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Title: [Albert Lindsay Doering standing in the backyard of the family residence, 1837 N. Bouvier Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts Albert Lindsay Doering, son of the photographer, standing with his hands clasped near the back door of the Doering residence., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.149]

Title: [Children sitting in the backyard of the Doering residence, 1837 N. Bouvier Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts four children, including Alma Lindsay, Albert Lindsay Doering (son of the photographer) and Albert's cousins, William and Ed Doering, dressed in wool coats and hats for cold weather and posing on a back step of the Doering residence., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.151]

Title: [Profile of Catharine Rupp Doering holding dogwood branches, taken on a bicycle trip with a group of friends.]
Description: Depicts the profile of Catharine Rupp Doering standing against a wooden fence looking toward a cemetery on a hill in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.199]

Title: [Outing in the country, group portrait with Catharine Rupp Doering sitting on steps of unidentified building.]
Description: Depicts two women, one of them Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), sitting with three men on the entrance steps of an unidentified building. One man (right) holds a camera in his lap. An identical entrance is visible nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.175]

Title: [Outing in the country, group sitting on fence eating lunch.]
Description: Depicts four women and six men gathered near a wooden fence, eating sandwiches. Includes Al Lindsay (left), Mrs. Schwarts (second from left), Mrs. Lindsay (center) and Catharine Rupp Doering (right). Rest unidentified., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.177]

Title: [Jane Lownes Webster posing near porch, George Bolton Lownes homestead, Baltimore Pike and Woodland Avenue, Springfield, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, posing in front of a crinkled paper backdrop hung from the porch of her family's homestead in Springfield, Pa. She is wearing a striped garment over her black dress., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.47]

Title: [Jane L. Webster sitting on the porch of 4834 Penn Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the photographer's wife, Jane L. Webster, sitting in a wooden rocking chair on the porch of the residence owned by John H. Webster, Sr. The Webster family owned four neighboring houses on Penn Street (4830-4900) in Frankford., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.48]

Title: George Washington Roberts, son of Algernon & Tacy Roberts. 1802-1857
Description: Portrait of Roberts, son of Algernon and Tacy Roberts. He has a half smile on his face, and is resting his right arm on a table., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red silk with a large leaf design in the center. Manuscript note pasted to pad reads: George W. Roberts, 1802-1857., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Scrolls stamped in gold on all four sides of cover. No design on verso., Accompanying manuscript note reads: George Washington Roberts, son of Algernon & Tacy Roberts. 1802-1857., Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 219. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Date: ca. 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.6]

Title: [John Fries Frazer, 1812-1872]
Description: Portrait of Frazer with mustache and short beard looking slightly to his left. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Engraving of Frazer [5657.F.29g] based on this Root daguerreotype., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers within a fancy border. Swirls all around. Geometric design on verso., See article by Sarah J. Weatherwax in Pennsylvania History, Vol. 64, Number 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 171-173 for information about Marcus Root, and John and Persifor Frazer., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), fig. 52., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pgs. 37-38.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8475.1]

Title: Abraham Henry Jones, born Feb. 14, 1823, died Oct. 6, 1884
Description: Portrait of Jones, a Salem County, N.J. famer, as a young man. He is wearing a wide black tie and a white collar. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Date inferred from photographer's years of operation at address in imprint stamped on mat., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Ornamented oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: W.L. Germon 168 Chest St Phila., Case: Leather. Small vase of flowers in the center surrounded by ornate decorations. The design of the case is called Flower Vase Motif and is plate 146 in American Miniature Cast Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersy: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969) Very rare, ca. 1852. The die-engraver's name is below the design in reverse, and reads A[nthony] C. Paquet. Geometric design on verso., Accompanied by paper label identifying sitter. See Jones Research File (Collection) and Board Report, September 16, 1997., LCP purchase.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Germon [P.9530]

Title: [Martha Jane Gibson (later) Spencer, 1825-1901, as a young woman]
Description: Seated portrait of Gibson, hair parted in the middle, with her right arm resting on a table. She is wearing a white collar and cuffs., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Thermoplastic. Lacking cover. Geometric design. This design is #3-11 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647: Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as Scarce. Printed paper label on case verso under image: Patent applied for., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: ca. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.8b]

Title: [Mary Barnes Swift, 1795-1866]
Description: Portrait of the photographer's mother wearing a white lace cap and collar. She is looking slightly to her right., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark red velvet with geometric design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. A geometric design with a circle in the center surrounding a wheel of small leaves. Curved octagonal border. Same design on verso., Accompanying manuscript note: Mary Barnes Swift, mother of Hannah Swift Given (one of Henry B. Swift's sisters)., See Henry B. Swift research file.
Creator: Swift, Henry B., photographer
Date: ca. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2004.9.7]

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: [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: Grandmother Abigail D. Dreer
Description: Wife of Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Julius Dreer. Image depicts Dreer, hair parted severely in the middle, looking slightly to her right. She is wearing a long sleeved black taffeta dress. Her left arm is resting on a table. Hand colored vase of flowers sits on the table. Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Gold colored velvet. Spray of flowers in center, geometric border. Embossed: W. & F. Langenheim Philada., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers and leaves within an octagonal border. No design on verso. Label with manuscript note pasted on recto: Grandmother Abigail D. Dreer, See Research file for additional information about Abigail Dreer.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9416]

Title: [John J. Thompson, 1815-1886.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet embossed W & F. Langenheim Philadelphia Exchange., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Within an ocatgonal border is a bouquet of mixed flowers. No design on verso., Manuscript note pasted to pad reads "John J. Thompson, my mother's brother and my dear uncle. - John T. Morris." Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 214. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.3]

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 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: 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 (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: Reward of merit
Description: Contains central vignette, including a portrait of George Washington, and ornamental side borders. Vignette depicts a female figure and a cherub flanking the portrait near a rose bush and elevated on a tuft of ground. The cherub lays a rose garland across the top of the portrait. Grape vines comprise the borders., Presented to Mr. Charles Nash. By A. B. Sanford, Instructor., Manuscript note on verso: Presented to Charles B. Nash Esq. By Miss Amillie B. Sanford. [Illegible ] of Hamilton, Madison County, New York State., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.151]

Title: Victoria Vokes
Description: Full-length portrait of British actress Victoria Vokes standing and leaning on a chair. Vokes was one of five siblings popular in pantomime theatres in London in the 1870s., 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 - Miscellaneous - Vokes [1975.F.886a]

Title: The cheapest place in town! Fechner Bros., auctioneers, No. 490 State Street, New Haven, Conn
Description: Series of illustrated stock trade cards for New Haven auctioneers Fechner Bros. depicting portraits of famous nineteenth-century actresses and dancers, including Eliza Weathersby, Jennie Hughes, Carrie Perkins, and Arline Stanley, posed in landscape settings in costume., 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 - Fechner [66231.D.1-4]

Title: [Mary S. Webster, with Anna D. Webster and children, on porch of 3084 Emerald Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the photographer's older sister, Mary S. Webster, sitting on the porch of a semi-detached brick home with her sister-in-law, Anna Dutton Webster, and her neice and nephew, Mabel C. and Horace D. Webster. Probably Albert and Anna Dutton Webster's residence at 3084 Emerald Street., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.57]

Title: [Frank W. Berry blowing bubbles on the porch of 201 Righter Street, Manayunk]
Description: Depicts the photographer's son, Frank W. Berry, blowing a large bubble from a pipe, holding a cup of soap in his right hand. He stands on the front porch of the family home in Manayunk., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator: Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.17]

Title: [Residence, with Webster family portraits on porch]
Description: Exterior views of an unidentified two story residence, with a colonnaded front porch. Architectural images depict the front facade of the house, focusing on the porch and the hammock hanging from two large trees in the front yard. A detail of a shuttered shed window behind the house is also included. Some of the images show Webster family members sitting on the front porch, including the photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, his brothers, Clement B., George S., and Howard Webster, Bertha T. Webster, and many children sitting in the hammock., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.77-79, P.9501.99-100, P.9501.104, P.9501.115]

Title: Heloise
Description: Bust-length portrait of the photographer's daughter, Heloise Guillou Redfield, richly attired in a fur lined cape with a collar and a large, ruched hat., Exhibited at the Philadelphia Photographic Salon in 1899., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.42]

Title: Anna Maria Jaudon, 1795-1870
Description: Small bust-length portrait of Anna Maria Jaudon., Pad: Bright purple velvet. No design., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Oval thermoplastic with elaborate floral design in center and a vine border. Same design on back., Anna Maria Jaudon was the oldest of nine children born to Daniel Jaudon and Anna McNeal Jaudon. The third in the family was William Latta Jaudon who married Susan Gibson Lea and was the father of Mrs. Henry Charles Lea. Inscription on the reverse of this photograph is in the handwriting of Mrs. Henry Charles Lea (Anna Caroline Jaudon.), Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.5]

Title: "Is that tooth mine?"
Description: Comic genre scene showing a man seated in a dentist's chair. A boy has just relaxed the scarf he positioned around the patient's neck, which was used to restrain the patient while his tooth was being pulled. The dentist, attired in a silk robe and pileus, shows the patient the extracted tooth. A sign reading, "S.B. Smith, dentist," hangs on the wall., Title printed on mount below image., Distributor supplied by cataloger., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See complementary stereograph "Extracting Teeth" [stereo - unid. - Genre (P.2009.13.3)]., Gift of William Helfand., Sears Roebuck & Company issued the Metropolitan Series from 1905-1920.
Date: [photographed ca. 1870, printed ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2009.13.4]

Title: Open your mouth and shut your eyes
Description: Comic genre scene shows two boys feeding something to a boy with his eyes closed. A basket and a pitcher sit on the ground at their feet., Title printed on label pasted on verso., Publisher's imprint on label pasted on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, 11., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9022.69]

Title: [Girls feeding a bird]
Description: Genre scene shows two girls standing near a bird cage looking at a bird perched on the top of the cage (rather than inside of it). The girl closer to the bird holds her hand up and offers the bird a morsel., Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher's imprint printed on label pasted on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, 14., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9022.66]

Title: [Curiosities]
Description: Genre scene shows a room full of relics with items hanging on the wall in the background and scattered religious iconography, including a bible, on the floor. A man (a little person) sits on a desk smoking a pipe. A woman sits on the floor to his left., Title supplied by cataloger., Distributor's printed blue label pasted on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging 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 - Genre [P.9585.2]

Title: First of April
Description: April's Fools Day interior genre scene showing a man attired in a dressing gown holding the limp body of cat upside down by its tail. His wife, daughter, and a boy in uniform, possibly his son, observe nearby. The boy crouches near wicker baskets from which the man pulled the cat's body., Title from printed label pasted on verso., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Stereoscopes and views, wholesale and retail., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, No. 31., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging 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 - Genre [P.9022.67]

Title: Giving gas
Description: Comic genre scene showing a dentist, attired in a silk robe and pileus, administering gas to a male patient seated in a chair. A pipe hangs from the dentist's mouth. His young male helper watches the scene with glee. A sign reading, "S.B. Smith, dentist," hangs on the wall., Title on negative., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2009.13.2]

Title: Extracting teeth
Description: Comic genre scene showing a man being restrained in a dentist's chair by a boy who holds a scarf around the man's neck. The dentist, attired in a silk robe and pileus, pulls out the patient's teeth with an abnormally large instrument. A sign reading, "S.B. Smith, dentist," hangs on the wall., Title printed on mount below image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See complementary stereograph "Is That tooth Mine?" [stereo - unid. - Genre (P.2009.13.4)]., Gift of William Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2009.13.3]

Title: [Two young women in an embrace]
Description: Genre photograph showing two women embracing., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.8]

Title: Apples. Two for 5 cts. sir
Description: Genre photograph showing a young woman trying to sell apples to a man seated with a newspaper in his lap., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.15]

Title: The young housekeepers
Description: Genre photograph showing two girls playing house, one with a coffee grinder, the other at table., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.9]

Title: Preparing for school
Description: Genre photograph showing a young boy holding a chalkboard and hat, waiting for an old man to read or grade an assignment at a lecturn., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.10]

Title: Grandpa's music lessons
Description: Genre photograph showing a young child with a violin facing a music stand and an old man seated at table, also holding a violin., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.12]

Title: The happy family going to market
Description: Genre scene showing a group of girls posing in a yard with a dog that grasps a basket in its mouth. One of the little girls pushes her doll in a carriage. A woman stands in the background watching the group., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., 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 Helen Beitler.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.2002.67.38]

Title: The misfortunes of a sweet tooth
Description: Genre scene showing a crying boy sitting on the floor by a disheveled pantry. A toppled chair rests nearby and dishes are scattered on the floor at the boy's feet., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Carl Getter.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: c1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.9319.3]

Title: The party on baggage waiting for the boat, [Mount Desert Island, ME]
Description: Glass negative showing a group of people posed in front and on top of a large pile of luggage. The group stands next to a building bearing a sign that reads "American Express Agency" at the Mount Desert Island dock. A horse-drawn carriage stands to the left. The men wear three-piece suits and hats while the women wear high-necked dresses. Mount Desert Island, the largest island off the coast of Maine, was popularized in the mid-19th century by Hudson River School painters as a nature retreat. From the late 19th century to around the 1930s the Island was a tourist destination for the social elite., Time: 1:55, Light: Good sun., 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: July 23, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1331]

Title: Group of our Mt. Desert Party. Reunion at Glen Onoko, [Poconos]
Description: Glass negative showing a group of Morris family members and acquaintances on vacation posing in a forest near Glen Onoko in the Poconos. Both men and women sit on the ground, kneel, sit on logs or stand for the photograph. Most of the group wears hats and a few of the women hold closed parasols in their hands. The women wear long dresses with coats or shawls. The men wear three piece-suits, some with long coats., Time: 1, Light: No sun, quite dark., 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: October 13, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1372]

Title: [Group of our Mt. Desert Party, Poconos]
Description: Glass negative showing a group of Morris family members and acquaintances on vacation posing in a forest near Glen Onoko in the Poconos. Both men and women sit on the ground, kneel, sit on logs or stand for the photograph. Most of the group wear hats and a few of the women hold closed parasols in their hands. The women wear long dresses with coats or shawls. The men wear three piece-suits, some with long coats., Same group as last. In same place in Glen Onoko., Time: 1:05 P.M., Light: No sun, quite dark., 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: October 13, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1373]

Title: Party at dinner in woods at Highlands, [NJ]. Father, Helen Morris, Mr. Samuel, Bess, Fannie Garrett, Fred Strawbridge, Mary Taylor & Mother
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' father Elliston P. Morris, sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, mother Martha Canby Morris, and possibly third cousin Helen Morris, with Joseph Bunford Samuel, Fannie Garrett, Fred Strawbridge, and Mary Taylor gathered for a picnic in the woods. The group sits in a semi-circle around a blanket filled with food and a picnic basket. Samuel holds a bottle and a box in his hands and Taylor holds a fan up to her face. The men wear three-piece suits while the women wear long, high-necked dresses and hats., Time: 2:30, Light: Good sun., 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: July 7, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1304]

Title: View from top of Green Mt. looking S. Walter Borton on rocks. [Mount Desert Island, ME]
Description: Glass negative showing Walter Borton sitting on a high cliff looking across a valley at Mount Desert Island. Mount Desert Island, the largest island off the coast of Maine, was popularized in the mid-19th century by Hudson River School painters as a nature retreat. From the late 19th century to around the 1930s the Island was a tourist destination for the social elite., Time: 1:30, Light: Good sun., Paper attached to the back of negative effecting the depiction of the sky in the image., 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: July 16, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1317]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris, Martha Canby Morris, and Marriott C. Morris]
Description: Film negative showing an Marriott Canby Morris standing behind his older parents Elliston P. Morris and Martha Canby Morris seated on a wooden bench. A manicured hedge grows behind them. The men wear three-piece suits while Martha Morris wears a long black dress with a ruffled blouse and glasses., 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: Spring 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.63]

Title: View of tennis court, [Sea Girt, NJ]. Sallie Emlen, John Cope, Pattie & Gertrude Mellor on court
Description: Glass negative showing Sallie Emlen, John Cope, and Pattie and Gertrude Mellor standing on a tennis court at Sea Girt, N.J. and holding racquets in position for a doubles game. Two of the women stand on the near side of the net wearing hats and white dresses. Cope and the other woman stand on the far side. Cope wears a light-colored shirt, trousers, vest, and hat. The other woman wears a white skirt and dark blouse and hat. The grassy court is surrounded by trees., Time: 5:20, Light: Fair sun., 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: July 14, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1148]

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