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Title: New Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane building, Pa
Description: View showing the progress of the construction of the Male Department, Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, built from 1856 until 1859 after designs by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan. Construction workers, including African American men, pose before and inside the partially completed building. Two well-dressed white men, possibly including the hospital superintendent Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, are seated in the foreground. Kirkbride, an authority on asylum construction, promoted and oversaw the construction of the new building to alleviate the overcrowding and to abolish the co-educational conditions at the original asylum opened at 44th and Market in 1841., Title printed on mount., Date inferred from history of the building's construction., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, of Philadelphia were pioneer photographers, and stereographic publishers. Between 1849 and 1865, the Langenheims produced over ninety different stereoviews of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane and its staff as well as lantern slides of various subjects to be used for patient therapy.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim [(8)1322.F.7b]

Title: Negroes and religion. Disciplina et regula ordinis flagellantium [Discipline of the order of flagellants] The Episcopal Church at the South. To the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Description: Copy photograph of an abolitionist satire containing a montage of scenes mocking the pro-slavery dioceses from the seceded Southern states absent from the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York in 1862. Probably related to an earlier pamphlet of the same title satirically "promoting" the policy that the church's African American communicants be treated as the South treats the enslaved people. A devilish figure with wings inscribed with the names of Confederate states, holding a "Testimonial" scroll under his arm, thumbs his nose and unlocks the door of the "House of Bishops" at the "General Convention." Figures pray at an altar near an animated preacher while stating, "We welcome our friends." A white man whips a bare-chested and bare-footed African American enslaved man, who kneels with his hands bound to a post. Two white women watch the events from the side of their dilapidated wooden house. During the Civil War, the Southern dioceses became the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America., Title from item., Date inferred from content., See related pamphlet Negroes and religion: The church at the South. Memorial to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. (United States : s.n., 1856?). (LCP Am 1856 Neg 18399.O.9)., Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of humorous prints and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886 [5780.F.52h]. Purchase 1999 [P.9758.3]., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5780.F.52h; P.9758.3]

Title: The negro on the brain
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist woodcut caricature showing Abraham Lincoln wearing a naked African American shaped as a stovepipe hat. Contains photographic reproduction of several lines of verse in English and German on verso: A goodly difference does exist; Among the party that did call; There is among them many a [one?]; Conservative and true at heart; But there are others [who insist?]; The white man's freedom would deny; To place them on an equal footing; No matter what the cost may be; Something is for the negro done; The negro on the brain., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.1a]

Title: [Music class at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets]
Description: Depicts the young students, including African American children, from the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School playing simple percussion instruments during a music lesson of the "Shoemakers Dance." In the left at the front of the classroom, a boy student acts as conductor, overseen by the teacher and woman piano accompanist. The students sit on the floor with their instruments. Along the wall are several students in wheelchairs. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and health care reformer and his philanthropist wife, provided the students with medical care and a curriculum of humanities, arts, crafts, and drama., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inscribed on negative: No. 12219; 4-5-37., Manuscript note on verso: Phila. Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts., Duplicate of P.8578.16., Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [April 5, 1937]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Education [P.8578.15]

Title: [Music class at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets]
Description: Depicts the young students, including African American children, from the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School playing simple percussion instruments during a music lesson of the "Shoemakers Dance." In the left at the front of the classroom, a boy student acts as conductor, overseen by the teacher and woman piano accompanist. The students sit on the floor with their instruments. Along the wall are several students in wheelchairs. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and health care reformer and his philanthropist wife, provided the students with medical care and a curriculum of humanities, arts, crafts, and drama., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inscribed on negative: No. 12219; 4-5-37., Manuscript note on verso: Phila. Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts., Duplicate of P.8578.15., Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [April 5, 1937]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Education [P.8578.16]

Title: Mt. Pleasant E. Park, John Macpherson 1761
Description: Exterior view depicting the country house built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Shows the front entrance to the mansion, covered in ivy, and flanked by outbuildings. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Title from inscription on mount., Date inferred from photographic medium., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1926]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Official Photographer [P.9260.329]

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: Mrs. Amanda Smith
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the African American Methodist evangelist preacher, missionary, and temperance advocate who was born to enslaved parents in Maryland. Shows Smith, standing, slightly turned to her right, and attired in medium-colored, Quaker-like garb including a shawl, shirtwaist with an upright lace collar adorned with a pendant, skirt, and scoop bonnet. She holds a book, possibly a Bible, in her right hand, top edge down, and with her fingers interspersed between a few pages. A chair is partially visible in the right of the image and dark-colored drapery serves as the backdrop. Smith, her freedom bought by her father when a child, entered preaching in 1869. Known as a compelling speaker and singer, she preached at Methodist Episcopal churches throughout the East and Midwest, including Philadelphia. In 1878 she felt called to travel to Keswick, England for a Methodist convention and remained in the country to minister and then worked as a missionary in India (1879-1881) and West Africa (1882-1890). In 1890 she returned to the United States and settled in Chicago where she was also a prominent member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (Smith joined in the 1870s). In 1893 her "Autobiography" was published, from which she began to raise funds for an orphanage for African American children. 1n 1899 the Amanda Smith Orphan's Home, later the Amanda Smith Industrial Home opened in Harvey, Il. The home was razed by fire in 1918., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso. Also includes a vignette depicting the British coat of arms., Mount designer's imprint printed on verso., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2018, p. 59 - 60., RVCDC, Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Pettitt, Alfred, -1880
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Smith [P.2018.13]

Title: Mr. Stanley
Description: Bust-length portrait of the British-born American journalist and explorer of Africa. Stanley, wearing a mustache and attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned tie with a pin, and a tweed jacket, faces left. Stanley, most known as the explorer who located David Livingstone, the British missionary in Africa, founded the Congo Free State in 1879., Title from item., Photographer's imprint and insignia stamped on recto and verso., Distributor's label on verso: Earles Galleries, 816 Chestnut St. Philadelphia., Copyrighted by Elliot & Fry., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Elliott & Fry, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Stanley [P.9363.20]

Title: [Mr. Eckels, winner of Antique Derby at the 1934 Philadelphia Auto Show, with his automobiles, a 1892 Blackie Car and a "1934 Delage"]
Description: Depicts Mr. Eckels holding up his trophy in his winning 1892 Blackie car parked on a street next to a luxury 1934 white Delage. Attached to the front of the "Blackie" is a sign declaring the car "a bouncing baby with ‘Standard’ in 1892” and "a Grand Old Dame with Essolene in 1934 and There's Life in the Old Gal yet!" The cars are surrounded by spectators, including young boys and two African American men., Title supplied by the cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Mr. Eckels, winner of Antique Derby 1892 Blackie Car & "1934 Delage.", Photographer's blind stamp on recto., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [1934]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8807.23]

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: [Mount Pleasant, Mount Pleasant Drive, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior views of the mansion built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Mount Pleasant was described by John Adams as "the most elegant seat in Pennsylvania," and is an excellent example of Philadelphia's Middle Georgian country houses of the 1760s. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Negative numbers: 54 & 54a-d, Negative numbers 54a-54d dated 1928 in manuscript note on negative sleeve., Purchase 1978., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: 1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9480.54 ; P.9480.54a-54d]

Title: [Mount Pleasant mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
Description: View shows Mount Pleasant mansion in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia flanked by outbuildings. The view is somewhat obscured by trees. The Middle-Georgian country house was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil on Mount Pleasant Drive in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Title inferred from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from type of mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein, 2011., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Fairmount Park [P.2011.47.954]

Title: [Mount Pleasant mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Exterior view of the front of Mount Pleasant Mansion (i.e. Arnold Mansion) main house built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. View shows wildflowers in bloom on the front lawn and benches lining the front walk. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Date inferred from type of mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Series title printed on mount., Title supplied by cataloger., Title printed on mount erroneously identifies site as Washington's Headquarters - Fairmount Park., Gift of Raymond Holstein, 2011., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Fairmount Park [P.2011.47.1013]

Title: Monday morning or the tender passion
Description: Photographic reproduction of a print drawn by Helen M. Colburn, daughter of New Jersey artist Rembrandt Lockwood, depicting an outdoor wash day. The figures are drawn with racist and caricatured features and mannerisms. Shows, in the background, in the right an African American woman bent over and with her hands in a wash tub. A basin and large ladle rest near the tub. Behind her, a sheet and stockings hang from a clothes line. In the left background, an African American woman, standing on the tops of her toes, pins a sheet to a clothesline. A wooden basket of laundry rests by her feet. A young African American girl with short hair peers at the woman hanging the wash from behind a hanging sheet. The women wear kerchiefs, shirtwaists with the sleeves rolled up, and long pleated skirts with aprons. Between the women, an African American man attired in a panama hat, a shirt, a cross tie, long jacket, and pants, stands, looking to the left and with his left hand on his hip, and holding a cane in his right hand. In the center foreground, two barefoot young African American boys face each other and dance. The boys are attired in long-sleeved blousy shirts and pants. One boy has his back to the viewer. The boy facing the viewer also wears a bucket hat. Robinson, married to Washington U.S. Treasury clerk Rollinson Colburn, lived in the Capitol between circa 1870 and her death in 1912. In 1887 eight of her works, some purported to based on her own eye-witness accounts during the 1870s, showing African American life in the city were published as a collectible series of photographs. Occassionally, Colburn described and signed her descriptions of the scenes on the versos of the photographs., Title printed on mount., Date from copy right statement printed on mount: Copyright 1887., Written in lower right of original print: Mrs. R. Colburn 1877., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Purchased with the 2019 Junto Fund.
Date: 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Events [P.2020.16.2]

Title: Millie Christine, "the Two Headed Nightengale."
Description: Full-length portrait of the African American conjoined twins and performers posed near an arm chair. The women are attired in a long-sleeved damask dress with front ruching. Each wears a lace neckerchief, an adornment in her hair, and earrings. Millie (on the left) holds a fan in her hands. A backdrop illustrated with a changing screen is visible in the background. The twins were born in Whiteville, North Carolina on July 11, 1851, to Jacob and Monemia McKoy who were enslaved to Jabez McKay. Various enslavers and managers exhibited the twins nationally and internationally. By the end of the 1880s, the twins retired to a farm in their home state of North Carolina., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Date inferred from address of photographer., See History and medical description of the two-headed girl:...(Buffalo, N.Y.: Warren, Johnson, & Co., 1869). (LCP Am 1869 Hist, 70318.D)., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2015, p.42-43., Purchase 2015., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., RVCDC, Horace Ollivier operated his studio from 466 5th Avenue between 1889 and 1903.
Creator: Ollivier, Horace, photographer
Date: [ca. 1889]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card - sitter - Millie [P.2015.23.2]

Title: [Millie and Christine McCoy]
Description: Full-length portrait of the African American women conjoined twins and performers known as the "two-headed nightingale" and "Carolina twins." The twins wear their hair parted in the middle and in curls and with floral hair adornments at their crowns. They are attired in short-sleeved dresses with lace trim and black boots with heels. They also wear bracelets. They stand posed in front of a balustrade and beside a guitar and arranged branches. They were born in Whiteville, North Carolina on July 11, 1851, to Jacob and Monemia McKoy who were enslaved to Jabez McKay. Various enslavers and managers exhibited the twins nationally and internationally. They performed at the Assembly Building in Philadelphia in May 1866 accompanied by the 15 year old master pianist, J.W. Minnick., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., History and medical description of the two-headed girl:...(Buffalo, N.Y.: Warren, Johnson, & Co., 1869). (LCP Am 1869 Hist, 70318.D)., Purchase 2000., 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., RVCDC, Germon was a Philadelphia engraver and early photographer who produced photographic portraits at his studio, the "Temple of Art."
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Millie [P.9790]

Title: [Millie and Christine McCoy]
Description: Full-length portrait of the African American women conjoined twins and performers known as the "two-headed nightingale" and "Carolina twins." The twins wear their hair parted in the middle and in curls and with floral hair adornments at their crowns. They are attired in short-sleeved dresses with lace trim and black boots with heels. They also wear bracelets. They stand posed in front of a balustrade and beside a guitar and arranged branches. They were born in Whiteville, North Carolina on July 11, 1851, to Jacob and Monemia McKoy who were enslaved to Jabez McKay. Various enslavers and managers exhibited the twins nationally and internationally. They performed at the Assembly Building in Philadelphia in May 1866 accompanied by the 15 year old master pianist, J.W. Minnick., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., History and medical description of the two-headed girl:...(Buffalo, N.Y.: Warren, Johnson, & Co., 1869). (LCP Am 1869 Hist, 70318.D)., Purchase 2000., 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., RVCDC, Germon was a Philadelphia engraver and early photographer who produced photographic portraits at his studio, the "Temple of Art."
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Millie [P.9790]

Title: Midway Plaisance-Dahomans
Description: Lantern slide showing a group of barefooted Black men Dahomans carrying a man in a fabric litter during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The four men rest the wooden beams on top of their heads on head pads and hold their hands above their heads to support the beams. In the front left, the barechested man is attired in a necklace and a floral patterned sarong. In the front right, the man is attired in a sleeveless shirt with an American flag print, a belt with a pouch, and knee-length white shorts. In the right rear, the man is attired in a sleeveless white shirt, knee-length shorts, and an arm bracelet. In the background, white men and women spectators look on. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people, a Gbe ethnic group., Contains MCM stamp. Title printed on label., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2169]

Title: Midsummer dinner
Description: Racist, genre scene showing an African American boy eating watermelon for his dinner. He smiles, sits cross-legged on a wooden crate and has his right hand plunged into the flesh of one half of a watermelon. He looks slightly toward his right and wears a pork pie hat; long-sleeve, collarless shirt; and ragged pants. Seeds run along the side of his slightly outstretched right foot. The untouched second half of the watermelon rests next to him to his right. The crate contains writing that reads: #888/Stmp/Handle Carefully/Keeb Dry. A backdrop depicting panel molding along the bottom of a wall is visible in the background., Title from list of 70 titles printed on verso by printer E. Perry., Name of photographer printed on mount., Date inferred from style of mount and active dates of photographer/publisher., Printed on mount: Charleston & Vicinity., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note written on verso, upper edge: Lukin., Gift of David Long., Frank A. Nowell began work as a photographer in Charleston in 1870. In 1880, he purchased the Charleston negatives and studio of Civil War photographer George N. Barnard. Nowell was active until 1890.
Creator: Nowell, F. A.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photo. - Nowell [P.2018.16.10]

Title: [Men husking corn]
Description: Depicts men agricultural workers, including an African American man, sifting through and husking corn in the middle of a large mound of cobs. In the center, five men and two dogs sit and stand in a large amount of corn. In the left, an African American man, attired in a bowler hat, a white, long-sleeved shirt, a waistcoat, and pants, sits on a wooden crate as he husks corn into a wooden barrel. Another man stands and husks into the same barrel. Three other men bend and stand sorting the corn. Behind the mound of corn is a horse-drawn cart. In the background is a large barn with the doors removed., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 1982., 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs won prizes.
Creator: Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date: [ca. 1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.180]

Title: [Men harvesting hay on the Stouton farm, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts a group of men harvesting hay in the field behind Stouton. Three African American men stand on and near a horse-drawn cart overloaded with hay, while a white man and two boys stand near a horse-drawn plow, operated by a man neatly attired in a long shirt and tie. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.24]

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: Mason's challenge blacking Philadelphia
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist and whimsically absurd advertisement, including an African American shoe shiner, to promote the premier manufactory of blacking established in 1832 by James S. Mason. Depicts the shoe-shiner "blacking" a boot near a white shoe-shine boy with a puppet and a dog. The shoe-shiner, portrayed with grotesque features, holds a brush overhead in his right hand and a boot over the hand of his other arm. He wears a button-down shirt with an open collar, suspenders, and breeches. To his right, is an oversize boot on which the boy has a propped a puppet. The puppet is an African American dandy-like character. The puppet attired in a jacket and high collar shirt holds an umbrella above his head. A dog, as he looks behind, flees from the puppet. The dog's face is reflected in the foot of the boot. The young shoe-shiner, attired in a cap, jacket, and breeches, smiles and points toward the dog. Scene also includes an oversize opened tin of blacking in the foreground. Following the death of Mason in 1888, his son Richard assumed the business which was in operation into the 20th century., Date inferred from address of engraving firm., Advertising text printed on verso: July 15th, Reduced prices Mason's Challenge Blacking. Net prices, ornamental cases, adapted for display in retail stores, or shipping, without re-packing, holding three dozen each. No. 1, or Small Size, per doz. 25 cts. " 2, or N. Medium Size, " 30 ." " 4, or Large Size, "50." To obtain this Blacking in the original Show Cases, not less than three dozen of a kind should be ordered. The American News Company, New York.
Date: [ca. 1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - unid. photo. - Advertisements - M [P.2016.65]

Title: Masonic Temple, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the front facade of the temple on 1 North Broad Street, designed by Freemason and Philadelphia architect, James H. Windrim, completed in 1874. Built to accommodate the local lodges increasing membership, the temple has been called the grandest in the country. Four African American boys walk in a lot in the foreground towards the viewer. Pedestrians walking on the sidewalks are visible in the background., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Purchase 1986., 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: Wells, John R., photographer
Date: [ca. 1952]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wells [P.9167.50]

Title: [Mary Ann C. Shadd?, Washington, D.C.]
Description: Bust-length portrait of an African American woman, possibly American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Sitter faces right and wears her long hair back and in a chignon and top knot. A head band with an ornament adorns her hair. She is attired in a dark-colored, V-neck garment with a white ruffled collar and dark-colored lace neckerchief. She also wears a cross necklace and drop earrings. Shad Cary, was born free in Delaware to parents active in the Underground Railroad, before relocating to Pennsylvania, then Canada in 1853. In later years, following the Civil War, Shad Cary resided in Washington, D.C. where she died in 1893. During her life, she founded a school for Black children in Pennsylvania and a racially integrated school in Ontario, Canada; was the first Black woman publisher in North America when she founded, in 1853, and edited the anti-slavery and civil rights advocacy newspaper "The Provincial Freeman,"; was the second Black woman to attend law school (Howard University) in the United States; and founded, in 1880, the women's rights advocacy organization the Colored Women's Progressive Franchise. Shad Cary also wrote for multiple newspapers, such as the National Era, served as a Civil War recruiter, and was the first African American woman to vote in a national election., Title from manuscript note on verso: Mariann [sic] C. Shadd, Washington, D.C., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Date inferred from active dates of photographer at address listed in imprint., Henrici & Garns operated from 709 South Second Street between 1874 and 1876.
Creator: Henrici & Garns, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Cary [P.2023.4]

Title: Market St. Ferry
Description: Busy Philadelphia street scene depicting the Market Street Ferry terminal at the foot of Market Street at Delaware Avenue near the Ridgway Hotel. Horse-drawn cars, trolleys, and pedestrians, including an African American man leaning on a lamppost, crowd the street, markets, and sidewalks. The Market Street Ferry was established about 1800 and was a principal form of transportation from Philadelphia to Camden, New Jersey through the early 20th century., Title inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 429., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell., Reproduced in the Philadelphia evening public ledger, January 1, 1922., Gift of William E. Conner, 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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. 69., Arcadia caption text: Ferries transported passengers from Philadelphia to various New Jersey towns along the Delaware River until 1952, long after the completion of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in 1926. Prior to the opening of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s service to New York City in 1867, travelers relied on the ferries from Philadelphia to connect with the Camden & Amboy Railroad in New Jersey. The custom of naming a ferry service after its owner changed when the ferries were adopted by the railroads, such as the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Market Street ferry terminal, depicted here in 1889, nine years before the railroad reconstructed the slips and station., 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Newell [P.9781.5]

Title: Market St. Ferry
Description: Busy Philadelphia street scene depicting the Market Street Ferry terminal at the foot of Market Street at Delaware Avenue near the Ridgway Hotel. Horse-drawn cars, trolleys, and pedestrians, including an African American man leaning on a lamppost, crowd the street, markets, and sidewalks. The Market Street Ferry was established about 1800 and was a principal form of transportation from Philadelphia to Camden, N.J. through the early 20th century., Title inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 429., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell., Published in the Philadelphia evening public ledger, January 1, 1922., Upper half of photograph discolored., Gift of William E. Conner, 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Newell [P.9781.6]

Title: Market St. Ferry
Description: Busy Philadelphia street scene depicting the Pennsylvania Railroad Market Street Ferry terminal at the foot of Market Street at Delaware Avenue near the Ridgway Hotel. Horse-drawn cars, trolleys, and pedestrians, including an African American man leaning on a lamppost, crowd the street, markets, and sidewalks. The Market Street Ferry was established about 1800 and was a principal form of transportation from Philadelphia to Camden, N.J. through the early 20th century., Title inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 429., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell., Published in the Philadelphia evening public ledger, January 1, 1922., Gift of William E. Conner, 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Newell [P.9781.7]

Title: Market St. Ferry
Description: Busy Philadelphia street scene depicting the Pennsylvania Railroad Market Street Ferry terminal at the foot of Market Street at Delaware Avenue near the Ridgway Hotel. Horse-drawn cars, trolleys, and pedestrians, including an African American man leaning on a lamppost, crowd the street, markets, and sidewalks. The Market Street Ferry was established about 1800 and was a principal form of transportation from Philadelphia to Camden, N.J. through the early 20th century., Title inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 429., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell., Published in the Philadelphia evening public ledger, January 1, 1922., Gift of William E. Conner, 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Newell [P.9781.7]

Title: Lucretia Mott's home
Description: View showing Roadside, the three-story stone residence with an ivy-covered porch of Quaker abolitionist and reformer Lucretia Mott, in Cheltenham Township. Mott sits in a chair on the front lawn. A woman, attired in a dark-colored dress, possibly her daughter Marie Mott Davis or Elizabeth Mott Cavender, stands to her right and touches the back of her chair. Another woman, possibly her daugher Marie Mott Davis or Elizabeth Mott Cavender, attired in a dark-colored dress sits on the grass to her left. A child sits to the left of the seated woman. A child's hand cart lies in the grass next to them. Trees, mostly free of foliage, line the property. Mott and her husband James moved from their Philadelphia city residence to Roadside in 1857. The residence was used for the Underground Railroad and was part of an estate acquired by Mott's daughter Marie and her real estate developer husband Edward M. Davis known as Old Farm. Old Farm comprised land between Old York Road, Penrose Avenue, Cheltenham Avenue (City Line Avenue), and Beech Avenue. Mott's daughter Elizabeth lived at Roadside in 1865 before passing away from cancer., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on verso. Illustrated with an ornament shaped as a circular frame and surrounding the imprint. Garland and ribbon adorns the outer edge of the frame., Date inferred from format, active dates of photographer, and attire of sitters., Description and access points reviewed 2022., John W. Hurn (182-1887) was born in England and worked as a book keeper in upstate New York by 1850. A radical abolitionist, he worked as a photographer in Philadelphia by 1860 and operated a studio at 1319 Chestnut Street through the 1870s.
Creator: Hurn, J. W. (John White), d. 1887
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Hurn - Residences [P.2016.22.5]

Title: [Lucretia Mott]
Description: Three-quarter length portraits of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair with an ornate back beside a drape with tassels., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on presented age of sitter., Accessioned 1999., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs-M [P.9679]

Title: [Lucretia Mott]
Description: Three-quarter length portraits of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair with an ornate back beside a drape with tassels., Contains third partial photographic print upper left corner., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Probably from a McAllister scrapbook of 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.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs-M [8313.F.96c]

Title: [Lucretia Mott]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, sits on a carved wooden chair with her left elbow on a side table covered in a patterned cloth., Photographer's imprint and advertisement stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Manuel Kean, 1982., 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: Henszey & Co., photographer
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Mott [P.8752.6a]

Title: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, sits holding a book, her elbow resting on a side table, a drape with tassels in the background., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date from duplicate in private collection., Attributed to Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown from inscription in modern hand on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of 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., Frederick A. Wenderoth, William Curtis Taylor, and Frederick Brown, a Philadelphia photographic firm established in 1865, operated until around 1884. Wenderoth, a technician in the studio of Samuel Broadbent starting around 1860, assumed the business of his employer, with his first partner Taylor, around 1863.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, photographer
Date: photographed December 1860, printed ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Mott [(2)5750.F.150c]

Title: [Looking west on the 2100 block of Market Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing street construction by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company of the Market Street Subway in a shallow pit on the 2100 block of Market Street. The construction workers include white and African American men. Also shows cityscape, trollies traveling in the street, spectators, and construction equipment., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inscribed in negative: 7-22-04., Inscribed in negative: 563., Gift of Steven Dorfman, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [July 22, 1904]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Construction [P.2013.6.7]

Title: [Looking east on the 2100 block of Market Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing street construction by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company of the Market Street Subway in a large, deep pit on the 2100 block of Market Street. The construction workers include white and African American men. Shows men spectators looking down at the pit. Men fill horse-drawn carts with dirt, and theater advertisements for the "Famous Ithaca Band" at Willow Grove Park adorn construction equipment., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inscribed in negative: 9-17-04., Inscribed in negative: 579., Gift of Steven Dorfman, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [September 17, 1904]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Construction [P.2013.6.9]

Title: [Looking east on the 1600 block of Market Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing street construction by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company of the Market Street Subway across from the Broad Street Station (built 1879-1882). In the foreground, a number of African American construction workers stand in a pit. In the background is another pit with more construction workers. Pedestrians and spectators look on at the scene. Several businesses on the south side of the 1600 block of Market Street, including "Cronin's," are visible. Also shows several horse-drawn wagons traveling past the rail station, and theater advertisements adorning construction equipment., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from a closely-numbered photograph in the series with an inscribed date., Inscribed in negative: 555., Gift of Steven Dorfman, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [1904]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Construction [P.2013.6.5]

Title: Looking east on Market St. from above 8th St., Philadelphia
Description: View showing street construction by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company of the Market Street Subway on the 700 block of Market Street. Shows the very active street with several trolleys, horse-drawn vehicles, and men and women pedestrians hurrying on the street near the sidewalk mobbed with people. African American construction workers work under a "Danger" sign. Nearby, a man carries a sign advertising "Dr. Hyman" who "will fix your teeth." Several businesses line the street, including Lit Brothers department store (701-739 Market); "Dr. Wyeth's Painless Modern Dentistry" covered with signage; Hanscom's, grocery and lunch room (734 Market); Hertfelder's, tailor and clothiers; Wick Narrow Fabric Co.; and Asam Brothers, wall paper., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 4396., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: September 25, 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.375]

Title: [Lombard Street Central Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the Philadelphia African American church at 834 Lombard Street completed in 1848 after designs by Philadelphia architect, William L. Johnston. Shows the front entrance to the two-story building with pediment. In front of the building is a wrought iron fence and gate and a lamppost. In the foreground is the sidewalk and a partial view of the street. Established in 1844 under Rev. Stephen H. Gloucester, the church formed from dissenting members of the Second African Presbyterian Church following Gloucester's loss of that church's pulpit., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner., 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [Philadelphia]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Newell [P.9060.5b]

Title: Logan Square, Park Boulevard, Philadelphia
Description: Scene depicting two African American women walking past the Swann Memorial Fountain at Logan Square in Philadelphia before the installation of Alexander Stirling Calder's sculpted naiad figures in 1924. In the foreground, two women walk side-by-side on the sidewalk in front of the active fountain. Walking on the inside, the woman is attired in a black dress, stockings, and shoes, and the woman walking on the outside closer to the viewer is attired in a patterned dress, black stockings, and shoes., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content., Duplicate print of P.8513.9., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.109], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson109.htm

Title: Logan Circle
Description: Scene depicting two African American women walking past the Swann Memorial Fountain at Logan Square in Philadelphia before the installation of Alexander Stirling Calder's sculpted naiad figures in 1924. In the foreground, two women walk side-by-side on the sidewalk in front of the active fountain. Walking on the inside, the woman is attired in a black dress, stockings, and shoes, and the woman walking on the outside closer to the viewer is attired in a patterned dress, black stockings, and shoes., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content., Duplicate print P.8513.109., Digital file shows P.8513.109., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.9], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department P.8513.9, http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson109.htm

Title: Lobby, Hotel Walton, Phila, Pa. Lukes & Zahn, prop[rietor]s
Description: Interior view of the ornate lobby of the Hotel Walton located at Broad and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. The lobby, decorated with ornamental plaster moldings, marbles, and two mural paintings, is furnished with leather chairs and benches. Shows white men hotel guests who sit, read, converse together, and stand at the desks. Hotel staff stand behind the desks, and two African American men hotel porters wait in the right. Designed by Angus S. Wade, the hotel (formerly part of the Hotel Metropole building), was completed in 1895 and considered one of the most elegant in the city with its multiple dining rooms, reception rooms, and salons., Photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1908 by The Rotograph Co. N.Y., The Rotograph Co. was a prolific postcard publisher that also issued this view as a postcard., Gift of Joan Bonner Conway, 1991., 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: Byron, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Byron [P.9354.2]

Title: Loading a Mississippi steamer, New Orleans U.S.A
Description: Scene showing a steamship, named New Orleans, pulled up to a wooden dock covered with barrels and sacks. African American men carry sacks up gangplanks to the ship. In the foreground, an African American man lies on his stomach across a pile of sacks. Several men stand near him., Title from item., Date inferred from content and photographic medium., View is numbered 188 in a series., Purchase 1998., 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.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - work [P.9600.14]

Title: A little rural scene in Frankford
Description: Exterior view showing a quaint area of the Frankford section of Philadelphia including Campbell African Methodist Episcopal Church on the 1600 block of Oxford Avenue (that is Kinsey Street). In the right, is a two-story, colonial-style home with shuttered windows situated behind a fence. In the left is the African American church, founded in 1804, with its door open. Several trees line the property. A fire hydrant is visible in the left foreground., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: One block away the Frankford El rumbles past - the trolleys clang, and general traffic rolls along., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.206], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson206.htm

Title: Lippincott Mansion
Description: Exterior view of the Dundas-Lippincott mansion at the busy northeast corner of Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia. Shows the mansion surrounded by a wall with wrought iron. Steps lead to ionic columns, which hold up the pediment over the front door. Several trees grow on either side of the house. Numerous pedestrians, including an African American boy, as well as a car, carriage, and trolley travel in front of and around the residence. Designed by Thomas U. Walter, the Dundas-Lippincott Mansion was built around 1838 for Philadelphia banker James Dundas on the old grounds of the amusement center Vauxhall Gardens. Nicknamed the "Yellow Mansion," due to its buff color, the residence was known for its impressive garden and as a place for lavish entertainment. The mansion passed to Dundas' niece, Agnes Dundas-Lippincott, upon his death in 1865, and stayed in the family until razed around 1905., Title from negative sleeve., Inscribed in negative: 152., Note on negative sleeve: Historical 170., Purchase 1981., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9480.H-152]

Title: Link-Belt type "CF" loader furnished to Baugh & Sons Company, Philadelphia, for handling acid phosphate to power operated buggies
Description: Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing an African American man laborer near a Link-Belt loader inside the Philadelphia warehouse at 20 South Delaware Avenue. An African American man laborer, with debris covering his hat and clothes, stands behind the machine and looks at the viewer. Loader displays a manufacturer's plate for the Philadelphia branch of the company. Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Erwat, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874., Title and date typed on recto., Inscribed in negative: Link-Belt 17061., Contains four hole punches., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Purchase 1990., 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.
Date: November 1927
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.12]

Title: Link-Belt "D" loader handling coal from R.R. car to wagon in yard of Hamilton Coal Co., Wilmington, Del
Description: Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing a Link-Belt loader removing coal from beneath a Philadelphia & Reading Railway car to a horse-drawn wagon. A laborer shovels the coal on the wagon bed. An African American laborer, attired in a brimmed hat, stands near the loader and looks at the viewer. Loader displays a manufacturer's plate labeled "Made by Link-Belt Company, Phila. Chicago New York." Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Ewart, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874., Title typed on recto., Inscribed in negative: 8945., Contains four hole punches., Contains pencil marking on recto., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Purchase 1990., 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.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.19]

Title: Lincoln Monument, Phila. Park
Description: View showing the Lincoln Monument at the entrance (Kelly and Lemon Hill Drives) of Fairmount Park surrounded by men who stand and look at the viewer, including white men spectators and three men guards, one possibly African American, attired in caps with insignia pinned to their lapels, and holding swords. In the right, two white men sit within a horse-drawn carriage. Sculpted by Randolph Rogers, Abraham Lincoln is depicted seated with a quill in his hand after just signing the Emancipation Proclamation. The statue rests upon a pedestal adorned with sculpted garland, bronze eagles, and the City of Philadelphia's Coat of Arms. The granite base is adorned with four panels inscribed with a dedication to and quotes from Lincoln of which two are visible. Unveiled in September 1871, the monument was commissioned by the Lincoln Monument Association, one of the first such associations formed in the country to raise funds for a city monument in memory of Lincoln. City Park Hotel is seen in the background., Manuscript note written on verso: K. Duefor? Oct. 21, 1871., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Distributor's label on verso: E. Borhek & Son, Opticians, No. 628 Chestnut St., Monument described in Fairmount Park Association's Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's treasures in bronze and stone (New York: Walker Publishing Company, 1974) p. 46-52. (LCP Print Room Uy 8, 3208.F)., Monument described in Penny Balkin Bach's Public art in Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992) p. 49-50, 198. (LCP Print Room Is 4, 9379.Q)., Purchase 1989., 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.
Creator: R. Newell & Co., photographer
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Monuments and statues [P.9260.68]

Title: Lincoln Monument, foot of Lemon Hill
Description: View showing the Lincoln Monument at the entrance (Kelly and Lemon Hill Drives) of Fairmount Park surrounded by men who stand and look at the viewer, including white men spectators and three men guards, one possibly African American, attired in caps with insignia pinned to their lapels, and holding swords. In the right, two white men sit within a horse-drawn carriage. Sculpted by Randolph Rogers, Abraham Lincoln is depicted seated with a quill in his hand after just signing the Emancipation Proclamation. The statue rests upon a pedestal adorned with sculpted garland, bronze eagles, and the City of Philadelphia’s Coat of Arms. The granite base is adorned with four panels inscribed with a dedication to and quotes from Lincoln of which two are visible. Unveiled in September 1871, the monument was commissioned by the Lincoln Monument Association, one of the first such associations formed in the country to raise funds for a city monument in memory of Lincoln. City Park Hotel is seen in the background., Artist from duplicate print., Title from manuscript note on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Phila., 1876., P.9299.100 on pink mount with rounded corners., P.2011.47.932 on orange mount with rounded corners., Monument described in Fairmount Park Association's Sculpture of a city: Philadelphia's treasures in bronze and stone (New York: Walker Publishing Company, 1974) p. 46-52. (LCP Print Room Uy 8, 3208.F)., Monument described in Penny Balkin Bach's Public art in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992) p. 49-50, 198. (LCP Print Room Is 4, 9379.Q)., 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., Gift of Jane Carson James, 1990 [P.9299.100]; gift of Raymond Holstein [P.2011.47.932].
Creator: R. Newell & Co., photographer
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT. stereo - Newell - Monuments and statues [P.9299.100], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Fairmount Park - L [P.2011.47.932]

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