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Title: South
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist caricature showing an African American boy as a visual metaphor for the South, i.e., the Confederate States. Shows a raggedly dress boy holding a banjo and the Emancipation Proclamation, while standing on the Confederate flag. Face of toddler after carte de visite photograph showing a bust-lenth portrait of an African American toddler titled "Young Africa, Or the Bone of Contention" issued by E. Anthony in 1862., One of two companion cartes de visite titled "North" and "South." LCP holds "North." [5780.F.52r], Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., See LCP copy "Bone of Contention" (cdv - Anthony [P.2002.5])., Duplicate listed in Early American Historical Auctions Catalog (April 2014) contains stamp on verso: A.M. Bailey agent for American Photography.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52e]

Title: Whack it off short Sam
Description: Depicts a group of African American boys with a dog, its tail placed over a wood block in preparation to cut it with a hatchet. The six boys stand outside next to a brick building and a wooden barrel. The boy in the left holds a small, white dog up. The second boy to the right holds its tail across a wood block. The boy in the center holds the hatchet up in both hands., Title from item., Warped buff mount with rounded corners., Imprint on mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Offices Philadelphia, Napierville, Ill., New York, London, Paris, Hamburg., Gift of David Long, 2002., 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: Universal Photo Art Co.
Date: [c190[0]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Graves - Portraits & Genre [P.2002.4.7]

Title: Two little nigs
Description: Racist portrait depicting two African American boys, attired in torn and worn clothes, seated on a plank on a barrel in a field. The barefooted boy in the left, attired in a hat, a torn shirt, and worn pants, sits with his hands folded on his lap. The boy in the right, attired in a hat, a worn shirt, torn pants, and dilapidated shoes, sits with his hands between his legs., No. 119., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Warped orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Long, 2002., 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.
Creator: Wilson, J. N., photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - miscellaneous photographer - Wilson [P.2002.8.4]

Title: "Doing business on a small scale"
Description: Racist, satiric stereograph depicting a young African American boy seated on a chamber pot atop a Victor scale. The boy, attired in a long-sleeved white shirt, sits with his hands resting on his knees and looks slightly up., Title from item., Warped buff mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Long, 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.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2002.8.1]

Title: [Full-length portrait of an unidentified African American boy attired in a sailor suit]
Description: Full-length portrait of an unidentified African American boy standing and facing the viewer. The boy, attired in a sailor suit with a flap collar with white stripes and an anchor emblem at his chest, knee-length shorts, stockings, and shoes, rests his left hand on an ornate wicker chair in the right. In the left is a side table, covered in a floral tablecloth with tassels, with a vase of flowers on top of it., Title supplied by cataloger., Mount embossed with decorative border., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Purchase 2001., 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.
Creator: Munshower, Forest E., photographer
Date: [ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Munshower [P.9930.5]

Title: The trombone soloist
Description: Genre portrait with a racist tone showing an African American boy, seated on a stool, and holding a trombone by the braces and down toward his left knee. He is attired in a neutral-color, buttoned jacket; short pants; white, collared shirt; and a black top hat. The boy is posed at a three-quarter angle, right profile. His head is tilted slightly to his left., Title printed on negative., Name of publisher/distributor stamped on mount., Curved grey mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: [ca. 1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & Genre [P.2018.16.4]

Title: Midsummer dinner
Description: Racist, genre scene showing an African American boy eating watermelon for his dinner. He smiles, sits cross-legged on a wooden crate and has his right hand plunged into the flesh of one half of a watermelon. He looks slightly toward his right and wears a pork pie hat; long-sleeve, collarless shirt; and ragged pants. Seeds run along the side of his slightly outstretched right foot. The untouched second half of the watermelon rests next to him to his right. The crate contains writing that reads: #888/Stmp/Handle Carefully/Keeb Dry. A backdrop depicting panel molding along the bottom of a wall is visible in the background., Title from list of 70 titles printed on verso by printer E. Perry., Name of photographer printed on mount., Date inferred from style of mount and active dates of photographer/publisher., Printed on mount: Charleston & Vicinity., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note written on verso, upper edge: Lukin., Gift of David Long., Frank A. Nowell began work as a photographer in Charleston in 1870. In 1880, he purchased the Charleston negatives and studio of Civil War photographer George N. Barnard. Nowell was active until 1890.
Creator: Nowell, F. A.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photo. - Nowell [P.2018.16.10]

Title: [Unidentified African American woman and boy]
Description: Copy print of a circa 1850 daguerreotype of a fair-skinned African American woman, seated, holding the hand of a fair-skinned boy, probably her son, who stands next to her. In the right, the woman wears her hair with waves, parted in the middle, and tied behind her head and is attired in a long-sleeved, striped dress with white cuffs and a white collar or scarf tied around her neck. In the left, the boy wears his hair parted to the right with waves and is attired in a long-sleeved shirt with buttons down the center, a white collar or scarf around his neck, and light-colored pants., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of unidentified 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., Schreiber & Son(s), a Philadelphia partnership of father, George Schreiber, and his several sons, specialists in portraiture and animal portraiture, were in business from 1857 until 1900, operating at 818 Arch Street from 1867 until 1879.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - photographer - Schreiber & Son [8313.F.10c]

Title: [ African American boy playing soldier]
Description: Reproduction of a Thomas Nast drawing showing an African American boy, portrayed as a racist caricature and attired in a striped, collared shirt, torn and worn pants, and boots. He holds a broom like a rifle and marches near a pile of hay., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from Thomas Nast drawing., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51c]

Title: [Full-length portrait of an unidentified African American boy in a sailor suit]
Description: Full-length studio portrait of an unidentified African American boy. The boy, attired a collared wool coat with an emblem on the left arm, matching wool shorts, socks, and boots, looks slightly right. He stands on grass and rests his right elbow on a wooden gate. Includes a backdrop decorated as a field of flowers., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of the photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Gift of David Long, 2001., 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.
Creator: Sullivan, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - Sullivan (phot.) [P.9969.1]

Title: And he owes not any man
Description: Depicts a white man blacksmith standing near a seated African American boy in the artisan's cluttered shop. The blacksmith, wearing a beard and attired in a collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, an apron, pants, and shoes, puts his right hand on his hip and holds a tool in his left hand as he looks directly at the viewer. In the right, an African American boy, attired in a long-sleeved plaid shirt, a vest, pants, socks, and shoes, sits on a barrel and holds a fan made of animal hair. Surrounding them tools, horseshoes, a large wheel, and barrels are visible., Title from item., Pink mount with rounded corners., Imprint printed on mount: Sold by Universal View Co. Philadelphia Pa. Lawrence Kan., Gift of David Long, 2002., 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: Universal View Co.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Work [P.2002.8.2]

Title: William Zennels
Description: Full-length portrait of an African American baby propped up on a fur-covered chair. Zennels, attired in a long-sleeved cardigan, a long white shirt, pants, and shoes, looks at the viewer., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Born June 1917., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Photographer's insignia blindstamped on mount., Cover adorned with decorative blindstamp., Gift of Erika Piola, 2002., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Benjamin W. Fowler operated from 238 N. Eighth St., Philadelphia between 1889 and 1917.
Creator: Fowler, Benjamin W., photographer
Date: [1917]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitter - Zennels [P.2002.44]

Title: Bits of color
Description: Full-length portrait of three barefooted African American children, attired in torn and worn clothing, sitting in the doorway of a clapboard house in Roanoke, Virginia., Date from manuscript note written on mount: #351 Roanoke VA May 29, 1883., Photographer's blind stamp on recto., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield, 1983.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: [May 29, 1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.22]

Title: [Boys' music class]
Description: Depicts a white woman music teacher at a piano leading a class of five boys, including an African American child. In the right, the woman sits on a piano stool with her fingers on the keys. In the left, four boys stand in a line. In the right, an African American boy sits in a chair beside the piano with his legs crossed. In the background is a phonograph and a blackboard with musical notes written in chalk., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 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.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8846.25]

Title: Masonic Temple, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the front facade of the temple on 1 North Broad Street, designed by Freemason and Philadelphia architect, James H. Windrim, completed in 1874. Built to accommodate the local lodges increasing membership, the temple has been called the grandest in the country. Four African American boys walk in a lot in the foreground towards the viewer. Pedestrians walking on the sidewalks are visible in the background., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Purchase 1986., 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.
Creator: Wells, John R., photographer
Date: [ca. 1952]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wells [P.9167.50]

Title: [Full-length portrait of an unidentified African American baby boy]
Description: Full-length portrait of an unidentified African American toddler. Shows the child, attired in a white frock, white stockings, and boots, seated on a large, decoratively carved wooden chair with its hands on the arm rests. The child sits on a patterned throw blanket with fringe that is draped over the chair., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note about provenance on verso: "Sometime in the later 1950s I found this in the secret drawer [?] an old blanket [?] that reportedly came from New Jersey.", Stamped on verso: Post Cards Finished While You Wait., Gift of Sydney Kaplan, 1983., 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.
Creator: Archers Studios, photographer
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Photographs - Misc. - Photo - Archers [P.8938]

Title: [Presbyterian Hospital, administration building, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the exterior of the administration building at Thirty-ninth Street between Powelton Avenue and Filbert Street in West Philadelphia, erected in 1891 and demolished in 1959. Shows the stairs leading to the front door to the brick building. In the left, a row of seven boys, including an African American boy, stand on the sidewalk before a gate and look at the viewer. Trees line the sidewalk. The three-story building in the right is visible. Built on land donated in 1871 by church member Rev. Dr. Ephraim D. Sanders, the hospital was erected as a monument to the Philadelphia Presbyterian Alliance which was formed in 1870 following the reconciliation of the Old and New School Branches of the Presbyterian Church., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the people., Purchase 1989., 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. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Hospitals [P.9260.474]

Title: [African American youth playing banjo]
Description: Interior view depicting a seated African American boy singing and playing the banjo in a nicely furnished parlor. The boy, attired in a white collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a dark-colored waistcoat, pants, and shoes, holds the banjo on his lap and looks up and to the right with his mouth open. In the left, a broom is propped against a wooden chair. Behind him is a closed door and a framed object hung on the wallpapered wall., Title supplied by cataloger., Frances Orlando's "George Bacon Wood, photographer of the 1880s: an introduction to the Wood Collection in the Library Company of Philadelphia. (Master's thesis, Philadelphia College of Art, 1985), p. 42., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international exhibitions. His photographs won several prizes.
Creator: Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.188]

Title: [Group portrait with George and Catherine Rupp Doering in the country]
Description: Depicts George and Catherine Rupp Doering posed with a group of three white men and three white women sitting and lounging on top of an old stone foundation. Two young African American boys, attired in hats, shirts, jackets, pants, and shoes, sit on the ground in front of the stone wall and look at the viewer. Behind the wall are a number of trees., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Albert L. Doering, 1994., 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.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.70]

Title: [Group portrait with George and Catherine Rupp Doering in the country]
Description: Depicts George and Catherine Rupp Doering posed with a group of three white men and three white women sitting and lounging on top of an old stone foundation. Two young African American boys, attired in hats, shirts, jackets, pants, and shoes, sit on the ground in front of the stone wall and look at the viewer. Behind the wall are a number of trees., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Albert L. Doering, 1994., 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.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.70]

Title: [African American woman playing tambourine]
Description: Snapshot photograph showing an African American woman outside and playing a tambourine between two white women who play guitars. The white woman in the left is partially removed from the view and the white woman in the right is partially obscured by the woman playing tambourine. The tambourine player has her hair pulled back and wears a silk shawl and long, ruffled, tiered skirt. Spectators, including an African American boy attired in overalls, and white men attired in summer suits stand near and behind the women. Wooden warehouse and barn-like structures, including one with signage reading "Sterline," are visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from format of photograph and attire of sitters., Gift of Ivan Jurin, 2019., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - female [P.2019.2.1]

Title: Uncle Ned's school
Description: View, photographed with a black background, showing a small narrative plaster after the John Rogers' bronze sculpture patented in 1866. Sculpture is comprised of the figure of an African American girl, an older African American cobbler, an African American boy, and a ramshackle cabinet. All the figures are barefoot. In the left, the young female charge of the cobbler stands, holds a book, and points to a page that she has been reading. In the center, the cobbler, his hair receded, leans over, and looks at the book as he has one leg swung over a rickety cabinet and the other behind it. He holds a shoe buffer in his right hand that rests on the book and a boot over his left hand and forearm that rests on his hip. A second boot stands at the base of the cabinet near the girl's feet. In the right, the cobbler's male charge reclines next to the cabinet. He has his left hand behind him and his left leg outstretched, as his right hand touches the base of the foot of the hanging leg of the cobbler. An open book rests in the boy's lap. The girl is attired in a straight neck, off-the-shoulder dress that is cinched at the waist. The cobbler wears rolled-up shirt sleeves, pants, and an apron at his waist. The boy wears shirt sleeves and pants with a hole at the knee. Rogers' original sculpture "Uncle Ned's School" was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1866. Rogers mass produced and sold tens of thousands of plaster sculptures after his bronzes 1859-1893., Title from title carved in base of depicted sculpture., Date inferred from style of mount and 1866 patent of sculpture., Yellow mount with rounded corners., John Rogers (1829-1904), a New York sculptor and artist, specialized in sculpted narrative group scenes beginning in the late 1850s. He established a workshop for the mass production of his sculptures at affordable prices that were marketed as "Rogers' Groups." Rogers retired in 1893., Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description and access points reviewed 2022.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo. - Monuments and Statues [P.2018.16.12]

Title: " How do debble does dey make a bicycle?" = Como diablos se hacen los bicírculos?
Description: Racist, genre scene showing an African American boy, seated on his knees, in a room with a dirt floor and strewn rubbish. His right hand is raised to his head, and he holds a tire pump and broken bicycle tire in his left hand. The boy, attired in a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and suspenders looks down with a look of anguish at the rubber tire pulled off of its hub. Behind the boy is a cot covered with haphazard-placed mounds of bedding. To his left, a cat stands in front of a wooden chair on which an empty glass bottle rests. Scene also includes a wooden storage cabinet in the right., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1891 by Stohmeyer & Wyman., Curved buff mount with rounded corners., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Gift of David Long.
Creator: Strohmeyer & Wyman
Date: 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photo. - Strohmeyer & Wyman [P.2018.16.5]

Title: [African American boy carrying a serving tray]
Description: Full-length portrait of a smiling African American boy, attired in a long-sleeved white shirt, black pants, black shoes, and a white apron, standing in front of a balustrade. He holds in front of him a serving tray of dishware., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on the active working dates of the photographer and attire of the subject., Purchase 2001., 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., Keenan operated his studio at 526 South Second Street from around 1855 until 1867.
Creator: Keenan, John A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits – photographer – Keenan [P.9981.3]

Title: [Portrait of an African American family]
Description: Family portrait of several generations of a middle-class African American family posed in front of a Christmas tree. The family, attired in suits and dresses, sit and stand in the living room. In the foreground, an African American boy sits on the floor, crossed legged, and smiles at the viewer. Behind him, seven men and women sit on chairs. Two young girls sit on the laps of the older men. Nine men and women stand behind the chairs. In the background, the top of a decorated Christmas tree is visible., Title supplied by cataloger., Date written on recto: Mosby 1936., Purchase 1993., 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: 1936
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - family [P.9410.31]

Title: [Convalescing children]
Description: Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts, probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 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.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana

Title: 2nd and Brown St. A stevedore, a family
Description: Depicts an African American dock worker in his work clothes posed outside of his Philadelphia home with his four children. The children are dressed in old, worn clothes. In the left, the teenaged boy, attired in a knit cap, a coat, pants, and shoes, has a stern expression as he looks at the viewer. Beside him stands the African American man, wearing a mustache and attired in a cap, a sweater, torn and worn coveralls, and boots. In the center, the boy, attired in shirt, a coat with a belt at the waist, torn and worn shorts, socks, and worn shoes, stands with his hands at his sides. In the right, the young boy, attired in a hat, an oversized coat, socks, and shoes, and the boy, attired in a hat, a collared shirt, a coat, shoes, socks, and shoes, look at the viewer with their hands at their sides., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Three wives. Wife no. 3 is in the house "fussingup". No Sir-ee you is not gwan to took mah picture in deese ol' c'los., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A photographic history, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 164., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., 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.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.92], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson92.htm

Title: "D em brats done gone and stole dat melon."
Description: Racist, genre stereograph depicting an African American man coming upon three African American boys sitting next to each other and eating large slices of watermelon at the entrance to a stone root cellar. Shows an outdoor setting in which the man, holding a switch, peers around the stone, curved structure at the boys who sit with their legs crossed, or bent at the knees, or to the side, before the open entryway. Each holds a slice of watermelon toward their mouth. Half a watermelon with a knife in it and two other slices of the melon lie near the boys. View also show a grassy hillside in the background and a patch of greenry near the cellar. The man is attired in a soft-brimmed hat, shirtsleeves, a vest, and slacks. The children wear shirts and shorts., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of publisher and content., Name of photographer and publisher from copyright statement: Copyright Griffith & Griffith., Curved grey mount with rounded corners., Griffith & Griffith, established in Philadelphia in 1896, expanded in 1908 to included offices in St. Louis and Liverpool. The non-Philadelphia offices were relocated in 1910., RVCDC, Gift of George R. Allen, 2022.
Creator: Griffith & Griffith
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Portraits & Genre [P.2022.42.18]

Title: [Staged scene, possibly an allusion to the Emancipation Proclamation, depicting a kneeling African American boy, white woman and girls representing figures of Liberty, and a white man dressed as a soldier]
Description: Scene shows, in the right, the back of the kneeling boy, his hands clasped and raised to his chin. He is attired in a long-sleeved garment, pants, and boots. The soldier, attired in a hardee hat and light-colored military jacket, stands beside the boy, looks down at home, and points his right hand in the direction of the woman figure of Liberty, in the left of the image, and seated on a makeshift throne. She wears a crown adorned with stars, a white dress cinched at the waist and adorned with the detail of a striped shield at the chest. She holds a scepter up and across her chest with her left hand. In front of her, and between her and the soldier are three girls of different ages from young to adolescent. The girls wear crowns adorned with a star and white dresses. They each hold a hand over their heart. Scene also includes a plain backdrop, ornamented floor, and possibly a partial view of an American flag in the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Dated inferred from content and active dates of Tunison & Son., Purchased with the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch African American History Fund., RVCDC, Tunison & Son was the partnership between David C. Tunison (ca. 1821-1887) and his son Oscar B. Tunison (1842-1925). The business operated under that name circa 1863-circa 1889. David C. Tunison had previously worked in a partnership with Fabius B. Faye 1855-1863. By 1872, Tunison & Son was advertised as one of the "institutions" of the city of Tiffin.
Creator: Tunison & Son, photographer
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Tunison & Son - Genre [P.2024.45]

Title: Cotton plantation scene
Description: View of African American men agricultural workers picking cotton. In the foreground, an African American boy, attired in a green hat, a blue shirt, and blue pants, stands in front of a large pile of cotton with cotton in his left hand. In the left is a basket full of cotton. In the right, a young white girl, attired in a pink dress, sits next to the pile of cotton with her right hand shielded over her eyes. In the background, African American men work in the field picking cotton., Title from item., Date inferred from attire of clothes and photographic medium., Purchase 1998., 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.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - work [P.9600.13]

Title: On a Virginia turnpike
Description: View of a rural turnpike where a man driving a horse-drawn cart pulls up near a man standing in front of a wooden shed. Two African American agricultural workers, a boy carrying hay and a man carrying a sack, stand on the dirt road with their backs to the viewer and look on at the cart. A church, pastures, and a mountain range are seen in the background., Title from mount., Inscribed: Presentation Picture, 1887, Photographic Society of Philad'a., Manuscript note on verso: Photographed July, 1886. Carbutt Special Plate. Ross 11 inch Rapid Symetrical Lens. F/22 2 Seconds Exposure., The Photographic Society of Philadelphia, founded in 1862, by Charles Guillou, was one of the earliest existing amateur photography clubs in the world. The Society held annual exhibitions where the members competed for best portrait and landscape., Purchase 1991., 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., Bullock was a respected Philadelphia pictorial photographer, a former president of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, and founding member of photography as art movement, Photo-Secession.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Bullock [P.9352]

Title: [African American family in front of their Pennsylvania residence]
Description: Depicts the African American family of four women, two men, and a boy posed in front of their two-story house with a porch, trellis, and picket fence. In the left, an older African American man, wearing white hair, stands behind the picket fence and looks directly at the viewer. A woman, wearing her hair tied up in a bun and attired in a long-sleeved dress with decorative stripes at the bottom, stands with her left arm resting on top of the open gate and looks to the left. Three women, attired in brimmed hats and long-sleeved dresses, stand resting an arm on the picket fence. The barefooted boy, attired in a cap, a shirt, a collared jacket, and pants that end just below the knees, stands next to a dog. In the right, the man, wearing a mustache and attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, holds the reins as he sits on top of a horse, which stands on the sidewalk in front of the house., Title supplied by cataloger., Mount has decorative gold border., See accompanying manuscript notebook United States View Company's Instructions to Salesmen. (P.9502)., Gift of Martha Graybill, 1988., 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., The United States View Company, was established by Newton Graybill and Lewis Garman of Richfield, Pennsylvania in the 1890s. It was one of several view companies which employed operators and salesmen to photograph and sell the prints of small town residents posed in front of their homes and community buildings.
Creator: United States View Company, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - United States View Company - residences [P.9253.74]

Title: 923 Olive St. (house torn down)
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting African American children leaning against a building adjacent to a vacant lot scattered with debris. Nine boys and girls stand against the wall. The girl in the left holds a broom. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from content., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1940]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.7]

Title: [Convalescing children]
Description: Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 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.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana

Title: Bread St. bel. Arch St. A Jewish family and a delegation of the darktown brigade
Description: Exterior view of depicting the entrance of a Jewish family’s brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. In the right, a white man, attired in a cap, a collared sweater, pants, and shoes, holds a broom and sweeps in front of the door. In the left, four white women peer out of two first-floor shuttered windows and look at the viewer. Underneath the windows five young African American children sit, attired in winter hats and coats. Smoke from a fire in the street wafts in front of the children., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Wisp of haze near centre of picture is smoke from a fire in the street opposite the house. Certin [sic] rooms in the building had just been papered and a bonfire was made of the refuse. This house is about 125 yrs old. Note the splendid condition of the brick work and mortor [sic] joints. Bricks were carfully [sic] made in those days. The proper proportion and careful selection of loam, shale and sand was an art. Then too the drying and baking of the brick was of vast importance and was done with the utmost attention towards the securing of the best results. These bricks were baked with wood fires, as was the lime on which they were laid. Explain why wood baked lime and bricks are superior to the coal baked product., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., 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.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.84], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson84.htm

Title: Bread St. bel. Arch St
Description: Exterior view of depicting the entrance of a Jewish family’s brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. In the right, a white man, attired in a cap, a collared sweater, pants, and shoes, holds a broom and sweeps in front of the door. In the left, four white women peer out of two first-floor shuttered windows and look at the viewer. Underneath the windows five young African American children sit, attired in winter hats and coats., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: (without wisp of smoke). Mortor [sic] was mixed in those days in a huge mortor [sic] box. The lime was slacked by shoveling it into the box, permitting water to flow into the box and keeping the mass in constant motion with a hoe, thereby preventing the lime from being burned or killed, when properly slacked, it was run off into a basin of sand, where it was mixed with the sand and made ready for use., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., 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.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.97], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson97.htm

Title: Go way white trash, dis chile dance yer blind
Description: Reproduction of a sketch by G. W. Leonard depicting an African American shoeshine boy dancing to the musical accompaniment of a white boy and girl, while a white boy mocks him in the background. The smiling African American boy, portrayed in racist caricature with exaggerated features, is in the center of the image. He is attired in a white, long-sleeved open neck shirt, baggy striped pants with suspenders, and a hat with turned up brims, his hands at his side, and mid step. To his right, stand a white boy playing a concertina and a white girl playing the violin. The boy is attired in a newsboy's cap, a jacket, and pants with patches at the knees. The girl is attired in a short-sleeved, calf-length, light-colored dress, with a sash draped over her right shoulder (the one on which she plays the violin). A shoeshine box marked (with the letter s's backwards), "t. Smith. Boss Shine, 5 cts.," rests near the feet of the trio of children. In the background, a white boy, attired in torn and worn clothes and with mop-like hair, appears in a clomping stance with his arms raised to his shoulders, his back leg bent at the knee, and his other leg kicked out. His hat lays on the ground near him., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1877, by J. P. Soule., John P. Soule was a Boston photographer who also published stereographs and cartes de visite. He served in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts at the end of the Civil War., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund and funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - caricatures and cartoons - G [P.2015.63]

Title: [Headquarters Lafayette - Headquarters Gen'l Porter. Farinholt's house and York River in the distance.]
Description: View from the Civil War showing the headquarters of General Lafayette and General Porter near Yorktown, Virginia during General McClellan's Campaign on the Peninsula. Depicts white Union soldiers, and African American men and a boy, probably freedom seekers, posed before Farinholt's dilapidated house supported by a large log. Several camp tents and the York River are seen in the background., Title from cdv photograph, Brady's Album Gallery, no. 370., Photographer given in Gardner catalogue (see LCP research file)., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Gardner & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Alexander Gardner was a respected photographer, businessman, and former manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. Gallery who produced the acclaimed "Photographic sketchbook of the Civil War.", 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., James F. Gibson was a prominent Civil War photographer and one-time manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. gallery who also provided images for photographer Alexander Gardner's "Catalogue of photographic incidences of the war..." and "Photographic sketchbook of the Civil War."
Creator: Gibson, James F., 1828-, photographer
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection - stereos - identified photo. [5779.F.6h]

Title: Charley A slave boy from New Orleans
Description: Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned child emancipated from enslavement, Charles Taylor. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the child toured through the North with other people emancipated from enslavement to raise funds for schools of Louisiana for the formerly enslaved established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen. Taylor, son of his enslaver, was one of three touring children denied entrance to a Philadelphia hotel in December 1863., Probably by Philadelphia photographer James E. McClees., Title from item., Date inferred from content., In McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Portraits. (LCP Print Room (1)Uy 5 5775.F.15). McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864)., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210., 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: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War Portrait Scrapbook album [(1)Uy 5 5775.F.15]

Title: Graduating class of June 19[24]. The McMichael School - Phila. PA
Description: Class portrait of students, including African American children, from the school at 36th Street and Fairmount Avenue named after Philadelphia mayor Morton McMichael. Six rows of children sit and stand, posed outside the school, which was organized in 1892 from students from the Belmont and Haverford schools., Title from item., Photographer's stamp on verso: Dan E. Paul Commercial Photography Bell Phone 2225 N. 2nd St. Phila, PA., Gift of Elizabeth MacGuire, 2002., 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.
Creator: Paul, Dan E., photographer
Date: 1924
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - education - McMichael School [P.2002.35.1]

Title: Lippincott Mansion
Description: Exterior view of the Dundas-Lippincott mansion at the busy northeast corner of Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia. Shows the mansion surrounded by a wall with wrought iron. Steps lead to ionic columns, which hold up the pediment over the front door. Several trees grow on either side of the house. Numerous pedestrians, including an African American boy, as well as a car, carriage, and trolley travel in front of and around the residence. Designed by Thomas U. Walter, the Dundas-Lippincott Mansion was built around 1838 for Philadelphia banker James Dundas on the old grounds of the amusement center Vauxhall Gardens. Nicknamed the "Yellow Mansion," due to its buff color, the residence was known for its impressive garden and as a place for lavish entertainment. The mansion passed to Dundas' niece, Agnes Dundas-Lippincott, upon his death in 1865, and stayed in the family until razed around 1905., Title from negative sleeve., Inscribed in negative: 152., Note on negative sleeve: Historical 170., Purchase 1981., 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.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9480.H-152]

Title: [Woodshop class at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets]
Description: Depicts the young students, including African American boys, from the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School at their desks with their woodworking tools. They are overseen by a man instructor on crutches at the back of the class in the left. The students sit in rows and look towards the viewer. In the right, girls sit around a table. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and health care reformer and his philanthropist wife, provided the students with medical care and a curriculum of humanities, arts, crafts, and drama., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inscribed on negative: No. 12220; 4-5-37., Manuscript note on verso: Phila. Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts., Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection., Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980., 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: [April 5, 1937]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - unidentified - Education [P.8578.12]

Title: Street cries
Description: Photographic reproduction of a print drawn by Helen M. Colburn, daughter of New Jersey artist Rembrandt Lockwood, depicting a group of African American men and boy peddlers at the corner of a city street. The figures are drawn with racist and caricatured features and mannerisms. In the center, a milk peddler stands and hawks with a trumpet in his left hand and a canteen of milk, ladle, and pitcher in his right hand. The man is attired in a wide-brimmed hat, shirtsleeves, pants, and a long apron. To the left, another African American man peddler pushes a large cart of junk wares and looks down at a young African American child running from a dog. The man wears a rumpled top hat, torn shirtsleeves, a vest, and patched pants. The child wears a smock dress and their hat has fallen by the feet of the milk peddler. In the right, a newspaper boy hawks the papers under his right arm. He is attired in a soft-brimmed hat, jacket, and pants. In the far right, a man attired in a hat, a shirt with turned-up collar, a long jacket, and striped pants, holds a bell and has his left leg stepped up on a box. Cityscape, a white woman street vendor at a table, and a horse-drawn cart are visible in the background. Robinson, married to Washington U.S. Treasury clerk Rollinson Colburn, lived in the Capitol between circa 1870 and her death in 1912. In 1887 eight of her works, some purported to be based on her own eye-witness accounts during the 1870s, showing African American life in the city were published as a collectible series of photographs. Occassionally, Colburn described and signed her descriptions of the scenes on the versos of the photographs., Title printed on mount., Date from copy right statement printed on mount: Copyright 1887., Written in lower right of original print: Mrs. R. Colburn 1870., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Purchased with the 2019 Junto Fund.
Date: 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Events [P.2020.16.5]

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: Effect of the Fifteenth Amendment Indignant mother, "Cum in out of dat mud right straight! Fust ting you'll know you'll be took for Irish chil'en!"
Description: Photographic reproduction of a drawing after a racist cartoon published in Harper's Bazar in 1871 alluding to the social and political tensions between Irish and African American people following passage of the right to vote amendment. Shows an African American woman, a broom in one hand, her other hand on her hip, at her front porch, watching her two sons playing in the dirt. The woman is portrayed in racist caricature and speaks in the vernacular. She has a rotund figure and is attired in a head kerchief, a button-down shirt, an ankle-length skirt, and an apron. Her children make a mud pie beside the porch and in front of a tall wooden fence. Another African American boy, attired in a broad-rimmed hat and slipper-like shoes too large for his feet, sits and balances himself on the fence. View also includes a dust pan, the edge of a bench, and a tall weed near the mother's feet., Title from item., Date inferred from similar cartoon published in Harper's Bazar, March 4, 1871., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Events [P.2015.29]

Title: Chestnut Street from the State House Philadelphia
Description: View looking west on Chestnut Street from the State House (520 Chestnut). Includes Kelly's Hotel; Joseph Steppacher's Orleans Hotel; Charles Laing & Co., shirt manufacturer; T. & J.W. Johnson, publishers and importers of law books; the Public Ledger building; and a billiard saloon. The Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut) is visible in the distance. American flags and signage adorn many of the buildings. Pedestrians, including an African American boy, line the street traveled by several horse-drawn carriages., Title from accompanying photographer's label., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: April 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.23c]

Title: Views of Tuskegee Institute
Description: Collection of views of the campus and the outlying areas of the African American vocational school organized by Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, Alabama. Established in 1881 as a normal school for Black teachers, the school relocated in 1882 to an abandoned plantation and evolved into a co-educational vocational school active within the local community. The institute trained students in academic and industrial subjects including farming, dairy work, masonry, sewing, nursing, bible studies, and agricultural science. The majority of the campus was constructed by the students., Contains exterior views of several campus buildings including the Men's Industrial Building; the women's or Alabama Hall, and Phelps Hall containing the bible training school, as well as workshops, the brick kiln, the chapel, and Booker T. Washington's house. Also depicts scenes and portraits of daily life at and near the school including W.V. Chambliss, faculty member in charge of the dairy herd; a group portrait outside a nearby "Negro school house"; use of "the well" by whites and Blacks; teams of horses and oxen steered by students; and a "dress parade" and "inspection" of uniformed male students. Also includes exterior views of unidentified buildings; views of the main street of campus; street views of Dixville, Virginia; and a series of scenes depicting African American boys "scrabbing for a dime" on railroad tracks in North Carolina., Gift of Katherine Vaux McCauley and Mary James Vaux, 1999., 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., The Vaux family, a trio of siblings and Philadelphia photographers, included Mary M. Vaux (1860-1940), George Vaux, Jr. (1863-1927), and William S. Vaux, Jr.(1872-1908). The Quaker siblings, members of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, worked collaboratively in photography, traveled extensively, and supported many philanthropic and educational organizations. Two of the siblings, Mary and George, joined the Photo-Secession movement at its founding in 1902.
Creator: Vaux family, photographer
Date: December 1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Vaux Collection - lantern slides - Tuskegee [P.9960]

Title: Saturday evening
Description: Photographic reproduction of a print drawn by Helen M. Colburn, daughter of New Jersey artist Rembrandt Lockwood, depicting an African American family returning from a market trip. The figures are drawn with racist and caricatured features and mannerisms. Shows in the left, a bare-footed, young boy, attired in a long-sleeved shirt, breeches, and suspenders, striding next to and looking up at this mother who carries a watermelon on her head. She smokes a pipe and walks with her hands on her hips. She is attired in a bonnet that covers much of her face, shift dress, and apron. Behind her, in the center of the image, the father of the family walks next to a black dog and with two large cabbages tucked into his arms. He slightly frowns and is attired in a short-brimmed hat, long-sleeved shirt, vest and pants. In the right, is an older son, who looks at the viewer. He carries a large basket of produce over his left arm. He is attired in a wide-brimmed hat, long-sleeved shirt, long apron, and pants. In the background, a wooden fence and the tops of trees are visible. Image also shows a white woman, wearing her long, light-colored hair down on her shoulders, and attired in a wide-brimmed hat, and long-sleeved, narrow silhouette dress with an overskirt walking between the fence and the family. Robinson, married to Washington U.S. Treasury clerk Rollinson Colburn, lived in the Capitol between circa 1870 and her death in 1912. In 1887 eight of her works, some purported to be based on her own eye-witness accounts during the 1870s, showing African American life in the city were published as a collectible series of photographs. Occassionally, Colburn described and signed her descriptions of the scenes on the versos of the photographs., Title from item. Title printed on mount and written on original print., Date from copy right statement printed on mount: Copyright 1887., Written in lower right of original print: Mrs. R. Colburn., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Purchased with the 2019 Junto Fund.
Date: 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Events [P.2020.16.4]

Title: Our protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave children from New Orleans
Description: Abolitionist group portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned children emancipated from enslavement, Rosina Downs, Charles Taylor, and Rebecca Huger. Shows the children, who were freed in New Orleans by General Benjamin Butler, side-by-side, draped in a large American flag. The children, touring the North with a group of people emancipated from enslavement to raise funds for the Louisiana schools for the formerly enslaved established by Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen, Phillip Bacon, were also publicized as the children denied entrance in December 1863 to the Philadelphia hotel, the St. Lawrence., Title from item., Date from copyright information. Copyrighted by S. Tackaberry., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: N.B.-All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent, [National Freedmen's Relief Association], No. 1 Mercer Street, New York., Stamped on verso: No. 9., Stamped on verso: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen'l Banks., See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864)., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210., Purchase 2000., 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: Paxson, Chas. (Charles), -1880, photographer
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits-group-Emancipated Enslaved Children [P.9846]

Title: These children Were turned out of the St. Lawrence Hotel, Chestnut St., Philadelphia on account of color
Description: Abolitionist group portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned children emancipated from enslavement, Rebecca Huger, Charles Taylor, and Rosina Downs, denied entrance to the hotel in December 1863 during a fundraising tour of the North. Touring on behalf of the Louisiana schools for the formerly enslaved established by Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen, Phillip Bacon, the rebuffed children were accepted at the Continental Hotel. Revenue from the sale of the portrait was to be donated to the education of emancipated enslaved people in the Department of the Gulf., Title from item., Date based on content., Name of photographer from duplicate photograph., See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864)., See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. 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: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits- group- Emancipated enslaved children [5775.F.68]

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