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Title: [Portrait of unidentified African American man in fashionable attire]
Description: aFull-length itinerant studio portrait of an African American man, holding a derby hat in one hand, and standing in front of a plain portable back drop. He rests is other hand on a posing stand partially visble behind him. He is attired in a jacket with a pocket handkerchief, shirt with cravat tie, vest with a watch fob in the pocket, straight-leg pants, and round-tipped shoes. In the left of the portrait is a plush ottoman with feet. In the right of the image is a portable plain canvas screen/backdrop attached to a frame., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Purhased with the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch African American History Fund., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department tintypes - unid sitter [P.2025.34.2]

Title: [Half-length, forward facing portraits of an unidentified older man and woman portrayed side by side]
Description: Shows possibly Quakers with the white man in the left and the white woman in the right. The man wears his white hair combed back and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket. In the right, the woman wears her gray hair parted in the middle and is attired in a white bonnet tied under her chin and a black, long-sleeved dress with a shawl., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from the item., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Greiner, [S], artist
Date: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Framed [P.2019.62.27]

Title: [Studio group portrait depicting African American men wearing modish attire and in a posed scene]
Description: Real photo postcard depicting three men, one seated and two standing in an interior setting. The seated man is in the center of the scene. He looks to a man standing in the left of the image. He slightly points up with his right hand and holds his light-colored hat on his right leg. His left leg is crossed over his right knee. The man in the left, slightly hunches over and writes in a small notebook held in his hand. In the right, another man stands and watches the interaction posed as a conversation. All the men wear suits and the two men standing also wear hats, a light-colored fedora (man in left) and a dark-colored derby (man in right)., Title supplied by cataloger., Divided back., Contains Cyko stamp box printed on verso., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., See related postcard: LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.1]
Date: [ca. 1915]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.2]

Title: [Scraps no. 3. for 1832]
Description: Plate four from the 1832 edition of "Scraps," Johnston's popular satirical series of societal caricatures published between 1828 and 1840, and in 1849. Depicts a montage of nine scenes lampooning contemporary social issues and everyday life such as fashion, religious hypocrisy, ignorance, vanity, country life, class inequities, the military, and higher education. Includes 'The Glass of Fashion & The Mould of Form' depicting a white man sales clerk falsely flattering a white man dandy trying on a puff-sleeved coat; "Faith and Works" depicting a hypocritical white man Deacon, near a fireplace, reneging the shelter that he promised to a cold, poor white woman outside his door while his African American servant offers her money; "Arrival of a Country Cousin" depicting a snobby, white, city gentleman snubbing his country cousin; "About to be Astonished" depicting a dimwitted gloating white man farmer about to intentionally kill a sleeping "varmint" and unintentionally kill his friend with a sickle; "Champagne [Campaign] or the Fatigues of Modern Camp Duty" depicting a grossly intoxicated troop of white military officers toasting their intellect and patriotism; "A Body Coat & A Coat of Arms" depicting a rotund and thin "John Smith" exchanging wrongly delivered coats; "The Able-Bodied Man & The Exempt" depicting a scraggly white soldier encountering an "exempt" hardy white gentleman; "Symptoms of Extravagance" depicting a white man, attired in rags, debating the necessity to "dress better on Sunday"; "College Acquirements" depicting an African American man and woman, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular, discussing 'de college for de colour'd circles' based on the beneficial effects of college on "Massa Bob," including his staying out later, no longer reading, and drinking champagne., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed in upper left corner: Plate 4., Published in D.C. Johnston's Scraps No. 3 1832 (Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1832), pl. 4., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1893., 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: Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1832-Scr (d) [5656.F.24]

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