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Title: [Duff's Mercantile College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.]
Description: View showing the oldest U.S. business school, established by Peter Duff in 1840, on Fifth Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. View also shows adjoining businesses, including: Pennsylvania Insurance Company, Allegheny Insurance Company, and the Morning Post stationery and printing shop. The Morning Post building is adorned with a playbill advertising a minstrel show. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by content., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Ivan Noble, 1971., 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.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Education [7992.F.15]

Title: Cars loaded with cotton bales on levee near cotton growing district, Texas
Description: Scene showing a group of African American men using hand trucks to move large bales of cotton into or out of freight cars. In the left are stacks of baled cotton with two men standing on top of the bales. In the center, lines of men hold hand trucks of cotton, some turn and look at the viewer. In the right are open freight cars. A bridge and buildings are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood., View is numbered P-V22091, the V indicating it was originally part of stereograph publisher and distributor, Underwood & Underwood's stock. An additional number- P215 indicates what position the stereograph had within a set. Pedagogical text printed on the verso reads "Freight cars loaded with cotton bales on the levee near cotton growing district, Texas...", Purchase 1998., 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., Keystone View Company was founded in 1892 by B.L. Singley, an amateur photographer from Meadville, Pennsylvania. Keystone View Company was the leader in promoting stereographs for educational purposes. In 1912, the company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. The company remained in business until 1970.
Creator: Keystone View Company, publisher
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone - Work [P.9600.12]

Title: Cotton plantation scene
Description: View of African American men agricultural workers picking cotton. In the foreground, an African American boy, attired in a green hat, a blue shirt, and blue pants, stands in front of a large pile of cotton with cotton in his left hand. In the left is a basket full of cotton. In the right, a young white girl, attired in a pink dress, sits next to the pile of cotton with her right hand shielded over her eyes. In the background, African American men work in the field picking cotton., Title from item., Date inferred from attire of clothes and photographic medium., Purchase 1998., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - work [P.9600.13]

Title: Maxwell's gypsum, prepared gypsum. Trade mark
Description: Illustrated trade card advertising George E. Maxwell's paint and depicting an African American man carrying a bucket of gypsum and a brush over his shoulder. He stands, attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, a red waistcoat, a black jacket, pants, and bowler hat, in front of a window displaying barrels of "Maxwell's gypsum.", Title from item., Date inferred from operating dates of advertised business., Advertising text promoting Maxwell's prepared gypsum for whitening and coloring walls, fences, barns printed on verso. Also notes awards (First Premium, Special Diploma) issued by the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1880., Imprint printed on verso: For sale by Geo. E. Maxwell, No. 528 South 16th Street, Philadelphia., Stamped in red ink twice on recto and once on verso: 1431 South St., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., 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., Digitized.
Creator: Rogers, E. (Edward), 1831 or 1832-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Maxwell's [1975.F.632]

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