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Title: Jay, John, 1817-1894
Description: Grandson of Chief Justice John Jay (1745-1829). Lawyer, diplomat to Austria-Hungary from 1869 to 1875, abolitionist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.18f]

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: [Robert Purvis]
Description: Bust profile portrait of the Philadelphia African American abolitionist during his later years. Shows Purvis with white hair, wearing mutton chops, and attired in a jacket and bow tie. Purvis was a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Library Company of Colored People, as well as a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-slavery Society and a vice-president of the woman's Suffrage Society., Title supplied by cataloger., Mount trimmed with the upper edge of three letters of the name of the publisher barely visible., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cabinet Cards - Sitter - P [P.2014.31]

Title: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880.
Description: In The liberty bell (Boston, 1844), frontispiece., Facsimile signature: Lucretia Mott., Mott wrote, "Duty bids to do all that in us lies, to overcome prejudice, and improve the condition of the nominally free, but our object should be, to break up a system which has thus degraded our fellow-beings. While we aid, to the extent of our power, the fugitive from injustice and oppression, let us not yield to solicitations for money to purchase his freedom from his claimants; thus acknowledging a right of property in man, and giving an indirect support to slavery. Rather let our main and most vigorous exertions be directed to the overthrow of the outrageous system of American Slavery."--P.177-178., Waist-length portrait of Mott, seated in a chair, wearing a bonnet and shawl., Another portrait appears in: American phrenological journal, v. 17 (Apr., 1853), p. 76.
Date: [1844?]

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: W. Wilberforce, Esqr. M.P
Description: Bust portrait, facing right within oval of the white English philanthropist and Member of Parliament. Wilberforce is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and dark colored double-breasted coat. Wilberforce was active in the Church Missionary Society and the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor. In Parliament he worked to abolish the transatlantic slave trade., 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: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, engraver
Date: 1808
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [1885.F.79]

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: A.V. Burlingame
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist. Burlingame, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, sits facing slightly right. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's violent attack of antislavery Senator, Charles Sumner, in Congress in 1856., Possibly by Mathew B. Brady., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date inferred from photographic medium., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Burlingame [(1)5750.F.63h]

Title: Hon. Anson Burlingame, M.C., from Massachusetts
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist attired in a white collared shirt, plaid waistcoat, black bowtie and jacket. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's physical attack of antislavery senator, Charles Sumner, in 1856., Title from item., Date from manuscript written on recto: 1856., Published with an accompanying article in Frank Leslie's Illustrated magazine, October 18, 1856, p. 301. [LCP **Per L, 1856]., 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.
Creator: Brightly, Joseph H., 1818-1901
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [(1)5750.F.63i]

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: 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: John Brown
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the radical abolitionist, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and pants. Brown stands with his left hand in his trouser pocket and looks toward the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Probably after photographer James Wallace Black., 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 1860 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-B [P.8911.69]

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: 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: Haars, Jacob, -1845
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: May 7, 1822

Title: Ormrod, John
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: March 16, 1790

Title: Duffield, George, 1818-1888
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 16, 1855

Title: D.P. Brown
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia lawyer, orator, dramatist, and a president of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society. Brown, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, sits facing slightly left., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on depicted age of the 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. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINTS cdv portraits - sitter - Brown [(1)5750.F.59e]

Title: Rev. Thomas Brainerd
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, and founder of the Union League. Brainerd, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a black jacket, looks at the viewer., Title from manuscript note on mount of (1)5750.F.55a., Date based on photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitter - B [(1)5750.F.55a&56c]

Title: How can it be done?
Description: Image depicts a mob of slaveholders who are raiding an abolitionist press. Members of the mob are dragging off a broken printing press., Illustration in the Anti-Slavery Record (New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835-1837), vol. II, no. IX (September, 1836), whole no. 21, p. 1., Curator's note: This is one of several antislavery graphics depicting the proslavery assault on the antislavery movement and their demand for the suppression of antislavery literature. This and several other illustrations link antislavery agitation to first amendment freedoms., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date: [September 1836]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per A 245 60026.D v 2 n 9 cover page, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2853

Title: William Wilberforce Esq. M.P
Description: Bust-length portrait, showing the English philanthropist, politician, and abolitionist, facing slightly right, seated, and reading a book. Wilberforce is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and a double-breasted jacket. He was active in the Church Missionary Society; Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor; and worked in Parliament to abolish the slave trade., Published as frontispiece in Lydia Marie Child's The Oasis (Boston: Benjamin C. Bacon, 1834). (Am 1834 Chi, 70173.D.5)., 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., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021., Andrews, a Boston engraver, who studied and worked in Europe during the mid 19th century, was a prominent line engraver and portraitist.
Creator: Andrews, Joseph, 1806-1873, engraver
Date: [1834]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [5750.F.150b]

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: 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: A downright gabbler, or a goose that deserves to be hissed
Description: Caricature of Frances [Fanny] Wright, British-born suffragist and abolitionist, depicted as a goose eulogizing in a liturgical setting during her American lecture tour of 1829. Wright, with a goose head, attired in a black dress and long white scarf stands with a book in her raised hand in front of a table laid out with candles, a pitcher of water, and texts. Beside her a well-dressed, white man attendant holds her bonnet and observes., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Reilly., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1829-2R [P.2275.21]

Title: Frederick Douglas[s]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist and orator. Douglass, wearing a beard and white hair and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., Date inferred from duplicate in LCP cabinet card portrait collection [P.9363.9]., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33e]

Title: William Lloyd Garrison
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, publisher, and author. Garrison, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing forward., Title from manuscript note written on mount., Date based on presented age of the sitter., 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 [(I)P.9100.33a]

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: Stephen Pearl Andrews
Description: Bust-length portrait of the lawyer and abolitionist. Andrews, 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.9100.35f]

Title: John Greenleaf Whittier
Description: Half-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman," as an older, bearded man. Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., 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 [(I)P.9100.44c]

Title: Maj. Gen. Cassius M. Clay
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Southern abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and diplomat. Clay, attired in his Union uniform, faces slightly left. Clay, appointed to the Union Army in 1862 and concurrently to a diplomatic appointment to Russia, refused military service until the Union abolished slavery in the Confederacy. He actively served in 1863., Title from item., Date based on the presented age of the sitter., 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., 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: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Clay [P.8911.304]

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: 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: Rev. Mr. Cheever
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the abolitionist preacher and author. Cheever, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, waistcoat, jacket, overcoat, and pants, holds a top hat in his gloved hands as he sits facing the viewer. Cheever's book, "The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding: Demonstrated from the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures," argued that the Bible categorically denounces slavery., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on presented age of the 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 - Cheever [(1)5750.F.82d]

Title: Rev. Dr. Cheever
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of George Barrell Cheever, the radical abolitionist preacher and author. Cheever, attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and pants, stands looking slightly right and holds a walking stick in his right hand. His book, "The Guilt of slavery and crime of slaveholding: demonstrated from the Greek and Hebrew scriptures," argued that the Bible categorically denounced slavery., Title from manuscript note on mount., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Photographer's imprint inscribed on negative., 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.
Creator: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Cheever [(1)5750.F.82e]

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: Wilmot
Description: Reproduction of a bust-length portrait of the Pennsylvania legislator, David Wilmot, most known as the author of the "Wilmot Proviso." The unpassed 1846 bill 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, looks slightly left., Title from manuscript note on mount., Dated based on the presented age of the 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. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Wilmot [(3)5750.F.154f]

Title: William E. Channing, D.D
Description: Half-length portrait of the Massachusetts Unitarian clergyman, abolitionist, and author. Channing, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and robes, rests his right hand and points his finger on an open book, probably the Bible. Channing, who wrote several abolitionist pamphlets from 1835 until 1842, adamantly denounced war as the means to abolish slavery., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: January 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-C [P.8911.225]

Title: William E. Channing
Description: Vignette portrait of the Unitarian clergyman, abolitionist, and author. Channing, attired in a white shirt with a black clergyman’s collar and black jacket, sits faces slightly left. Channing who wrote several antislavery pamphlets from 1835 until 1842, adamantly denounced war as the means to abolish slavery., Title from item., Date inferred from attire of 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.
Date: [between 1860 and 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - C [P.8911.224]

Title: Wm. Lloyd Garrison
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist, publisher, and author, as an older man. Garrison, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from presented age of 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.
Creator: Stuart, Frederick T., 1837-1913, engraver
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-G [P.8911.387]

Title: Wm. Lloyd Garrison
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, publisher, and author. Garrison, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits slightly facing right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date based on the active dates of engraver., 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., Smith worked in Boston as an engraver in the 1850s and 1860s.
Creator: Smith, Henry Wright, 1828-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-G [P.9363.58]

Title: J.R. Giddings
Description: Bust-length portrait of radical antislavery Ohio congressman Joshua Reed Giddings, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, waistcoat, and jacket, facing left., Published as frontispiece in Julia Griffiths', ed. The Autographs of freedom (New York: Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 1854). (LCP Am 1854 Griff, 70567.O)., 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 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 in 1877, "American portrait gallery," a three-volume set of celebrity portraiture which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-G [P.8911.396]

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]

Title: Miss Fanny Kemble in the character of Portia The original miniature in the possession of Mrs. C. Kemble
Description: Waist-length portrait showing the abolitionist, actress, dramatist, and author, seated and in the costume of the heiress character from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." Kemble is attired in a large feathered hat, long earrings, a pearl necklace, and an elaborate ruffled dress adorned with pearls and jewels. In 1829, Kemble made her debut performance as Portia, her favorite Shakespearean character that represented her ideal of perfect womanhood. 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., 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., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021., Accessioned 1893., Sartain, a premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was also a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - K [5658.F.36]

Title: Horace Mann
Description: Bust-length portrait of the educator, abolitionist, and congressman who assisted in the legal defense of abolitionists who aided freedom seekers. Mann, attired in a white collared shirt and a black jacket, faces left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from medium., 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-M [P.8911.1110]

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: John Greenleaf Whittier
Description: Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat, a jacket, and an overcoat with a fur collar, faces slightly left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on depicted 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., Schoff, an engraver working in Boston during the 1850s and 1860s, specialized in portrait and bank note engraving.
Creator: Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904, engraver
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - W [P.8911.1050]

Title: [ John Greenleaf Whittier]
Description: Half-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman," as an older, bearded man. Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing slightly left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Plate includes artist's monogram lower right corner., 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 - W [P.8911.1049]

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]

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