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Title: Metropolitan Fair, New York 1864
Description: Series of views of the New York fair published by William Langenheim to aid the Sanitary Commission. Views predominately show the Arms and Trophies Department, including the model of Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, N.Y., the uniform of Col. Ellsworth, the first Union fatality, and a suit of armor. Also includes views of the Firemens' Department, the "Two Swords" donated by Tiffany & Co. to be presented to the military and naval officer who received the greatest number of votes by fair visitors; the Welsh Stand; a coconut tree in the middle of several exhibits; and an unidentified exhibit displaying pottery, glassware, and boots. Also shows patriotic bunting, garlands, and flags; framed painting, prints, and photographs; weaponry; and signage. Signs include printed inspirational quotations; department banners; and business advertisements for exhibit sponsors., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook on the Sanitary Commission., Contains twelve stereographic prints mounted on yellow or white paper mounts with square corners, including six accompanied by labels and six with manuscript titles and two carte-de- visites., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Metropolitan Fair held April 4-23, 1864 on Fourteenth Street and Union Square in New York was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit, the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization. The exhibition, the largest of the fairs, raised over $1,000,000 to benefit the commission. Exhibits included an Arms and Trophies Department, Art Gallery, Book Department, Firemens' Department, and Children's Department.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - Watson - Great Central Fair [5781.F.161g & j], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Great Central Fair [5781.F.167a-c & e-h; 169c-e; 171e; 173g]

Title: Electric hobby
Description: Comic genre scene showing the interior of a drug store or pharmacy. Apothecary and medicine bottles line shelves covering the walls and broadsides advertising Ayers Augue Pills, Hair Invigorators, Castoria, and Catarrh treatments hang on the walls and doors. Shows a practitioner shocking his patient with an electro-magnetic device. An amused employee holding a pestle and mortar watches from the doorway., Copyrighted 1872 by F. G. Weller., Title from publisher's imprint on verso., Publisher's imprint printed on verso within decorative border., Tan mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand.
Creator: Weller, F. G. (Franklin G.), 1833-1877
Date: c1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Weller [P.2009.13.1]

Title: [Unidentified residence and outbuildings]
Description: Views depict unidentified residences and the rear of these properties with a circular tent and flagpole., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint from printed red text on versos., Yellow mounts with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown - Residences [8353.F.31-32]

Title: [Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown Fine Art Gallery]
Description: Depicts the elegantly decorated interior of the photographic studio operated at 914 Chestnut Street from circa 1865 to circa 1871. The large waiting room is adorned with sofas, chairs, framed photos, framed artwork, and a skylight. Also includes stairwells decorated with signage; a piano advertisement; and a counter adorned with the photographic studio's pricesheet (effective January 1865). William H. Dutton sold pianos at 914 Chestnut Street in 1869., Photographer and publication information from duplicate in private collection., Title supplied by cataloguer., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown - Business [(8)1322.F.35c]

Title: View from international gallery at Honesdale, Pa
Description: Elevated view showing frame houses and yards from R.B. Whittaker's "International Photograph Gallery" in rural Honesdale in upstate Pennsylvania., Title from manuscript note in ink on mount., Photographer's name from manuscript note in red ink on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Whittaker, R. B.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Whittaker [P.9212.6]

Title: Gallery at Honesdale
Description: Exterior view showing R.B. Whittaker's "International Photograph Gallery" in rural Honesdale in upstate Pennsylvania. Includes a man in an apron sitting on the porch of the studio and a nearby signpost advertising "cheap fresh oysters.", Pink mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso and mount., Photographer's name from manuscript note in red ink on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Whittaker, R. B.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - miscellaneous - Whittaker [P.9212.5]

Title: Uncle Jimmie, Beaufort, S.C
Description: Stereograph depicting “Uncle Jimmie,” an older African American man knitting the corner edge of a mesh fishing net extended out in front of him from a pole on the porch of a wood cabin. Shows the man, with receding, short, cropped hair, seated, and in profile. He wears a white, long-sleeve, button-down shirt; dark-colored pants; and work shoes. The man, possibly Gullah, uses a flat rule and needle on the edge of the net. Behind the man, in the background, an open door to an entryway with an open window is visible. A vertical beam is also visible in the left of the image. Knitting fish net was and is one of a number of Gullah traditions (customs developed by enslaved Africans living along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina) practiced in Beaufort, S.C., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of Wilson & Havens partnership., Orange mount with rounded corners., Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Wilson & Havens, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photographer - Wilson & Havens [P.2020.38]

Title: Two little nigs
Description: Racist portrait depicting two African American boys, attired in torn and worn clothes, seated on a plank on a barrel in a field. The barefooted boy in the left, attired in a hat, a torn shirt, and worn pants, sits with his hands folded on his lap. The boy in the right, attired in a hat, a worn shirt, torn pants, and dilapidated shoes, sits with his hands between his legs., No. 119., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Warped orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Long, 2002., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wilson, J. N., photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - miscellaneous photographer - Wilson [P.2002.8.4]

Title: Scrapbook
Description: Scrapbook compiled by Philadelphia socialite Minnie Campbell Wilson (neé Harris) containing primarily place, greeting, holiday and calling cards predominantly issued in the United Kingdom and the Northeast United States. Majority of the cards are printed and or chromolithographs, with a small number illustrated with drawings by hand. Many cards also contain ornate border details, embossing, and adornments, including ribbons, fringe, lace, a wishbone, and overlays. Contents also include die-cuts of fans, horse shoes, a spoon, a flamingo, one-quarter moon, a woman’s leg, and a bird as a cover for a H. O. Neill & Co. illustrated hat catalog. Cards often depict sentimental and genre imagery including cupids, butterflies, flowers, vases and baskets; religious, historical and Asian-themed scenes, figures and/or decor; seasonal landscape views; women, children, and costumed figures; animals, including birds, chicks, dogs, and cats; and fruit. Other imagery includes two witches flying on brooms holding a "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" banner; London printer William Dickes series of women in native costume from Switzerland, Russia, and Norway; a holiday card that opens to a sledding scene of children holding letters spelling "Merry Christmas"; and a Valentine Day card showing a letter slot filled with valentines. Scrapbook also contains watercolors and drawings, trade cards, programs, menus, invitations, ribbons, photographs, etchings, newspaper clippings, including an announcement of the wedding of Adelaide Watson, and a post card from "cousin Will." Trade cards advertise businesses, including J. E. Caldwell & Co., Stephen F. Whitman & Son, P. Fleischner & Co., Sharpless & Sons, F. T. Howell & Co., A. Ripka & Bro., J. H. Way & Bro., and Automatic Signal Telegraph Co. containing four scenes showing a robbery and fire and police and fire department., Scrapbook contains a number of items depicting Asian people or decorative themes, including a greeting card that reads, "A Happy New Year to You," and showing a Japanese woman, attired in a kimono, sitting and watering a potted plant [p. 9]; a card that reads, "Miss Harris," and depicting a Japanese woman, attired in a kimono made of fabric, standing and facing left [p. 18]; a card titled, "Bric a brac," and showing a blue and white porcelain bowl, vase, and pitcher bordered by hand fans and three flying cranes [p. 29]; and Asian men attired in kimonos having their noses pulled or pulling noses [p. 47]., Watercolors and drawings depict a woman attired in early 19th-century garb in a pumpkin patch, marinescapes, and an anthropomorphic frog. Photographs include a half stereograph showing a croquet match in front of a resort hotel and a photograph of Fifth and Walnut streets (Philadelphia) “taken by Chris in "88." Etchings include a portrait of an elderly man and one signed F. A. Stokes showing a man at a table. Other ephemera includes a hand-made tablet with a cover containing a watercolor depicting birds; a cloth padded bird figurine; a metamorphic playbill for the play "French Flats" at Union Square Theatre; a typewritten engagement announcement composed as a poem; a Christmas Hymnal booklet; handwritten word games, including 'Progressive Conversation"; a Pennsylvania Railroad "Old Point Comfort" tour schedule; and a train schedule scrap annotated with a doodle and inscribed text., Black binding, stamped on cover: Scrapbook., Label pasted on verso of cover: Patent Back Scrap Book. Pat. March 28, 1876., Inscribed on front free end paper: Minnie Campbell Harris Philadelphia. January 12, 1887., Provenance and date of majority of contents identified by brief inscriptions. Provenances include Nannie (i.e., Mary Jaudon) Harris, Lucy and Susan Jaudon, Mai Philler, Carrie (i.e., Caroline) Biddle, and Helen Morton., Printers include Philadelphia firms Craig, Finley & Co., Dreka, Rowley & Chew, and Sunshine Pub. Co.; Boston firm L. Prang & Co.; and British and Irish firms William Dickes, Marcus Ward & Co., and Eyre & Spottiswoode., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Gift of Elizabeth McLean., Inventory available at repository., Mary Campbell Harris (known as Minnie), daughter of U.S. Naval Commander Thomas Cadwalder Harris (1826-1875) and Mary Louisa Bainbridge Jaudon (1835-1914), was born in New York on December 27, 1862. Descended from Commodore William Bainbridge and Thomas Harris, the first surgeon-general of the United States Navy, Harris and her family resided in Philadelphia by 1866. In 1893, she married John L. Wilson (b. 1850), later treasurer of Coal Land Corporation and the couple resided in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. Harris was active in the Sedgely Club and often attended and held card parties, teas, and luncheons noted in the local press. Harris spent her later years residing in Bryn Mawr where she died circa 1948.
Creator: Wilson, Mary Campbell Harris, 1862-approximately 1948
Date: [ca. 1877-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Harris [P.9682.1]

Title: Scrapbook
Description: Scrapbook compiled by Philadelphia socialite Minnie Campbell Wilson (neé Harris) primarily containing ephemera from luncheons, suppers, university class days, and other high society social events. Events attend by Harris include dances and recitals at Wissahickon Inn; receptions, club socials, and a gymnastics exhibition at Princeton University; class days at Harvard, Brown, Princeton, and University of Pennsylvania (1885-1891); a Cricket Ball (1888); Authors Dance for the benefit of the School of Industrial Art and Pennsylvania Museum (1890); U.S.S. New York launching at Cramp's Shipyard (1891); and "supper at the Stratford after seeing [Sarah] Bernhardt given by Charles Lea, Feb. 1891." Ephemera includes programs, invitations, menus, and place, dance, holiday, and tally cards. Majority of the cards are printed, with some designed by hand. Holiday cards often depict religious, sentimental, and genre imagery, including children, animals, flowers, landscapes, and costumed and historical figures., Scrapbook also contains ribbons; die-cut tokens, including girl-shaped calendars and the story "Rosy Cheeks"; newspaper clippings, including Semple-Watson, Philler-Winsor, and Frothingham-Harris wedding announcements; correspondence to Harris from her father while abroad in San Francisco, New Zealand, and Hawaii (1870-1872) and from her brother while visiting their grandmother in New York (1870?); Harris's 1878 "American School Diary" of her grades; a striped tissue paper coverlet; a needle work sampler stitched "Susy"; a watercolor marine view "by Arthur Hoff '89"; a telegraph message envelope; a family group portrait photograph; and trade cards and advertising circulars and booklets. Trade cards and advertisements promote "The Philadelphia Weekly Press" (designed as a miniature edition); "The History of Jumbo"; Enoch Morgan’s Sons Co . Sapolio soap (authored by Bret Harte); the Church Book Store (Philadelphia), Ballard House Exchange Hotel (Richmond, Va.), and Higgins German Laundry soap., Inscribed on verso of front cover: M. C. Harris. January 1892. Scrap book., Provenance and date of some contents identified by brief inscriptions., Printers include New York firms Donaldson Brothers, E. P. Dutton & Co., and Frederick A. Stokes Company; Boston firm L. Prang & Co.; and Berlin firm W. Hagelberg., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Gift of Elizabeth McLean., Inventory available at repository., Mary Campbell Harris (known as Minnie), daughter of U.S. Naval Commander Thomas Cadwalder Harris (1826-1875) and Mary Louisa Bainbridge Jaudon (1835-1914), was born in New York on December 27, 1862. Descended from Commodore William Bainbridge and Thomas Harris, the first surgeon-general of the United States Navy, Harris and her family resided in Philadelphia by 1866. In 1893, she married John L. Wilson (b. 1850), later treasurer of Coal Land Corporation and the couple resided in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. Harris was active in the Sedgely Club and often attended and held card parties, teas, and luncheons noted in the local press. Harris spent her later years residing in Bryn Mawr where she died circa 1948.
Creator: Wilson, Mary Campbell Harris, 1862-ca. 1948
Date: ca. 1876-ca. 1892
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Harris [P.9682.2]

Title: Atlantic City [viewbook]
Description: Souvenir viewbook containing eighteen captioned views of prominent sites and landmarks at the shore town. Contains views of "The New Iron Pier, Massachusetts Ave."; hotels "'The Brighton' Indiana Ave.", "The 'Traymore' and The 'Berkeley,' Illinois Ave."; "Camden & Atlantic and West Jersey R. R. Depot"; "Old Ocean Pier, Kentucky Ave." and "Applegate's Pier, Tennessee Ave."; "Board Walk"; amusement houses and grounds of the "Excursion House" and "Childrens Sea Shore House"; "Bathing Scene, from Ocean Pier"; "Atlantic Avenue" including West Jersey R.R. Depot, C[amden] & A[tlantic] R. R. Depot, City Hall, and St. Nicholas R.C. Church; "Intersection of Pacific and North Carolina Avenues" including First Baptist Church and St. James P.E. Church; "Boat House at the Inlet; "Absecon Light House," including the Buoy House and Life Saving Station; a "Regatta"; the Disston, R. H. Turner, Shirtcliffe and Ladner villas on Indiana, Pacific, and North Carolina avenues; "The Breakers," i.e. waves breaking onto the shore; "Elephant Pavilion, South Atlantic City," i.e., Lucy the Elephant; "The Wreck"; the duties of the "U. S. Life Saving Service," (later the U.S. Coast Guard), including "Launching the Surf Boat," "Taking the Tackle Cart to the Beach, " "Throwing the Life Line" and a person "Saved" during practice maneuvers. Views also show street, pedestrian and maritime traffic, including beach goers; bath houses; amusement rides; and shops along the boardwalk., Title from embossed olive morocco binding, front cover stamped: Atlantic City., Prints connected by accordion folds and separated into two sheets., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Gift of Helen Beitler., Adolph Witteman was a prolific publisher of souvenir viewbooks from the 1870s through 1880s. He and his brother Herman later established The Albertype Company in 1890, which issued post cards in addition to viewbooks until 1952.
Creator: Wittemann, A. (Adolph), 1845-1938
Date: c1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Views [P.2002.67.65]

Title: [Materials relating to Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil, manufactured and marketed by Wm. Renne & Sons, of Pittsfield, Mass.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Will the family of the house please read!, [1869] -- [2] Invoice, dated July 27, 1872, to C.N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y. -- [3] MS. letter on letterhead, dated June 27, 1876, to Mrs. Phebe M. Whitman, Eaton St., Providence, R.I., signed by Z.C. Renne, 3 leaves -- [4] MS. letter on letterhead, dated Jan. 3, 1873, to C.N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Wm. Renne & Sons
Date: [1869-1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111879.O (Helfand)

Title: Old Falls Bridg[e] Schuy[l]kill R[i]ver
Description: View from Laurel Hill in East Fairmount Park looking northeast showing the six-arched bridge completed in 1853 by mason Christian Swartz near the Falls of Schuylkill on the Schuylkill River. The bridge was utilized by the Richmond branch of the Reading Railroad. A covered bridge is seen in the background., Title printed on mount., Date from manuscript note on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Woodward, C. W. (Charles Warren)
Date: May 29, 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Woodward - Bridges [P.9007.4]

Title: Landing, South Laurel Hill
Description: View showing two men working at a boat landing on the bank of the Schuylkill River near Laurel Hill Cemetery in East Fairmount Park. Platform steps for disembarking are visible on the landing. Also shows the Old Falls Bridge also known as the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge near the Falls of Schuylkill in the background. The six-arched bridge, completed in 1853 by mason Christian Swartz, was utilized by the Richmond branch of the Reading Railroad., Title printed on mount., Date inscribed on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Woodward, proprietor of the Fine Art Depot in Rochester, was a major publisher of stereoviews during the 1870s., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Woodward, Charles Warren, 1836-1894
Date: May 29, 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Woodward - Rivers [P.9007.1]

Title: Eagle cliff
Description: View showing Eagle cliff near the old Girard Avenue Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Also shows a man standing on the riverbank in the foreground and buildings in the background. The bridge, built in 1855, was razed circa 1871 and replaced., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Date from manuscript note on verso., Woodward, proprietor of the Fine Art Depot in Rochester, was a major publisher of stereoviews during the 1870s., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Woodward, Charles Warren, 1836-1894
Date: [ca. 1870], May 29, 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Woodward - Bridges [P.9007.2]

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