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Title: Edwin A. Atlee
Description: Half-length portrait of the physician and abolitionist, attired in a white shirt, a waistcoat, and a jacket with spectacles perched on his forehead, facing left. Atlee was a prominent Philadelphia physician and author who was active in the abolition movement., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Manuscript note on recto: When will this be ready for the press on Monday., Detailed manuscript notes, possibly by artist in a conversation with a hearing person, on verso about background and lightness of a print: John Carlin / I can make you another / Background with trees without / sky/ Without any work on it / any [Back?] I may make / will have much work on / account of the great size of / the Picture if you make / all sky much work / all trees / There is less work on [these?] / than any [other ?] Because / the Building is Light / you are all right / if you intend sending the Letter / you should be quick for else / you will lose much time / waiting, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Albert Newsam (1809-1864) was a respected deaf and non verbal Philadelphia engraver and lithographer who studied under Peter S. Duval. He received early art training at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - A [(1)5750.F.22a]

Title: Judge Stroude
Description: Reproduction of a half-length portrait of George M. Stroud, the Philadelphia judge and author of the abolitionist text, "A Sketch of the Laws relating to Slavery: in the Several States of the United States of America (Philadelphia: 1827, reprinted 1856)." Stroud, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing left. In the background is a bookcase with books and a globe and a drape., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on presented age of sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Stroud [(3)5750.F.61b]

Title: Benjamin Lay
Description: Full-length portrait of the eccentric radical Quaker abolitionist, author, and hermit, his left hand slightly raised. He holds a cane and a book titled, "African Emancipation" in his other hand., Published as frontispiece in Roberts Vaux's Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford:...(Philadelphia: Solomon W. Conrad, 1815). (LCP Am 1815 Vaux, Log 1971.D)., Manuscript note below image: the Hermit - Nat: 1677. Ob: 1759. He was one of the first public advocates for the emancipation of the enslaved Africans. [Vide Memoirs of his life by R. Vaux.]. See page 124., Portrait of Rev. Richard Allen on recto. (LCP Yi 2, 1069.F. 276), From John Fanning Watson's Extra-illustrated Autograph Manuscript of "Annals of Philadelphia," p. 277. (LCP Yi 2, 1069).
Creator: Kneass, William, 1780-1840, engraver
Date: [ca. 1815]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Print Portraits-L [Yi 2, 1069.F.276 (verso)]

Title: Elliott Cresson
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker philanthropist who was a president of the American Colonization Society. Shows Cresson standing and attired in a white collared shirt, a black cravat, a black waistcoat with a gold pocket watch chain, a black jacket and pants. Cresson holds a manuscript map on top of a table in the right, which also has books, a quill, and an inkwell on top of it. In the left is a chair that has African artifacts and art objects, including a spear and a figurine of a nude female form. Behind Cresson is a large, white column. A sailing ship is visible in the background., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Variant of print originally published as frontispiece in Frederick Freeman's A plea for Africa (Philadelphia: Printed by William Stavely, 1838). Contains imprint "Printed by Sansom.", Gift of David Doret, 2004., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1838-ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - C [P.2004.46.6]

Title: David Paul Brown
Description: Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia lawyer, orator, dramatist, and president of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society. Brown, attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, sits holding papers in his left hand, which rests on top of a book with the spine labeled "Phillips' Evidence.", Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Printed lower left: Subscriber's Proof., Gift of Ken Lead, 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [P.9428.2]

Title: George H. Stuart
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia philanthropist, abolitionist, and Presbyterian educator. Stuart, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left. Stuart organized the Philadelphia reception for the absolved Amistad mutineers at the First Reformed Presbyterian Church subsequent to their emancipation by the Supreme Court in 1841., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on presented age of sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Stuart [(3)5750.F.61c]

Title: David Paul Brown
Description: Full-length portrait of the Philadelphia lawyer, orator, dramatist, and president of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society standing near a side table. Brown is attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a black jacket with tails, and pants., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from the working dates of the engraver and the attire of sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Brothers Thomas Howland and Edward Mumford, Philadelphia engravers and electrotypists, provided subject illustrations for Philadelphia publishers during the 1850s and 1860s. Edward died in 1858, with Thomas continuing in business until the 1860s.
Creator: Mumford (firm), engraver
Date: [between 1855 and 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [(1)5750.F.59f]

Title: Caspar Wistar, M.D
Description: Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted seated at a desk, on top of which are a set of books. He holds a sheet of paper in his left hand. He is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar, vest, and jacket., Gift of David Doret, 2004., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Neagle, John B., ca. 1796-1866, engraver
Date: [ca. 1820]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [P.2004.44.18]

Title: Roberts Vaux
Description: Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker philanthropist, abolitionist, and social reformer who helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and who wrote several pamphlets against the spread of slavery into the western territories. Vaux, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content and medium., Printed below image: I am with great truth thy affectionate friend, Roberts Vaux., Accessioned 1893., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-V [5657.F.15a]

Title: Roberts Vaux
Description: Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker philanthropist, abolitionist, and social reformer who helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and who wrote several pamphlets against the spread of slavery into the western territories. Vaux, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content and medium., Printed below image: I am with great truth thy affectionate friend, Roberts Vaux., Accessioned after 1870 and before 1900., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait prints-V [1885.F.23]

Title: Caspar Wistar, M.D Late professor of anatomy to the University of Pennsylvania and President of the American Philosophical Society &c. &c
Description: Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted sitting in a chair and is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and double-breasted jacket., Printed below image: From the original picture in the possession of Mr. Wistar., Variant appears in the Analectic magazine (Philadelphia: 1818) vol. 12, p. 441. (LCP Per A 192, vol. 12)., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Charles Goodman and Robert Piggot, Philadelphia engravers, worked as partners from 1817 to 1822.
Creator: C. Goodman & R. Piggot, engraver
Date: [ca. 1818]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [1885.F.33]

Title: Caspar Wistar, M.D
Description: Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted sitting in a chair and is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and double-breasted jacket., Probably by C. Goodman & R. Piggot after painter Bass Otis., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Date: [ca. 1818 - ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [5750.F.159c]

Title: Caspar Wistar, M.D
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and a double-breasted jacket., Appears in volume three of several editions of James Barton Longacre and James Herring's The National portrait gallery published by various Philadelphia publishers between 1835 and 1868. LCP holds the imprints: 1834-1839; 1856; and 1867, (3)5750.F.160c originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., P.9156.9 gift of Charles Rosenberg, 1986., P.9660.16 gift of William Helfand, 1999., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835 - ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [(3)5750.F.160c; P.9156.9; P.9660.16]

Title: Abolition Hall The evening before the conflagraton at the time more than 50,000 persons were glorifying in its destruction at Philadelphia May - 1838
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist anti-abolition cartoon depicting a busy street scene with the hall being used as an interracial brothel by the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women on May 16, 1838. The convention, held during the week of interracial ceremonies and services celebrating the opening of the building, fulminated the racist fears of the local citizens, and on May 17th, a mob set the hall aflame, razing the building. Depicts well-dressed interracial couples, including a pair of children, strolling, kissing, and cavorting in the street and near the windows of the building. Among the couples, a Black man frolics upon a broadside referring to abolitionist David Paul Brown, a Philadelphia lawyer who spoke on May 14th, the day of dedication of the hall., Title from item., Date inferred from photographic medium and content., Illustrated in Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, eds. The Abolitionist sisterhood (Ithaca: Cornell University Press in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1994), p. 228., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., McAllister Collection, gift, 1884., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Theaters & Halls - Pennsylvania Hall [(6)1332.F.113b]

Title: Rev. Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in the United States of America, 1779
Description: Half-length portrait of the African American bishop, seated, and holding a book, possibly the Bible, in front of a curtain. He looks slightly to the left and points to an open page of the book with his right hand and clasps the upper edge of the other side of the book with his left hand. Allen is attired in a collared shirt, a vest, and a jacket. Allen was the first African American bishop as well as founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born in Philadelphia and was enslaved by Benjamin Chew. He worked as a wood-cutter during his ordination. A full-length portrait of the white Quaker abolitionist and little person Benjamin Lay is on the verso. Lay is attired in a tricorn hat, a long shirt and jacket, britches, and boots. He holds a cane and book in his right hand., Manuscript note on border: "The curiosity of the portrait below is that it was made for the first Black Bishop in the UStates and perhaps the world! He is indeed a self created Bishop; nevertheless, as such he has now, in his 65 years, in 1824, probably created 100 ministers, by his ordination! He was born & bred in Philada. He was originally a slave of Benjn Chew's Esqre & learnd the trade of a Shoemaker; & like St. Paul, 'labored with his own hands,' while he ordained-", Title from item., Date form item., In John Fanning Watson's Extra-illustrated autograph manuscript of "Annals of Philadelphia", p. 276., Gift of John F Watson, June 1830., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1813
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Watson's Annals manuscript [Yi2 1069.F.276]

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