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Title: The happy family going to market
Description: Genre scene showing a group of girls posing in a yard with a dog that grasps a basket in its mouth. One of the little girls pushes her doll in a carriage. A woman stands in the background watching the group., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved 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., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.2002.67.38]

Title: A Brown study
Description: Full-length portrait study, possibly used as a book illustration, depicting a young African American girl standing in front of a wheelbarrow. The girl, attired in a brimmed hat, a white collared shirt, a jacket, a skirt, and shoes, holds the handle of the wheelbarrow with her right hand and holds a rock in her left hand as she looks at the viewer. Behind her, steps leading to a porch stocked with supplies in wooden crates and sacks are visible. Sheets hang on a clothesline over the porch., Title from item., Probably Helen P. Gatch (1861-1942), a turn-of-the-century pictorial photographer whose prize-winning photographs were widely published and exhibited., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984., 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: Gatch, Helen M., photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - photographer - Gatch [P.9057.158]

Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified African American girl dressed for Easter]
Description: Half-length portrait of an unidentified young African American girl, wearing her hair tied back with a large bow on top of her head and attired in a long-sleeved shirt with a high neckline and a pinafore adorned with a pin., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note on verso: Easter Greetings 1912., Mount contains ornate border., Purchase 1993., 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: Rose Studio, photographer
Date: 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - unidentified female [P.9410.28]

Title: [Young Black girl articulated paper doll]
Description: Paper doll of an unclothed figure of a young Black girl with moveable limbs. The girl is depicted with short, cropped, tightly curled hair, auburn eyes, and slightly smiling. A blue-beaded string necklace adorns her neck. She also wears white, above-the-ankle length socks and black "Mary Jane" shoes. The articulated limbs are attached by brass brads to a white cardboard torso, likely not the original. About the late 1880s, Littauer & Boysen (established circa 1882), a premier German chromolithographer of novelties, began to print articulated dolls for the paper box company. Dennison sold the German firm's dolls to further market its special line of tissue/crepe paper as doll's clothing. The Massachusetts company, established 1844, also manufactured shipping tags, gummed labels, and holiday tags. The firm opened a salesroom in Philadelphia in 1862. In 1898, the firm consolidated operations in Framingham, Ma. from plants in Roxbury, Ma. Brooklyn, N.Y., and Brunswick, Me. where it was originally established in 1844., Title supplied by cataloger., Manufactured and distributed by Dennison Manufacturing Company, Ma., Publication information from Mary Young, 20th Century Paper Dolls Identification and Values (Collector Books, 2006)., Date inferred from published sources, the years of operation of the publisher, and the early era of the style of footwear depicted., Purchased with funds from Walter J. Miller Trust for the Visual Culture Program., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1885-ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera - paper dolls [P.2015.68.1]

Title: [Unidentified May Day Celebration]
Description: Photograph containing two images. The image on the right shows a May Day celebration with women and girls wrapping long ribbons around a pole. The image on the left is a closer view of the same scene., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1880-ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2122]

Title: [Unidentified May Day Celebration]
Description: Photograph containing two images. The image on the left shows girls in white dresses standing in a circle on a lawn next to a stone building covered in ivy. The image on the right shows a woman in a white dress carrying a bouquet of flowers. Two girls walk behind her carrying her train and two grils walk in front of her., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1880-ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2123]

Title: Thos. Sinclair & Son, general lithographers. 506-508 North St. bet. Arch Cards & advertising novelties
Description: Tradecard for the Philadelphia lithography firm depicting a cameo portrait of a young lady. A bud vase with flower, and a mantle cloth, border the portrait. Thomas Sinclair & Son operated as a partnership 1870-1889., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 105, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Sinclair
Creator: T. Sinclair & Son
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Sinclair

Title: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified African American girl]
Description: Bust-length portrait of a young African American girl facing slightly right. She wears her curly hair in bangs at her forehead, with half of her long hair tied up and the rest draped behind her back. She is attired in small hoop earrings and a dress with a crocheted lace collar with a pin at the neck., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from the photographer and attire of the sitter., Gift of David Long, 2001., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Parlor Gallery, operated by Lewis Horning, was in business at 525 South 9th Street from around 1886 until around 1894.
Creator: Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Parlor [P.9981.11]

Title: [African American girl laughing with an infant on her lap]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American girl laughing with an infant on her lap. In the right, shows the African American girl, attired in a red and white checked dress, sitting on the floor. She tilts her head back in laughter as she holds a white infant, attired in a white layette and a triangular paper hat. In the left, a blond-haired white girl, attired in a white dress and red shoes, looks on., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 4 [P.2017.95.215]

Title: [Girls High School class of 1900]
Description: Class portrait, including African American students, posed before the school at 17th and Spring Garden streets. The students sit on the front steps of the school and stand along the sides and at the top. Some hold and display personal mementoes. Established in 1848, the high school, located at Spring Garden from 1876 to 1958, was the first municipally funded secondary school for girls in the United States. The school relocated to 1400 West Olney Street in 1958., Right corner missing., Photographer's imprint ink stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1991., 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: Broadbent Company, photographer
Date: [1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education [P.9359]

Title: ASSU Illustration 3808
Description: Block numbered in one place: 3308, also 900 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a very young girl with short hair holding a dog, perhaps a King Charles Spaniel; she holds a drawing of a dog with one hand.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 24

Title: ASSU Illustration 9220
Description: Block numbered in two places: 9220, also 1462 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of girl lying in bed, her left forearm attached with bandages to a splint; a drinking glass and two bottles are on a table beside her; in the space around this circular image are a thin fruit tree, two goats pulling an open carriage, and a seated girl with arms crossed beside a man holding a cane and wearing a tall pointed hat., V. Grottenthaler Phila. – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories from 1867 to 1876.
Date: [between 1867 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 16

Title: Chase, Jane, 1832-1846.
Description: In Memoir of Jane Chase (New York, 1846), title page vignette., Full-length portrait of the girl playing a piano.
Date: [1846?]

Title: Wirt, Agnes Cabell, 1814-1830.
Description: In Agnes C. Wirt (New York, 1842), title page vignette., Another portrait, on the first page of text, depicts the young woman seated across from her father, U.S. Attorney General William Wirt., Full-length portrait of the young woman seated in a chair.
Date: [1842?]

Title: Walton, Margaret Ann, 1818-1825.
Description: In Memoir of Margaret Ann Walton (New York, 1842), title page vignette., Another portrait, on the first page of text, depicts the girl seated with her mother., Full-length portrait of the young girl, kneeling in prayer with a black girl, with an open book on a stool between them.
Date: [1842?]

Title: Beckie and Bessie
Description: In Kerlin, I.N. The mind unveiled (Philadelphia, 1858), plate opposite p. 15., Three-quarter portrait of eight-year-old Beckie standing next to full-length seated portrait of Bessie. Beckie and Bessie are children with mental disabilities at the Pennsylvania Training School (Germantown, Pa.).
Date: [1858?]

Title: Burns, Ella Virginia.
Description: Full-length portrait of the young girl holding her hands across her waist., In The American phrenological journal, vol. 29 (Jan., 1859), p. 1., At the age of four Ella Burns was a national celebrity, renowned for her captivating public readings and poetry recitations., “Without ever having been taught spelling or the alphabet, but having herself picked up a knowledge of words by intuitive quickness of eye, [Ella] takes any book of poetry presented to her and reads verses she has never before seen, with a cadence and a pronunciation which do the fullest justice to the sense and rhythm.”--P. 2.
Date: [1859?]

Title: Osgood, May Vincent, d. 1851.
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the young girl playing with a necklace strand., In Hewitt, Mary E., ed., The memorial (New York 1852), plate opposite p. 29., May Vincent Osgood was the second child of poet Frances Sargent Locke Osgood and painter Samuel Stillman Osgood.
Date: [1852?]

Title: Osgood, Ellen Frances, d. 1851.
Description: Waist-length portrait of the young girl holding a butterfly., In Hewitt, Mary E., ed., The memorial (New York 1852), plate opposite p. 19., Ellen Frances Osgood was the first child of poet Frances Sargent Locke Osgood and painter Samuel Stillman Osgood.
Date: [1852?]

Title: J. Mason, informs her friends and those who may favour her with their patronage, that she has removed her seminary, to an open healthy situation, with every advantage of light and air, back of No. 86 Callowhill Street, between Second and Third Streets, where she continues to instruct girls in all the most useful branches of an English education
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mason [P.9809.1]

Title: Twelve good reasons why the Woman's Suffrage Stove Polish is preferred to all others
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a seated portrait of a girl with her arms propped on and crossed on the back of the chair., Title supplied by cataloger from advertising text printed on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Edith from Abbie., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Woman's [P.9990]

Title: I. Oakford & Son, hatters, 28 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a full-length portrait of a young girl wearing boots too large for her body. I. Oakford & Son was the partnership between Isaac Oakford and his son Charles E. Oakford., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Jennifer Ambrose., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Oakford [P.9649]

Title: Boy and girl in front of a religious statue of Mary, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a boy, about thirteen years old, sitting on the base of a statue of Mary. Next to him stands a little girl, about five years old, wearing a wreath on her curly hair and holding a large bouquet of flowers. The boy wears a very nicely tailored suit with knickers and patterned socks and white shoes. There are two potted palms behind the statue. The statue of Mary wears a wreath of flowers., 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.2008.10.75]

Title: Use Eavenson's diamond soap
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl attired in a blue dress and matching bonnet walking with her dog on an autumn day. She holds a stick in her right arm and is poised to whack the branches with it. Eavenson & Sons was founded ca. 1857 in Philadelphia by Jones Eavenson and his eldest son Allen Eavenson., Copyright 1882 by Graf Bros., Contains advertising text listing varieties of Eavenson & Sons' high grade pure soaps printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Graf Brothers, the lithograph firm operated by German brothers Julius F. (b. 1846) and Charles L. Graf (1849-1900) in Philadelphia 1873-1970s, produced advertisements, trade cards, labels and maps.
Date: c1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Eavenson [1975.F.290]

Title: A pl easant evening at home
Description: Genre photograph showing an interior view of a family recreating in their den or living room. Shows a mother watching her two daughters as one plays the piano and the other holds sheet music. Their father reads the newspaper nearby., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; London; Hamberg, Ger.; and St. Petersburg, Russia., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Portraits and genre [P.9738]

Title: Little girl and dog in wicker chair on sidewalk, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait showing a little girl, about four years old, sitting with a white dog on her lap in a wicker children's chair on the sidewalk in Philadelphia. She wears a dress, white knee-high socks, and patent leather shoes., 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.2008.10.19]

Title: Benedict, Miller & Co., manufacturers of umbrellas and parasols, No. 39 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting two girls, a blonde and a brunette. The blonde girl waves a fan and touches a perfume bottle, while the brunette watches with clasped hands., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Benedict [1975.F.40]

Title: Three men and a little girl sitting on the sidewalk in front of a brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three men wearing workman's caps and working clothes, sitting on a sidewalk in Philadelphia with a little girl among them. She has a very dirty face. There is graffiti on the brick wall behind them. The brick house adjoins a wooden structure., 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.2008.10.85]

Title: A study in chocolate
Description: Full-length portrait by an unidentified young African American girl taken by an unidentified member of the Columbia Photographic Society. The girl, attired in a long-sleeved, gingham dress and pinafore and boots, holds a toy and looks at the viewer. She stands sideways on the sidewalk of a residential street, probably in Philadelphia. Behind her is a fence and a row of houses. The Society, an amateur North Philadelphia photographer's club established in 1889, sponsored photographic outings, lantern slide shows, and published "Camera" magazine until 1953., Title from label on the item., Date inferred by the attire of the sitter., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1982, p. 42., See "Charter and By-Laws of the Columbia Photographic Society." (Philadelphia, 1905). (LCP Print Room, 68371.D)., Gift of Morris Finkel, 1982., 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.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Columbia Photographic Society - unidentified [P.8912.258]

Title: [Group portrait of two young women, a girl, a boy, and a baby]
Description: Tintype showing a group of young women and children posing for a portrait. Two young women sit in chairs and a girl stands between them. A boy sits between them and baby sits on a blanket to the left., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1880-ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.569]

Title: [Group of children with adult male by fence and benches]
Description: Photograph showing a group of children posed on a bench. A man stands next to the group on the left and a metal fence separates the sidewalk from the foliage behind it. Some of the children wear hats with long coats., Photograph from negative number 43-2., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1880-ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2108]

Title: [Wood road at Sea Girt, NJ]. View includes a young girl with a baby carriage
Description: Circular photograph with a gold border showing a young girl standing next to a baby carriage on a dirt path. The path is lined with trees, has a large puddle in the foreground, and opens up to a wider road in the background., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1880-ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2080]

Title: Graf Brothers, lithographers, 125 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Tradecard depicting an Autumn genre scene with a girl and a pug dog. The girl, attired in a bonnet and dress with a large bow in the back, holds a stick over her shoulder and watches pine cones fall from a tree. Her dog watches from behind. Verso contains advertising text promoting "Graf & Brother, Practical Lithographers, Engravers and Printers, South-East Corner Fourth and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia Pa." Products include bonds, certificates, notes, checks, billheads, diplomas, maps, views, show-cards, architectural drawings, businesss cards, and chromo cards, the "Best Thing For Advertising Medium Extant.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 37, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - G
Creator: Graf & Brother
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - G

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified African American girl]
Description: Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of an African American girl seated on a chair with an ornate, wooden back. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, crimped, and tied in pig tails. She is attired in a dark-colored, short-sleeved dress with white lace decorating the cuffs. She clasps her hands together slightly and rests them at her waist. Her cheeks are tinted pink. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded red velvet with fleur de lis in center surrounded by scrolls., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design with a six pointed star within a shield flanked by banners. Same design on verso., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 17-24., Reproduced on cover and on page 44 of Julie Winch's The Elite of our people (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000)., Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1855-ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.9]

Title: [Children posed on lawn chairs]
Description: View from above looking down on a row of children lying on striped cushioned lawn chairs in a park. Shows the eight boys and girls, including an African American girl, in a row waving to the viewer. The girls are attired in dresses, and the boys are attired in collared shirts and shorts. In the background are two benches., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and 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. 1950]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana

Title: Philadelphia Health Council. Camp Happy tents
Description: View depicting young female campers, including African Americans, near pitched tents on a campground. Shows a field with a line of tents. The girls stand in front of the opening of the tents. In the right background, a small building is visible. Probably an "open air" program to rehabilitate tuberculosis patients sponsored by the Philadelphia Health Council and Tuberculosis Committee. The committee, founded in 1920 by Dr. Lawrence Flick, operated until 1944., Title from negative sleeve., Photographer's imprint inscribed on negative., Purchase 1978., 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: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9479.11781]

Title: Five Brothers plug tobacco "the best"
Description: Racist trade card promoting tobacco manufacturer John Finzer Bros. and depicting an African American girl and a white girl looking at a newspaper together. The two girls sit side-by-side on a stone wall with their naked backsides revealed to the viewer. In the left, the blond-haired white girl is barefooted and attired in a pink hat with blue trim and a short-sleeved pink dress with white lace around the neck and sleeves. In the right, the African American girl is attired in a short-sleeved white dress with blue stripes with lace around the sleeves and gold buttons at the top of the back. Both girls' dresses are open at the back revealing their naked bottoms. They hold a newspaper titled "Tale of Two Cities." The white girl points her finger at an advertisement for "Five Brothers Plug" in the paper. In the foreground are a number of blooming white and pink flowers. In the background several trees are visible. Five Brothers Tobacco Works, later called J. Finzer Brothers Company, was established by the five Finzer brothers: John, Benjamin, Frederick, Rudolph, and Nicholas in 1866 in Louisville, Kentucky. American Tobacco Company acquired the firm in the early 20th century., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: The little "Narrative" on the other side is plainly if briefly told. That "Five Brothers Plug Tobacco is the Best" is our opinion. It is certainly the best we can make by employing only the choicest selections out of the highest grade Leaf Tobacco marketed, and using in connection with the same absolutely pure ingredients to produce flavor and a palatable chew. We now want your judgment. Ask for Five Brothers Plug, and we believe you will always use it. John Finzer & Bros. maufacturers, Louisville, Kentucky., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Five Brothers [P.2017.95.64]

Title: ASSU Illustration 9295
Description: Block numbered in one place: 9295, also 1827 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of two small girls in the middle of a diamond-shaped frame; the smaller girl wears a bonnet and a muffler; the taller girl wears a hat and a fur-trimmed ankle-length coat, and carries a folded parasol or umbrella in one hand and a book in the other; they are outside in a sparsely-vegetated area, but around the frame is elaborate decoration, including several types of large flowers, butterflies, vines, and geometric shapes. In the style of Kate Greenaway., Block damaged: Minor damage to side of block., Signed: J Dalziel sc. [i.e. John Dalziel]; AR [possibly Arthur Rackham?]., “V. Grottenthaler Phila.” –Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories from 1867 to 1876., “John Dalziel, 1009 Arch St. Philad’a.” – Back of block .
Date: [between 1867 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 17

Title: Gonzaga Memorial, Germantown, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of front facade of St. Joseph Gonzaga New Home for Girls and Convent at Church Lane and East Wister Street., Sheet number: 100B03., Undivided back., 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. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]

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: House of refuge (girls), 22nd & Girard, Phila
Description: Exterior view of the House of Refuge Dormitory for Colored Girls at North 22nd and Poplar Streets built circa 1898 after designs by Addison Hutton. Shows the wrought iron fence before the front facade of the three-story building that has ivy growing on it. Trees line the sidewalk in the foreground., Title from manuscript inscribed in the negative., Manuscript inscribed in the negative: 7014., Sheet number: 138B08., Divided back., Gift of George M. Brightbill, 1999., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: London Mfg. Co. essences of meats, 77 & 79 Varick Street, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl wearing a bonnet embellished with flowers and wrapped in large bow under her chin., Advertising text promoting essences of meat (beef, mutton, and chicken) for invalids, dyspeptics, infants, in cases of sea sickness and after child-birth printed on verso with the London Manufacturing Company's trademark symbol., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - London [1975.F.500]

Title: Pleis' fit powders & liver pills, Phila. A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Description: Illustrated trade card and holiday greeting card depicting three girls sitting and lying in bed admiring a decorated Christmas tree., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Pleis' fit powders for the cure of fits (epilepsy), spasms, convulsions, St. Vitus' dance, neuralgia nervousness, and all nervous affections. Prepared by John M. Pleis, Jr., 860 North Third St., Philada., Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pleis [1975.F.708]

Title: Warner's safe rheumatic cure
Description: Trade card showing a girl attending to a man with dwarfism, seated on a chair, and with his two wrapped feet resting on an ottoman. She hands him a bottle of Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure. Image also shows the box for the cure in the lower right corner. H. H. Warner, entered the patent medicine trade in 1879, and expanded his line of products to include the Safe Rheumatic Cure in 1885. The marketing of his "Safe" cure usually alluded to its benefits to persons whose health was already in peril., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.7]

Title: The little bill poster
Description: Trade card showing a girl posting a "bill" advertising "Eskay's Albumenized Food for Infants and Invalids" on a wood fence. A satchel lies beside her on the ground. Eskay's food was a modified milk product., Publication date based on copyright statement "copyrighted 1896, S, K, & F. Co. Philadelphia.", Name of artist from several lines of advertising text printed on verso, including two testimonials and premium offer reading, "For three 50-cent wrappers, or their equivalent in value of other sizes, we will send free of all expense a copy of the handsome picture on the other side, in nine colors, size 16 x 25 inches, without any advertising upon it whatever. The original painting is one of the latest works of the celebrated artists, Ida Waugh, and is a handsome work of art. Full directions for mounting accompany each picture., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.17]

Title: [P.R. Hansbury & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for P.R. Hansbury & Co.'s furniture store at the southeast corner of Tenth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a little girl attired in a pink frilly dress trying on men's clothing, including a large collar, top hat, and jacket. Also shows vignettes of architectural elements, including light emanating from a cupola surmounted by an onion dome and a dragon boat floating in the water near a monumental archway and tower., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.447 & 449] contain advertising text printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hansbury [1975.F.402-404; 1975.F.447; 1975.F.449]

Title: [J.C. Finn & Son trade cards]
Description: Series of trade cards for J.C. Finn & Sons paper hanging store at Tenth and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia depicting a girl applying adhesive to wallpaper strips and sloppily hanging them on the wall and flowering vines bordering a framed landscape view of a watermill., One print [1975.F.307] copyrighted by Chas. W. Frost 1881., One print [1975.F.308] contains advertising text promoting "French tapestry papers" and "special designs for ceiling ornamentation" printed on verso., Printers and engravers include Farmer, Livermore & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: ca. 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Finn [1975.F.307 & 308]

Title: [Fitzgerald & Sons trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated stock trade cards for Fitzgerald & Sons newspaper publishing and editing establishment at 28 South Seventh Street in Philadelphia depicting a girl holding a cat and two girls bundled in winter clothing and ice skating., Advertising text printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Fitzgerald [1975.F.295 & 1975.F.312]

Title: [Rosenbaum & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Rosenbaum & Co.'s fancy goods store (previously Fleischner & Co., also known as "Fleischner's old stand") at 208 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Filigree and silhouette figures of boys, girls, and cherubs form borders around the titles. Also includes a holiday greeting card with an illustration of two women bundled in winter clothing walking and holding hands., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.740] lists products offered by Rosenbaum & Co. printed on verso in two columns., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rosenbaum [1975.F.730-734; 1975.F.736 & 1975.F.740]

Title: Be kind to the needy
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a young girl leading a blind woman across a foot bridge over a creek. The woman wears a bonnet and shawl and carries a basket. In the background, a building resembling a mill is visible and ducks wade in the water., Not in Wainwright., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "Leading the blind" moralizing that choosing kindness and self-sacrifice for the sake of helping others is imitating Jesus Christ, who "was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through poverty, might be rich. We imitate him when we deny ourselves, that we may do good to others.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 13, Gift of David Doret., Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Morality [P.2007.28.18]

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