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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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

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