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Title: [Ruins of the Hall]
Description: Depicts the burnt ruin of the abolitionist meeting place at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Several white men and women pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. The hall was erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion." On May 17, 1838, after 3 days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services, hostile mobs set the hall on fire. The ruin continued to stand until the Odd Fellows Society built a hall on the lot in 1846., Title from P. Lee Phillip's, "A Descriptive list of maps and views of Philadelphia in the Library of Congress, 1683-1865" (Philadelphia: Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 1926), p. 49., Originally published in: [Samuel Webb's], History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the plate to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, in Philadelphia., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of engravings related to Philadelphia. 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: Gilbert, Reuben S., engraver
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr-8x10-Associations-Pennsylvania Hall [(6)1322.F.98c]

Title: [Destruction of the hall]
Description: Depicts a street scene with the abolitionist meeting place, Pennsylvania Hall, engulfed in flames at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Crowds, including a group of drunken men and other revelers, look on as several fire companies using handpumps hose the adjoining spared building. The hall, erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion," was set on fire by a mob of hostile citizens who had witnessed 3 days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services. For disputed reasons, the fire companies did not attempt to extinguish the burning hall. The building was razed and never rebuilt., Title from: [Samuel Webb's], "History of Pennsylvania Hall," p. 136., Manuscript note on verso: Destroyed by a mob by fire on the night of 17th May 1838., Originally published in: Samuel Webb's History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). (Am 1838 Hist Pa Hall). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the print to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, in Philadelphia., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History #101., 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.LCP exhibit catalogue: Negro History #101., Sartain, a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and a premier 19th century Philadelphia engraver, often instilled his work with his reformist beliefs.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 8x10 - Events - Fires [P.2283.2]

Title: S.P. Chase
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sit facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from the working dates of the engraver and the attire of sitter., Carpenter made professional trips to Washington, D.C. in 1855 and 1864, the latter to paint the president and his cabinet., Buttre, a New York portrait painter and engraver, worked in the city from the mid to late 19th century., 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: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-Chase [P.8911.221]

Title: I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the African American itinerant preacher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate born into slavery and originally known as Isabella Baumfree. Shows Truth, seated, and attired in a dark-colored, long sleeved dress with white collar, white shawl with fringe, and a white cap. She wears wire-rimmed glasses and faces front and is turned slightly to her left. She holds knitting in her left hand which rests on a small table that has a decorative table cloth. A notebook and vase of flowers adorn the table. A string of yarn runs across her lap. Truth escaped to freedom in 1826. During the period of the Civil War, Truth captioned, marketed, copyrighted, and sold at least eleven different carte-de-visite portraits of herself at her lectures and through the mail to earn personal funds and advocate for the abolition of slavery. Her knitting probably alludes to her promotion of the handcraft as an industry for advancement for former enslaved persons., Title from item., Publication information from copyright statement on verso: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by Sojourner Truth, in the Clerk's Office, of the U. S. District Court, for the Eastern District of Mich., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 66-67., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Truth [P.2017.27]

Title: [Benjamin F. Butler]
Description: Reproduction of a bust-length portrait print of the Massachusetts Governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in uniform, sits facing slightly left. As commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, he declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on depicted 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.
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits- sitter - Butler [P.2282.107]

Title: Abolitionist Philanthropist.
Description: The valentine depicts a well-dressed white man gesturing to a seated African American man whose head, feet, and buttocks are disproportionately large. The "burs" suggest the seated man does field work, and his trousers are ragged., Text: O, massa Abolitionist! you're mighty fond of jokes, / And play em on de darkey as well as on white folks / But all your mighty promises dey neber come to pass, / And every we take your chair de burs stick in / our ---- trouserloons., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [not after 1865]

Title: Parrish, Joseph, 1779-1840
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: January 11, 1820

Title: Coxe, John D., 1752-1824
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: August 6, 1789-April 8, 1817

Title: Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: December 9, 1778

Title: Pennock, Abraham L., 1786-1868
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: March 8, 1816

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

Title: 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 manuscript note on recto., Date from attire of the subject., Gift of David Doret, 2004., 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. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.2004.44.10]

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

Title: John Brown. Leader of the Harper's Ferry insurrection
Description: Full-length portrait depicting the radical abolitionist with a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, a black jacket, and pants. He sits in a chair beside a small table and holds an edition of the "New York Tribune," an abolitionist newspaper, in his right hand. Also shows a map of "Kanzas" adorning the wall in the background to symbolize the controversial extension of slavery., Title from item., Date inferred from content., The Kellogg Firm, brothers Edmund Burke and Elijah Chapman, was a prolific New England lithographic firm that nearly rivaled Currier & Ives in the production of popular prints., Reaccessioned as P.8911.60., Purchase 1969., 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: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait Prints-B [7809.F]

Title: [John Greenleaf Whittier]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, with white hair and beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket with velvet on the lapels, faces left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Sitter incorrectly identified as Ralph Waldo Emerson on verso., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 as opposed to technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Whittier [P.9363.14]

Title: Owen Lovejoy
Description: Bust-length portrait of the lawyer, Congregational minister, abolitionist, and Republican congressman from Illinois. He was also a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. Lovejoy, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a 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 [(I)P.9100.33f]

Title: R.W. Emerson
Description: Bust-length portrait of the transcendentalist, preacher, and abolitionist. Emerson, attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Appears in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887-1889), vol. 2, p. 343. The Cyclopedia was reissued in 1901., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850-1900, engraver
Date: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - E [P.8911.325]

Title: David Paul Brown
Description: Full-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, jacket, pants, and shoes, stands facing slight left near a drape, urn, and balustrade., Title and date from manuscript note on verso: David Paul Brown. Taken 1861; Wm Rawle Brown., Purchased 1994., 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: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits-sitter-Brown [P.9459.1]

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: Robt. Dale Owen
Description: Full-length portrait of the social reformer, Indiana Congressman, and Chair of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. Owen, attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a jacket, an overcoat, and pants, stands holding a top hat in his right hand beside a chair, near a drape. Owen's work for the commission has been credited as the impetus for the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction., 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 - Owen [(2)5750.F.173d]

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

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

Title: Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly left. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Printed below image: Your obedient servant, Benj. F. Butler., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Putnam operated his own publishing business between 1857 and 1867., 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: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.63]

Title: Major General B.F. Butler, U.S.A
Description: Playing card size bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General attired in military uniform. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on the presented age of the sitter., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", 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: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.62]

Title: [Lucretia Mott]
Description: Three-quarter length portraits of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair with an ornate back beside a drape with tassels., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on presented age of sitter., Accessioned 1999., 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 portrait photographs-M [P.9679]

Title: [Lucretia Mott]
Description: Three-quarter length portraits of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair with an ornate back beside a drape with tassels., Contains third partial photographic print upper left corner., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Probably from 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 portrait photographs-M [8313.F.96c]

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: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in The Liberty bell (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1844). (LCP Am 1844 Lib,68635.D)., Purchase 1976., 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 also a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [8198.F.2]

Title: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in The Liberty bell (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1844). (LCP Am 1844 Lib 68635.D)., Accessioned after 1870 and before 1900., 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: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [1885.F.60]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits in left profile. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., 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-P [P.8911.768]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of our times; or leading patriots of our day...(Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co., 1868), Pl. 17. (LCP Am 1868 Sto, 17904.D)., 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: Smith, Henry Wright, -1828, engraver
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-P [P.9363.82]

Title: Hon. 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, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing slightly right., Title from item., Date inferred from the working dates of the engraver and the attire of sitter., Printed signature of sitter below image: Ever Yours, Charles Sumner., Published in Frank Moore's Heroes & martyrs: notable men of the time...(New York: G.P. Putnam, 1861), p. 187. (LCP *Am 1861 Moo, 2864.Q)., 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: Hall, Henry Bryan, 1808-1884, engraver
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-S [P.8911.927]

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, a gray waistcoat, and a black jacket, sits slightly facing right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from attire 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.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-S [P.8911.929]

Title: John G. Whittier
Description: Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Printed below image: Truly thy friend, John G. Whittier., Published as frontispiece in John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1849). (LCP Am 1849 Whi, 12099.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: Warren, Asa Coolidge, 1819-1904, engraver
Date: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-W [P.8911.1051]

Title: [Lucretia Mott]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, sits on a carved wooden chair with her left elbow on a side table covered in a patterned cloth., Photographer's imprint and advertisement stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Manuel Kean, 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: Henszey & Co., photographer
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Mott [P.8752.6a]

Title: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, sits holding a book, her elbow resting on a side table, a drape with tassels in the background., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date from duplicate in private collection., Attributed to Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown from inscription in modern hand on verso., 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., Frederick A. Wenderoth, William Curtis Taylor, and Frederick Brown, a Philadelphia photographic firm established in 1865, operated until around 1884. Wenderoth, a technician in the studio of Samuel Broadbent starting around 1860, assumed the business of his employer, with his first partner Taylor, around 1863.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, photographer
Date: photographed December 1860, printed ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Mott [(2)5750.F.150c]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a jacket with velvet lapels, faces left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of photographer and presented age of sitter., 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 as opposed to technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Phillips [P.9516.2]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women’s rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., 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: [United States]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33b]

Title: [Rise and progress of abolition ; Instruments of bondage and torture]
Description: Abolitionist book illustration depicting a diagram of the author's "four classes of the forerunners and adjunctors" in the history of the abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade containing the names, religious and social groups, and events significant in the movement before 1787., Abolitionist book illustration depicting instruments used in the Transatlantic slave trade including handcuffs, ankle shackles, thumb screws, and a speculum orise which was used to force feed enslaved people., Title supplied by cataloger., Uncut plates from Thomas Clarkson's, The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament. Vol. I (Philadelphia: James P. Parke, 1808). (LCP Am 1808 Clar, 1934.D)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War 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: Kneass, William, 1780-1840, engraver
Date: 1808
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Slavery [5755.F.17]

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]

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