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Title: [African American waiters in the large dining room, Great Central Fair of 1864, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the African American men waiters posed amongst the dining room tables of the patriotically decorated dining room of the Fair's restaurant department. The waiters, attired in white collared shirts, bowties, white or black jackets, and pants, stand around and in between the tableclothed dining tables facing the viewer. American flags decorate the wall in the background and hang on the pillars. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Unmounted carte-de-visite photograph., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Probably by Philadelphia photographer A. Watson., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook on the Sanitary Commission. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Watson - Great Central Fair [5781.F.156g]

Title: [African American waiters in the large dining room, Great Central Fair of 1864, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the African American men waiters posed among and seated at the dining room tables of the patriotically decorated dining room of the Fair's restaurant department. The waiters, attired in white collared shirts, bowties, white jackets, and pants, sit at the tableclothed dining tables and look at the viewer. Nine waiters, attired in white collared shirts, black bowties, black jackets, and pants, stand in a line in the middle of the room facing the viewer. American flags decorate the wall in the background and hang on the pillars. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Probably by Philadelphia photographer A. Watson., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook on the Sanitary Commission. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Watson - Great Central Fair [5781.F.165f]

Title: At dinner, Girard College, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view of the dining hall, showing boys seated at rows of long rectangular tables ready to eat their dinner on the tables in front of them., Title on negative., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including St. Louis and Liverpool, Eng., Distributor's imprint on mount., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Education [P.9047.121]

Title: Bellevue Stratford postcards
Description: Contains images of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, built 1902-1904 by G.W. & W.D. Hewitt. Includes exterior views of the hotel looking southwest. Also depicts interior views of the hotel including the Clover Club Banquet Hall, Vienese Room, Ladies' Restaurant, main office, lobby, grand ballroom and the Oak Hall and South Garden sections of the roof garden. Also includes an image of William Penn holding a model of the Bellevue Stratford in his hand., Contains 37 postcards printed in color and 26 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1960
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bellevue Stratford - 110]

Title: Dining room, Zoological Garden
Description: Interior view of a dining room without guests showing three columns of tables and chairs prepared and set for patrons. Restaurant built 1875-1876 after designs by Furness & Hewitt., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Zoo [P.9119.10]

Title: Hotel Traymore, Philadelphia's theatrical headquarters, 11th & Arch Sts
Description: Montage of images depicting the hotel's dining room surrounded by advertising rates, amenities and attractions. Includes an inset portrait of the hotel's manager, Howard I. Robinson., Undivided back. Post marked 1907., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Hotels - [P.9622]

Title: Hotel Vendig postcards
Description: Contains images of the Hotel Vendig built circa 1911. Includes an exterior view looking northwest and interior views of the ladies' dining room, the ladies' writing and reception room and the entrance to the lobby., Sheet number: 118A01., Divided backs. Text on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1935
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Vendig through Walnut - 118]

Title: Hotel Walton postcards
Description: Contains images of the Hotel Walton originally built as the Hotel Metropole circa 1892 after designs by Angus S. Wade. Depicts exterior views of the hotel looking northeast and southeast. Also includes interior views of the palm room, dining room and foyer., Contains 9 postcards printed in color and 10 printed in black and white., The Hotel Metropole was incorporated into the Hotel Walton in 1895. Additions and renovations occurred in 1914 and in 1925 to accommodate a roof garden and shops on the first floor facing Broad Street., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Walton - 119]

Title: Large dining room
Description: Unmounted stereograph shows tables set and prepared for patrons in the large dining room. American flags and garland adorn the columns in the large hall. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from manuscript note on mount., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.168d]

Title: Private dining room, Union League, Philad[elphi]a
Description: View of round table covered by cloth and surrounded by upholstered armchairs. Table is set with glass and ceramic wares. Table is near three large windows with opened shutters. Union League established to raise funds and recruits for the Union cause. Building constructed 1864-1865 based on designs by Philadelphia architect John Fraser., Title from pencil inscription on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of views relating to Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Associations [(8)1322.F.1i]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital
Description: Series of titled views of the exterior and interior of the facilities of the Civil War volunteer relief agency near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues in Philadelphia. Predominately shows the patriotically adorned refreshment saloon with male and female members of the working committee, staff, and a patient in a robe posed among rows of tables set for a dining service. Also includes a view of patients posed near beds and a model ship in a ward at the hospital and a large crowd of men and boys standing in front of the hospital and saloon. Exterior also shows a parital view of the cannon, known as "Fort Brown." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency in operation between 1861-1865 provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen., Yellow mounts with square corners., Accompanied by publisher's labels inscibed with titles., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper and Union Shop Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Associations [5778.F.26b & c; 27a, ax, bx & c]

Title: Views of the House of Refuge, Philadelphia
Description: Views show the House of Refuge site that opened in 1850 between Parrish and Brown Streets between Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth Streets. Exterior views depict the front lawn of the White Boys Department, designed by John McArthur, Jr., facing west and south, showing men and women standing, sitting, and lying on the landscaped lawn near the ivy-covered building. Views includes dogs, flower beds and planters. Another view shows boys in uniform belonging to the drum and flute corps of the brass band standing on the entrance stairs to the five-bay, ivy-covered White Boys Department. Men and boys are visible in the windows on the first floor. Interior views of the White Boys Department depict rows of single beds in the dormitory, the stark wide hallway of the "B" division, the kitchen, and the dining room with long rows of tables covered with place settings in preparation for a meal., Photographer's imprint on versos in decorative font. Includes vignette of painting palette with brushes extending through the hole., Descriptions of images written in manuscript notes on versos., Yellow curved mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Chillman, P. E. (Philip Edward), 1841-1915
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Chillman - Prisons [P.9523.1-7]

Title: William Allen's dining rooms, No. 130 Market Street Where he is prepared to furnish the best and cheapest meals in Philadelphia. A good substantial meal for 25 cts. Ice cream
Description: Trade card for William Allen's dining rooms at 130 Market Street illustrated by a vignette of pink flowers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Allen [1975.F.6]

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