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Title: Abolitionist
Description: A man, one half of his body shown as a white man and the other half as an African American man, lectures in front of a small table. He holds an umbrella with his African American hand, as well as wears no shoe on his African American foot., Text: Whew! don't you know that you're played out? That your occupation's gone? Why do you make such fuss about that poor old well-pick'd bone? Or are you lost, so far corrupted, You can't improve 'till re-constructed?
Date: ca. 1865-1866

Title: An affecting scene in Kentucky
Description: A racist cartoon ridiculing Kentucky congressman Richard M. Johnson, the 1836 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, for his common-law marriage to Julia Chinn, a multiracial woman. Depicts Johnson, with the "New York Courier and Enquirer" falling from his hand, as he grieves over the "scurrilous attacks in the newspapers on the mother of my children." His daughters, Adaline and Imogene, attired in evening dresses, comment on his "affected state" and hold a framed portrait of their mother, attired in a turban. Surrounding Johnson are Democrats pledging support, including a postmaster, a well-dressed African American man, who speaks in the vernacular, and a gaunt white man abolitionist holding the Connecticut newspaper the "Emancipator." Another white man supporter comments on Johnson's agitated state., Title from item., Publication information supplied by Reilly., Purchase 1958., RVCDC, 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.
Date: [1836]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1836-15 [6277.F]

Title: American celebrities album
Description: Two volume set of albums containing predominately cartes de visite photographic portraits of prominent American 19th-century figures in politics, education, and the arts. Portraits depict actors, artists, authors, Congressmen, educators, governors, military leaders, physicians, publishers, religious leaders, social reformers, scientists, and U.S. presidents and their spouses. Includes mostly vignette and bust-length portraits and a small number of full length portraits. Also contains a small number of trimmed portrait engravings, tintypes, and a photo-collage depicting evangelist D. L. Moody with the under photograph copyrighted 1877. Small number of sitters are unidentified., Men sitters include P. T. Barnum; Henry Ward Beecher; John Brown; Ned Buntline; Samuel Clemens; Jefferson Davis; O. S. Fowler; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Abraham Lincoln; Samuel Morse; Thomas Nast; Hiram Powers; Winfield Scott; Gerrit Smith; Cornelius Vanderbilt; John Wanamaker; Brigham Young; Native American chiefs Ouray, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull; and African Americans Frederick Douglass and performer "Blind" Tom. Women sitters include presidential spouses Frances Cleveland and Lucretia Garfield; reformers Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull; authors Louisa May Alcott, Helen Hunt (Jackson), Harriet Beecher Stowe; sculptors Harriet Hosmer and Vinnie Ream; and performers Maria Albani, Charlotte Cushman, and Kate Field., Title from item's cover., Photographers include Mathew Brady, E. & H. T. Anthony; Jeremiah Gurney; and George Kendall Warren., Majority of sitters identified by a manuscript note on the album page or on portrait or an inscribed label., Brown leather bindings with gilt, stamped in gilt on front boards: Volume I: American Celebrities. Vol. I.; Volume II: American Celebrities. Vol. II. Stamped in gilt on spines: Album., Purchase 1985., 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., See "American Celebrities Album" item-level records for digital images of all identified individual sitters.
Date: [ca. 1870-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9100.1 & 2]

Title: American Celebrities Albums
Description: Two volume set of albums containing predominately cartes-de-visite photographic portraits of prominent American 19th-century figures in politics, education, and the arts, ca. 1870.
Date: 1869

Title: American sympathy and Irish blackguardism
Description: Cartoon depicting conflicting responses to the condemnation of slavery in the U.S. by Daniel O'Connell, an Irish abolitionist and leader of the movement for Irish independence (i.e. Irish Repeal Movement). Depicts O'Connell confronting President John Tyler as his son, Robert, an Irish repeal advocate introduces him. O'Connell, attired as an Irish thug, holds a club labeled "Agitation" and a bag labeled "Repale Rint." He condemns John Tyler for being an enslaver, "Arrah! give up your slaves I'd rather shake hands with a pick-pocket than wid a slaveholder, and if we get our repale we'll set em all free..." President Tyler, who was passively against slavery, greets O'Connell stating his support of repeal. Robert Tyler, dressed effeminately, and with "Ahasuerus" and the "Epitaph on Robert Emmett" (an earlier Irish patriot), the poems he authored in his pocket, confirms his father's support of repeal and proposes that the sale of his work could benefit the Irish cause. William Lloyd Garrison, who is to the right of O'Connell, states his support for O'Connell but not Irish repeal. An African American man, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular, overlooks the scene and says, "By jolly I wish Massa Harry Clay was here -- Dis dam low Irishman not dare talk to him dat way!", Title from item., Entered according to an act of Congress in the year 1843 by H.R.R. Robinson in the Clerk's Office in the District court for the Sc District of N.Y., Purchase 1958., RVCDC, 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., Clay, born in Philadelphia, was a prominent caricaturist, lithographer, and engraver.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1843
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political cartoons - 1843-2 [6258.F]

Title: Anna Dickinson
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker orator, lecturer, author, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. Dickinson, wearing her hair tied back with curls around her face and attired in a patterned dress with a white lace collar, a brooch, and drop earrings, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note on verso., Probably by Philadelphia photographer Peregrine Cooper., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996., 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. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Dickinson [P.9516.3]

Title: The Beecher-Tilton puzzle
Description: Puzzle card depicting a bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist in the center. Portrait is enclosed in a border composed of four snakes shaped like a diamond. Two "divided" portraits of a man and woman, the Tiltons, comprise the outer borders. The top of the head of Theodore Tilton (left) and Elizabeth Tilton (right) are visible in the upper corners. In the lower corners are the chins of Theodore Tilton (right) and Elizabeth Tilton (left). Title refers to the scandal resulting from a purported extramarital affair between Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, wife of reformer and editor, Theodore Tilton. The scandal resulted in a church trial in 1874 and a widely publicized civil trial in 1875. Beecher was acquitted in both trials., Title from item., 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - B [(1)5750.F.36f]

Title: B.F. Wade
Description: Half-length portrait of the aged abolitionist Senator from Ohio, as an older man. Wade, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right. Wade fought for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, was a partisan of the 14th Amendment, and was a supporter of the Freedman's Bureau and numerous civil rights bills., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-W [P.8911.1021]

Title: B.F. Wade
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist Senator from Ohio. Wade, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, sits in a wooden chair and faces left. Wade fought for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, was a partisan of the 14th Amendment, and was a supporter of the Freedman's Bureau and numerous civil rights bills., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [P.8911.1116]

Title: The black Republicans at their devotions
Description: Cartoon exploiting the stereotypes of the factions comprising the recently formed antislavery political party, the Republicans, before the Presidential Election of 1856. Depicts a meeting of the party members singing "Du da, du da." In the left is a white man, attired in a brimmed hat, a white collared shirt, a white waistcoat, and a black jacket and carrying a paper that reads, “Bobtail Hoss.” He represents a "puritanical bigot" abolitionist “who goes strongly in favor of stealing negroes.” In the center is a white man, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, who is a "disciple of Free Love and Fremont" (i.e., John C. Fremont, the Republican presidential nominee). In the right, is a white man, wearing long hair and a beard and attired in spectacles, a ruffled, white collar shirt with a brooch, and a black jacket, who represents the "long bearded spiritualist." In the left foreground is an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, who remarks in the vernacular, “Mass mos’ as good as brudder Bones.” In the background, more people sing “Du da,” including a woman, attired in spectacles, and described as “a hooked nosed, masculine crocodile, who is descanting upon woman’s rights and niggers’ wrongs.” Also visible is a statue of a man holding a staff atop a pedestal labeled “Du da.”, Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto, below image: “The Mustang colt is young and strong, Du da du da; His wind is good, his knees not sprung, Du da du da da!” The artist has given in this group a representative of nearly all the isms that go to make up the pie-bald conglomeration of which the Black Republican party is composed. Here is the long-bearded spiritualist, who, like his candidate, has more hair than brains; then we have the genuine Aminidab Sleek, or the true disciple of Free Love and Fremont; then there is the sour, morose, puritanical bigot, who goes strongly in favor of stealing negroes, because their services can be secured at a much lower rate than he would have to pay white men; the darkey, emerging from below, is grinning with ferocious delight at the ‘Du da du,’ which is to exalt niggers above “sassy white people;” there is a wide and foul-mouthed slang-monger, in the back-ground, who goes in for free discussion on one side; a hooked nosed, masculine crocodile, who is descanting upon woman’s rights and niggers’ wrongs, because he is too lazy to work. There is the picture—look at it. Du da du. Nero fiddled while Rome was burning. Black Republicans sing foolish songs while the glorious fabric which our fathers reared in peril and blood, is dissolving in the fires of fanaticism. They make no appeal to our reason, but to our imagination; the reason and the judgment is not addressed, only our passions and our prejudices. They cannot sing a mere political adventurer into the Presidential chair., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, 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.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1856-Bla [5760.F.94]

Title: Cassius M. Clay and Geo. Francis Train
Description: Depicts full-length portraits of abolitionist Cassius Marcelllus Clay and Boston merchant and ship owner George Francis Train standing and facing each other. They are attired in white collared shirts, black bowties, waistcoats, jackets, and shoes., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.34f]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from variant published as frontispiece in C. Edward Lester's Life and public services of Charles Sumner (New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874). (LCP Am 1874 Les, 19880.0)., Gift of Bruce Pearson, 2013., Includes tissue paper overlay., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-S [P.2013.58.13]

Title: Charles Sumner "Do not let the Civil Rights bill fail."
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from item., Printed signature of sitter below image., Date from variant published as frontispiece in C. Edward Lester's Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner (New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874). (LCP Am 1874 Les, 19880.0)., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.9363.97]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Printed signature of sitter below image., Published in American portrait gallery (New York: J.C. Buttre, 1877), vol. 1, pl. 33. (LCP Uz 1t, 6584.Q), Accesssioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.8911.926]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Half-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a dark-colored waistcoat and jacket, sits on a wooden chair slightly facing right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: James R. Osgood and Company, printer
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-S [P.8911.930]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie with white polka dots, and a black waistcoat and jacket, sits slightly facing left., Title from item., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.8911.931]

Title: Charles Sumner, U. S. Senator, from Mass
Description: Periodical illustration depicting a bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, slightly faces right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from item., Date inferred from inscription on recto., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [(3)5750.F.67a]

Title: Chief-Justice Chase. Portrait of the dead Chief Justice
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolition leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right. Includes accompanying obituary., Title from item., Published in The Daily graphic, May 1873., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister, 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: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [(1)5750.F.79c]

Title: Col. Fremont's last grand exploring expedition in 1856
Description: Cartoon ridiculing the antislavery convictions of John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential candidate and former explorer, and his abolitionist supporters during the Kansas-Nebraska crisis. Depicts Frémont's fictional expedition through the hills of "Kansas-Nebraska" atop New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley portrayed as the "Abolition Nag." Frémont states the road is hard astride the "Old Hack," but if he gets to the White House safely he will forgive his friends who put him there. Pulling Greeley by a rope is New York Republican William Seward who heads to the "Salt River" (i.e., political doom) in "Bleeding Kansas." Greeley admits to going the "same road as '52" but will follow Seward's lead. A gun-laden Henry Ward Beecher, the abolitionist minister, pledges to furnish rifles to antislavery Kansas settlers. A white frontiersman comments that the abolition horse's death is more beneficial to the Constitution than is an antislavery Republican president in the White House., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Probably drawn by John Cameron., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., 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: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1856-20 [5760.F.101]

Title: D. Wilmot
Description: Bust-length portrait of the young Pennsylvania legislator, best known as the author of the "Wilmot Proviso," the unpassed 1846 bill which would have prohibited the extension of slavery into the annexed territory of Mexico. Wilmot, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [P.8911.1036]

Title: Distinguished colored men
Description: Commemorative print containing a montage of portraits of eminent African American men centered around a portrait of Frederick Douglass and bordered by vignettes. Portraiture depicts: "Robert Brown Elliott, Ex-member of Congress" from South Carolina; "Blanche K. Bruce, Ex-Senator, U.S." from Mississippi; "Prof. R.T. Greener, Dean, Howard University"; "Wm. Wells Brown, M.D., author of the Rising Son"; "Henry Highland Garnett [sic], Late Minister of Liberia"; "Rt. Rev. Richard Allen, 1st Bishop of the African M.E. Church" in Philadelphia; first African American governor, "P.B.S. Pinchback, Ex-Governor of Louisiana"; "J.H. Rainey, Ex-Member of Congress"; "E.D. Bassett, Ex-Minister to Hayti"; "John Mercer Langston, Minister to Hayti". Vignettes depict a cornstalk, a twig of cotton, and scenes of romanticized images of African American home life by a waterway showing African Americans playing instruments, dancing, transporting watermelon by barge, and relaxing., Title from item., Inscribed lower right corner: Agents Wanted., Lower left corner inexpertly hand painted., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 61., Accessioned 1975., RVCDC, 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: 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - African American Heroes [8139.F]

Title: Dr. Theo. Parker
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist who personally aided and housed freedom seekers as a member of several abolitionist organizations, including the New England Emancipation Aid Society. Parker, wearing spectacles and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: J. Gurney & Son, photographer
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Parker [P.2282.116]

Title: [ Edward Evertt Hale]
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist, reformer, Unitarian minister, and author. Hale, wearing a white beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly left. Hale authored abolitionist tracts about the admission of western territories as free states., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint with insignia stamped on recto and verso., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Hale [P.9363.33]

Title: Emerson
Description: Bust-length portrait commissioned by Furness's father, Unitarian minister and abolitionist William H. Furness, as a tribute to his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, and his deceased son who was the original artist. Depicts the transcendentalist, preacher, and abolitionist, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, facing slightly right. Sartain's father, engraver John Sartain, was a family friend of Furness and a supporter of the abolition movement., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1871 by W.H. Furness D.D. in the office of the Librarian of Congress Washington D.C., Printed below title: (Private Plate)., See a description of the commission of the portrait print in Phyllis Peet's "Emily Sartain: America's first woman mezzotint engraver," Imprint 9 (Autumn 1984), p. 22., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, Emily, 1841-1927, engraver
Date: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - Emerson [P.9966]

Title: Eminent women Mary A. Livermore. Sara Jewett. Grace A. Oliver. Helen Hunt. Nora Perry. Lucy Larcom. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Louise Chandler Moulton. Louisa M. Alcott. Julia Ward Howe. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Description: Composite photograph created through the "paste-up" technique of cut-up negatives that are arranged, pasted together, and then rephotographed to present a realistic scene. Depicts a group of eminent Victorian women, including authors, writers, and women's rights, temperance, and abolitionist movements advocates, "posed" in the Montreal residence of railway financier George Stephens. Sitters (left to right), in the background, and standing, include: Mary A. Livermore; Sara Jewett; Grace A. Oliver; Helen Hunt; Nora Perry; Lucy Larcom; and Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sitters (left to right), in the foreground, and seated, include: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Louise Chandler Moulton; Louisa M. Alcott; Julia Ward Howe; and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Backdrop interior imagery shows parts of the reception hall, drawing room, stairwell, and conservatory of the Stephens' residence. Vases, a mantel, light fixtures, drapery, and a fountain are included in the backdrop. Pictorial details of foliage and a pond surround the portrait within a circular frame. Canadian photographer William Notman created the original portrait negatives used in the composite created by L'Africain. Notman was known for his innovative photography and his studio specialized in composite photographs by the 1870s. This image was also distributed "compliments" of the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, CT., Title from item., Date in negative in lower right corner., Name of photographer and publisher from imprint in negative and printed on mount and verso., Name of artist in negative in right corner., Sitter's names in title depicted with a single dot between first, middle, and last names and with double dots between full names., Copyrighted., Photographer and publisher's illustrated imprint printed on verso: W. Notman. The Notman Photographic Co. Limited. 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Also at 48 North Pearl St. Albany, N. Y. Saratoga, N. Y. Newport, R. I. Illustration depicts an objet d'art composed of a crown, foliage, banners, scrolls, coat of arms, and exhibition medals, including from the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Image also contains text, including: "Honi Soit Qui Mal [Y Pens]e. Photographer to Her Majesty. Montreal." Imprint surrounded by ornately-designed border including lavishly-ornamented cornices., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 64-66., Description reviewed 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Creator: Notman Photo Co. (Boston, Mass.)
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photo - Notman [P.2016.73]

Title: Fanny Kemble
Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait painting by Thomas Sully of the abolitionist, actress, dramatist, and author early in her marriage to Philadelphian Pierce Butler in 1834. In her work, "Residence of a Georgian plantation (1863)," Kemble described the degradation and inhumanities of slavery witnessed by her while living at the plantation of her husband from 1838 until 1839. Kemble, wearing her hair up and attired in a high collar, looks slightly right., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on photographic medium., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised in 2021., Access points revised in 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. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Kemble [2(5750.F.67e]

Title: Fanny Kemble
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, author, dramatist, and actress in the character of Julia, written specifically for her by Sheridan Knowles for his play "The Hunch Back." Her memoir, "Residence of a Georgian Plantation (1863)," described the degradation and inhumanities of slavery witnessed by Kemble while living at the plantation of her Philadelphian husband, Pierce Butler, from 1838 until 1839., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date from copyright statement: Entered acccording to act of Congress in the year 1833 by Childs & Inman in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern Distrcit of Pennsylvania., Original painting by Sully located at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia., Sully, a respected Philadelphia portrait painter and friend of Kemble, painted thirteen portraits of the actress, the majority by recollection., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Date: 1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - K [5657.F.25]

Title: The follies of the age, vive la humbug!!
Description: Critique of the social climate of the year of 1855 mocking several of the year's fads, social movements, and major events, many specific to the city of Philadelphia. Depicts several individual scenes occurring on an active street lined by businesses near a river. Depictions include: a scene representing the case of Jane Johnson, an African American woman freedom seeker aided by abolitionist Passmore Williamson; a group of ragged and armed white men filibusters holding the banner "Sam" rushing off to free Central America from European control; a stand where one is "allowed to drink 48 glasses of Lager Beer" where a white man police officer tries to stop a white man drunkard; a group of white women Mormons on a cart headed to "Salt Lake City"; a white man hugging two white women as his angry wife looks on and calls them "Ceresco free-lovers" after the Utopian society that lasted until 1855; two motley groups of local militias drilling; a caricature of the popular French actress Rachel who had an inauspicious debut in Philadelphia; and groups of individuals partaking of "water cures" and "sea baths." In the background the Camden Amboy train crash of 1855 is depicted as well as the destruction by fire of the Philadelphia steamer "John Stevens.", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Accessioned 1998., RVCDC, 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: [1855?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1855-Fol [P.9624]

Title: Frances Wright
Description: Half-length portrait of the British suffragist and abolitionist. Wright, wearing her hair parted in the middle in curls and attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white shawl and belt, rests her left elbow on a table and touches her left hand to her face., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of woman suffrage (New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881). (LCP Am 1881 Sta, 23781.O)., Gorbitz was a 19th-century Norwegian portrait painter., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Wright [P.8911.1069]

Title: Fred. Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist and orator. Douglass, with white hair and a mustache and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a dark-colored waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right while his eyes look to the left., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., 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., New York photographers Napoleon Sarony and Jeremiah Gurney & Son, two of a small number specializing in celebrity portraits, produced a majority of such portraiture in the 1860s and 1870s.
Creator: Sarony's and Gurney & Son's, photographer
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Douglass [P.2282.112]

Title: Fred. Douglas[s]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist taken at Warren's studio at 289 and 465 Washington Street, Boston. Douglass, wearing a beard and white hair and attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces left. Portrait was also used for the frontispiece to Douglass's third autobiography, "Life and Times" (1881)., Title from manuscript note on verso., Name of photographer and date of photograph supplied by Martha A. Sandweiss, ed. Photography in the nineteenth century (New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1991), p. 60., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Warren, G. K. (George Kendall), 1834-1884, photographer
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Douglass [P.9363.9]

Title: Frederick Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent African American abolitionist as a young man. Douglass, wears a goatee and is attired in a white collared shirt, a wide black tie, waistcoat, and jacket. He faces slightly to the right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Julia Griffiths, ed. Autographs for freedom (New York: Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 1854), opp. p. 251. (LCP Am 1854 Griff, 70567.O)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - D [P.8911.274]

Title: Frederick Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent African American abolitionist facing slightly right. Douglass wears a mustache and greying hair and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of our times; or leading patriots of the day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co., 1868), pl. 12. (LCP Am 1868 Sto, 17904.O)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - D [P.8911.273]

Title: Frederick Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent African American abolitionist, probably after the portrait photograph taken by Rochester, New York photographer John Howe Kent in 1882. Douglass, wearing a full beard and grey hair and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces right in a three-quarter pose., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Printed below image: With sentiments of highest regard, Very truly yours, Frederick Douglass., Gift of Frances Kean, 1993., Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2021., See John Stauffer et al., Picturing Frederick Douglass: An illustrated biography of the nineteenth's century most photgraphed man (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016), p. 190, Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - D [P.9409]

Title: From the plantation to the Senate
Description: Commemorative print containing portraits of eminent 19th-century African American men above a central cotton plantation scene. In front of the plantation residence by a river, enslaved African American men and women pick and transport baskets of cotton as a well-dressed African American foreman on horseback confers with a man on the dirt road. Flanking the central portrait of "Hon. Frederick Douglass, Champion of Freedom" on a background of tropical flowers, vines, and fruits are: "Hon. Benj. S. Turner of Alabama"; "Rt. Rev. Richard Allen" of Philadelphia, "1st Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church"; "Hon. H.R. Revels of Mississippi"; "Hon. Joseph H. Rainy [sic] of South Carolina"; "Hon. Josiah T. Walls of Florida"; and "Wm. Wells Brown, M.D., Author of the Rising Sun [sic]". Also contains vignettes of romanticized images of African American home life by a river showing African Americans playing instruments and dancing, transporting watermelon by barge, and relaxing outside their home., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1883 by Gaylord Watson., Watson was a New York lithographer who specialized in maps., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1974, p. 61., Purchase 1974., RVCDC, 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: 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - African American Heroes [8091.F.275]

Title: Galusha Anderson
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Baptist clergyman, abolitionist, and President of University of Chicago. Anderson, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.15b]

Title: Gerit Smith abolitionist
Description: Half-length portrait of the ardent philanthropist, social reformer, and abolitionist, who was actively involved as a "station master" in the Underground Railroad. Smith, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings. 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., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [5306.F.11a]

Title: Gerrit Smith
Description: Bust-length portrait of the philanthropist, social reformer, and abolitionist, who was actively involved as a "station master" in the Underground Railroad. Show Smith attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a patterned waistcoat, and a black jacket., Title from printed signature of sitter below the image., Published in George W. Bungay's Off-hand takings, or, crayon sketches of the noticeable men of our age (New York: Dewitt and Davenport, 1854), p. 330., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [10753.D]

Title: Gov. Andrews, Mass
Description: Half-length portrait of John Albion Andrew, Massachusetts governor, abolitionist, supporter of John Brown, and organizer of the first African American Civil War regiment. Andrew, attired in a white collared shirt, a dark-colored bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, and pants, sits on a wooden chair with his head turned to the left., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Purchase 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Warren, S., photographer
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Andrew [P.8752.2a]

Title: A grand slave hunt, or trial of speed for the presidency, between celebrated nags Black Dan, Lewis Cass, and Haynau
Description: Cartoon criticizing presidential candidates Daniel Webster (i.e., Black Dan) and Lewis Cass's avid support for the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law during the election of 1852. Shows Webster, carrying a copy of the Fugitive Slave Law and a flag, leading a group of white men, including the lagging Michigan Senator Lewis Cass; the infamously cruel Hungarian General Baron Haynau with a pitcher of "Barclay Best" on his head (a symbolic reference to the brewery workers who attacked him in England); and President Millard Fillmore holding a Fugitive Slave Bill. They pursue an enslaved African American woman who runs clutching a baby in her arms and holding the hand of her young son. Additional figures in the background include Horace Mann, Massachusetts Congressman and opponent of the Compromise of 1850; an orator resembling Webster bombasting Mann before a group of kneeling white men admirers; a preaching white man minister with Bible in hand; and an African American woman freedom seeker with her child being tugged between a yelling man and a white man mercenary carrying handcuffs., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., Purchase 1967., RVCDC, 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: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1852-7W [P.9676]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls and attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white lace collar, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career, a three volume set of celebrity portraiture, "American Portrait Gallery," in 1877, which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [between 1850 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.918]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait after a daguerreotype of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls and attired in a long-sleeved white dress with a lace collar and a dark-colored shawl, tilts her head down and rests the left side of her cheek and chin on her left hand., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from medium and content., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [between 1870 and 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.919]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a young woman. Stowe, attired in a dress with a white neckline, looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wilcox, an engraver and portrait painter, was active in Boston from 1860 until the early 20th century.
Creator: Wilcox, John Angel James, 1835-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.8911.920]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Three-quarter length, left profile portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls with a headband and attired in a long-sleeved, dark-colored dress with a shawl, holds a pencil in her hands, which rest on an open book in her lap., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1872 by Johnson, Fry & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Published in Evert Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women in Europe and America:... (New York: Johnson, Wilson, & Co, 1872-1874), vol. 2, p. 434. (LCP Uz 1,4915.Q), 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., Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portrait Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subject's faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph.
Date: 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [(1)5750.F.235b]

Title: Henry Ward Beecher
Description: Three-quarter length portrait in right profile of the Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, and pants, sits with his hands folded on his lap. Beside him is a table with an inkstand and books. A distant view of the New York harbor is visible in the background., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1874 by Johnson, Wilson & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Published in Evert Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America... (New York: Johnson, Wilson, & Co., 1872-1874), vol.2, opp. p. 61. (LCP Uz1 4915.Q), Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. 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: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [(1)5750.F.211b]

Title: Henry Ward Beecher
Description: Full-length portrait after the painting by New York historical painter, Alonzo Chappel, of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, jacket, pants, and shoes, sits on a chaise lounge with his legs crossed holding an open book. His left hand touching his face as though he is deep in thought. More books rest on the chaise lounge and on a side table in the right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1871 by Johnson, Fry & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Possibly published in a later edition of Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans (New York: Johnson, Fry, & Co., [1861-1864])., Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portrait Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subjects' faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies that he situated in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.167]

Title: [Henry Ward Beecher]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, wearing his hair slightly over his collar and attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a jacket, and a coat with velvet lapels, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Mount contains red border., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer rather than technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Beecher [P.9516.1]

Title: [Henry Ward Beecher]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, wearing his hair slightly over his collar and attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a jacket, and a coat with velvet lapels, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on verso., Mount contains red border., Image slightly faded., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer rather than technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Beecher [P.9363.41]

Title: Horace Greeley
Description: Bust-length portrait of the New York abolitionist, newspaper editor, and politician. Greeley, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a patterned waistcoat, and a dark-colored jacket, faces forward., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887), vol. 2, p. 734. The Cyclopedia was reissued in 1901. (LCP Reference Uz 1t, 4163.Q)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850-1900, engraver
Date: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - G [P.8911.409]

Title: Horace Mann
Description: Half-length portrait of the antislavery advocate, congressman, and founder of the modern public school system. Mann, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing slightly left. Mann assisted in the legal defense of abolitionists who aided freedom seekers., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date inferred from attire of sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Accessioned 1977., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [between 1855 and 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs-Mann [8313.F.13b]

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