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- Title
- C.C. Whitenack, commercial photographer, 1944 N. Camac Street, Philadelphia 'phone diamond 844
- Description
- Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Whitenack [P.9627.1]
- Title
- O. E. Kirchhoff, photographer. No. 527 & 529 Chestnut St., cor. 6th Crayons, oil paintings and photographs of live size. Old pictures copied and enlarged
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a boy or a girl riding on the back of a rabbit and holding up a sign reading "Lead, but never follow"., 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 - Kirchhoff [P.9836]
- Title
- From W. & F. Langenheim's talbotype and daguerreotype establishment Exchange 3rd story, rooms 25-27 Philadelphia Talbotypes on paper, or daguerreotypes on plates of all sizes
- Description
- Illustrated trade card and envelope depicting filigree surrounding the advertisement for W. & F. Langenheim. In 1849 the Langenheim brothers purchased the American patent rights to the talbotype and in the autumn of 1850 moved their studio to a more centrally located block of Chestnut Street., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Langenheim [P.8468.23]
- Title
- James A. Consterdine, crystal ivorytype artist, 124 S. Ninth St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting the name of the business printed on a card inset into pink roses. Consterdine won a bronze medal from the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society for his ivorytype photographs in 1881., 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 - Consterdine [P.9728.5]
- Title
- Broadbent & Taylor, artists and photographers, 914 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade cards depicting business cards tucked into flowers., Notice printed on versos: Concentration, the interests of Mr. Phillips, in the late firm of Broadbent & Phillips, having been purchased by the Messrs. Broadbent, they have removed the entire effects, negatives and books, to 914 Chestnut Street, where it is now combined with the old firm of Broadbent & Taylor, under the firm name of Broadbent & Taylor, 914 Chestnut Street. A lower schedule of prices., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Broadbent & Taylor, the partnership between Samuel Broadbent and William Curtis Taylor, was active at 914 Chestnut Street from 1877-1884. Broadbent died in 1880, leaving his interest in the business to his two sons, who bought out Taylor in 1884.
- Date
- [ca. 1877]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Broadbent & Taylor [P.9646.1-3]
- Title
- William H. Rau, president. Photographers for the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Rau Art Studios, Inc., photographers, 238 South Camac St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated business card depicting tiny embossed orange vignettes of an owl, lion, bird and instruments within an oval formed by a single orange line. Rau served as the official photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad beginning in 1891 and the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1895. Rau, a professional Philadelphia photographer, began his career as assistant to Philadelphia photographer William Bell; served as the primary photographer of E.L. Wilson's Middle East photographic expedition (1881-1882); and was sole proprietor of a prolific photographic studio that issued lantern slides, stereographs, and photographs between 1887 and 1920. He was also official photographer of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, a director of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, a president of the Pennsylvania Photographic Society, and a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rau [P.9548.7]
- Title
- F. Keeler, daguerreotype and stereoscope rooms, No. 276 Market Street, above Eighth, S. side, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting the seated female figure of Liberty leaning against a large American shield. Includes in the background a pole topped by a liberty cap, the sails of a ship, and a steamboat on a body of water., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Keeler [5786.F.176]
- Title
- The latest, most beautiful, and permanent method of colouring photographs, termed Ivorytypes The great advantage of Ivorytype over every other method is its durability, being impervious to water or air. The paper being prepared and cemented on plate glass, the colours cannot possibly fade, and having all the beauty and appearance of the finest ivory painting. They can be taken either from life, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, or talbotypes. When not taken from life, it is necessary to give the colour of the eyes, hair, and general complexion. Executed in the very best style, on reasonable terms, by James W. Williams, at the artist's emporium, 33 North Sixth St., Philad'a. Where specimens can be seen
- 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 - Williams [P.9631.3]
- Title
- Broadbent & Phillips : photographers, 1206 Chestnut St., Philada A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
- Description
- Illustrated trade card and holiday card depicting a woman attired in a red shawl and green dress holding a tray with a roasted turkey outside near a shop window labeled "baker". Includes a small bird standing at her feet and a vignette of mistletoe adjacent to the title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Broadbent & Phillips, the partnership between Samuel Broadbent and Henry C. Phillips, operated from 1206 Chestnut Street beginning in 1869.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Broadbent & Phillips [P.9651.1]
- Title
- R. Newell & Son, 633 Arch St., Phila. Equipped for outside and indoor photography
- Description
- Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into an eye depicts a traveling R. Newell & Son horse-drawn photographic wagon. The scene is bordered by a sun, filigree, and a camera on a tripod. R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell., 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 - Newell [P.9803.1]
- Title
- P. Edw'd Chillman & Co., photographers, 18 South Eighth Str., Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a portrait painting displayed on an easel of a child seated and posed with a pen and a piece of paper. A large painting palette with paint brushes running through the finger hole rests in front of the painting in the lower right corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Chillman [P.9821]
- Title
- O. B. De Morat, photographer, No. 2 South Eighth St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting couples, including one on their wedding day and another under an umbrella in the rain., 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 - De Morat [P.9753.1-4]
- Title
- Views of Loudoun and Stenton, residences of Maria Dickinson Logan and her brother, Albanus C. Logan, Germantown, Philadelphia
- Description
- Album of snapshots showing the Logan family residence Loudoun erected for Thomas Armat (photographer's great grandfather) in 1800 at 4650 Germantown Avenue and Stenton, the Logan family country seat at 4601 North Eighteenth Street in Germantown. Contains interior views of Loudoun depicting the parlor and a bedroom. Also includes views of the Stenton grounds showing a wood pile, a hay stack, and rafts of lumber floating down a creek, possibly Wingohocking and portraiture, including an image of the photographer at her camera outside of the Stenton residence. Furniture and interior decoration includes arm chairs, settes, tables, framed paintings, chandeliers, fireplaces, sculpted busts, desks, mantlepieces, lamps, framed photographs, and plates. Also contains a portrait of her brother Albanus Charles; a group portrait, including the photographer, Albanus, and a woman identified as C. Dallett in front of George Logan's barn at Stenton; and an exterior view of a large stone residence captioned "Sammy [Gilles?]," possibly a tenant house on the Stenton property., Title supplied by cataloger., Leather binding, front cover stamped: Photographs., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso of tipped in photographs., Some tipped in photographs contain manuscript notes on verso. One photograph contains manuscript note on recto and verso. Recto: Room in L[oudoun] Return. Verso: The table 100 years old here is by this bed & a antique desk by fireplace., Insert: Folded fabric bookmark., Label for "Ward's Dark Leaf Albums" pasted on back cover advertising the size, style, and price for their "two styles of binding": Art Cloth and Seal Grain. Prices range from 25 cents to $2.50 for 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 to 10 x 12 inches., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See also loose prints of Loudoun and Stenton by Logan (photo - 5x7 - [P.9276.82-93])., Maria Dickinson Logan, daughter of Anna Armat (1820-1895) and great great granddaughter of James Logan Gustavus Logan (1674-1751), resided, photographed, and worked to preserve the Logan family Germantown estates Loudoun and Stenton. At her death in 1939, Logan, a Colonial Dame, bequeathed several pieces of family furniture to Stenton (under the stewardship of the National Society of Colonial Dames since the early 20th century) as well as her residence, Loudoun, to the city of Philadelphia for use as a historic house.
- Creator
- Logan, Maria Dickinson, 1857-1939, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9276.81]
- Title
- Ches[t]nut Street, [west from 13th Street], Philadelphia
- Description
- View of the commercial street, above Thirteenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Keystone Bank and F.A. Wenderoth & Co., photographers (1326 Chestnut); Cornelius & Sons, gas fixtures, (1332 Chestnut); Garriston Cornelius's "Arcadian Billiards" saloon (1338 Chestnut); and the Parisian Kid Glove Company (1344 Chestnut). Laborers work in the street in front of the Keystone Bank. Includes partial view of the U.S. Mint. Horse-drawn carriages travel down the street., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Manuscript note on verso: West from 13th St., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9168.15]