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Title: The straggler's last "sup."
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing a Union infantryman staring into the bottom of an empty can he has raised into the air., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53e]

Title: The little pilferers When we are sent on an errand for any thing that is good to eat or drink we may be tempted. But we must resist the temptation for in God's sight it is stealing
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing two girls standing on the sidewalk in front of the shop window of a bakery. One holds a basket of bread under her right arm, as the other girl steals a sip from a drink., 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 "Avoid the beginning of evil" moralizing that "there is no such thing as a little sin" since small lies engrain a "habit of falsehood and dishonesty" making children "a little bolder at every step.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 136, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [7822.F.4]

Title: [Philadelphia Inquirer art supplements]
Description: Series of art supplements depicting genre, historical and allegorical scenes, landscapes, portraiture, and character studies. Includes "Aurora" showing a white female fairy figure smelling a flower; "The Pilot" portrait of an older white man sea captain smoking a pipe; "The Partners" showing a white girl and boy with a broom and shovel; "Tambourine Girl"; "Playmates" depicting a white girl holding a cat; "Deep Sea Fisherman"; "Night of the Ball" depicting an exterior view of a palatial estate in the snow with an inset showing a young white woman in evening attire; "One of the Four Hundred" showing a white boy costumed as a vagabond; "By the Sea" showing an older African American seaman, attired in a grey top hat, a white collared shirt, a blue and gold bowtie, red suspenders, a yellow jacket with a flower boutonniere, brown pants, and boots, smoking a pipe; an older white man reading "Fairy Tales" to a white girl; "Sheik of the Desert" a bust-length portrait of an Arab man; "A Lively Scrimmage" during a football game; a dog inspecting "Five O'Clock Tea"; a white clergyman having "A Disappointing Luncheon"; a view "Off the Belgium Coast near Ostend"; "Spring" and fall landscapes; "Does You Mother Know You're Out" depicting a white girl with a newly hatched chick; "Napoleon and the Old Guard"; "Wellington and His Soldiers"; a white man and woman couple on "A Honeymoon at Niagara"; and a white lady portrayed fancifully "Among the Roses.", Title supplied by cataloger., Various artists, including M. Duboy, C.L. Van Vredenburgh, Charles P. Gruppe, A. I. Keller, and W. Merritt Post., Various printers, including Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company; Leopold Gast & Brother; Julius Bien & Co.; Donaldson Bros.; Ketterlinus; and J. Ottmann., Two of prints designed to stand as display cards., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Gift of Margaret Robinson, 1991., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1894-1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Philadelphia Inquirer [P.9349.282, 287, 295, 310, 313, 323-325, 330-331, 413, 424, 432, 434, 440, 457, 463-464, 466, & 469]

Title: Franks Dining Room, for ladies and gents, open day and night, 216 N. Ninth St., Phila
Description: Racist trade card promoting the restaurant of Frank Tiefenthaler and depicting an African American man, portrayed in caricature with grotesque facial features. Shows the man, portrayed with a blank stare and attired in a striped, long-sleeved shirt, eating from several stacked bowls of "mush." He holds a spoonful of porridge close to his open mouth from within a wooden pantry. Illustration also shows the open door to the pantry. Tiefenthaler began to operate his restaurant from 216 North 9th Street in 1884. Tiefenthaler died in 1934 retired from business, but was listed in city directories as operating a dining room through the early 1920s., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Printed above image: "Mush-Room.", Printed in blue., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - F [P.2015.35.2]

Title: Two souls with but a single thought
Description: Lantern slide formerly owned and probably used in art lessons by Philadelphia painter, photographer, and art teacher, Xanthus Smith of a racist depiction of African Americans in caricature by comic artist, Thomas Worth. Depicts a young and dapperly-dressed African American couple eating a piece of watermelon on a porch as the parents of one of the couple watches them from a doorway. Seated on a bench, the woman, wearing her hair tied up with a pink ribbon and attired in a blue shirt with buttons down the center, a white skirt with ruffles at the bottom, red and black checked stockings, and black shoes, sits beside the man, attired in a gray bowler hat, a white shirt with stripes, a gray waistcoat, gray and black striped pants, and black shoes. They hold a large slice of watermelon up together and bite from it while looking at one another. In the left, the mother, attired in a blue and pink plaid head kerchief, a pink and black striped shirt with a white lace collar, and a pink skirt, and the father, attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, and black pants, looks on at the couple from an open doorway. A banjo hangs from the post of the porch in the right. In the background, trees and the night sky is visible., Title from label on mount on verso., Gift of Edna Andrade, 1994., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides-Smith, Xanthus [P.9471]

Title: [Series of Clarence E. Brooks & Co. Fine Coach Varnishes, cor. West & West 12th St. N.Y. racist 1880 calendar illustrations after the "Blackville" series]
Description: Series of twelve captioned illustrations from the Clarence Brooks & Co. Fine Coach Varnishes 1880 calendar portraying scenes after the racist “Blackville” series drawn by Sol Eytinge for “Harper’s Weekly” in the 1870s and depicting caricatures satirizing the social mores, customs, and daily lives of African Americans of all classes. The figures are portrayed with exaggerated features and mannerisms. The attire of the figures includes long-sleeved dresses, shirtwaists and skirts, smocks, shirt, pants, jackets, and caps, and hats. Some of the attire depicted, particularly for younger figures, is worn and/or tattered. Includes scenes from the Eytinge Blackville series within a series - “the twins” (March, May, September illustrations). Scenes are titled (sometimes with text in the vernacular) and depict “The First Ulster in Blackville” (January) of a winter scene showing African American children, attired in shirts, pants, or skirts and hats or bonnets, paused from a snowball fight as an African American man in a blue ulster (an overcoat with hood), holding a cane, and smoking walks between them; “Christmas Dinner Done!” (February) showing an older African American man, attired in an overcoat, pants, and hat, and African American boy, attired in a shirt, pants, and a hat with a scarf tied around his head and chin, in a field, and watching a rabbit run away from a trap held by the boy; “Love in Blackville. The Wooing of the Twins” (March) showing African American women twins, each being courted by an African American man within an open room that has a stove and mantle as their older African American parents “watch” from a doorway;, "April-Fools Day-An Aggravated Case (April) showing an older African American woman, with an upset expression, standing in front of a row of cabins and near a basket of cabbages on a town block, and holding a dead rat within a cabbage as she is watched by two snickering African American boys, the practical jokers, standing within the opening to an alley; "The Great Social Event at Blackville. The Wed"ding of the Twins" (May) showing two African American women twin brides and their grooms within a parlor, near a table of food, being married by a reverend in front of friends and family of all ages; "The Coaching Season in Blackville._ The Grand Start" (June) showing an African American driver pulling at the reins of an unruly four-mule team coach of which African American passengers of all ages sit in and on the cab as African American towns folk wave from a line of cabins in the background and an African American boy and dog run past the wheel of the vehicle; "The 'Fourth' in Blackville" (July) showing a fenced paddock in which an African American boy holds an American flag in one hand and a gun in the other by a group of African American children and a woman who run, cover their eyes, jump the fence, and shield each other under the sight of an African American man in the window of an adjacent cabin; “Hi Abe Come Under De Brellar! Does Your Want to Sunstruck Yerself! De Fremoniter’s Gone Up Moren a Foot!” (August) showing a group of African American children of different ages, under a torn umbrella held by the tallest child, a girl, and approaching a young African American boy, “Abe,” within a fenced yard with a pond and patches of greenery and across from a cabin in which an African American man and woman, stand and sit in the doorway;, “After Doing Paris and the Rest of Europe, The Bridal Party Return to Blackville" (September) showing “the twins” on promenade with their husbands and an African American women caregiver holding their two babies as they walk on a dirt path lined by African American townsfolks of all ages who stare and also include an older woman who laughs behind a tree; "Who Struck De Futest?” (October) showing an older African American man, seated outside a cabin, and holding up a switch to two African American boys, in worn clothing, standing within the yard, near a broken object, and across from an African American girl in the cabin doorway and three boys seated and looking over a fence lining the property in the background; The “Small Breeds” Thanksgiving-Return of the First-Born from College 'Bress His Heart! Don’t he look edgecated?' ”(November) showing a young African American man portrayed in disheveled attire and manner as though drunk entering the door to his family, including a grandmother figure and a child in a high chair, at dinner around a cloth-covered table; and “No Small Breed Per Yer Uncle Abe Dis Chris'mas! Ain’t He a Cherub?” (December) showing “Uncle Abe,” an African American man holding a large, plucked turkey (with head and feet) near his chest and on a table surrounded by older women and child-aged family members who stand near a chest of drawers, a stool, and two windows with curtains visible in the background. Exterior scenes also often include a dog or cat, or a cabin or cabins, the latter marked “Clarence Brooks & Co. Fine Coach Varnishes. Cor. West & West 12th St. N.Y.” in the background; as well as fencing, groves of trees, and dirt paths. Interior scenes often include a dining table, chairs, displays of food and household items, such as a candlestick and framed prints advertising Clarence Brooks & Co. April-Fools Day image includes a cobble-stone street., Clarence Brooks established his varnish business in 1859 as Brooks and Fitzgerald, later Clarence Brooks & Co. In the early 1880s the firm issued calendars illustrated with African American caricatures in genre scenes, often after Sol Eytinge Harper’s Weekly illustrations., Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information inferred from image content and similar material issued by Clarence Brooks & Co. during the early 1880s., Two of the series contains ornamented borders (P.2022.8.2 & 4)., All of the prints inscribed in pencil on the verso with the name of a month, some abbreviated, between January and December., Image for “The First Ulster in Blackville” (P.2022.8.1) originally published in Harpers Weekly, March 18, 1876., Image for “Love in Blackville. The Wooing of the Twins” (P.2022.8.3) originally published in Harpers Weekly, May 11, 1878., Image for The Great Social Event at Blackville. The Wedding of the Twins (P.2022.8.5) originally published in Harpers Weekly, July 13, 1878., Image for “The Coaching Season in Blackville._ The Grand Start” (P.2022.8.6) originally published in Harpers Weekly, September 28, 1878., Image for “The ‘Fourth’ in Blackville” (P.2022.8.7) originally published in Harpers Weekly, July 14, 1877., Image for “After Doing Paris and the Rest of Europe, The Bridal Party Return to Blackville” (P.2022.8.9) originally published in Harpers Weekly, October 26, 1878., Image for “Who Struck de Futest” (P.2022.8.10) originally published in Harpers Weekly, June 13, 1874., Image for “No Small Breed fer yer Uncle Abe….” (P.2022.8.12) originally published in Harpers Weekly, January 1, 1876., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC
Date: [1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera - calendars - C [P.2022.8.1-12]

Title: Try Atmore's mince meat and genuine English plum pudding
Description: Trade card promoting Atmore & Son's mince meat and depicting a racist scene of an African American boy street peddler. He stands on a sidewalk and holds a disc-shaped pie in his hands in front of the door to a brick building. The rosy-cheeked boy smiles and looks at the viewer. He is barefoot and attired in a white, collared shirt with orange stripes; yellow suspenders; and blue pants with black stripes that are rolled up to below his knees. In the left, on the ground and behind the peddler, is a handled basket full of pies that is partially wrapped in a white cloth. In the right is a tree with green leaves. Atmore & Son, established in 1842, was located at 141 South Front Street, Philadelphia, Pa. They continued producing mince meat as late as 1948., Title from item., Date deduced from genre of print and visual content., Text printed on recto: Try Atmore's mince meat and genuine English plum pudding., Advertising text printed on verso: [A]tmore'[s] celebrated mince meat and genuine English plum pudding prepared with the most scrupulous care from the choicest materials. Average daily sales in the season, 12 tons! Economical! Rich! Reliable! A standing invitation is extended to all visiting Philadelphia, to inspect the manufacture of our goods in all its details. Come and see for yourself! Oldest house in the trade! Established--1842. More & []. [141 S]outh Fron[t] [Stre]et, [P]hiladelphia, PA., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds a duplicate copy [1975.F.14].
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Atmore [P.2017.95.8]

Title: Standard java, Chase & Sanborn, Boston
Description: Trimmed metamorphic trade card promoting Chase & Sanborn's coffee. Depicts a quirky, racist scene with a trompe l’oeil aesthetic and including the oversized head of a Black man with exaggerated features in a North African setting. Shows an African man attired in a yellow hooded robe on a white horse and holding a long spoon to an enormous face of an African man. His head covered in a green and red turban has torn through a wall. He purses his lips out to the spoon. In the center of the image is a white coffee cup with a blue stripe and the text "Standard java, Chase and Sanborn, Boston" written in red. In the right foreground, holding a basket, is a barefooted African woman attired in a white dress with red stripes and cap sleeves; a yellow vest; and red, head kerchief. In the background is a building with Moresque decorative features in the doorway and window. Illustrated on the verso is a partial view of a black man. Shows his chin and lower lip, his torso, and his legs above his ankles. His arms are raised, and he is attired in white pants with blue stripes; a green jacket with yellow lining; a white collared shirt; and red vest and bowtie. Caleb Chase (1831-1908) established a coffee and tea company in 1864. Chase partnered with coffee seller James Sanborn (1835-1903) in 1874 to form Chase & Sanborn. It was the first company to pack and ship roasted coffee in sealed tins. In 1893, the firm supplied the coffee to all of the salons at the Chicago World's Fair. Chase & Sanborn was acquired in 1929 by Standard Brands, which merged with Nabisco in 1981., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Boston roasted coffees have a national reputation representing the finest grown seal brand java and mocha coffee is justly called the aristocratic coffee of America surpassing all others in its richness and delicacy of flavor always packed whole roasted in 2-lb, air-tight tin cans. Crusade blend coffee is a skillfull blending of three high grade coffees noted for their flavor, strength and aroma, warranted not to contain a single Rio bean, but guaranteed to [?]., Gift of David Doret., Card is trimmed at the top and bottom.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Chase [P.2017.95.25]

Title: United we stand. Divided we fall
Description: Racist, satiric trade card promoting the Great American Tea Company. Depicts in two panels an African American man knocking down two African American children eating a candy stick by opening the cellar doors they were sitting on. In the left panel, shows caricatures portrayed with exaggerated features of two barefooted African American children sitting on top of slanted cellar doors. In the left, the boy, attired in a hat, a long-sleeved shirt, and pants with suspenders, holds a striped candy stick in his mouth. In the right, the girl, attired in a bonnet and a dress, shares the same candy stick and sucks the opposite end in her mouth above the caption, “united we stand.” In the right panel, an African American man has come up from inside the cellar and stands holding both doors open in his hands. He is attired in a white shirt, a striped vest, striped pants, and a cap, and holds a pipe in his mouth. The boy has been thrown off of the door and lies in the left on the ground with the candy stick still in his mouth. The girl has also been flung from the top of the door and lies on the ground beside the cellar with only her feet and left hand visible, as the caption reads, “divided we fall.” George Gilman (1826-1901), a tea and coffee merchant, founded the Great American Tea Company in 1863. He opened a number of stores in New York City and started a national mail order business. The firm was renamed the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in 1870, though the Great American Tea Company name was still used in the mail order business. George Huntington Hartford (1833-1917) took over management of the company from 1878 to 1917 and grew the business into the chain of grocery stores known as A&P., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: The most useful every day premium ever sent out, is our latest and newest design of dinner set, genuine imported English white granite, containing 126 pieces. No crazing—no cracking. Use it for breakfast, dinner and supper. This is just the set for every day use. We will give one of these imported white granite dinner sets, (126 pieces) AWAY with a $40.00 order. Every Lady likes to have a nice closet of dishes—your closet is not complete without this set. Don’t fail to get up an order for our celebrated new goods, --teas, coffees and baking powder. As a trial order we will send 3 ½ pounds, of our best teas, by mail, postage prepaid on receipt of list price. Only pure goods sold. The Great American Tea Company, N.B.—Get “The Lalla Rookh Dress Cutting System Chart.” The Greatest Boon to the Ladies., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Great [P.2017.95.75]

Title: Clam bake at 12 m. 4-6:30 p.m. Melville Garden, Downer Landing...Boston Harbor, Open every day except Monday. One of the finest harbor resorts in New England
Description: Racist trade card depicting a whimsical scene with a young African American man serving a tray of food to a white couple seated at a table inside of a large clam shell. In the left, the wide-eyed man holds the large tray at his hips and is attired ina coat, vest, apron, bow tie, and dark-colored pants. The man and woman hold menus in their hands and are dressed in formal wear. The scene is set near a harbor and forst on a rocky shore. Trees and a steamboat in the harbor are visible in the background. Industrialist Samuel Downer opened Melville Garden in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1871. The park was razed in 1897., Title from item., Publication information from copyright statement: Copyright 1880 by J.D. Scudder., Advertising text printed on verso: The Garden contains First-Class Restaurant, Bowling and Shooting Alleys, Billiard Tables,Patent Swings, Flying Horses, Camera Obscura, Menagerie, Bear Pit, &c. Row Boats and Yachts to let. Rhode Island Clam Bake at 12, 4 and 6.30 o'clock. Dinner Tickets, 50c. Edmands' Band, Day and Evening. The Garden will be Illuminated Every Evening with 20 Electric Lights. Grand Concert by Edmands' Band Every Sunday Afternoon and Evening. Hingham Steamers Leave Rowe's Wharf at 5.45, 9.15, 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 2.30, 3.30, 5.30, 6.30, 7.45 and *9.30. Returning, Leave Downer Landing at 7, 7.35, 9.45, 10.35, 12.15, 1.15, 4, 5.15, 6.45, †8.30. †9.30. Cross Trips to and from Nantasket Beach. Leave Downer Landing at 11.20, 12.20, 1.20 and 4.20. Leave Nantasket Beach at 9.30, 12, 1, and 4.50. Sundays. Boston to Downer Landing at 10.15, 2.15, 4.45, and 7.15. Downer Landing to Boston at 12, 3.30, 6, 9.30. †Monday's excepted. *Saturdays excepted. Buy The Excursion Ticket at Rowe's Wharf, 60 Cents., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Melville [P.2017.95.118]

Title: Dis Union. Union. John E. Kaughran & Co., 763 Broadway, Bet. 8th and 9th Streets
Description: Racist, satiric trade card promoting John E. Kaughran & Co.’s dry goods store. Depicts in two panels an African American man knocking down two African American children eating a candy stick by opening the cellar doors they were sitting on. In the left panel, an African American man has come up from inside the cellar and stands holding both doors open in his hands. He is attired in a white shirt, a striped vest, striped pants, and a cap, and holds a pipe in his mouth. The African American boy has been thrown off of the door and lies in the right on the ground with the candy stick in his mouth. The African American girl has also been flung from the top of the door and lies on the ground beside the cellar with only her feet and left hand visible, as the caption reads, “dis union.” In the right panel, shows the two barefooted children sitting on top of slanted cellar doors. In the right, the boy, attired in a hat, a long-sleeved shirt, and pants, holds a striped candy stick in his mouth. In the left, the girl, attired in a bonnet and a dress, shares the same candy stick and sucks the opposite end in her mouth above the caption, “union.” John E. Kaughran (1849-1899) founded his dry goods business in 1877 in New York City and opened a store on Broadway. He retired in 1886., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Text printed on recto: (Over.), Advertising text printed on verso: John E. Kaughran & Co., 763 Broadway, Bet. 8th and 9th Sts., will remove on or about May 1st to 767 and 769 Broadway, Cor. 9th Street. Immense Bargains in all our Departments, Call early in the day and avoid the great rush in the Afternoon., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - John [P.2017.95.93]

Title: United we stand. Divided we fall
Description: Racist, satiric trade card specimen depicting in two panels an African American man knocking down two African American children eating a candy stick by opening the cellar doors they were sitting on. In the left panel, shows caricatures portrayed with exaggerated features of two barefooted African American children sitting on top of slanted cellar doors. In the left, the boy, attired in a hat, a long-sleeved shirt, and pants with suspenders, holds a striped candy stick in his mouth. In the right, the girl, attired in a bonnet and a dress, shares the same candy stick and sucks the opposite end in her mouth above the caption, “united we stand.” In the right panel, an African American man has come up from inside the cellar and stands holding both doors open in his hands. He is attired in a white shirt, a striped vest, striped pants, and a cap, and holds a pipe in his mouth. The boy has been thrown off of the door and lies in the left on the ground with the candy stick still in his mouth. The girl has also been flung from the top of the door and lies on the ground beside the cellar with only her feet and left hand visible, as the caption reads, “divided we fall.”, Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. - United [P.2017.95.210]

Title: Who's dar?
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American man eating honeycomb in a bear’s cave. Shows the barefooted African American man portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a red collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and blue pants with the cuffs rolled up to his knees. He sits on the ground inside a cave and smiles as he holds a large piece of honeycomb in his hands. In the right are many large pieces of honeycomb. In the background, the back of a bear is visible climbing out of the cave through an opening above and to the right of the man's head., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Series number printed on recto: 24., Copyright statement printed on recto: Copyright., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 10 [P.2017.95.221]

Title: An absorbing subject
Description: Racist trade card specimen depicting a caricature an African American man lying on top of a barrel and drinking from it with a straw. Shows the barefooted man, portrayed with exaggerated features, and attired in a straw hat, a striped shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and patched and torn pants. He lies straddling on top of a wooden barrel and rests his head in his hands. He closes his eyes as he drinks from a straw through a hole in the barrel. The barrel has a label pasted on it and is marked “XXX.” In the foreground, a painter’s palette leans against the front of the barrel., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. - Absorbing [P.2017.95.195]

Title: Customer. "Rather cool weather Pete, for a close crop like that." Pete. "Can't help it Boss---the proprietor says long hairs gits in de wittles."
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a racist, comic scene showing an African American waiter serving a bearded, white man seated at a restaurant table. The African American waiter is depicted with exaggerated features, including an oblong-shaped head. He wears a black suit, a white shirt with a high collar, and an apron around his waist. The waiter stands beside the table that is covered in a tablecloth. He rests his left hand on it and holds a bowl of soup on a saucer in his right. The customer, attired in a tuxedo, rests his left arm near a pitcher, glass, napkin and condiment display on the table. In the background, a bald man, sits and eats at a nearby table. Paneling adorns the walls of the restaurant on which the morphed shadow of the waiter is visible., Title printed on negative., Yellow mount with curved corners., Date inferred from attire of depicted figures., Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo - Portraits & Genre [P.2018.16.8]

Title: Who's dar?
Description: Trade card depicting a racist, comic, genre scene to promote the Co-operative Dress Association established by journalist and lecturer Kate Fields in 1881. Shows an older African American boy, portrayed with large eyes, nose, lips, and ears, in a hive eating honey comb as a bear enters from behind him. The boy, attired in a collared red shirt with the sleeves rolled up and blue pants rolled to the knees, sits, left knee up and right leg out, on a mound and to the left of a stack of comb. He smiles and raises a piece of comb toward his mouth. Above him and to the right, the rear end of a bear in a hole in the hive is visible. The Co-operative Dress Association, incorporated in April 1881 with 5000 stockholders, was established to provide clothing "articles of fine quality at fair prices" without the "inducement for illegitimate gain" to women of limited incomes. The cooperative, its necessity criticized by advocates for the New York City retail dry-goods trade, operated until 1882-1883 when placed under receivership., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of co-operative., Series number printed on recto in lower right corner: 24., Copyright statement printed on recto: Copyrighted., Advertising text printed on verso: Open To Everybody. Everybody Invited. Anybody Can Buy. Co-Operative Dress Association (Limited), 31 and 33 West 23d Street, New York. Dry Goods of All Kinds. House-Keeping Goods. Ready-Made Dresses, Cloaks and Wraps, At All Prices. Ladies', Children's and Boys' Suits. Upholstery, Millinery, Stationery, China, Glass and Plated Ware. Boots, Shoes, and Hair Goods. Visit every floor in the Six-Story Building. Restaurant on 5th Floor. Holiday Goods. Fancy Goods., Housed with the Emily Phillips Trade Card Collection., Anonymous gift., RVCDC, Description and access points reviewed 2022.
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - Cooperative [P.2020.23]

Title: Gately & Britton, (limited,) largest installment house in Reading, no. 940 Penn Street
Description: Racist trade card promoting Gately & Britton's home furnishing store in Reading, Pa. and depicting a caricature of an African American boy sitting against a fence post eating a large slice of watermelon. Shows the boy squatting on his toes and smiling at the viewer as he holds a piece of watermelon in both hands. He has taken the melon out of a field of watermelon plants surrounded by a barbed wire fence. He is attired in a torn straw hat, blue shorts with a patch, and only the partial sleeves of a red and white striped shirt. The rest of the shirt has ripped and hangs from the barbed wire in the left. On the ground in the left is the watermelon with a slice cut from it with the handle of a knife protuding out of it. In the right is a small, white and brown dog. Edward Gately and G.M. Britton established a home furnishings store called Gately & Britton at 940 Penn Street, Reading, Pa. in 1887. The business continued operating into the 20th century., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Publication information and date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1887 by Chas. Brown., Series number on recto: C-762., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Gately [P.2017.95.68]

Title: Try King's quick rising buckwheat. It is the best. The cook likes it
Description: Racist trade card promoting King Cereal Manufacturing Company and depicting a caricature of an African American woman domestic serving pancakes to a white couple while an African American man cook smiles in the kitchen. Shows the African American woman domestic, attired in a red dress, a white apron, and a white bonnet, holding her apron up in her hands while looking at the viewer and winking her eye. In the right, a brown-haired, white man with a mustache attired in a black suit, a white collared shirt, and black shoes and a white woman with brown hair in a bun and attired in a blue dress, sit in wooden chairs at a table covered with a white tablecloth. The white woman looks at the viewer as she wipes her mouth with a white napkin. On the table is a plate of pancakes, a coffee pot, glasses, and a condiment tray with various bottles. Through a doorway in the left background, the African American man cook, attired in a white chef’s hat and jacket, a white apron, pants, and black shoes, smiles as he stands behind a table with a box of King’s Quick Rising Buckwheat. In the right on the wall are two framed pictures and a large window with white curtains. Image also includes a red rug and a wooden chair with a green cushion. Edward King (d. 1907) founded King Cereal Manufacturing Company in 1861 in Chicago. He sold his interest in the firm to H. Horner & Co., wholesale grocers in 1903. The firm continued operations into the 1920s., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: We manufacture and sell all the package goods name[?] King’s Quick Ris[ing] Flour, King’s Quick Rising W[heat] For Biscuit, &c. Mrs. Hopper’s Pan[cake] a splendid substitu[te] [spe]cially adapted King’s R[ising] [?]ne Breakfast “Cut Oat Meal. “White Hominy. “Corn Grits or Samp. “Farina. (From the Best Wheat.) “Golden Corn Meal. “Silver Corn Meal. “Flaked Hominy. The best preparation of Corn ever placed on the market. Makes a delicious breakfast dish or after dinner dessert., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - King [P.2017.95.98]

Title: Muzzy's corn starch
Description: Trade card promoting Elkhart Starch Company and depicting a racist genre scene of an African American waiter serving a white couple in a restaurant. Shows in the center of the image the couple seated at a table. In the left, the brown-haired woman, attired in a gray hat decorated with flowers and a red dress with white ruffles at the neck, sleeves, and at the bottom rests her left elbow on the table and holds a white fan. In the right, a man with brown hair and a mustache and attired in a brown jacket; a white collared shirt with a black bowtie; a cream-colored waistcoat; white pants with blue stripes; and black shoes, holds a paper labeled "Bill of Fare" in his right hand. He points his index finger at the woman with his left hand. The African American waiter, attired in a black jacket; a white collared shirt with a white bowtie; and white pants with a gold pocket watch chain stands behind the table. He carries a silver tray with two dishes, each with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. In the left background is an entryway with a red curtain. To the right of the doorway is a sideboard and a framed painting hangs above it. Image also includes, in the right, a hurricane chandelier and checkered flooring. A.L. Muzzy built the Muzzy & Sage Mill in Elkhart, Indiana in 1870. Albert R. Beardsley (1847-1924) purchased the mill in 1878 and founded the Elkhart Starch Company. The Company was bought by the National Starch in 1893., Title from item., Date deduced from history of advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: "Elkhart Starch Co. Elkhart, Ind. Manufacture Muzzy’s Sun Gloss refined & corn starch. Of superior quality, by a new process. A thorough test makes it a household necessity. Muzzys corn starch is the purest & best made. Capacity ten tons of starch per day." Includes an illustration depicting a train running past the Elkhart starch works manufactory., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Elkhart [P.2017.95.57]

Title: Muzzy's corn starch
Description: Trade card promoting Elkhart Starch Company and depicting a racist genre scene of an African American woman domestic servant serving a white family at the dinner table. Shows in the center of the image the man and woman couple and child seated at a table. In the left, a man with brown hair and attired in a black jacket; a white collared shirt with a yellow bowtie; a yellow waistcoat; white pants with blue stripes; and black shoes, looks down and reads the newspaper he is holding. In the right, the blonde-haired woman, attired in a long-sleeved blue and white dress, rests her left hand on the table and looks towards the African American woman. The African American woman, attired in a blue striped dress, stands behind the table and carries a steaming pan of food. To the left, a blonde-haired child, attired in a white, short-sleeved shirt, reaches their hands up toward the pan of food. On the table are plates and cutlery. A.L. Muzzy built the Muzzy & Sage Mill in Elkhart, Indiana in 1870. Albert R. Beardsley (1847-1924) purchased the mill in 1878 and founded the Elkhart Starch Company. The Company was bought by the National Starch in 1893., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Elkhart [P.2017.95.58]

Title: Ladies
Description: Lantern slide formerly owned and probably used in art lessons by Philadelphia painter, photographer, and art teacher, Xanthus Smith. Depicts a scene set in Roman antiquity of a white woman, attired in a white gown, dancing before upper-class Romans. In the center is a marble veranda with a roof comprised of a red drape with yellow fringe held up by columns. In the veranda, around a table filled with food and drink, a Roman woman and three men lounge and watch the dancer. Behind them, three enslaved Black men and a woman carry wine flasks, pour drinks, and fan. In the left, white men and women musicians play flutes and tambourines. In the background, a peacock and other birds stand and fly on the palatial building decorated with columns, sculpture, and flowers., Title from partially legible label on mount., Number 19 in "Old Roman World" series., Gift of Edna Andrade, 1994., RVCDC, 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides - Smith [P.9471]

Title: A scene in the Golden Dragon, 1526 Market Street, Philadelphia's most beautiful restaurant
Description: Interior view of the Golden Dragon restaurant located at 1526 Market Street, Philadelphia and depicting the dining room crowded with patrons. Shows the large room filled with diners sitting at white table-clothed tables and standing in a row. The men and women, finely attired in suits, dresses, hats, and jewelry, look at the viewer. Plates of food and cups and glasses are visible on the tables. In the left, a Chinese man waiter, attired in a tuxedo, stands with probably menus under his arm. In the background, musicians, attired in tuxedos, are seated with musical instruments in front of a backdrop of peacock feathers. The dining room ceiling is decorated with multiple-colored fabrics. Charlie Kerr (1890-1976) was a jazz drummer and orchestra leader in the 1920s to the late 1940s., Title from item., Date inferred from medium and content., Text printed on verso: Philadelphia, Pa., 19[blank], Dear [blank], Greetings from the beautiful Golden Dragon, where I dined today. "Charlie" Kerr's Orchestra is great., Series no. on verso: 2690 N., See related: Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bingham through Green's - 112] - sheet number 112B04., Sheet number: 112A05., Divided backs.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bingham through Green's - 112]

Title: A scene in the Golden Dragon, 1526 Market Street, Philadelphia's most beautiful restaurant
Description: Interior view of the Golden Dragon restaurant located at 1526 Market Street, Philadelphia and depicting the dining room crowded with patrons. Shows the large room filled with diners sitting at white table-clothed tables and standing in a row. The men and women, finely attired in suits, dresses, hats, and jewelry, look at the viewer. Plates of food and cups and glasses are visible on the tables. In the left, a Chinese man waiter, attired in a tuxedo, stands with probably menus under his arm. In the background, musicians, attired in tuxedos, are seated with musical instruments in front of a backdrop of peacock feathers. The dining room ceiling is decorated with fabrics. Charlie Kerr (1890-1976) was a jazz drummer and orchestra leader in the 1920s to the late 1940s., Title from item., Date inferred from medium and content., Text printed on verso: Philadelphia, Pa., 19[blank], Dear [blank], Greetings from the beautiful Golden Dragon, where I dined today. "Charlie" Kerr's Orchestra is great., See related: Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bingham through Green's - 112] - sheet number 112A05., Sheet number: 112B04., Divided backs.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bingham through Green's - 112]

Title: Junger Maennerchor, Philadelphia, 1868
Description: Group portrait in an outdoor setting, probably the Junger Maennerchor annual picnic and summer night's festival at Schützen Park, depicting hundreds of members (several with their faces likely based after photographs) of the German-American choral society founded in 1852. The massive crowd of white men sit, stand, drink beer, and smoke cigars and pipes. In the left foreground, a number of men hold sheets of music, with one, seated, and in the gesture of conducting across from another seated men leaning on a bound volume resting on a stack of bound volumes of likely music. Also shows a man in the right foreground pouring beer from a keg, and in the center background, two men on horseback, a man holding the society flag, and a man holding a trophy and gesturing toward another man. In the far background, pavilions, several trees, and a partially obscured building is visible. The men are attired in shirt sleeves or suits with ties. Some also wear hats or their hats rest beside them on the ground or they hold walking sticks. By the mid-1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Includes pictorial detail of an eagle with a lyre and a banner reading "Junger Maennerchor" within the title text between the words "Maennerchor" and "Philadelphia.", Title and date from item., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 299
Creator: Ch. P. & A. J. Tholey, artist
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2020.39.11]

Title: [Catharine Rupp Doering drinking from fountain along the Wissahickon Creek.]
Description: Depicts Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer, drinking from the Leonidas Spring Fountain in Fairmount Park, located near the Henry Avenue Bridge. Water spouts from a lion's head that decorates the center wall of the fountain., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.36]

Title: [Men drawing water from Wissahickon Creek.]
Description: View of two men drawing and drinking water from the creek and one man standing and drying his hands with a hankerchief., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.45]

Title: [Unknown group eating watermelon.]
Description: Depicts young men and women sitting in the grass eating watermelon., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.66]

Title: [Bicycling trip, William Doering drinking from fountain, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts William Doering (photographer) drinking water from a fountain in Fairmount Park. His bicycle rests against the stone wall behind him., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.167]

Title: [Bicycling trip, man drinking from fountain, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts an unidentified man drinking water from a fountain in Fairmount Park. His bicycle rests against the stone wall behind him., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.168]

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

Title: [Prodigal Son series, 1775]
Description: Six prints based upon Sebastian Le Clerc II's 1751 series, "L'Histoire de l'enfant prodigue," depicting the Prodigal Son parable of sin, penitence, and salvation. Includes two Black characters: a prostitute and a male servant. The six scenes titled: La Enfant prodigue exigeant sa Legitime; Le depart de l'Enfant prodigue; Vie debauche de l'Enfant prodigue; L'Enfant prodigue dans la plus grande Misere; L'Enfant prodigue reclamant la bonte de son Pere; Rejouissances pour le Retour de l'Enfant prodigue depict the white son claiming his patrimony, taking leave of his father, living a debaucherous life with prostitutes, in misery as a swineherder, returning penitent to his father, and celebrating his return with a feast., "Vie debauche de l'enfant prodigue" shows the prodigal son engaged in immoral behavior. Depicts the young white man, attired in a white wig, a jacket, breeches, white stockings, and buckled shoes, seated at a table with three prostitutes. He leans over and gropes the breast of the white woman, who touches his face with her left hand and raises a glass in her right hand. The Black woman sits in the left and holds a glass in her left hand. The women are attired in wigs in high hairstyles ornamented with ribbons, bows, and feathers, dresses, and heeled dress shoes. The table has plates of food, cutlery, and glasses set upon it. On the floor is a tub filled with bottles. Several bottles are knocked over at the man’s feet, including one that is spilling out alcohol. In the right, a servant woman, attired in a white cap, a plain dress, and an apron, bends over a gambling table to tidy up the cards and chips., "Rejouissances pour le retour de l'enfant prodigue" shows the celebration of the prodigal son’s return with a feast. Depicts four white men and two white women seated at the dining table. The men are attired in wigs, white shirts, jackets, breeches, white stockings, and buckled shoes. The women are attired in wigs in high hairstyles ornamented with ribbons and bows and dresses with bows at the neck. The feasters eat and drink at the table, which has glasses, plates, and cutlery set on it. Two white men servants, attired in wigs, white shirts, and uniform jackets, stand behind the diners and serve food on a plate. In the left, a Black man servant, attired in a wig, a white shirt, a uniform jacket, breeches, white stockings, and buckled shoes, crouches behind a chair to hide and drinks from a bottle. The man seated in the chair turns around to look at him. At his feet is a tub filled with bottles, one bottle knocked over, and an additional bottle by his chair. In the top right background is a balcony where four white men musicians play, including two violinists and possibly an oboe player., Prints numbered 1-6 lower left corner., Series title supplied by cataloger., Publication information inferred from name of engraver and the attire of the depicted figures., See Ellen G. D'Oench's Prodigal Son narratives, 1480-1980 (Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery and Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, 1995)., Purchase 1971., RVCDC, 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: Haid, Johann Elias, 1739-1809, engraver
Date: [ca. 1775]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Prodigal Son-1775 [7943.F.1-6]

Title: [Double-sided proof print containing a racist caricature of an African American mother and her children and a comic genre scene with a bookmaker]
Description: Left panel depicts an African American mother, portrayed in racist caricature, with her three children in the doorway of a home in the country. The mother, attired in a red headkerchief with white polka dots, a white shirt with pink polka dots and the sleeves rolled to the elbows, a green skirt, and a white apron with blue stripes, stands smiling with her arms crossed. Sitting in front of her are three young barefooted children attired in pink short-sleeved dresses. The children suck on the tubes of their nursing bottles. A small black dog, a cat with two kittens, and a pig gather and watch children. At the right of the door, a barrel rests under a drain pipe. A food tray lies nearby, and a horseshoe hangs above the door. The right panel shows "Joe McK.. Bookmak[er]" accepting bets, seated at his table, outside a stadium. The older white man bookie, attired in a gray bowler hat, a white collared shirt, a red polka dot vest, blue and white striped pants, and yellow shoes, smokes a cigar and accepts money from a young white man waiting at the head of the line. Also shows the backs of men leaving the bookie and headed toward the "Grand Stand" visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1905 by J. Hoover & Son Phila., Printed lower left corner: 2039., Gift of S. Robert Teitelman, 2007., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Hall, Bernhard, 1859-1935, artist
Date: 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1905 Proof [P.2007.23.8]

Title: Home on sick leave
Description: Reproduction of a caricature showing a soldier dining with a young lady attired in an absurd hat. The soldier sips from a straw and looks sheepishly at his dining partner., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., See related print: political cartoons - 1863 Hom [5780.F.d].
Creator: J. Gurney & Son
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51r]

Title: "One flag. One country. Zwei lager."
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing a Zouave and infantryman drinking a beer together., Publisher's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Gurney & Son
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53k]

Title: Group of young men and women sitting on a loading dock or wharf, drinking, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait depicting three young men and two young women sitting on a loading dock or wharf, drinking, in Philadelphia. The men drape their arms over the shoulders of the women, and one couple holds hands. A little girl in a summer dress with a bow in her hair sits alone on the other side of a pillar next to the group., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 N. 6th St., Phila., Kruxo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.129]

Title: Five men, one drinking out of a flask, sitting on a doorstep, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing five men, all wearing suits and workman's caps, gathered together on a sunny day for a group portrait on a doorstep in Philadelphia. One of the men is taking a drink from his flask., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.158]

Title: Two workmen sitting on a stoop, one drinking out of a beer bottle, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two men in suits and their workman's caps sitting on a marble stoop in Philadelphia. The man on the right has his arm around the other's shoulders and drinks out of a beer bottle., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.57]

Title: Two men and three women picnicing in wooded area, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young men and three young women picnicing in a wooded area in Philadelphia. One of the men wears a straw boater hat. The seated women wear coats and walking shoes, and two of them eat food, including a banana., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.4]

Title: Bits of nature and some art products, in Fairmount Park, at Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Volume of compiled prints and drawings by lithographer, etcher, and artist Augustus Kollner primarily depicting landscapes of Fairmount Park and originally published in his "Bits of Nature ...," one of four volumes in his 1878 series of small folio pictures. Also contains views of Philadelphia and Bucks and Montgomery counties. Several of the prints also show park and riverscape; residences and estates; animals, including canal mules, horses, cows, and dogs; park visitors, including an African American family, children, and persons on foot and on horseback; steamboats, rowboats, and other vessels on the Schuylkill River; and rock formations. Other views show wharf workers at lunch and a cliff-side residence at North Twenty-Seventh Street near the park., Mount Pleasant Mansion was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Titles include Thos. Moore’s Cottage, Phila. Park; Schuylkill River, Fairmount Park, Phila. (Columbia Bridge); Prospect from Ridgeland and Fairmount Park, Phila.; (In Fairmount Park) Sweet Briar Mansion, in 1843; In Ravine near Sweet Briar Fairmount Park, Phila.; Schuylkill River below the Falls, Fairmount Pk. Phila.; Belmont and Waterworks. Mount Pleasant, Fairmount Park, Philada.; In Wissahickon Valley, Fairmount Park, Philada.; Peters Island, Fairmount Park, Philada.; Schuylkill Riv. above Fairmount Dam, Philada. in 1843; Phila. 1842; Schuylkill River Pa.; Pt. Pleasant, Pa.; Near Willow Grove Penna.; Life Scenes in Fairmount Park; Near East Park, Phila./ "S.E. corner 27th & [Arben?]"; Schuylkill Valley Pa (dated 1893).; Delaware Riv. [Easton?]; Life Scenes in Park; City Wharf Scene (dated 1894); and West Phila [illegible] near Sweet [Briar?] West Phila., Title from title page., Maroon leather binding, stamped in gilt on cover: Bits of Nature. A. Kollner., Spine stamped: Bits of Nature. Kollner., Prints variably signed AK; A. Kollner; A. Kollner fc.; From nate. and etchd by A. Kollner; and Kollner, fect., Titles on the stone or plate. Some annotated with inscribed titles., Two of prints [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.15 and 16] printed on recto of proofs. Proofs depict "Life Scenes in Park" and "The Christian Soldier.", Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Date: [1878-1894]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F]

Title: [The tavern]
Description: Plate probably from a children's moral instruction picture book showing two white boys walking past a town saloon. One boy, attired in a wide-brimmed yellow hat, blue jacket, and tan britches, holds something in his left hand and uses his right hand to pat the back of the other boy beside him. The other boy, attired in a blue cap, red jacket, and yellow britches holds a thin rod and looks toward his companion. Behind the boys stands the saloon with a porch and open entryway and window. Six men, including an African America man, attired in top hats, vests, and jackets relax on the porch. The men smoke, read, lean back in their chairs, and watch the passing boys. A tan dog sleeps under the porch and near the dangling foot of the African American man who sits on the edge of the porch. Men drinking at the bar are seen through the open entryway and a man reading a newspaper is seen through the open window. In the center foreground, a tree and square-shaped rock are visible., Title from Christopher Lane & Donald Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia at The Philadelphia Print Shop, featuring the Wohl Collection (Philadelphia, 1990)., Date inferred from Kollner's period of work with the American Sunday-School Union as A. Kollner's Lithy., Gift of David Maxey, 2015., Lane & Creswell suggest the plate is related to the American Sunday-School Union picture book "Common Sights in Town & Country" (Philadelphia, 1850)., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Genre [P.2015.52.5]

Title: City wharf scene
Description: Etching showing two men and a woman gathered on a wharf with food and drink. One man rests in a wheelbarrel, as the other sits upright next to the woman who leans against a wooden fence with her hands clasped. Also shows boats and the riverscape in the background., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.20]

Title: Home "on sick leave"
Description: Caricature showing a soldier dining with a young lady attired in an absurd hat. The soldier sips from a straw and looks sheepishly at his dining partner., Lithographer's signature on stone lower left corner., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., See related photograph: cdv - misc. - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures and cartoons [5770.F.51i]., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Mullen, Edward F., lithographer
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons-1863 Hom [5780.F.d]

Title: [Picnic on the Wilson Estate]
Description: View showing the Wilson Estate near Germantown in Philadelphia. Depicts the white men and women family members, some standing and some seated, dining at a table under a tent near a large tree. An African American man, attired in a white chef's hat and apron, stands in the right of the table and oversees the meal. In the right, a young white woman sits astride a horse., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the people., Photographer's label on verso: Photographed by R. Newell, 724 Arch St., Philadelphia., Purchase 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9439.3]

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

Title: Burholme Park outing. "Ice Cream."
Description: Depicts a smiling African American woman serving ice cream from a barrel to African American children with disabilities in Burholme Park, Philadelphia. The children, most with crutches, surround the barrel eating their ice cream. In the foreground, the young girl sits holding a dish of ice cream while her crutches lie on the grass in front of her. Three boys and one girl stand and hold dishes of ice cream. People stand and sit on benches in the background. Burholme, originally the country seat of railroad magnate Joseph Waln Ryerss and an Underground Railroad station during the Civil War, became a public park at the death bequest of Ryerss' son, Robert, in 1868., Title from duplicate print., Date inferred from attire of the people., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8817.15a]

Title: Burholme Park outing. "Ice Cream."
Description: Depicts a smiling African American woman serving ice cream from a barrel to African American children with disabilities in Burholme Park, Philadelphia. The children, most with crutches, surround the barrel eating their ice cream. In the foreground, the young girl sits holding a dish of ice cream while her crutches lie on the grass in front of her. Three boys and one girl stand and hold dishes of ice cream. People stand and sit on benches in the background. Burholme, originally the country seat of railroad magnate Joseph Waln Ryerss and an Underground Railroad station during the Civil War, became a public park at the death bequest of Ryerss' son, Robert, in 1868., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from attire of the people., Photographer's blind stamp on recto., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8817.15]

Title: View of the Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons
Description: Civil War souvenir print containing six views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at the southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues and the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at 1009 Ostego Street. Contains a large central view of the exterior of the Union Saloon with troops arriving, entering the dining saloon, and departing on a Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad car as crowds of people flock around them. Other views depict soldiers using the wash basins adjoining the Cooper Shop Saloon; pro-Union flags and Saloon banners; the Union Saloon's outside washing and cooking departments including an African American man carrying a pail of food; and interiors of both saloons where male and female volunteers attend to long tables of food and a large simmering vat on a hearth. Contains an eagle clutching large American flags and a pro-Union banner above the scenes. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South, the relief organizations provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 1,000,000 military personnel, sailors, refugees, and freedmen during the war., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to An Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by Job T. Williams in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 806, Print trimmed., Gift of Isadore Lichstein, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W434 [P.9001.6]

Title: Mae
Description: Depicts a young girl eating with a spoon. An apple, a porcelain stein, two cups and a bread basket surround her plate of food on the covered table., Photographer's imprint from blind stamp, l.l., Title from inscription on mount., Label on mount reads: "There was a young woman and what do you think, She lived upon nothing but VICTUALS & DRINK;", Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: September 3rd, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.6]

Title: Mae
Description: Depicts a young girl drinking from a tin cup. An apple, a porcelain stein and a bread basket surround a plate of food on the covered table., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Title from inscription on mount., Label on mount reads: "VICTUALS & DRINK were the chief of her diet, And yet this young woman scarce ever was quiet.", Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: September 3rd, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.7]

Title: Dividing the beef, Lodge Grass Mont[ana]
Description: Scene depicting Native Americans, probably Crow, and African American cowboys in a circle cutting up beef carcasses. Native American men, women, and children sit on the grass in a circle around the meat. Several can be seen smiling. There are also small dogs standing around the group. An African American man stands in the right and looks on at the scene. In the center, another African American man bends over with a side of beef in his hands. In the background are two tepees and a tent., Title from caption on mount., Purchase 1988., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Rich was a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer and avid traveler commissioned in 1908 to accompany a Rodman Wanamaker expedition to Yellowstone to photograph the region's landscape and Native American life.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides-Rich [P.9266.1308]

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