Bust-length portrait depicting the radical abolitionist with a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33d]
Depicts full-length portraits of abolitionist Cassius Marcelllus Clay and Boston merchant and ship owner George Francis Train standing and facing each other. They are attired in white collared shirts, black bowties, waistcoats, jackets, and shoes., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.34f]
Dem. Congressman, U.S. minister to Mexico, Civil War General., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.6f]
Two volume set of albums containing predominately cartes de visite photographic portraits of prominent American 19th-century figures in politics, education, and the arts. Portraits depict actors, artists, authors, Congressmen, educators, governors, military leaders, physicians, publishers, religious leaders, social reformers, scientists, and U.S. presidents and their spouses. Includes mostly vignette and bust-length portraits and a small number of full length portraits. Also contains a small number of trimmed portrait engravings, tintypes, and a photo-collage depicting evangelist D. L. Moody with the under photograph copyrighted 1877. Small number of sitters are unidentified., Men sitters include P. T. Barnum; Henry Ward Beecher; John Brown; Ned Buntline; Samuel Clemens; Jefferson Davis; O. S. Fowler; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Abraham Lincoln; Samuel Morse; Thomas Nast; Hiram Powers; Winfield Scott; Gerrit Smith; Cornelius Vanderbilt; John Wanamaker; Brigham Young; Native American chiefs Ouray, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull; and African Americans Frederick Douglass and performer "Blind" Tom. Women sitters include presidential spouses Frances Cleveland and Lucretia Garfield; reformers Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull; authors Louisa May Alcott, Helen Hunt (Jackson), Harriet Beecher Stowe; sculptors Harriet Hosmer and Vinnie Ream; and performers Maria Albani, Charlotte Cushman, and Kate Field., Title from item's cover., Photographers include Mathew Brady, E. & H. T. Anthony; Jeremiah Gurney; and George Kendall Warren., Majority of sitters identified by a manuscript note on the album page or on portrait or an inscribed label., Brown leather bindings with gilt, stamped in gilt on front boards: Volume I: American Celebrities. Vol. I.; Volume II: American Celebrities. Vol. II. Stamped in gilt on spines: Album., Purchase 1985., 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., See "American Celebrities Album" item-level records for digital images of all identified individual sitters.
Date
[ca. 1870-ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9100.1 & 2]
Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist and orator. Douglass, wearing a beard and white hair and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., Date inferred from duplicate in LCP cabinet card portrait collection [P.9363.9]., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33e]
Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, publisher, and author. Garrison, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing forward., Title from manuscript note written on mount., Date based on presented age of the sitter., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33a]
Bust-length portrait of the Baptist clergyman, abolitionist, and President of University of Chicago. Anderson, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.15b]
Bust-length portrait of the lawyer and abolitionist. Andrews, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.35f]
Half-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman," as an older, bearded man. Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.44c]
Bust-length portrait of the minister and missionary to Myanmar. Binney, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right with his right hand tucked into his jacket., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.28a]
Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and suffragist. Stone, wearing her hair tied behind her head in a bun and attired in a long-sleeved jacket with a white shirt and a brooch, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.36c]
Bust-length portrait of the lawyer, Congregational minister, abolitionist, and Republican congressman from Illinois. He was also a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. Lovejoy, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33f]
Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women’s rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
[United States]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33b]
Half-length portrait of the blind composer and pianist. Tom, attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket, faces left with his eyes closed. Thomas Greene Wiggins also known as Thomas Bethune was born blind in Georgia to Charity and Domingo "Mingo" Wiggins. The family was enslaved by General James Neil Bethune, who hired Tom out to perform and tour extensively. He was a musical prodigy who could play by ear. He wrote over one hundred compositions and performed throughout his lifetime., Title from manuscript note written on mount., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.44c]
