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Title: [Portrait of Elliston Perot Morris and possibly Beulah Sansom Morris], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris and an older woman, possibly his aunt Beulah Sansom Morris seated for a portrait in front of a backdrop on a porch. Elliston Morris wears a three-piece suit while the woman wears a dark dress, lace shawl, and cap., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.270]

Title: [Portrait of Elliston Perot Morris and possibly Beulah Sansom Morris], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston Perot Morris and an older woman, possibly his aunt Beulah Sansom Morris, posing for a portrait in front of a backdrop on a porch. The woman sits in a chair and wears a dark dress, lace shawl, and cap. Elliston Morris stands behind her and wears a three-piece suit., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.271]

Title: [Sarah Rhoads Potts and Janet Morris], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' niece Sarah Rhoads Potts and daughter Janet Morris as babies sitting on a blanket in front of a backdrop. A small circular toy sits on the ground in front of the children., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.273]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr.]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys wearing jackets and hats standing on a garden path. Houses are visible behind them., April 5 & 8, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.198]

Title: [Marriott C. Morris Jr. and Elliston P. Morris Jr.]
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as children seated on a wooden bench. Marriott Morris Jr. on the left wears a bonnet decorated with ribbons and a white frock. Elliston Morris on the right wears a wide brimmed hat and a skirt and sweater. A brick wall and a flagpole are visible behind the children., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2019]

Title: [Group portrait including Marriott C. and Bess Morris]
Description: Photograph showing a group posed for a portrait, including Marriott Canby Morris and his sister Elizabeth Canby Morris. A man and two women stand in the back row while three women, a man, and a child sit in the front row. The men wear three-piece suits while the women wear long, high-necked dresses., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2058]

Title: "Do you like butter?" Elizabeth C. Morris and Elliston P. Morris Jr, Pelham
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' sister Elizabeth Canby Morris and his son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. as a child sitting in a field of flowers. Elizabeth Morris wears a hat and a striped shirt and Elliston Morris wears a white frock and a straw hat. He also holds a flower under her chin., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2004]

Title: Elizabeth C. Morris and Elliston P. Morris Jr, Pelham
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' sister Elizabeth Canby Morris and his son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. as a child sitting in a field of flowers. Elizabeth wears a hat and a striped shirt and Elliston wears a white frock and a straw hat. He also holds a flower under the her chin., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2004a]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr.] Germantown
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys peering over a fence., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 26, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.222]

Title: [Janet Morris and Sarah Rhoads Potts], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris and niece Sarah Rhoads Potts as babies each wearing white frocks sitting on a blanket in front of a dark backdrop. A pacifier and a shell sit on the blanket to the right., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.283]

Title: [Janet Morris and Sarah Rhoads Potts], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris and niece Sarah Rhoads Potts as babies on a porch. Morris on the left wears a white dress and sits on a wooden chair with a tray. Potts on the right wears a cap and sits in a wicker chair., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.288]

Title: [Sarah Rhoads Potts and Janet Morris], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris and niece Sarah Rhoads Potts as babies sitting next to each other in front of a backdrop. They wear white frocks and look down at something in Morris' hands., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.310]

Title: Distinguished Americans, at a meeting of the New York Historical Society To whom this plate is by permission respectfully dedicated by Doney & Gollmann
Description: Group portrait of forty nine Americans gathered together at a meeting of the New York Historical Society in the University Chapel. Seen in the foreground, from left to right, are: George W. Bethune, Zadock Pratt, Francis L. Hawks, John E. Wool, Horatio Seymour, John W. Francis, Hamilton Fish, Winfield Scott, Jonathan M Wainwright, Daniel Webster, Samuel Jones, Franklin Pierce, William C. Bryant, Henry Clay, Edward Everett, Fred de Peyster, Luther Bradish, Martin Van Buren, George Bancroft, John Van Buren, William L. Marcy, and Lewis Cass. Another twenty seven men are seen in the background, including: Millard Fillmore, William H. Seward, John C. Calhoun and Valentine Mott. Each man wears a dark suit with a light shirt and tie. The men face in all directions; some look out toward the viewer and others turn to the side with no interaction among each other. Sitters portraits after painted portraits provided to the artist., Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1854 by Doney & Gollmann in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York., Gift of David Doret., LCP copy variant from copies at Library of Congress and American Antiquarian Society. Imprint varies and image does not include sitter Archbishop John Hughes., See David McNeely Stauffer, American engravers upon copper and steel, Vol. 1 (New York, 1907), 66., A key and description of the plate is included in the New York Historical Society Quarterly 38, 1954 , 458-459. Copy included with print. Description references Hughes missing from key, but not the image., Thomas Doney came to Canada from France, worked in Illinois and Ohio, and finally established himself in New York in 1845.
Creator: Doney, Thomas, fl. 1844-1852, engraver
Date: 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Portrait Prints/Photos - Group [P.2011.45.3]

Title: [Full-length portrait of Maung Shaw Loo]
Description: Full-length, forward-facing portrait of Maung Shaw Loo, attired in traditional Burmese clothes, including a gaung baung (head wrap); a light-colored shirt; a striped longyi (sarong or long skirt); and a floor-length, striped cloth cape around his shoulders. He stands with his right hand on the back of a wooden chair. A curtain hangs in the right, and a patterned carpet is visible on the floor. Maung Shaw Loo (1839-1929) was born in Burma (Myanmar) and traveled to the United States in 1858. He attended the University of Lewisburg (later renamed Bucknell University) in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1864. He earned a medical degree from Cleveland Medical College in 1867, becoming the first Western-trained Burmese physician. He returned to Burma and continued work as a physician and educator., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from sitter's time in Lewisburg, Pa., Photographer's imprint on verso: E.L. Mowry, Photographer, Lewisburg, Pa.
Creator: Mowry, E.L, photographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Loo [P.2024.2]

Title: [Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning and Chew families miscellaneous portraits collection]
Description: Collection of photographs, several unidentified, of members of the African American middle-class Steven-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning and Chew family of Philadelphia, as well as their extended families and friends. Includes predominantly studio portraiture, including a portrait of William H. Chew (P.2013.14.10), in addition to two miniatures (possibly members of the Cogdell family) and a casual group photograph. Also includes a small number of photographs representing the African American expatriate entertainers' community in Paris in the 1930s; a group portrait of the “Soap Box Minstrels, Musical Fund Hall, December 7, 1909”; and a group portrait with possibly George Washington Musgrave. Minstrel show photograph depicts performers in black face and African American musicians on a stage in front of which a row of African American performers, some in costume and some in tuxedoes, is seated. George Venning and his brother-in-law William Holden were founders of the Soap Box Social in 1908. The Soap Box Social performed an annual minstrel show in the aughts as a fundraiser for the Citizens Republican Club, a social and political club of African American elite men started in 1884. The club’s mission focused on the election of African Americans into public office., Blackface minstrelsy is a popular entertainment form, originating in the United States in the mid-19th century and remaining in American life through the 20th century. The form is based around stereotypical and racist portrayals of African Americans, including mocking dialect, parodic lyrics, and the application of Black face paint; all designed to portray African Americans as othered subjects of humor and disrespect. Blackface was a dominant form for theatrical and musical performances for decades, both on stage and in private homes., Identified sitters include Ivan H. Browning, William H. Chew, Edward W. Venning, Sallie Venning (Holden), Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone, Thomas "Fats" Waller, and Ada "Bricktop" Smith., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from content., Various photographers, including L. Blaul, African American photographer G. W. Cheston, Flett, J. E. Forbert, O. B. De Morat, S. Georges Ltd, Studio di Art, Sol Young Studios, and Suddards & Fennemore., P.2013.14.12 contains manuscript note on verso: My Honey, My Wife, My All., P.2013.14.15 contains manuscript note on recto: To two regular fellows “Bill & Agnes” Ivan Browning, Paris, France, 1932., P.2013.14.16 contains manuscript note on recto: To The Agnes, Bill, Gene Upshur, With Warmest Wishes, Turner Layton. C.T. Johnstone., P.2013.14.17 contains manuscript note on recto: To Mr. & Mrs. Chew. With Tons of Good Wishes for Every Joy & Oceans of Happiness. Layton & Johnstone., P.2013.14.19 contains manuscript note on recto identifying the sitters: Unknown; [Us.?] Browning; Snow; Unknown; Fats Waller; Unknown; Bricktop., P.2013.14.20 contains manuscript note in ink on recto identifying the sitters: Unknown; Fats; [Mau?]; [Mask?]; Bricktop; Uncle John; Unknown; Ms. Chew; Susan Williams; Unknown; Maureen Browning; Mr. Anson; Ms. Hinkson; Dr. Hinkson; Mr. Chew; Mr. Browning; Unknown. Also contains manuscript note on recto: To Uncle John-Don’t get your derby knocked off. Thomas “Fats” Waller; Uncle John, I think your great & how. Bricktop., See Lib. Company Annual Report, 1991, p. 26-31., Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky., See LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., Genealogical charts available at repository., Description of blackface mintrelsy from Dorothy Berry, Descriptive Equity and Clarity around Blackface Minstrelsy in H(arvard) T(heater) C(ollection) Collections, 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., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1800-1932]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection [P.2013.14]

Title: [George Henry Lea as a very young boy]
Description: Bust length portrait of a bare shouldered Lea. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Geometric design in center, scrolls all around., Mat: Oval. Stamped: Ambrotype by V. L. Richardson., Case: Leather. Geometric design. Modified octagon surrounding a four sided figure. Scrolls all around. Same design on verso., See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Richardson, V. L., photographer.
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.10]

Title: [George Henry Lea as a very young boy]
Description: Copy photograph of Richardson ambrotype portrait of Lea (see 8326.F.10). Portrait is reversed with edges of the original mat visible in the image., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Uncased., See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Richardson, V. L., photographer.
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.11]

Title: Elizabeth Jaudon Bakewell, New Orleans, 9 May 1848
Description: Waist length portrait of Bakewell as a young woman with long curls hanging down her cheeks, wearing a brooch at her neck. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. S curves at corners. Manuscript note on inside back cover under the plate reads: Elizabeth Jaudon Bakewell, New Orleans, 9 May 1848., See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: May 9, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.1]

Title: [Elizabeth Lea Jaudon Bakewell, aged 42.]
Description: Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Ivory silk. Manuscript note: January 1870. Aged 42., Mat: Oval., Case: Oval dark purple velvet., See also 8326.F.22. See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Suddards & Fennemore, photographer.
Date: January 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.21]

Title: ASSU Illustration 8824
Description: Block numbered in two places: 8824., Portrait of Stephen Paxson, a missionary for the American Sunday-School Union who was nicknamed "Stuttering Stephen"; in the waist-length portrait Paxson has a goatee., Signed: A.H. Markley Phila. sc., “V. Grot[tenthaler] [?] P[hila.]” – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories from 1867 to 1876., Illustration appears in A fruitful life: a narrative of the experience and missionary labors of Stephen Paxson (Philadelphia, 1882), frontispiece.
Date: [between 1867 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 18

Title: [Anna Lea Bakewell as a young child.]
Description: Seated portrait. Her hair is cropped short. She wears a plaid dress. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Spray of flowers in center surrounded by scrolls., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Small urn on a pedestal in the center surrounded by ornate scrolls and swirls., See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.3]

Title: [M. Stanton Hall with his parents and sister.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design. Newspaper clipping containing biographical information on Hall is pasted on the pad., Mat: Oval., Case: Thermoplastic. Geometric design. This design is #3-14 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647: Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as rare., Hall was the first President of the Philadelphia Board of Education. See also Board Report for November 19, 1991.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9362]

Title: [Elizabeth Lea Jaudon (later Bakewell) as a young woman.]
Description: Seated portrait. She wears a dark dress with a lace collar, white gloves and a brooch at her throat., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red silk. No design. In ink: Sept. 1846., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Geometric design with intertwined rectangles. No design on verso., See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: September 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.2]

Title: John W. Geary envelope
Description: Image: Depicts bust portrait of John W. Geary., Verse 366: Col. Geary / Col. Geary's Twenty-eighth Regiment P.V., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: Brewster, Mary Hequembourg, 1791-1868.
Description: In Account of the golden wedding of James and Mary Brewster, September 18, 1860 (New Haven, 1860), frontispiece., Facsimile signature: Your Affectionate Mother Mary Brewster., Waist-length portrait of the woman wearing a lace collar and a lace bonnet.
Date: [1860?]

Title: Dickerman sisters.
Description: In The sisters : a memoir of Elizabeth H., Abbie A., and Sarah F. Dickerman (Boston, 1859), frontispiece., Three separate waist-length portraits in arabesque frames: Elizabeth H. (Lizzie) Dickerman; Abbie A. Dickerman; Sarah F. (Fannie) Dickerman., The Dickerman sisters, who grew up in Connecticut, lived pious lives and died young. Elizabeth lived long enough to work first as a teacher and later as the first principal of the Hart Female Seminary in Plymouth, Connecticut.
Date: [1859?]

Title: Lady in black.
Description: In Only full report of the trial of Rev. I.S. Kalloch, on charge of adultery ... with accurate portraits of Kalloch, and the beautiful lady in black (Boston, 1857), p. 4., “The Springfield republican says: ‘The lady thus unfortunately implicated with Mr. Kalloch, is the young and lovely wife of a citizen of Brattleboro’, Vt.’”, Waist-length portrait of the “lady in black,” touching her necklace with her right hand.
Date: [1857?]

Title: Bodine, Polly.
Description: In the Weekly herald, vol. 9, no. 25 (June 29, 1844), p. 203., Another portrait by another artist appears on the same page; see also the Weekly herald, vol. 9, no. 2 (Jan. 13, 1844), p. 9, for an earlier publication of this portrait., Waist-length portrait of the accused murderess wearing a bonnet.
Date: [1844?]

Title: Bolton, Abby, 1827-1849.
Description: In The lighted valley, or, The closing scenes in the life of a beloved sister (New York, 1850), frontispiece., The young woman was the daughter of the Rev. Robert Bolton (1788-1857), an Episcopalian clergyman who was born Savannah, Georgia; in 1807, he traveled to England, where he married Anne Jay Bolton (1793-1859); the couple and their children left England in 1836 and settled in New York; they opened the Bolton Priory School in Pelham Manor, New York, in 1838., Three-quarter-length portrait of the young woman., Another portrait appears in Bolton, R. The Lighted valley, or, The closing scenes of the life of Abby Bolton (London, 1851), frontispiece ("Eng'd by W. Holl, from a painting by her brother [i.e., William Jay Bolton]").
Date: [1850?]

Title: Soby, Elizabeth.
Description: In A treatise on the alterative [sic] and curative virtues of Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1833), plate facing p. 94., “Page 94”., According to the accompanying article, Elizabeth Soby was relieved of the pain she suffered from the ulcer on her face by using Swaim’s panacea., Charles Joseph Hullmandel was a London lithographer., Another portrait of Elizabeth Soby appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [19]., Three-quarter length portrait of a woman with a disfiguring scar on the right side of her face.
Date: [1833?]

Title: Tregomaine, Mrs.
Description: In A treatise on the alterative [sic] and curative virtues of Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1833), plate facing p. 95., “Page 94”., According to the accompanying article, Mrs. Tregomaine was relieved of the pain she suffered from ulcers on various parts of her body by using Swaim’s panacea., Charles Joseph Hullmandel was a London lithographer., Another portrait of Mrs. Tregomaine appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [22]., Recumbent portrait of a woman with scars on her face and hands, leaning against pillows.
Date: [1833?]

Title: Parker, Dorothy, Mrs.
Description: In A treatise on the alterative [sic] and curative virtues of Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1833), plate facing p. 54 of the appendix., “Page 54. Appendix”., According to the accompanying article, Mrs. Dorothy Parker was relieved of the pain she suffered from rheumatism, abscesses, and ulcers on her legs by using Swaim’s panacea., Charles Joseph Hullmandel was a London lithographer., Another portrait of Mrs. Dorothy Parker appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [26]., Full-length portrait of a woman with scars on her legs, sitting up in bed.
Date: [1833?]

Title: Fredericks, Mlle.
Description: In Van Amburgh’s Zoological & Equestrian Co. Concert Company. Fun for the million! (Philadelphia, 1859), detail., Mlle. Fredericks worked with Van Amburgh in 1859 only; cf. W.L. Slout. Olympians of the sawdust circle (1998)., Full-length portrait of the slack wire performer, holding a hoop as she balances on the wire.
Date: [1859?]

Title: Margot Griscom McCord Smith. Born Ap. 29, 1821 - Died Ap. 28, 1909. Grand niece of Elizabeth Griscom Ross (Betsy Ross)
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Smith wearing a black cape, plaid skirt, and a lace cap tied under her chin. Her right arm is resting on a table, her left arm is on her lap. Her hair is in long curls. She is looking slightly to her right., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Leaves in an oval in the center. Fancy scrolled border., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical. Label on mat: Collins, Nos. 100 & 166 Chestnut St., Case: Leather. Geometric design with interlocking swirls. Same design on verso. Double clasp. Accompanied by manuscript note identifying sitter: Margot Griscom McCord Smith. Born Ap. 29, 1821 - Died Ap. 28, 1909. Grand niece of Elizabeth Griscom Ross (Betsy Ross)., Manuscript note on plate verso: Aged about 33 years. Smith was a charter member of the Flag House Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution., For additional information about Margaret Smith, see research file, LCP Annual Report, 1993, pg. 42 and Board Report, 9/21/93.
Creator: Collins, photographer.
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9421]

Title: Walters, Anna.
Description: Full-length portrait of Miss Anna Walters in a tutu dancing en pointe., In Alexander’s express messenger (Apr. 17, 1844), p. [1]., “Miss Walters, one of Philadelphia’s favorite ballerinas, had made her debut at the Walnut a few days earlier, in a solo called Il Pirule Vetteramo, ‘never dancing in this city before’ -- and never again, insofar as we have been able to discover! According to Charles Durang, ‘Miss Walters really displayed infinite grace and immense agility. Her style was the French operatic (i.e., the classical ballet). She had great natural powers for the art but we should judge had never been regularly taught and trained in that graceful school. Her performances were crude at times and quite unfinished, showing that her acquirements were through aptness and tact for imitation. Miss Walters, however, pleased, and that nowadays is quite enough.’” -- Moore, Lillian. George Washington Smith (1945)., “As she appeared in the trial dance from the Bayadere, on her benefit night, at the Walnut Street Theatre, on Tuesday evening, April 9 1844”.
Date: [1844?]

Title: [Klopstock]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a seated portrait of German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. He holds a piece of paper in his left hand while looking right, away from the viewer., Title trimmed off., Title supplied by cataloger from duplicate in the collections of Tartu University Library., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bolt, Johann Friedrich, 1769-1836, engraver
Date: 1813
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Misc [1975.F.652]

Title: Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876.
Description: In Jones, A.D. The illustrated American biography (New York, 1855), v. 3, p. 439. "Portraits drawn by S. Wallin, and engraved by J.W. Orr.", Other portraits appear in: Gleason's pictorial drawing room companion, v. 1 (1851), p. 232 and p. 481; Hale, S.J. Woman's record (New York, 1855), p. 638; Jones, A.D. The American portrait gallery (New York, 1855), p. [617]., Bust-length portrait of the actress., For image of painting of Charlotte Cushman by Thomas Sully, press link below.
Date: [1855?]
Location: http://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A59342

Title: [Lillie Showell]
Description: Full-length studio portrait showing Showell, seated in a chair containing an ornate back. The young woman wears glasses and is attired in a shirtwaist and long skirt. She rests one hand on the arm of the chair and the other on her knee. A studio backdrop is visible in the background. Family lore suggests Showell, born in Philadelphia, died from the flu during the 1917-1918 pandemic following World War I. Showell, younger sister of Arthur Showell (1894-1943), resided in Maryland as a child and young adult., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Brice C. Showell.
Date: [ca. 1917]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - Showell [P.2015.1.2]

Title: Poulson, Susannah Knorr, 1756-1830.
Description: Proof copy; never published?, Susannah Knorr was born in Germantown. She married Philadelphia publisher Zachariah Poulson in 1780., Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Poulson seated in a chair., For image of painting of Mrs. Poulson, press link below.
Date: [1831?]
Location: http://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A95595

Title: Comfield, Mrs. Amelia Stratton.
Description: In: Comfield, A.S. Alida, or, Miscellaneous sketches (New York, 1849), frontispiece., “Optimum vitae genus eligito nam consuetudo faciet jucundissimum.”, Amelia Stratton Comfield was the wife of John F. (or John L.?) Comfield., Waist-length portrait of the writer wearing a short-sleeved dress; based on oil painting by David Rogers., For image of painting of Mrs. Comfield, press link below.
Date: [1849?]
Location: http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID:siris_ari_348307

Title: Tappan, Sarah, 1748-1826.
Description: In Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan (New York, 1834), frontispiece., Sarah Tappan was the mother of Arthur Tappan (1786–1865) and Lewis Tappan (1788–1873), both successful merchants and prominent antebellum reformers. She was also the mother of the anti-abolitionist and Ohio politician Benjamin Tappan (1773-1857), William Tappan (1779-1855), John Tappan (1781-1871), and publisher Charles Tappan (1784-1875)., Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Tappan, wearing a bonnet.
Date: [1834?]

Title: Ramsay, Martha Laurens, 1759-1811.
Description: In Memoirs of Martha Laurens Ramsay (Philadelphia, 1845), frontispiece., Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Ramsay, wearing a lowcut dress with lace collar.
Date: [1845?]

Title: Howard, Margaret, 1826-
Description: In Trial of Mrs. Margaret Howard, for the murder of Miss Mary Ellen Smith (Cincinnati, 1849), title vignette., Mrs. Margaret Howard was tried for stabbing her husband’s mistress to death; she was acquitted on grounds of insanity., Bust-length portrait of the murderess, wearing a bonnet or head scarf.
Date: [1849?]

Title: Brunton, Anne, 1768-1808.
Description: In The Mirror of taste, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 1810), frontispiece. Library Company’s copy defaced., In 1791, Anne Brunton married Robert Merry, who died in 1798. In 1803, she married Thomas Wignell, who died that same year. She married William Warren in 1806. She died in childbirth two years later in Alexandria, Virginia. Already established as a leading actress in England, she made her American debut in December 1796 as Shakespeare’s Juliet. Cf. ANB., Waist-length portrait of the actress, wearing a hat with feathers.
Date: [1810?]

Title: Shaw, Charlotte.
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Miss Shaw, seated, wearing a shawl and holding a rose. Ornate border around the portrait depicts angels and flowers. An eagle at the top of the portrait holds in its mouth a circular medal reading: PLUMBE Gold Medal., In Loder, George. Lady! The rose I give to thee (Philadelphia, 1846), vignette., The actress Charlotte Shaw debuted at the Bowery Theater on Dec. 14, 1842. Cf. Hall, Lillian A. Catalogue of dramatic portraits (1930-1934)., “[John] Plumbe devised a method whereby his studio copied original photographic images onto a lithographer’s stone by an early and innovative method of mechanical photoreproduction that still remains a mystery. Plumbeotypes were thus actually lithographs, but with a difference, for the stones were created with the new process.”--P. 48. LCP AR [Annual Report] 1992.
Date: 1846.

Title: Nau, Dolores.
Description: In Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 8, no. 19 (May 12, 1855), p. 300., Nau, a soprano of American birth, trained and toured in Europe and won considerable critical acclaim before returning to New York to make her American debut., Waist-length portrait of Nau, seated and wearing a necklace and mantle.
Date: [1855?]

Title: May, Juliana.
Description: Full-length portrait of the singer holding a fan and wearing a full-skirted tiered dress., In Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, vol. 4, no. 91 (Aug. 29, 1857), p. 193., Miss Juliana May was an American opera singer who first achieved fame in Europe.
Date: [1857?]

Title: Hopkinson, Ann Biddle, 1800-1863.
Description: In The gift (Philadelphia, 1839), plate opposite p. 228., Sitter identified as Ann Biddle Hopkinson, the wife of Francis Hopkinson, on the basis of a portrait of her by Thomas Sully, which is now located in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Bust-length portrait of Mrs. Hopkinson wearing a hat decorated with feathers.
Date: [1839?]

Title: Hardy, Sylvia.
Description: Full-length portrait of Miss Hardy standing beside two unnamed men, perhaps as a means of depicting her extraordinary height., In The American phrenological journal, vol. 21 (May, 1855), p. 120., Miss Hardy, known during her lifetime as the Maine Giantess, was exhibited in P.T. Barnum’s American Museum during the mid-nineteenth century as a nearly eight-foot tall curiosity., “Miss Hardy is now thirty years of age. She has grown about seven inches since she was twenty-one, and is nearly eight feet high at the present moment. She weighs three hundred and forty-six pounds, is massively proportioned, robust, matronly in appearance, symmetrical in figure, but inclined to stoop, (as most tall people are,) a habit acquired in her native village, where her gigantic height subjected her to a scrutiny on the part of strangers, most annoying to her bashful nature. Her features are large. The expression of her face, if not handsome, is amiable ; her disposition is mild and gentle to a pleasing degree. Her voice is somewhat coarse, but not unmusical. Her movements are easy and graceful ; although, having never before left her village home, she is as yet unsophisticated in fashionable ways, and moves and acts with a timidity that a little more acquaintance with public life will readily remove… She certainly is one of the most wonderful natural phenomena of the age.”--P. 120.
Date: [1855?]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/dwarf.htm

Title: Sully, Sarah Annis, d. 1867.
Description: In Diadem for MDCCCXLVII (Philadelphia, 1847), plate opposite p. 60., Sitter identified as Sarah Annis Sully, the wife of Thomas Sully, on the basis of a portrait by Thomas Sully; the painting is now located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art., Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Sully wearing a cap; her left hand rests near her throat.
Date: [1847?]

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