. at 120 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa. Shows the Venetian-Renaissance style building with a tower, and an American flag flying on a pole. A woman walks through the front door. Men, women, and children pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. A woman and girl walk a dog, and a dog runs through the street towards them. A horse-drawn carriage and a man on horseback travel down the street. The building was converted into City Hall in 1931., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and publisher and content., Printed signature under the image: Will. A. Freret, Supervising Architect., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Peters, N. (Norris), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Government buildings - PA [P.2010.21.4]

Title: The Silver cascade, in the north of the White Mountains
Description: View depicting the Silver Cascade in the White Mountains of New Hamshire. Shows water flowing down the mountain. Two men fish at the edge of the water, and a man and a woman look on at the falls. Trees grow along the shoreline and cliffs., Title and date from item., Text printed below image: Cascade d’argent, dans le ravin des montagnes blanches. Die silbercascade in der thalenge der weissen berge., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Havell, Frederick James, 1801-1840, engraver
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. - New Hampshire [P.2010.6.27]

Title: This diploma is awarded by the Sussex County Agricultural Society
Description: Certificate awarded by the Sussex County Agricultural Society and depicting vignettes of scenes of farming. In the top, shows allegories of "Liberty," depicted as a white woman with a pole and cap, and "Prosperity," depicted as a white woman with a cornucopia full of fruits and vegetables. In the background is a factory and sailing ships. In the center, shows a large crowd of men and women spectators watching a sulky horserace; fair attendees walking the grounds; large tents and stands and American flags flying on flagpoles; and houses and trees in the background. Vignettes around the image include: sheep; a farmer with two large pigs; a cow and a bull; a horse; a man driving a horse-drawn reaper; and fowl, including chickens, geese, and turkeys. Around the border are fruits, vegetables, wheat, corn, and farm implements, including plows, a shovel, rake, ax, and hoe., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed and manuscript written on recto: To [Mr. Daniel Post Newton] for [Premium in filly & (illegible) 4 years old, Black Hawk (illegible considered?)] At their annual fair, held [at Newton Oct. 8 1858] [V.M. Drake] Secy. [Lewis Dunn] Prest., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Certificates [P.2010.21.2]

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: " 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: 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: 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: L.C. Smith, druggist, (successor to A.W. Rice), Rockville, Conn. Drugs, medicines, toilet requisites, etc., etc. prescriptions compounded day or night. Prices the lowest. Goods strictly pure
Description: Trade card promoting druggist Louis C. Smith and depicting racist caricatures of Chinese men being attacked by dogs. In the left foreground, shows a large dog chained to a doghouse. The Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle, a blue tunic and pants, and white, slip-on shoes, looks at the dog in fear. In the right, a Chinese man runs away with his queue flying behind him. In the background, a Chinese man, his back to the viewer, screams and raises both arms up as a white dog bites his bottom. Text written in pidgin English below the image: What d’yer soy? Ha! Ha! John Chinaman he eatie doggie., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Copyright statement printed on recto: Copyrighted, Bufford, Boston., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Smith [P.9828.6842]

Title: Laque de Chine
Description: Trade card promoting druggist John H. Sheehan & Co. and depicting a scene of two Chinese men painting. In the left, show the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a blue cap, blue robe, and blue, slip-on shoes. He sits on a bench in front of an easel and paints. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a green, patterned robe, stands and lacquers a vase. Also in the room are a red lantern, screen, and side table with a blue jar. In the background is a river with boats and a pagoda on the shoreline., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on verso: John H. Sheehan, Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Pefumery and Toilett (sic) Articles, 167 Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, See related: P.9828.6766.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Sheehan [P.9828.6777]

Title: Japon
Description: Trade card promoting druggist John H. Sheehan & Co. and depicting a scene of a Japanese woman and a samurai holding a flag. In the right, the Japanese woman, wearing her hair up with Kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in a multi-colored kimono and yellow shoes, stands and reaches her right hand out towards the man. In the left, the Japanese samurai, attired in a helmet and armor, stands and holds a Japanese flag on a flagpole. A cherry tree with pink flowers grows in the background. In the top left corner is a crest with a Japanese flag., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on verso: John H. Sheehan, Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Pefumery and Toilett (sic) Articles, 167 Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, See related: P.9828.6777.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Sheehan [P.9828.6766]

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: [Portrait of unidentified African American man attired in masonic regalia ]
Description: Full-length studio portrait of an African American man, likely a Prince Hall Freemason, wearing a masonic sash and apron. He stands and rests his right hand on the corner of a wooden chair. Sitter has a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, cravat-like bowtie, vest, and loose fitting jacket and pants. A gilt-colored ring adorns his hand that rests on the chair. The base of of a posing standing is also visible behind the mason's feet. Prince Hall Freemasonry is the oldest African American masonic organization in the United States. A branch of North American Freemasonry, it was founded by Prince Hall in 1784. Prince Hall Masons not only practiced the secret rituals and moral teachings of Freemasons worldwide, but also a commitment to racial uplift, mutual aid, and social justice., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pad: Red velvet with scrollwork design in center within ornamented rectangle border., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Center medallion within nonpareil-like border surrounded by curving scrolls. Same design on verso., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - – unid photo – unid sitter – tintype [P.2025.5]

Title: Elevation of the eastern front of the Capitol of the United States
Description: Exterior view of the east front of the U.S. Capitol building with landscaped lawn in the foreground. Shows the neoclassical-style building with decorative columns and a pediment with sculptures. Two American flags fly atop the building on flagpoles. People walk on the staircase leading to the entrance. In the foreground is a manicured lawn with walkways lined with trees. Men, women, children, and several dogs walk the grounds., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1839 by William Fischer, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern Distt. of Pa., Attributed to P.S. Duval based on similar print in the collection of the Library of Congress., Gift of David Doret., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2009, p. 51-2.
Creator: Fenderich, Charles, artist
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC- government buildings [P.2009.6.6]

Title: "Catharine Ridgway, Philadelphia. 1839." needlework sampler
Description: Gift of Elizabeth Kelly-Griswold, 2023.
Creator: Ridgway, Catharine
Date: 1839
Location: OBJ 925

Title: Centennial Exhibition Souvenir Fan
Description: Souvenir fan commemorating the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. Folding fan with thirty blades including guards. Shows the Main Building at Fairmount Park, designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Numerous men and women visitors walk the grounds in front of the building. A Japanese woman, wearing her hair up with Kanzashi hair decorations, and attired in a pink, blue, and red kimono, stands holding a fan. Red roses grow at her feet. In the right, a Japanese woman, wearing her hair up and attired in a blue, red, and pink kimono, holds a red fan in her left hand, and in her right hand she holds the hand of a young Japanese boy, attired in a yellow and red kimono. The verso depicts a bird perched on a branch with pink and red flowers, and the silhouette of two birds against a blue background. Text printed across the top lists the names and addresses of Philadelphia hotels: “Irving House. 817 Walnut St.; Guy’s. Cor. 7th St. and Chestnut; Colonnade. Cor. 15th St. and Chestnut; St. Cloud. 709 Arch St.; La Pierre. Broad St. Below Chestnut; Girard. Corner Ninth and Chestnut; Continental. Corner Ninth & Chestnut; Bingham. Corner 11th St. and Market St.; American. 517 Chestnut St.; Merchant’s. 42 North 4th St.; Washington. 711 Chestnut St.; Markoe. 919 Chestnut St.” Additional text includes, “Main Building, International Exhibition. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 1876. Length 1880 feet. Width 464.”, Gift of Linda Kimiko August, 2023.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: OBJ 924

Title: The Gale costume lectures music and myth of old Japan
Description: Program for "Music and Myth of Old Japan," performed by Albert Gale and Martha Brockway Gale as a part of their lecture series. On the cover, shows Albert Gale "drawn by a Japanese artist" wearing a chonmage hairstyle and attired in a kimono and holding a fan in his right hand. On pages two and three are photographs of Albert and Martha, attired in kimonos, acting in scenes from the performance. In the left, the image titled "posing" shows Albert kneeling and playing a shamisen as Martha stands on one leg and holds a fan behind her head. "Ready for guests" depicts Martha holding her hands up with a fan in her right hand. "Salutation" shows Albert and Martha facing each other in a deep bow. In the top center, "the stage setting" depicts Albert and Martha kneeling surrounded by Japanese objects, including screens, parasols, and a potted flower. In the right, "magic" shows Albert standing with his left hand out and holding a fan in his right hand as Martha kneels and looks up at him. "Ready for the street" shows Martha standing and holding a parasol. "'Ikebana (flower arrangement)'" shows Martha kneeling and placing flowers into a vase. Drawings in between the photographs include: a Japanese boy, attired in a kimono, with his back to the viewer and holding a kite shaped as a fish as a bird flies; vases filled with flowers; and a bird. On page four are bust-length portraits of Albert and Martha attired in Western dress. There are drawings of a landscape view with ships and a mountain and a Japanese woman, attired in a kimono, carrying a baby on her back., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of the stage production., Manuscript note written on cover: "Given under auspices of Senior class [extras?]. In Town Hall Wed. eve., Dec. 13. 1913. Adm. 50¢ Student 25¢. R.L.M., Text printed on cover: Elaborate stage setting of handsome Japanese draperies, rich costumes of Oriental silks and gold brocade, priceless musical instruments from the Buddhist and Shinto Temples, fascinating fold-tales interwoven with seductive melody, a glimpse of the queer and quaint customs of the "little brown people," the art-life of a strange, poetic race revealed. It takes you away from the commonplace and transports you to a wonderland of fancy - a land of myths and mystics., Contents: Program: Mythological birth of the fairyland of Nippon (Japan) - Kimigayo (the National Anthem of Japan) - The Music of a race the expression of its character - Banzai march - Japanese scales - The Shakuhachi - Oiwaki - Oiwaki (harmonized) - Shen Nen (New Year's song) - The Sono koto - Hime Matsu - Legend of the Koto - Legend of the bells - Costumes - Shin-fa-diu (Chinese melody) - Sumera-Mikuni (patriotic Japanese melody) - The Theater orchestra - Percussive instruments of wood - The Hioshigi - Riu-kiu-bushi (Formosan air) - A Buddhist prayer - Drums - Sakura (cherry tree) - The Hichiriki - Musical frogs and beetles. No intermission. Part II. A short scene from Japanese home-life, given entirely in the Japanese language, introducing home devotions to ancestors, flower arrangement, tea-drinking, posing to music and Japanese magic., Albert Gale (1870-1952) was a musicologist who described himself as a "ethnologist of music." His wife, Martha Brockway Gale, was a vocalist and choral director. Together they toured the country, including Philadelphia, giving lectures and recitals starting around 1906 on Native American, Chinese, and Japanese music and culture. Gale never traveled to Japan. He took lessons on Japanese and Chinese instruments from Japanese musicians in Seattle.
Creator: Gale Printing Co., engraver
Date: [ca. 1913]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera -- Misc. - Gale [P.2025.26]

Title: [Full-length portrait of an unidentified Asian man]
Description: Full-length portrait of an unidentified, young, Asian man attired in a white collared shirt, bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, pants, and dress shoes. He stands looking directly at the viewer with his hands at his sides. Studio backdrop includes a side table and a vase full of flowers., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the photographer., Photographer's imprint on recto: "Bartholomew, Lansdale, PA" and a monograph of "JCB.", John C. Bartholomew (1862-1943) began his career as a traveling photographer with a portable studio where he stopped in Quakertown, Perkasie, Sellersville, Souderton and Telford, Pa. He opened a photography studio in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. in 1882. He then moved and opened a studio in Lansdale, Pa. in 1891, where he worked photographing portraits and local landmarks and landscapes until his death.
Creator: Bartholomew, John C, 1862-1943, photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT PRINT cabinet card portraits - photographer - Bartholomew [P.2025.17]

Title: [East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church Marching Band, Brown & Stevens Bank, 427 South Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Full-length group portrait depicting the eighteen African American men members of the band, including the Marching Captain, standing as a group, in front of the African American owned bank, possibly during the Fifty-Third Annual Session of the Delaware Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church held at the East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church in March 1916. The men wear uniforms, including caps with insignias and jackets with braiding details. Most are posed with their instruments in hand. The band drums, one marked "East Calvary Phila, Pa.," rest at the feet of the men in the center of the group. The Captain, in the left, wears white shoes and holds a marching baton to the ground. The Brown & Stevens bank building adorned with awnings is visible in the background. Brown & Stevens, founded by partners E.C. Brown and Andrew Stevens, Jr. was the leading Black bank in Philadelphia in the the early 1900s before ceasing operations in 1925.The Delaware Annual conference was established in 1864 for African Amerian Methodists in Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic Region. East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church was under the pastorship of Charles Albert Tindley in 1916., Title supplied by cataloger., Attributed to William T. Robbins. Robbins was a Black Philadelphia photographer who photographed the members and events of the East Cavalry Methodist Church between at least circa 1916 and circa 1928. Robbins also worked as a shipping clerk between about 1920 and about 1950 as cited in U.S. Census records and city directories., Date inferred from attributed photographer and content., RVCDC
Creator: Robbins, William T., approximately 1898-, photographer
Date: [1916?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Robbins [P.2025.14.5]

Title: W.F. Potteiger, druggist, N.W. corner Fourth and Spruce Streets, Reading, PA
Description: Trade card promoting pharmacist William F. Potteiger and depicting a white woman attired in a kimono, probably an actress in character from the opera The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the woman wearing her hair up and decorated with fans and attired in a blue kimono with gold cranes, peach-colored obi, and purple skirt. She holds a peach-colored fan in her right hand and turns her head to the right with her left hand up. She stands on a fur rug., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the advertised business., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Potteiger [P.9828.6624]

Title: Geo. F. Woods, druggist and apothecary, dealer in fancy goods, Bellows Falls, Ct Soda and mineral waters on draught and in package
Description: Trade card promoting druggist George F. Woods and depicting a fan with a scene of a woman carrying a watering can and walking down a path. In the top left shows a fan with a ribbon tied around bamboo handle. On the fan is a vignette shows a woman, attired in a brimmed hat, necklace, and dress, walking down a path. She holds skirt in her left hand and carries a watering can in her right hand. Flanking the path are vases full of flowers. In the background is a pagoda and trees., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: P.9828.7149-7150., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Woods [P.9828.7151]

Title: Lloyd O. Woodruff, druggist. Cor. Broadway & Point St., Cape Vincent, N.Y. Don’t read the other side
Description: Racist trade card promoting pharmacist Lloyd O. Woodruff and depicting actress Kate Forster dressed in character as Pitti-Sing from the opera, The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows Forster wearing her hair up and attired in a blue kimono with gold decorations and a gold, flower-patterned obi. She holds a fan in both hands behind her head. Kate Forster, whose real name was Kate Jancowski, worked for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and performed as Pitti-Sing and Katisha in the Mikado in 1885-1886, 1889-1902. Lloyd O. Woodruff opened a drugstore in Cape Vincent, New York circa 1870., Title stamped on recto., Date deduced from dates of the performance., Text printed on verso: Lloyd O. Woodruff, druggist, keeps a full line of drugs, patent medicines, paints, oils, window glass, dry goods, boots, shoes and rubbers, fine stationery, school books, fancy groceries, watches, chains, plated ware, crockery, and will not be undersold, if you do not see what you want at his store, ask for it. Don’t forget the place, Cor. Broadway & Point St., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, See related: P.9828.2769-2771; P.9828.2823.
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists -Woodruff [P.9828.7139]

Title: Compliments of R.B. Porter, druggist, St. Johnsville, N.Y
Description: Trade card promoting druggist Reuben B. Porter and depicting a white woman attired in a kimono dressed as a character from the opera The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the woman wearing her hair up and decorated with fans and attired in a red and gold kimono. She sits on the branch of a red flower and holds a blue fan in her left hand. A white butterfly flies in the left., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of advertised business., Series no. on recto: 686., Manuscript written on verso: Nora Enlenmarks., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: P.9828.332; P.9828.1679; P.9828.4244; P.9828.5299; P.9828.5852-5854., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Porter [P.9828.6622]

Title: C.H. & J. Price, pharmacists, No. 226 Essex Street, Salem, Mass
Description: Series of picture puzzle cards including "The doctor and his patients" showing a man attired in a monocle and a suit and holding a top hat and "Fair spirits and foul" depicting an anthropomorphized monkey attired in Elizabethan-era clothing and holding a sword. Upon closer inspection, human faces are visible in these two figures. C.H. and J. Price was the partnership between Charles H. and Joseph Price., Copyrighted 1880., Title from advertising text printed on versos., Additional advertising text printed on versos: In addition to our large stock of drugs, medicines and chemicals, we offer a complete assortment of elastic stockings, knee caps, anklets, belts &c., for the relief and support of varicose veins, weak, swollen or ulcerated limbs, abdominal weakness or tumors. Also all varieties of spring and elastic trusses. A competent pharmacist will respond to the bell at any hour of the night., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - P [P.9828.6645 & 6646]

Title: Schooley's Mountain Seminary, N.J
Description: View of clapboard building surrounded by trees. One boy flies a kite, others push hoops, and groups of boys and girls stand on the front lawn and porch. The Reverend Luke Stoutenburg established a school ca. 1870 in Schooley Mountain (Morris County, N.J.), an area long known for its medicinal springs., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the lithographer and content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Ferd. Mayer & Co, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Education [P.2010.6.26]

Title: Compliments J.C. Rushton, Rushton's Pharmacy, Racquet Club Building, New York
Description: Trade card promoting J.C. Rushton's pharmacy. Shows a blue and white porcelain vase and bowl decorated with flowers in front of red grass. In the bottom are three flying cranes. Decorative geometric border surrounds the card., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Advertising text printed on verso: J.C. Rushton’s celebrated cold cream of roses. Fine toilet colognes, comprising thirty different odors, surpassed by none in the world. Lily White, perfumed with wood violet, sachet powders. The choicest odors for letter paper, glove boxes, wardrobes, etc., etc. Perfumed camphor ice with glycerine. [?]rine lotion, an indispensable article [?] to allay irritation after shaving. [?]air tonique de ricine a la quinine, a delightful tonic dressing for the hair, stopping it from falling, and making it pliant, soft and glossy. Glyco Bayline can be used where there is no oil wanted. It is combined of glycerine, it is composed of glycerine, Bay Rum, &c. Sweet Hyacinth Pomade, from pure, fresh marrow, and perfumed with the flowers. Floral tooth paste, unequalled for its preservative qualities and delightful fragrance. Saponine. The above article in poweder. Peruvian saponaceous, camphorated, orris, charcoal and other dentifrices. Indelible ink. The above are manufactured at my chemical laboratory, Racquet Club Building, 6th Avenue, Cor. 26th Street, N.Y. And forwarded to any address on application., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: Berman Trade Card Collection - Patridge's [P.2015.56.662]
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Rushton [P.9828.6704]

Title: [Edwin McMasters Stanton]
Description: Half-length portrait of Edward Stanton, wearing a beard and attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, waistcoat, and jacket. Stanton served as Secretary of War between 1862 and 1868., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1863 by M.B. Brady in the clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S. for the So. District of New York., Text on verso reads in part: From photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery., Manuscript text on verso reads: Stanton., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, photographer
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv- portraits - sitter - S [P.2010.6.32]

Title: The game of Philadelphia buildings
Description: Card game containing fifty-three cards depicting landmarks and historic and well-known sites in the city. Cards depict (1) State House; (2) Carpenter's Hall; (3) Christ Church; (4) Old Swedes' Church; (5) Bartram's House; (6) Franklin's Grave; (7) University of Pennsylvania; (8) Pennsylvania Hospital; (9) Academy of Natural Science; (10) Franklin Institute; (11) Historical Society of Pennsylvania; (12) Academy of Music; (13) Academy of Fine Arts; (14) Mint (Chestnut and Juniper); (15) Girard College; (16) Custom House; (17) Old Stock Exchange; (18) Cramps' Ship Yard; (19) William Penn's Cottage; (20) Masonic Temple; (21) Odd Fellows' Hall; (22) Reading Terminal; (23) Pennsylvania R.R. station; (24) Union League; (25) Art Club; (26) Mercantile Club; (27) Memorial Hall; (28) Horticultural Hall; (29) Betsy Ross House; (30) Entrance to Zoological Garden; (31) Post Office; (32) Fairmount Water Works; (33) Philadelphia Library; (34) Ridgway Library; (35) New Horticultural Hall; (36) Chestnut Street Theater; (37) Chestnut Street Opera House; (38) Century Club; (39) Twelfth Street Meeting House; (40) Synagogue Rodef Shalom; (41) Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul; (42) High School for Girls; (43) Normal School for Girls; (44) High School for Boys; (45) Bourse; (46) Baldwin Locomotive Works; (47) Drexel Institute; (48) Mary J. Drexel Home; (49) Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art; (50) St. George's Hall; (51) St. Peter's Church; (52) City Hall; and (53) [National Export Exposition Building]., Images include statuary; grave stones; site visitors; partial views of adjacent buildings; lampposts; street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages and street cars; signage, broadsides, and posters; window awnings; electrical lines; and trees. Majority of images are reproductions of photographs, except images of Cramp's Ship Yard, High School for Boys, Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the National Export Exposition Building, which are after prints., Publication date based on statement on box cover "Title copyright by Miss Mary S. Holmes 1899.", Box cover contains halftone photomechanical print showing Independence Hall on the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Also shows neighboring buildings, including Congress Hall and the roof of the Public Ledger Building. Vignette of the seal of Philadelphia is visible in the lower left corner., Accompanied by photostat of the rules to play the game and "Key to the Pictures" (1-52), including addresses and years of completion for the sites, signed "Copyrighted by Mary S. Holmes. December, 1898. The Billstein Co., Philadelphia.", Prints numbered in lower left corner, as well as labeled with a letter and sequential number in lower right corner. Letter and sequential number are absent on Card No. 53., Mary S. Holmes was most likely the Philadelphia educator with memberships in the Philadelphia Geographical Society and Teachers' Photographic Association. In the 1890s, she taught at Girls High School and Commerical High School for Girls. She later served as the principal for the Germantown High School for Girls., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom (PW-285234-22), 2023-2025.
Date: [1899]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Game [8188.F]

Title: [Silhouette collection]
Description: Collection of silhouettes depicting men, women, and children, primarily bust-length and cut at a Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Baltimore or New York) in the early 19th century. Some silhouettes depict African American sitters. Items often contain physiognotrace impressed lines and some contain amateur pencil markings. A small number also include eyelash cutouts, contain ink details to depict hair or collars, or are folded in fours. Many silhouettes also include hair adornments and other fashion details, including ribbons, bows, collars, bonnets, hats, and flowers. Collection also contains one non-portrait cutout composed of a bird, several branches, and a temple-like structure, as well as several numbered leaves of silhouettes removed from an album. Leaves contain 1- 8 silhouettes, some cut and some in ink. The silhouettes also show flowers adorning clothing, hair, and as bouquets; hair ornaments; ribbons; and hats. Some silhouettes depicted as if framed or with pictorial details or overdrawn with scales of dimension. A small number of uncut silhouettes inserted in one of the albums [P.9346] and a scrap completed February 25, 1837 by silhouette sitter Miss Anne Sophia Billmeyer, Germantown containing manuscript notes related to religious values and morals, possibly notes from a sermon, also form the collection [P.2010.29.17]., Sitters identified by inscriptions include Lydia Biddle; Paulus Brzostowski; Isaac Collins, Jr.; William Dilworth; Rebecca Gratz; Rubens Peale; Robert Pearsall, Sr.; Robert Pearsall, Jr.; Benjamin Say, Thomas Shillitoe; John Snyder, Jr.; Benjain West; and Moses Williams. Surnames of other identified sitters include Bartram, Lansadale, Caldwell, Collins, Headley, Logan, and Smith., Title supplied by cataloger., Several blindstamped: Museum or Peale's Museum [with image of eagle]., Some blindstamped: Day's Patent or Todd's Patent., Some sitters identified by inscriptions on recto or verso. Some inscriptions illegible., Some annotated with addresses, or a number, or a series of sequential numbers., One of albums (P.9347) accompanied by list of sitters written in manuscript., Artists include Raphaelle Peale, William James Hubard, T. P. Jones, Moses Williams, Martha Ann Honeywell, J. M'Conachy, Isaac Todd, and Augustus Day., P.9339.22c blindstamped: T. P. Jones, fecit., P.9341.31d blindstamped: J. M'Conachy., P.2012.3 mounted on textile and suggested, but doubtfully by Martha Ann Honeywell., Silhouette of Rebecca Gratz [8146.F] inscribed: Cut with scissors by Master Hubbard without Drawing Machine. Accompanied by manuscript letter signed R. Gratz, secy., Silhouettte of John Snyder, Jr. [P.9343.1] inscribed: Cut by M. Honeywell with the mouth., Silhouette of Mr. Shaw's Blackman [P.9339.59a] attributed to Moses Williams., Silhouette of Moses Williams [(3) 5750.F.153b] possibly by Moses Williams or possibly by Raphaelle Peale., P.9340.80 contains manuscript note: Mr. Gill will call for two pictures in frames paid for [pr J. L. S.?], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., P.9339-P.9343 and P.9346 & P.9347 bequest of James Rush, 1869., P.9686 gift of Elizabeth McLean., Three of collection [P.2012.1.1-3] transferred from Things Found in Books Collection., Index to identified sitters available at repository.
Date: [ca. 1803-ca. 1841]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Silhouette Collection [5306.F.144 c1; (3)5750.F.39 1/2d(v); (3)5750.F.153b; 8146.F; 8416.F; P.9339; P.9340; P.9341; P.9342; P.9343; P.9346; P.9347; P.9686; P.2010.29.1-17; P.2012.1.1-3; P.2012.3]

Title: Geo. F. Woods, druggist and apothecary, dealer in fancy goods, Bellows Falls, Ct Soda and mineral waters on draught and in package
Description: Trade cards promoting druggist George F. Woods and depicting an Asian man looking at a statue of an Asian woman in a park. Shows an Asian man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a conical hat, patterned tunic and matching pants, and shoes. He stands behind a fence and looks at a statue of a barefooted woman, wearing a headpiece and attired in a sarong with her breasts exposed, on a pedestal. She holds a fan with a long handle in her right hand and gestures with her left hand. Also visible are a palm tree, potted plant, and a path., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: P.9828.7151., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Wood [P.9828.7149-7150]

Title: With compliments, Israel Zinser, dealer in drugs, books, stationery, paints, oils, glass, brushes, perfumery, violin strings, and fancy articles, Washington, Illinois
Description: Trade card promoting druggist Israel Zinser and depicting three boys, possibly meant to be Asian, constructing an oversized paper lantern decorated with an image of a flowering branch. In the foreground is a bamboo scaffold on which is a jar full of paintbrushes. In the right, the boy, attired in a green and gold tunic, sits on the scaffold and holds a hammer working on the base of the lantern. In the left, the boy, attired in a hat, yellow shirt with red cuffs, and yellow pants, stands on the scaffold and paints. In the top right, the boy, attired in a green shirt and yellow pants, sits on a swing, holds a paintbrush, and paints the upper part of the lantern. The lantern hangs from a flowering branch., Title from advertising text printed on verso., Date inferred from content., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Z [P.9828.7194]

Title: [Collection of engraved printing plates]
Description: Collection of printing plates, including several with a Philadelphia provenance and a number with engraved marks on the recto and verso. Designs include calling cards, scientific illustrations, border specimens, and the frontispiece in "Count Roderic's Castle, or, Gothic Times" (Philadelphia, 1795) illustrated with a swordfighting scene. Engraved marks depict birds, floral imagery, filigree, mathematical and anatomical diagrams, and geometric details. One plate also used as a trial plate and contains a montage of details, including a shield, sickle, female allegorical figure, a female figure leaning on a horse and with a basket at her feet, the monogram “CPH,” and strings of letters. Collection also includes two envelopes with inscriptions about their content and two type blocks containing marks depicting monograms. One type design also includes a woodpecker., Names on calling cards include Jabez Maud Fisher; Mr. J. F. Fisher; The Misses Fisher, Alverthorpe; Mr. George Harrison; William Bradford, 319 S. Fifteenth St., and Mr. Harrison., Engravers include John Vallance, E. Trenchard, and Dreka., Plate makers include J. B. Keim., Gift of David Doret., Housed in a phase box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Louis Dreka was first listed as an engraver in Philadelphia city directories in 1863.
Date: [ca. 1795-ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - engraved printing plates [P.2010.35.10-26]

Title: [Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning family photograph album]
Description: Album compiled by a member of the African American middle-class Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning family containing portrait photographs of family and friends. Majority of contents are unidentified and include professionally photographed cabinet cards, cartes de visite, and tintypes, as well as snapshots. Several of the professional photographs also show props, including a baby's swing, fur rug, wicker chairs and stools. Other portraits include women dressed in early 20th-century beach attire, a ca. 1920's photo of a woman with a ukulele; and two men posed in front of an entryway draped in an American flag. Album also contains a reproduction of an unidentified painted portrait photograph; ca. 1828 silhouettes of Richard C. Cogdell and his brother Charles S. Cogdell (sons of Richard and Cecilia Cogdell) stamped on verso cut by Master Hankes, i.e., Jarvis F. Hanks; and a clipped periodical illustration depicting Maria Walpole, Countess of Waldegrave., Sitters include Cordelia Chew Hinkson and her daughter Cordelia Hinkson Brown as a baby (inside cover & insert before p. 32); Lillie Dickerson (p. 8); George Venning (insert before p. 10); Florence I. Warwick as a child and adult (insert before p. 10 & 24); Richard DeReef Venning (insert before p. 18 & 36); Louise Sanders Venning (insert before p. 32); and possibly Cordelia Chew (p. 36)., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Some loose photographs contain identity of sitter and date inscribed on verso. Some inscriptions barely legible., Twelve ca. 1920s 2x3 snapshots showing vacation portraiture pasted on inside front cover., Two photographs inserted in slot on p. 8., Date of silhouettes inferred from active dates in Charleston, S.C. of silhouettist Jarvis F. Hanks. See Charleston Courier, March 13, 1828, 2 and "For A Few Days," Charleston Courier, March 31, 1928, 3., Various photographers, including Philadelphia photographers Baumgardner & Hebling; H. D. Garns (& Co.); L. Blaul; Kuebler; Swain & Bridle; M. Herbert Bridle; 1XL Gallery; Larkin Gallery; F. S. Keeler; Bell Studio; and Henrici & Garns., See Lib. Company Annual Report, 1991, p. 26-31., Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky., See LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., Genealogical charts available at repository., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1860 - ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection [P.2012.37.2]

Title: Traymore House, Atlantic City, N.J
Description: Illustrated trade card promoting the Traymore hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey and depicting two Japanese women walking in opposite directions. Shows the women, attired in kimonos and holding parasols, walking on the grass. In the right is a partial view of a fence and part of a roof with geometric designs along the side. A tree grows in the background. The Traymore began as a boarding house in Atlantic City in 1879 and expanded to become a large resort hotel. It was demolished in 1972., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of the advertising business., Advertising text printed on verso: “The Traymore,” Sea end of Illinois Avenue, Atlantic City, N.J., Will re-open for the reception of guests June 1st. The House, situated at the sea end of Illinois Avenue, containing upwards of seventy apartments and being one of the nearest to the beach (which is within 100 yards), with nothing to obstruct the view, gives it the advantage of having more pleasant Ocean rooms than any other house of its capacity in Atlantic City., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Traymore [1975.F.872]

Title: Enterprise Congress-World's Fair
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 promoting the Enterprise Maufacturing Company of Pennsylvania's meat choppers and depicting Uncle Sam demonstrating a meat chopper surrounded Columbia and people representing different nationalities. In the center, Uncle Sam chops meat by turning the handle of a meat chopper mounted to a table under which two pigs stand. In the right, Columbia, depicted as a white woman attired in a white dress with gold trim and a red sash, stands holding a gold staff topped with a star and places her right hand on Uncle Sam's shoulder. At her feet is a bald eagle with an American flag crested shield on its chest. In a left, a Scotsman, attired in tartan kilt, bends at the waist and watches the chopper grind meat onto a plate. Men stand and look on surrounding the table representing different nationalities, including an Irishman, Englishman, and a Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a gold conical hat, blue shirt, and purple robe. Also includes partially visible exposition buildings in the background. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1893 by Donaldson Brothers, Lith. N.Y., Several lines of advertising text printed on verso. Text promotes the excellence of the "Enterprise Meat Choppers" in not tearing or grinding, but chopping the meat so devoid of "strings, sinew, fibers or gristle"; foods able to be chopped, including sausage meat, peppers, corn for fritters, coconut, and "Beef Tea for invalids"; the design of the plates; and prices of different models ranging from $2.00 to $15.00, including No. 42, a "Pork only" chops 5 lb. per minute., Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Typeface on verso varies between prints., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts an "Enterprise" meat chopper clamped to a table. Ground meat falls onto a plate., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.66]

Title: B.T. Creighton, chemist & pharmacist, N.E. cor. 3rd & Washington Ave., Phila Prescriptions compounded at all hours of day or night, from pure drugs, at reasonable prices and only by graduates in pharmacy
Description: Trade card promoting druggist B.T. Creighton and depicting a rectangular paddle fan. In the left, shows the hand-held fan decorated in red, blue, white, and gold with a butterfly. Stems of leaves behind the fan., Title from item., Date inferred from active date of advertised business., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - C [P.9828.5698]

Title: W.T. Hanson & Co., prescription druggists, 195 State Street, Schenectady, N.Y
Description: Trade card promoting druggist W.T. Hanson & Co. and depicting a caricaturized Japanese boy playing with puppets. In the center, the boy, attired in a multi-colored, patterned kimono, geta shoes, and a cap with a red ribbon, holds a puppet in each hand. The puppet in the left is a Japanese woman, wearing her hair tied up and attired in a multi-colored, patterned kimono. The puppet in the right is a Japanese man attired in a conical hat and a multi-colored, patterned kimono. Willis Tracy Hanson, Sr. (1858-1933) founded W.T. Hanson & Co. in 1879., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the advertised business., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand., See related: Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection [P.9828.4586].
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - H [P.9828.6079]

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: [Virginia and Trudy at the Daylesford, PA train station]
Description: Two smiling women, a suitcase at their feet, stand on a wooden train platform next to a small station identified with a sign as Daylesford. In the center, two white women, attired in brimmed hats, gloves, jackets, and skirts, look at the viewer. Empty train tracks stretch out behind them. Built as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the station, razed in 2000, was located on Lincoln Highway and Conestoga Street, 18 miles west of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note written on recto: 1914; Daylesford, Pa; Va and True., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1914
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - unidentified - Transportation [P.2010.6.22]

Title: Ercildowne, Wissinoming. Philadelphia
Description: View showing the estate of the Philadelphia industrialist, Matthias W. Baldwin, located at Comly and State roads in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia. Trees surround a three story Italianate-style residence with an open verandah extending along the entire front facade. The estate was originally built as a country residence for Baldwinin the 1850s. After his death, the building served as a mental hospital and later as a residential institution for elderly women. The building was destroyed in a 1954 fire., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 874
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences [P.2010.6.24]

Title: Bowling Green
Description: Street level view of fenced-in park containing trees and large fountain surrounded by streets lined with rowhouses. In the center is a building labeled, Washington. Also includes heavy street with men on horseback, horse-drawn carts, and a horse-drawn omnibus. Men, women, and children pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and streets. Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan is New York City's oldest park., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Magnus, Charles, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. -New York [P.2010.6.25]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified African American woman]
Description: Half-length, forward facing portrait of a seated African American woman posed behind a prop window frame. Sitter rests her left elbow and right hand on the bottom edge of the frame. Her left hand rests on her shoulder, near the side of her face. She has dark, crimped hair, parted in the middle and that is pulled back into a braided crown at the back of her head. She is attired in a dark-colored, satiny dress with a plunging V-neck and that is adorned with a frilled ribbon and long sleeves with ruching below the shoulder. She also wears a white V-neck collar adorned with a broach, frilled white cuffs, hoop earrings, and a ring on her right hand. Her cheeks and lips are tinted pink. Image also includes a creeping grape vine in the right of the image. Sitter probably from or related to the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic format and attire of sitter., Sitter's cheeks tinted pink., Name of daguerreotypist inferred from studio prop (window and trailing vine) visible in image., Pad: Bright red velvet with a scroll design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. A large floral spray with a lily and leaves, surrounded by an ornate scrolled border. Geometric design on verso., Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993., Library Company. Annual Report, 1993, p. 17-24., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cased photos - Dickerson Collection [P.9427.13]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified African American woman]
Description: Half-length, forward facing portrait of an African American woman seated on a chair. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, and looped behind her ears. She is attired in a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress with a white chemisette with a collar and under sleeves, a brooch, and a ring. She rests her left arm on a table covered with a patterned tablecloth, and her right hand rests on her lap. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from sitter's attire., Pad: Faded red velvet with small floral spray in center surrounded by scrolls., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Case design of a bouquet of flowers in an urn within a nonpareil border is called "The Romanesque Urn" and is Plate 141 in Floyd and Marion Rinhart's American miniature case art (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Same design on verso., Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993 p. 17-24., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.14]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified African American woman]
Description: Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of a seated, African American woman. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, and looped behind her ears. She is attired in a dark-colored, long-sleeved, silk dress with a white lace collar, and black lace, fingerless gloves. A broach adorns her collar. She rests her left forearm on a table covered in a patterned cloth. A book lies on the table. The sitter’s left hand rests on her lap. Her lips are tinted pink. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Dark purple velvet with a scroll design in the center., Mat: Oval., Case: Square thermoplastic. On recto is a leaf design surrounded by scrolls. This design is #3-128 reproduced in Paul K. Berg's nineteenth century photographic cases and wall frames (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647: Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) The design on the verso is a bunch of grapes, #2-25 in Berg's book., Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 17-24.
Date: [ca. 1850-ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos -Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.16]

Title: [The scourged back]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait showing the severely scarred back of the former enslaved and Union soldier, Peter, also known as Gordon, taken during a medical examination in Louisiana and sent to the Surgeon General of Massachusetts. Peter is seated, and with his back to the camera. His head is turned left and he holds his left hand on his lef hip. He wears a goatee and his hair is in tight curls., Image reproduced as wood engraving with accompanying article in Harper's weekly, July 4, 1863, p. 429. (LCP **Per H, 1863.) Name of photographer supplied by article., Title and publication information supplied by William Darrah's Cartes-de-visite in nineteenth century photography (Gettysburg: William C. Darrah, 1981), p. 148., One of three variant photographs depicting Peter posed with his back to the camera., Manuscript note in modern hand on verso of P.8925.4 attributes copy to publisher C. Seaver, Jr.: "Gordon" by C. Seaver, Jr. Seaver, Jr., a Boston photographer, published the carte-de-visite in support of the abolitionist movement., 5786.F.157c originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Miscellanies. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., P.8925.4 accessioned 1982, found in collection., Recent scholarship has shown the identity of the man photographed in "The Scourged Back" to be a man named Peter, not Gordon. See David Silkenat, "'A Typical Negro': Gordon, Peter, Vincent Colyer, and the the story behind slavery's most famous photograph," American Nineteenth Century History 15, no. 2 (2014): 169-186. Copy in LCP Graphic Arts Department Research file - Peter., Description revised 2025., Access points revised 2025., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: M'Pherson and Oliver, photographer
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Peter [5786.F.157c; P.8925.4]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of our times; or leading patriots of our day...(Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co., 1868), Pl. 17. (LCP Am 1868 Sto, 17904.D)., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Smith, Henry Wright, -1828, engraver
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-P [P.9363.82]

Title: [Louisa A. White photograph album]
Description: Photograph album of portraits of unidentified middle-class African Americans including fourteen men, eleven women, and three babies., Various photographers from New York, Rhode Island, and Philadelphia. Philadelphia photographers include J. Fenton, J.W. Hurn, Parlor Galleries, and Comly T. Santman., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript inscription written on inside cover: Louisa A. White, Wishes & Regards of Anna Gibbs Philadelphia, With the best, Christmas 1878., Missing front cover, back cover, spine, and back pages., Gold gilded pages, edges cut with leaf design., Manuscript note on verso of photograph on [p.29]: October 1877, Lynchburg, Va. Mrs. M.C. Bronaugh., Purchase 1996., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9505]

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