Depicts Wood as a young man. He is looking slightly to his right. His hair is parted neatly on the side, and he has a short beard under his chin. Pale hand painted pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. A tall spray of mixed flowers and leaves, with a fancy scolled border. Same design on verso., Probably taken at the same time as P.8926.24., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator
Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.25]
Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red-orange silk. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. A lovely, delicate spray of mixed flowers is in a fancy multi-curved border. Same design on verso., Etched on the bottom of the plate is the signature of the daguerreotypist: Marvin - Artist, 116 Chesnut St. Phila. See Board report of November 9, 1999., Inscribed below the plate: M.A.G.F. Curtis 1864; 1864.
Creator
Marvin, P. B., photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9740]
Depicts Wood as a young man, hair parted neatly on the side with a short beard. Pale hand painted pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Geometric design with scrolls and leaves., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Thermoplastic. Geometric design with scrolls and leaves. This design is #3-32 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647. Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as scarce. Same design on verso., Probably taken at the same time as P.8926.25., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator
Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.24]
A sweet faced young woman, hair parted in the middle, is wearing a lace collar with a cameo at the center. Her left arm is resting on a table, her right arm is on her lap. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark red velvet. Floral spray in center, scroll work all around., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Bell & Clayton, Phil'a., Case: Leather. A double circle is in the center; half circles are at the top and bottom and on either side. Same design on verso.
Creator
Bell & Clayton, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8496.5]
His left arm is resting on his lap. Painted back drop of trees and landscape are behind him., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded gold velvet. Eagle with wings outstretched on top of sun. Embossed within two concentric circles forming the core of the sun: Evans, 380 Market Street, Girard Row. Original Sun Beam., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Leather with a geometric design. An oval is in the center of a curved corner rectangle. Same design on verso., See Research file., Gift of David Long, 2002.
Creator
Evans, C. (Charles), fl. 1848-1860, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2002.51.1]
Portrait of a young, handsome Spencer wearing a vest and a fancy tie., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Thermoplastic. Lacking cover. Geometric design. This design is #3-119 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647: Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as scarce., Gift of Mrs. A Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.8a]
Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet embossed "Van Loan's Rooms 126 Arch St., Philada." Geometric border with swirls., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Eagle with outstretched wings, sitting on a branch within a nonpareil-like border. Swirls all around. Geometric design on verso.
Creator
Van Loan, Samuel, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9792]
Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Urn with flowers in center, scroll work all around., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. Flowers and leaves are In a circle within a six pointed star. Same design on verso.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9025.36]
Hand colored photograph. The younger man in the center is looking straight ahead, the older man is looking to his left, and the elderly man on the right is looking right., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Gold velvet., Mat: Square., Case: Tan soft leather. No design.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9566]
Seated portrait. Her hair is cropped short. She wears a plaid dress. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Spray of flowers in center surrounded by scrolls., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Small urn on a pedestal in the center surrounded by ornate scrolls and swirls., See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.3]
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. Patent July 4th & 11th 1854., Case: A double ambrotype case. Leather., See Board report, November 3, 1998 for a description of this double plate., LCP purchase.
Creator
Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9636.1]
Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark red velvet with geometric border. Embossed: Keenan 248 South Second St. Philada., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Spray of three tulips within a nonpareil-like border. Geometric design on verso.
Creator
Keenan, John A., photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.7]
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design. Newspaper clipping containing biographical information on Hall is pasted on the pad., Mat: Oval., Case: Thermoplastic. Geometric design. This design is #3-14 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647: Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as rare., Hall was the first President of the Philadelphia Board of Education. See also Board Report for November 19, 1991.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9362]
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red silk. No design., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather with border of scrolls. Photographer's imprint stamped in gold on verso: Swift & Mahan, 312 Market St., Philadelphia.
Creator
Swift & Mahan, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9678.2]
Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded burgundy velvet., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. It is shaped like a book and is similar to Fig. 42 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) The case manufacturer is identified as H. A. Eichmeyer of Philadelphia.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.28]
Informal group portrait of seven men standing., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet with a scroll design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. One rose surrounded by leaves within a nonpareil like border., See Board report of November 17, 1992., Gift of Charles Dorman, November 2, 1992.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9403.1]
Her right arm is resting on a table, and her right hand is under her chin. She is holding a small book or cased photograph in her left hand which is resting on her lap., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. A spray of flowers with one rose within a modified nonpareil border.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9491.5]
Portrait of a serious looking Maria is looking straight ahead. She is wearing a high necked dress with a brooch., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Pale apricot colored velvet with a leaf design within a star border., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Small urn of flowers within an inverted octagonal border. Photographer's imprint stamped in gold on verso: Swift & Mahan, 312 Market St. Phila., See Conarroe Family research file., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Creator
Swift & Mahan, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8259.F.10]
He is holding an unidentifiable object in his left hand. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Raised red velvet with tulip design., Mat: Double elliptical. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. N. Keely, 332 N. 2d St., Philada., Case: Leather. Case is shaped like a book with the word Souvenir gold stamped on the spine. Elaborate design of mixed flowers and leaves is gold stamped on the front and back. Edges are painted in gold., See Board report November 18, 1996., LCP purchase.
Creator
Keely, Robert N., photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9518.3]
View, taken through trees, focuses on the doorway of the frame house., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet . Urn with flowers in center. Scroll border., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. A large scalloped oval with an ornate scrolled border., See Board report of November 17, 1992. Mr. Dorman purchased this daguerreotype at Weschler's auction in Washington, D.C. in 1958., Gift of Charles Dorman, November 2, 1992.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9403.2]
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Embossed: Tyson's Gallery 272 N. Second St. above Willow Philadelphia, Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers within a nonpareil-like border. Geometric design on verso.
Creator
Tyson, Thomas H., photographer
Date
ca.1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9831.2]
Bust-length, forward facing portrait of a seated, African American woman whose eyes look to the right. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, crimped, and looped behind her ears. She wears hoop earrings and a dark-colored, long-sleeved, silk dress with a white collar and cravat. A small, decorative button or brooch is pinned in the center of the collar. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded red velvet with a single swirled feather design., Mat: Oval., Leather. Geometric design with a crosshatched oval surrounded by ovals, each of which has a flower in the center. Same design on verso., Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 17-24., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[ca. 1855-ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.8]
Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of an African American girl seated on a chair with an ornate, wooden back. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, crimped, and tied in pig tails. She is attired in a dark-colored, short-sleeved dress with white lace decorating the cuffs. She clasps her hands together slightly and rests them at her waist. Her cheeks are tinted pink. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded red velvet with fleur de lis in center surrounded by scrolls., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design with a six pointed star within a shield flanked by banners. Same design on verso., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 17-24., Reproduced on cover and on page 44 of Julie Winch's The Elite of our people (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000)., Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[ca. 1855-ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.9]
Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of a seated, African American woman. Sitter has dark hair that is parted in the middle and combed close to and tied back behind her head. She is attired in a long-sleeved, button down, plaid dress with ruffles at the cuffs and wears a matching, round, brooch necklace and earrings. She rests her right forearm on a table and her hands, forming slight fists, rest in her lap. Her cheeks and lips are tinted pink. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded red velvet. Fleur de lis in center surrounded by scrolls., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Geometric design featuring a six-pointed star within a shield flanked by banners. Same design on verso., Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 17-24., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[ca. 1855-ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.7]
Portrait of deceased elderly man with closed eyes wearing a high-collared shirt and jacket and resting his head on a pillow., Title supplied by cataloger., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark red velvet with geometric border. Embossed: Keenan 248 South Second St. Philada., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Single rose within nonpareil border surrounded by floral scroll work. Same design on verso.
Creator
Keenan, John A., photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2011.13]
Portrait showing Anna Jaudon Lea, hair parted in the middle, wearing a white cap, seated, and holding her two children on her lap. One child is resting his head against her shoulder., Pad: Burgundy velvet. No design., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. Within a scrolled border is a spray of flowers (lilies?) and leaves. On the back is a vertical design with six rounded corners in the center of which is a design of three small interlocking images., Anna Caroline Jaudon married Henry Charles Lea, May 27, 1850., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.6]
Bust-length portrait of Frances Anne Carey, her face framed in a large lace cap tied under her chin. She has a slight smile on her face, and is looking straight ahead., Pad: Dark burgundy velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Stamped on mat: M. A. Root, Phila., Case: Leather. No design., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Creator
Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.2]
Waist length portrait of a bearded man wearing a jacket, vest, high collared shirt and large necktie. A watch chain stretches across his stomach., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: red velvet. Floral design in center with floral scroll border., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Floral design with scroll work borders. Identical design on verso., Gift of Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer.
Creator
Root, Samuel, 1819-1889, photographer
Date
1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2010.38.19]
Portrait of a middle-aged seated woman wearing a bonnet. Her dress has a lace collar and cuffs., Hand colored pink on cheeks., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Dark blue velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. Patent July 4th & 11th 1854., Case: Leather. No design., Gift of Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer.
Creator
Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2010.38.10]
Portrait of a seated woman wearing a plaid dress with a lace collar., Hand colored pink on cheeks., Text supplied by cataloger., Pad: purple velvet. Floral design in center with floral scroll border., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Oval medallion with interlocking chain surrounded by floral scroll work. Identical design on verso., Gift of Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer.
Creator
Root, Samuel, 1819-1889, photographer
Date
1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2010.38.18]
Waist length portrait of an older man with slightly disheveled hair. He wears a jacket, vest, and high collared shirt., Hand colored pink on cheeks., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Purple velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. Floral design with elaborate floral scroll border. Identical design on verso., Gift of Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer.
Creator
Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date
1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2010.38.13]
Full-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified, young, white boy seated on a chair. Sitter has short hair parted and combed to the left. He is attired in a three-quarter length, checked shirt with gold buttons down the center, pants, white socks, and lace-up boots. He sits on a wooden chair and holds a book in both hands on his lap. Gilt is applied to the pictorial detail of the book. His cheeks are tinted pink. In the right background is a side table covered with a dark-colored tablecloth., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on cheeks., Gilt on sitter’s buttons and book., Pad: Red velvet with a spray of flowers in the center surrounded by a border of decorative scrolls., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of flowers in an oval surrounded by leaves. Same design on verso.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2012.68]
Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified, seated white woman. Sitter has dark hair parted in the middle with ringlet curls at the sides of her face. She is attired in a lace cap, a white chemisette, and a dark-colored, long-sleeved, silk dress with a lace collar and cuffs. She also wears earrings, a ring on her right hand, and a cameo brooch and pocket watch chain that adorn her chest and waist, respectively. Gilt is applied to the photographic details of her earrings, ring, right cuff, cameo brooch, and pocket watch chain. She sits holding a card in her left hand on her lap. It is inscribed with the number, 50, which may signify the portrait is in honor of her 50th birthday. She rests her right arm on a cloth-covered side table in the left. Possibly her bonnet lies on top of the table. Her cheeks are tinted pink., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on cheeks., Gilt on sitter’s jewelry and card., Gift of Michael Zinman, 2016., Pad: Red velvet with a spray of flowers., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Case is shaped like a book with gilt edges and a spine labeled “Bijou.” Papier-mache, black lacquer with a spray of flowers made of mother of pearl inlay. Verso design composed of an ornamental scroll in gold, green, and red with a gold border., Edges of daguerreotype plate are tarnished.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2016.85]
Half-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified white man, posed slightly toward the left. Sitter has dark hair combed to the right and wears a chinbeard. He is attired in a white collared shirt and a dark-colored bowtie and jacket., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Gift of Michael Zinman, 2016., Pad: Red velvet with a decorative scroll in the center., Mat: Oval., Case: Case is shaped like a book with gilt edges and a spine labeled “Memorial.” Papier-mache, black lacquer with a spray of flowers made of mother of pearl inlay. Verso is black lacquer., Edges of daguerreotype plate are tarnished.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2016.86]
Studio portrait of three of the sixteen children of Richard and Julianna Randolph Wood. Shows the girls posed in a window frame with grape vines growing along thee edge. A strw hat hangs down in front of them., Daguerreotypist attribution based on use of window frame with creeping vine prop used by Samuel Broadbent's studio., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. No design., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. No design., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator
Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.1]
She/he is holding an unidentifiable object in her hands. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet with elongated geometric design., Mat: Nonpareil. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. N. Keely, 332 N. 2d St., Philada., Case: Leather. Two roses and other flowers within an oval in the center. Scrolls at the corners.
Creator
Keely, Robert N., photographer
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.5]
Her hair parted severely on the middle. She is wearing a short black jacket with embroidered edges over a white blouse, and a checked shirt. Her left arm is resting on a table. Drapery is visible. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet with a geometric design of large and small scrolls., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Thermoplastic. Geometric design. A ten point star is surrounded by coiled scrolls within an oval. Same design on verso. This design is #3-74 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. : Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as common. The design of the case is called Ten Point Star and is plate 200 American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Uncommon, circa 1856. The case maker was Samuel Peck and Co. Die-engraver was J. Smith.
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8647 ]
Three-quarter length portrait of Smith wearing a black cape, plaid skirt, and a lace cap tied under her chin. Her right arm is resting on a table, her left arm is on her lap. Her hair is in long curls. She is looking slightly to her right., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Leaves in an oval in the center. Fancy scrolled border., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical. Label on mat: Collins, Nos. 100 & 166 Chestnut St., Case: Leather. Geometric design with interlocking swirls. Same design on verso. Double clasp. Accompanied by manuscript note identifying sitter: Margot Griscom McCord Smith. Born Ap. 29, 1821 - Died Ap. 28, 1909. Grand niece of Elizabeth Griscom Ross (Betsy Ross)., Manuscript note on plate verso: Aged about 33 years. Smith was a charter member of the Flag House Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution., For additional information about Margaret Smith, see research file, LCP Annual Report, 1993, pg. 42 and Board Report, 9/21/93.
Creator
Collins, photographer
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9421]
Copy photograph. Detail of full plate portrait of Caroline with her two sisters, Mary and Julianna (see P.8926.21) in reverse. Very pale hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. No design., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.21]
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet, embossed "Ennis Gallery 106 Chestnut St. Philadelphia.", Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. One rose and one bud in a nonpareil-like border. Geometric design on verso.
Creator
Ennis, Thomas L., photographer
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8379.F]
Hand painted pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Eagle with wings outstretched in center. Embossed: Evan's 380 Market St. Philada., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed leaves and tiny flowers in a nonpareil-like border. Geometric design on verso., Gift of Mr. E. Perot Walker, May 23, 1980.
Creator
Evans, C. (Charles), fl. 1848-1860, photographer
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8514.5]
One is standing, resting her right arm on the shoulder of the other who is seated. Possibly sisters., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. Patent July 4th & 11th 1854., Case: Leather. No design on front or back.
Creator
Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8951]
Her short hair parted in the middle, hands clasped in her lap. She is wearing a dark dress with big, full sleeves, and has a black choker at her neck. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Uncased.
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8680.3]
Seated portrait of either young Joseph or William Francis. His left arm is resting on a table, and his right arm is on his lap., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet., Mat: Double elliptical. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. 250 Chestnut St. Patented July 4 & 11 1854., Case: Leather. Small urn with flowers in center. No design on verso. Manuscript note pasted on verso: Joseph or William Francis.
Creator
Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8639]
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet, embossed Bailey, 198 Chesnut St. Philada. Eagle embossed at top, scroll work on three sides., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers and leaves, with one rose in the center, a bird sitting on one stem, all within a nonpareil-like border. No design on verso., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator
Bailey, Jason, fl. 1853-1855, photographer
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.5]
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Stained red silk. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers, scroll border. Same design on verso., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Conarroe Family Collection [8259.F.8]
