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Title: [African American waiters in the large dining room, Great Central Fair of 1864, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the African American men waiters posed amongst the dining room tables of the patriotically decorated dining room of the Fair's restaurant department. The waiters, attired in white collared shirts, bowties, white or black jackets, and pants, stand around and in between the tableclothed dining tables facing the viewer. American flags decorate the wall in the background and hang on the pillars. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Unmounted carte-de-visite photograph., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Probably by Philadelphia photographer A. Watson., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook on the Sanitary Commission. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Watson - Great Central Fair [5781.F.156g]

Title: [African American waiters in the large dining room, Great Central Fair of 1864, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the African American men waiters posed among and seated at the dining room tables of the patriotically decorated dining room of the Fair's restaurant department. The waiters, attired in white collared shirts, bowties, white jackets, and pants, sit at the tableclothed dining tables and look at the viewer. Nine waiters, attired in white collared shirts, black bowties, black jackets, and pants, stand in a line in the middle of the room facing the viewer. American flags decorate the wall in the background and hang on the pillars. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Probably by Philadelphia photographer A. Watson., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook on the Sanitary Commission. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Watson - Great Central Fair [5781.F.165f]

Title: [Portrait album of well-known 19th-century African American men of Philadelphia]
Description: Photograph album containing identified portrait photographs, bust-length, half-length, and full-length, of twenty-one prominent Philadelphia African American men. Named sitters in order of inclusion in album include veteran Harmon Richardson attired in a military uniform; educator and activist Octavius Catto; civil rights activist Edwin Chew (son of John and Charlotte Henson Chew); janitor and later undertaker Guy M. Burton with musician Ed[ward] H. Johnson and Terry V. Hall; musician Joseph G. Anderson; Civil War veteran and waiter Taylor Aldridge; Johnson al-Jube holding a basket; laborer Parker T. Smith; Jeremiah V. Hall; George Hall; waiter William I. Lancaster; barber James Keith; caterer Henry Tobias; Cheslea Bass, barber and partner to James Keith, with caterer Andrew F. Stevens; Edwin Lewis; Jas. H. Williams ae.[sic] Rush; Thomas Proctor; and restauranteur/caterer Ja[me]s B. Page. Musicians Edward Johnson and Joseph G. Anderson were members of Francis Johnson's band in the 1830s and 40s., Title supplied by cataloger from label on spine., Date from content and medium of photographs., Cardboard binding with torn spine label inscribed: Portraits of Well Know[n]. Insides of binding covers include scribbles and a pasted partial scrap of a flower., Photographs are loose or attached to album pages within binding., Sitters, and occasionally their profession, identified by manuscript notes on verso of photograph or album page. Some notes include statement "deceased," including for sitters Harmon Richardson, Edwin Chew, Octavius Catto, Edward H. Johnson, Terry V. Hall, Joseph G. Anderson, Johnson al-Jube, George Hall, James H. Williams, and James Page., Mostly unidentified photographers with identified Philadelphia photographers John L. Gihon and Parlor Gallery., Portrait photograph of Octavius Catto reproduced after a circa 1871 portrait photograph taken by African American Philadelphia photographer Gallo W. Cheston and/or Philadelphia photographers Broadbent & Phillips. See "Amy Cohen's Catto the Forgotten Hero" at catto.ushistory.org/. See also Harper's Weekly 15 (October 28, 1871), p. 1005 and a copy of the original portrait at https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.8. Photograph stamped on verso: Kean Archives, Phila., Portrait photograph of Taylor Aldridge inscribed on verso: Nov. 27 '83., Verso of album page with portrait photograph of Edwin Lewis inscribed: July '83., Verso of album page with portrait photograph of James Page printed: Sharpless Bros. Dry Goods, Chestnut and Eighth Sts. Philadelphia., Purchase 1990., Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2023., 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. 1865-ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9304]

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