View of a flower arrangement adorned with butterflies in a vase on a table covered with a patterned cloth., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. was one of the largest suppliers of photographic apparatus in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their business moved from 501 Broadway to 591 Broadway in 1869.
Date
[ca. 1872]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Anthony - Decoration and Ornamentation [P.9022.10]
View of a woman standing and posing with the flowers near Horticultural Hall in West Fairmount Park., Copyrighted 1908 by William H. Rau., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Dark gray 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.
Creator
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date
c1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Parks [P.9047.138]
Full-length portrait of a Chinese man and Chinese woman seated at a table. In the left, the woman, attired in a decorative headdress and a dress with large, full sleeves, sits on a carved, wooden chair with her feet on a wooden footrest. In the right, the man, attired in a cap, a traditional robe with fur at the cuffs, and cloth slip-on shoes, sits with his legs crossed and faces the viewer. A vase of flowers and possibly a tea set are on a tablecloth-lined table in-between the man and woman., Title from publisher's printed series list on verso with thirty other titled views (No. 1-36)., Date inferred from content., Series number (No. 28) also written in manuscript note on mount below image., Photographer's imprint printed on verso above titled series list., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: S.R. Marrines., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James., Indianapolis photographer D. R. Clark was included in one of eight observation parties sponsored by the United States government to gather information about the December 8, 1874 Transit of Venus. His party traveled to Vladivostock, Russia.
Creator
Clark, D. R., photographer
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Clark - Non-Phila. [P.9299.5]
