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Title: You queer looking fellow, you ill looking brute,
Description: A man with a monocle and a whip stands in front of a wall. He has antlers protruding from his head., Text: You queer looking fellow, you ill looking brute, / You never will me for a valentine suit, / And if for a husband I ever should take thee / This is the figure I'd certainly make ye., Provenance: Helfand, William H..
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Joseph L. Varnam, ladies' and gents' & children's boot & shoe maker, Bustleton, 23rd ward, Philad'a Fine custom work made to order. Repairing promptly attended to
Description: Racist trade card depicting an African American man, portrayed in caricature with an oversized head and exaggerated facial features, sitting on a chair and playing the cello. He is attired in bright, mismatched clothing, including a yellow hat, a red and white striped and collared shirt, a yellow bowtie, a blue jacket with tails, yellow and red striped pants, blue socks, and yellow and black shoes. Includes vignettes of a boot and a shoe printed on verso., Title from stamp on verso., Purchase 2001., RVCDC, 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.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Varnum [P.9984.1]

Title: B.M. Weld, drugs & medicines, also boots, shoes, slippers, etc. Bradford, Vermont
Description: Series of three illustrated trade cards promoting druggist B.M. Weld. Depicts a white child raising the American flag on a flag pole; a framed image of two men walking beside a house under the moonlight superimposed onto a spray of flowers; and an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a white collared shirt, a green bowtie, and a blue jacket, who leans over the folded signboard containing the title, and dangles a red suit for a monkey, which sits in the lower right corner holding a red cap in its hand., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business., RVCDC, 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., Gift of William H. Helfand, 2000., 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - W [P.9828.7053-7055]

Title: Opening night Saturday evening, Jan. 2d, 1864. Two companies! Engagement, for six nights, of the wonder of the world, Mr. Charles Clyde the American Samson, ... Look at the names, amongst whom will be found the following: Miss Annie Winsloe, vocalist and comedienne. Miss Kate Clare, the celebrated jig dancer. Miss Annie Clare, fancy and jig dancer. Clari Wilson, Effie Mendon, Old Bob Sheppard the unrivaled contraband and "original" Old Bob Ridley. Bobby Harrison, champion bone player. Andy Williams, banjoist. H. Miller, Harry Clifton the artistic pianist. John H. Donnel, violinist. J. Plumer, basso profundo. N. Clark, John Weaver, comedian. The above talented performers will appear in a variety of songs, duets, dances, laughable farces, burlesques, ballets, pantomimes, negro extravaganzas, &c. &c. Admission. Parquet, 15 cents Gallery, 10 cents. Private boxes, three dollars Single seats in private boxes, 50 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at 8. Novelties will be produced in rapid succession For particulars see programmes. An efficient police force is engaged to preserve strict order
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Coates Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB Phi Coates 1864 (25)5761.F.117a (McAllister)

Title: P.S. Duval, Son & Co. Designers & lithographer Philadelphia Portraits & all subjects of fine arts executed in chromo
Description: Frontispiece advertisement containing a Western-themed scene set within a mirror-shaped panel with Victorian details. Scene shows a canyon valley in which miners prepare to depart from their log cabin base. The men sit on logs and a wagon loaded with small crates, carry picks, and engage in discussion. In the background, miners pick at rocks near a waterfall emptying into a stream within the valley. The oval-shape image is bordered by the figure of a Native American man holding a gun and a pipe, and an African American man holding a hoe, smoking a pipe, and seated next to a plant on the base of the panel. Floral details and an American flag adorn the upper frame of the oval. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867 (Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), frontispiece., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 71
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.frontispiece

Title: Cartes de visite reproductions of "Campaign Sketches"
Description: Series of reproductions of lithographs of military life "sketched on the spot" by Homer and originally published by L. Prang & Co. in 1863. Includes "A Pastime," "The Coffee Call", and "Our Jolly Cook" showing white men soldiers gathered around camp fires to play cards; get coffee; and watch the African American man camp hand, portrayed as a racist caricature, dance. Also shows white men soldiers "Foraging" as they round up a cow on a homestead; the "Baggage Train" with two African American camp hands on the back of a conestoga wagon; and "The Letter for Home" showing a white woman volunteer assist an injured white man soldier in the hospital to write a letter., Title and date based on the L. Prang & Co. publication in 1863., Three of the images signed by artist: Homer del., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Original lithographs described in Katherine McClinton's The chromolithographs of Louis Prang (New York, C. N. Potter distributed by Crown Publishers, 1973), p. 144-147., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Homer - Caricatures & cartoons - Homer [5780.F.52i; 53b, d, g, i & n]

Title: Intelligent contraband. 2d ed
Description: Racist photograph showing a seated African American man, attired in a gorilla mask, a coat, striped, patterned pants, socks, and shoes, facing right. Also included in the image is a patterned, tile floor., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date inferred from content., During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Created postfreeze., 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. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51j]

Title: International Live Stock Exhibition, Philad'a, 1876
Description: Series of views depicting thoroughbred horses at the International Live Stock Exhibition on the Centennial grounds in 1876 include, "Graphic," owned by W.T. Cook of Foxborough, Massachusetts, "Bismark," owned by F.G. Wolbert of Jersey City, New Jersey, and two thoroughbred stallions from Canada. Also shows a view of the "Herefords" shed and three herefords (a type of cattle bred for market) on view during the livestock display at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. The cattle display was held under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture from September 21st until October 4th. An African American man holds the bridle of one of the steer on display before the shed., Title printed on mounts., Publisher's imprint printed on mounts., Printed labels and manuscript notes on versos of four stereographs [P.9915.3-6] provide names of owners, horses, and statistics. Owners and horses illegible on two because of damage to labels., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., 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., Four of the images gift of Helen Beitler, 2001 [P.9915.3-6], One of the images gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984 [P.9047.66]
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hovey - Exhibitions [P.9047.66; P.9915.3-6]

Title: [J.E. Caldwell & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for the Philadelphia jewelry firm J.E. Caldwell & Co. Illustrations depict scantily-clad boys standing on the heads of various animals, including an alligator, a donkey, and a camel. The boys wear or carry native items or clothing from various parts of the world, including a dark-skinned boy wearing large hoops in his hears, a gold anklet, and shield-like object on his back; a boy wearing a bandana around his head with a two-tined pitchfork over his shoulder; and a boy wearing a long kaffiyeh with a rifle strapped to his back. Another illustration depicts man seated at a table etching designs into a an urn or vase., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include the Engraving Department of Caldwell & Co. and J.B. Lippincott & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1870-1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Caldwell [1975.F.127; 1975.F.130; 1975.F.132; 1975.F.222]

Title: [Brownings trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Brownings fine clothing and gent's furnishing store in the Girard House at Ninth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict ornate, gilt cards with decorative text and borders; flowers; birds; a horse-drawn carriage; a butterfly; an eagle; a hunting scene; a cabin; and a buffet of sweets, including fruit and cakes., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include the New York firm Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. and the Boston firm L. Prang & Co., One print [P.9306.3] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston, U.S.A., Advertising text printed on rectos and versos. One print [1975.F.62] contains "Directions for Self-Measurement" on verso with front and back views of a man attired in a coat. Another print [1975.F.49] contains printed text on verso that attests to the quality of Brownings clothing., Two prints [1975.F.113 and 116] die cut and shaped into ovals., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.9306.3] gift of Gordon Marshall., Digitized.
Date: [c1878-[ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brownings [1975.F.49; 1975.F.62; 1975.F.113; 1975.F.116; P.9306.3]

Title: "Have dinner at one dear."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house dressed in bloomers (bicycle garb) with her back to her children who play with toys on the floor. With her bicycle by her side, she tells her husband, who is washing clothes, to have dinner ready by one., Copyrighted 1897 by William H. Rau on negative., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; Hamburg, Germany, and Milan, Italy., Title on negative., 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 Erika Piola.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.2003.32.2]

Title: [Wine & liquor store. Charles Egner 10 North Third Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy four-story storefront for "Charles Enger Wine & Liquor Store." Two white gentleman converse near a row of stacked barrels within the store and two male workers, including an African American man, hoist a barrel at the second entranceway. In front of the open cellar to the building, a white man employee rolls one of several barrels lined on the sidewalk. To the left of the worker, three barrels stand upright and a white gentleman approaches. Also shows boxes in the first-floor store window; the shutters and windows of the upper floors in various states of being open; and partial views of the adjacent buildings., Poulson inscription on recto: N. Third St. Third Street. Oct. 1846., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 845, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Breton, William L., approximately 1773-1855, artist
Date: [ca. 1837]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W460 [P.2244]

Title: [1433-1435 South Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by Albert M. Greenfield & Co. probably for publication in the firm's monthly Real Estate Bulletin depicting a three-story commercial building containing empty storefronts. Building contains signage for Greenfield & Co. offering the building for sale or rent. In the left, a woman bundled against the cold sits on the front stoop. In the center, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, an overcoat, and pants, stands on the sidewalk with his hands in his pockets and looks left. There is a partial view of an adjoining shoe store and two automobiles., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso and embossed on recto., Manuscript notes on verso: 1433-35 South St. [and] 1433-35 South., Manuscript note on verso: S-128., Purchase 2000., 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: 1926-1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Greenfield collection [P.9789.5]

Title: Pavillion [sic], George's Hill
Description: Promotional stereograph depicting the bandstand, built in 1872, on George's Hill near Fifty-Second Street in West Fairmount Park. The hill was given to the city by siblings Jesse and Rebecca George in 1868. Shows a crowd of men and women, including two African American men, possibly carriage drivers, posing in front of the pavilion. In the foreground, a coach is parked., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content and the people's attire., Buff mount with rounded corners., Contains label posted on verso promoting Young's Favorite Blue Grass Rye and Wheat Whiskies distributed by New York wine shop, Acker, Merrall & Condit, and distilled by Philadelphia distiller Alexander Young & Co., Purchase 2000., 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 - Parks [P.9774.2]

Title: Loading a Mississippi steamer, New Orleans U.S.A
Description: Scene showing a steamship, named New Orleans, pulled up to a wooden dock covered with barrels and sacks. African American men carry sacks up gangplanks to the ship. In the foreground, an African American man lies on his stomach across a pile of sacks. Several men stand near him., Title from item., Date inferred from content and photographic medium., View is numbered 188 in a series., 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.9600.14]

Title: Northern coat of arms
Description: Racist cartoon expressing anti-abolitionist sentiment within the North by depicting a "Northern Coat of Arms," in which only the rights of African Americans are represented. Depicts a Phrygian cap from which an African American man's large feet protrude. The cap, inscribed "Liberty," is adorned with the American symbols of stars and the eagle with an arrow and olive branches., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864 by j.E. Cutler in the clerk's office of the district court of the dist. of Mass., Series no. printed on recto: 159., Probably drawn by Joseph E. Baker, Boston., Accessioned 1979., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1864-36R [P.2275.4]

Title: [The Seaman's Home, northwest corner of 2nd and Queen Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of building facade with a group of young men congregated around entrance looking at camera. Another building, perhaps a store, appears in background with groups gathered near it's entrance. Designed by architect Frank Furness, the Seaman's Home was built in 1878 at the northwest corner of Front and Queen Streets. Building began as a church for seamen and became a boys' club in the 1920s. It is also known by the names Church of the Redeemer for Seamen and their Families, Neighborhood Boy's Club, and Church of the Redeemer. Building burned 1974., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: It is not in England despite the decidedly English style of architecture. It is the Seamans Home. 2" and Queen Sts. Note old house in background and tell about the outpouring of young men and boys., Duplicate: P.8513.25: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 114 [P.8513.114], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson114.htm

Title: [Stable with man, woman, and horse]
Description: View of yard in front of stable. Man stands holding horse and woman stands next to buggy. Part of automobile appears at edge of picture., Woman depicted in this photograph also appears in Wilson photographs P.8513.81, P.8513.86., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 82 [P.8513.82], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson82.htm

Title: Indian Rock Hotel
Description: Exterior, oblique view depicting the roadhouse hotel opened in 1848 by Reuben Sands north of Rex Avenue Bridge near Indian Rock in the Wissahickon Valley. Shows the two-story building with a covered veranda. Two white men stand leaning against the columns on the veranda, while another man stands on the ground. A white woman with a young girl stand behind the bannisters on the second-story veranda. An African American man, attired in an apron, stands in the left on a staircase beside the house. The hotel was sold to the Fairmount Park Commission in 1872 and Sands opened a second Indian Rock Hotel at a nearby location., Pale pink mount with rounded corners., Paper label on verso listing over sixty Fairmount Park stereoscopic views published by the firm., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Joseph D. Bicknell's The Wissahickon in History, Song, and Story written for the City History Society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of October 10, 1906 (Philadelphia, 1908), p. 18., Purchase 1989., 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., Newell and Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Newell - Hotels [P.9260.69]

Title: [B.L. Dai looking at books of the Nashi who inhabit the high mountains between China & Tibet several hundred years ago. Now in The Library of Congress]
Description: Photograph depicting B.L. Dai, attired in a suit and tie, standing in front of shelves of folio books at the Library of Congress's Oriental Division on Jan. 9, 1931. He holds open a book of pictographs, probably Dongba, the script of the Nashi language. The Nashi (or Nakhi, Naxi) people inhabit the foothills of the Himalayas., Title supplied by cataloger from manuscript note on verso: Books of the Nashi who inhabit the high mountains between China & Tibet several hundred years ago. Now in the Library of Congress., Corporate photographer and publisher from stamp on verso: This credit line should not be omitted, altered, or abbreviated: Underwood & Underwood Studios. This photograph is realeased for use in one publication only and must not be used for trade or advertising purposes, copied, loaned, syndicated or rented. Underwood & Underwood, Inc. 1230 Connecticut Ave, Washington, D.C., Label on the front, Underwood & Underwood, Washington., Identity of sitter from duplicate photograph in the collections of the Library of Congress., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of William H. Allen.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- Underwood & Underwood [P.8512.11]

Title: [Public Ledger Building, south west corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view from the north east of the offices of the Philadelphia newspaper, the Public Ledger. Building constructed 1866-67 based on designs by John McArthur, Jr. View includes sculptures by Bailly of Benjamin Franklin (electrified with light bulbs in his hand and around the base) and the Pennsylvania state seal; fire escapes; and signage for tenants including John C. Clark & Sons stationers and a tobacconist. An African American man shoe shiner, attired in a bowler hat, a jacket, and pants, sits on his knees on the sidewalk with his case visual. Four white men pedestrians, stand, lean, or sit beside the building., Title supplied by cataloger., Borders masked with purple paints and marked for publication., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Purchase 1989., 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. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - businesses [P.9260.476]

Title: Old graveyard. N.S. Spruce bet 8th & 9th
Description: View showing the front gate, adorned with a stone marker, of the Jewish Philadelphia cemetery Mikveh Israel. A brick wall surrounds the entrance with a wrought iron gate, which leads to a path through the cemetery. In the left, two men, including an African American, sit with their legs crossed on crates near the gate. Trees flank the gate, and more trees are visible beyond on the grounds. Established as a private burial ground in 1738 by Jewish businessman Nathan Levy, the cemetery was deeded to the Mikveh Israel congregation in 1774., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.132], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson132.htm

Title: Old graveyard. N.S. Spruce bet 8th & 9th
Description: View showing the front gate, adorned with a stone marker, of the Jewish Philadelphia cemetery Mikveh Israel. A brick wall surrounds the entrance with a wrought iron gate, which leads to a path through the cemetery. In the left, two men, including an African American, sit with their legs crossed on crates near the gate. Trees flank the gate, and more trees are visible beyond on the grounds. Established as a private burial ground in 1738 by Jewish businessman Nathan Levy, the cemetery was deeded to the Mikveh Israel congregation in 1774., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.132], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson132.htm

Title: [Statue of Diana at Fairmount Water Works]
Description: View showing the statue commissioned by the Water Commission and installed circa 1830-1831 at the foot of the inclined walkway to Reservoir Hill at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Also shows two men, including an African American man, seated on the ground behind the statue., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitters., Trimmed blue mount with square corners., Manuscript note on accompanying label: Philadelphia Water Works. Statue of Diana at Fairmount. With respects of Henry P.M. Birkinbine Chief Engineer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.120(v)b]

Title: Iowa delegation - National Democratic Convention - Phila[delphia]. June 1936
Description: Formal group portrait of the men and women delegates, including an African American man, during the political convention held June 22-27 at the Convention Hall and Municipal Auditorium in Philadelphia. The delegates sit and stand in four rows. Three white girls also sit in the front row on the floor. Approximately thirty African American delegates served at the 1936 National Democratic Convention., Title and date inscribed on negative., Photographer's imprint inscribed on negative., 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: 1936
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-11x14 [P.8876.2]

Title: [B.F. Goodrich Rubber Company's national tire testing fleet at Lincoln Way garage, 417 North 63rd Street, West Philadelphia]
Description: Promotional photograph showing six cars with men drivers parked in front of the brick garage bearing the signage "Under New Management," "Garage," and "Goodrich Black Beauty Tread Tires; Best in the Long Run." The open-top cars are parked on an angle with the drivers looking at the viewer. Individuals are posed behind the cars, including an African American man, attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, and a suit jacket. Residences are visible on either side of the garage. There are trolley tracks in the street., Title supplied by cataloger., Blind stamp in lower right corner: Bond Bros. Phila., Negative inscribed: 21120., Manuscript note identifying incorrect location on verso: 52nd & Lancaster., Purchased 1989., 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.
Creator: Bond Brothers, photographer
Date: [ca. 1917]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Bond [P.9260.497]

Title: [Richard McAllister Coal Company delivery cart, Philadelphia]
Description: Coal company cart driven by an African American man and drawn by a team of four ponies. The ponies wear harnesses, bridles, and blinders decorated with the name of "McAllister." The driver, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a jacket, and pants, holds the reins and looks at the viewer. In the left, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white shirt, and pants, stands beside a column or lamppost, which partially obscures him, as he looks at the viewer. In the background, an African American man, attired in a white shirt, is visible. McAllister, a coal dealer, had locations at 1310 North 2nd Street and 1144 Washington Avenue., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Emily Riese, 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: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.14]

Title: [Richard McAllister Coal Company delivery cart, Philadelphia]
Description: Coal company cart driven by an African American man and drawn by a team of four ponies. The ponies wear harnesses, bridles, and blinders decorated with the name of "McAllister." The driver, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a jacket, and pants, holds the reins and looks at the viewer. In the left, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white shirt, and pants, stands beside a column or lamppost, which partially obscures him, as he looks at the viewer. In the background, an African American man, attired in a white shirt, is visible. McAllister, a coal dealer, had locations at 1310 North 2nd Street and 1144 Washington Avenue., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Emily Riese, 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: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.14]

Title: [714-716 N. 10th Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting several African American laborers working in a coal, ice, and scrap lot for sale by Arthur Boswell in the Spring Garden neighborhood. In the center, an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a collared, zipped up jacket, an apron tied around his waist, pants, and shoes, leans on the open wooden door with signs that read, “Sale Arthur Boswell” and “Ice never fails.” The other wooden door has “coal” written in paint. In the scrapyard, several men moving material are visible. Planks of wood lie in piles on the ground. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content., Number 16., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1945]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.8]

Title: [920 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting a brick row house converted to apartments. African American men stand in the doorway and look out an open window from the building managed by Samuel T. Fox. The Jackson Cross-Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from content., Number 27., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1940]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.11]

Title: Southside Chestnut St. from Carpenters Court to 4th St., 1809
Description: View showing the block of four wooden buildings, including a stable, near the back of Carpenter's Hall during the year 1809. A horse-drawn carriage travels down the street. Several men and women pedestrians, including an African American man, attired in an apron and carrying two bundles, walk the sidewalks., Title from item., Inscribed on recto: Copy., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., 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.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.146], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc146.html

Title: South side Chestnut St. from 3rd to Hudsons Alley, 1809
Description: View showing the block from 96 to 110 Chestnut Street during the year 1809. Depicts a row of five three-and-a-half story red brick townhouses attached to a row of three red brick storefronts. A horse-drawn carriage and wagon travel down the streets. Pedestrians, including an African American man in an apron pushing a hand cart, walk and converse on the sidewalks., Title from item., Inscribed on recto: Copy., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., 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: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1809, 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.147], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc147.html

Title: [Portrait of an African American family]
Description: Family portrait of several generations of a middle-class African American family posed in front of a Christmas tree. The family, attired in suits and dresses, sit and stand in the living room. In the foreground, an African American boy sits on the floor, crossed legged, and smiles at the viewer. Behind him, seven men and women sit on chairs. Two young girls sit on the laps of the older men. Nine men and women stand behind the chairs. In the background, the top of a decorated Christmas tree is visible., Title supplied by cataloger., Date written on recto: Mosby 1936., 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.
Date: 1936
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - family [P.9410.31]

Title: "Raising the liberty pole" Dedicated to the American people. Commemorative of 1776. The centenary of independence
Description: Print after painting by New York historical painter and Art Union exhibitor, Frederick Augustus Chapman, commemorating the Declaration of Independence. Depicts the raising of a liberty pole in a colonial town square. Image contains a group of men, including an African American man, raising the pole as around them revelers rejoice; a tavern sign with a portrait of King George III is pulled down; the Sons of Liberty rally; volunteers for "War, Liberty, and Rights" are recruited; a white man loyalist turns away in disgust; and a white woman raises her baby in celebration as other women solemnly look on. Liberty poles, symbols and meeting places of the radical group, Sons of Liberty, first appeared in 1766 following the repeal of the Stamp Act., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1875. By John C. McRae; New York., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1978., 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: McRae, John C., engraver
Date: 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-American Revolution [8384.F.13]

Title: [African American basketball team]
Description: Group portrait photograph depicting members of an African American basketball team with their coach, probably in Philadelphia. Three players sit on wooden chairs, the middle one with a basketball on his lap. Behind them, the coach and three more players stand and look at the viewer. The athletes are attired in uniforms consisting of a sleeveless shirt with a logo on the front, shorts, knee-length socks, and shoes. Posters for good health and African American participation in athletics hang on the walls, possibly of a Boys' Club or YMCA., Title from item., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Purchase 1989., 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: Paul, Dan E., photographer
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - recreation [P.9273.6]

Title: [Construction at Ninth and Sansom streets]
Description: Depicts four African American men construction workers on the framework of store fronts (i.e., Burd Building) under construction on the former grounds of the Shippen Burd mansion, demolished in 1861. In the background stands the hippodrome-shaped auction house of "Alfred M. Herkness Philadelphia Horse & Carriage Bazaar," in operation from around 1848 until 1913., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note on verso., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), p. 180., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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.
Creator: Broadbent & Co., photographer
Date: September 6, 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Non-Portraits - Broadbent & Co. [(8)1322.F.47f]

Title: [African American construction crew installing a utility pole]
Description: Scene of a crew of African American men construction workers nearing completion of the installation of a utility pole along a cobblestone city street lined with homes and businesses. Most of the crew members hold their mallets on their shoulders and wait on the sidewalk as another laborer retrieves a long pipe from their nearby utility truck. A mound of freshly dug dirt is piled near his feet. A white pedestrian observes the scene. A gas station is visible on the opposite side of the street., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitters., Purchase 1989., 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. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - construction [P.9260.603]

Title: International live stock exhibition, Philad'a., 1876
Description: View of the "Herefords" shed and three herefords (a type of cattle bred for market) on view during the livestock display at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. The cattle display was held under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture from September 21st until October 4th. A number of men stand around the shed and near the cattle and look at the viewer. An African American man holds the bridle of one of the steer on display before the shed., Title printed on mount., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1876 by E.F. Hovey, publisher, 1113 Chestnut St. Phila., Gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984 [P.9047.66]., 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.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Hovey [P.9047.66]

Title: Die Americaner wiedersetzen sich der Stemple Acte, und verbrennen das aus England nach america Gesandte Stemple Papier zu Boston im August 1764
Description: Scene depicting a riot in the town square of Boston protesting the enactment of the Stamp Act in 1765. Cheering spectators and participants, including a woman and an African American man, surround a bonfire, and brandish farm tools, and throw stamped paper onto the flames. Others watch from building windows overlooking the square., Inscribed upper left corner: S. 61., Plate 1 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., Accessioned 1982., 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., Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Creator: Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher
Date: [1783]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.1]

Title: Tobacco - Virginia
Description: View showing a tobacco field near a Virginia road. In the foreground, tobacco plants grow. An African American man and woman, possibly agricultural workers, walk near a large, wooden shed in the field. In the left, a car drives down the road towards the viewer., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from photographic medium and car in the photograph., 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)
Date: [ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana

Title: Cab Calloway [and his orchestra]
Description: Group portrait depicting orchestra leader and singer Cab Calloway and his African American orchestra waving goodbye alongside an United Air Lines plane. Calloway stands at the top of the boarding steps next to a white woman flight attendant and waves his left hand. The men, attired in suits and many holding hats, smile and wave at the viewer. Cabell Calloway III (1907–1994) was an American jazz singer, songwriter, dancer, bandleader, conductor and actor., Title from manuscript note on verso., 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: 1935
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-Non-Philadelphia-Afro-Americana

Title: [Horse race]
Description: View of a race track depicting spectators watching two horses race neck and neck. In the foreground, two race horses run beside one another. The jockeys have an intense look on their faces as they hold the reins. Along the white guard rails, men and women spectators, including African Americans, stand and lean forward to watch the race., 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. 1940]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Portraits - Sports & recreation

Title: [African American man delivering firewood to an African American woman]
Description: Depicts an older African American woman standing in her doorway receiving firewood from an older African American man. The woman, wearing white hair and attired in a long-sleeved dress, a torn and worn apron, and shoes, stands in the doorway of her wooden house with her arms crossed at her waist. In the right, the man, wearing white hair, a torn and worn coat with patches, pants, and shoes, stands with a large bundle of firewood in his hands. In the left are wooden buckets and a bowl., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs won several prizes.
Creator: Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.178]

Title: 2nd and Brown St. A stevedore, a family
Description: Depicts an African American dock worker in his work clothes posed outside of his Philadelphia home with his four children. The children are dressed in old, worn clothes. In the left, the teenaged boy, attired in a knit cap, a coat, pants, and shoes, has a stern expression as he looks at the viewer. Beside him stands the African American man, wearing a mustache and attired in a cap, a sweater, torn and worn coveralls, and boots. In the center, the boy, attired in shirt, a coat with a belt at the waist, torn and worn shorts, socks, and worn shoes, stands with his hands at his sides. In the right, the young boy, attired in a hat, an oversized coat, socks, and shoes, and the boy, attired in a hat, a collared shirt, a coat, shoes, socks, and shoes, look at the viewer with their hands at their sides., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Three wives. Wife no. 3 is in the house "fussingup". No Sir-ee you is not gwan to took mah picture in deese ol' c'los., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A photographic history, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 164., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.92], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson92.htm

Title: [Employees of Ridgway & Pancoast, produce warehouse, 110 Mattis Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts five men employees, including an African American man, posed near barrels outside of the produce warehouse operated by Joseph Ridgway and Isaac B. Pancoast at 110 Mattis Street, Philadelphia from about 1883 to 1890. In the left, the African American man, wearing a mustache and attired in a brimmed hat, a white collared shirt, a waistcoat, a torn and worn jacket, pants, and shoes, stands beside a barrel with his left hand touching the top of it. To the right, a white man, wearing a mustache and sideburns and attired in a tall bowler hat, a white collared shirt, a tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, a jacket, pants, and shoes, stands and looks at the viewer with his arms crossed over his chest and his left leg crossed over his right. In the middle, the white man, wearing a mustache and attired in a brimmed hat, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, a jacket, pants, and shoes, stands and carries an axe in his left hand and another tool in his right hand. To the right, the white man, wearing a mustache and attired in a bowler hat, a white collared shirt, a tie, a waistcoat, a jacket, pants, and shoes, stands and looks at the viewer. In the right, the white man, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, a jacket, pants, and shoes, sits on top of a barrel with his legs crossed. In the background, a scale, wooden bushels, and wooden barrels are visible., 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., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of the business and attire of the sitters., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Foley & Baxter, photographer
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PRIMT photo - 5x7 - Foley & Baxter [P.9957.6]

Title: Official first day of issue. Honoring Salem Poor, Gallant Soldier, distinguished patriot of Bunker Hill, Valley Forge and White Plains
Description: ArtCraft "First Day Cover" (i.e., designed envelope with a stamp affixed and cancelled on the day the stamp was issued) from the "Contributors to the Cause "series issued for the United States Bicentennial. Contains illustration after John Trumbull’s historical painting based on his eyewitness account of the Battle of Bunker Hill while serving as a commissioned officer during the American Revolution. Depicts American Major General Joseph Warren’s death proceeding the Americans’ retreat from the hill and includes the figure of Salem Poor, who has also been identified as another Black soldier, Peter Salem, in the context of the painting., Title from item., Date supplied from content., Logo of printer printed in lower left corner: Text "ArtCraft" set on a paint palette with brushes inserted through the hole for the artist's thumb., Image caption: Salem Poor received commendation for his heroics during the Battle of Bunker Hill., Contains ink-stamp postmark: Cambridge, MA. Mar 25 1975 02139 and cancelled "First Day of Issue" color-printed U.S. 10-cent stamp "Contributors to the Cause. Salem Poor. Gallant Soldier" depicting a half-length portrait of Poor with a rifles in hand. Poor was an enslaved African-American man who purchased his freedom in 1769 and became a soldier in 1775., Contains printed address., The Washington Press ArtCraft brand was introduced in 1939 for the printing of First Day Covers. The firm stopped producing ArtCraft First Day Covers in 2016., Gift of George R. Allen, 2022.
Date: [1975]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - envelopes - Poor [P.2022.42.3]

Title: [Unidentified African American man in militia uniform]
Description: Full-length portrait photograph by African American photographer Gallo W. Cheston depicting an African American man in a light-colored militia uniform. The man stands, turned slightly toward the right. He holds a long rifle in front of himself with his gloved hands. His left foot is slightly in front of his right. His uniform includes a Shako cap; jacket with epaulettes, buttons, and service stripes; shoulder strap marked "4"; belt; and pants with a dark vertical stripe down the leg. The tip of a rifle and holster is seen below his back. Portrait also includes, to the man's left, a pulled-back drape propped up on a pedestal. Following the Civil War and during Reconstruction (1865-1877), several African American militia units formed, particularly in the South., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of photographer from photographer's label pasted on verso: Cheston's 227 Lombard St., between 2d and 3d, Philadelphia. All the various styles of pictures known to the art, made in a manner as near perfection as possible; and all Improvements or additions introduced as soon as made and perfected. Your patronage is solicited. N. B. Old pictures copied to any size, in an artistic manner., Date inferred from tenancy of the photographer at the address listed on his label pasted on verso., Photograph mounted on board, rounded at the corners, and with a printed oval-shaped, frame-like border surrounding the image. Border adorned with ornaments and filigree., Photograph altered with ink and watercolor details highlighting parts of the sitter's uniform, including his cap, epaulettes, service stripes, shoulder strap, belt, and buttons, as well as his eyes, eyebrows, and sideburns. The pull of a drape included in the studio setting is also hand colored., Purchased in part with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022., Gallo W. Cheston (ca. 1846-1882) served as a private of the Pennsylvania National Guard 1871-1873.
Creator: Cheston, Gallo W., approximately 1846-1882, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - photographer - Cheston [P.2018.3]

Title: Telephone for the Alden fruit vinegar
Description: Trade card promoting Alden Fruit Vinegar and depicting a satiric, racist caricature of an older African American man misunderstanding an operator to whom he speaks on a wall-mounted telephone. He faces the viewer, leans against the wall, and remarks in vernacular speech "dis chile's rich..dis man... gib me de city hall." The man is balding and has tufts of hair on the sides of his head. He has a white beard and is attired in a beige coat, an undersized, green vest with buttons, and blue plaid pants rolled up at the bottom exposing his socks and black shoes. On the ground beside his feet is a banjo and brimmed hat. Brothers John Tolman and Walter Alden founded Alden and Bro., later Alden Vinegar Company in St. Louis in 1878. The business expanded to Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. By 1907, the business collapsed., Title from item., Publication information from copyright statement: Copyright 1883 by J [H. Bufford's] Sons., Distributor's name on verso: O. H. Wilcox, dealer in simple & fancy groceries, Winfield, N.Y., Text printed on recto: Golly! I guess dis chile's rich--dis man him say wait a minute and him gib me de city hall., Advertising text printed on verso: The highest scientific authorities having analyzed, say "it is a pure wholesome vinegar produced by natural fermentations from fruits." The Alden Fruit Vinegar A Specialty., Stamped on recto: O.H. Wilcox, Merchant, Winfield., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Alden [P.2017.95.4]

Title: My boss sells the New York sewing machine. The brightest diamond of them all
Description: Racist trade card illustration promoting the New York Sewing Machine Company and depicting a bust length portrait of an African American man. The man is attired in a white collared shirt, a large red bowtie which bears the advertising text, a dark colored jacket, and a reflective diamond pin. The New York Sewing Machine Company was founded in 1880 and became the Demorest Manufacturing Company, which was based in Plattsburgh, New York and operated between 1882 and 1908., Title from item., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Sewing [P.2017.95.177]

Title: Buy the Universal plow. Made at Canton, Ohio
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting two African American men operating a plow and struggling to control two agitated donkeys. One man is seated in the plow and holds reins in his left hand and a lever in his right. He is attired in a tan-colored hat and vest, a blue long-sleeved shirt, and blue and black striped pants. The other man stands in front of the donkeys and holds reins in both hands. He is attired in a white long-sleeved shirt and blue and black checkered pants. One of the donkeys kicks its hind legs up in the air and the other digs its hind legs into the ground. A person on a plow, trees, and a small house are visible in the field behind the scene. Universal Plow Company opreated throughout the 1880s and 1890s. The business was originally based in Canton, Ohio and eventually moved to Wooster, Ohio., Title from item., Series no. 468 printed in bottom right corner on recto., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: A.F. Newcomer, General Eastern and Southern Agent, Harrisburg, PA., Advertising text printed on verso: The Universal Plows, front and rear adjusting. The lightest, strongest and most perfect working plow made. The only practical rear-adjusting plow in the world. No wrench, no trouble, no lost time. All interchangeable in steel or chilled iron complete with all improved attachments. See catalogue., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Universal [P.2017.95.179]

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