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Title: [Studio group portrait depicting African American women wearing modish attire and posed side by side]
Description: Real photo postcard depicting the five women, standing, lined in a row, and many with their hand on the shoulder of the woman next to them. Two of the sitters hold cigars. Four of the women wear similar attire of lightweight fabric, short-sleeve, knee-length dresses, including one with a drop waist; high crowned, crushable, fedora-like hats; stockings; and short-heeled shoes. Two of the women also wear puffy bows in their hair. The woman at the end of the row in the right of the image holds her left hand over her heart. She is attired in an ankle-length work dress with buttons down the skirt. The sitters stand before a drapery backdrop and folding panel., Title supplied by cataloger., Divided back., Contains Cyko stamp box printed on verso., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., See related postcard: LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.2]
Date: [ca. 1915]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.1]

Title: [Real photo postcard portrait showing two African American World War I soldiers posed with an American flag]
Description: Portrait taken at a European studio and depicting two American infantry men in their uniforms, seated at a small table with an ink well, and with the soldier in the left holding the staff of an America flag in his left hand. He looks toward the viewer and holds a pen with his right hand on a piece of paper. He wears a pinky ring on his right hand. Soldier, seated in right, looks toward the viewer, his legs are crossed and he and holds a book in his lap. Each man is attired in an infantry uniform comprised of a full-button front jacket with closed collar, breeches, leggings, and boots. The soldier in the left also wears a side cap and his jacket contains the insigia of seargent on the arm. Background includes drapery and backdrop depicting the promenade of a pavilion. Two African American combat divisions were formed and saw combat on the Western Front in Europe and included the 92nd Division, under U.S. command and the 93rd Division (comprised of four Infantry Regiments: the 369th, 370th, 371st and 372nd), initially under French command. The 369th Infantry Regiment became renown as the “Harlem Hellfighters” from their excellence in battle. Over two million Black men registered for the draft and nearly 370,000 saw service., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Divided back., Printed on verso: Carte Postale., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program.
Date: [ca. 1918]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Portraits - World [P.2026.2]

Title: [Studio group portrait depicting African American men wearing modish attire and in a posed scene]
Description: Real photo postcard depicting three men, one seated and two standing in an interior setting. The seated man is in the center of the scene. He looks to a man standing in the left of the image. He slightly points up with his right hand and holds his light-colored hat on his right leg. His left leg is crossed over his right knee. The man in the left, slightly hunches over and writes in a small notebook held in his hand. In the right, another man stands and watches the interaction posed as a conversation. All the men wear suits and the two men standing also wear hats, a light-colored fedora (man in left) and a dark-colored derby (man in right)., Title supplied by cataloger., Divided back., Contains Cyko stamp box printed on verso., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., See related postcard: LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.1]
Date: [ca. 1915]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.2]

Title: [Vivian Glover]
Description: Real photo postcard depicting Vivian Glover, an African American girl, seated outdoors, and holding a white porcelain doll. Glover wears a dark-colored, button-down, V-neck sweater over a light-colored dress, dark tights, and side button boots. She holds the doll, attired in a white bonnet and dress, in a seated position, in her lap. Glover smiles slightly and crosses her legs at her feet. She sits on a wooden chair in a fenced backyard. Dried leaves lay on the ground near her., Title from inscriptions on recto and verso: Vivian Glover., Date inferred from content., Divided back., Azo stamp box printed on verso., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Portraits - Glover [P.2025.77.1]

Title: Rev. C.C. Dunlap, D.D. Pastor of A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pa
Description: Half-length portrait of the A.M.E. clergyman Coleman C. Dunlap, seated on a chair with an ornate back. Rev. Dunlap, looks forward, and is attired in a shirt with stiff collar, straight bow tie, and a jacket. He wears a mustache. Rev. Dunlap was a pastor for over forty years with pastorships in South Carolina, Bermuda, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, including at Mother Bethel in Philadelphia, Pa. Born in South Carolina in 1861, Rev. Dunlap entered Allen University (South Carolina) in 1881 and graduated in 1887. Following his graduation, he pastored appointments in the Columbia Conference, the New England Conference, and the Philadelphia Conference. He pastored at West Chester 1903-1908; at Harrisburg 1908-1912; and Philadelphia at Mother Bethel 1912-1916. He later served at Ward A.M.E. Church in West Philadelphia and Bethel Methodist Church in Reading, Pa. before his death in 1926. Rev. Dunlap was also a delegate to the General Conferences of 1896 and 1912., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of pastorship of sitter at A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pa., Reproduced in Centennial encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church ... (Philadelphia, 1916), 273. Accompanied by biographical entry. LCP copy: *Am 1916 Church 17748.Q (Schimmel)., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitter - Dunlap [P.2025.37]

Title: Is yo' sho' lady when I wears dese stockings I won' fin' ma laigs all black
Description: Racist caricature reminiscent of the plate "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?" from E.W. Clay's racist satiric series, Life in Philadelphia, originally published in the late 1820s and early 1830s. Depicts an African American man dressed as a woman attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved dress tied with a bow at the back, a fur shawl, shoes, and with a closed umbrella and a basket at her feet. She sits in front of the counter of a dry goods store and inquires in the vernacular about a pair of dark stockings which she holds. A young white woman sales clerk smiles with her elbows on the counter and displays to the customer a second pair of dark-colored stockings. Bolts of fabric rest on shelves behind the clerk, and socks and hosiery hang above. A white woman customer shops at the other end of the counter, in the right., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood., Printed on mount: Works and Studios. Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J. Washington, D.C., Sun sculpture trademark printed on mount., Title printed on verso in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish., Grey mount with rounded corners., See Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?" [LCP Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia) P.9701.9], Purchase 2002., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2002.31]

Title: [Finale of an unidentified theatrical production]
Description: Depicts the entire cast of men gesturing toward center stage where the show's "female" star is hoisted on the shoulders of two cast members. In the left, a supporting player, wearing Black face and costumed as a messenger in a cap and white gloves, kneels and points with his right hand. The front row of actors kneel, many of whom are attired as women in large brimmed hats and dresses with tulle skirts. The back row of actors stand, attired in white collared shirts, ties, dark-colored jackets, and white pants. The backdrop depicts a small town street including "Bernies Antique Shop," a drug store, and a post office. "Blackface minstrelsy is a popular entertainment form, originating in the United States in the mid-19th century and remaining in American life through the 20th century. The form is based around stereotypical and racist portrayals of African Americans, including mocking dialect, parodic lyrics, and the application of Black face paint; all designed to portray African Americans as othered subjects of humor and disrespect. Blackface was a dominant form for theatrical and musical performances for decades, both on stage and in private homes.", Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint ink stamped on verso., Description of Blackface minstrelsy from Dorothy Berry, Descriptive Equity and Clarity around Blackface Minstrelsy in H(arvard) T(heater) C(ollection) Collections, 2021., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., RVCDC, 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., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-11x14 [P.8882.20]

Title: [East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church Marching Band, Brown & Stevens Bank, 427 South Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Full-length group portrait depicting the eighteen African American men members of the band, including the Marching Captain, standing as a group, in front of the African American owned bank, possibly during the Fifty-Third Annual Session of the Delaware Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church held at the East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church in March 1916. The men wear uniforms, including caps with insignias and jackets with braiding details. Most are posed with their instruments in hand. The band drums, one marked "East Calvary Phila, Pa.," rest at the feet of the men in the center of the group. The Captain, in the left, wears white shoes and holds a marching baton to the ground. The Brown & Stevens bank building adorned with awnings is visible in the background. Brown & Stevens, founded by partners E.C. Brown and Andrew Stevens, Jr. was the leading Black bank in Philadelphia in the the early 1900s before ceasing operations in 1925.The Delaware Annual conference was established in 1864 for African Amerian Methodists in Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic Region. East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church was under the pastorship of Charles Albert Tindley in 1916., Title supplied by cataloger., Attributed to William T. Robbins. Robbins was a Black Philadelphia photographer who photographed the members and events of the East Cavalry Methodist Church between at least circa 1916 and circa 1928. Robbins also worked as a shipping clerk between about 1920 and about 1950 as cited in U.S. Census records and city directories., Date inferred from attributed photographer and content., RVCDC
Creator: Robbins, William T., approximately 1898-, photographer
Date: [1916?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Robbins [P.2025.14.5]

Title: [African American residents at Jamesburg School for Boys, Jamesburg, N.J.]
Description: Real photo postcards depicting group portraits of African American boy residents at the parole institution also known as the New Jersey State Home for Boys that was established in 1867 and included residental "cottages," a chapel, and farm by 1910. Shows the boy residents attired in military-like uniforms, some posed with rifles, standing and seated, in rows by age and height, next to and on a set of exterior stairs to the porch of a campus dormitory building (probably Fort Cottage). A white man attendant, possibly postcard sender Charles G. Bohnenberger, manager of Fort Cottage and the teacher of primary school at the home stands behind the boys, most who do not smile, or next to the stairs. By 1911, 82 of the 511 residents of the institution, between the ages of six and over fifteen years old, were African American. The daily routine of the home included work details, school, two recesses of 15 minutes, and devotions. The Sunday exercises included Sunday School, reading, singing, and devotion., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from postmarks on versos: Jamesburg, N.J. Nov. 21, 1910, 5PM., Contain cancelled green one-cent stamps depicting left profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin on versos., P.2023.68.1 addressed to Mrs. E.B. Young, 316 First Ave., Elizabeth, N.J. and contains manuscript note on verso: Add this to your collection. Chas. G. Bohnenberger., P.2023.68.2 addressed to Mrs. E.B. Young, 316 First Ave., Elizabeth, N.J. and contains manuscript note on verso: And this. Chas. G. Bohnenberger., RVCDC, See DSpace Home, New Jersey State Publications Digital Library, State Agencies, Commissions, Authorities etc., New Jersey State Reform School for Boys (Jamesburg), New Jersey State Reform School for Boys (Jamesburg) for copies of Jamesburg School annual reports. Link below.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Education - J [P.2023.68.1-2], https://dspace.njstatelib.org/10929/108086

Title: [Charles J. Webb Company float during a parade along a Philadelphia street]
Description: View of the float for Charles J. Webb Co., Philadelphia woolen and cotton yarn dealer. Bordered by a log fence and adorned with cotton plants and two small American flags, the float carries four live sheep and several costumed passengers including: three African American men attired as cotton pickers; a white man attired as a colonial lady near her spinning wheel; and a white boy attired as a colonial sheepherder holding his crook. Partial view of preceding float is visible with a white man attired in colonial garb. A large, stone building lines the street., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Purchase 1989., RVCDC, 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - unidentified - processions [P.9260.638]

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