Bound volume of portraits primarily delineated by Max Rosenthal showing prominent Philadelphians, and historical and military figures, including members of the Continental Congress, clergyman, legislators, government officials, physicians, military officers, artists, and authors. Contains full-length, half-length, bust-length, and profile portraits, with some containing backgrounds and props. Also includes the front page of a September 1885 edition of "Paper and Press" containing a portrait and biography of Philadelphia publisher Henry Carey Baird and an article about printed blanks.
The author occupies a small part of the valentine. His hands are on his hips, and his legs are wide apart. His face is pinched, and his nose is large., I am a gay author / Of books not a few; / And I long to be read / And approved of by you., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
In De Kroyft, H.A. Place in thy memory (New York, 1850), frontispiece., Facsimile inscription: Instead of their eyes; the blind pick up the gems of thought with their fingers. S.H. De Kroyft., Three-quarter length portrait of blind writer, holding an open book.
The literary woman sits at a table. She writes with a quill, and with her other hand she cradles her head, her elbow resting on a book. The trashcan is filled with yellow pieces of paper. "Blue stocking" is a term for women intellectuals that was often derogatory. The valentines criticizes women writers for lacking sufficient maternal desires and characterizes them as frightening and unattractive. Cf. Diogenes, hys lantern, v. 2 (1852), p. 128., Text: If there e'er was a woman that frightened me quite, / A Blue-stocking 'twould be, who had talent to write, / Who'd much rather spend her time writing a yarn, / Than teaching her children, their stockings to darn., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Bound volume of portraits primarily delineated by Max Rosenthal showing prominent Philadelphians, and historical and military figures, including members of the Continental Congress, clergyman, legislators, government officials, physicians, military officers, artists, and authors. Contains full-length, half-length, bust-length, and profile portraits, with some containing backgrounds and props. Also includes the front page of a September 1885 edition of "Paper and Press" containing a portrait and biography of Philadelphia publisher Henry Carey Baird and an article about printed blanks., Sitters include Daniel Agnew; William Allen; Richard Bache; Phineas Bond; Thomas Cadwalader; Stephen Decatur; William Ellery, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson; Miers Fisher; Nicholas Gilman; Ann Diggs Graeme; Thomas Graeme; Joseph Hemphill; Thomas Hopkinson; Jare Ingersoll (1722-1801); Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822); Joel Jones; Moses and Samson Levy; Brockholst Livingston; James Mease; Rev. Henry Morton; William Plumstead; Samuel Powell; Charles B.J.F. de Saint-Memin; Edward Shippen; Edward, James, Matthew, and William Tilghman;George Walton, George M. and Thomas I. Wharton; William Whipple; and Jasper Yeates., Title from stamp on spine., Manuscript index of sitters (1-100) date stamped September 11, 1883 pasted in front of volume., Majority of lithographs signed: MR., Some prints include facsimile signature of sitter., Some sitters identified by manuscript notes., Two of the engravings after daguerreotypes by McClees & Germon., Engravers, lithographers, and printers include Max and L. N. Rosenthal, John Sartain, Henry S. Wagner, and Robert Whitechurch., Max Rosenthal was a skilled lithographer, mezzotint engraver, and painter who delineated the majority of the chromolithographs for the firm he operated with his brothers Louis N., Morris (i.e., Maurice), and Simon Rosenthal in Philadelphia from 1851 to circa 1872. Rosenthal continued to work as an artist and lithographer until 1910., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Index of sitters available at repository.
Date
[ca. 1855-ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [Uz 3 10536.Q]
Collection of 131 amateur newspapers (225 issues) from sixteen states. Holdings range from single issues up to eight issues. Most of the newspapers were purchased, and the collection has increased through donations. The collection is open to new additions., Many newspapers discuss amateur journalism and amateur journalism societies., "The advent of the small, toy press, moreover, ushered in the golden age of amateur publishing during the 1870s. Because subscription lists were large and because exchanging papers was an important element in amateur journalism, the hobby spread from the Northeast across the nation, creating a mass culture for adolescents who shared the experience of reading the same stories and debating the same issues. ... Although many of the papers of the 1840s and 1850s generally imitated their adult counterparts by reprinting selections from other periodicals, the juvenile papers of the 1870s were firmly committed to original work. Bereft of stylistic sophistication--metaphor, symbol, character development, and, sometimes, plot--the amateur papers and miniature novels provided a forum for young people's thinking as they used a toy to mark the longer time between childhood and adulthood. Because they were novice writers, the authors often copied or, more precisely, plagiarized plots and characters created by their favorite adult authors: Captain Mayne Reid, Horatio Alger and, especially, Oliver Optic. Nevertheless, in their so-called adaptations of adult work, the amateur editors made significant alterations in characterization and plotting to suit their own perceptions." From Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society: http://www.faqs.org/childhood/In-Ke/Juvenile-Publishing.html viewed March 27, 2012.
Date
1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll Amateur Newspapers 106457.D - 106564.D, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll Amateur Newspapers 106566.D - 106587.D (Zinman), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll Amateur Newspapers 3321.F.1
Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, publisher, and author. Garrison, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing forward., Title from manuscript note written on mount., Date based on presented age of the sitter., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33a]
Three-quarter length portrait of the abolitionist preacher and author. Cheever, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, waistcoat, jacket, overcoat, and pants, holds a top hat in his gloved hands as he sits facing the viewer. Cheever's book, "The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding: Demonstrated from the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures," argued that the Bible categorically denounces slavery., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Cheever [(1)5750.F.82d]
Three-quarter length portrait of George Barrell Cheever, the radical abolitionist preacher and author. Cheever, attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and pants, stands looking slightly right and holds a walking stick in his right hand. His book, "The Guilt of slavery and crime of slaveholding: demonstrated from the Greek and Hebrew scriptures," argued that the Bible categorically denounced slavery., Title from manuscript note on mount., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Photographer's imprint inscribed on negative., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, photographer
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Cheever [(1)5750.F.82e]
Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in in a bun with curls around her forehead and attired in a headband, a dark-colored dress with a white, ruffled collar around the neck, a brooch, and a necklace, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note written on recto., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Mount contains red border., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer rather than technician of the portraits.
Creator
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Stowe [P.9363.12]
Half-length portrait of the abolitionist, reformer, Unitarian minister, and author. Hale, wearing a white beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly left. Hale authored abolitionist tracts about the admission of western territories as free states., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint with insignia stamped on recto and verso., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Hale [P.9363.33]
The literary man sits at a table. His nose is dark (from drinking?) and he cradles his head with a hand holding a quill. In one corner of the table is a spike with papers through it (i.e., bills?) and on the other corner is a book titled Webster (i.e., Webster's Dictionary?). His trashcan is full, and the valentine suggests that it is difficult for him to write and what he does write is of low quality., Text: With slipshod feet, and coat with elbows out, / You daily sit, and with your scribbling quill, / Indite strange tales and trashy stuff, with which / Poor idle maids their simple minds may fill., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
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]
Mr. Dobson was born in 1751 near Edinburgh, Scotland. He was married to Jean Paton in 1777 and they had three daughters. In 1784, he moved his family to Philadelphia, bringing large stocks of books with him. He quickly became a major bookseller but instead of using his profits to acquire more books, he embarked on publishing and established a thriving printing business. He is most famous for having published the earliest American version of Encyclopedia Britannica which he began reprinting in 1789. When it was completed in 1798, it totaled 18 volumes with over 400 engraved plates and was by far the largest book ever published in America. In his American version, the dedication to King George III was eliminated and information about American geography and history was added. He was also the first in the United States to publish a complete Hebrew bible and the first to publish secular music composed by an American (Francis Hopkinson). In 1822, he retired from book-selling due to ill health and he died in 1823.
Three-quarter length portrait of the Philadelphia minister of the First Presbyterian Church. Barnes, attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and pants, holds a book in his right hand and sits facing slightly left. Barnes, an author of several antislavery tracts and a former member of the American Colonization Society, was an advocate of the 14th Amendment., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from photographic medium., Possibly by Philadelphia photographer Broadbent & Co., Accessioned 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[between 1855 and 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs-Barnes [P.9916]
