© Copyright 2020 - The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. TEL (215) 546-3181 FAX (215) 546-5167
For inquiries, please contact our IT Department
(151 - 200 of 2,098)
- Title
- "Raising the liberty pole" Dedicated to the American people. Commemorative of 1776. The centenary of independence
- Description
- Print after painting by New York historical painter and Art Union exhibitor, Frederick Augustus Chapman, commemorating the Declaration of Independence. Depicts the raising of a liberty pole in a colonial town square. Image contains a group of men, including an African American man, raising the pole as around them revelers rejoice; a tavern sign with a portrait of King George III is pulled down; the Sons of Liberty rally; volunteers for "War, Liberty, and Rights" are recruited; a white man loyalist turns away in disgust; and a white woman raises her baby in celebration as other women solemnly look on. Liberty poles, symbols and meeting places of the radical group, Sons of Liberty, first appeared in 1766 following the repeal of the Stamp Act., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1875. By John C. McRae; New York., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1978., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 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.
- Creator
- McRae, John C., engraver
- Date
- 1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-American Revolution [8384.F.13]
- Title
- [Convalescing children]
- Description
- Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts, probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana
- Title
- [Children posed on lawn chairs]
- Description
- View from above looking down on a row of children lying on striped cushioned lawn chairs in a park. Shows the eight boys and girls, including an African American girl, in a row waving to the viewer. The girls are attired in dresses, and the boys are attired in collared shirts and shorts. In the background are two benches., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1950]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana
- Title
- [Horse race]
- Description
- View of a race track depicting spectators watching two horses race neck and neck. In the foreground, two race horses run beside one another. The jockeys have an intense look on their faces as they hold the reins. Along the white guard rails, men and women spectators, including African Americans, stand and lean forward to watch the race., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1940]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Portraits - Sports & recreation
- Title
- [Full-length portrait of an unidentified older woman seated in a wheelchair]
- Description
- Full-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified older white woman, seated in a wheelchair positioned at a slight angle. Sitter has gray hair parted in the center and is attired in a dark-colored lace cap with lappets and a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress with a white collar. Her cheeks are tinted pink. She holds a book, with the spine towards the viewer, in her right hand on her lap. Her left arm is propped on the armrest. A small pouch-like bag hangs from the corner of the back of the wheelchair visible in the left of the image. The chair back is covered with a patterned cloth., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on cheeks., Pad: Red velvet with a leaf in the center and decorative scroll border., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Decorative geometric and leaf pattern in the center with leaves in the corners. Same design on verso.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo –unid sitter - ambro [P.2021.31]
- Title
- Datura stramonium b
- Description
- Book illustration containing three figures depicting the plant from the nightshade family commonly known as jimsonweed or thorn apple. "Fig. I" shows a "branch" of the medicinal and hallucinogenic plant with a thick, brown stem; green toothed leaves; and two lilac-colored, trumpet-shaped flowers; Fig. "II" shows the "stamen and style"; and Fig. III shows the "transverse section of the pericarp, showing the cells, receptacle and seeds.", From Jacob Bigelow, American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, No. 1, Cornhill. University Press--Hilliard and Metcalf, 1817), vol. 1., Pl. 1., See William S. Reese's Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books (New York: The Grolier Club, 1999) entry #10.
- Creator
- Annin, William B., 1791?-1839, engraver
- Date
- [1817]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books | Rare Am 1817 Bigel Log.2142.O.1 (Collins)
- Title
- [Unidentified resort lodging]
- Description
- Photograph showing a view of a three-story hotel seen from across a field dotted with trees. A wide porch surrounds the first floor of the hotel., 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. 1880
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2111]
- Title
- [Unidentified marinescape]
- Description
- Photograph showing a view of a river lined with low shrubs and other foliage., 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. 1880-ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2116]
- Title
- [Unidentified marinescape]
- Description
- Photograph showing a view of a river lined with low shrubs and other foliage., 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. 1880-ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2117]
- Title
- [Unidentified marinescape]
- Description
- Photograph showing a view of a tall tree with sparse branches standing on a riverbank. Trees and other foliage line the bank and are reflected in the water., 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. 1880-ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2119]
- Title
- [Unidentified residence]
- Description
- Photograph showing a view of a two-story brick home seen from a road with trolley tracks running down the center. Tall trees grow on either side of the road and behind the house., 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. 1880-ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2126]
- Title
- [Unidentified residence]
- Description
- Photograph showing a view of a multi-story house with multiple porches standing in a field of dune grass. A windswept tree stands alone in the field. The print is mounted on a cream colored board with a gold border., 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. 1880-ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2127]
- Title
- [Unidentified residences]
- Description
- Photograph showing two houses. The multi-story house on the right has a porch, steep gables and two lantern towers on the roof. The two-story house on the left has three chimneys and vines climbing up the front porch., 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. 1890-ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2128]
- Title
- Views of slavery Does the slaveholder admit the slave to be a human being? If so we would ask his interpretation of the following sentiment "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do you even so to them."
- Description
- Abolitionist print containing six scenes depicting the inhumanity of slavery. Scenes include enslaved African American children crying while their mothers work and a white man enslaver whips an enslaved man in a sugar plantation field; the punishment of enslaved people by flogging, whipping, and binding by white men overseers in a shack; an auction of enslaved people; a free African American woman with a child watching the destruction of her free papers as she is kidnapped from the street; an anguished enslaved mother being separated from her children by a white man involved in the slave trade; and the shipping of enslaved people to New Orleans from a Baltimore dock. Also contains an excerpt about the rights of human beings from William Ellery Channing's abolitionist text, "On Slavery," below the image., Title from item., Advertised in the New York American Anti-Slavery Society newspaper, Emancipator (March 1836), p.3., Purchase 2003., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 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., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2003, p. 45-46.
- Date
- [1836]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1836 Vie [P.2003.10], http://www.lcpimages.org/afro-americana/F-Views.htm
- Title
- Amateur Newspapers and Journals Collection
- Description
- Short runs and single issues of 19th-century self-published newspapers. Mostly 1870s.
- Date
- 1876-1884
- Title
- Louisa A. White Album
- Description
- Photograph album of portraits of unidentified middle-class African Americans including fourteen men, eleven women, and three babies.
- Title
- [Stone church, arched entranceway from dirt path, probably St. David's Church, Radnor, Pa.]
- Description
- Distant view of unidentified man and woman standing on either side of a dirt path leading to an arched entranceway of an ivy-covered stone church. Includes partial views of tombs in cemetery in the foreground., 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.9453.182]
- Title
- [Stone church, side view, probably St. David's Church, Radnor, Pa..]
- Description
- Exterior view of ivy-covered stone church, showing arched entranceway and wooden window shutters. Includes small gravestones in nearby cemetery., 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.9453.183]
- Title
- [Catharine Rupp Doering standing on a canal bridge.]
- Description
- Depicts Catharine Rupp Doering standing on a wooden canal bridge, leaning against a rail and looking out at the water. A man is standing and looking toward the camera on a canal boat that is passing in the background., 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.9453.186]
- Title
- [Fishing near the Pavilion Sun Parlor]
- Description
- View of men fishing from a rocky shore line, probably in New Jersey, showing the Pavilion Sun Parlor on a pier jutting out into the ocean., 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.8986.61]
- Title
- New "5-20" six per cts The undersigned, as subscription agent, for the government, is prepared to deliver at once, on payment, coupon bonds, of the new 6 per cent. U.S. loan, authorized Feb. 25, 1862
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Jay Cooke & Co.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Jay (2)5786.F.12a (McAllister)
- Title
- We will cash all coupons on 7 3/10 per cent Treasury notes and a full supply of the notes always on hand and for sale. Also, the new one year six per cent. certificates of the government. These will be sold at a liberal discount. Quartermaster vouchers either cashed at market rates, or funded into one year certificates. Government and other stocks bought and sold on commission. Uncurrent funds, gold and silver, &c. bought and sold. Drafts and notes collected. Money received on deposit, and interest allowed
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Jay Cooke & Co.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Jay (2)5786.F.11a (McAllister)
- Title
- The undersigned, having been appointed subscription agent by the secretary of the Treasury is now prepared to furnish, at once, the new twenty year 6 per cent. bonds of the United States, designated as "five-twenties," redeemable at the pleasure of the government, after five years, and authorized by act of Congress approved Feb. 25, 1862
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Jay Cooke & Co.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Jay 5786.F.180c (McAllister)
- Title
- Dining car, Pennsylvania Limited
- Description
- View showing the interior of a dining car of a train of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Two African American waiters, wearing mustaches and attired in white suits, stand among tables adorned in table cloths and with seating for four. In the background, a beverage service, including bottles, silver ice buckets, silver bowls, and possibly a decanter are visible. View also includes hooks above the car windows and light fixtures on the ceiling. One of the waiters carries a bottle of champagne on a tray. In June 1887, the Pennsylvania Limited began running between New York and Chicago, which was replaced by the Pennsylvania Special in 1902 and by the Broadway Limited in 1912., Title from item., Copyrighted., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including St. Louis and Liverpool, Eng., 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., Purchase 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Transportation [P.2013.1]
- Title
- Amateur newspaper collection, 1876-1884
- Description
- Collection of 131 amateur newspapers (225 issues) from sixteen states. Holdings range from single issues up to eight issues. Most of the newspapers were purchased, and the collection has increased through donations. The collection is open to new additions., Many newspapers discuss amateur journalism and amateur journalism societies., "The advent of the small, toy press, moreover, ushered in the golden age of amateur publishing during the 1870s. Because subscription lists were large and because exchanging papers was an important element in amateur journalism, the hobby spread from the Northeast across the nation, creating a mass culture for adolescents who shared the experience of reading the same stories and debating the same issues. ... Although many of the papers of the 1840s and 1850s generally imitated their adult counterparts by reprinting selections from other periodicals, the juvenile papers of the 1870s were firmly committed to original work. Bereft of stylistic sophistication--metaphor, symbol, character development, and, sometimes, plot--the amateur papers and miniature novels provided a forum for young people's thinking as they used a toy to mark the longer time between childhood and adulthood. Because they were novice writers, the authors often copied or, more precisely, plagiarized plots and characters created by their favorite adult authors: Captain Mayne Reid, Horatio Alger and, especially, Oliver Optic. Nevertheless, in their so-called adaptations of adult work, the amateur editors made significant alterations in characterization and plotting to suit their own perceptions." From Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society: http://www.faqs.org/childhood/In-Ke/Juvenile-Publishing.html viewed March 27, 2012.
- Date
- 1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll Amateur Newspapers 106457.D - 106564.D, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll Amateur Newspapers 106566.D - 106587.D (Zinman), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll Amateur Newspapers 3321.F.1
- Title
- [Chain gang]
- Description
- Illustration shows seven male slaves in tattered clothing who are chained together by shackles around their necks. Holding shovels and other tools, they set off to work in a field., Illustration in the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1838 (Boston: Published by D.K. Hitchcock, 1837), p. 21., Caption underneath the image reads: "The slaves are sometimes chained together when they go to work in the fields, lest their love of liberty should induce them to make violent efforts to escape.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
- Date
- [1837]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1837 Ame Ant 52047.D.2 p 21, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2754
- Title
- And he owes not any man
- Description
- Depicts a white man blacksmith standing near a seated African American boy in the artisan's cluttered shop. The blacksmith, wearing a beard and attired in a collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, an apron, pants, and shoes, puts his right hand on his hip and holds a tool in his left hand as he looks directly at the viewer. In the right, an African American boy, attired in a long-sleeved plaid shirt, a vest, pants, socks, and shoes, sits on a barrel and holds a fan made of animal hair. Surrounding them tools, horseshoes, a large wheel, and barrels are visible., Title from item., Pink mount with rounded corners., Imprint printed on mount: Sold by Universal View Co. Philadelphia Pa. Lawrence Kan., Gift of David Long, 2002., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Universal View Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Work [P.2002.8.2]
- Title
- [Older African American man seated on donkey]
- Description
- Depicts an older African American man, possibly a sharecropper, sitting on a donkey. The man has gray hair and stubble and is attired in a hat, and a torn and worn collared coat, pants, and shoes. He sits on a worn saddle and hold the reins to the donkey. Within the fenced in farmyard is a shed made from planks of board, a plow, and more farming equipment. Trees are visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by photograph medium and content., Gift of James Tanis, 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - unidentified male [P.9978.2]
- Title
- Gerrit Smith
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the philanthropist, social reformer, and abolitionist, who was actively involved as a "station master" in the Underground Railroad. Show Smith attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a patterned waistcoat, and a black jacket., Title from printed signature of sitter below the image., Published in George W. Bungay's Off-hand takings, or, crayon sketches of the noticeable men of our age (New York: Dewitt and Davenport, 1854), p. 330., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
- Date
- [1854]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [10753.D]
- Title
- The country seats of the United States of North America with some scenes connected with them
- Description
- Issued to subscribers in 4 pts., 1808-9. The subsequent trade ed., of which this is a copy, has copyright notice, dated 20 Jan. 1809., Added t.p. has subtitle: Part the first., The 20 plates include both t.ps., which are illustrated. Most plates have legend: Drawn, engraved & published by W. Birch. The 10th plate is "painted by T. Birch;" the 12th is "drawn by G. Birch.", Lacking 3 11. letter-press descr. of plates., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2017, p. 49 - 50., With copyright statement on v. engr. t.p. and wrapper title: Birch's Country Seats In The United States., 19 plates., Obl., Retrospective conversion record: MARC Link database., Recon note: Match points differ
- Creator
- Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
- Date
- [1808, [c1809]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Print room Am 1809 Bir 13327.Q
- Title
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- [Boys' music class]
- Description
- Depicts a white woman music teacher at a piano leading a class of five boys, including an African American child. In the right, the woman sits on a piano stool with her fingers on the keys. In the left, four boys stand in a line. In the right, an African American boy sits in a chair beside the piano with his legs crossed. In the background is a phonograph and a blackboard with musical notes written in chalk., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1925]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8846.25]
- Title
- Wm. Lloyd Garrison
- Description
- Half-length portrait of the abolitionist, publisher, and author, as an older man. Garrison, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Stuart, Frederick T., 1837-1913, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-G [P.8911.387]
- Title
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat, a jacket, and an overcoat with a fur collar, faces slightly left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on depicted age of the sitter., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Schoff, an engraver working in Boston during the 1850s and 1860s, specialized in portrait and bank note engraving.
- Creator
- Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - W [P.8911.1050]
- Title
- [African American youth playing banjo]
- Description
- Interior view depicting a seated African American boy singing and playing the banjo in a nicely furnished parlor. The boy, attired in a white collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a dark-colored waistcoat, pants, and shoes, holds the banjo on his lap and looks up and to the right with his mouth open. In the left, a broom is propped against a wooden chair. Behind him is a closed door and a framed object hung on the wallpapered wall., Title supplied by cataloger., Frances Orlando's "George Bacon Wood, photographer of the 1880s: an introduction to the Wood Collection in the Library Company of Philadelphia. (Master's thesis, Philadelphia College of Art, 1985), p. 42., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international exhibitions. His photographs won several prizes.
- Creator
- Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1886]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.188]
- Title
- [Interior of a medical clinic]
- Description
- Depicts women patients, including two African American women, receiving and awaiting treatment in a clinic with stained floors. In the right, two white men doctors, attired in suits, treat a seated African American woman's arm using nearby basins. In the left, two men attendants attend to the other two seated women patients. In the right foreground, a white woman nurse organizes medical supplies on top of a draped table. In the left foreground, medicinal bottles rest on a desk with an open drawer of bandages., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-Non-Philadelphia-Afro-Americana
- Title
- "She lives way down dar"
- Description
- Scene depicting an older African American woman giving directions to another African American woman in front of her home. At her open gate, the woman, wearing gray hair and attired in a long-sleeved, patterned dress, a plaid shawl, and a white apron, points left indicating the desired direction. The other woman, attired in a bonnet, a long-sleeved shirt, and a skirt, holds a milk can in her right hand and looks left with her back to the viewer. In the background is a wooden house with a large vine propped up on poles., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Signed by photographer on verso., Alternate title from lantern slide at the Staten Island New York Historical Society., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs won several prizes.
- Creator
- Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
- Date
- [photographed ca. 1886, printed ca. 1895]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.177]
- Title
- A pot hunter
- Description
- Portrait depicting an African American man, with his back to the viewer, as he climbs over a fence on a snow-covered landscape. The man, attired in a brimmed hat, a coat, pants, and boots, holds a rifle in his right hand and a dead possum by its tail in the left hand., Title from lantern slide at Staten Island New York Historical Society., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wood, a Philadelphia artist and traveler, turned to photography in the 1880s, exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at several national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs often won prizes.
- Creator
- Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1888]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.182]
- Title
- [African American woman holding a dog]
- Description
- African American woman sitting in a meadow holding up a small dog from her lap. The woman, attired in a short-sleeved dress, smiles and looks at the viewer as she holds a small white and brown dog up. Trees and a vegetable garden are visual in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of sitter and active dates of the photographer., Purchase 1988., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Rich was a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer and avid traveler who privately produced several candid portraits of family and friends.
- Creator
- Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Rich - Portraits - Unidentified [P.9266.970]
- Title
- Future rulers of Florida U.S.A
- Description
- Racist scene showing an African American family of a mother, father, and four children seated on the porch to a wooden dwelling. In the left, the mother breastfeeds her youngest child, a baby. She is seated next to her three older, but young children. The father sits to the right on the other side of the children who sit and stand. He has his arm behind the next to youngest child. The mother is attired in a kerchief, plain shirtwaist, and long, plain skirt. The father wears a vest, shirt sleeves, pants, and work boots. The children are attired in worn shirts and the oldest also in worn pants., Title printed on negative., Yellow mount with curved corners., Date inferred from format of stereograph., Gift of Ivan Jurin., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo - Portraits & Genre [P.2019.2.2]
- Title
- Emancipation: the past and the future
- Description
- Emancipation print contrasting African American life during and after slavery. Central scene portrays the interior of a free person’s home where several generations of the family socialize around a "Union" stove as the mother cooks. The horrors of slavery are depicted through scenes of the flogging, branding, selling, and capturing of enslaved people. The forthcoming results of freedom are depicted through scenes of the exterior of a free person’s cottage, African American children attending public school, and African Americans receiving payment for their work. Also depicted are: a baby angel freeing the shackles of a kneeling enslaved man as the angel, who has the year 1863 above his head, is held by Father Time; Thomas Crawford’s statue of freedom; and the hellhound Cerberus fleeing liberty., Title from item., Originally published in Harper's weekly, January 24, 1863., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Nast was a cartoonist and illustrator most known for his work for the 19th-century periodical "Harper's Weekly."
- Creator
- Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist
- Date
- 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons - 1865-3 variant [(10)1540.F]
- Title
- Turning the tables on the overseer
- Description
- Bitter anti-slavery print depicting a group of slaves about to whip their white overseer, who has been bound to a tree on the plantation grounds. Before the overseer, the male slave holding the whipping lash boldly pulls up his sleeve as the slave next to him takes off his hat in a mock gesture of respect. Smiling men, women, and children of all ages stand, sit, and lean on a fence, surrounding the overseer in anticipation of his whipping., Illustration in New York Illustrated News, November 28, 1863, p. 73., Also published as a loose print by the African American press, Robert and Thomas Hamilton, possibly the first black press to publish separate prints., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Per D 8.5 1571.F Nov 28 1863 p 73, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2863
- Title
- Cotton field
- Description
- Depicts African American men, women, and children picking and collecting cotton in the field. In the center, an African American man, attired in a long-sleeved shirt that is open at the chest, holds a handful of cotton that he puts in a bag strapped across his chest as he looks at the viewer. In front of him is a basket full of cotton. In the left, an African American woman, attired in a head kerchief, a plaid, long-sleeved dress, and a dark-colored apron, stands and looks at the viewer. To the left, two people are bent over at the waist picking cotton. Two children and two women stand in the field and look at the viewer. In the background is a house and trees., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Contains paper label on verso printed by Jas. L. Gow, including photographer's imprint and advertisement: A large Stock of Views of Negro Groups, Cabins, Teams, Cotton Fields, and Plants, etc. kept constantly on hand. Also, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina Views., Advertised in The Philadelphia photographer, March 1875, p. 96. [LCP Per P 81]., Purchase 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 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., James A. Palmer (1825-1896) was an Irish American photographer who produced thousands of stereographs about life in Aiken, South Carolina and Georgia, specializing in photographs of the African American community.
- Creator
- Palmer, J. A., photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - miscellaneous photographer - Palmer [P.2002.4.5]
- Title
- The results of abolitionism!
- Description
- Cartoon reflecting the fear among Northern white workers of job competition with free African Americans. Depicts African American men bricklayers, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in vernacular, on a construction site giving orders to white laborers in a reversal of roles. The laborers work on a large multi-storied brick building fronted by scaffolding and a ladder. The African American supervisors hold trowels and stand at the top of the scaffolding. They hurl orders and abuse at white workers exclaiming: "Bring up the mortar you white rascals" and "You bog-trotters, come along with them bricks." An African American man standing on the ground, attired as a dandy, exclaims, "White man hurry up them bricks." A white man climbs the ladder and two white men work on the ground shoveling and picking up bricks. Another white man stands and says, "Sambo hurry up the white laborers.", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1835]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons - 1835 - Res [5780.F.1]
- Title
- I'm not to blame for being white, sir!
- Description
- Critical satire portraying the humanitarian sympathies of Massachusetts senator and abolitionist Charles Sumner as hypocritical toward whites. Depicts a well-dressed Sumner walking down a city street. He has stopped to hand coins to a barefoot, African American child carrying a basket. A white girl, attired in torn and worn clothes, carries sticks and holds out her hand to him, as well. Behind Sumner, two young white women witness the scene., Title from item., Publication information supplied by Weitenkampf., Probably drawn by Dominique C. Fabronius., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1972, p. 63., Purchase 1972., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1862-11 [8033.F.2]
- Title
- [Construction crew in a fenced ditch below street level, July 12, 1904]
- Description
- Scene depicting a predominately African American construction crew, working with shovels and picks around a fire hydrant, exposed pipes, and a storm drain within a large fenced off ditch. Planks and sheet metal cover part of the site. Workers place dirt into steel bins. A crane hovers above. Spectators, including white men and boys and African American man, line the fence and pass the construction site. Further down the street another predominately African American construction crew works within another ditch., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [July 12, 1904]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.423]
- Title
- [Construction crew near railroad tracks, July 8, 1904]
- Description
- Scene depicting a predominately African American construction crew working with picks and shovels in a pit deeply dug out of a stone embankment near railroad tracks. Within the pit lined with wood planks, a well-dressed white man, standing near the hook end of a crane hanging above, oversees the work crew. At street level, near a pile of rubble, a horse-drawn flatbed truck loaded with logs and two white workers stand idle. In the foreground, a "P.R.R." (Pennsylvania Railroad) air brake steel car stands motionless on the track., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [July 8, 1904]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.424]
- Title
- [Silas McMinn residence, Lake Idaho?]
- Description
- Portrait of an African American man on a horse-drawn sulky on a farm. The man, attired in a brimmed hat, a coat, pants, and shoes, holds the reins to the horse. In the background are two log cabins, grazing calves, and men with a hay wagon., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s, exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs often won prizes.
- Creator
- Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.179]
- Title
- [Convalescing children]
- Description
- Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana
- Title
- [Champion horse]
- Description
- Portrait of a champion racing horse draped in a garland of flowers at a track. The jockey, still mounted, holds the reins. An African American man groom controls the horse by his bridle bit. A crowd of men and women spectators look on and congratulate the winner., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-Non-Philadelphia-Portraits-Sports & recreation