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Title: Carrie Perkins Geo. W. Vansant, importer of novelties in men's fine furnishing goods, 31 South Eighth St., (8 doors above Chestnut Street,) Philadelphia. Fine neck wear and dress shirts a specialty
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a portrait of nineteenth-century actress Carrie Perkins posed in costume in a landscape setting., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Vansant [1975.F.896]

Title: The cheapest place in town! Fechner Bros., auctioneers, No. 490 State Street, New Haven, Conn
Description: Series of illustrated stock trade cards for New Haven auctioneers Fechner Bros. depicting portraits of famous nineteenth-century actresses and dancers, including Eliza Weathersby, Jennie Hughes, Carrie Perkins, and Arline Stanley, posed in landscape settings in costume., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Fechner [66231.D.1-4]

Title: Annie Fox Between the Acts Cigarettes
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of actress Annie Fox., Advertising text printed in ornate banners and surrounded by filigree on verso: Between the Acts Cigarettes, Thos. H. Hall, manufacturer, New York., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Between [1975.F.454]

Title: Catalogue of theatrical and public celebrities
Description: Trade catalog containing pages with rows of numbered vignette-size reproduced portrait photographs of female , male, and child entertainers. Includes bust-length, half-length, and full-length portraiture, with one sitter often depicted in several differently posed portraits. Sitters, predominantly women, are usually attired in costume and occasionally are posed as couples, or in character and with props and ornate backdrops. Costumes and props include hats and head pieces; tights and shorts; nautical, peasant, medieval and roman garb; umbrellas, fans and valises; chairs and hammocks; guns and swords; and instruments and animals. Unique costumes and poses include Jeannie Winston as a devil with wings; Kate Forsyth depicted as a sculpted bust; and Lizzie Harold sprawled on a floor., Sitters include French operatic soprano Marie Roze (1846-1926); American entertainer Lotta [Crabtree] (1847-1924); American actress Annie Pixley (1858-1893); comic actors Charles E. Holland and Ben Maginley (d. 1888); actress and theater manager Mrs. John Drew (i.e., Louisa Lane Drew); French magician Prof. Hermann, i.e., Alexander Hermann(1843-1896), author and actress Lillian Chester; and characters from "Pinafore.", Accompanied by pocket-size, printed catalog with preface promoting Gilbert & Bacon's large stock of portrait views of the "most artistic and prominent in their profession" in the sizes "Cabinets" and "Panels." Includes lists of sitters for 1692 "Cabinets" and 115 "Panels.", Front endpaper inscribed: George P. Campbell, Continental Hotel, August 1880. Campbell, probably a Gilbert & Bacon agent, resided at the hotel in the 1880s., Cloth binding, stamped "Scrap" on front cover and "Patented March 1876" on back cover., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gilbert & Bacon, the portrait studio established by Philadelphia photographers Charles M. Gilbert (b. ca. 1848) and William F. Bacon (ca. 1843-1900), operated ca. 1874-ca. 1929. The firm specialized in celebrity portraiture and photographed actors, baseball players, and members of high society. Following the death of Bacon in 1900, the firm continued in business under the management of Gilbert and Bacon's son Frank T. into the early 20th century.
Creator: Gilbert & Bacon
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.8681.1 & 2]

Title: Victoria Vokes
Description: Full-length portrait of British actress Victoria Vokes standing and leaning on a chair. Vokes was one of five siblings popular in pantomime theatres in London in the 1870s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Miscellaneous - Vokes [1975.F.886a]

Title: Monday, Sept. 25th, and every night during the week Two hours in fun-land. Two hours in fun-land. Two hours in fun-land. The citizens of Philadelphia are respectfully informed that, owing to a success unparalleled in the world of amusement, the distinguished artists, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins and the best of living lady pianists, Miss Carlotta Shaw, will continue their comical musical entertainments! ... Two hours in fun-land or, Wives by advertisement. ... During the evening Miss Carlotta Shaw will play selections from the eminent composers, ... The piano used at this entertainment is from the manufactory of Geo. Steck, and furnished by J.E. Gould, Seventh and Chestnut Streets. The elegant suite of furniture used upon this occasion, is from the celebrated house of Gould & Co., Ninth and Market Streets. Reserved seats, 50c. Body of the hall, 25c. Doors open quarter-past 7. To begin at 8 o'clock
Description: Sept. 25 fell on a Monday in 1865., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 54.9 x 20.0 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1865 Watkins (6)5761.F.62 (McAllister)

Title: Miss Kathleen O'Neil's novelty, drawing-room and pantomimic troupe! Prof. Eugene Thiodon, leader of orchestra Programme. ... The Irish girl's drawing-room entertainment in which Miss Kathleen O'Neil will perform the stage-struck servant girl, and sing her great original song of No Irish need apply. French dancing master! ... Afterwards will be presented the laughable Irish sketch, The flowers of the forest! in which Miss Kathleen O'Neil will sing "Oh steer my bark to Erin's isle," "The jug o' punch," and dance an Irish jig. ... To conclude with the laughable, comic and interesting pantomime, The statue blanc!
Description: The company includes: Fanny Archer, W.H. Bartholomew, A. Lenton, J.S. Maffitt, La Petite Heloise, Ida Ross, and W.A. Ward., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 42.3 x 16.6 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kathleen O'Neil's Troupe
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1865 Kathleen (28)5761.F.31b (McAllister)

Title: Brandt's Hall Miss Kathleen O'Neil, proprietress J.S. Maffitt stage manager Mons. Eugene Thiodon leader of orchestra J.W. Holden business manager Dick O'Neil treasurer Miss Kathleen O'Neil's grand drawing-room entertainment pantomimic and novelty troupe! This evening, Miss Kathleen O'Neil the world-renowned original Irish comedienne and vocalist, from the principal European and American theatres, in three great acts! Including a laughable Irish sketch, The flowers of the forest in which she will sing "Oh, steer my bark to Erin's isle," "The jug o' punch," and dance an Irish jig Miss Ida Ross, ... Miss Fanny Archer ... La Petite Heloise ... Jas. S. Maffitt, W.H. Bartholomew, and W.A. Ward, the three greatest pantomimes in the world! ... Mr. A. Lenton, Prof. Eugene Thiodon, Prof. A. Schultz, Prof. C. Graham, Prof. H. Hoffman Admission, 15 cents
Description: Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.6 x 20.6 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kathleen O'Neil's Troupe
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1865 Kathleen (27)5761.F.2b (McAllister)

Title: A hearty laugh for the holidays commencing Christmas Eve, Saturday, Dec. 24th and continued on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, Dec. 26, 28, 29, 30 Matinee Monday afternoon. The distinguished and world-renowned artists, Mr. & Mrs. Harry Watkins! (formerly Mrs. Charles Howard,) in a novel, humorous and elegant entertainment! as presented by them for six weeks at Niblo's, N. York ... The entertainment, from the pen of the popular author, Charles Gayler, is entitled Photographiana or, Wives by advertisement, being a series of eccentric sketches of character ... Admission, 25 cents. Reserved seats, 50 cents Doors open quarter-past 7 o'clock. Commence at 8. Afternoon, open at 2. Commence at 3
Description: Dec. 24 fell on a Saturday in 1864., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.5 x 19.9 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Watkins (6)5761.F.63 (McAllister)

Title: Notwithstanding its great success! in consequence of the hall being pre-engaged, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins! are compelled to announce as the last 3 nights, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 28th, 29th and 30th, of their novel, peculiar, humorous and elegant entertainment! received at every representation with enthusiastic shouts of laughter and applause, by large and brilliant assemblages of the elite of Philadelphian society! ... The entertainment, from the pen of the popular author, Charles Gayler, is entitled Photographiana or, Wives by advertisement, being a series of eccentric sketches of character ... Matinee on Saturday, at 3 o'clock. Admission, 25 cents. Reserved seats, 50 cents Doors open quarter-past 7 o'clock. Commence at 8. Afternoon, open at 2. Commence at 3
Description: Dec. 28 fell on a Wednesday in 1864., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.3 x 19.8 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Watkins (6)5761.F.64 (McAllister)

Title: Notwithstanding its great success! in consequence of the hall being pre-engaged, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins! are compelled to announce as the last two nights, Thursday & Friday, Dec. 29th and 30th, of their novel, peculiar, humorous and elegant entertainment! received at every representation with enthusiastic shouts of laughter and applause, by large and brilliant assemblages of the elite of Philadelphian society! ... The entertainment, from the pen of the popular author, Charles Gayler, is entitled Photographiana or, Wives by advertisement, being a series of eccentric sketches of character ... Matinee on Saturday, at 3 o'clock. Admission, 25 cents. Reserved seats, 50 cents Doors open quarter-past 7 o'clock. Commence at 8. Afternoon, open at 2. Commence at 3
Description: Dec. 29 fell on a Thursday in 1864., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 54.9 x 19.8 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Watkins (6)5761.F.69 (McAllister)

Title: Brooklyn Academy of Music Lessee, Miss Laura Keene Second and last night of Miss Laura Keene! and her Comedy Combination. A new and splendid play Speciality.--Every visitor attending the performance at the academy, this evening, will be presented with a perfumed programme of Phalon's night-blooming ceres. This Wednesday evening, April 13th, 1864 will be performed the new and thrillingly effective Irish drama, written for Miss Laura Keene, and performed at her theatre, in New York, with the most brilliant success, entitled The wives of Ireland or, The foster brother ... To conclude with the glorious comedietta of The Smiths and the Browns! ... Prices of admission. Dress circle and parquet, 50 cts. Reserved seats, 75c. Family circle, 25c
Description: The casts include: Mr. Arthur, Mr. Bilby, Mr. Boyd, John Dyott, Laura Keene, Milnes Levick, Mr. Page, Charles Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Rea, W.H. Stevens, and Mrs. Tyrril., Illustration signed: Adrian-Probasco Phila., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.5 x 19.8 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Laura Keene's Comedy Combination
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Laura (26)5761.F.8a (McAllister)

Title: Brooklyn Academy of Music Lessee, Miss Laura Keene Opening night of Miss Laura Keene! and her Comedy Combination. Miss Laura Keene respectfully announces to the citizens of Brooklyn that she will give 2 grand performances Speciality.--Every visitor attending the performance at the academy, this evening, will be presented with a perfumed programme of Phalon's night-blooming ceres. This Monday evening, April 11th, 1864, the performance will commence with the beautiful domestic drama of Rachel the reaper dramatized expressly for Miss Keene by Chas. Reade, Esq., from the celebrated novel of Clouds and sunshine! ... To conclude with Cherry's celebrated comedy of The soldier's daughter! ... Wednesday night, April 13th, positively last night of Miss Laura Keene when will be produced a new thrilling drama, entitled The wives of Ireland, or The foster brother as performed by her in Washington, Philadelphia, and the principal cities of the West, during her late tour, with the most enthusiastic and brilliant success. Prices of admission. Dress circle and parquet, 50 cts. Reserved seats, 75c. Family circle, 25c. Box office open on Saturday morning for the sale of reserved seats
Description: The casts include: John Dyott, Laura Keene, Milnes Levick, Charles Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Rea, and Mrs. Tyrril., Illustration signed: Adrian-Probasco Phila., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.2 x 19.8 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Laura Keene's Comedy Combination
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Laura (26)5761.F.7a (McAllister)

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: Clifton, Ada, 1835-1891.
Description: Waist-length seated portrait of the actress holding a book., In The American phrenological journal, vol. 29 (Feb., 1859), p. 25., Ernestina Katherine Louise Marie Ritter, who went by the stage name Ada Clifton, was a popular actress in the mid-nineteenth century.
Date: [1859?]

Title: Montez, Lola, 1818-1861.
Description: In Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld) including her autobiography (New York, 1858), frontispiece., Facsimile signature: Lola Montez., Lola Montez was born in Ireland and spent her childhood in India, Scotland, France, and England. As an adult, she trained as a dancer and traveled the royal courts of Europe. She had a forceful, captivating personality, and at times she wielded considerable political influence, particularly in Bavaria, where she was the mistress of King Ludwig I. Later in life, she moved to America, where she performed as a dancer, actress, and lecturer. In one of her public lectures, she proclaimed, "It takes most women two-thirds of their lifetime to discover, that men may be amused by, without respecting them; and every woman may make up her mind that to be really respected, she must possess merit, she must have accomplishments of mind and heart, and there can be no real beauty without these."--P. 121-122., Another portrait appears in: Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 2, no. 16, (April 17, 1852), p. 249., Bust-length portrait of Montez., Another portrait (entitled "Morning") appears in: Snow flake (1849), frontispiece. The sitter is identified as Lola Montez on the basis of a portrait by Jules Laure; the painting is now located in the collection of the Leeds Castle Foundation, Maidstone, Kent, UK.
Date: [1858?]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/women/virtue/path.htm

Title: Marsh's Juvenile Comedians.
Description: In Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, v. 12, no. 8 (Boston, Feb. 21, 1857), p. 124., Marsh's Juvenile Comedians was a traveling children's theater troupe that performed in locations from Maine to California to Australia. Many of its members went on to successful adult acting careers., "In the performances of these children, you would look for something automatic; and might fancy beforehand, if you saw them once, you would exhaust their capabilities. Such, however, is by no means the case. Though they certainly evince careful training, still there is a great deal of spontaneity in their performances. If they possessed a purely imitative faculty, without any creative genius, they could not by any possibility be taught to play the many pieces which make up their repertory."--P.124., Full-length portrait of the troupe, including sixteen girls and three boys.
Date: [1857?]

Title: Heron, Matilda, 1830-1877.
Description: Full-length portrait of the actress in costume as Medea. She wears Grecian robes and drapes a long beaded necklace around her head and across her chest. A brooch with a portrait on it adorns her right sleeve and she wears a bracelet beaded with pearls., In Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, vol. 3, no. 59 (Jan. 24, 1857), p. 128., “Miss Heron’s style is her own. She has endeavored throughout her career to perfect such abilities as were most natural to herself : hence her success in producing powerful emotions upon her audiences. At first she is rather quiet - almost tame, some would suppose - but she gradually warms up with the progress of the play, and closes the performance with some of the most powerful effects it is possible to imagine. In most of her scenes she is perfectly natural, and refuses to use any of the trickeries which have so long defaced the efforts of some of our best actors.”--P. 128., Another portrait found in: Ballou’s pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 14, no. 8 (Apr. 4, 1857), p. 177.
Date: [1857?]

Title: Keene, Laura, 1826-1873.
Description: Waist-length portrait of the actress, seated, wearing flowers in her hair., In Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, vol. 3, no. 53 (Dec. 3, 1856), p. 32., Laura Keene was a popular actress and theater manager, best known for acting in the production of Our American Cousin on the night of President Lincoln’s assassination., Another portrait appears in: Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, vol. 4, no. 103 (Nov. 21, 1857), p. 397.
Date: [1857?]

Title: Barrow, Julia Bennett, b. 1824.
Description: In Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, v. 10, no. 20 (Boston, May 17, 1856), p. 305., Another portrait appears in: Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, v. 10, no. 19 (Boston, May 10, 1856), p. 300., Full-length portrait of Barrow, wearing an elaborately decorated Native American costume and holding a spear, with dwellings in a natural setting in the background.
Date: [1856?]

Title: Phillipps, Adelaide, 1833-1882.
Description: In Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 10, no. 2 (Jan 12, 1856), p. 28., Adelaide Phillipps won popularity as a child star with her singing, acting, and dance routines. She later trained as an opera singer in Europe, under the legendary Manuel Garcia, and toured the United States and Europe with numerous opera companies., Other portraits appear in: Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 1, no. 2 (May 10, 1851), p. 32; Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 1, no. 6 (June 7, 1851), p. 84; Appleton's encyclopaedia of American biography, vol. 4 (New York, 1888), p. 758., Full-length portrait of Phillipps, wearing a man's costume of boots, tights, a tunic and belt purse, holding a picture; she is depicted while acting a scene with two other male figures at left, with a rural landscape including a cottage and arbor in the background.
Date: [1856?]

Title: Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876.
Description: In Jones, A.D. The illustrated American biography (New York, 1855), v. 3, p. 439. "Portraits drawn by S. Wallin, and engraved by J.W. Orr.", Other portraits appear in: Gleason's pictorial drawing room companion, v. 1 (1851), p. 232 and p. 481; Hale, S.J. Woman's record (New York, 1855), p. 638; Jones, A.D. The American portrait gallery (New York, 1855), p. [617]., Bust-length portrait of the actress., For image of painting of Charlotte Cushman by Thomas Sully, press link below.
Date: [1855?]
Location: http://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A59342

Title: Vernon, Jane Marchant Fisher, 1796-1869.
Description: In Frank Leslie’s ladies gazette of fashions & the beau monde, vol. 4, no. 6 (Dec. 1855), p. 113., Mrs. Vernon was a popular actress, who first came to the United States from England in 1827., Three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Vernon wearing a lace-trimmed bonnet.
Date: [1855?]

Title: Farren, Mary Ann, 1817 or 18-1894.
Description: In Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 9, no. 19 (Nov. 10, 1855), p. 300., "Mrs. Farren is an American by birth, being the daughter of Richard Russell, who was lessee of the Tremont Theatre, some twenty-four years ago .... Mrs. Farren's earliest appearance ... was as Cora's Child in Sheridan's bombastic but popular drama 'Pizarro'."--P. 300., Waist-length portrait of the actress.
Date: [1855?]

Title: Florence, W. J. (William Jermyn), Mrs., 1830-1906.
Description: In Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 8, no. 10 (Mar. 10, 1855), p. 160., "Though Yankee girls are particularly well rendered by this lady, she performs well whatever she undertakes, her versatility enabling her to glide gracefully from one line of character to another. She is still, though out of practice, an elegant dancer, and both in figure and face fitted to adorn the stage. Mr. and Mrs. Florence are very happily adapted to each other, and we learn that in private life they are as much esteemed as they are popular in public."--P. 160., Another portrait, depicting Mrs. Florence in character as the Dutch Organ Girl, appears on the same page., Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Florence, seated in a chair, wearing earrings and a brooch.
Date: [1855?]

Title: Dean, Julia, 1830-1868.
Description: In Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 8, no. 12 (Mar. 24, 1855), p. 177. "Mr. Rowse's design illustrates the scene in the first act of Mr. Sargent's new tragedy"., Full-length portrait of Dean, acting in a scene with two other figures, with a cottage in a woodland setting in the background.
Date: [1855?]

Title: Howard, Cordelia, 1848-1941.
Description: In Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, v.6, no. 26 (Boston, July 1, 1854), p. 416., Howard began acting at age four, and was famous for playing the role of Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin., Waist-length portrait of Howard., Another portrait appears in: American phrenological journal, v. 23 (May, 1856), p. 108.
Date: [1854?]

Title: Logan, Eliza, 1829-1872
Description: In Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 7, no. 1 (July 8, 1854), p. 12., Waist-length portrait of the actress.
Date: [1854?]

Title: Robertson, Agnes, 1833-1916.
Description: Waist-length portrait of the actress., In Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 6, no. 13 (Apr. 1, 1854), p. 201., Agnes Robertson was a popular stage actress who eloped with fellow actor Dion Bourcicault., Another portrait appears in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 4, no. 119 (Mar. 13, 1858), p. 236.
Date: [1854?]

Title: Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt, 1819-1870.
Description: In Hale, S.J. Woman's record (New York, 1853), p. 754. "Illustrated by two hundred and thirty portraits, engraved on wood by Lossing and Barritt.", Bust-length portrait of the writer, Other portraits appear in: Gleason's pictorial drawing room companion, v. 1 (1851), p. 300 and p. 348.
Date: [1853]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/mowatt.htm

Title: Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.
Description: In Hale, S. J. Woman's record (New York, 1853), p. 712., Another portrait appears in: Leslie, E., ed. The gift: a Christmas and new year's present for 1836, frontispiece., Bust-length portrait of the actress looking over her left shoulder.
Date: [1853?]

Title: Forrest, Catherine Norton Sinclair, 1817-1891.
Description: In Report of the Forrest divorce case (New York, 1852), title vignette and p. 96., Other portraits appear in: The Forrest divorce suit, report of the trial of Catherine N. Forrest vs. Edwin Forrest for divorce (New York, 1851), p. 96, second sequence; Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 2, no. 9 (Feb 28, 1852), p. 144; Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 2, no. 17 (Apr. 24, 1852), p. 257., Bust-length portrait of Forrest, with her hair in a bun.
Date: [1852?]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/women/virtue/infidelity.htm

Title: Kimberly, Miss, b. 1818.
Description: In Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 2, no. 23 (Boston, June 5, 1852), p. 361. "The likeness we give herewith is by our artist, Mr Rowse"., The actress, also known as Sophia Elizabeth Munson Roberts, adopted Miss Kimberly as her stage name., "'You will see by the literature I enclose that I am occupied in aiding in the control of the only insurance company in the world organized and conducted by women,-- myself being the originator of the project. I also conduct a family hotel comprising the block between 21ist and 22nd Sts. My life has been passed in all absorbing labor, mental and physical.' We learn from Mrs. Harriet Bradley Jackson that Sophia was formerly an actress became quite a performer and went all round. She was known in the profession as Miss Kimberly which was her mother's maiden name. Another adds that she was a Shakespearean reader. Her husband was an actor also. After she left the stage she practiced medicine."--Munson, M.A. 1637-1887 The Munson record, v. 2 (New Haven, 1896), p. 963., Three-quarter length portrait of Miss Kimberly, wearing earrings, a bracelet, and a cross necklace with a flower in her hair.
Date: [1852?]

Title: Bateman sisters.
Description: In Gleason’s pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 1, no. 28 (Nov. 8, 1851), p. 440., Full-length portraits of the child actresses Kate and Ellen Bateman in costume for their appearance in Bombastes furioso, Kate in the role of King Artaxaminous (?).
Date: [1851?]

Title: Ketchum, Miss.
Description: In The American book of beauty, or, Token of friendship (Hartford, 1847?]. plate preceding p. [65]., Full-length portrait of Miss Ketchum (of Boston), standing holding a small dog against her chest with her right arm and a handkerchief in her left hand., Fictitious person? Sitter identified as the singer/actress Mrs. Charles Martyn (i.e., Elizabeth Inverarity Martyn) on a plate published by Longman & Co., 1 October 1840. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw80781/Elizabeth-Ma
Date: [1847?]

Title: Shaw, Charlotte.
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Miss Shaw, seated, wearing a shawl and holding a rose. Ornate border around the portrait depicts angels and flowers. An eagle at the top of the portrait holds in its mouth a circular medal reading: PLUMBE Gold Medal., In Loder, George. Lady! The rose I give to thee (Philadelphia, 1846), vignette., The actress Charlotte Shaw debuted at the Bowery Theater on Dec. 14, 1842. Cf. Hall, Lillian A. Catalogue of dramatic portraits (1930-1934)., “[John] Plumbe devised a method whereby his studio copied original photographic images onto a lithographer’s stone by an early and innovative method of mechanical photoreproduction that still remains a mystery. Plumbeotypes were thus actually lithographs, but with a difference, for the stones were created with the new process.”--P. 48. LCP AR [Annual Report] 1992.
Date: 1846.

Title: Cushman sisters
Description: In The People’s journal, vol. 2, no. 29 (July 18, 1846), p. 29., At head of image: Public exhibitions. No. 2., Full-length portraits of the actresses Charlotte and Susan Cushman.
Date: 1846.

Title: Charlotte Saunders Cushman "of the Walnut Street Theater."
Description: Cushman was a Boston-born actress who became the leading American stage actress and immensely famous in both America and England. Cushman was the stage manager of the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia from 1842 to 1844, and this portrait was painted during that time., The Folger Shakespeare Library has an almost identical portrait of Charlotte Cushman, also painted by Sully, which was donated to them in 1936 by Mrs. Vincent Cushman, wife of Charlotte's nephew., Bequest of Anne Hampton Brewster, 1892., Exhibited in: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' exhibition, Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully (1922); Philadelphia Art Alliance for a theatrical exhibition culled from the Charlotte Cushman Club (1955); National Portrait Gallery's exhibition, This New Man (1968); National Portrait Gallery's exhibition, Thomas Sully, Portrait Painter (1983); Library Company and Historical Society of Pennsylvania's exhibition, Women 1500-1900 (1974); Milwaukee Art Museum and San Antonio Museum of Art's exhibition, Thomas Sully: Painted Performance (2013-2014).
Creator: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
Date: 1843
Location: OBJ 260

Title: Murder of Mr. Ewing by Miss Hamlin
Description: In Tragic almanac 1843 (New York, 1842), p. [17]., According to the accompanying article, Miss Hamlin (aka Miss Goodrich) killed Mr. Ewing in a theater in Mobile, Alabama, on March 25, 1842. “She eluded all pursuit and was not heard of till some months afterward when she was seen in male attire in one of the West India islands.”, Probably a fictitious character., Full-length portrait of the actress, in costume, attacking her actor husband with a knife.
Date: [1842?]

Title: Who are you, rampaging stranger
Description: A woman holds a knife and a book marked "Tragedy." Her gown is trimmed with ermine and torn. The border shows cupids and hearts; one cupid shoots a heart out of a thimble cannon labeled "Love"; another cupid travels with a heart in a hot-air balloon; and another cupid hammers at a cracked heart below a heart on a fishhook labeled "Caught." Charlotte Cushman was a prominent actress in the nineteeth century., Text: Who are you, rampaging stranger / Who upon our sense burst? / Lady Macbeth courting danger / Mid the "murrderrerrs accurrst?" / Cleopatra? Charlotte Cushman? / Or old Hamlet's awful queen? / Or some wild outlandish bushman / Half-way girl and boy between? / Decked as you as with ermine skin and bloody/ dagger, / A pretty waiter-girl you'd make to serve out / Lager., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: [Plates from "Sketches supposed to have been intended for Fanny Kemble's journal"]
Description: Series of eight prints satirizing journal entries published in 1835 that were written 1832-1833 by the British-born actress during her American tour. Includes citations to the lampooned "Journal" entries from the two-volume Philadelphia edition published by Carey, Lea & Blanchard in 1835. Plates 1 and 2 depict scenes from her sea voyage. The first shows her "embroidering one of [her] old nightcaps" in "sea sickness" surrounded by a "Bible Cover," Dante's "Opera," a journal page, and a basin as she is a "Dear Good Little Me" and an "Angel." The second shows Kemble being served dinner by a caricatured African American servant as she is "lying on [her] back" surrounded by "[her] dinner followed [her] thither" above quotes comparing her appetite to "Danaides' tale of credilable [sic] memory" and her being as fat as an "overstuffed pin cushion." The African American figure is portrayed with exagerrated features.[Plate 3?] satirizes a poem "To bed - to sleep - To sleep -perchance to be bitten!" she wrote about the onslaught of insects at night in her New York hotel room. Shows Kemble aghast as she raises her blanket inscribed with the names of New York newspapers in her attempt to get into a bed swarmed by bed bugs, ants, and mosquitoes. [Plate 4?] caricaturizes her actor father, Charles Kemble, as a stumbling drunk "who a little elated made me sing to him" while muttering "To be or not to be that is the q-q-qu-question" in a parlor near his consternate daughter beside a piano above her quote about his "gallant, graceful, courteous, deportment.", [Plate 5?] shows a small-framed "interesting youth" delivering "a nosegay as big as himself" to Ms. Kemble who reflects "How they do rejoice my spirit." [Plate 6?] depicts the death scene from a December 1832 performance of Romeo & Juliet when the prop dagger was misplaced and Kemble improvised 'Why were the devil is your dagger.." as she rummages the body of the prostrate Romeo in front of the Capulet mausoleum. [Plate] 7 " A Funny Idea of My Father's" shows another caricature of Charles Kemble as a drunk satirizing her entry about a playful moment during a walk past kegs on Market Street in Philadelphia when her father joked 'How I do wish I had a gimlet. What fun it would be to pierce every one..." An illusion of a gimlet floats in front of her father as she cowers behind him beside the kegs. [Plate] 8 mocks the horsemanship of Kemble who criticized Americans' abilities and wrote of an impromptu jaunt on a cart horse in Lockport, NY Niagara where she 'got upon the amazed quadruped and took a gallop..' Shows she and her mount in a barnyard being chased by a dog and trampling ducks as she exclaims "Go it, old fellow" in front of her "father and good old D." in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Published as Sketches supposed to have been intended for Fanny Kemble's journal (New York: Endicott, 1835). [LCP *Am 1835 7196.F]., Four of the eight prints contain plate numbers: 1, 2, 7, and 8., [Plate 5?] inscribed: G.H.B. [P.2006.17.3], Gift of Michael Zinman, 2006., 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.
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Kemble [P.2006.17.1-8]

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: Duff, Mary Ann, 1795-1857.
Description: Bust-length portrait of the actress in costume., In Barker, James N. The tragedy of superstition (Philadelphia, 1826), frontispiece., “An incomplete list of [Mrs. Duff’s] performances reveals that she played at least 220 different roles in her career. Junius Booth called her the greatest tragic actress in the world and John Gilbert proclaimed that she had no superior. Joseph N. Ireland, her biographer and a stage historian of considerable experience with actors, believed she was the best tragic actress in nineteenth-century America.” -- Claudia Durst Johnson (1999). “Duff, Mary Ann Dyke”. American National Biography. 7. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 19-20.
Date: 1826.

Title: Brunton, Anne, 1768-1808.
Description: In The Mirror of taste, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 1810), frontispiece. Library Company’s copy defaced., In 1791, Anne Brunton married Robert Merry, who died in 1798. In 1803, she married Thomas Wignell, who died that same year. She married William Warren in 1806. She died in childbirth two years later in Alexandria, Virginia. Already established as a leading actress in England, she made her American debut in December 1796 as Shakespeare’s Juliet. Cf. ANB., Waist-length portrait of the actress, wearing a hat with feathers.
Date: [1810?]

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