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Title: Japanese screen and bronzes
Description: View showing a screen and bronze sculpture, urn, and vases on display at the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows the ornately decorated pieces on a tablecloth lined table. From left to right are: a vase decorated with flowers; an urn; sculptures of a bird holding a snake in its beak, a dragon, and a crane standing on a turtle; and a pillar vase decorated with a chicken, flowers, and leaves. Behind the table is a screen depicting a tree, flowers, and several kinds of birds. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.517]

Title: Pap, soup, and chowder
Description: Depicts the 1852 presidental Whig candidate Winfield Scott, President Millard Fillmore, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster riding on the shoulders of newspaper editors. In the center, General Winfield Scott, attired in a military uniform, sits on New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley's shoulders. Scott holds a bowl labeled, "soup," which spills down Greeley's neck. A white man representing the South, pulls on Scott's arm who says, "don't budge another step towards the White House, yonder, until you satisfy me about my fugitive slave." Scott replies, "I will give you every satisfaction about your Fugitive slave after I have arrived at the White House." In the right, Daniel Webster sits on the shoulders of Courier & Enquirer editor J. Watson Webb and eats a bowl of chowder. In the left, Millard Fillmore eats a bowl of "government pap" while sitting on the shoulders of the New York "Mirror" editor. In the background, Franklin Pierce on horseback carries a flag that reads, "The Union and the Compromise" and travels towards the White House. A rifle and a knife lie on the ground., Title from item., Date and publisher from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by P. Smith, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southn Distt of N,Y,, Text printed on recto: For sale at No. 2 Spruce St. N.Y. Address of Currier & Ives firm in 1852., RVCDC
Date: 1852
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1852 - 17W [P.2023.61.1]

Title: Uncle Sam protecting his property against the encroachments of his cousin John
Description: Print depicting Uncle Sam grabbing John Bull by the neck showing upset over intervention in the Civil War. Uncle Sam, depicted as a Union soldier closely resembling Abraham Lincoln, holds a sword labeled, "Principle of Non-Enterference." He pulls John Bull by the back of his neck who is poaching plants from a garden. John Bull is attired in a military uniform and cannons on his legs labeled, "Armstrong's Patent," referring to English manufactured weapons used by the Confederates. Standing on a fence post in the left is a cock with the face of Napoleon III, who watches the scene. In the background is an oversized scarecrow with a sign that reads, "All persons tresspassing[sic] these premisses, will be punished according to Law." The corpses of the dead bodies of Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard and Confederate president Jefferson Davis hang from nooses from the scarecrow's arms. In the right are depictions of three African American heads, depicted in racist caricature, as cotton plants., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by E. Stauch in the Clerk's Office of the U.St. Court of the eastern District of Pennsylvania., RVCDC
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1861-39 [P.2023.61.2]

Title: [Chas. McKeone & Son Soap Manufacturing Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Chas. McKeone & Son Manufacturing Co. at 2518-2550 Callowhill Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a dog biting and pulling the pants of a white boy carrying a basket of fruit while another white boy climbs a stone wall to escape; a white child sitting on a pile of blankets with their pet dog beside an open doorway; a white boy hanging with his shirt caught on a tree branch while another white boy looks on with a basket on fruit at his feet; a white woman cradling a baby on her lap. Racist card depicting white women, an African American woman, and Chinese men working in a laundry room. In the center, a white woman and an African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in an orange head kerchief, a red dress, and a white checked apron, stand beside a wash basin and hold up a white cloth. A well-dress white woman comes over to inspect the cloth. In the left, a Chinese man, wearing a queue and mustache and attired in a black cap, a blue shirt, tan pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, holds up and inspects a box of "McKeone's Extract of Soap." Behind him in the background, another Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a yellow shirt, washes a white cloth in a steaming wash basin. In the right, a white woman carries a basket of clothes and another white woman washes laundry in a wash basin and looks on at the scene. Also visible are wooden crates, a basket of laundry, and a drying rack filled with clothes., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.620] printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Advertising text promoting McKeone's "Crown Jewel Soap" and "Kalistine concentrated extract of soap" printed on versos., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, 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., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McKeone [1975.F.181; 1975.F.183; 1975.F.185; 1975.F.620; 1975.F.622]

Title: [Liberty loan parade on Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Photograph depicting the reviewing stand and a large crowd of spectators in front of 11th District Police Station at 1217 Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia during the Liberty Loan parade on April 6, 1918. Shows the police station decorated with American flags and Allied flags, including French, British, and Japanese. In front of the building is a large reviewing stand filled with men and women, including police and military officers. Eight women are dressed depicting Liberty, and there are three Boy Scouts. The stand is decorated with American flags and liberty loan posters. A large crowd of spectators faces the stand. People are visible standing in the windows of the buildings. The United States Treasury in conjunction with the Federal Reserve issued Liberty Loans, also known as Liberty Bonds, to finance the cost of America’s participation in the war. Four Liberty Loans were issued on April 24, 1917, October 1, 1917, April 5, 1918, and September 28, 1918 raising a total of 17 billion dollars. A fifth bond called the Victory Liberty Loan was issued on April 21, 1919. Subscribing to bonds was promoted as a patriotic duty., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note written on verso: April 6th, 1918. Police station house between Montgomery Ave. and Berks St., Phila., See related: photo - unidentified - processions [8932.3-12]., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date: April 6, 1918
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - processions [P.8932.3]

Title: Wanamaker’s ladies’ & gents’ dining rooms, 42 N. 8th St., bel. Arch, Geo. W. Wanamaker
Description: Trade card promoting Wanamaker's restaurant and depicting a Chinese man serving tea to a Chinese man and woman on a balcony. In the left, the man, wearing his hair in a queue and attired in a cap, long-sleeved tunic, pants, and black, slip-on shoes, hands a steaming cup and saucer of tea to a seated man. The man, wearing a mustache and attired in a cap and long-sleeved robe, sits holding a paper in his left hand and rests his feet on a footrest. In the right, the Chinese woman, wearing her hair up in a bun and with decorative pins and attired in a long-sleeved dress with a collar, sits and holds a fan in her left hand. A building is visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the lithographer and advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Wanamaker’s ladies’ and gents’ dining rooms, 823 Market St., & 42 S. Second St., Philadelphia. Geo. W. Wanamaker, Prop’r. [Over.], RVCDC
Creator: Craig, Finley & Co.
Date: [1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Wanamaker's [P.2015.56.919]

Title: Use the agate iron ware, as it never rusts or leaks, and loudly are its praises sung by every tongue that speaks
Description: Trade card promoting Weber & Bro. and depicting a caricaturized Chinese man sailing in a pot and a duck sailing in a kettle. In the left, the man, wearing his hair in a queue and attired in a red cap and long-sleeved, yellow tunic with red polka dots, holds an oar as he sails in an oversized handled pot with a shirt as the sail. The pot reads, "For China." In the right, a yellow duck, attired in a red cap and shirt, looks through a telescope as it sails in a kettle that reads, "For Europe, Asia, Africa." A ship is visible in the left background. George and William Weber founded Weber & Bro. in 1881. They sold hardware, cutlery, and tools at their store located at 2230 North Front Street., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Weber & Bro., 2230 North Front Street, Philadelphia, PA., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Weber & Bro. [P.2015.56.928]

Title: Compliments of John Westney, agt. Manufacturer and dealer in baby carriages, velocipedes, bicycles &c, 226 Dock St Phila. Repairing promptly attended to
Description: Trade card promoting carriage manufacturer John Westney and showing a fairy depicted as a caricature of an Asian girl. The barefooted girl, with wings, is attired in a hat; a short-sleeved white dress with red trim, a black bow on the bodice, and blue and gold decoration on the skirt; and a multi-colored, patterned sash around the waist. She juts her left foot forward, holds a fan in her right hand, and grasps a flowering branch in her left hand., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised., Text printed on verso illustrated with image of a boy, attired in a sailor suit and cap, driving a skulky with a toy horse: The Tally Ho Sulky. (Patented) The Tally Ho Sulky is suitable for either boy or girl. The small size from 4 to 10 years, and the large from 8 to 18 years of age. It is the most pleasing, healthful, and practical toy of the motor kind. It has the rowing motion, being driven by the arms and steered by the feet; moves easily and is capable of great speed. It can be used in the street or in an ordinary sized room. It is strongly made and durable. For sale by John Westney, agt. 226 Dock Street, Philadelphia., Purchased 2015.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Westney [P.2015.56.937]

Title: Porcelain ware, Japanese Court
Description: View showing porcelain ware, mostly vases, in a stall in the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Vases, bowls, and jars of various sizes are displayed on tiered tables and on the carpeted floor. Framed artwork hangs on the walls. There is a small decorative table and partial view of a screen in the right. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein., See related: stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.9022.5]; Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.513].
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.512]

Title: Chas. Richardson, dealer in fine groceries, butter, eggs, flour, lard, fruit & poultry in season, s.e. cor. Belgrade & Crease Sts., Philadelphia
Description: Trade card promoting grocer Charles Richardson and showing a man clerk helping two women shopping in the grocery store. The man stands behind the counter and holds a scoop to weigh the product on a scale. Two women shoppers stand in the right, one holding a basket. In the left is an advertising statue of a Chinese man wearing a long mustache and attired in a cap; long-sleeved, mandarin collared shirt; balloon pants, and cloth slip-on shoes. The statue is on a pedestal with Chinese characters. Products displayed for sale include a ham, barrel of oil, and brooms., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Purchased 2015., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Richardson [P.2015.56.717]

Title: Japanese bronze and silver birds
Description: View showing a bronze and silver sculpture depicting two birds and flowers on display at the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows the sculpture of two birds standing on a rock with blooming flowers. It rests on a tablecloth lined table. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.509]

Title: Sharpless & Sons, Philadelphia
Description: Trade card promoting dry goods merchant Sharpless & Sons and depicting a Chinese boy sitting on an oversized fan. Shows the boy, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a blue robe with red trim and a green sash around the waist, green stockings, and slip-on shoes, sitting with his back to the viewer on a large fan. The gold hand fan is decorated with a bird and flowers. Chinese characters are written in the left. Sharpless & Sons were importers, jobbers, and retailers of dry goods that operated from 801, 803, 805, & 807 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Purchased 2015., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Sharpless [P.2015.56.774]

Title: Compliments of John Wanamaker & Co. Clothiers, Chestnut below Ninth
Description: Trade card promoting dry goods merchant and clothier John Wanamaker & Co. and depicting a caricaturized Japanese boy playing a stringed instrument to a small dog. In the center, the boy, attired in a multi-colored, patterned kimono, geta shoes, and a straw conical hat, plays a stringed instument. In the left, a small black-and-white dog stands on his hind legs., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised., Stamped on recto: Branch House, No. 10 Sixth Street, Pittsburgh., Purchased 2015., John Wanamaker and his brother-in-law Nathan Brown formed Wanamaker & Brown and opened the store Oak Hall at Sixth and Market Streets in 1861. Brown died in 1868. In 1869, the firm became John Wanamaker & Co., and he opened a store at Eighth and Chestnut Streets. John Wanamaker's Grand Depot at Thirteenth and Market Streets, opened in 1876 to cater to Centennial Exhibition crowds.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - John Wanamaker & Co. [P.2015.56.463]

Title: John Griffeth. Furniture warerooms, 119 N. Second St., Philad'a, PA A full assortment of chamber and parlor suits, mattresses and bedding, &c
Description: Trade card promoting John Griffeth's furniture store and depicting Asian decorative motifs and objects, including fans, a parasol, cranes, and mountains. Shows vignettes of: a parasol and two fans in a blue and white porcelain container; two standing cranes, one eating a frog; and two mountain peaks. John Griffeth established his furniture business in 1880., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised., Purchased 2015.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Griffeth [P.2015.56.316]

Title: Historical monument of our country
Description: Allegorical print after the 1858 painting by German-born painter Johann Michael Enzing-Müller documenting the history of the United States from ca. 1000 to the 1850s. In the right foreground, Norsemen, some seated and some standing on ground marked "1000" are portrayed discovering North America, which they called Vinland. A few of the men hold bunches of grapes, a shield, or a spear. In the left foreground, Columbus stands on a shore, between a rowboat holding white men, one writing in a ledger and with his back to an enslaved Black man in shackles, and a group of Indigenous people wearing headdresses. Columbus holds a flag into the ground marked "1492" and a sword up into the air. Behind the scene Plymouth Rock with the date "1620" inscribed on it is visible. In the center of the image, white men in different era attire use tools, convene, or celebrate near a trunk, cargo, and a stone wall. Beside them, in the right, a Pilgrim family (man, woman, child) rests near a frontiersman completing a blanket tent near cattle. In the upper right, the image contains scenes representing the American Revolution, including soldiers at battle and wounded men being attended to. In the upper left, ships and trains depicted near cityscape strewn with people and from which an American flag flies represents American progress. In the upper center, the American eagle mauls the British lion and unicorn on a stone mound. At top center, on a pyramid-like structure adorned with the shields of the states of the Union, George Washington stands with his hand on the Constitution which rests on an ornate stand. To his left are the fourteen presidents who followed him standing in a line. Above them, are allegorical women figures of Liberty and Justice. An allegorical female figure holding the Declaration of Independence sits to Washington's right. Behind the Presidents and pyramid is the new U.S. Capitol building with a dome., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1893, by Myers, Bryn & Cranford., RVCDC
Creator: Enzing-Müller, Johann Michael, 1804-1808
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***GC-Allegories [P.2023.42.1]

Title: Siebentes allgemeines Saengerfest in Philadelphia vom 13-16 Juni 1857. = Seventh General Singer Festival in Philad. Pa. 13 to the 16 of June 1857
Description: Print showing seven vignettes depicting the seventh general Singer Festival in Philadelphia from June 13 to 16, 1857. In the top are two vignettes of Lemon Hill mansion built 1799-1800 for businessman Henry Pratt in East Fairmount Park. In the left, shows an exterior view of the south side of the mansion with men and women sitting and standing on the lawn and the porch. In the right, shows an exterior view of the north side with a stage in the left. A woman stands in the doorway, and people stand on the porch. In the top center, Columbia, depicted as a white woman lifting a sword in the air, holds hands with Germania, depicted as a white woman with her left hand on the hilt of her sword. In front of them is a American crested shield that reads, “Liberti.” In the center, shows a procession of soldiers, some on horseback, a marching band, and men who hold flags that read, “Sangerbund Philadelphia.” Spectators look on including a group of two African American men and an African American boy. In the bottom left is a triumphal arch decorated with an American and a German flag that leads to a path towards a building with large flags flying on top. In the center is an interior view of the Academy of Music with one thousand singers on the stage and a packed audience watching. In the right, a crowd stands around the “standard tree" decorated with flags. In 1844, several years after Pratt’s death, Lemon Hill became the first mansion acquired by the city of Philadelphia to establish a public park, i.e., Fairmount Park. The residence was used as a lager beer garden following the establishment of the park in 1855., Title from the item., Date inferred from content., In German with English., Contents: Lemonhill south side -- Eintracht macht stark. Unity is strength -- Lemonhill north side -- Festzug der Saenger nach Lemonhill. March of the singers to the excursion at Lemonhill -- Triumhbogen. Triumphal Arch -- Concert given in the Academy of Music by 1000 singers -- Fahnenbaum. Standard tree., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Fuchs, F, engraver
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Ph Pr - Events - Singer [P.2007.28.27]

Title: Arre st of the slave George Kirk
Description: Cartoon portraying the arrest during the New York case of the freedom seeker George Kirk. Kirk, enslaved by Georgia enslaver Charles Chapman had concealed himself on a Savannah brig traveling to New York City. While docked in New York, Kirk was discovered and beaten before being sheltered at the American Anti-Slavery Society office on Nassau Street. He had taken refuge at the office following his being ordered to be returned to Georgia on a legal technicality after having been previously freed by the court. In response, abolitionists including, lawyers Lois Napoleon and John Jay, editor of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" Sydney Howard Gay, and sugar refinery proprietor Dennis Harris conceived a plan to secure Kirk's freedom through his concealment and transport from the Nassau Street office in a box addressed to abolitionist Rev. Ira Manley in Essex, New York. Kirk was discovered and arrested during the transport. Kirk was later freed through a legal argument presented by Jay. Depicts a horse-drawn dray labeled "D. Harris" on which Kirk, portrayed in racist caricature, is within a crate. Kirk is being pulled by police from the crate. "Tracts" fly out from the wooden box and its cover marked "Rev. Ira Manley, Essex, New York. This side up with Care" has fallen to the side of the dray. Kirk exclaims "Gorra mighty massa you take away my bref! dis child didn't come into de box hisself! de bobalitionists put him in it!!" White police men reach for him and make comments and threats, including smelling "a rat"; shaking "the life out of (Kirk)"; and the "Carman" having a "rather black job." The white carman, his hands on the reins of the horse and looking back, responds "It ain't anything else." Scene also includes a middle-class Black woman holding a parasol and middle-class Black man, who with a monocle to his eye, exclaims "Ponhona. Here's a game!! while standing near a group of white men abolitionists also witnessing the moment. The frowning abolitionists, including possibly Elias Smith, make comments and observations, including about Kirk being again "in the hands of Philistines"; having to take out "another habeus corpus ... at any expense"; and Manley being disappointed in "not receiving his consignment." Elias Smith procured a writ of habeus corpus for Kirk before his first court appearance., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entd according to Act of Congress in the year 1846 by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerk's office of the Distt Court of the U. States, for the southn District of New York., RVCDC, Clay, born in Philadelphia, was a prominent caricaturist, lithographer, and engraver who created the "Life in Philadelphia" series which racistly satirized middle-class African American Philadelphians in the late 1820s and early 1830s.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1846-7W [P.2024.43.1]

Title: American Methodism. 1872
Description: Premium print for subscribers of the "The Methodist," the journal published by the Methodist Episcopal Church beginning about 1859. Contains five titled scenes and views bordered by twenty-nine bust-length portraits of leaders within the Methodist Episcopal Church, including Francis Burns, African American deacon and missionary bishop to Liberia. Scenes and views include "Wesley Rescued from the Burning Building" (upper left) after the 1840 Henry Peele Parker painting and depicting church founder John Wesley as a child being rescued from the window of the rectory in which his family lived while men, women, and children gather water, support a platform, pray, and huddle together; "John Wesley Preaching on the Tombstone of his Father" (upper right) after the Alfred Hunt painting and depicting Wesley preaching to a mass of people from the grave of his father, Rector Samuel Wesley (St. Andrew's Church, Epworth, England) following his being forbidden to preach in the Anglican church; "Old John Street Church, New York" (lower left) showing a colonial street view with pedestrian traffic in front of the church of the oldest Methodist congregation in the United States; "Pioneer Preacher" (center) showing Wesley on horseback, two persons at his side, and arriving at a cabin in the woods where a number of people have gathered in front; and "Tremont St. Methodist Church, Boston" (lower right) showing an exterior view of the church built in 1862 from a design by architect Hammatt Billings and was the site of the founding of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Portraits include: John Wesley; Thomas S. Coke; Francis Asbury; Richard Whatcoat; Leonidas L. Hamline; John Emory; Robert R. Roberts; William McKendree; Enoch George; Elijah Hedding; Beverly Walch; Francis Burns; Edmund S. Janes; Matthew Simpson; Osmon C. Barker; Levi Scott; Thomas Bowman; William. L. Harris; Edward R. Ames; Edward Thomson; Thomas A. Morris; Calvin Kingsley; Davis W. Clark; Stephen M. Merrill; Edward G. Andrews; Randolph S. Foster; Isaac W. Wiley; Thomas A. Morris; Gilbert Haven; and Jesse T. Peck., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1872 by B.B. Russell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., RVCDC
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait prints - American [P.2024.44]

Title: McCless 1417 Chestnut St., (above Broad), fine arts! French plate mirrors
Description: Trade card promoting fine art dealer and mirror merchant J.E. McCless and depicting a caricaturized Japanese man pointing to a sign with the advertising text. In the center, the man, wearing a chonmage hairstyle and attired in a purple kimono with white and green trim, a black jacket with gold trim, and sandals stands and points to a wooden sign with advetising text., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised., Purchased 2015.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - McCless [P.2015.56.576]

Title: B. Miller, segars, tobacco, stationery, toys &c., 1822 S. Seventh St., Phila
Description: Trade card promoting tobacco merchant B. Miller and showing two boys pulling the hair of a Chinese man depicted in racist caricature. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing an exaggeratedly long queue hairstyle and attired in a blue tunic, yellow pants, and black shoes, is pulled on his back onto a wooden box and grasps the sides with his hands. In the left, a white boy, attired in a white hat with a blue ribbon, a pink-striped shirt, blue pants, and black shoes, holds the man's hair and pulls back with his feet lifted off the ground. The white boy, attired in a yellow hat with an orange ribbon, a white shirt, yellow pants, and black shoes, stands facing left and pulls the man's hair over his shoulder with his feet lifted off the ground. Broadsides pasted on the fence in the background read,"Hoodlumism at discount education" and "Soiety [sic] for converting heathen." A building is visible in the right background., Title from text stamped on verso., Date inferred from content., Purchased 2015., See related: Berman Trade Card Collection - Weymann [P.2015.56.939]., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Miller [P.2015.56.591]

Title: General Grant's voyage around the world
Description: Trade card promoting clothier Perry & Co. and depicting Ulysses S. Grant's world tour with the nationalities he visited. After Grant’s presidency ended, he and his wife Julia embarked on a world tour of nineteen countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia departing from Philadelphia in May 1877 and returning to San Francisco in September 1879. In the left, shows Grant with his wife and son Jesse, crossing a bridge and greeting a clergyman. Sailors stand in the left. Labeled groups of people stand in their native dress from left to right in a circle: Ireland; Great Britain; France (with Notre Dame); Germany; Spain; Italy (with Rome and Vesuvius); Turkey (with Constantinople); Egypt (showing the pyramids and camels); India (with Calcutta); Birma (sic) (showing elephants); Siam; China (showing palanquins and a pagoda); and Japan. In the right, a ship sails on the Pacific Ocean returning to San Francisco. A group of Americans celebrate the Grants' return and set off a cannon. An American flag flies on a flagpole., Title from item., Date inferred from date of event., Copyright statement printed on recto: Copyright by F. Moras., Text printed on verso: Reception of General Grant, Tuesday, December 16th, 1879. Route of parade. The line will move at 10:30 A.M. from a point on Broad Street, near the Junction Station, down Broad to Market, down Market to Fourth, down Fourth to Chestnut, out Chestnut (passing under the Arch erected by the city in front of Independence Hall) to Thirteenth, down Thirteenth to Pine, out Pine to Broad, down Broad to Passyunk Avenue. The General with Governor Hoyt and Mayor Stokley, will dismount on the way up at the Union League. The line will be reviewed as it countermarches on Broad Street. The line will then proceed west of the new Public Buildings to Market Street and there dismiss. Presented by Perry & Co. Fine tailors and clothiers, 609 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., Purchased 2015., RVCDC
Creator: Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908
Date: [ca. 1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Perry & Co. [P.2015.56.672]

Title: H.A. Weymann, dealer in watches, clocks and jewelry, 156 North Second St., Philadelphia
Description: Trade card promoting clock and jewelry dealer H.A. Weymann and showing two boys pulling the hair of a Chinese man depicted in racist caricature. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing an exaggeratedly long queue hairstyle and attired in a blue tunic, yellow pants, and black shoes, grabs his hair with his hands and pulls back sitting on top a wooden box. In the left, a white boy, attired in a yellow hat with an orange ribbon, a white shirt, yellow pants, and black shoes, stands on the corner of the box, holds the Chinese man's hair and pulls back. The boy, attired in a pink-striped shirt, blue pants, and black shoes, stands below the other boy, holds onto the man's hair, and pulls. His white hat with a blue ribbon falls off of his head. Broadsides pasted on the fence in the background read,"How beautiful are the ways of South" and "Do unto others what others [do un]to you" A building is visible in the right background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Purchased 2015., See related: Berman Trade Card Collection - Miller [P.2015.56.591]., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Weymann [P.2015.56.939]

Title: [African American residents at Jamesburg School for Boys, Jamesburg, N.J.]
Description: Real photo postcards depicting group portraits of African American boy residents at the parole institution also known as the New Jersey State Home for Boys that was established in 1867 and included residental "cottages," a chapel, and farm by 1910. Shows the boy residents attired in military-like uniforms, some posed with rifles, standing and seated, in rows by age and height, next to and on a set of exterior stairs to the porch of a campus dormitory building (probably Fort Cottage). A white man attendant, possibly postcard sender Charles G. Bohnenberger, manager of Fort Cottage and the teacher of primary school at the home stands behind the boys, most who do not smile, or next to the stairs. By 1911, 82 of the 511 residents of the institution, between the ages of six and over fifteen years old, were African American. The daily routine of the home included work details, school, two recesses of 15 minutes, and devotions. The Sunday exercises included Sunday School, reading, singing, and devotion., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from postmarks on versos: Jamesburg, N.J. Nov. 21, 1910, 5PM., Contain cancelled green one-cent stamps depicting left profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin on versos., P.2023.68.1 addressed to Mrs. E.B. Young, 316 First Ave., Elizabeth, N.J. and contains manuscript note on verso: Add this to your collection. Chas. G. Bohnenberger., P.2023.68.2 addressed to Mrs. E.B. Young, 316 First Ave., Elizabeth, N.J. and contains manuscript note on verso: And this. Chas. G. Bohnenberger., RVCDC, See DSpace Home, New Jersey State Publications Digital Library, State Agencies, Commissions, Authorities etc., New Jersey State Reform School for Boys (Jamesburg), New Jersey State Reform School for Boys (Jamesburg) for copies of Jamesburg School annual reports. Link below.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Education - J [P.2023.68.1-2], https://dspace.njstatelib.org/10929/108086

Title: Considerations on the nature and the extent of the legislative authority of the British Parliament
Description: Attributed to James Wilson by Adams. Sometimes attributed to John Witherspoon.
Creator: Wilson, James, 1742-1798
Date: [M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | BOOKS | Rare Am 1774 Wil 1245.O.9

Title: Reflections on the causes of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Description: The 'Eloge' is translated by 'B-'.
Creator: Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
Date: 1758
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | BOOKS RARE U Rom Mont 72.D

Title: [Incomplete set of racist playing card game Game of In Dixieland. No. 1118]
Description: Incomplete collection of playing cards from the racist card game "Game of In Dixieland. No. 1118" issued by the Fireside Game Co. of Cincinnati, the subsidiary company established in 1896 by executives of the U.S. Playing Card Company. Advertised by the publisher as "life-like reproductions of characteristic sketches from the Sunny South," the captioned and lettered cards depict stereotyped and caricatured portraits and scenes of African American men, women, and children and African American southern life. The object of the game was to compile all the cards with the same letter into a book, with the winner holding the most books. Cards include: "A1. The Crossing Sweeper." Scene depicts an African American boy street sweeper on a street corner. He is attired in oversize jacket and pants. He also wears a cap and holds a broom. "A3. In Clover." Scene shows three young African American boys, attired in worn long-sleeve shirts and pants, seated on a log and eating quarters of a watermelon. The boy in the middle wears a bucket hat. Stacks of watermelon, including the remaining quarter of the one being eaten by the children rest at their feet. "A4. Picking Cotton." Scene shows an African American boy in a field of cotton, bent over, and picking a cotton boll. He wears a cap, long-sleeved shirt, and loose ankle-length pants. He is barefoot. Men picking cotton and a cart are visible in the background. "B2. Picking Up a Living." Portrait shows an African American girl holding a large satchel over her left shoulder. She wears a checkered, long-sleeved dress, and floppy hat. "B3 '"Jest A Restin’."' Portrait shows a young African American man seated on a crate next to a barrel and a second crate. He wears a domed cap; loose, long-sleeved jacket; cropped pants; and rolled-down boots., "D4. Heavily Laden." View shows two young African American girls, attired in ankle-length shift dresses, and aprons, and carrying buckets on their heads. Girl in left, balances the bucket on her head, and her apron contains a hole at the chest. The girl in the right holds the bucket on her head with her hands. They are bare foot and stand near the brick wall of a mill. "E1.A Georgia Charmer." Bust-length portrait shows an African American woman, slightly smiling, and her right hand resting on the side of her chin. She wears a light-colored blouse with slightly puff sleeves; a short-brimmed, straw hat; and bracelet. "F2. The Coquette." Full-length portrait shows a young African American woman, her hand on her hip, bare foot, and standing in front of the door to a log cabin. She wears a kerchief on her head, a shirtwaist, belt, and calf-length skirt. "F3 '"Look pleasant, please."' Reproduction of a drawn view shows an African American man taking a photograph of an African American woman, three African American children, and a dog on a beach. The women and children, attired in summer dresses and jumpers, sit and stand on a log and the photographer stands by a makeshift camera and removes the lens cap. The photographer wears a hat, overalls, and a long-sleeved shirt., "G2. A Genuine Brunette." Full-length portrait shows a very young African American girl, bare foot, attired in a shift dress, and seated on a step. She frowns slightly and she clasps her hands in her lap. "G4. Learning to Walk." View shows two, very young, African American girls, in blousy dresses, standing side by side on a sidewalk and in front of the brick wall of a building. "H3. The Virginia Pine Chopper." Full-length portrait shows an older African American man, with a white beard, seated on a stump, holding an ax over his left shoulder. He also has the handle of a tin pail over his left wrist and holds a walking stick in his right hand. He is posed in a dirt yard laden with sticks. Stacks of logs and a wooden fence are visible in the background."I2. A Mississippi Beauty." Half-length portrait shows a young African American woman, her left hand resting on the side of her chin. She looks slightly to the right and has a slight smile. Her hair is pulled back and somewhat teased at the crown. She wears a shirtwaist and checkered, apron dress., "J2. A Hidden Nest in the Bushes." View shows two African American boys seated on their knees in a field and eating slices of watermelon. They wear wide-brimmed caps, long sleeved shirts, and pants. Boy in right also wears a jacket. “J3. On the Wharf.” View shows an African American man and woman seated on the edge of a wharf. The man attired in a long-sleeved shirt, vest, pants, and cap, sits with his feet dangling over the edge. The woman attired in a shirtwaist, skirt, and cap sits with her feet on the wharf landing. Sailing vessels are visible in the background. "K3.'"Mos’ to de end ob de road."' Full-length portrait shows an older African American man, with a beard, seated on a chair, in front of a crumbling brick wall. He wears a worn jacket, vest, shirt, and pants. A hat with kindling rests at his bare feet. He holds a walking stick that he rests between his legs. "L3. Among the Virginia Pines." View shows a log cabin, in the distance, along a dirt road lined with dry underbrush and a few trees, some barren. A woman stands in the yard of the cabin. Fireside Card Co. was dissolved in 1908 and U.S. Playing Card Co. began to issue educational card games., Publication information from copies included in the World Web Playing Card Museum. Publication date inferred from copyright date included on box covers., Card letter printed in upper left corner., Verso of cards depict a montage of images. Includes a central scene showing an alligator by a tree in a swamp. Scene surrounded by a border comprised of pictorial details depicting intertwining stems of cotton, watermelons, and opossums hanging by the tail from tree branches., Copyright statement printed on 8 of the cards: Copyright ’96 by L.D. Baldwin., Gift of Jennifer Woods Rosner., Housed in phase box., Many stained and in poor condition., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Fireside Game Co.
Date: [1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2019.47]

Title: The old way. The new way
Description: Cartoon satirizing old and modern business practices. Shows a split view of two white men, possibly merchants or bankers. In the left, a thin man with disheveled hair sits on a crate near an overturned basket filled with credit vouchers at his feet. He is attired in a shirt, ragged pants and jacket, and shoes with holes in them. He holds his right hand up to his forehead in a gesture of distress for “he gave credit.” To his right is an open window in which a sign reading “The Poor House” is visible. In the right, a white man, sits, cross legged, in a chair between a table covered with a cloth on which he rests his elbow and a safe on which a “Government Securities” box of “U.S. Bonds” is set. He wears his hair combed back and has long mutton chops. He is attired in a suit, bow tie, vest adorned with a watch fob, and shined shoes. He holds a cigar in his left hand, his lapel in his right hand, and blows smoke from his mouth., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 in the clerks' office of the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York., Image captioned: I Gave Credit. I Sell for Cash., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2019, p. 91.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1870 Old [P.2019.54.2]

Title: No more Chinese cheap labor. Celluloid cuffs, collars & bosoms
Description: Trade card containing an illustration depicting a racist scene with the figures of Uncle Sam and America, and a Chinese man laundry worker. In the left, the laundry worker, wearing his hair in a queue and attired in a long-sleeved, orange tunic; long, wide-legged, white pants; and orange slip-on, cloth shoes; sits on an over-turned wooden wash tub. His eyes are closed, and he holds his head down in his left hand. His left leg is crossed over his right, and his right hand is on his left ankle. To his left, the white woman figure of Columbia/America, looks down at the laundry worker and points up with her right hand. In her left hand, she holds up a shield with the pattern of the American flag and marked "Invention." She wears her dark hair pulled back to the nape of her neck and is attired in a gown with the pattern of the American flag, a red and blue cap adorned with a white star, and sandals. An open box of spilled starch lies between her feet and those of the laundry worker. Behind the laundry worker, is a laundry iron on a shelf, Chinese characters written on a wall, and Uncle Sam resting his arms on the ledge of an opening in the wall. Uncle Sam has red hair and a beard and is attired in a top hat, a blue jacket with a white star pattern, a red neck tie, and white shirt with the collar turned up. He looks at America. Above his head is the sign "Gon Up Chinese Laundry." Patented during the 1860s and 70s, separable celluloid collars, unlike separable paper collars, were waterproof and longer lasting, as well as fashionable and affordable. Following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the celluloid collar industry leveraged the racist legislation to promote the use of celluloid collars as patriotic and as a means to make Chinese launderers obsolete and to facilitate the end of Chinese immigration., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Includes advertising text printed on verso: A New Improvement-Patented. Waterproof Linen. Waterproof-Elastic-Durable. Ladies' & Gents' Cuffs Collars, [Bossa]ms, Made From Celluloid. In Introducing this new invention [italicized], we beg to call the attention of the public to some of the remarkable features of this "new departure," [italicized], which will commend the use of these goods to all who study economy, neatness, and beauty [italicized]. 1st. The Interior is Fine Linen. 2d. The Exterior is Celluloid. 3d. The Union of Above, Combines the Strength of Linen With The Waterproof Qualities of Celluloid. 4th. The Expense of Washing Is Saved. If The Goods Are Soiled Simply Wipe Them Off With Soap And Water. 5th. The Goods Never Wilt Or Fray On Edges. 6th. They Are Perspiration Proof. For Sale by All Gents' Furnishing & Fancy Goods Houses throughout the Country., Image caption: "Othello's occupation gone." The Hand Writing on the Wall., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Celluloid [P.2021.20.1]

Title: [Georgine E. Upshur Willis collection]
Description: Collection of primarily 20th-century photographs, ephemera, manuscript and textual materials related to trained undertaker Georgine Upshur Willis and her extended family, including descendants of the African American middle-class Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning families. Majority of collection is photographs, studio and professional portraits, as well as snapshots of Georgine E. Upshur Willis and her parents Agnes S. Upshur, a teacher, and William A. Upshur, an undertaker and Pennsylvania State representative, at various ages and dating between the 1920s and early 1970s. Includes images of Georgine as a baby, with her parents and grandparents (Charles Sanders Chew and Georgine Saunders Chew), at her coming out party, in her University of Pennsylvania college yearbook and graduation photograph, and several group portrait photographs, predominately dating to the late 1940s and early 1950s. Group portrait photographs include views of Georgine in costume in a 1934 Book Week Play, at her 1949 engagement party and wedding to anthropologist and ethnohistorian William Willis, Jr., recreating in Atlantic City, at holiday events, and at other friends and family gatherings. William A. Upshur portraits include a photograph of his meeting with Richard Nixon at the 1960 GOP Convention. Several of the professional photographs were taken by African American photographers, including John Gaston Devigne, Frank W. Harris, Jr., and John W. Mosley. Photographs also depict an 1890 group portrait, including Rennie and Sallie Venning (Holden) (P.2022.16.41), at an outside location; a modern reproduction of a portrait of Charles S. Chew (Georgine Upshur’s grandfather); a circa 1920s portrait of an unidentified woman and her baby; and two circa 1950 color photographs of landscape views of Fisher’s Island, N.Y., Ephemera materials are comprised of postcards, invitations and announcements, certificates, programs, and scraps dated predominately between the 1920s and 1950. The materials include a circa 1930 Gorges Du Loup postcard booklet; postcards addressed to Mrs. Julia Venning or Mr. and Mrs. George Venning containing views of Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Wildwood, N.J.; invitations/announcements to the 1921 Henpeck’s Annual Ball (William B. Holden, Committee President), Georgine E. Upshurs high school and college graduations, and the 1921 wedding of Cordelia Sanders and Dr. Dehaven Hinkson; University of Pennsylvania Bachelor of Arts diploma issued to Georgine Elizabeth Upshur, 1943; ca. 1939 program for Georgine E. Upshur’s induction into the Sophrosyne Chapter of The National Honor Society; and the 1950 program for Dr. Eric Reiss presents for The Blockley Medical Society Philadelphia General Hospital “Osler Slept Here.”, Manuscript and related materials primarily contain correspondence and newspaper clippings dated between the 1920s and 1950s. Correspondence includes a 1928 letter to William B. Holden about the “charges of the moral character of your Rector” of the Church of the Crucifixion; a 1938 and 1942 letter about Georgine E. Upshur, respectively, being elected to the honor society and nomination for membership in the University of Pennsylvania Delta Chapter of the National Social Science Honor Society, Pi Gamma Mu; and a 1942 letter from the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Welfare, Bureau of Recreation about swimming training. Newspaper clippings relate to the 1921 engagement and wedding of Cordelia Sanders Chew and Dr. Dehaven Hinkson; Georgine Upshur and a Y.W.C.A. baby contest, her Philadelphia High School for Girls graduation and coming out parties, and passing of the state mortician’s exam circa 1949; the 1930 musical recital of Georgine E. Upshur’s maternal aunt Mary Saunders Patterson; the 1954 death of Charles S. Chew accompanied by mourning cards and a pressed flower; and the death of the Hinkson’s dog Patchy accompanied by a plot receipt and business card for the Cheltenham Pet Cemetery. A 1932 "My Trip Abroad" day journal of Agnes C. Upshur, including an insert of her passport with a passport photograph of her and young daughter Georgine E. Upshur and Georgine E. Upshur's diary of the trip to Europe also comprise the manuscript material. The trip to Europe, included visits to Paris, Genoa, Florence, Venice, and Geneva., Collection also includes “Diary of the Women of the Class of 1943, University of Pennsylvania, The 1943 Almanack” containing inserts of correspondence, documents, and programs related to Georgine E. Upshur’s college education at University of Pennsylvania; The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, Civil War Issue, April 9, 1961; and The Saturday Evening Post, November 10, 1962 issue with mailing label for Dr. DeHaven Hinkson., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Photographers include Gaston Devigne, Harper, Frank W. Harris, Jr., John W. Mosley, Dan E. Paul, and Albert Sexton., RVCDC, See Lib. Company. Annual Report, 1991, p. 26-31., Gift of descendants of Cordelia H. Brown in honor of Phil Lapsansky., See LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., Genealogical charts available at repository., Descriptive inventory, including with names of portrait sitters, available at repository., Reference copies and miscellaneous related materials located with collection., Digital catalog record includes select images from the collection., Diary of Georgine Upshur (P.2024.63) received in 2024 and added to collection.
Date: [1890-ca. 1990, bulk ca. 1921-ca. 1950]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders Venning Collection - Upshur Willis Collection [P.2022.16; P.2024.63]

Title: South west corner 12th and Market Streets, 1841
Description: View looking south showing the 1200 block of Market Street Philadelphia in 1841. Shows, at the corner of the block, the one and one-half story building adorned with signs for the grocery store of H. & W. Patterson and the shop of Robert Ligget, cabinetmaker. Also shows adjacent buildings and pedestrian and street traffic, including a young boy playing with a hoop; horse-drawn carriages; and a man overseeing a team of six mules pulling a large, wooden freight car. Depicts adjacent buildings in the left and right., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator: McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date: [ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.62.12]

Title: Kaufman Plush Co
Description: Bird’s Eye view drawing for an advertisement depicting the Kaufman Plush Co. factory at Pensdale and Mitchell Streets, Philadelphia built circa 1922. Shows the factory complex, including a five-story mill with a tower labeled, Kaufman Plush Co, and a one-story building with a steam tower labeled, Kaufman. On the grounds between the buildings, a worker loads goods onto a truck near two other trucks, one parked and one departing. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk in front of the factory. In the right foreground, a line of trees grows along the fence outside the complex. In the background, the skyline of the Manayunk neighborhood is visible. Founded in 1919 by Harry Kaufman, the Kaufman Plush Co. operated through circa 1970s., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner., Accompanying label reads: To [Kaufman Plush Co. Roxborough] From Grocke Art Co., Aerial View Illustrating of Manufacturing Plants. 1507 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Grocke Art Co. was a Philadelphia firm that specialized in bird's eye views in the 1920s.
Creator: Grocke, Max J., artist
Date: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.25]

Title: Testimonial banquet to Ms. Eugenia M. Neal. Daughter Ruler Keystone Temple, No. 448 I.B.P.O.E.W., Dec. 8, 1930. O. V. Catto Elks Home, Philadelphia
Description: Panoramic group portrait photograph depicting over one hundred African American men and women, of all ages, at a testimonial banquet of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World for Eugenia Neal (1873-1949). The attendees, attired in evening wear, sit at rows of tables and a few booths in the right of the room. Attendees wear suits, tuxedos, and evening and cocktail dresses. Most of the sitters do not smile and face the camera. Some are turned away or eating. Some of the men wear their I.B.P.O.E.W. fezzes. In the right background, one woman has an arch of flowers over her. The tables are covered in white tablecloths and lined with plates of food, serving platters, and silver pitchers. In the background, at the back of the room, a small band of men musicians is seated next to a woman at a piano. Streamers and a paper bell adorn the ceiling. The O.V. Catto Elks Lodge began in 1903 as a chapter of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World established in 1897 with a mission to "practice charity by providing and performing charitable services in our communities throughout the world and by promoting harmony, friendship, and unity among our esteemed members." By 1926, the Lodge had over 3000 members, and in 1929, it relocated to a new building that included a boxing ring, basketball court, and rooftop garden, at 16th and Fitzwater. Eugenia Neal, born Eugenia Brisby in Virginia, worked as a typesetter in Philadelphia by 1920. Married to Moses Neal in 1896, the couple resided in Atlantic City before relocating to Philadelphia by 1910. As a Daughter Ruler, Neal lead the Keystone Temple with her male counterpart, Exalted Ruler, and "under their leadership, all Elks shall show[ed] truth in activities and live[d] to help others, while promoting Brotherly and Sisterly Love to all.", Title and date from item.
Date: [1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department framed graphics [P.2023.5]

Title: [Specimen sheets for Theodore Leonhardt & Son, High Grade Lithographers 922 Locust Street Philadelphia.]
Description: Includes nine specimens of ornamented bank and commercial stationery border designs, including two with variant borders, vignette illustrations, and the text, "Theodore Leonhardt & Son, High Grade Lithographers 922 Locust Street Philadelphia. Bonds, Certificates of Stock, Diplomas, Bank and Commercial Stationery Our Specialty." Illustrations depict an exterior view of "Independence Hall. A.D. 1776" including street and pedestrian traffic and an eagle standing upon a clutch of arrows and greenery. Borders are composed of scalloped edges, and/or rosettes, and/or geometrical patterns. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm continued to operate into the early 20th century., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Includes registration marks in upper and lower edges., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 124 & 124a, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - L [P.2019.64.41&42]

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

Title: [Architectural drawing of the front elevation of Strawbridge & Clothier, 8th and Market Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the five-story, multi-section front facade of the department store (established in 1868) at the northwest corner of 8th and Market Streets. Sign at the top reads, "Strawbridge & Clothier." The expanded Strawbridge & Clothier building was completed circa 1897 after the designs of Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton. Justus Clayton Strawbridge (1838–1911) and Isaac Hallowell Clothier (1837–1921) founded Strawbridge & CLothier in Philadelphia in 1868., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from manuscript note on related print. See related print **Architectural Drawings - unid. - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.9], Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **architectural drawings - unidentified - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.8]

Title: Alterations & additions to Messrs. Strawbridge & Clothiers store on 8th & Market Sts
Description: Architectural drawing for renovations to the Strawbridge & Clothier department store (established 1868) on the 800 block of Market Street. Shows "Elevation on Market St." (building section at corner of Eighth & Market) and details of "Elevation of Cornice on Eighth St."; "Part Elevation of Cornice"; and "Increased Projection of 3 [in.] at Pediments." Details show close-ups of the roof of the building section, including cornices, windows, and pediments. Sections of the drawing are annotated in watercolor or with printed notes indicating dividing partitions between buildings; structural elements; and their spacing. The expanded Strawbridge & Clothier building was completed circa 1897 after the designs of Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton. Builders Stacy Reeves & Sons worked on additions and alterations to the building through the early 1900s. Justus Clayton Strawbridge (1838–1911) and Isaac Hallowell Clothier (1837–1921) founded Strawbridge & CLothier in Philadelphia in 1868., Title from item., Date inferred from manuscript note: This drawing belongs to Stacy Reeves & Sons and was [used?] from them Aug. 26, 1891., Includes: Scale 1/8 [in.] = 1 foot, Includes: Scale for details 3/4 [in.] = 1 foot, Includes printed notes: Equal Space; Bracket over [?]; Dotted lines show outline of large end brackets; Party Line; Center Line; and Large Bracket terminating cornice., Includes annotations in red ink for dimensions of sections of the "Elevation on Market Street" view., Includes pencil annotations: 11-9 Floor Co. joints; B of J., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **architectural drawings - unidentified - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.9]

Title: Model of Japanese Temple. Presented to The Master Builders' Exchange by Edward H. Williams, M.D. Philadelphia 1890
Description: View showing the model of the Shinto temple given to the Master Builders' Exchange of Philadelphia by honorary member, former physician, and Baldwin Locomotive Works executive Edward H. Williams. Composed of wood and metal, the ornately-designed miniature temple, possibly after one of the temples located at the shrines of Nikkõ, rests on a cloth-covered pedestal. The shrine includes a gable roof, verandas, and intricate wood carvings. Two parallel displays of long-stemmed white flowers rest in front of the temple. Williams purchased the over 100 year-old model from a Japanese family through the brokerage of Harry Deakin of Yokohama. Williams, also known for his philanthropy, gave the piece to the Exchange for permanent display in the organization's Exhibition Room. Williams desired mechanics be able to view the model in a freely-accessible public place as epitomized by the Exhibition Room at the Exchange. Master Builders' Exchange of Philadelphia was chartered in 1887 with the mission of "encouragement and protection of the building interests in the city and county of Philadelphia; to inculcate just and equitable principles ; establish and maintain uniformity in commercial usages; acquire, preserve and disseminate valuable business information and avoid and adjust, as far as practicable, the controversies and misunderstandings which are apt to arise between individuals engaged in trade, ...", Title from item., Date inferred from years of residency of photographer at the address listed in his imprint., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)., Reproduced in Clem Congdon, "History of the Master Builders' Exchange (Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Co., 1893), before 289., See Clem Congdon, "History of the Master Builders' Exchange (Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Co., 1893), 284-301., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2017, p. 54-56., Charles Truscott (1851-1916) was a Philadelphia photographer known for his technical skill. A member of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, Photographers' Society of Pennsylvania, and the Photographers' Association of America, Truscott often read and published papers about the photographic process at these organizations' meetings and in their journals.
Creator: Truscott, Charles, 1851-1916, photographer
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Truscott [P.2017.18]

Title: I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the African American itinerant preacher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate born into slavery and originally known as Isabella Baumfree. Shows Truth, seated, and attired in a dark-colored, long sleeved dress with white collar, white shawl with fringe, and a white cap. She wears wire-rimmed glasses and faces front and is turned slightly to her left. She holds knitting in her left hand which rests on a small table that has a decorative table cloth. A notebook and vase of flowers adorn the table. A string of yarn runs across her lap. Truth escaped to freedom in 1826. During the period of the Civil War, Truth captioned, marketed, placed under copyright, and sold at least eleven different carte-de-visite portraits of herself at her lectures and through the mail to earn personal funds and advocate for the abolition of slavery. Her knitting probably alludes to her promotion of the handcraft as an industry for advancement for former enslaved persons., Title from item., Publication information from copyright statement on verso: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by Sojourner Truth, in the Clerk's Office, of the U. S. District Court, for the Eastern District of Mich., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2017, p. 66-67., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Truth [P.2017.27]

Title: The cruel boys What shows a worse disposition than to abuse a poor dumb creature. It is the beginning of a course, that leads to robbery and murder
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing three boys mistreating a horse on a dirt path. One boy, attired in a jacket and pants rides the crouching, saddleless horse, raised stick in hand, as the other two boys, stand on either side of the animal, raised sticks in hand. One boy, in the right foreground, wears no shoes. Bushes, weeds, rocks, and a small body of water line the dirt path. A house with a smoking chimney is visible in the right background., Not in Wainwright., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "Kindness to Animals" moralizing that it is wrong to abuse "poor dumb beasts whom God has put in their power.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 293, Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [P.2017.28]

Title: Soldiers Home in the city of Philadelphia. This certifies that [Charles Macalester] having contributed the sum of [fifty] dollars is constituted a [life] member of the Soldiers Home. Philada
Description: Certificate containing an allegorical scene depicting a central, winged female figure, seated, and surrounded by wounded soldiers and other female figures. The central figure has long, dark hair, adorned with a headband, and is attired in a toga with a drape-like shawl. Her arms are outstretched to her sides. Celestial light frames her head. In her left hand, she holds an olive branch. Broken shackles adorn her right wrist. In her lap, a loose scales of justice rests atop a sword. At her feet, a pair of white and African American soldiers and sailors sits and lies. In the left, the white soldier, a bandage on his arm, sits on a bound volume, near a canteen, and in front of the seated African American soldier. The latter wears a bandage on his head and rests the right side of his head on his right hand. The white soldier holds up a sheet of paper inscribed "Honorable Discharge" to the winged figure. The white sailor sits across from the white soldier. His head and left arm are bandaged and crutches rest by his side. He extends his right hand and holds his cap out to the winged figure. The African American sailor, prone, and partially visible behind him, does the same. American flags, on their sides and their upper poles adorned with wreaths of garland, rest among the soldiers and sailors. Four allegorical female figures, two and two, flank the central figure. To her left, one holds a basket of bounty as the other (behind her) tosses wreathes of garland. To her right, one holds a pocket watch as the other (behind her) shoots lightning from her hand. In the left background, wreathes rain upon soldiers, some in bandages, who march and carry American flags. In the right background, lightning bolts strike an ironclad ship on open waters., The soldiers home chartered in 1862, opened in December 1863, and incorporated in 1864 was an outgrowth of the relief organization, the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. The founding relief organization provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, sailors, refugees, and free people during the war. The Soldiers Home was chartered with the mission of "the providing of a temporary or permanent Home for all persons who, while in the military service of the United States of America, either upon land or sea, shall become disable from wounds, or from sickness, so that they are unable to perform the ordinary avocations of life." The Soldiers Home operated until 1889 when the Board of Managers dissolved itself and turned the home over to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States., Title from item, Date inferred from year organization was chartered., Completed in manuscript on January 1, 1866 and signed by E. S. Hall, Secretary; Ellerslie Wallace, President; and Wm. Struthers, Treasurer., Charles Macalester was a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist. Macalester College is named for him., Gift of David Doret, 2002., For a history of the Home, including the process to transfer administration of the home to the Loyal Legion, see Ferdinand Sermiento, ed., Historical Sketch of the Soldiers' Home ... (1886) [Am 1886 Phi Sol Hom 24755.O]., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Organizations - Soldiers [P.2002.40.1]

Title: [Unidentified African American man in militia uniform]
Description: Full-length portrait photograph by African American photographer Gallo W. Cheston depicting an African American man in a light-colored militia uniform. The man stands, turned slightly toward the right. He holds a long rifle in front of himself with his gloved hands. His left foot is slightly in front of his right. His uniform includes a Shako cap; jacket with epaulettes, buttons, and service stripes; shoulder strap marked "4"; belt; and pants with a dark vertical stripe down the leg. The tip of a rifle and holster is seen below his back. Portrait also includes, to the man's left, a pulled-back drape propped up on a pedestal. Following the Civil War and during Reconstruction (1865-1877), several African American militia units formed, particularly in the South., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of photographer from photographer's label pasted on verso: Cheston's 227 Lombard St., between 2d and 3d, Philadelphia. All the various styles of pictures known to the art, made in a manner as near perfection as possible; and all Improvements or additions introduced as soon as made and perfected. Your patronage is solicited. N. B. Old pictures copied to any size, in an artistic manner., Date inferred from tenancy of the photographer at the address listed on his label pasted on verso., Photograph mounted on board, rounded at the corners, and with a printed oval-shaped, frame-like border surrounding the image. Border adorned with ornaments and filigree., Photograph altered with ink and watercolor details highlighting parts of the sitter's uniform, including his cap, epaulettes, service stripes, shoulder strap, belt, and buttons, as well as his eyes, eyebrows, and sideburns. The pull of a drape included in the studio setting is also hand colored., Purchased in part with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022., Gallo W. Cheston (ca. 1846-1882) served as a private of the Pennsylvania National Guard 1871-1873.
Creator: Cheston, Gallo W., approximately 1846-1882, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - photographer - Cheston [P.2018.3]

Title: Agriculture and domestic manufactures Be it known that [blank] of the [blank] of [blank] was on the [blank] day of [blank] 18 [blank] admitted a member of the [blank] Society for promoting Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures and is entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining thereunto. Witness our hands and the seat of the institution
Description: Blank membership certificate containing an allegorical scene bordered by graphic elements representing agriculture and industry. Scene depicts two women allegorical figures, with upswept hair, and in Roman garb, as well as a nude, cherubic figure attired in a cape covering his shoulders and swept over his waist in a a bucolic setting. The central female figure, stands, her right arm bent and with her right hand above her head. She holds a long staff with a flame in in her left hand. To her right is the cherubic figure who holds up a sheaf of wheat in her direction with his left hand. A bundle of wheat lies near his feet. To her left is the other allegorical female figure who is seated in a gazebo. She holds up a swath of cloth in her extended left hand. She holds the other end of it with her right hand as it drapes across her lap. A spindle sits to her left. The top of the gazebo is covered in vinery. In the background are groves of bushes, a bee hive, the peering head of a horned cow, trees, and a small building. Pictorial elements to the right symbolize industry and depict an eagle, crates, a barrel, anchor, and ships sailing on the ocean. Pictorial elements to the left symbolize agriculture and depict a sickle, parts of a plow, a cornucopia, a tree, and bushes. In 1819 the New York legislature appropriated $20,000 over two years for the promotion of agriculture and family domestic manufactures to the county agricultural societies of the state., Signed [E. Gillet], Secrety. and [M. Vling?] Presidt., Title from item., Date inferred from New York 1819 funding initiatives for state agricultural societies., Gift of David Doret., Ralph Rawdon, an engraver, located to Albany, N.Y. in 1816. In 1817 his partnership with engraver Asaph Willard dissolved. He later partnered in the bank note companies Balch, Rawdon & Co. in the 1820s and Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. in 1832.
Creator: Rawdon, Ralph, 1793-
Date: [ca. 1820]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Certificates - Agriculture [P.2009.24.7]

Title: Robinson's sura cura for rheumatism, &c., &c. Dr. Prior's cough balsam
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting a white man opening the door of his home to find an African American baby in a basket on the doorstep. The white man is attired in pajamas and a sleeping cap. He holds a candelabrum in his left hand and looks at the baby with a surprised expression. The baby kicks their right leg up and raises their right hand in a fist while holding the handle of the basket with their left hand. Superimposed over the scene is a painter's palette with splotches of paint and text advertising Robinson's Sura Cura and Dr. Prior's Cough Balsam. R.W. Robinson & Son manufactured Robinson's Sura Cura and also operated a wholesale drugstore located on Greenwich Street in New York. The business was founded in 1835 and was known as Bush & Gale until 1857 when R.W. Robinson joined the firm. The partnership dissolved in 1870 and Robinson's son, F.M. Robinson, joined the firm. Prior Medicine Co. was based in Middletown, New York in the late 19th century., Title from item., Text printed on recto: A Male Package., Advertising text printed on verso: The household remedies. Robinson's Sura Cura, the sure cure for rheumatism, neuralgia, malaria, and a specific for all diseases arising from an impure state of the blood. Price, 50 cents and $1.00 per bottle. Dr. Prior's Cough Balsam, the best botanical remedy known for the prevention and cure of consumption, and all lung and throat complaints, cures sore throat, diptheria, whooping cough, croup, asthma. Read testimonials on circulars., Distributor's imprint on verso: Dr. AS Gibbs, Hope NJ., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Robinson [P.2017.95.150]

Title: The Hunters three and O.N.T
Description: Circular promoting Clark Thread Company and depicting racist caricatures of African, Asian, and indigenous men. Volume also contains several lines of narrative, promotional text written as a children’s story. The front cover is a color illustration of three white "merry gentlemen" in Cololonial attire and riding on horseback as "they hunt and hunt." The men are attired in tri-corn hats; red jackets; white breeches with riding boots; and white wigs. They ride on a road towards the viewer. The figures are bordered with pictorial details of the Clark’s O.N.T trademark. The rider in the middle raised his hat with his hand. Image is reproduced in black and white on p. [2]. P. [3] shows the horsemen observe three white children standing before them whom they believe "...must be princes. They sew their clothes with O.N.T." P. [4] show the "gentlemen" observe from a distance three African Zulu men. The men drive a lion into a net made of O.N.T. thread. One man is nude except for a feather on his head and bangs a large drum labeled "Clark's O.N.T. spool thread." Another man is attired in a skirt made of palm leaves and carries a shield and arrows. A third man carries arrows and wears a feather on his head. P [5] shows the "hunters" "spy" "three happy Hottentots" who roll down a hill on large spools of Clark's thread in a "chariot race." The three African men have their hair in buns atop their heads and are attired in white shorts and hoop earrings. One man is also attired in a shell necklace, and two men hold spears. P. [6] shows the three men find a Chinese man flying a kite strung with O.N.T. thread thread and to which a Chinese boy is attached. He is seated on a rug with his back to the viewer. To his right is a pipe. His hair is styled in a queue, and he is attired in a white shirt with a vest decorated in a print of dragons and slip-on, cloth shoes., P. [7] shows the white men finding an Inuit man on a sled made from a Clark's spool and pulled over the ice by a team of dogs. The sled driver is attired in a hooded parka and boots. P. [8] the three riders encounter a Native American man reigning in a buffalo with O.N.T. thread. He is attired in knee-high boots; a patterned blanket draped around his chest; hoop earrings; and a feather headdress. P. [9] shows a view of the back of the three riders bordered by pictorial details of the Clark’s O.N.T trademark. The back cover is a color illustration of a white girl with long blonde hair attired in black boots; red stocking; a green dress; and a blue striped apron. She is seated on an oversize spool of O.N.T. thread and playing cat's cradle with a white boy. The boy is attired in a red fez; a green coat; blue stockings; and black boots. The George A. Clark & Brother Company, manufactory of embroidery and sewing thread, was founded in 1863 in Newark, N.J. The firm was renamed Clark & Co. in 1879, and in the 1880s created a six-cord, soft finished thread called "Our New Thread" or "O.N.T." The business merged with J. & P. Coats in 1896, which lead to a series of mergers with fourteen other companies. Into the 21st century, the company continues to manufacture thread under the name Coats & Clark., Title from item., Advertising text printed on verso of front cover: Use Clark's trade mark O.N.T. spool cotton on white spools! It is superior to all others for hand and machine use. Garments sewed with O.N.T. fast black will never show white on the seams after being worn or washed., Advertising text printed on verso of back cover: Use Marshall's linen thread on 200 yard spools. Guaranteed full length. Made from the bext flax, and Milward's Helix Needles in patent wrappers. For sale everywhere., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of advertised business., Distributor's name printed on p. [1]: George A. Cole, sole agent., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Clark [P.2017.95.31]

Title: Fairbank's rock cordials, positive cure for all lung disorders
Description: Trade card promoting Fisher and Fairbanks' patent medicine Fairbanks' Rock Cordials and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man chef in the galley of ship. Shows the man portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white chef's hat; a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows; a red vest with gold buttons; a white apron; blue pants; and black shoes. He stands holding a spoon in his right hand and with his left hand holds a bowl that is filled with an unidentifiable pink food over a barrel that is being used as a table. He smiles and looks to a blond-haired white girl in the right attired in a pink hat; a black choker; a red dress; a white pinafore; white stockings with red stripes; and black shoes. She carries a doll costumed in a matching outfit and leans to look at the chef mixing. In the foreground on the floor are a pan, a pot with a bowl on top of it, and a spoon. In the background is a stove with a steaming kettle on it and a large chain. In the right, there is a barrel and next to it is a doorway through which we can see a sailor attired in a brimmed hat, a blue jacket, and pants. He stands on the side of the ship and looks through a telescope at the water. R.B. Fisher and Charles A. Fairbanks founded Fisher & Fairbanks in 1871., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Fairbanks [P.2017.95.62]

Title: “Universal family” Soapine, Kendall Mfg. Co., Providence, R.I
Description: Racist trade card promoting Kendall Manufacturing Co.’s Soapine and depicting caricatures and ethnic stereotypes of people helping Liberty wash laundry. Shows Liberty in the center personified as a white woman with blonde hair tied up in a bun attired in a blue cap with a white star and a white sleeveless dress with a red belt that has an American flag crest. She stands behind a wooden wash tub labeled “Kendall MFG Co.” that sits on top of six boxes labeled with the letter K. She spreads both of her arms out to the seven people around her. In the left, a white man with blond hair and mustache (possibly German,) holds a pipe in his mouth and is attired in a blue tunic, brown pants, and black shoes. He bends over as he carries a large box labeled “universal soap” on his back. A white Scottish man with blonde hair, attired in a blue cap with a yellow feather, a green shirt with a red sash, and a red kilt, helps a white man with black hair and mustache (possibly French) attired in a blue uniform with gold epaulettes and black shoes, carry a large straw basket filled with white laundry to the wash tub. In the right, caricatures of an African American man in a white sleeveless top, a Native American man attired with a feather headdress and blue pants with a bundle of arrows on his back, and a Chinese man with his hair styled in a queue attired in a blue tunic, brown pants, and blue, slip-on, cloth shoes, carry an oversize wash board labeled “French Laundry Soap.” In the center foreground, a white man with blonde hair and attired in a blue shirt, brown pants, blue socks, and black shoes, has fallen down on the ground. Beside him is a broken white pipe, and a small black cat runs away. Henry L. Kendall (1805-1883) founded a soap manufactory in Providence, R.I. in 1827. The Kendall Manufacturing Co. was incorporated in 1860. The Company continued to manufacture soap into the mid-20th century., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Kendall [P.2017.95.96]

Title: The Monument of Major Andre
Description: Print depicting a monument to Major John André. Shows a sarcophagus with Britannia weeping as she holds a shield with the Union Jack. In the left is a lion. Below is a tableau depicting the capture of Major André, who is led away by two men as he points to a woman and child in the right. In the left, a messenger hands General George Washington, surrounded by soldiers, an envelope. Soldiers march in the background. The sarcophagus rests on a pedestral that reads, "Sacred to the Memory, Major John Andre", Title from item., Date from periodical publication it was illustrated in: The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure . London : Published [...] according to Act of Parliament, for John Hinton, 1782 December, p. 329., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1782]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Monuments and Statues - André [P.2010.6.29]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of Horace Greeley]
Description: Proof of a bust-length portrait of the New York abolitionist, newspaper editor, and politician. Greeley wears a chin beard and is attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat with a gold pocket watch chain, and a black jacket., Title supplied by cataloger., Date and publication information supplied from duplicate in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.46]

Title: “The Far East” Chinese Restaurant, Yuen Doon Low, 907 Race St. Phila, Pa. A refined first class restaurant
Description: Menu depicting an exterior view of the Far East Chinese Restaurant at 907-909 Race Street, Philadelphia built after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter in ca. 1827 and later altered with 907 raised one story and 909 raised two stories. There are Chinese architectural details on the balcony and awning which reads, 907 Far East Chinese Cafe. The balconies are decorated with lanterns and plants. Two American flags and a Chinese Republic National Flag are on flagpoles on the restaurant. The cover has a border of bamboo plants. The menu is in English and organized with numbered dishes from 1 to 106 and “to avoid mistakes patrons are requested to order by number.” Categories are: “Soups”; “Chicken Specialties”; “Chop Suey”; “Boiled Soft Noodles”; “Beef Specialties”; “Pork Specialties”; “Chow Main”; “Omelettes and Eggs”; “Fried Rice”; “Sandwiches”; “Miscellaneous”; “Preserves, Cakes and Candies”; “Teas”; “Special Dishes”; and a prix fixe “Table d’Hote” with five different options and prices from 85 cents to $3 dollars per person. Menu notes that dining on the third floor incurs “an additional charge of five cents.” The menu also includes the hours of service and telephone number. The Far East Chinese Restaurant operated from circa 1906 to 1952., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the publisher., Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera - Menus - F [P.2023.27.4]

Title: Celluloid waterproof collars, cuffs & shirt bosoms Economical, durable, handsome
Description: Trade card advertising J.H. Richelderfer’s celluloid collars and cuffs and depicting racist caricatures of Chinese men laundry workers in shock when a white man holds up a box of celluloid collars and cuffs. In the left, a white man, attired in a black bowler hat, a white collared shirt, a red bowtie and waistcoat, a blue-and-white checked suit, and black shoes, stands holding and pointing his finger to a box labeled, “Wear Celluloid Cuff & Collars.” Four Chinese men laundry workers jump up in surprise on their tiptoes with their mouths open and grimacing and their queue braids flying straight up into the air. The men have long fingernails and are attired in gold hoop earrings, colorful clothes, including yellow, red, or green tunics, and yellow or blue short pants, and cloth, slip-on shoes. In the left, one laundry worker stands behind the white man with his hands in a steaming washtub. Also visible are two baskets full of laundry on the ground, a table with irons on top, and white sheets hanging on a line. The text, “The Last Invention” is printed on the bottom right., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Stamped on recto: J.H. Richelderfer, Gent’s furnishing and over-gaiters, 1032 Chestnut St., S.E. Cor. of 11th., Text printed on verso: Celluloid (Waterproof linen.) Collard, cuffs and shirt bosoms. The following will commend the use of these goods to all who study convenience, neatness and economy. The interior is fine linen. The exterior is Celluloid – the union of which combines the strength of Linen with the Waterproof qualities of Celluloid. The Trouble and expense of washing is saved. When soiled simply rub with soap and water (hot or cold) used freely with a stiff brush. They are perspiration proof and are invaluable to travelers, saving all care of laundrying. Advice. In wearing the turn-down Collar, always slip the Necktie under the roll. Do not attempt to straighten the fold. The goods will give better satisfaction if the Separable Sleeve Button and Collar Button is used. Twist a small rubber elastic or chamois washer around the post of Sleeve Button to prevent possible rattling of Button, To remove Yellow Stains, which may come from long wearing, use Sapolio, Soap or Saleratus water or Celluline, which latter is a new preparation for cleansing Celluloid. Goods for sale by all dealers., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Richelderfer [1975.F.728]

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