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- Title
- Croquet
- Description
- View showing a white woman standing with a croquet mallet on a lawn in front of a residence obscured by trees. An African American woman, possibly a nanny, sits nearby on a bench with three white children sitting at her feet on the lawn., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Purchase 1995., 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., 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
- Bartlett, George O., photographer
- Date
- 1866
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Recreation [P.9486.6]
- Title
- Croquet
- Description
- View showing a white woman standing with a croquet mallet on a lawn in front of a residence obscured by trees. An African American woman, possibly a nanny, sits nearby on a bench with three white children sitting at her feet on the lawn., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Purchase 1995., 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., 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
- Bartlett, George O., photographer
- Date
- 1866
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Recreation [P.9486.6]
- Title
- [Series of photographs of children in North Carolina]
- Description
- Series of primarily captioned photographs depicting white children, a number also including a Black woman caregiver. Images also depict a goat and goat cart. Captions include: "An Important Conference"; "Back yard scenery in N.C."; "Summer"; "Showing the effect of not closing the mouth properly";"Rear view of 'my youngest'"; "Mistaking the shadow for the substance"; "Benjamin My youngest!"; "Master C.M. Gibbon - at 2 yrs"; and "'The 'non-adventurous Billie.', Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from the attire of the sitters., Gift of Marjorie G. Battles.
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Recreation [P.8502.115-125]
- Title
- [Copy photograph of African American woman caregiver with her young white charges]
- Description
- Copy photograph of a circa 1860 three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman caregiver, seated, and with a white baby on her lap and a young white boy standing to her left. The caregiver has her right hand resting on the head of the baby and her left arm wrapped around his/her waist. The baby wears a medium-colored dress, which their nanny's hand has slightly tugged up. The baby has their left hand in their mouth. The nanny wears her long, wavy dark hair, parted in the center, and pulled away from her face. She is attired in a patterned shirt waist and dark satin skirt with crinoline underneath. The boy to her left wears a dark-colored, mandarin-style jacket and dark pants. All the sitters look straight at the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on type of mount and address of photographer., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount and verso. Imprint on verso includes decorative insignia composed of an ornamented letter "G" with a coat of arms in its interior. The coat of arms includes a lion and bird., Inscribed in pencil on verso: 100801., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photo - Gutekunst [P.2016.17.2]
- Title
- [Copy photograph of African American woman caregiver with her young white charges]
- Description
- Copy photograph of a circa 1860 three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman caregiver, seated, and with a white baby on her lap and a young white boy standing to her left. The caregiver has her right hand resting on the head of the baby and her left arm wrapped around his/her waist. The baby wears a medium-colored dress, which their nanny's hand has slightly tugged up. The baby has their left hand in their mouth. The nanny wears her long, wavy dark hair, parted in the center, and pulled away from her face. She is attired in a patterned shirt waist and dark satin skirt with crinoline underneath. The boy to her left wears a dark-colored, mandarin-style jacket and dark pants. All the sitters look straight at the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on type of mount and address of photographer., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount and verso. Imprint on verso includes decorative insignia composed of an ornamented letter "G" with a coat of arms in its interior. The coat of arms includes a lion and bird., Inscribed in pencil on verso: 100801., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photo - Gutekunst [P.2016.17.2]
- Title
- [African American woman caregiver with her two white charges in Atlantic City]
- Description
- Full-length portrait of an African American woman caretaker standing on the steps with a white girl and a white boy. The woman, wearing her hair tied up and attired in a hat and a long-sleeved, white dress with a belt, stands on the sidewalk before the stairs with her right hand in front of her waist and her left hand behind her back. The girl, wearing her curly hair with a bow tied in the left and attired in a long-sleeved white dress with a belt, white socks, and Mary Jane shoes, stands on the steps facing the viewer with her hands at her side. In the right, the boy, attired in a sailor suit with a belt and shoes, stands facing the viewer with his hands at his sides. In the left is "The Criterion," a hair dressing parlor in Atlantic City. The parlor operated from 1907 until 1908, first at the Hotel Islesworth, then The Hotel Bothwell., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from the attire of the sitters., Accessioned 1998., 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. 1907]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Recreation [P.9619.3]

