Handel [graphic] / F. Moras, Phila.
Title
Handel
Description
Bust-length portrait of the composer Handel, wearing a long, curly wig and attired in a neckerchief and a jacket with lace, facing slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator
Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - H - [P.2011.45.19]
Schubert [graphic].
Title
Schubert
Description
Bust-length portrait of composer Franz Schubert, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and jacket, and facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - S - [P.2011.45.20]
Gettysburg, Pa. July 3rd 1863 [graphic].
Title
Gettysburg, Pa. July 3rd 1863
Description
Print containing series of vignettes of the Battle of Gettysburg. In the left, depicts two Confederate soldiers holding rifles, labeled "C.S.A."; a bust-length portrait of General Robert Lee; and Confederate soldiers with cannons, labeled, "Artillery Duel Confederate." In the center, shows Confederate soldiers holding rifles and marching forward during "Pickett's Charge." In the right, depicts two Union soldiers holding rifles labeled, "U.S.A."; a bust-length portrait of General George Meade; and Union soldiers with cannons labeled, "Artillery Duel Union." In the lower center, shows an eagle with outstretched wings and an American flag crest with a swords, a rifle, and a cannon., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Manuscript written in the lower left: Artist proof., Artist signature written in the lower right., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator
M. Krause, lithographer
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Battles -Gettysburg [P.2011.45.7]
Libby Prison in war times [graphic].
Title
Libby Prison in war times
Description
View of Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Va. and showing Union prisoners in front of tents and a large building. In the foreground are six tents, one labeled "C.S.A." Men, including one with his arm in a sling, stand and walk between the tents. In the background is the brick, three-story prison building, converted from a grocery warehouse and with a sign that reads, "Libby & Sons Ship Chandlers & Grocers." A group of men stand in front of the building. In the left, men in uniform stand in formation. Libby Prison held Union officers and operated from March 1862 until April 1865. The overcrowded prison had harsh conditions and a high mortality rate., Title from the item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1889 by Charles Pollock., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date
1889
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.6]
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. [graphic] : This certifies that [Rev. William Hance]... / Lith of T. Sinclair Phila. Desgd & engrd by E. Robyn.
Title
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy This certifies that [Rev. William Hance]
Description
Certificate for life membership in the Philadelphia Sabbath Association and depicting a church next to a canal. In the center, shows a church. Men and a woman walk towards the church and enter through the front door. In the foreground is a canal with a canal boat docked and a railway car. In the right are several buildings. In the left are horses and cows in a fenced in field, and a house is visible in the background. The Philadelphia Sabbath Association was founded in 1840 and aimed to promote the protection of the Sabbath and provided Sunday services for canal workers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed and manuscript written on recto: ...by a contribution of twenty dollars made by [M.E. Union Church, Phila. June 1, 1856] is constituted a Life Member of the Philadelphia Sabbath Association. [John A. Brown] President. [Milfred Hall] Cor. Secy. [Martin Buehler] Treasurer., Gift of David Doret., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2009, p. 56-7.
Creator
Robyn, Edward, 1820-1862, artist
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certifcates - Phila. Sabbath [P.2009.24.11]
[David McNeely Stauffer collection of prints and original drawings for his extra-illustrated Westcott’s History of Philadelphia] [graphic].
Title
[David McNeely Stauffer collection of prints and original drawings for his extra-illustrated Westcott’s History of Philadelphia]
Description
Collection of titled drawings and prints after drawings drawn by David McNeely Stauffer for his extra-illustrated "Westcott’s History of Philadelphia." Graphics depict portraits of prominent persons and images of dwellings, graves and tombs, financial ephemera, and seals associated with Philadelphia or the history of Philadelphia., Titles of drawings include: Arabic Characters … from the Original in Watson's Manuscript Annals in the Pennsylvania Historical Soc.; Arch Street Prison; Archibald McCall from a Miniature; Arms of Queen Anna; Caesar A. Rodney; Clock presented to Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn from Chamber's Cyclopedia; "Essex House" where Penn landed 168[X]; Friend's Meeting Salem N.J: built 1772; Grave of the Wife of Andrew Robeson; Grenadier, 1776; "Hardwicke" on the Conestoga, Lancaster Pa.; Hendrick Hudson; Jas. Smith; The John Fanning House near Walpole, Conn.; Joshua Fisher; Lady Ann Keith; Official Seal of Wm. Dummer, Colonial Gov. of Massachusetts; The "Old Cannon-Ball" or "Balcony" House; Old House NW corner Front and Race Sts.; On East Wall of St. Peter's; The Phillip's Mansion on Arch between 13th and Broad Sts.; Provincial Currency, 1723; Receipt of Free Society of Traders; Residence of Jeremiah Langhorne; The Residence of John Bleakley; Residence of Louis Phillippe; Rittenhouse Academy; [Seal of] Sir William Keith, Governor of Pennsylvania; Sketches in Old Swedes Church Yard; Thomas Penn, Esq; Toland's House. Germantown; Tomb of Lady Ann Keith, Christ Church; [Unidentified Building]; Whitby Hall; and Ye Seals of ye Original Counties; Canopy over Door/Cornice and Brick; Gott Segne Dies Haus Und Ales Was; Maurer im Lebanon/Henrich Rewalt, 1778; Old “Knox Homestead” near Norristown, Montgomery Co., Pa.; Tapeworm Man-Lancaster Market; Paysan Des Environs de Cordone; [Peasant woman carrying baskets and umbrella]., Title of prints include: Bits about the Corner of Fisher's Lane and Germantown Avenue; Carnival, Philadelphia, 1778; Centre Square Philada.; Dr. John L. Atlee; Farmer & Mechanic Bank, Philadelphia, Chestnut St.; The Fraticide at Wyoming; Philadelphia Soc. of Fine Arts; Hon J. I. Clark Hare; Indian Queen Hotel; Interior of the Chestnut Street Theatre, 1793; John Armstrong; Masonic Hall, Philadelphia; Mauch Chunk; Monument, Market Street Bridge, Philadelphia; The Moravian Church and Parsonage; Odd Fellow's Hall, Broad Street and Central High School, Broad Street; Old Courthouse, Lancaster, PA; Old Court House Second and Market; Old German School on Cherry Street; Philadelphia [Harbor Scene]; Postlewaite's Tavern, First Courts of Lanc Co. held here; Rear View of Houses at Eighth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia; The Residence of John Bleakley; Rev. Robert R. Roberts, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church; "Shippen Mansion" Res of Dr. B. Rush; South East Corner of Third and Market ; St. Michael's; The House in which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; The Swedes' Church and House of Sven Sener (From Watson's "Annals of Philadelphia"); Washington's Headquarters at Morristown; and Ye Conyngham House., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from imprints and manuscript notes on items., Various artists and engravers including James Charles Armytage, Gill Eng. Co., James B. Longacre, R. A. Muller, John Neagle, Howard Pyle, Charles A. Poulson, David McNeely Stauffer, and Henry Warren., Several drawings signed by artist lower right corner: DMS, Several drawings and prints numbered in pencil and/or contain pencil annotations. Numbers probably refer to corresponding page number of extra illustration., Some drawings and prints contain attributions to provenance or original artist, including Chambers Cyclopedia, John Fanning Watson, and William Darlington., P.2018.64.25 contains pencil sketch of row house on verso. P.2021.43.16 contains a pencil sketch of Pepper estate on verso. P.2021.43.19 contains a partial map of Boneet Carre Point, Louisiana on the verso., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., David McNeely Stauffer (1845-1913) was a civil engineer, author, antiquarian, and artist most known for his biographical dictionary "American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel: Biographical sketches and Check Lists of Engravings" first published in 1907. From 1893 to 1913 he devoted much of his time to the extra-illustration of "Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1829" as printed in the Sunday Dispatch (1854-1884).
Creator
Stauffer, David McNeely, 1845-1913
Date
[ca. 1831-ca. 1900; bulk ca. 1850-ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stauffer Collection [P.2018.64; P.2018.65; P.2019.62.5; P.2021.43.16-20; P.2024.62.7-8]
Landscape. Evening [graphic].
Title
Landscape. Evening
Description
Drawing depicting an evening, landscape view. Shows a grassy bank of land with brush and trees near an inlet of water out of which rocks jut in the right., Artist and title from manuscript note on verso: Original Sketch - Landscape - by V. de V. Bonfield. Evening. V de V. Bonfield., Date inferred from artist's exhibition record at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., William Van de Veld Bornfield was a Pennsylvania artist who specialized in coastal marine, landscape, and winter scene paintings. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1861 and 1869 and intermittently between 1876 and 1885. Bornfield also worked in New Jersey.
Creator
Bonfield, William van de Velde, 1834-1885, artist
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.17]
Just a little Chinaman laundry work fine, will cookie, washee, ironie if you'll be his valentine [graphic].
Title
Just a little Chinaman laundry work fine, will cookie, washee, ironie if you'll be his valentine
Description
Racist caricature of a Chinese man laundry worker holding an iron and an ironing board and bending down towards a rat. In the right, the Chinese man wears a queue hairstyle with a red bow tied at the end of his braid and is attired in a blue tunic with gold trim, black pants, red socks, and green cloth slip-on shoes. He holds an iron in his right hand and an ironing board in his left hand. He bends over and looks down at a rat that runs away. In the left are red hearts and a clothespin. The text is written in pidgin English: Just a little Chinaman laundry work fine, will cookie, washee, ironie if you'll be his valentine., Title from item., Date inferred from medium and content., Series no. printed on verso: Series IV., Library Company copy has manuscript message and address written on verso and is postmarked, Blodgett Mills, N.Y., Feb. 12, P.M. 1906; Syracuse Feb. 13, A.M. 1906. Includes one-cent stamp depicting Benjamin Franklin., RVCDC
Date
[ca. 1906]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP Postcards - Genre - Just [P.2024.11]
Reformed Mission School, Sendai, Japan. [graphic].
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]
[Eiichi Hirose collection of bookplates].
Title
[Eiichi Hirose collection of bookplates]
Description
Collection of seventeen Japanese bookplates owned by Eiichi Hirose. Sixteen bookplates were designed and created by Yumimaro Ohmori, and one was created by Koson Nakayama. The bookplates depict scenes of Japanese landscapes, flowers, insects and animals, and people, including a person on a bridge over water and looking at a mountain; a man leading a horse; two people at a camp fire; a Japanese woman attired in a kimono; a young man farmer riding backwards on an ox; a potted plant; cherry blossoms; dragonflies; and a bird flying over bamboo. Two type-written letters are included describing some of the bookplate designs and gifting the bookplates to the Library Company of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from letter of gift., Partial transcript of letter accompanying the gift: I enclosed my ex-libris in use, designed and engraved by Yumimaro Ohmori, a graduate of the Tokyo College of Fine Arts, and would be glad to make an exchange of ex-libris with you. Because of my great interest in which I have been collecting ex-libris for three years, I shall appreciate very much if you can favor me with some of your specimens. I desire to extend this collection all over the world, and any information in this connection will be deeply appreciated. With best wishes, I am yours very truly, Eiichi Hirose. Oct. 8th, 1935., Text of accompanying letter: The design of this ex-libris represents a tombstone characteristic of 12th century Japan. This plate is designed and used by Koson Nakayama of Tokyo. The design of this plate is symbolical of dramatic art, the three colors, perhaps of curtains, representing the three largest theatres that existed in Yedo (present Tokyo). This plate is used by Shuzan E. Hirose. The design show a youthful farmer rising an ox. From this one may infer that the owner (Hirose) is a collector of books on agriculture and rural problems.
Creator
Ohmori, Yumimaro, artist
Date
[ca. 1935]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare LCP Records MSS 00270 Series 4B Bookplates Box 23, Folder 10 [12126.Q.10]
W.H. Furness, D.D. [graphic] / W. &. C. Barber.
Title
W.H. Furness, D.D
Description
Bronze medal commemorating William H. Furness's fifty years as pastor of the First Unitarian Society in Philadelphia. Shows a silhouette bust of Furness facing left. On the verso, depicts a wreath encircling the text. William Henry Furness (1802-1896) became the minister of the First Unitartian Church of Philadelphia in 1825 and served until his retirement in 1875., Text on verso: 1825 - 1875, In Honor of a Pastorate of 50 Years Over the First Unitarian Society Philadelphia., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator
W. & C. Barber, engraver
Date
1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PRINT albums [P.2011.45.31]
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Gilbert.
Title
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia
Description
Exterior view of Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin, built between 1755-1805 at 801-849 Pine Street, Philadelphia. In the foreground, shows the fence surrounding the multi-winged hospital and a row of trees. The West wing of the hospital was built 1794-1796 and the center house built 1794-1805 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. Building altered between 1846-1853 after the designs of John McArthur and John McArthur, Jr., Title from item., Date from publication date of the book the illustration appears in: James Mease. Picture of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert Desilver, 1831)., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator
Gilbert, George, active 1818-1836, engraver
Date
[ca. 1831]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Print Ph Pr 8x10 - Hospitals - Pennsylvania Hospital [P.2011.45.23]
Parade, Li Hung Chang's visit to Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic] / Photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H.
Title
Parade, Li Hung Chang's visit to Philadelphia, Pa
Description
View of the parade celebrating the arrival of Chinese statesmen, diplomat, and military general Li Hongzhang (1823-1901) in Philadelphia on September 3, 1896. Shows members of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, attired in uniform, and riding on horseback in rows. Crowds of men and women spectators stand on the sidewalk and street to watch. In the right, people are visible standing on awnings and ledges and peering out of windows from the buildings lining the street. Several trolleys and carriages are parked in the right. Li Hongzhang traveled extensively in 1896, visiting Russia, Britain, Europe, the United States, and Canada to promote Chinese diplomatic interests and trade. He arrived in Philadelphia at the Germantown Junction train station on September 3, 1896. Hongzhang and other members of his party then traveled by carriage in a parade procession accompanied by police on bicycles and on horseback, members of the Reception Committee in carriages, and the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, attired in uniform and on horseback. They journeyed to Independence Hall, then to Market Street, past City Hall, and down Broad Street., Title printed on mount., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1897 by B.W. Kilburn., Photographer's imprint printed on verso: Photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Linda Kimiko August, 2024., See related: Stereo - Kilburn - Processions [P.2024.31.2].
Creator
Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date
1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Processions [P.2024.31.1]
Parade, Li Hung Chang's visit to Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic] / Photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H.
Title
Parade, Li Hung Chang's visit to Philadelphia, Pa
Description
View of the parade celebrating the arrival of Chinese statesmen, diplomat, and military general Li Hongzhang (1823-1901) in Philadelphia on September 3, 1896. Shows Li Hongzhang, wearing a mustache and attired in a cap and tunic, riding in a horse-drawn carriage driven by two white men. Members of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, attired in uniform, ride on horseback around the carriage and hold out their swords across the opening of the carriage. Several horse-drawn carriages follow in the procession. A large crowd of men and women spectators stand in the street surrounding the carriages to watch. In the right, people are visible standing on awnings and ledges and peering out of windows from the buildings lining the street. Several trolleys and carriages are parked in the right. Li Hongzhang traveled extensively in 1896, visiting Russia, Britain, Europe, the United States, and Canada to promote Chinese diplomatic interests and trade. He arrived in Philadelphia at the Germantown Junction train station on September 3, 1896. Hongzhang and other members of his party then traveled by carriage in a parade procession accompanied by police on bicycles and on horseback, members of the Reception Committee in carriages, and the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, attired in uniform and on horseback. They journeyed to Independence Hall, then to Market Street, past City Hall, and down Broad Street., Title printed on mount., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1897 by B.W. Kilburn., Photographer's imprint printed on verso: Photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Linda Kimiko August, 2024., See related: Stereo - Kilburn - Processions [P.2024.31.1].
Creator
Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date
1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Processions [P.2024.31.2]
Li [graphic] / Guth 96.
Title
Li
Description
Full-length portrait depicting a racist caricature of Chinese statesmen, diplomat, and military general Li Hongzhang (1823-1901). Shows Hongzhang, wearing a mustache and attired in spectacles, a cap with a peacock feather, a patterned, gray and gold robe, a yellow jacket with buttons down the front, and black, slip-on shoes. He stands with his right hand out, showing long fingernails, and faces slightly right. Li Hongzhang traveled extensively in 1896, visiting Russia, Britain, Europe, the United States, and Canada to promote Chinese diplomatic interests and trade., Title and date from item., Published in Vanity Fair, August 13, 1896., Gift of Linda Kimiko August, 2024.
Creator
Guth, Jean Baptiste, 1855-1922
Date
1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - Hongzhang [P.2024.31.3]
A cup for His Excellency [graphic].
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]
The Great fertilizer, Whann's raw bone super-phosphate. [graphic] / Walton, Whann & Co., manufacturers, 203 West Front Street, Wilmington, Del., 57 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md., 28 South Wharves, Philadelphia.
Title
The Great fertilizer, Whann's raw bone super-phosphate
Description
Depicts the Walton, Whann & Co. fertilizer manufactory in Wilmington, Delaware. Shows several brick buildings with smokestacks. In the foreground, two ships, a barge, and a small boat dock in front and travel down the river. Horse-drawn wagons arrive and leave the factory. Numerous workers walk, push wheelbarrows, and move boxes and barrels., Text printed below image: Walton, Whann & Co's works, Wilmington, Del., Text printed on recto: The unexampled results of this Great Fertilizer on Cotton, Corn, Wheat, Tobacco, and all other crops prove it to be the best and cheapest manure in the market. Made of pure raw bone, dissolved in sulphuric acid, guano, and salts of potash and soda, it contains every element needed by growing plants. No fertilizer has been more uniformly successful in all sections of the country. Descriptive pamphlets mailed free on application., Title from item., Date from the trade mark date: Trade mark patented, November 22d, 1870., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator
Walton, Whann & Co.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - Walton [P.2011.45.22]
Philadelphia fashions [graphic].
Title
Philadelphia fashions
Description
Periodical illustration showing fashionable clothes on men and women. In the right, a white woman, attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved dress with a white collar, and a cross pendant, holds a small purse and stands facing the viewer. In the left, a man and woman couple link arms and stand with their backs to the viewer. The man is attired in a top hat, a long jacket, pants, and shoes and carries a cane. The woman is attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved dress with a white collar, and carries a shawl in her left hand. In the background, two men and a woman stand in front of a building with decorative columns and a statue on top. A dog runs by. Trees grow in the background., Title from item., Date from the text printed beneath the image: Engraved for the Souvenir published by Philip Price Jr. No. 66 Lombard St. March 1828., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date
1828
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr 11x14 - Fashion [P.2011.45.12]
New public buildings, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Title
New public buildings, Philadelphia
Description
Exterior view of City Hall constructed 1871 to 1901 after designs by John McArthur Jr. at 1 Penn Square, Philadelphia while under construction. Shows construction materials surrounding the building both inside and outside of the fence. Some scaffolding is visible on the roof in the left and around several statues in the right. Building lacks William Penn statue., Title from text printed on mount., Date inferred from content., Text on negative: No. 97. New Public Buildings., Gift of David Doret, 2011., Image of Girard Avenue Bridge mounted on verso: photo - unidentified - government buildings [P.2011.45.15].
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- unidentified - government buildings [P.2011.45.14]
Half-length portrait of Dr. Alexander C. Hart [graphic] / Broadbent and Taylor.
Title
[Half-length portrait of Dr. Alexander C. Hart]
Description
Half-length portrait of Alexander C. Hart. Hart, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, looks left. Alexander Chambers Hart (1811-1884) was a physician and surgeon. He helped found the Charity Hospital of Philadelphia and served during the Civil War., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of the photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint on recto: Broadbent & Taylor, 914 Chestnut St., Philadelphia., Photographer's imprint on verso: Broadbent & Taylor. 914 Chestnut St., Philadelphia [icon of an artist's palette]; S. Broadbent. W. Curtis Taylor., Manuscript note written on verso: Dr. Alexander C. Hart. Husband of Mary T. Clark. 48 831., Gift of David Doret, 2017., Broadbent & Taylor, the partnership between Samuel Broadbent (1810-1880) and William Curtis Taylor (1825-1905), was active at 914 Chestnut Street from 1877-1884. Broadbent died in 1880, leaving his interest in the business to his two sons, who bought out Taylor in 1884.
Creator
Broadbent and Taylor, photographer
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Phila Certificates - Military - Hart Collection [P.2010.21.5.1]
Dr. Alex C. Hart [graphic] / Husted.
Title
Dr. Alex C. Hart
Description
Half-length portrait of Alexander C. Hart. Hart, wearing a beard and his hair parted to the right and attired in a white collared shirt, tie, and jacket, looks right. Alexander Chambers Hart (1811-1884) was a physician and surgeon. He helped found the Charity Hospital of Philadelphia and served during the Civil War., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from dates of operation of the photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint on recto: Husted, Philadelphia., Photographer's imprint on verso: Husted, Ridge Ave. and Wallace St., Philadelphia., Gift of David Doret, 2017., Joseph Husted was listed in the Philadelphia directory as a photographer beginning in 1863. His brother William and sister Anne were listed in the Philadelphia directory as photographers beginning in 1880.
Creator
Husted, photographer
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Phila Certificates - Military - Hart Collection [P.2010.21.5.2]
[Eighty-fourth] Regiment of the militia, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the [second] brigade, Of the first division, compound of the militia of the city and county of Philadelphia:... [graphic].
Title
[Eighty-fourth] Regiment of the militia, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the [second] brigade, Of the first division, compound of the militia of the city and county of Philadelphia
Description
Membership certificate appointing Dr. Alexander C. Hart as a surgeon in the 84th regiment of the Pennsylvania militia in 1842. Alexander Chambers Hart (1811-1884) was a physician and surgeon. He helped found the Charity Hospital of Philadelphia and served during the Civil War., Title and date from item., Text printed on recto: To have and to hold this commission, exercising all the powers and discharging all the duties thereunto lawfully belonging and attached, until the third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, if you shall so long behave your sold well, and perform the duties required by law [unless sooner removed by the commanding officer of said regiment] In testimony whereof, I have set my hand, and caused the less seal of the state to be affixed to these presents, at Harrisburg, dated agreeably to law, the [third] day of [August] in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty [two] and of the commonwealth, the sixty [seventh] By the Governor: [Chas. McClure] Secretary of the Commonwealth., Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Date
[ca. 1842]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Phila Certificates - Military - Hart Collection [P.2010.21.5.3]
Pennsylvania. SS. In the name & by the authority of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. David R. Porter, Governor of the said Commonwealth. [Alexander C. Hart of the County] of Philadelphia, Esquire, Greeting: Know that you, the said, [Alexander C. Hart] be
Title
Pennsylvania. SS. In the name & by the authority of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. David R. Porter, Governor of the said Commonwealth. [Alexander C. Hart of the County] of Philadelphia, Esquire, Greeting: Know that you, the said, [Alexander C. Hart] being duly [appointed] and returned, are hereby commissioned [Surgeon of the First Regiment of Artillery] Regiment of the Militia, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the [First] Brigade of the First Division, composed of the Militia of the City and County of Philadelphia
Description
Membership certificate appointing Dr. Alexander C. Hart as a surgeon in the first regiment of artillery of the Pennsylvania militia in 1843. Alexander Chambers Hart (1811-1884) was a physician and surgeon. He helped found the Charity Hospital of Philadelphia and served during the Civil War., Title and date from item., Text printed on recto: To have and to hold this Commission, exercising all the powers and discharging all the duties thereunto lawfully belonging and attached, until the third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, if you shall so long behave your self well, and perform the duties required by law [unless sooner removed by the commanding officer of said Regiment.] In testimony whereof, I have set my hand, and caused the less seal of the State to be affixed to these presents, at Harrisburg, dated agreeably to law, the [first] day of [June] in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty [three] and of the Commonwealth, the sixty [seventh.] [Chas. McClure] Secretary of the Commonwealth., Contains a wax seal and the signature of the Governor of Pennsylvania, "David R. Porter.", Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Date
[ca. 1843]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Phila Certificates - Military - Hart Collection [P.2010.21.5.4]
[Letter to Alexander C. Hart from Augustus J. Pleasonton] [graphic].
Title
[Letter to Alexander C. Hart from Augustus J. Pleasonton]
Description
Manuscript letter from Augustus J. Pleasonton appointing Dr. Alexander C. Hart as a surgeon in the first regiment of artillery of the Pennsylvania militia in 1843. Alexander Chambers Hart (1811-1884) was a physician and surgeon. He helped found the Charity Hospital of Philadelphia and served during the Civil War., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from item., Manuscript written on recto: Head Quarters. 1st Regt of Artillery, Philadelphia, June 1st, 1843.To Surgeon Alexander C. Hart, 1st Regt of Artillery, Sir, You are hereby appointed to be the Surgeon of the First Regiment of Artillery in the First Brigade of the First Division of Pennsylvania Militia. Your uniform and equipment will be similar to those of a surgeon in the Army of the United States. Be pleased to inform me at your earliest convenience of your acceptance or non-acceptance of this appointment. Very Respectfully your obedt servant, A.J. Pleasonton, Colonel., Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Date
[ca. 1843]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Phila Certificates - Military - Hart Collection [P.2010.21.5.5]
United States Pension Surgeon. Dr. Alexander C. Hart, N.W. cor. Sixth and Spring Garden Sts. Philadelphia. Office Hours: 8 to 9 A.M., 1 to 2 P.M., 6 to 7 P.M. [graphic].
Title
United States Pension Surgeon. Dr. Alexander C. Hart, N.W. cor. Sixth and Spring Garden Sts. Philadelphia. Office Hours: 8 to 9 A.M., 1 to 2 P.M., 6 to 7 P.M
Description
Broadside announcing Dr. Alexander C. Hart's office hours as U.S. Pension Surgeon. Alexander Chambers Hart (1811-1884) was a physician and surgeon. He helped found the Charity Hospital of Philadelphia and served during the Civil War., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Manuscript note written on verso: "Extract from Moore Genealogy....", Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Phila Certificates - Military - Hart Collection [P.2010.21.5.6]
[Genealogical information about Alexander C. Hart] [graphic].
Title
[Genealogical information about Alexander C. Hart]
Description
Typewritten and manuscript letter containing genealogical information about Dr. Alexander C. Hart. Alexander Chambers Hart (1811-1884) was a physician and surgeon. He helped found the Charity Hospital of Philadelphia and served during the Civil War., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Verso of manuscript letter has signature in ink: Alex. C. Hart., Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Phila Certificates - Military - Hart Collection [P.2010.21.5.7; P.2010.21.8]
The Mikado. [graphic].
Title
The Mikado
Description
Racist trade card promoting thread manufacturer J. & P. Coats and depicting a character from The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, the opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the white man actor in character as the Mikado, or Emperor. He stands holding a closed fan and smiles at the viewer attired in a headpiece, a blue kimono decorated with gold birds and flowers and red trim, with a sword at his waist. An oversized spool of thread labeled, "J & P. Coats 200 yds 50 best six cord," is in the right. Brothers James Coats, Jr. (1803-1845) and Peter Coats (1808-1890) established the firm J.&P. Coats, a thread manufactory. Their brother Thomas Coats (1809-1883) joined the firm soon after. By 1840, three quarters of the British company’s business was with the United States. In 1896, the firm merged with thread manufacturer Clark & Co. and formed J. & P. Coats, Ltd. In 2015, the firm was renamed, “Coats Group.”, Title from item., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business., Text printed on recto: My object all sublime! Shall attain in time. To let the punishment fit the crime, the punishment fit the crime. All people who have to do sewing and don't use Coats' six cord thread, will be punished with cotton that's snarly and rotten and kinks, till they wish they were dead., Advertising text printed on verso: White, black and colors for hand and machine. J & P. Coats' Best Six Cord Thread.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade Cards - J. & P. Coats [P.2024.38.1]
Nanki-Poo. [graphic].
Title
Nanki-Poo
Description
Racist trade card promoting thread manufacturer J. & P. Coats and depicting a character from The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, the opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the white man actor in character as Nanki-Poo. He stands holding an open fan with his hands up. He wears a blue decoration in his hair and is attired in a blue-striped coat, red shirt, blue and white obi, red tunic, and sandals. A branch of pink flowers is overhead. An oversized spool of thread labeled, "J & P. Coats 200 yds 50 best six cord," is in the left. Brothers James Coats, Jr. (1803-1845) and Peter Coats (1808-1890) established the firm J.&P. Coats, a thread manufactory. Their brother Thomas Coats (1809-1883) joined the firm soon after. By 1840, three quarters of the British company’s business was with the United States. In 1896, the firm merged with thread manufacturer Clark & Co. and formed J. & P. Coats, Ltd. In 2015, the firm was renamed, “Coats Group.”, Title from item., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business., Text printed on recto: The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la. breathe promise of merry sunshine, as we merrily dance and we sing, tra la, we welcome the hope that they bring, tra la, of a summer of roses and wine. And so, Coats' spool cotton is always a thing as welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring., Advertising text printed on verso: White, black and colors for hand and machine. J & P. Coats' Best Six Cord Thread.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade Cards - J. & P. Coats [P.2024.38.2]
Pooh-Bah. [graphic].
Title
Pooh-Bah
Description
Racist trade card promoting thread manufacturer J. & P. Coats and depicting a character from The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, the opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the white man actor in character as Pooh-Bah. He stands holding a closed fan and frowns. He wears his hair in a chonmage hairstyle and is attired in a blue and white patterned kimono with birds with a red obi and has a sword at his waist. An oversized spool of thread labeled, "J & P. Coats 200 yds 50 best six cord," is in the right. Brothers James Coats, Jr. (1803-1845) and Peter Coats (1808-1890) established the firm J.&P. Coats, a thread manufactory. Their brother Thomas Coats (1809-1883) joined the firm soon after. By 1840, three quarters of the British company’s business was with the United States. In 1896, the firm merged with thread manufacturer Clark & Co. and formed J. & P. Coats, Ltd. In 2015, the firm was renamed, “Coats Group.”, Title from item., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business., Text printed on recto: I'am so proud, if I allowed, my family pride, to be my guide, you'd never hear, within your ear, Coats six cord thread, stand at the head, but family pride, must be denied, and set aside, and mortified, and so you hear, within your ear, Coats six cord thread, stands at the head., Advertising text printed on verso: White, black and colors for hand and machine. J & P. Coats' Best Six Cord Thread., Stamped on verso: W. Otis Hall, Retail Fancy Goods, Washington Street. Boston, Mass.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade Cards - J. & P. Coats [P.2024.38.3]
Yum-Yum. [graphic].
Title
Yum-Yum
Description
Racist trade card promoting thread manufacturer J. & P. Coats and depicting a character from The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, the opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the white woman actress in character as Yum-Yum. She sits on an oversized spool of thread labeled, "J & P. Coats 200 yds 50 best six cord," and holds a white spool of thread in her left hand. She wears her hair up and decorated with small red, blue, and yellow fans and is attired in a blue, yellow, and white patterned kimono. A building and some palm trees by the water are in the background. The moon reads, " J & P. Coats best six cord." Brothers James Coats, Jr. (1803-1845) and Peter Coats (1808-1890) established the firm J.&P. Coats, a thread manufactory. Their brother Thomas Coats (1809-1883) joined the firm soon after. By 1840, three quarters of the British company’s business was with the United States. In 1896, the firm merged with thread manufacturer Clark & Co. and formed J. & P. Coats, Ltd. In 2015, the firm was renamed, “Coats Group.”, Title from item., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business., Text printed on recto: "We've Coats' spool cotton, that's the reason why we're very wide awake, the moon and I.", Advertising text printed on verso: White, black and colors for hand and machine. J & P. Coats' Best Six Cord Thread.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade Cards - J. & P. Coats [P.2024.38.4]
Mrs. Clinton. [graphic] / St. Memin, No.27 Pine St., N. York.
Title
Mrs. Clinton
Description
Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Cornelia Tappen Clinton. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Clinton attired in a ruffled bonnet and a fichu shawl over her dress. Cornelia Tappen Clinton was born in Kingston, New York to Petrus Stoffelse Tappen (ie. Peter Tappen) and Tjaatje Cornelise Wynkoop. She married George Clinton, Vice President of the United States under Jefferson and Madison., Title from manuscript note written under image: Mrs. Clinton., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.34]
Governor Clinton. [graphic] / St. Memin, No. 27 Pine St., N. York.
Title
Governor Clinton
Description
Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of George Clinton. Bust-length, right profile portrait of Clinton attired in a neckerchief, waistcoat, and jacket. George Clinton was governor of New York from 1777 to 1795 and 1801 to 1804. He served as Vice President from 1805 to 1812., Title from manuscript note written under image: Governor Clinton., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.35]
Mrs. Kemper. [graphic] / St. Memin, No. 27 Pine St., N. York.
Title
Mrs. Kemper
Description
Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Elizabeth Marius Kemper. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Kemper attired in a ruffled bonnet, earrings, necklace, and a fichu shawl over her dress. She was married to Daniel Kemper (1749-1847,) who served as a Colonel during the American Revolution and later was the customs receiver for the port of New York., Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs. Daniel Kemper., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.36]
[Christina Livingston Macomb] [graphic] / St. Memin, No. 27 Pine St., N. York.
Title
[Christina Livingston Macomb]
Description
Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Christina Livingston Macomb. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Macomb wearing her curly hair up with a headband and attired in a dress with a ruffled collar. Christina Livingston Macomb was the daughter of Philip P. and Sarah Johnson Livingston of New York. She married merchant John Navarre Maccomb (1774-1810) in 1797., Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs. John Navane Maccomb [sic]., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.37]
[Miss Rogers] [graphic] / St. Memin, No. 27 Pine St., N. York.
Title
[Miss Rogers]
Description
Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin possibly of Sarah Elizabeth Rogers. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Rogers wearing her curly hair up with a headband and attired in a dress with a ruffled collar. Portrait identified by descendants as Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of New York merchant Moses Rogers and Sarah Woolsey Rogers. Sarah Elizabeth Rogers would have been twenty years old, and the sitter appears older. Inscription also reads, Mrs. Rodgers, which is crossed out. [See Elaine Mile. Saint-Memin and the neoclassical profile portrait. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p.382-383.], Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs.[crossed out] Rodgers. Miss Rogers., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.38]
[Edward William Laight] [graphic] / St. Memin, No. 27 Pine St., N. York.
Title
[Edward William Laight]
Description
Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Edward William Laight. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Laight wearing his hair tied back in a bow and attired in a neckerchief and jacket. Edward William Laight graduated from Columbia University and studied law in the office of Aaron Burr. He served as a Major General in the New York militia and was president of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company., Title supplied by cataloger based on entry in Mile. St. Memin. (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1994)., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.39]
[Full-length studio portrait of an unidentified African American clergyman] [graphic] / William C. Withers, 814 Chestnut St. Philad, Pa.
Title
[Full-length studio portrait of an unidentified African American clergyman]
Description
Full-length portrait of an African American clergyman, standing, looking slightly right. He wears slicked back hair and a mustache. He is attired in a clergyman's robe and laced shoes. He holds a small book, possibly a Bible, up to his side with his right hand. He stands next to an armless chair with padded seat and draped in a patterned afghan. Potrait also includes a backdrop depicting a palatial window setting., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of photographer at addressed listed in imprint., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., William C. Withers operated from 814 Chestnut Street 1896-1900.
Creator
Withers, William C., photographer
Date
[ca. 1898]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Withers [P.2024.68]
The Dancing Chinaman. An amusing cut-out. [graphic] / Lawrence Semon.
Title
The Dancing Chinaman. An amusing cut-out
Description
Racist caricature of a Chinese man printed as a paper toy marionette. Depicts the man wearing a queue hairstyle, attired in a green tunic with yellow trim, red pants with green trim, yellow socks, and black cloth slip-on shoes, and with long fingernails. He smiles broadly and holds two fingers up on each hand. Printed in segments of head, torso, and separate arms and legs with instructions on how to cut the pieces out and attach them with strings to sticks to make a puppet. In the right, shows a diagram with the constructed toy and two white hands holding the sticks to make him dance., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1909, by the North American Company., Published in the September 12, 1909 Sunday supplement of the North American newspaper., Text printed on recto: Directions: Paste this sheet upon a sheet of heavy cardboard: let it dry thoroughly, and cut out pieces around heavy black lines. Join parts together by knotting a piece of string on either side, as in diagram. (A to A, B to B, C to C, D to D and E to E.) Then take two sticks about eight inches long (two pencils will do), cut two pieces of black thread about twenty-four inches long: fasten them at either side of figure’s head (1 and 2) and at each end of one stick, as in diagram. Cut two pieces of black thread about six inches long, make them fast at bottom of arm and knee (Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6), as in diagram. Cut then at either end of other stick, as in diagram. Hold stick No. 1 in left hand and No. 2 in right hand, let feet of figure touch floor and tilt stick No. 2 up and down in a seesaw manner. With a little practice you will be able to work your marionette in first-class order., RVCDC, Larry Semon (1889-1928) worked as a cartoonist for Philadelphia and New York newspapers before becoming an actor, director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era.
Creator
Semon, Larry, 1889-1928
Date
1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC- Paper toys - Dancing [P.2024.71.1
A Japanese family. A pretty and interesting cut-out. [graphic] / Lawrence Semon.
Title
A Japanese family. A pretty and interesting cut-out
Description
Print depicting a Japanese man, boy, and two women, which could be cut out and made into a paper toy. In the left, shows a Japanese woman attired in a red kimono with green trim tied with a black and yellow obi and wearing her hair up and adorned with a kanzashi hair ornament. She looks left with her left hand at her waist and holds a fan in her right hand. In the right at her feet are white flowers. The Japanese man wears a chonmage hairstyle, which is shaved in the front with a top knot, and is attired in a blue, green, and white kimono and slip on shoes, and has a sword in a scabbard at his waist. He stands with his face in right profile. In the top right, the boy, attired in a white and red kimono and socks, sits on the ground beside a white flower. In the bottom right, a Japanese woman, attired in a blue kimono with gray trim tied with a black obi and wearing her hair up and adorned with a kanzashi hair ornament, sits on the floor with her left hand resting on her leg and her right hand up. She is surrounded by two vases, a black stand with a teapot on top, and a decorative screen depicting a bird. In the top center, shows a diagram depicting how the figures could be cut out and flaps used to stand them upright., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1910, by the North American Company., Published in the March 6, 1910 Sunday supplement of the North American newspaper., Text printed on recto: Directions: Paste this sheet upon a sheet of heavy cardboard: let it dry thoroughly, and cut out pieces around heavy black lines. To make figures stand, bend the flabs backward at the dotted lines, A, B, C, D, E, F, as in the diagram. When ready, stand the figures up and arrange to suit yourself., RVCDC, Larry Semon (1889-1928) worked as a cartoonist for Philadelphia and New York newspapers before becoming an actor, director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era.
Creator
Semon, Larry, 1889-1928
Date
1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC- Paper toys - Japanese [P.2024.71.2]
The Walnut Street Theatre, 119th and 120th season [graphic].
Title
The Walnut Street Theatre, 119th and 120th season
Description
Program for performance of The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, the opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia in January, 1928. Includes a list of the cast of the two act opera; history of the Mikado; article on the upcoming performance of the musical Chicago; and an article on Winthrop Ames. Cover image shows a decorative stone structure with sphinx, satyr, women, and urns against a red background. Advertisements include: Chinese restaurants, King Joy, Mandarin Cafe, Cathay Tea Garden; Mirador restaurant; Frigidaire; Bonschur & Holmes, opticians; Locust Laundry; Joseph Rieder, money lender; and Stetson Hats., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of the stage production., Cast of performers include: John Barclay, William Williams, Fred Wright, William C. Gordon, J. Humbird Duffey, Lois Bennett, S. Russell Sterling, Bettina Hall, Vera Ross, George C. Lehrian, Paula Langlen. Settings & costumes: Raymond Sovey. Dances: Michio Ito. Stage Manager: John Clements. Winthrop Ames: Managerial sponsor of the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company., Advertisements for Philadelphia Chinese restaurants include: King Joy “Leading Chinese-American Restaurant, S.E. Corner 12th and Chestnut Streets. Art Coogan and His Orchestra, Broadcasting Nightly Thru W.I.P. The city’s most delightful Restaurant to dine and dance” and depicting a Chinese woman, attired in a tunic and pants, holding a parasol; Mandarin Café “1016-18 Chestnut St. Smartest Café in Town, Announcing Ruth Bott and Her Studio Girl Orchestra, First Girl’s Most Unique Orchestra in Philadelphia, Dancing”; and Cathay Tea Garden “Chinese-American Restaurant, 1223 Chestnut Street, Billy Hays, Popular Song Writer and His Cathay Tea Garden Dance Orchestra, Dancing” and depicting a Chinese woman, wearing her hair up and attired in a tunic, pants, and slip on shoes, holding a fan in each hand.
Date
1928
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera -- Misc. - Walnut [P.2024.37]
[Full-length portrait of a Japanese woman and an American Airman who have swapped clothes] [graphic].
Title
[Full-length portrait of a Japanese woman and an American Airman who have swapped clothes]
Description
Portrait photograph of a Japanese woman and an American Airman who have swapped clothes probably in Japan during the Allied occupation after World War Two. In the left, the American man, attired in a floral kimono with a patterned obi and black shoes, stands with his left arm around the Japanese woman's waist. In the right, the Japanese woman, attired in a garrison cap with pins, Air Force uniform of a collared, long-sleeved shirt and pants, belt, and geta shoes, smiles at the viewer. They stand in front of a building, and their reflections are visible in the windows. Chairs and a side table can be seen through the window in the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the people., See related: Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.11]., Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History and African American History funds.
Date
[ [ca. 1947]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.10]
[Full-length portrait of a Japanese woman who wears an American Airman's uniform] [graphic].
Title
[Full-length portrait of a Japanese woman who wears an American Airman's uniform]
Description
Portrait photograph of a Japanese woman who is wearing the uniform of an American Airman probably in Japan during the Allied occupation after World War Two. Shows the Japanese woman, attired in a garrison cap with pins, Air Force uniform of a collared, long-sleeved shirt and pants, Air Force pin with wings, belt, and geta shoes, smiling at the viewer. She stands with her arms at her side in front of a building. The back of a chair can be seen through the window in the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the people., See related: Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.10]., Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History and African American History funds.
Date
[ [ca. 1947]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.11]
[Caricature of the capture of Jefferson Davis May 10, 1865]
Title
[Caricature of the capture of Jefferson Davis May 10, 1865]
Description
Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Davis being inspected by Union soldiers as he emerges from a tent, holding a basket, while attired in a hood and skirt. His wife, Varina Davis, stands next to him and an African American servant, portrayed in racist caricature with grotesque features, peers from behind the tent flap. Bottles and a case marked "Silver Spoons, C.S.A." (an allusion to Jefferson's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury) lay on the ground in front of the tent. Also shows a saddle hanging in a tree to the right of the tent., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Francis Hacker, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Island., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Jefferson Davis and Confederate material. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., See related carte de visite: cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - [P.2016.63].
Creator
Hacker, Francis
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Hacker [5795.F.15a]
A distinguished arrival. [graphic] : Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
Title
A distinguished arrival Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
Description
Cartoon satirizing the imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Va. of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Shows an African American soldier escorting Davis to a cell door at the "Hotel De Monroe." In front of the door a noose hangs. Davis, attired in a bonnet, shawl, and overcoat, holds a money bag labeled "JD. CSA" (an allusion to Davis's confiscation of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldier holds a bayonet to which a skirt hoop is attached and speaks in the vernacular "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room..." In the background, a smiling sun, an African American soldier, and a ship sailing the bay are visible. Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe between 1865 and 1867., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Ent'd according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J. Chapman in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York., Purchase 2004., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2004.6.2]
A distinguished arrival.
Title
A distinguished arrival Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
Description
Cartoon satirizing the imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Va. of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Shows an African American soldier escorting Davis to a cell door at the "Hotel De Monroe." In front of the door a noose hangs. Davis, attired in a bonnet, shawl, and overcoat, holds a money bag labeled "JD. CSA" (an allusion to Davis's confiscation of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldier holds a bayonet to which a skirt hoop is attached and speaks in the vernacular "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room..." In the background, a smiling sun, an African American soldier, and a ship sailing the bay are visible. Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe between 1865 and 1867., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Ent'd according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J. Chapman in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York., Purchase 2004., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2004.6.2]
[Caricature of capture of Jefferson Davis May 10, 1865] [graphic] / [M A] Andrieu.
Title
[Caricature of capture of Jefferson Davis May 10, 1865]
Description
Carte-de-visite caricature satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Davis being inspected by Union soldiers as he emerges from a tent, holding a basket, while attired in a hood and skirt. His wife, Varina Davis, stands next to him. An African American enslaved servant depicted with oversize and exagerrated features peers from behind the tent flap. Bottles and a case marked "Silver Spoons, C.S.A." (an allusion to Jefferson's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury) lay on the ground in front of the tent. Also shows a saddle hanging in a tree to the right of the tent., Title supplied by cataloguer., Publication information from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Francis Hacker, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Island., See photo - Hacker [5795.F.15a]., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator
Hacker, Francis
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - [P.2016.63]
[Montage of caricatures satirizing Southern Democrats] [graphic].
Title
[ Montage of caricatures satirizing Southern Democrats]
Description
Includes six captioned vignettes critically satirizing Southern democrats, copperheads, Jefferson Davis, and Andrew Johnson. Shows Democrats represented as an overseer forcing "Black Republicans" depicted as fleeing enslaved African American men, women, and children to vote their "Ticket in the South"; white men soldiers loading a cannon representing "General Grant giving the Rebel Copperhead Democrats some more grape"; Jefferson Davis fleeing in his "wife's petticoats"; "Johnson on a "Bender," after the Impeachment Trials; a skull and cross bones to symbolize that "Copperheads and Rebel Democrats are Poison"; and Johnson attired in torn and worn clothes and carrying a sack on his back as he is "Travelling for Tennessee." Several of caricatures also used as Civil War envelope designs., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons [ca. 1868] - Mon [(2)5786.F.176a]
John Brown exhibiting his hangman. [graphic]
Title
John Brown exhibiting his hangman
Description
Cartoon depicting the imaginary execution of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis with the ghost of John Brown as his executioner. Jefferson, holding a sour apple and attired in a women's dress and bonnet, swings imprisoned in a birdcage which hangs from a gallows. To the left of the cage Brown rises from a hole in the earth and points accusingly at Davis. In actuality Davis had no direct involvement with Brown's execution. Beneath the cage, African American men and women minstrel figures, portrayed in racist caricature, rejoice, dance, clap, and thumb their noses at Davis., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in 1865 by G. Querner in the Clerk's Office of the Sup. Court D.C., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook related to Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoon - 1865-16R [5795.F.b]
[Olive Cemetery chapel, Girard Avenue between Marion and Belmont Avenues, Philadelphia.]
Title
[Olive Cemetery chapel, Girard Avenue between Merion and Belmont Avenues, Philadelphia.]
Description
View showing the chapel at the African American cemetery, Olive Cemetery. African American children sit in the doorway of the chapel, which stands behind a dilapidated stone and wrought iron gate. The cemetery, established in February 1849, was one of the city's largest African American administered business enterprises, which by the late 19th century had gone to ruination due to mismanagement. The Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons is visible in the background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 47 Street no. of Lancaster Ave., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
[ca. 1923]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.240], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson240.htm
[Forrest Theatre prior to demolition for the construction of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building at the southeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets, Philadelphia ]
Title
[Forrest Theatre prior to demolition for the construction of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets, Philadelphia ]
Description
View of the old Forrest Theatre on Broad Street at night shortly before being razed to be replaced by the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building. Spectators watch as laborers, mainly African American men, dismantle and remove building materials through a large hole in the side of the theatre. Signs for "Removal Sale" and "Drugs" are visible on the front of the building. Signage on the upper story window advertises "U.T.A United Tourist Agencies Travel Bureau." The Forrest Theatre, built in 1907, was Philadelphia's leading musical theater until its demolition in 1927., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Inscribed in negative: 1501, Gift of Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS), 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date
1927
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Jennings - Fidelity series [P.9264.1]

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