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Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Martyrdom of John Brown
Description: Print depicting the fictitious blessing of an enslaved African American baby by the radical abolitionist on his walk to the gallows in December 1859. Shows Brown in front of his Charles Town, Virginia cell, flanked by guards carrying rifles and swords. An African American woman kneels before him and holds her baby up while Brown lays his hand on the baby’s head. Spectators surround them, including white women and veterans, one with his arm in a sling. In the right, an African American woman nanny wraps her arms around her two well-dressed white boy charges., Title from original painting "John Brown's Blessing" completed in 1867 by Southern historical and genre painter Thomas Satterwhite Noble in the collections of the New York Historical Society., Purchase 1968., 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. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Portrait Prints-B [7777.F]

Title: John Brown meeting the slave mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution
Description: Print depicting the fictitious meeting between John Brown and an enslaved African American mother during the radical abolitionist's walk to the gallows in December 1859. Shows Brown at the top of the steps of the Charles Town, Virginia jail being led by several white men past the mother holding and looking down at her baby. The men include a prison guard in militia-uniform attempting to push the mother aside as Brown gazes compassionately upon her; the jailor, an old bearded man in cape and hat with his hand raised in front of his chin; the jailor's friend, a balding, bearded man pointing the way to the execution; and another militia man in an old Continental" uniform with a tricorne hat labeled "76." Also includes the Virginia state flag, waving above the head of Brown in the shape of a halo inscribed, "Sic Semper Tyrannis," i.e.; "Who is the tyrant, who the conqueror?" and a stern-faced, enslaver, attired in a Virginia militia uniform, waiting impatiently at the bottom of the stairs opposite a dismembered statue of justice in a pile of rubbish., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Currier and Ives in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York., Text printed below the title: The artist has represented Capt. Brown regarding with a look of compassion a Slave-mother and Child who obstructed the passage on his way to the scaffold. Capt. Brown stooped and kissed the child- then met his fate., Original painting described in "A Rare Picture," an 1886 broadside probably by Ransom, in the collections of the library of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Transcription available at repository., Purchase 1969., Reaccessioned as P.2003.18., 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: Currier & Ives
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait Prints-B [7817.F]

Title: Camp Tom Casey, 26th Me. Regt. [graphic] : Col. Nathaniel H. Hubbard, commdg.
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., View of the Union military training camp in Virginia. Shows mule-drawn wagons passing rows of tents. Also shows soldiers on the grounds.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: c1862.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - C [5779.F.8]

Title: Fresh deviled crabs. McMenamin & Co., Hampton, Va
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a crab on land in the foreground and a man and two women crabbing in a rowboat on a body of water in the background. Includes two other boats on the water in the distance. A circular vignette showing deviled crabs is superimposed onto the landscape view., 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 - McMenamin [1975.F.1a]

Title: Natural Bridge, [VA], from seat on path leading down under it. G[rand] A[rmy of the] R[epublic] sign on hill
Description: Glass negative showing the Natural Bridge extending up the left side and over the center of Cedar Creek with a rocky streambed with trees and other foliage lining either bank. A sign reading "Welcome GAR Post 15" is visible under the bridge in the distance. The Natural Bridge was likely made from an ancient underground river and became a popular tourist destination by the early 19th century. It was once a sacred site of the Monacan tribe. Thomas Jefferson purchased the surrounding land in Cedar Creek, Va. and built up inns for visitors. The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization founded in 1866 for veterans of the Union forces in the Civil War. The politically influential group contributed to the elections of five presidents and began the tradition of Memorial Day in 1868. The group dissolved in 1956 after the death of its last member Albert Woolson. It was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in 1881., Photographer remarks: Undertimed. Devel. at Nat. Bridge., Time: 10:35, There is a hole in the emulsion near the center of the plate., 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, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1038]

Title: Cascade near Natural Bridge [VA] below rustic bridge. Aunt A[nna Canby] on bridge
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' aunt Anna Tatnall Canby on a wooden bridge crossing over the cascading Cedar Creek. Canby stands in the center of the bridge in profile. Either bank is lined with trees, their barnches extending over the water., Time: 11:20, 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: October 13, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1039]

Title: Band leading students to dinner, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing a marching band leading a procession of African American women through two straight rows of African American men, attired in in uniforms and caps, at Hampton Institute. In the foreground, the African American men play their musical instruments while marching in five columns. Flanking them, the men stand at attention holding their hats to their chests. Following the band are several men carrying flags and the women, attired in white dresses, walking in rows. In the left, a crowd of white and African American men and women watch the scene. In the background, is the Hampton River where several boats sail and trees grow along the banks. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.467]

Title: View S. from Forest Inn, [Cedar Creek, VA]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of a pond with a wooden dock surrounded by a fence taken from the third floor of the Forest Inn. A road winds past the pond on the left and up a hill toward a building nearly hidden by trees. The Forest Inn, built in 1833, accommodated the large number of visitors to the Natural Bridge. Fire razed the inn 1892., Photographer remarks: Undertimed., Time: 8:35, Same position as last., 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 15, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1048]

Title: Natural Bridge & hotels from [hill to south and west] of bridge. [Cedar Creek, VA]
Description: Glass negative showing the Natural Bridge on a forested hillside with a series of hotels occupying the ridge on the right side of the photograph. The Natural Bridge was likely made from an ancient underground river and became a popular tourist destination by the early 19th century. It was once a sacred site of the Monacan tribe. Thomas Jefferson purchased the surrounding land in Cedar Creek, Va. and built up inns for visitors., From same hill., Time: 12, 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 15, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1055]

Title: Crawford's statue of Washington, Capitol Square, Richmond, Va
Description: Views showing the equestrian statue sculpted by Thomas Crawford erected in the western portion of the square in 1858. Shows the sculpture on an elaborate stone pedestal and base designed by architect Robert Mills and adorned by bronze figures of prominent Virginians. Views also show neighboring buildings and posed pedestrians, including elegantly attired ladies with parasols and a gentleman with a cane., Titles from accompanying labels., Pale yellow paper mounts with square corners., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Virginia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Monuments & statues [5737.F.17b & d]

Title: Libby Prison The only view of this notorious prison made during the Rebellion. Dick Turner stands in the foreground
Description: Exterior view of the notoriously inhumane Confederate Prison, previously a warehouse. Depicts Turner, the former commandant of the prison, standing with a small group of white people including a child, in front of rows of tents. African Americans look on from a nearby hill., Title from label mounted on verso., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by Levy & Cohen in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Gift of Elinor Solis-Cohen, 1980., Forms part of small Civil War Photograph Collection, 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., Levy & Cohen was a partnership between two Jewish Philadelphia photographers who in 1865 published a series of views of occupied Richmond at the end of the Civil War. The partnership dissolved in 1865 after the unexpected death of Cornelius Levy.
Creator: Levy & Cohen, photographer
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department small Civil War photo collection - cdvs - Levy & Cohen [P.8532.2]

Title: [Young African American man, possibly Jerry Stevens an enslaved man, at Raceland Plantation, Dinwiddie, Virginia]
Description: Full-length portrait of an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved shirt, and pants with large tears and holes, holding a wooden plow over his shoulder. He stands in front of a wooden building and to the left of a wooden door. In the right is a white dog with its back to the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and content., Purchase 2011., 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: 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - miscellaneous - Stevens [P.2011.16]

Title: John Brown - the martyr. Meeting a slave mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution. Regarding them with a look of compassion Captain Brown stooped and kissed the child then met his fate
Description: Print depicting the fictitious meeting between John Brown and an enslaved African American mother on the radical abolitionist's walk to the gallows in December 1859. Shows Brown, his hands tied behind his back, standing at the door of the Charles Town, Virginia jail gazing compassionately upon the barefooted mother and her child seated to the side of him on a stair railing. In front of them stands a stern-faced, white man soldier waiting impatiently for Brown's descent down the steps., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Access points revised 2021., Purchase 1969., Description 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: Currier & Ives
Date: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait Prints-B [7811.F]

Title: Band at Hampton [Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing an African American men’s marching band playing on the lawn at the Hampton Institute. The men, attired in uniforms and caps, stand in rows and play a variety of instruments including brass, woodwind, and drums. In the background is a building with ivy-covered walls and an audience of men and women watching the musicians. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.462]

Title: Brady's Album Gallery
Description: Incomplete series of the "Brady Album Gallery" of Civil War views first published in 1862 by New York publishers, E. & H.T. Anthony. Contains camp scenes, views of historic residences and military fortifications, and group portraits predominately photographed by unattributed Brady technicians, James F. Gibson and George N. Barnard. Gibson and Barnard hold copyright to twenty-six of the series. Contains series No. 1, 100, 100 (variant), 289, 302 - photographed by Barnard; No. 355, 360-361, 363-372, 377-380, 382-384, 388 - photographed by Gibson; No. 423-424, 427 - copyrighted and probably photographed by Brady., Views include: the incomplete Capitol in Washington, D.C.; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula including Union artillery batteries near Yorktown and Union headquarters of Generals McClellan, Scott, and Lafayette; and the inflation and ascent of the Union reconnaissance air balloon, "Intrepid." Group portraits depict African American Civil War freedom seekers, Union officers, and Union soldiers., Copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson and Mathew Brady., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister and Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the series., Names of the photographers supplied by "Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war from the gallery of Alexander Gardner (Washington: H. Polkinhorn, 1863)." (Transcription in LCP research file)., Gift of Jesse G. Haydock, 1981., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Forms part of Small Civil War Photograph Collection., 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: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department small Civil War photo collection - Brady cdv's [P.9877.1-29]

Title: Virginia Hall before dinner, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing a group of well-dressed people gathered in front of Virginia Hall at Hampton Institute. White and African American men and women stand and converse in front of the brick, ivy-covered building. Several people stand on the fire escape, including a white man holding a camera taking a photograph of the scene. In the left background, a group of women sit and stand on a second-story balcony and look on. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington. Virginia Hall was built in 1873 as the main campus building., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.466]

Title: Shryock, Virginia S.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: June 5, 1890

Title: Newbold, Virginia
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: May 11, 1917

Title: Struthers, Virginia M.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: July 3, 1884

Title: Walton, Virginia C.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 2, 1911

Title: Sherwood, Mrs. (Virginia), 1832-1888.
Description: In Gleason’s pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 7, no. 25 (December 23, 1854), p. 396., Full-length portrait of the equestrian circus performer.
Date: [1854?]

Title: Burns, Ella Virginia.
Description: Full-length portrait of the young girl holding her hands across her waist., In The American phrenological journal, vol. 29 (Jan., 1859), p. 1., At the age of four Ella Burns was a national celebrity, renowned for her captivating public readings and poetry recitations., “Without ever having been taught spelling or the alphabet, but having herself picked up a knowledge of words by intuitive quickness of eye, [Ella] takes any book of poetry presented to her and reads verses she has never before seen, with a cadence and a pronunciation which do the fullest justice to the sense and rhythm.”--P. 2.
Date: [1859?]

Title: Bought of C. L. Wright, apothecary and druggist, 21 Bollingbrook Street
Description: Billheads of the Petersburg, Va. druggist containing ornamented lettering and a vignette illustration of a mortar and pestle., P.2011.46.266 completed in manuscript to Geo. Congden on May 1, 1885 for several items, including bush peas, beet seed, quinine, tomato seed, and Late Heat Dutch Oven for $11.08., P.2011.46.267 completed in manuscript to J.C. Fern on [189-] for several items, including Bay Rum, Kendall's beet seed, and liniment for $3.95., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880 - ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.266 & 267]

Title: Luray Inn from lawn, [VA]
Description: Glass negative showing multi-story Luray Inn built in 1883 after designs of George Pearson (1847-1920) in Luray, Va. The inn has multiple sections, a porch on the right and an octagonal tower on the left. Diagonal lines of latticework decorates the gables of the building and a drive lined with slender trees leads to the front entrance. The Luray Inn was built by the Luray Cave and Hotel Company, a subsidiary of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. The inn was razed by fire in 1891., Photographer remarks: Developed at Nat. Bridge., Time: 1, 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: October 12, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1034]

Title: Luray Inn from R[ail]R[oad] Station, [VA]
Description: Glass negative showing the multi-story Luray Inn, built in 1883 after designs of George Pearson (1847-1920) in Luray, VA. The inn has multiple sections, a porch on the right and an octagonal tower on the left. Diagonal lines of latticework decorates the gables of the building and a drive lined with slender trees leads to the front entrance. This view is from a distance, with railroad tracks visible in the foreground. The Luray Inn was built by the Luray Cave and Hotel Company, a subsidiary of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. The inn was razed by fire in 1891., Time: 2:30, Light: Sun out good., 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 12, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1035]

Title: The marriage
Description: Engraving accompanies a fictional episode described in Letter XI, "The Marriage." Leaning over the staircase balustrade in the upper left, the story's narrator observes the scene taking place below, as does Cleopatra, an elderly slave, who watches from several steps down. In the center of the scene, mistress Rosalie forces the slaves Mima and Juniper to jump over a broomstick that stretches between two chairs. This is part of the forced marriage ceremony over which Rosalie presides. When the weeping Mima hesitates to jump, Rosalies boxes her ears with her slipper. In the background, another house-slave watches from behind a door., Plate in Emily C. Pearson's Cousin Franck's Household, or, Scenes in the Old Dominion (Boston: Upham, Ford, and Olmstead, 1853), p 168., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Creator: Hayes, George H., engraver
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Pear 73222.O p 168, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2793

Title: Making salt, at Saltville, Virginia
Description: Illustration included in Chapter LXIII, "Among the Mountains -- From Bristol to Lynchburg." It shows two black men working in the salt works in Saltsville, Virginia. In the accompaying text, King wrote the following of the two subjects: "The stout negroes working over the boiling salt were both delighted and amazed when their pictures appeared in the artist's [James Wells Champney's] sketch-book; they had never seen 'no such writin' befo'.'" (p. 571), Illustration in Edward King's The Great South (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875), p. 571., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Date: [1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1875 King 3379.Q p 571, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2829

Title: Mount Vernon, Virginia , the seat of the late Genl. Washington
Description: View showing the mansion and grounds in Fairfax county, Virginia owned by the first President of the United States. The seat, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858. In the far right foreground, a handler walks a horse., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats - pl 7a [P.9057.55.7a]

Title: The banks of the River James
Description: Image is set Lynchburg, Virginia, where a party of African American men rest on the bank of the River James. A row-boat and two oars are visible in the left foreground; a wagon occupies the background., Illustration in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 12, no. 68 (January 1856), p. 174., Engraving accompanies Porte Crayon's [i.e., David Hunter Srother's] "Virginia Illustrated. Adventures of Porte Crayon and his Cousins," which was published in book form in 1857. See David Hunter Strother, Virginia Illustrated (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [January 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 12 n 68 January 1856 p 174, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2869

Title: Observatory on top of Mt. Jefferson with our party and stage, [Albemarle County, VA]
Description: Glass negative showing an observation tower on top of Mt. Jefferson. The tower is a two-story square shaped building with a latticework enclosure on the lower floor and stairs leading to a small room with multiple rounded windows on the second floor. A group of people dressed in black gather next to a horse-drawn carriage to the left of the tower. Three women stand on the stairs, three women sit in front of the carriage, and one woman sits in the carriage. A man stands to the left of the carriage while another man with a camera on a tripod stands to the right of the group to take their photograph., Time: 2:35, Light: poor light, very 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 14, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1043]

Title: Libby Prison in war times
Description: View of Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Va. and showing Union prisoners in front of tents and a large building. In the foreground are six tents, one labeled "C.S.A." Men, including one with his arm in a sling, stand and walk between the tents. In the background is the brick, three-story prison building, converted from a grocery warehouse and with a sign that reads, "Libby & Sons Ship Chandlers & Grocers." A group of men stand in front of the building. In the left, men in uniform stand in formation. Libby Prison held Union officers and operated from March 1862 until April 1865. The overcrowded prison had harsh conditions and a high mortality rate., Title from the item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1889 by Charles Pollock., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.6]

Title: Col. Wm. B. Greene, commanding 14th Regt. Mass. Vols. (heavy Artillery) Fort Albany, Virginia. [graphic].
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., View of the Union military training camp. Shows a horse-drawn wagon leaving the camp comprised of barracks and tents. Also shows soldiers seated on the grounds outside of the camp.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: c1862.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - F [5779.F.2]

Title: The Quaker gun now on exhibition, was brought from the Rebel works at Manassas, and wishing the public to witness the artillery used by the aforesaid Rebels, it will be exhibited for a few days only, a the old "Press" office, 417 Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Sts. Admission, 1 dime. Hours, from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M
Description: A "Quaker gun" is a wooden log, sometimes painted black to resemble the barrel of a cannon, placed to give the appearance of heavy artillery., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Image of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Quaker 5786.F.159c (McAllister)

Title: [Marshall House, King and Pitt streets, Alexandria, Va.]
Description: Exterior view showing the place where Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth died during the Union occupation of Alexandria. Ellsworth, the first Union war death, was killed on May 24, 1861 by the Marshall House innkeeper, James W. Jackson. Jackson shot Ellsworth following the colonel's removal of a Confederate flag from the inn's roof. Image depicts a crowd of men convening near a horse-drawn wagon in front of the hotel. Also shows adjacent and nearby buildings, including one adorned with an advertisement, as well as a parked horse-drawn carriage in the lower right corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount., Inscribed on negative: 2295., Missing upper right corner., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.2003.1]

Title: West Virginia State Building.
Description: Depicts a man with a wheelbarrow standing near entrnace to building.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.9e]

Title: Camp near Ft. Lyon, Va., 26th N.Y.V., Colonel Wm. H. Christian. [graphic].
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., View of the Union military training camp. Shows soldiers on the campgrounds near rows of tents.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: c1862.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - F [5779.F.22]

Title: Camp Pomroy, 111th Regiment, New York [graphic] : Col. J. Segoine commdg.
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., View of the Union military training camp in Virginia. Shows soldiers milling about rows of tents and log dwellings.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: c1863.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - P [5779.F.27]

Title: Hoffman, Virginia Hale, 1832-1856
Description: In Life of Mrs. Virginia Hale Hoffman (Philadelphia, 1859), frontispiece., Facsimile signature: V.H. Hoffman., Bust-length portrait of Mrs. Hoffman.
Date: [1859?]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits_religion/hoffman.htm

Title: Union Hotel, Fairfax C.H., Va. James W. Jackson, proprietor
Description: James W. Jackson, purportedly the first civilian casualty of the Civil War, leased the Union Hotel (ie., Wilcoxsen's Tavern) in Fairfax Court House ca. 1859., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Jackson [(2)5786.F.132b]

Title: Theatre. Court-House Hall, Winchester. Fun! Fun! Fun! Saturday night, June 28, will be presented the comedy entitled The stagestruck barber! ... The whole to conclude with the farce in one act called A loan of a lover. ... The management take great pleasure in informing the army and the public that in a few days they will be enabled to give their performances in a new and splendid pavillion, equal in size and splendor to the one burned in the late retreat. Admission 50 cts. Doors open 7 1-2, to commence at 8 o'clock
Description: June 28 fell on a Saturday in 1862; the first battle of Winchester, Va. was May 25, 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Court House Hall (Winchester, Va.)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1862 Court (2)5786.F.90a (McAllister)

Title: Shipped by the grace of God, in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] in and upon the good ship called the [blank] whereof is master, under God, for this present voyage, [blank] and now riding at anchor, in [blank] and by God's grace bound for [blank] to say, [blank] being marked and numbered as in the margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order, and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of [blank] (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto [blank] or to h[blank] assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods [blank] with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said ship, hath affirmed to [blank] bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; the one of which [blank] bills being accomplished, the other [blank] to stand void. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen. Dated in [blank]
Description: Three bills of lading printed one above the other on a single half sheet; each of the three blank forms begins with an ornamental letter S., Printed area measures 32.1 x 15.6 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy completed in MS. in triplicate for Nathaniel West Dandridge, shipping eight hogsheads of tocabbo to Messrs. Farrel & Jones, Bristol, England, aboard the ship Realto, at anchor in York River, John Thomas, master; dated Aug. 30, 1762 and signed by John Thomas., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
Date: [not after 1762]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1762 Shipped 16922.Q (Zinman)

Title: Mansion at Hampton, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing a large group of well-dressed men and women gathered in front of the Mansion House on the campus of Hampton Institute. White men and women cluster and converse in groups on the portico, walkway, and front lawn of the house. Some sit in wooden chairs on the walkway. Trees grow on either side of a path lined with flowers, which leads to the front entrance of the house. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington. The Mansion House was the original residence of the plantation built in 1828., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.460]

Title: Guests at Mansion House, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing a white man and woman standing beside a tree next to the Mansion House at the Hampton Institute. In the foreground, the man, attired in a white collared shirt, a suit, and a tie, and the woman, attired in a hat decorated with feathers and flowers, a jacket, a matching skirt, and gloves, both stand holding papers in their hands. In the left, more white men and women gather on the portico and walkway. The waterfront with piers and boats is visible in the background. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington. The Mansion House was the original residence of the plantation built in 1828., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.461]

Title: Forest Inn & Gate House & Pavillion from meadow s.w. of Forest Inn, [Cedar Creek, VA]
Description: Glass negative showing the Gate House of the Natural Bridge left of center and the Forest Inn to the right as seen from a distance across a grassy field with a hillside in the distance. Three people are gathered on the porch of the Gate House, while a man stands in the field near three cows. The Natural Bridge was likely made from an ancient underground river and became a popular tourist destination by the early 19th century. It was once a sacred site of the Monacan tribe. Thomas Jefferson purchased the surrounding land in Cedar Creek, Va. and built up inns for visitors. The Forest Inn, built in 1833, accommodated the large number of visitors to the Natural Bridge. Fire razed the inn 1892., Time: 4:45, Light: Weak light. No sun., The negative is very dark and the subject is barely visible., 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 14, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1046]

Title: View form 3rd story of Forest Inn showing Appledo[r]e House, Pavilion & Gate-house. From door of our room, no. 29. [Cedar Creek, VA]
Description: Glass negative showing the Natural Bridge Gate House, Pavilion, and Appledore Cottage seen from the third floor of the Forest Inn. A road bordered by wooden fences leads toward the Gate House. A pond with a wooden dock sits in the foreground. The Natural Bridge was likely made from an ancient underground river and became a popular tourist destination by the early 19th century. It was once a sacred site of the Monacan tribe. Thomas Jefferson purchased the surrounding land in Cedar Creek, Va. and built up inns for visitors. The Appledore cottage, built by Col. Henry C. Parsons (1840-1894) circa 1881 was a small hotel for visitors to the Natural Bridge., Photographer remarks: Undertimed., Time: 8:30, 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 15, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1047]

Title: "Old Joseph, the Patriarch"
Description: Engraving accompanies a fictional episode described in Letter IV, "The 'Purchases' -- Old Joseph." Episode takes place on Christmas Eve in the cabin of the coachman Rafe, the slave seated on the log near the fireplace to the extreme right. Rafe has learned that he will soon be sold, and thus separated from his wife, who sits to his right, and their young child, who rests on her lap. Other slaves cluster around the couple, trying to comfort them. Leaning on his walking stick, Old Joseph (described as "the beau ideal of a patriarch, at once humble, dignified and venerable") stands and faces the group, offering words of wisdom and consolation. Interior is furnished with a bench, a chest of drawers, a large chair, and stools of varying sizes. The men's discarded top hats are placed throughout the room, as are assorted utilitarian and domestic objects, such as pots and pans, an umbrella, and an axe. In the foreground, a book, quite possibly the Bible, rests on a stool., Frontispiece for Emily C. Pearson's Cousin Franck's Household, or, Scenes in the Old Dominion (Boston: Upham, Ford, and Olmstead, 1853)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Creator: Hedge, Franklin, b. ca. 1830, engraver
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Pear 73222.O frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2792

Title: The broomstick wedding
Description: Illustration is included in Chapter XIV, "I am the Innocent Cause of a Fight -- Religious Services among the Slaves in 'Ole Virginny.'" It shows a "broomstick wedding" that the author recalls having seen. Standing to the left, the betrothed slaves Pompey and Susan hold hands as they wait to jump over the broomstick, which is held by two slaves who are bent at the waist. Uncle Aaron, an elderly slave know as a preacher and a conjuror, presides over the ceremony. According to the author's description, the bride and groom wore the cast-off clothes of their mistress and master: she in a half-worn, ill fitting, maroon-colored merino gown, and he in checked trousers, a white vest and a brown linen duster that was several sizes too big. Numerous wedding guests fill the cabin., Illustration in Mary Ashton Rice Livermore's The Story of my Life, or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years (Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897), p. 257., Caption underneath the image reads: "'Look squar' at de broomstick! All ready now! one-two-three-jump!'", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1897 Liv 29518.O p 257, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2839

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