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Title: Whack it off short Sam
Description: Depicts a group of African American boys with a dog, its tail placed over a wood block in preparation to cut it with a hatchet. The six boys stand outside next to a brick building and a wooden barrel. The boy in the left holds a small, white dog up. The second boy to the right holds its tail across a wood block. The boy in the center holds the hatchet up in both hands., Title from item., Warped buff mount with rounded corners., Imprint on mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Offices Philadelphia, Napierville, Ill., New York, London, Paris, Hamburg., Gift of David Long, 2002., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Universal Photo Art Co.
Date: [c190[0]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Graves - Portraits & Genre [P.2002.4.7]

Title: [African American family in front of their Pennsylvania residence]
Description: Depicts the African American family of four women, two men, and a boy posed in front of their two-story house with a porch, trellis, and picket fence. In the left, an older African American man, wearing white hair, stands behind the picket fence and looks directly at the viewer. A woman, wearing her hair tied up in a bun and attired in a long-sleeved dress with decorative stripes at the bottom, stands with her left arm resting on top of the open gate and looks to the left. Three women, attired in brimmed hats and long-sleeved dresses, stand resting an arm on the picket fence. The barefooted boy, attired in a cap, a shirt, a collared jacket, and pants that end just below the knees, stands next to a dog. In the right, the man, wearing a mustache and attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, holds the reins as he sits on top of a horse, which stands on the sidewalk in front of the house., Title supplied by cataloger., Mount has decorative gold border., See accompanying manuscript notebook United States View Company's Instructions to Salesmen. (P.9502)., Gift of Martha Graybill, 1988., 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., The United States View Company, was established by Newton Graybill and Lewis Garman of Richfield, Pennsylvania in the 1890s. It was one of several view companies which employed operators and salesmen to photograph and sell the prints of small town residents posed in front of their homes and community buildings.
Creator: United States View Company, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - United States View Company - residences [P.9253.74]

Title: Is yo' sho' lady when I wears dese stockings I won' fin' ma laigs all black
Description: Racist caricature reminiscent of the plate "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?" from E.W. Clay's racist satiric series, Life in Philadelphia, originally published in the late 1820s and early 1830s. Depicts an African American man dressed as a woman attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved dress tied with a bow at the back, a fur shawl, shoes, and with a closed umbrella and a basket at her feet. She sits in front of the counter of a dry goods store and inquires in the vernacular about a pair of dark stockings which she holds. A young white woman sales clerk smiles with her elbows on the counter and displays to the customer a second pair of dark-colored stockings. Bolts of fabric rest on shelves behind the clerk, and socks and hosiery hang above. A white woman customer shops at the other end of the counter, in the right., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood., Printed on mount: Works and Studios. Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J. Washington, D.C., Sun sculpture trademark printed on mount., Title printed on verso in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish., Grey mount with rounded corners., See Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?" [LCP Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia) P.9701.9], Purchase 2002., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2002.31]

Title: Rapid transit in Southern Mississippi
Description: Racist scene showing an African American family comprised of the parents and eleven children traveling in an open wagon pulled by two oxen. The parents, each holding a baby, sit on the cab as the older children stand in the bed of the wagon. A wood shack, with three small windows, a door, and dilapidated fencing stands in the background. Two African American women, each holding a baby, stand in front of the building. The women and girls wear cotton shirtwaists, skirts, or smock dresses, and kerchiefs or a wide-brimmed hat. The man and boys wear long-sleeved shirts, pants, and hats or caps., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1895, by Strohmeyer & Wyman., Title from item., Title printed in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish on verso., Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022., In 1912 Keystone View Company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. Keystone remained in business until 1970.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Portraits & Genre [P.2018.16.9]

Title: Cotton is king. Plantation scene, Georgia, U.S.A
Description: Scene showing an African American girl, women, and men picking cotton in a cotton field. In the foreground, a girl picks cotton near a large basket filled with the fiber. Behind her, a number of women and men, some hunched over and with large cloth bags hung over their shoulders, pick cotton from the rows of plants. One man holds a large basket of cotton with his hands over his head and the basket on his back. The women wear long-sleeve, checkered cotton dresses and kerchiefs. The mean wear long sleeve shirts and pants. Most wear wide-brimmed hats, except the man carrying the basket, who wears no hat. In the background, a white man, attired in a suit and on horseback, oversees the cotton pickers., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1895, by Strohmeyer & Wyman., Title from item., Curved grey mount with rounded corners., Title printed in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish on verso., Several lines of text printed on verso about the cotton industry, the "world-problem of clothing," the cultivation of cotton, including "picking is usually done by negro laborers, as here, though experiments with harvesting machines are meeting with some success," and suggested further reading, including encyclopedia article subjects and Carrol D. Wright's "Industrial Development of the United States." Text begins: This beautiful field "white unto the harvest," is a sense to delight a painter, and at the same time, it is a condensed cyclopaedia of one of the greatest industries of the whole world., Gift of David Long., Title variant of P.2017.121.2., RVCDC, Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022., In 1912 Keystone View Company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. Keystone remained in business until 1970.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Work [P.2018.16.6]

Title: Cotton is king. Plantation scene, Georgia, U.S.A
Description: Scene showing an African American girl, women, and men picking cotton in a cotton field. In the foreground, a girl picks cotton near a large basket filled with the fiber. Behind her, a number of women and men, some hunched over and with large cloth bags hung over their shoulders, pick cotton from the rows of plants. One man holds a large basket of cotton with his hands over his head and the basket on his back. The women wear long-sleeve, checkered cotton dresses and kerchiefs. The mean wear long sleeve shirts and pants. Most wear wide-brimmed hats, except the man carrying the basket, who wears no hat. In the background, a white man, attired in a suit and on horseback, oversees the cotton pickers., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1895, by Strohmeyer & Wyman., Title from item., Curved grey mount with rounded corners., Title printed in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish on verso., Several lines of text printed on verso about the cotton industry, the "world-problem of clothing," the cultivation of cotton, including "picking is usually done by negro laborers, as here, though experiments with harvesting machines are meeting with some success," and suggested further reading, including encyclopedia article subjects and Carrol D. Wright's "Industrial Development of the United States." Text begins: This beautiful field "white unto the harvest," is a sense to delight a painter, and at the same time, it is a condensed cyclopaedia of one of the greatest industries of the whole world., Gift of George Allen., Title variant of P.2018.16.6., RVCDC, Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022., In 1912 Keystone View Company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. Keystone remained in business until 1970.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Underwood & Underwood - Work [P.2017.121.2]

Title: Board of Education of the City of Camden of the State of New Jersey second class certificate
Description: Teacher's certificate illustrated with three allegorical vignettes: the New Jersey state seal with Liberty and Prosperity, portrayed as white women; a group of objects representing knowledge including books, a globe, a protractor, and a beaker; and a group of objects representing the arts including musical instruments, an artist's palette, a painting on an easel, sculpture, and a camera., Title from item., Issued to Mary S. Bunday, who qualified as a "first assistant in a grammar school," on September 25th, 1874. Bunday, an African American woman, was issued a second class certificate awarded to Black teachers., Date from manuscript written on recto., Manuscript note on frame backing: second class certificate meant Black for a Black Teacher., Unframed 1993., 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: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9427] - Dickerson Family Collection - Miscellaneous

Title: [Full-length portrait of an unidentified African American boy in a sailor suit]
Description: Full-length studio portrait of an unidentified African American boy. The boy, attired a collared wool coat with an emblem on the left arm, matching wool shorts, socks, and boots, looks slightly right. He stands on grass and rests his right elbow on a wooden gate. Includes a backdrop decorated as a field of flowers., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of the photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Gift of David Long, 2001., 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: Sullivan, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - Sullivan (phot.) [P.9969.1]

Title: Class of '78, University of Pennsylvania
Description: Group portrait of male students, attired in suits and most with hats and canes, including an African American man, posed on the steps of College Hall. According to the University's history, the first African American student matriculated in 1879., Title from mount., Manuscript note on verso: Prichett. Probably, Thomas Barclay Prichett, University of Pennsylvania, class of 1878., Purchase 1980., 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., Suddards & Fennemore, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers William L. Suddards and George H. Fennemore from around 1870 until 1879, specialized in portraiture.
Creator: Suddards & Fennemore, photographer
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education [P.8612]

Title: " How do debble does dey make a bicycle?" = Como diablos se hacen los bicírculos?
Description: Racist, genre scene showing an African American boy, seated on his knees, in a room with a dirt floor and strewn rubbish. His right hand is raised to his head, and he holds a tire pump and broken bicycle tire in his left hand. The boy, attired in a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and suspenders looks down with a look of anguish at the rubber tire pulled off of its hub. Behind the boy is a cot covered with haphazard-placed mounds of bedding. To his left, a cat stands in front of a wooden chair on which an empty glass bottle rests. Scene also includes a wooden storage cabinet in the right., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1891 by Stohmeyer & Wyman., Curved buff mount with rounded corners., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Gift of David Long.
Creator: Strohmeyer & Wyman
Date: 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photo. - Strohmeyer & Wyman [P.2018.16.5]

Title: [Civil War drawings and cartes de visite reproductions of drawings by Henry Louis Stephens]
Description: Series of caricatures predominately satirizing the effects of the presidential policies of Abraham Lincoln on his re-election and the candidacy of Democratic nominee and former Commander of the U.S. Army, George McClellan, in the presidential election of 1864. Lincoln caricatures depict racist scenes and themes of election loss and show the president as a comic stage performer; a feeding open-mouthed tool of the abolitionists; as a defeated Robin Hood with his "Band of Brothers," (i.e. cabinet members Edwin Stanton, William Seward, and Gideon Welles); as weighed down by the "Old Keystone", a visual metaphor for the large number of Pennsylvania soldiers lost in the war; as a buffoon tripped up by his large boots of "military necessity"; as patronizing a miniature McClellan propped up on the "Chicago Platform"; as McClellan's puppeteer; and as "loved little and long" for his emancipation of the enslaved. McClellan caricatures primarily use the themes of McClellan, known as "The Young Napoleon," as a "MacNapoleon" and his contradictory personal and party platforms in relation to the war. Caricatures show "MacNapoleon" searching for the White House, childishly whining about his quest for the White house, and singing a "doleful ditty" about himself. Platform caricatures show McClellan as a squeeze doll who speaks two words - war and peace, and in a "Quandary" to choose between a ballerina representing war and another representing peace. Collection also contains caricatures of Edward Stanton making a "Soliloquy" as an allusion to a Republican loss in the presidential election; of Peace Democrat Clement Vallandigham satirizing his sentence of banishment to the South for anti-war sentiments as well as a racist caricature of the "The American Eagle.1864. A likely young bird" showing an eagle with the head of an African American resting on the American shield marked "E. Pluribus. U-No-Um.", Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright., Created postfreeze., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of materials related to Abraham Lincoln and of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAlister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Henry Louis Stephens Collection [(11)1540.F.20a; 5780.F.52m; 5792.F.4d&e; 97a-c &f; 98a,b,d, e-i; 99a-h; P.2282.50; P.8686.1-2; P.2005.2.12a-e; P.2006.1.25a&b]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman standing and slightly facing right. She wears he hair tied back with bangs of curls on her forehead and is attired in a dark velvet basque shirt jacket with buttons down the bodice, a floral printed skirt, earrings, bracelets on both wrists, and a pin. She is posed beside a plaster tree stump, which she rests her hands on. In the background is a painted backdrop with trees., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Date inferred from dates of operation of photographer and attire of the sitter., Purchase 2000., 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: Snyder & Walton, photographer
Date: [ca. 1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Snyder [P.9853.4]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified young African American man]
Description: Copy photograph of a bust-length portrait of a young, unidentified African American man facing forward. The man has rosy-colored cheek, wears a mustache, and is attired in a white collared shirt, a waistcoat, and a jacket., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of the photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Gift of David Long, 2001., 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: Shaw, Jeremiah H., photographer
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Shaw [P.9969.2]

Title: Col. R. S. Strader horses - Bulletsville Boone Co Ky
Description: View showing five horses, including Burlington and Draco, under the inspection of two men standing near a dog, in front of a stable in Bulletsville, KY. Shows Draco, grandson of the great trotter Alexander's Abdallah, attached to a manned sulky and the other horses controlled by groomsmen, including an African American man. Two white women and two young, white boys stand near the men., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Burlington Draco - in sulky., Manuscript note on verso: Burlington/ 1870 by Wyatt's Abdallah son of Alexander Abdallah; dau a mare by Yankee Boy. Draco/ 1853 by Perkin's Young [Morril?]; dam the dam of Danville Boy & Draco 2nd., Gift of Helen Beitler, 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Schreiber & Sons specialized in photography of domestic animals and photographed almost every noted horse in North America during the latter nineteenth century.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - Animals [P.2002.67.37]

Title: [Unidentified African American man]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a bearded Black man attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a sack coat, and light-colored pants. He sits on a wooden chair facing slightly left with his right hand tucked into his coat., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of unidentified portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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., Schreiber & Son(s), a Philadelphia partnership of George Schreiber, and his several sons, specialists in portraiture and animal portraiture, were in business from 1857 until 1900, operating at 818 Arch Street from 1867 until 1879.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - photographer - Schreiber & Sons [8313.F.10b]

Title: [Unidentified African American woman and boy]
Description: Copy print of a circa 1850 daguerreotype of a fair-skinned African American woman, seated, holding the hand of a fair-skinned boy, probably her son, who stands next to her. In the right, the woman wears her hair with waves, parted in the middle, and tied behind her head and is attired in a long-sleeved, striped dress with white cuffs and a white collar or scarf tied around her neck. In the left, the boy wears his hair parted to the right with waves and is attired in a long-sleeved shirt with buttons down the center, a white collar or scarf around his neck, and light-colored pants., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of unidentified portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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., Schreiber & Son(s), a Philadelphia partnership of father, George Schreiber, and his several sons, specialists in portraiture and animal portraiture, were in business from 1857 until 1900, operating at 818 Arch Street from 1867 until 1879.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - photographer - Schreiber & Son [8313.F.10c]

Title: [Mr. and Mrs. Fairman Rogers chaperoning coach of young ladies, May 10, 1879]
Description: Shows the Philadelphia engineer and noted coaching enthusiast and his wife Rebecca in the cab of a four-in-hand coach in a landscape setting. Several young ladies from prominent Philadelphia families sit on the deck behind the couple. Two African American groomsmen stand near the horses. Rogers was the founder of the Philadelphia Coaching Club and the first person in Philadelphia to drive a four-in-hand, which was painted by Thomas Eakins., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Saturday May 10, 1879. Mr. & Mrs. Rodgers [sic]; Hattie Meigs; Annie Williams; Lily Sturgis; Marian Rawle; Emily Newbold; Maidie Hart; Maud Potts; May McMichael; Mrs. Dick; Harriet Etting., Purchase 2010., 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.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons
Date: May 10, 1879
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - Schreiber (by photographer) [P.2010.18.1]

Title: Room in house
Description: View depicting an interior of the Lincoln House in Springfield, Illinois. A framed print commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation hangs on the wall-papered wall. Also includes a table adorned with a silver tray, pitcher, and goblets and a chair., Title from accompanying label: No. 21. Room in house., Date from copyright., Unmounted stereograph., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, and Phillips Civil War scrapbook., 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.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover
Date: [May 22, 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [(13)1540.F]

Title: Fred. Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist and orator. Douglass, with white hair and a mustache and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a dark-colored waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right while his eyes look to the left., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., 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., New York photographers Napoleon Sarony and Jeremiah Gurney & Son, two of a small number specializing in celebrity portraits, produced a majority of such portraiture in the 1860s and 1870s.
Creator: Sarony's and Gurney & Son's, photographer
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Douglass [P.2282.112]

Title: [John Greenleaf Whittier]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, with white hair and beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket with velvet on the lapels, faces left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Sitter incorrectly identified as Ralph Waldo Emerson on verso., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer as opposed to technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Whittier [P.9363.14]

Title: [Henry Ward Beecher]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, wearing his hair slightly over his collar and attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a jacket, and a coat with velvet lapels, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Mount contains red border., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer rather than technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Beecher [P.9516.1]

Title: [Henry Ward Beecher]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, wearing his hair slightly over his collar and attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a jacket, and a coat with velvet lapels, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on verso., Mount contains red border., Image slightly faded., 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., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer rather than technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Beecher [P.9363.41]

Title: Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in in a bun with curls around her forehead and attired in a headband, a dark-colored dress with a white, ruffled collar around the neck, a brooch, and a necklace, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note written on recto., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Mount contains red border., 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., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer rather than technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Stowe [P.9363.12]

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 jacket with velvet lapels, faces left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of photographer and presented age of sitter., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer as opposed to technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Phillips [P.9516.2]

Title: North Carolina cotton plantation
Description: Collection depicting scenes on a cotton plantation, probably in North Carolina. Images include African American men and women at work picking cotton, often amongst large piles of cotton; wooden buildings on the plantation grounds; and portraits and candids of the African American agricultural laborers and resident children., Name of provenance from manuscript note on verso of P.8502.13: John H. Gibbons, Jr., b. North Carolina, in Phila. for medical school., Name of photographer from manuscript note on verso of P.8502.13: Dear Jno. -Sorry I did not get to see you before you left Phil. but Harvey came through & I went over to NY with him. So did not get around. Harry Sanders. I call this one of my best shots., Gift of Marjorie G. Battles, 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: Sanders, Harry, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - Sanders [P.8502.1-18]

Title: Scene at polling place in Wilmington, Del. Local option election, Nov. 5 1907
Description: Documentary view taken by Delaware news photographer A.N. Sanborn showing African American men voters outside of Buck's Chemical Co., a Wilmington, Delaware polling place. Depicts the men standing on the edge of the sidewalk, some conversing, one holding papers in his hand, in front of the brick building of the chemical company adorned in signage reading "Incorporated 1900. Bucks Chemical Co., 1201 & 1203 French St. J.C. Buck[? ], Pres. Wm C. [?], Secy. & Treas. Other men stand near the building by the sign and an entryway with the frame marked "Laundry." To the left, a group of white men stand in a huddle, across from a partially visible entry way, and next to two white girls who look toward the photographer. All the men are attired in suits. To the right, a group of African American and white children crowd together and look toward the photographer. Behind them, in the background, the Black church, the Union American Methodist Episcopal Church, is visible. View also includes two lines of ropes and poles that extend into the empty street from the partially visible entryway and create a cordoned passage. In 1901, the Delaware State General Assembly took actions to dismantle laws that impeded voting by the Black community, as well as had finally symbolically ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. The November 1907 local option election ballot was on the question of whether state licenses should be granted to outlets to serve alcohol. Wilmington voters voted in favor of licenses., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Name of photographer from imprint blindstamped on mount., Manuscript note on verso: 5th Dis of 6th Ward. 2nd Ref Dis. Cor 12th & French, Wil Del., Partially purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC
Creator: Sanborn, A.N. (Arthur N.), 1869-1959, photographer
Date: [November 5, 1907]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Sanborn [P.2023.17.2]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified African American woman]
Description: Bust-length portrait of a young, unidentified African American woman. The women, wearing her hair tied up and attired in a hat decorated with flowers and a dress with a large crocheted collar that extends down her chest, looks directly at the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Mount decorated with ornate border., Purchase 2001., 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: Rosenberg's Penny Photos, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs-misc.-unidentified female [P.9930.1]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified African American woman]
Description: Bust-length portrait of a young unidentified African American woman. The woman, wearing her hair tied and decorated with a bow at the back of her head and attired in a long-sleeved dress in a patterned fabric with a high collar, looks directly at the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by the dates of operation of the photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Mount contains ornate border., Purchase 2001., 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: Rosenberg's Penny Photos, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs-misc.-unidentified female [P.9930.2]

Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified African American girl dressed for Easter]
Description: Half-length portrait of an unidentified young African American girl, wearing her hair tied back with a large bow on top of her head and attired in a long-sleeved shirt with a high neckline and a pinafore adorned with a pin., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note on verso: Easter Greetings 1912., Mount contains ornate border., Purchase 1993., 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: Rose Studio, photographer
Date: 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - unidentified female [P.9410.28]

Title: Maxwell's gypsum, prepared gypsum. Trade mark
Description: Illustrated trade card advertising George E. Maxwell's paint and depicting an African American man carrying a bucket of gypsum and a brush over his shoulder. He stands, attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, a red waistcoat, a black jacket, pants, and bowler hat, in front of a window displaying barrels of "Maxwell's gypsum.", Title from item., Date inferred from operating dates of advertised business., Advertising text promoting Maxwell's prepared gypsum for whitening and coloring walls, fences, barns printed on verso. Also notes awards (First Premium, Special Diploma) issued by the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1880., Imprint printed on verso: For sale by Geo. E. Maxwell, No. 528 South 16th Street, Philadelphia., Stamped in red ink twice on recto and once on verso: 1431 South St., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator: Rogers, E. (Edward), 1831 or 1832-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Maxwell's [1975.F.632]

Title: The Rock House So called, writes Mr. Watson, "because it rests on an exposed rock (large) situated at the junction of Shoemaker's street ("lane" in old times), and the rail road. It has no particular history, but is picturesque and ancient"
Description: Exterior view of the first farm of Isaac Shoemaker, known as the Rock House, built in the late 17th century on East Penn Street, east of the Reading Railroad Bridge. Farm also served as a location from which William Penn preached and as a station on the Underground Railroad. Shows a man sitting on top of the large rock beside the stone farmhouse with two chimneys. A wooden fence surrounds the property., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 131. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial views of houses & places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.18)., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #207., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - R [(3)2526.F.131]

Title: Chew's house
Description: Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., R85., Title from Watson inscription., Imprint date inscribed on negative., 1859-PIC., Gift of Mrs. Charles Willing, 1972., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Richards album [66037.D.3]

Title: St. Thomas' (African) Church Southwest corner of Fifth and Adelphi Street. (Episcopal) The Revd. Absalom Jones, (colored) first Rector
Description: Exterior view of the first African Episcopal church in the United States at the corner of Fifth and Adelphi (i.e., Saint James) streets, in Philadelphia, Pa. Shows an oblique view of the two-story church designed with several windows, including lunette windows. A small wall, topped with a wrought iron fence, surrounds the property. Partial view of adjacent buildings in the left and right. The church was established in 1794 by the religious and beneficent organization, the Free African Society, as a result of the discriminatory practices of the city's congregations. Absalom Jones, a freed enslaved man, became rector of the church in 1796 and remained as its minister until his death in 1818., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 151. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 41., Arcadia caption text: This simple church, photographed in May 1859, stood at the corner of Fifth and Saint James streets. Formed in response to the discriminatory practices of the city’s congregations, St. Thomas African Church was established in 1794 as the first African Episcopal church in the United States. An outgrowth of the religious and benevolent organization the Free African Society, established by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, the church served as a religious pillar of the elite African American community during the 19th century. Jones, a freed slave, became rector in 1796., 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: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses [(3)2526.F.151]

Title: [Philadelphia children in Blackface]
Description: Group portrait in a house foyer of nine white costumed children in Blackface and holding tin horns. The children, four seated and five standing, are possibly attired to perform a minstrel show for home entertainment. The photographer's daughter, Hazel, is seated on a rocker, in the right, attired in a large ruffled hat with a mask-like cloth veil. "Blackface minstrelsy is a popular entertainment form, originating in the United States in the mid-19th century and remaining in American life through the 20th century. The form is based around stereotypical and racist portrayals of African Americans, including mocking dialect, parodic lyrics, and the application of Black face paint; all designed to portray African Americans as othered subjects of humor and disrespect. Blackface was a dominant form for theatrical and musical performances for decades, both on stage and in private homes.", Title from Library Company catalog, An African American miscellany, p. 27., Description of Blackface minstrelsy from Dorothy Berry, Descriptive Equity and Clarity around Blackface Minstrelsy in H(arvard) T(heater) C(ollection) Collections, 2021., Purchase 1988., RVCDC, 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., Rich was a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer who produced several candid portraits of family and friends.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rich [P.9266.870]

Title: [Black woman washing young Black boy at a dam]
Description: Depicts a young Black mother washing her son in a dammed stream. In the center, the woman, attired in patterned, long-sleeved dress, stands in the water and bends over. She holds the boy, who stands nude. The stone wall behind them has an opening allowing water to flow through. The grass in the foreground and the trees in the background are colored green., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1988., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Rich, a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer, was an avid traveller.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides - Rich [P.9266.1245]

Title: Dividing the beef, Lodge Grass Mont[ana]
Description: Scene depicting Native Americans, probably Crow, and African American cowboys in a circle cutting up beef carcasses. Native American men, women, and children sit on the grass in a circle around the meat. Several can be seen smiling. There are also small dogs standing around the group. An African American man stands in the right and looks on at the scene. In the center, another African American man bends over with a side of beef in his hands. In the background are two tepees and a tent., Title from caption on mount., Purchase 1988., 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., Rich was a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer and avid traveler commissioned in 1908 to accompany a Rodman Wanamaker expedition to Yellowstone to photograph the region's landscape and Native American life.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides-Rich [P.9266.1308]

Title: Sandeago - Cuba
Description: Scene of a street in Santiago, Cuba showing pedestrian traffic including a team of Black laborers near a horse-drawn dray. In the left, six Black men sit and stand around the dray. Buildings line both sides of the street with signs in Spanish. Men walk in front of the buildings and in the street. Two men walk towards the viewer. Several horse-drawn drays and wagons are visible in the background., Title from caption on mount., Purchase 1988., 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., Rich, a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer, was an avid traveler.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides - Rich [P.9266.1241]

Title: [Village street scene]
Description: Village street scene, possibly in Cuba, with pedestrian and street traffic including a woman, a Black man, and a horse-drawn wagon. The roofs of the buildings are tinted green., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1988., 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., Rich, a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer, was an avid traveler.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides - Rich [P.9266.1243]

Title: [African American woman holding a dog]
Description: African American woman sitting in a meadow holding up a small dog from her lap. The woman, attired in a short-sleeved dress, smiles and looks at the viewer as she holds a small white and brown dog up. Trees and a vegetable garden are visual in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of sitter and active dates of the photographer., Purchase 1988., 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., Rich was a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer and avid traveler who privately produced several candid portraits of family and friends.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Rich - Portraits - Unidentified [P.9266.970]

Title: Amy Smith, April 17, 1876
Description: Half-length portrait of Smith, a young African American woman, posed to the left. She looks forward toward the viewer. She wears a plaid-patterned garment, a white, upturned collar, and a bowtie-like ribbon at her neck. Her hair is pulled back and she wears a hair band. Smith, born in Virginia resided in Philadelphia by 1870. Smith was buried at the Harmony Burial Ground, the burial ground of the African Friends to Harmony at 41st and Chestnut Street in West Philadephia. African Friends, founded in 1826, sought to provide a cemetery for low-income African Americans to be interred with dignity and respect. Several of those buried in the cemetery were associated with the Monument Baptist Church or the Mount Pisgah A.M.E. Church. The property was sold in 1910. In 2020, the remains of over 160 burials were transferred to Eden Cemetery., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Printed on verso: No. [57860]. Duplicated any time if orderd by the original, or by a responsible person., Manuscript note on verso: died March 23d 1878., Partially purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC
Creator: Reimer, Benjamin F., approximately 1826-1899, photographer
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Smith [P.2023.17.1]

Title: Bits of color
Description: Full-length portrait of three barefooted African American children, attired in torn and worn clothing, sitting in the doorway of a clapboard house in Roanoke, Virginia., Date from manuscript note written on mount: #351 Roanoke VA May 29, 1883., Photographer's blind stamp on recto., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield, 1983.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: [May 29, 1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.22]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co's float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Float contains white men, attired in hats and smocks, near a large model of a keg inscribed "Brewing Industries of Philadelphia." Float also displays a large banner listing revenues spent by the brewing industry on its "allied trades." A large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, sit in viewing stands decorated with bunting and stand along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2958., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., 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.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau. [P.9151.4]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day, Oct. 7th 1908. Phila. Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Four white men, attired in white suits and hats, lead the horses pulling the float. The float contains two white men near displays of crates of bottles and is adorned with a hand-painted banner depicting a freight train near factories and a vignette portrait of a horse. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2955., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau. [P.9151.6]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. The float with a financial theme contains white men costumed as "Uncle Sam" and a late 17th-century gentleman near a chest labeled "State Treasury" and stacks of money bags. Float also contains a banner inscribed with the annual amounts of local, state, and federal taxes paid by Philadelphia brewers. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2953., Purchase 1986, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9151.7]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the celebration of the Founder's Week parade. Float contains white men and a woman in German costume near hop vines on stakes, and boughs of barley and hop tenders. Float also contains a banner promoting the amount of hops, barley, and other cereals utilized by Philadelphia breweries. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2959., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9151.8]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day, Oct. 7th, 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co's float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Four white men attired in costume lead the float containing brewing equipment, including a kettle and fermenter. Several men sit and stand on the float, which also displays a banner promoting the "Magnitude of the Brewing Industry of Pennsylvania." A large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, sit in viewing stands decorated with bunting and stand along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Manuscript note on mount: Property of National Decorating Co., Phila. Pa., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9260.639]

Title: "The coon" wedding march
Description: Scene showing a young African American girl in a white dress leading the procession of the young African American couple and their attendents. The bride, holds fake flowers and wears a calico shirt, white skirt, and thick cloth veil. Small picture prints and placards written in black dialect adorn the walls., Inscribed on negative: 16974., Copyright by William H. Rau., Stamped on mount: Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Liverpool, Eng. American and Foreign Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Genre [P.9921]

Title: The trombone soloist
Description: Genre portrait with a racist tone showing an African American boy, seated on a stool, and holding a trombone by the braces and down toward his left knee. He is attired in a neutral-color, buttoned jacket; short pants; white, collared shirt; and a black top hat. The boy is posed at a three-quarter angle, right profile. His head is tilted slightly to his left., Title printed on negative., Name of publisher/distributor stamped on mount., Curved grey mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: [ca. 1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & Genre [P.2018.16.4]

Title: View of the old Capitol
Description: Reproduction of an 1837 print "View of the Capitol at Washington" engraved by C.J. Bentley after the work of W. H. Bartlett and published in N. P. Willis's American Scenery;... (London: George Virtue, 1837). Shows the Capitol building with the Bulfinch dome that was removed in 1856. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages, a man on horseback, and a group of Black men and women in non-European attire in the foreground. Reconstruction of the Capitol building after the designs of Charles Bulfinch was completed in 1826., Title from label., Date inferred from content and active dates of the photographer., Gift of Sandra Markham.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Rau - United States [P.2006.21.1]

Title: Dining car, Pennsylvania Limited
Description: View showing the interior of a dining car of a train of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Two African American waiters, wearing mustaches and attired in white suits, stand among tables adorned in table cloths and with seating for four. In the background, a beverage service, including bottles, silver ice buckets, silver bowls, and possibly a decanter are visible. View also includes hooks above the car windows and light fixtures on the ceiling. One of the waiters carries a bottle of champagne on a tray. In June 1887, the Pennsylvania Limited began running between New York and Chicago, which was replaced by the Pennsylvania Special in 1902 and by the Broadway Limited in 1912., Title from item., Copyrighted., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including St. Louis and Liverpool, Eng., Griffith & Griffith, established in Philadelphia in 1896, expanded in 1908 to included offices in St. Louis and Liverpool. The non-Philadelphia offices were relocated in 1910., Purchase 2013., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Transportation [P.2013.1]

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