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Title: William E. Channing, D.D
Description: Half-length portrait of the Massachusetts Unitarian clergyman, abolitionist, and author. Channing, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and robes, rests his right hand and points his finger on an open book, probably the Bible. Channing, who wrote several abolitionist pamphlets from 1835 until 1842, adamantly denounced war as the means to abolish slavery., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., 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: January 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-C [P.8911.225]

Title: William E. Channing
Description: Vignette portrait of the Unitarian clergyman, abolitionist, and author. Channing, attired in a white shirt with a black clergyman’s collar and black jacket, sits faces slightly left. Channing who wrote several antislavery pamphlets from 1835 until 1842, adamantly denounced war as the means to abolish slavery., Title from item., Date inferred from attire of sitter., Accessioned 1982., 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: [between 1860 and 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - C [P.8911.224]

Title: Henry Ward Beecher
Description: Three-quarter length portrait in right profile of the Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, and pants, sits with his hands folded on his lap. Beside him is a table with an inkstand and books. A distant view of the New York harbor is visible in the background., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1874 by Johnson, Wilson & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Published in Evert Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America... (New York: Johnson, Wilson, & Co., 1872-1874), vol.2, opp. p. 61. (LCP Uz1 4915.Q), 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.
Date: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [(1)5750.F.211b]

Title: H.W. Beecher at 40
Description: Bust-length portrait of Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket. He faces forward and looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., 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., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career in 1877, "American portrait gallery," a three-volume set of celebrity portraiture which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [between 1853 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.30]

Title: H.W. Beecher at 40
Description: Bust-length portrait of Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket. He faces forward and looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., 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., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career in 1877, "American portrait gallery," a three-volume set of celebrity portraiture which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [between 1853 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.30]

Title: H.W. Beecher
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Publication information supplied by Library of Congress' ALA Portrait Index (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906), p. 114., Published in Appleton's Annual cyclopedia (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887), vol. 12, p. 64., Accessioned 1982., 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: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.166]

Title: Henry Ward Beecher
Description: Full-length portrait after the painting by New York historical painter, Alonzo Chappel, of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, jacket, pants, and shoes, sits on a chaise lounge with his legs crossed holding an open book. His left hand touching his face as though he is deep in thought. More books rest on the chaise lounge and on a side table in the right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1871 by Johnson, Fry & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Possibly published in a later edition of Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans (New York: Johnson, Fry, & Co., [1861-1864])., Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portrait Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subjects' faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies that he situated in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph., Accessioned 1982., 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: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.167]

Title: [Henry Ward Beecher]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, wearing his hair slightly over his collar and attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a jacket, and a coat with velvet lapels, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Mount contains red border., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996., 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 - Beecher [P.9516.1]

Title: [Henry Ward Beecher]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, wearing his hair slightly over his collar and attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a jacket, and a coat with velvet lapels, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on verso., Mount contains red border., Image slightly faded., 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 - Beecher [P.9363.41]

Title: [ Edward Evertt Hale]
Description: 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]

Title: J.G. Binney
Description: Bust-length portrait of the minister and missionary to Myanmar. Binney, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right with his right hand tucked into his jacket., Title from manuscript note written on mount., 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 [(II)P.9100.28a]

Title: The election, humbly inscrib'd to the Saturday-Nights Club, in Lodge Alley
Description: At the top, depicts the 1765 the election for the county and city of Philadelphia. In the left, shows Britannia, depicted as a white woman, with a shield with the Union Jack and a liberty cap and pole, saying "Oh my sons, my sons." America, depicted as a white woman, carries a sword and replies "Don't grieve too much sister." Treachery, depicted as a white women with two faces, stands behind Britannia with a dagger and says, "I hope that will do for you Madam." A large group of men stand in the foreground, including clergymen, and discuss the election. In the background, a line of men enter a building to vote., Title from item., Date from Evans., "About 150 lines of blank verse [in four columns] engraved on copper, with a picture of the election at the top."--Hildeburn., First line: Long with a Cruel, and perfidious Hand:, Manscript note by DuSimitiere: Published after the election of the members for the county and city of Philadelphia for the first of 8be 1765., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Dawkins, Henry, d. 1786?
Date: [1765]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT political cartoons [1765] Ele [959.F.88 (DuSimitiere)]

Title: The Rev. Richard Allen, Bishop of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, in the U. States
Description: Half-length portrait of the African American bishop, seated, and holding the Holy Bible upright in his lap with his right hand. Allen is depicted with gray curly hair and is attired in a shirt with a high neck collar, a vest, and a jacket. A geometric border frames the portrait. Allen, born into slavery in Philadelphia, founded and was ordained the first bishop of the denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1816., Original painting attributed to Raphaelle Peale., Title from item., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Purchase 2006.
Creator: Boyd, John, engraver
Date: cDecember 8th, 1823, December 10th, 1823
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - A [P.2006.29]

Title: "De breddren and sisters will now relate dere experience."
Description: Set of five collecting cards depicting African Americans, portrayed in racist caricature with grotesque facial features and speaking in the vernacular, satirizing African American church life. Includes (1) "De Breddren and Sisters Will Now Relate Dere Experience" showing a white-haired African American minister at his pulpit before a small congregation of mostly African American women, attired in kerchiefs, and seated in pews; (2) Sister Hannibal. - "Oh Breddren and Sisters, Ise an Awful Sinner" showing Sister Hannibal standing up and confessing among the other congregants; (3) Sister Snowball. - "Yes, Breddren and Sisters, Dats So, I Kin Testify Dat Sister Hannibal is an Awful Sinner. I knows It" showing Sister Snowball standing, her hands clasped across her stomach, while Sister Hannibal, sits and frowns, and the minister rests his hand on his head; (4) "Sister Snowball, You Am a Liar" showing the "sisters" fighting among the other parishioners, who are in various states of commotion; (5) "De Congregation Am Dismissed" showing white men police officers escorting the congregation out of the church, including an unconscious Sister Hannibal in a handcart. Images also show the church interior and exterior, including windows, steps, and a tree., Title from item., Date of publication inferred from date of copyright, Series no. printed in upper left corner., Purchased with funds from the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation., RVCDC, 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., Sammis & Latham was a New York publishing firm active in 1882 that issued comic card sets and juvenile novelty items.
Creator: Sammis & Latham
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Genre [P.2012.24.1-5]

Title: Rev. Christopher Rush
Description: Half-length portrait of the New York African Methodist Episcopal Reverend, Superintendent of the Zion Connexion of the New York and Philadelphia conferences, and the author of "A Short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America,...(1843, republished 1866)." Rush, attired in white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, faces the viewer., Title from item., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Variant of (2)5750.F.26c. Facial expression and features, as well as attire have been altered, including additional buttons added to coat., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - R [P.9975.1]

Title: Revd. Charles W. Gardner Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of the people of colour in Philadelphia, Decr. 20th 1841
Description: Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia community reformer and abolitionist Presbyterian pastor. Gardner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, is seated and facing forward. Gardner, originally an itinerant Methodist preacher, aided freedom seekers and participated in the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society, as well as worked with several African American intellectual, benevolent, and reform societies including the American Moral Reform Society., Title from item., 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., Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
Date: [1841]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait prints-G [(1)5750.F.178b]

Title: Rev. Christopher Rush
Description: Half-length portrait of the New York African Methodist Episcopal Reverend, Superintendent of the Zion Connexion of the New York and Philadelphia conferences, and the author of "A Short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America,...(1843, republished 1866)." Rush, attired in white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, faces the viewer., Title from item., Date inferred from presented age of 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. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-R [(2)5750.F.26c]

Title: Episcopal Clergy Manuscripts Collection, 1765-1867 (inclusive)
Description: The Episcopal Clergy Manuscripts Collection primarily contains letters written by ordained leaders of the Episcopal Church to their peers. Nearly all of the authors of the letters and documents were then, or became, bishops in the church. Some letters hold notable content, while others simply ask for, or reply to, a request. Several of the correspondents wrote from or of the American Midwest, chiefly Ohio, and describe conditions in their dioceses, churches, and communities. Most of the letters are unrelated to each other and were most likely acquired for their signatures. The collection also holds two eighteenth-century autograph manuscript sermons by Rev. Edward Bass (1726-1803), the rector of St. Paul's Church in Newburyport, MA., The Library Company's Print Department holds portraits of American clergymen, both in prints and photographs. The John A. McAllister Papers (McA MSS 001) contain several letters to McAllister from clergymen of all denominations, including Episcopal., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., John A. McAllister was an antiquarian collector living in Philadelphia.
Creator: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1765
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 029, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64530#page/1/mode/1up

Title: Cresson, James, 1740-1799
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1769

Title: Owen Lovejoy
Description: Bust-length portrait of the lawyer, Congregational minister, abolitionist, and Republican congressman from Illinois. He was also a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. Lovejoy, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., 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.9100.33f]

Title: Dr. Theo. Parker
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist who personally aided and housed freedom seekers as a member of several abolitionist organizations, including the New England Emancipation Aid Society. Parker, wearing spectacles and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., 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: J. Gurney & Son, photographer
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Parker [P.2282.116]

Title: Revd. Jeremiah Gloucester Late pastor of the Second African Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
Description: Half-length portrait of the African American pastor, slightly facing left and holding a Bible in his right hand, surrounded by a decorative border containing an inset of the Bible inscribed with the verse Hebrews 4:16. Gloucester has curly hair and sideburns. He iis attired in a shirt with high neck collar, a jacket, and a top coat. The portrait, published by Jeremiah's brother, Stephen, to raise funds for his widow and children, sold for $1. Gloucester was the son of John Gloucester, pastor of the First African Presbyterian Church. He became pastor of the Second African Presbyterian Church when it formed in 1824 from dissenting members of the First African Presbyterian Church following the failure of Jeremiah to be nominated to assume the pulpit of his late father., Issued as a companion piece to a portrait of John Gloucester published August 1, 1823 by J. How of Philadelphia. (LCP P.8911.430), Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Stephen formed a splinter church, the Central Presbyterian Church, after failing to be elected to the pulpit of his late brother's church, the Second African Presbyterian Church, in 1844., Advertisement for the portrait in the March 14, 1828 edition of the first black-written New York newspaper, Freedom's Journal., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1973 p. 43., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Tiller, Robert, engraver
Date: July 4th 1828
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - G [(1)5750.F.190]

Title: Rev. Francis Burns Missionary bishop of the M.E. Church in Western Africa
Description: Bust-length portrait of the African American deacon and missionary bishop to Liberia. Burns, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, sits slightly facing right. The African coastline, depicting buildings on the shoreline and boats in the water, is visible in the background., Title from item., Published in The Ladies repository (March 1859), frontispiece., See biography of sitter in The Ladies repository (March 1859), p. 129-132., Accessioned 1879., 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., Brady produced ambrotypes in his New York studio from 1855 until 1856, ceasing production following a lawsuit over the patent.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [March 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [5017.F.45]

Title: Tabernacle Baptist Church, Philadelphia
Description: Shows parishioners posed among the pews of the church built 1853 after the designs of William Boyington on the 1800 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the minister, presumably Rev. William T. Brantly, at his pulpit in the background and three women standing in the center aisle in the foreground., Stereograph on yellow paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount of stereograph., Accompanied by publisher's label describing the church and history of the congregation., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., See clipping describing church in Poulson's scrapbook, vol. 7, p. 75., One of the images [1322.F.5g] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 40., Arcadia caption text: From the early 18th century, Philadelphia served as a religious center for the American Baptist Church. This 1861 view shows the congregation of the Tabernacle Baptist Church that was constituted in 1848. The posed parishioners were just a few of the 1000 persons able to worship at the church, built in 1853 after the designs of New England architect William Boyington. Also visible is the Reverend William T. Brantly, standing at his pulpit in the background. When built, the church, located on the 1800 block of Chestnut Street, was the only Baptist church situated west of Broad Street., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: May 1861, c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [1322.F.5e & g], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.5f]

Title: Boehm’s Reformed Church, founded Feb. 3, 1747, Boehm’s manse, the Kirkview, Edgar Vincent Loucks, minister
Description: Postcard depicting a vignette portrait of the church’s minister Edgar Vincent Loucks between views of Boehm’s Church constructed in 1818 at 571 Penllyn Blue Bell Pike and the parsonage, Kirkview, in Blue Bell, Pa. In the left, shows the front façade of the stone church with stained glass windows and a spire. A wrought iron fence surrounds the building. In the center is a forward-facing portrait of Loucks, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket. In the right is the three-story parsonage with a covered porch. The Church was founded by John Philip Boehm in 1740 and a building was erected in 1747 in Blue Bell, Pa. A new building was erected on the foundation of the older building in 1818. Extensive renovations, including the addition of the eighty-foot high spire with bell were completed in 1870., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Series number printed in left corner on verso: 66296., Divided back., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1906]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.27]

Title: Krauth, Charles P., 1797-1867
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: June 7, 1830

Title: Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 3, 1826

Title: Duane, Charles W., 1837-1915
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 8, 1871-December 1, 1892

Title: Simpson, Mathew, 1811-1884
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: March 3, 1864

Title: Wheeler, Samuel, 1726-1785
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1769

Title: Dorr, Benjamin, 1796-1869
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: June 2, 1848

Title: Wylie, Samuel B., 1773-1852
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: October 10, 1805

Title: Dupuy, Charles Meredith, 1792-1875
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 5, 1816

Title: Wilmer, Joseph Pierre Bell
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: November 6, 1857-May 1, 1866

Title: Rogers, William
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: August 4, 1812

Title: Conrad, Thomas K.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: October 4, 1883-April 5, 1894

Title: Milnor, John
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1769

Title: Webster, Pelatiah, 1726-1795
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: May 9, 1776-May 4, 1780

Title: Views of a cemetery
Description: Shows funeral processions passing a man reclining on a hilltop adorned with mausoleums, possibly in Laurel Hill Cemetery, and arriving at a plot enclosed by a circular fence at an unidentified cemetery. Views include a minister; an open grave; grave diggers; mourners; horse-drawn carriages; and a distant view of a body of water. One view also contains an ornate border including a crucifix, sepulchral monuments, and vaults. Vaults inscribed "Anderson"; "Sylancliff"; and "Holmes.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 264, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Cemeteries [(7)1322.F.458b; P.2277.27]

Title: Eden Baptist Church Phila Rev. T.P. Wilson pastor
Description: Exterior view of the African American church on South Sartain Street, Philadelphia. Shows the front entrance to the brick building with shuttered windows. View includes portrait inset depicting the Rev. T.P. Wilson wearing a mustache and goatee and attired in a clerical collar and a jacket. Eden Baptist Church was founded in 1894., Title inscribed on negative., Date from manuscript note 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1916
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Religion [P.9981.8]

Title: Christ Church, Philadelphia
Description: Views of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Predominately interior views showing the altar, a clergyman, galleries, communion table, stain glass windows, and organ gallery of the church. Exterior views show the steeple (completed 1754 after the designs of John Harrison and Robert Smith) and a side of the church building. Interior altered 1834 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter. Also includes a reproduction of a drawing of the "Interior of Christ Church, Philada in 1795" showing the altar., Four images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains six stereographic prints, including five mounted on paper and one with a publisher's label listing the rectors and describing the history of the church and congregation. Also contains six one-half stereographic prints mounted on paper and two cartes-de-visite., One of images [1322.F.64a] reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #120., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: December 1860, c1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister & Bro. [(4)1322.62d; 64a; 64a(v); 64e; P.8662.3 & 4], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.63a; 64,64b(v)-d(v); 65e; P.8687.3], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.64c & 66c]

Title: Interior views of unidentified churches, including an Episcopal and Moravian church
Description: Views include altars, pews, clergy, stained glass windows, and arched ceilings., Label accompanying (8)1322.F: With the compliments of Maurice C. Jones June 29, 1868., Manuscript note on verso of 1322.F.152c: Interior of Dr. Chapin's Church., Publisher's blind stamp on mount of 1322.F.152c: The London Stereoscopic Compy., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains five stereographic prints mounted on yellow mounts with square corners and three one-half stereographic prints, Jones was a Moravian historian and resident of Bethlehem, Pa., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1860-1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentifed - Religion [1322.F.151c & d, f-h; 1322.F.152c & f; (8)1322.F.b]

Title: Christ Church, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view showing a minister in his robes near the communion table in front of the altar of the Protestant Episcopal church. Church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Includes stain glass windows. Interior altered 1834 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter., Attributed to McAllister & Brother., Title printed on mount., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Paper backing pasted on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.65b]

Title: Christ Church, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view showing a minister in his robes near the communion table in front of the altar of the Protestant Episcopal church. Church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Includes stain glass windows. Interior altered 1834 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter., Attributed to McAllister & Brother., Title printed on mount., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Paper backing pasted on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.65c]

Title: Saint James' Church, Philadelphia
Description: Interior views showing the altar, stained-glass chancel window designed by William Gibson, and pews of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1807-1809 on the 100 block of North 7th Street. Views also include the organ gallery holding the organ designed by Hall & Labagh, clerics in their robes, and a man in plain clothes standing near the pews., Contains four stereographic images mounted on pale yellow or white paper mounts with square corners and printed titles, including one, [(4)1322.F.82f] hand-colored and accompanied by publisher's label describing the church building and history of the congregation. Also contains one stereographic image mounted on paper and two cartes-de-visite., Four of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: December 1860, c1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister & Bro. [P.8662.6], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.82b; (4)1322.F.82f; (4)1322.F.83a;(4)1322.F.83c], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.82d; 1322.F.83b]

Title: Saint John's Lutheran Church, Philadelphia
Description: Views showing the exterior and interior of the church built 1809 partially after the designs of Frederick Graff at 511-523 Race Street. Depicts the front elevation of the building; the pulpit designed by Frederick Graff and sculpted by William Rush; pews; and partial views of galleries. Views also include a clergymen, presumably Rev. Joseph A. Seiss, in his clerical robes standing at the pulpit and a man, possibly a church elder, seated near the altar. Also contains reproductions of a drawing of the "Interior of St. John's Church, North View." Interior of the church altered 1847-1848 after the designs of William Johnston., Nine of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains five stereographic prints mounted on yellow or white paper mounts with square corners, including two with printed titles, one [1322.F.22c], hand-colored, and one accompanied by a publisher's label describing the building and history of the congregation. Also contains an unmounted carte de visite print, a carte de visite, an unmounted stereographic print, and two albumens mounted on cardboard, hand-colored, including one inscribed: From John A. McAllister., (4)1322.F.23b and P.8910.12 are duplicates., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: March 1861, c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.22a-d;(4)1322.F.23a; (4)1322.F.92e], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister & Bro. [(4)1322.F.23b; P.8910.12], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. [(4)1322.F.22bx & 23bx]

Title: Saint Paul's Church. (Protestant Episcopal.) Third Street, between Walnut and Spruce sts. Philadelphia
Description: Interior views showing a service at the church built 1760-1761 by Robert Smith after the designs of John Palmer at 221-231 South 3rd Street. Includes Rev. Richard Newton, in his clerical robes, at his pulpit in front of parishioners, including a man standing and reading the Bible, in the pews. Church interior altered in 1830 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains a stereographic print on white paper mount with square corners accompanied by a publisher's label describing the church and listing the rectors. Also contains an unmounted stereographic print and unmounted carte de visite., Faded manuscript note on stereograph mount., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: April 1861, c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.92d], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.93a(v)]

Title: Official first day of issue. Honoring Martin Luther King, 1929-1968. Distinguished civil rights leader. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Black Heritage USA Series
Description: ArtCraft "First Day Cover" (i.e., designed envelope with a stamp affixed and cancelled on the day the stamp was issued) containing vignette illustrations depicting Martin Luther King, Jr. Shows a bust-length, left-profile portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a view from behind King during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., August 28, 1963. View includes a mass of people in the background., Title from item., Date supplied from research and content., Logo of printer printed in lower left corner: Text "ArtCraft" set on a paint palette with brushes inserted through the hole for the artist's thumb., Image caption: "I Have A Dream.", Contains ink-stamp postmark: Atlanta, GA Jan 13 1979 3030A and cancelled "First Day of Issue" Black Heritage USA color-printed 15-cent stamp after the design of Jerry Pinkney and depicting a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. and an inset of a view of King and several men and women walking at a protest march. The King stamp issued in 1979, was the second issued for the Black Heritage Series begun in 1978 by the U.S. Postal Service to recognize "the contribution of Black Americans to the growth and development of the United States.", Contains mailing label., The Washington Press ArtCraft brand was introduced in 1939 for the printing of First Day Covers. The firm stopped producing ArtCraft First Day Covers in 2016.
Date: [1979]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - envelopes - King [P.2019.80.5]

Title: " Ariosa" Coffee. One gleam of consolation. From "Judge" by permission
Description: Trade card promoting Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee. Depicts a racist caricature originally published in the satirical periodical “Judge” of an older African American woman and older, African American Deacon in conversation. The figures are portrayed with exaggerated facial features and speaking in the vernacular. They stand across from each other in a home setting. "Mrs. Johnson" is attired in a attired in a yellow apron over a black dress, a red vest, and an orange, head kerchief. She has a pipe in her mouth. "Deacon Smith" is attired in a top hat, blue coat over a white collared shirt with red bow tie, brown pants, black shoes, spectacles, and leans on a cane. Depicts Deacon Smith providing comforting words to Mrs. Johnson after she "loose de bigges' chile." The Deacon consoles "Providence am allus mercies in disguise" to which Mrs. Johnston agrees the child was "allus a mon-st'ous eatah." In the background is a steaming kettle on a small stove with a chimney pipe. On the verso is an illustration showing the exterior of the Arbuckle Ariosa Coffee's Brooklyn factory near a dock. View includes men loading train cars, horse-drawn wagons, and ships with cargo. Brothers John and Charlie Arbuckle, Arbuckle Bros., established their factory and warehouse in Brooklyn in 1881 after they invented a machine that roasted, ground, and packaged coffee into bags. Their first national brand was patented under the name Arbuckle’s Ariosa. The company succeeded into the 20th century. Following John’s death in 1912 the company declined and was broken up by the Arbuckle family in the late 1930s., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Text printed on recto: Mrs. Johnson (mournfully)--"Ah deacon! It am very hard to loose de bigges' chile I's got." Deacon Smith (consolingly)-- "Dat am true, Mrs. Johnsing; but dese cha'tisements of Providence am allus mercies in disguise." Mrs. Johnson (meditatively)-- "Y-e-e-s; Jeems was allus a mon-st'ous eatah.", Advertising text printed on verso: "Ariosa" Coffee. No. 96. 839,972 pounds roasted daily. The enormous consumption of the popular brand gives proof that for strength, purity and deliciousness it has no equal., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection -Arbuckle [P.2017.95.7]

Title: Marriage certificate. This certifies that [blank] of [blank] and [blank] of [blank] united in holy matrimony according to the ordinance of God and the laws of [blank] at [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. [blank]. Witnesses [blank] [blank]
Description: Marriage certificate containing a scene with an African American bride, groom, and reverend, pictorial details, and an ornamented border. Scene depicts the bride, in the left, in right profile, standing, and attired in a long-sleeved white wedding dress and bridal cap with floor length veil draped down her back. She holds a large bouquet from which ribbons stream and she bows her head slightly forward. In the right, the groom, in left profile, stands, attired in a dark suit with morning jacket and a boutonniere adorning the lapel. His head is slightly bowed. Between them, facing the viewer, stands an older reverend, attired in a clerical waistcoat and pants. He is balding with tufts of grey hair by his ears. He holds a Bible at his midriff. Ferns adorn the background. Pictorial details, surround the scene and text of the certificate, and include two Black putti; a vignette depicting the clasped hands of a Black bride and groom; and tropical greenery. The ornamented border is composed of ribbons and a chain link., Title from item., Name of publisher inferred and date from copyright statement: copyrighted 1910 P.P. and F. Co. Chi., Description of print (No. 1900) included in 1911 trade catalog for the Consolidated Portrait and Frame Co., p. 135a. Description reads: Good Luck Marriage Certificate. This certificate was printed and designed especially for the negro race. There is no other certificate so far as we know, exclusively for them., RVCDC, Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History Fund.
Date: 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Certificates - Marriage [P.2023.7]

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