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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]

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: 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: H.W. Beecher at 40
Description: Bust-length portrait of Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket. He faces forward and looks at the viewer., 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: [between 1853 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.30]

Title: H.W. Beecher at 40
Description: Bust-length portrait of Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket. He faces forward and looks at the viewer., 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: [between 1853 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.30]

Title: H.W. Beecher
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Publication information supplied by Library of Congress' ALA Portrait Index (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906), p. 114., Published in Appleton's Annual cyclopedia (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887), vol. 12, p. 64., 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: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.166]

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: 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: [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: Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in in a bun with curls around her forehead and attired in a headband, a dark-colored dress with a white, ruffled collar around the neck, a brooch, and a necklace, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note written on recto., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Mount contains red border., 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 - Stowe [P.9363.12]

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

Title: [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: 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: Anti-slavery Token
Description: Reads, "Am I Not A Woman & A Sister 1838." The back reads, "United States of America." Picture of a wreath with "Liberty 1838" within it., These tokens were sold at antislavery fairs organized by abolitionist women to raise money for the cause. In this example, to avoid charges of counterfeiting, the N in United States is reversed., Gift of Chris McCauley, 1996., Exhibited in the Heritage Center at the Union League of Philadelphia exhibition, Philadelphia 1861: The Coming Storm (2011).
Date: 1838
Location: OBJ 869

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