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Title: [Miss Baker & her little nephew, Eustace Thomson on beach in Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Glass negative showing Miss Baker and Eustace Thomson as a child sitting in the sand next to a dune. Baker wears a dress with a lace collar and a hat and holds a candle in her hand. Thomson wears a checkered coat., Time: 10, Light: Sun under cloud., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: August 10, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.682]

Title: Two large trees in girl's bounds with two little girls under them, [Westtown]
Description: Glass negative showing a path with a large tree on either side at Westtown Boarding School. Two large trees grow on either side of the path. Two girls in short white dresses stand on the path beneath the trees. Westtown Boarding School, a coeducational Quaker boarding school, opened in 1799. The first building on the campus was designed by David Evans, a Quaker architect. Later buildings included Industrial Hall, built in 1869, and the new main building, built in 1888 after designs by Quaker Addison Hutton (1834-1916). The first diploma was awarded in 1862., Time: 12, Light: Faint sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: August 13, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.696]

Title: View in girls bounds, Westtown
Description: Glass negative showing a winding path at Westtown Boarding School. In the center of the path is a square shaped island with a group of people resting beneath a tree. A tree stump sits to the left of the path in the foreground. Westtown Boarding School, a coeducational Quaker boarding school, opened in 1799. The first building on the campus was designed by David Evans, a Quaker architect. Later buildings included Industrial Hall, built in 1869, and the new main building, built in 1888 after designs by Quaker Addison Hutton (1834-1916). The first diploma was awarded in 1862., Photographer remarks: Some wind, Time: 12:05, Light: Faint sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: August 13, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.697]

Title: Westtown farmhouse from N[orth]
Description: Glass negative showing a three-story stone house with a covered entryway and a fence to the right at Westtown Boarding School. One child sits on the front steps while another child stands to the left. Westtown Boarding School, a coeducational Quaker boarding school, opened in 1799. The first building on the campus was designed by David Evans, a Quaker architect. Later buildings included Industrial Hall, built in 1869, and the new main building, built in 1888 after designs by Quaker Addison Hutton (1834-1916). The first diploma was awarded in 1862., Time: 12:30, Light: Faint sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: August 13, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.698]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. in a sailor suit, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Elliston P. Morris Jr. as a boy posing for a portrait wearing a sailor suit., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.126]

Title: [Stand selling Sea Girt souvenir cards, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing a stand covered with a tented roof selling souvenir cards at Sea Girt. Two boys in uniforms stand in front of the stand while two women walk down the street to the right. Words painted on the stand's awning read "Under the Old Apple Tree. Sea Girt Souvenir Cards. Welcome 2nd Reg't.", Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.130]

Title: [Man carrying child on his back], Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ
Description: Film negative showing a man and boy from the Boys' Parlors Association wearing bathing suits at Wildwood, N.J. The man carries the boy on his back. Another boy wearing loose fitting clothing stands next to them on the sidewalk. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.145]

Title: [Boy, possibly Marriott Canby Morris Jr., standing on the shore, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing a boy, possibly Marriott C. Morris's son Marriott C. Morris Jr., standing on the shore near the ocean at Sea Girt and looking down at a large pile of driftwood in the water. The sand drops off steeply into the waves., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.137]

Title: Factory of the Meter Co. Phila
Description: View of the American Meter Company at Arch and Twenty-Second streets. Includes a group of children seated on a patch of grass in front of the manufactory. Philadelphia served as the chief seat of gas-making machinery in the United States during the mid nineteenth century., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Industry [P.8464.21]

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: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified African American girl]
Description: Bust-length portrait of a young African American girl facing slightly right. She wears her curly hair in bangs at her forehead, with half of her long hair tied up and the rest draped behind her back. She is attired in small hoop earrings and a dress with a crocheted lace collar with a pin at the neck., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from the photographer and attire of the sitter., 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., Parlor Gallery, operated by Lewis Horning, was in business at 525 South 9th Street from around 1886 until around 1894.
Creator: Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Parlor [P.9981.11]

Title: Flogging of the slave girl Juliana, about five or six years of age, in Jamaica, &c
Description: Image shows Juliana, a young West Indian slave girl, being flogged by her mistress, Eleanor Whitehead, with a cat of six tails. Juliana is streched out on the floor, and her mistress, dressed in voluminous skirts and elaborate finery, looms over her threateningly., Illustration in the pamphlet Flogging of the Slave Girl Juliana, about Five or Six Years of Age, in Jamaica &c. (London: Sold at the Depository; and by Harvey & Darton; Houlston and Son; Edmund Fry; E. Albright, London; and other booksellers, 1830?). (Bagster and Thomas, printers)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date: [1830?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1830 Flo 67062.D p 1, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2730

Title: St. Clement's Church (Protestant Episcopal), Twentieth and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia
Description: View of south and west facades of Romanesque Revival church along Appletree Street. Children stand and sit near a partially standing wooden fence next to the church. Brick rowhouses visible on 20th and Cherry Streets in background. Church constructed between 1855 and 1859 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman., Text on verso relates history of church and lists ministers and vestry members., Attributed to John Moran., Duplicate of (4)1322.F.81d.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister - St. Clement's [P.9847]

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: The Water Works, in Centre Square Philadelphia
Description: View of the neo-classical style marble pump house, completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827. Depicts individuals using the grounds, including a boy rolling a hoop, and horse-drawn carts, wagons, and men on horse-back traveling the road in the background., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelmans's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 28.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [1800]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 28a/P.2276.64]

Title: Fairmount from Lemon Hill south
Description: View looking south from a path at Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park. Depicts a group of women and children near a couple of men standing opposite a signpost on the path at the estate. View also includes the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River in the far left background. Originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, the waterworks were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872., Reissue of circa 1872 view entitled "Fairmount from Lemon Hill, Southeast" by R. Newell & Son of Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 7., Inscribed in negative: 53., Duplicate of P.9260.70., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: [ca. 1872], c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.9299.77]

Title: A group of young hill climbers of Manyunk [sic] with a background of overlapping roofs, to say nothing of a weekly wash
Description: Depicts seven children standing in the snow in front of a wooden fence. Background of image includes the backs of houses built on a hill, backyards separated by fences, and wash hanging on clotheslines., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 95 [P.8513.95], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson95.htm

Title: Mother and great-grand-aunt of the two daughters
Description: Group portrait of woman holding her two daughters with her aunt sitting next to her on a couch., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Age of the g-g-a 103 yrs. Does not wear glasses, can walk, attend to household duties and possesses a remarkable memory. Is hard of hearing but can keep up a rapid fire conversation. Has a fine sense of humor. Eats what she wants, when she wants it, does not worry and has never had indigestion. Age authentic. (Relate story of the fractured hip and dislocated shoulder blade). Had her hair bobbed., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 113 [P.8513.113], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson113.htm

Title: The happy family The happy family are on their way to the place of public worship. It is Sunday morning, and with neat attire and cheerful hearts, they go up to the courts of the Lord
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a man, his wife and their four children (two girls, a boy, and an infant in a sling at the mother's breast) dressed handsomely in their best Sunday clothes. The boy holds a book, presumably the Bible, under his right arm, and leads the group away from their home toward church, the spire of which is seen in the distance (left)., Not in Wainwright., Date supplied by cataloger., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "The light of the week" moralizing that the Sabbath is "like the light which his eye catches with joy" to the "weary traveller" moving through the week "with all its worldly cares and troubles"., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 105, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [7822.F.1]

Title: A little court off Front St. no. of Arch St
Description: Depicts two brick homes, with two children posed in front of each building., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: These houses in the picture, likewise all those in court are considerably over 125 years. At the upper end of this court there is an alley. In this alley there is a three story, Flemish bond front, house. In this house Benj Franklin resided. So he passed the buildings herewith photographed, in going to - or coming from his home, since there never was any other way of gaining entrance to his home than by passing up this alley. Houses rent from $6 to $9 per mo. (Tell about woman and the Dardenells story. Judicate the pride of residentials (Americans) of this section in the houses of the neighborhood. Proud of the long periods they have resided there., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 118 [P.8513.118], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson118.htm

Title: [Russian Jewish children standing in front of a building at 412 South 21st Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts four Russian Jewish children, two boys and two girls, standing outside a front door and window. One woman can be seen inside the window., Photographer's manuscript note on verso : 21st St. bet[ween] Pine and Lombard Sts. W.S. [west side] Russian Jewish children. Note: little boy leaning against door jamb a really beautiful child and a verry [sic] friendly youngster. His name is Louis. John has an appel [sic] and wants to laugh. The tall girl is passive while her little sister does not want to be 'tooken'. The style of brick window seen here is fast disappearing. Its [sic] quaint panes of glass and the peculiar shutters in which it was literally wraped [sic] after closnig [sic] hours is but seldom found anymore. These shutters (on either side of window) are in 8 sections - 4 on each side and each 4 are fastened together by hinges. When the store is open, as in the case of this picture, the shutters are folded back and swing into a recess in the brick work of the wall., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 98 [P.8513.98], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson98.htm

Title: The cruel boys robbing the bird of her little ones Harken! my boys. Would a mother like to have a cruel robber come and take her little ones out of the cradle, or the crib while she has gone out to get bread for them? Answer this question before you touch these helpless birds
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing two boys climbing a large tree to rob a bird's nest of young birds or eggs., Not in Wainwright., Date supplied by cataloger., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "The young robbers" moralizing that it is wrong to take advantage of and compromise God's weaker, helpless creatures., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 46, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [7822.F.3]

Title: The dishonest boy To take and keep what we know belongs to another without their consent is to steal. The lady dropped her handkerchief and an honest boy would have picked it up, not to keep it, but to return it to the owner
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a young boy standing on a street corner near the storefront of a tailor. He hides a hankerchief behind his back. Behind the boy, the woman who dropped the hankerchief searches the ground for the item with help from a young girl. Two girls stand opposite the young thief and point their fingers in an accusatory manner., Not in Wainwright., Imprint unsigned., Date assigned by cataloger., Issued as plate in Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "Honest boys make honest men" moralizing that obedience is learned at a young age, and that "wicked men" begin their lying and thievery in boyhood, "led astray by falling into the company of young thieves"., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 57, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Unsigned.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [7822.F.6]

Title: Industry & sloth What a sight! The sluggard stretched out in his bed with the bright light shining upon him and his mother and sister at work as busy as bees. Let him lose his breakfast two or three times and he will learn better ways
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a mother scolding her young boy, and making him stay in bed past breakfast for his laziness. The boy's belongings are scattered on the floor near his bed. Also in the room is a young girl who sweeps the floor near the fireplace., Not in Wainwright., Date supplied by cataloger., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "The sluggard!" moralizing against keeping late hours for "vain or sinful amusement, the hours that ought to be given to sleep" since healthy children need to use their "rested minds and bodies in useful ways"., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 118, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [7822.F.5]

Title: [Quaint house on unidentified street between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing a residence in a courtyard . A group of children and a woman gather in front of the dwelling near a small garden. Also shows a young child leaning on a water fountain near a picket fence in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Quaint House on _______ St. bet. 2" and 3.", Duplicate of P.8513.10., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.106], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson106.htm

Title: Fairmount, from Lemon Hill, southeast
Description: View looking south from a path at Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park. Depicts a group of women and children near a couple of men standing opposite a signpost on the path at the estate. View also includes the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River in the far left background. Originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, the waterworks were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872., Buff mount with rounded corners., Contains label pasted on verso listing over fifty views of Fairmount Park issued by the publisher., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of P.9299.77., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.9260.70]

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: [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: Three Black crows
Description: Racist, satiric postcard depicting three young African American boys perched from oldest to youngest on a branch as "Black crows." The boys are attired in loin clothes. The middle child is crying with his hands over his eyes and falling off the branch. In the left, the oldest boy attempts to hold him up. The youngest, a baby, pats the middle child's shoulder with his right hand., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted, 1899., Accessioned 1999., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Genre [P.9725.2]

Title: " Wish you'd hush"
Description: Racist postcard depicting an African American boy looking exasperated at the crying African American baby beside him. The children are shown from the waist up and are bare-chested. The older boy has a glistening substance around his mouth and on his cheeks. The baby holds, possibly, ice in their hands., Title from item., Publication information and date from copyright statement: Copyrighted, 1905, and published by Knaffl & Bro., Knoxville, Tenn., Accessioned 1999., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Genre [P.9725.3]

Title: "Watching Grandma smoke"
Description: Genre scene depicting an older African American woman, attired in a head kerchief, a long-sleeved, patterned dress, and a striped apron, smoking a pipe. She is seated on the steps to the open doorway of her dilapidated, wooden house surrounded by her three young grandchildren who intently watch her. A small, barefooted girl, attired in a dress and a torn and worn jacket, sits with her legs stretched out across the bottom step. A barefooted boy, attired in a shirt, a jacket, and shorts, sits on the next up above with his right leg crossed over his left knee and looks up at his grandmother. Standing in the doorway is a girl, attired in a dress, a jacket, and shoes, who looks down with her hands at her side., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Signed by photographer on verso., Manuscript note on verso: No. 4. Class A., 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 scenes of African Americans, at national and international photography 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.8743.529]

Title: Bartram gardens, Phila[delphia]
Description: Depicts three well-dressed children, including an African American girl, posed on and around a large stone trough by the wall of a building in Bartram's Garden. In the left, a white boy, attired in a white collared shirt, a striped tie, light-colored shorts, black socks, and shoes, stands facing the viewer with his left hand on the trough. The African American girl, attired in a short-sleeved dress with white trim at the neck, cuffs, and waist, stands behind the trough with her left hand resting on its rim. In the right , a white boy, attired in a short-sleeved, white collared shirt, shorts, and socks, sits on the trough with his legs hanging inside it. Bartram's Garden, the first botanic garden in the country cultivated by botanist and farmer John Bartram in the mid-18th century, was restored by the John Bartram Association in the 1920s after many years of neglect., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access point 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.8513.115], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson115.htm

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. carrying wood], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. as a boy carrying firewood at Pocono Lake. He wears a dark shirt and short pants. A saw is propped up against a makeshift sawhorse behind him and a wooden cabin stands in the background. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., September 3 & 4, 1909., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.395]

Title: [Janet Morris carrying wood], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a young girl carrying two pieces of firewood at Pocono Lake. A saw is propped up against a makeshift sawhorse and a pile of wood stands behind her. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., September 3 & 4, 1909., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.397]

Title: [Janet Morris holding a stick], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a young girl holding a wooden stick in front of a tent at Pocono Lake. She wears two ribbons in her curly hair. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., September 3 & 4, 1909., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.398]

Title: [Portrait of Sarah Rhoads Potts], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' niece Sarah Rhoads Potts as a baby wearing a light colored dress laying on a blanket. Potts lays on her stomach and looks up smiling., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.260]

Title: [Janet Morris playing on a porch], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a baby playing with a toy wooden cart on a porch at Sea Girt. Two chairs stand on the porch behind Morris., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.263]

Title: [Young men in bathing attire], G[erman]t[ow]n Boys' Club, Stone Harbor Camp, [NJ]
Description: Film negative showing a group of young men and boys from the Germantown Boys' Club standing near the water at Stone Harbor. Many of the group wear bathing attire. A long causeway is visible in the background. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 26, 1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.419]

Title: [Group in a canoe], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing six people in a canoe on Pocono Lake. Three children and two women sit in the boat while a man rows. The two girls wear large bows in their hair while the women wear decorated hats. The man wears a straw hat. Slender trees grow on the oppsite shore. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., July 30 - August 1, 1909., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.384]

Title: [Janet Morris], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a young girl wearing a white frock and ribbons in her hair standing on a porch at Pocono Lake. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., July 30 - August 1, 1909., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.385]

Title: [Janet Morris], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a young girl standing on a rock in a field at Pocono Lake. She smiles, wearing a white frock and ribbons in her hair. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., July 30 - August 1, 1909., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.386]

Title: [Group on porch steps], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a group of men, women, and children sitting on the porch steps in front of a wooden house at Pocono Lake. A loft sits above them and trees surround the house. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.427]

Title: [Group outside a cabin] Pocono Lake [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a group sitting around a table outside a cabin at Pocono Lake. A woman walks away from the table back toward the cabin. A tent is strung up to the left of the building. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., July 10 & 11, 1909., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.365]

Title: [Janet Morris climbing a ladder], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a young girl climbing a ladder up to a porch at Pocono Lake. She wears ribbons in her hair and looks at the camera over her shoulder with a smile. Rustic wooden chairs sit on the porch above. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., September 3 & 4, 1909., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.403]

Title: [Jumping in the lake], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a plank from which a man dives head first over a crouching man into the lake at Pocono Lake. A group of men and boys wearing bathing costumes stands on the dock watching them and four women float in canoes nearby. A cabin stands on a hill overlooking the lake in the background. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 4, 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.409]

Title: Pocono L[ake] Carnival, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a boy and a man in a canoe with lanterns hanging between makeshift masts on the lake at Pocono Lake. The man sits in the rear of the canoe draped in an American flag and wearing a tall hat and a fake beard. Three other american flags hang from the masts and back of the canoe. The boy sits between two props. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: August 5, 1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.433]

Title: Our canoe, Pocono Lake Carnival, Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a man and a boy sitting in a canoe floating on the lake at Pocono Lake. The canoe is filled with branches and the man and boy wear branches on their hats as well. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: August 5, 1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.434]

Title: Janet Fall of 1911, Ensignette 1912
Description: Film negative showing two images of Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a girl crouched on a garden path next to a toy horse and carriage. She wears gloves, a dark coat with large buttons and ribbons in her hair, and secures a teddy bear to the back to the carriage., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.436]

Title: [Man carrying child on his back, Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ]
Description: Photograph showing a man and boy from the Boys’ Parlors Association wearing bathing suits at Wildwood, N.J. The man carries the boy on his back. Another boy wearing loose fitting clothing stands next to them on the sidewalk. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.145., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.578]

Title: The cruel boys What shows a worse disposition than to abuse a poor dumb creature. It is the beginning of a course, that leads to robbery and murder
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing three boys mistreating a horse on a dirt path. One boy, attired in a jacket and pants rides the crouching, saddleless horse, raised stick in hand, as the other two boys, stand on either side of the animal, raised sticks in hand. One boy, in the right foreground, wears no shoes. Bushes, weeds, rocks, and a small body of water line the dirt path. A house with a smoking chimney is visible in the right background., Not in Wainwright., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "Kindness to Animals" moralizing that it is wrong to abuse "poor dumb beasts whom God has put in their power.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 293, Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [P.2017.28]

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