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Title: [Print containing sentimental genre scene and proof vignette bust portraits]
Description: Genre scene depicts two young peasant girls in an embrace and holding bunches of grapes. Proof vignette, bust-profile portraits printed in the upper corners and show women attired in hats, earrings, collars, and shirtwaists., Inscribed upper right corner: 83., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.51b]

Title: Hofmeister Woolen Mills, from loom to wearer. Spring 1908. Summer 1908
Description: Mail order catalog containing illustrations of female models attired in women's summer wear, including suits, jumper dresses, shirtwaists, coats, hats, undergarments, corset covers, underskirts, petticoats, nightgowns, and "Misses' and Children's Jackets." Several of the models are grouped in scenes with thematic backgrounds, including parlors, a park, and street scene. Also contains promotional and instructional text detailing the "supremacy" of the Hofmeister garments, how to place an order, payment terms, and additional fees for "Extra Large Garments;" detailed descriptions of the clothing; style numbers; and prices., Accompanied by original illustrated envelope. Ilustration depicts three well-dressed ladies at a summer resort., Cover illustration depicts two ladies in formal summer wear disembarking from a horse-drawn carriage. The women's attire includes embellished hats, a long cape, and an umbrella., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Order blank and post cards inserted in catalog.
Date: [1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Hofmeister [105358.O & 105358.O.a]

Title: [Fashion print showing a couple attired in Quaker costume]
Description: Fashion print showing a young couple in plain dress on promenade. The man wears a broad-rimmed hat, white cravat, and suit. The woman wears a poke bonnet and a plain dress with a large white collar and puff sleeves. Each holds or wears gloves., Date from manuscript note on recto: Costume 1844., Philadelphia on Stone
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Fashion [P.2005]

Title: [Unidentified African American woman]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a young woman wearing her hair parted in the middle and tied behind her head with long curly bangs and attired in a shirtwaist with buttons down the bodice and a long skirt. She sits facing slightly left with her left arm resting on the chair's armrest, which is decorated with a patterned fabric and fringe. Her right hand rests on her lap., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Possibly by Philadelphia photographer Isaac G. Tyson., Slightly discolored and faded., Purchase 2000., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - photographer - Tyson [P.9853.1]

Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified, seated woman]
Description: Half-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified white woman seated on a chair. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, and looped behind her ears. She is attired in a dark-colored, short-sleeved, silk dress with buttons down the bodice and a white lace collar, and black lace, fingerless gloves. A broach adorns her collar. She rests her right forearm on a table covered in a patterned cloth. The sitter’s left hand is slightly clenched and rests on her lap. Her lips and cheeks are tinted pink., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium, attire of the sitter, and dates of operation of the photographer., Pink tinting on lips and cheeks., Attributed to McClees & Germon., Pad: Red velvet. No design., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather., Contains weeping glass deterioration., Edges of daguerreotype plate are tarnished., Gift of Jane Hastings, 2011., James E. McLees (1821-1887) and Washington Lafayette Germon (1822-1877) operated as partners from 1846 to 1855 in Philadelphia.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – photographer – McClees & Germon [P.2011.56.3]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified, seated woman]
Description: Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified, seated white woman. Sitter has dark hair parted in the middle with ringlet curls at the sides of her face. She is attired in a lace cap, a white chemisette, and a dark-colored, long-sleeved, silk dress with a lace collar and cuffs. She also wears earrings, a ring on her right hand, and a cameo brooch and pocket watch chain that adorn her chest and waist, respectively. Gilt is applied to the photographic details of her earrings, ring, right cuff, cameo brooch, and pocket watch chain. She sits holding a card in her left hand on her lap. It is inscribed with the number, 50, which may signify the portrait is in honor of her 50th birthday. She rests her right arm on a cloth-covered side table in the left. Possibly her bonnet lies on top of the table. Her cheeks are tinted pink., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on cheeks., Gilt on sitter’s jewelry and card., Gift of Michael Zinman, 2016., Pad: Red velvet with a spray of flowers., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Case is shaped like a book with gilt edges and a spine labeled “Bijou.” Papier-mache, black lacquer with a spray of flowers made of mother of pearl inlay. Verso design composed of an ornamental scroll in gold, green, and red with a gold border., Edges of daguerreotype plate are tarnished.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2016.85]

Title: [Racist and sexist metamorphic New Years Day card depicting a man kissing a series of women, including an African American woman depicted in caricature]
Description: Racist and sexist metamorphic trade card showing an older man in a tuxedo, holding a bouquet of roses, and kissing a "rotating" series of women through a "window." Only the women's heads are visible. The women include a white woman with auburn hair in a top knot and adorned with a rose; a young white woman with blonde, puffed, chin-length hair and adorned with matching blue bows; a white woman with raven-colored hair, pulled up, and adorned with a bridal veil; a white woman with pulled up cherry-blonde hair and adorned with blue flowers; and an African American woman, wearing a kerchief, hoop earrings and depicted with caricatured and exagerrated features. The man has grey hair and a dark-haired, pencil mustache and also wears a monocle., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from fashion of figures depicted., Greeting printed inside: Here's a nosegay sweet and fair, Lilies, roses, rich and rare. Try each in turn then take a rest, And choose the one you love the best. They're charming, ah I thought you'd say so, Make up your mind pray don't delay so. That SHE'll be faithful, fond, and true, The odds are FIVE to ONE on you! E.E.G. With [fond love and] best Wishes for a Happy New Year, To [Mrs. ? ? ?]., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - Cards - New Years [P.2019.23.2]

Title: The Philadelphia Wagon manufactured by Rech-Marbaker Co. Girard Ave & 8th St. Philadelphia Pa Wagons. Coaches. Autombiles. Ambulances. Nothing to risk when we do your work
Description: Advertisement blotters, reused as mounts, containing calendars and vignette views of wagons designed for specific firms by the manufactory. Wagons include H.H. Battles, flowers; Dexter's Tip-Top Bread (Springfield, Mass.); and Lit Brothers Furniture. Also contains cut-outs of fashionable female figures attired in dresses captioned in type "Most Beautiful"; "Merry Youth"; and "Easy Always" pasted on the versos., Printed below title: Wm. A. Rech, President; W. E. Marbaker, Vice President; and J. Edwin Rech, Secretary and Treasurer., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1913]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.50-52]

Title: "Queen Bess" corset and skirt supporter. This is by far the best corset and skirt supporter ever made and is warranted in every particular. Manufactured only by the Worcester Corset Co., Worcester, Mass Pat. June 12th 1877 & Aug. 31st. 1880. Name registered as a trade mark July 24th, 1877
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting two women attired in corset and skirt supporters., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: John Wanamaker, Grand Depot, City Hall Square, Philadelphia, Pa. Provides five reasons for recommending Worcester Corset Co.'s corset and skirt supporter and patent cloth steel protector., 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 - Worcester [1975.F.1011]

Title: Compliments of Hershey Baking Co., York, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card surrounded by a flower border depicting the profiles of two women in Renaissance robes reading a letter in a garden. Hershey Baking Company was founded by Jacob S. Hershey in 1899 as a bread bakery in York, Pennsylvania., Embossed., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Hershey [P.9631.4]

Title: J. P. Buggy, palmoral [sic] skirts. Manufacturer
Description: Proof of textile label for the Philadelphia textile manufacturer Joseph P. Buggy showing a couple ice skating. The woman wears a balmoral skirt, overcoat, hat, and gloves. The man wears pants, a coat, scarf, hat, and gloves. Buggy established his manufactory at South Twenty-Fifth and Factory streets circa 1864., Printed below image: 144 x 45., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153l]

Title: J. P. Buggy, palmoral [sic] skirts. Manufacturer
Description: Proof of textile label for the Philadelphia textile manufacturer Joseph P. Buggy showing a couple ice skating. The woman wears a balmoral skirt, overcoat, hat, and gloves. The man wears pants, a coat, scarf, hat, and gloves. Buggy established his manufactory at South Twenty-Fifth and Factory streets circa 1864., Printed below image: 144 x 45., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153l]

Title: The "new woman."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house sitting at a table reading a newspaper as her husband stands in the kitchen dryng dishes. With a confused look, he peers at her from the other room. She is dressed in bicycle garb with her bicycle resting in the doorway nearby., Copyrighted by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Printed text in six languages on verso: Die "moderne frau."; La 'donna nuova."; La femme nouvelle."; La Nueva Mufer."; Den "ny kvinde."; and Des "na kvinnan.", Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola.
Creator: Keystone View Company
Date: c1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.9964.2]

Title: [Unidentified African American woman]
Description: Near full-length portrait showing an African American woman attired in a narrow-brimmed, high-domed, ornamented bonnet; dark-colored, button-down shirt waist; and white skirt with ruching at the hips. A broach with a four-leaf clover detail adorns her collar. She stands between a post to her right and a stringy, hay bale-like prop to her left. She rests her left hand on the prop and holds a parasol perpendicular to the floor in her right. A photographer's head clamp is positioned to the left of the post and a backdrop illustrated with an outdoor setting is visible in the background. The studio is partially visible in the left of the image., Title supplied by cataloger., Accompanied by detached photographer's label (P.2017.14.4b)., Date inferred from "N.B." on photographer's label., Description and access points reviewed 2022.
Creator: Fenton, J., photographer
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department tintypes - photographer - Fenton [P.2017.14.4a&b]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of Frances W. Bruce]
Description: Three-quarter length, forward facing, seated portrait of Frances W. Bruce. Sitter has dark hair parted in the middle with ringlet curls at the sides of her face. She is attired in a dress made of a patterned fabric of decorative scrolls and with a white lace collar and cuffs. She wears two rings on her right hand. Sitter rests her right elbow on a tableclothed side table in the left. Her left hand rests on her lap and slightly clasps her right hand. Frances Wardale Bruce (1815-1892) was William Y. McAllister’s sister and spouse of physician George D. Bruce., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date and name of photographer from manuscript note on label attached to case: Frances Bruce, Feb. 1845., Pad: Red velvet., Mat: Octagon., Case: Leather. Bouquet of mixed flowers in a vase. No design on verso., William Y. McAllister was an optician and cane manufacturer in Philadelphia from 1845 to 1860.
Creator: McAllister, W. Y. (William Young), 1812-1896, photographer
Date: Feb. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cased photos – McAllister [P.2021.37]

Title: A luxury fleet featuring newest pullman refinements at low travel cost! Pennsylvania Railroad Broadway Limited (All-Room Train). The General New York-Philadelphia-Chicago. "Spirit of St. Louis" New York-Philadelphia-St. Louis. Liberty Limited Washington-Baltimore-Chicago. The Pittsburgher (All-Room Train) New York-Pittsburgh. The Golden Triangle Pittsburgh-Chicago. Many types of Pullman private accommodations, modern section sleepers on all but Broadway Limited and The Pittsburgher-all room trains
Description: Poster showing an interior view of a luxury pullman car to advertise the Pennsylvania Railroad. Shows several white men and woman passengers relaxing in the car. In the left, a Black man server, serves drinks to two women and a man seated at a booth. Across from them, in the right, an older man sits in an arm chair, and smokes a cigar, and holds a paper in his lap. An older woman sits on the arm of his chair. Behind them, two women converse, one standing. In the far background, two men stand at a bar. Image also shows a train window. The server wears a white smock shirt and black pants. The men passengers wear suits. The women passengers wear a dress or suit jacket and skirt and/or hats., Title from item., Date inferred from content., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1945]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department miscellaneous posters [P.2284.103]

Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified woman, seated]
Description: Half-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified white woman. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, and looped behind her ears. She is attired in a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress with buttons down the bodice and a white collar, and black lace, fingerless gloves. A broach adorns her collar. Her lips and cheeks are tinted pink. She is seated and holds a book labeled, Message and Documents 1857-8 Part 1 (i.e., Congressional documents), on her lap with her right hand. She crosses her left arm over her right and rests her left hand on her right wrist., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on lips and cheeks., Cased image accompanied by a lock of hair and four feathers from an Amazon parrot., Gift of Ivan Jurin, 2022., Pad: Red velvet with flowers within a decorative scroll border., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Decorative geometric and scroll 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 [P.2022.29.1-1a]

Title: To Mrs. Amelia Bloomer The new costume polka composed for the piano by Mathias Keller
Description: Sheet music cover containing a portrait of a woman attired in a bloomer costume, standing in front of the storefront of music publishers Lee & Walker on the 600 block of Chestnut Street. The lady holds a blue parasol, and wears a corseted pink-colored coat and pale yellow skirt over her white bloomers. A model harp adorns the door of the music store in which a female patron wearing a bloomer costume enters. Also shows the neighboring J. A. Robinson bookstore (162, i.e., 632 Chestnut). Pedestrians, including another woman in bloomers, walk on the sidewalk, past the store, and look in its window. The bloomer costume gained notoriety from an 1851 depiction of women's rights advocate Amelia Bloomer in this style of reform dress comprised of Turkish pantaloons and a skirt., Additional distributors printed on recto: New York, Wm. Hall & Son; Memphis, Ten. P. Flavio; and New Orleans, Wm. T. Mayo., Printed on recto: Plain 25 cts net. Colored 38., Accompanied by the sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 756, Library Company of Philadelphia: Sheet Music 11855.F (Doret). Copy gift of David Doret., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 38 L 477, Free Library of Philadelphia Music Department holds copy., Inscribed on verso of HSP copy: April 2, 1958. Mifflin Fund.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: c1851
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 L 477

Title: Specimen of crayon work for Theo. Leonhardt & Son. Lithographers. 324 & 326 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Not in Wainwright., Advertisement showing the bust-length portrait of a woman, slightly facing right, attired in a ruffled hood with fur trim and jewel clasp at her collar. The Leonhardt lithographic studio was renamed following the partnership between Leonhardt and his son Arno circa 1874 and the firm remained in operation until the early 20th century., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 86, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center – Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical Box 2 - Leonhardt - Woman
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center – Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical Box 2 - Leonhardt - Woman

Title: Double Head Study of an Older and a Young Woman
Description: Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Label on the verso from Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, N.J.) (Double Head Study), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ethan D. Alyea. 1964.51., Bust-length, forward-facing portrait study of two white women. In the left, shows an older woman with brown ringlet curls framing her forehead and attired in a white lace day cap tied in a bow under her chin and a dark-colored dress with a white lace collar. In the right, shows a young woman with her dark brown hair parted in the middle and tied back and attired in dress with a white neckline. There is an additional portrait of a woman on the verso of the canvas. A cut out in the frame reveals the eyes of the portrait. A photocopy reproduction is taped to the back. Bust-length portrait of a white woman with her blonde hair tied back and attired in drop earrings, a multi-stranded necklace, and a light blue dress.
Date: ca. 1830s-1840s
Location: OBJ 922

Title: [Studio group portrait depicting African American women wearing modish attire and posed side by side]
Description: Real photo postcard depicting the five women, standing, lined in a row, and many with their hand on the shoulder of the woman next to them. Two of the sitters hold cigars. Four of the women wear similar attire of lightweight fabric, short-sleeve, knee-length dresses, including one with a drop waist; high crowned, crushable, fedora-like hats; stockings; and short-heeled shoes. Two of the women also wear puffy bows in their hair. The woman at the end of the row in the right of the image holds her left hand over her heart. She is attired in an ankle-length work dress with buttons down the skirt. The sitters stand before a drapery backdrop and folding panel., Title supplied by cataloger., Divided back., Contains Cyko stamp box printed on verso., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., See related postcard: LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.2]
Date: [ca. 1915]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.1]

Title: [Julius Sichel trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a toddler standing in her crib rubbing her eyes, eating from a bowl with a spoon, and playing with a bed warmer. Also shows a lady wearing an oversized coat and bonnet tied around her chin with a pink ribbon and a frog holding a flame to an exploding cannon., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Sichel's millinery shop and announces his removal from 105, 107 & 109 North Eighth Street to 50, 52 and 54 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia., 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 - Sichel [1975.F.769; 1975.F.796; 1975.F.810; 1975.F.813; 1975.F.856]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified young woman holding a daguerreotype]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a seated, young, white woman with brown hair. She rests an elbow on a book on a table beside her and holds a daguerreotype in her opposite gloved hand. She sits in front of a painted landscape backdrop depicting high cliffs near a body of water., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded rust colored velvet with an eagle at the top. Photographer's imprint: "Daguerreotype artist, Goodridge's Extra Sky- Light Gallery, York, Pa.", Mat: Brass nonpareil., Case: Leather. Within a nonpareil-like border, striated lines surround a geometric design in the center. Same design on verso. Front cover detached., See John Vincent Jezierski's Enterprising images: The Goodridge brothers, African American photographers, 1847-1922 (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University, 2000) and "'Dangerous opportunity': Glenalvin J. Goodridge and early photography in York Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania history. (Spring 1997, vol. 64, no. 2), pp. 310-333 for additional information on Goodridge., Accessioned 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Goodridge, an African American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer, operated a gallery in York, Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1862. He primarily produced daguerreotypes from 1847 to around 1855.
Creator: Goodridge, Glenalvin J., 1829-1867, daguerreotypist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Goodridge [P.9989]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman]
Description: Bust-length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman slightly facing right. Her hair is parted in the center and pulled back, and she is attired in a high collared shirt with shoulder flounces with lace trim and a stick pin at her neck., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of the photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint with insignia stamped on mount., Purchase 2000., 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: Gilbert, Conrad M., photographer
Date: [ca. 1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Gilbert [P.9853.2]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman standing and facing the viewer. She wears her hair tied back and is attired in a brimmed, straw hat adorned with ribbons and flowers, a high-collared shirtwaist with narrow sleeves puffed at the shoulders, a belt with a decorative clasp at the center, and several rings on her left hand. She holds flowers in her hands which she rests on top of an upholstered chair that is in front of her. In the right is a side table covered in a patterned tablecloth with two books and a basket of flowers on top of it., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from operation of the photography studio and attire of the sitter., Purchase 1998., 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., Parlor Gallery, operated by Lewis Horning, was in business at 525 South 9th Street from circa 1886 until circa 1894.
Creator: Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Parlor [P.9573.1]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman standing and slightly facing right. She wears he hair tied back with bangs of curls on her forehead and is attired in a dark velvet basque shirt jacket with buttons down the bodice, a floral printed skirt, earrings, bracelets on both wrists, and a pin. She is posed beside a plaster tree stump, which she rests her hands on. In the background is a painted backdrop with trees., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Date inferred from dates of operation of photographer and attire of the sitter., Purchase 2000., 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: Snyder & Walton, photographer
Date: [ca. 1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Snyder [P.9853.4]

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: Lines Bros., the largest retail dealers in the state! Proprietors of ten shoe stores. Buffalo store- 95 [Seneca St.]. Boots, shoes & rubber goods. Low prices. Plain figures
Description: Racist trade card depicting a comic scene between an African American woman and African American man. Shows the woman hitting a man in the face with the back of her right hand. She clutches an umbrella in her left hand. The man falls backwards with his arms and legs splayed out. The woman is attired in a long striped dress, a dot-patterned apron, and a hat with a flower adornment. She is portrayed with exaggerated features., Title from item., Date inferred from 1884 Buffalo City Directory., Image caption on recto: A mistaken identity., Adverstising text on verso: Lines Bros., Largest Retail Dealers in the State Proprietors of Ten Shoe Stores! Buffalo Store, No. 95 E. Seneca St., Boots, Shoes & Rubber Goods. Stores at Troy, Albany, Geneva, Elmira, Buffalo, Lockport, Rochester, Amsterdam, Schenectady, and Canandaigua., Place of publication inferred from place of business advertised., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Lines [P.2017.95.108]

Title: [Half-length, forward facing portraits of an unidentified older man and woman portrayed side by side]
Description: Shows possibly Quakers with the white man in the left and the white woman in the right. The man wears his white hair combed back and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket. In the right, the woman wears her gray hair parted in the middle and is attired in a white bonnet tied under her chin and a black, long-sleeved dress with a shawl., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from the item., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Greiner, [S], artist
Date: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Framed [P.2019.62.27]

Title: Amy Smith, April 17, 1876
Description: Half-length portrait of Smith, a young African American woman, posed to the left. She looks forward toward the viewer. She wears a plaid-patterned garment, a white, upturned collar, and a bowtie-like ribbon at her neck. Her hair is pulled back and she wears a hair band. Smith, born in Virginia resided in Philadelphia by 1870. Smith was buried at the Harmony Burial Ground, the burial ground of the African Friends to Harmony at 41st and Chestnut Street in West Philadephia. African Friends, founded in 1826, sought to provide a cemetery for low-income African Americans to be interred with dignity and respect. Several of those buried in the cemetery were associated with the Monument Baptist Church or the Mount Pisgah A.M.E. Church. The property was sold in 1910. In 2020, the remains of over 160 burials were transferred to Eden Cemetery., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Printed on verso: No. [57860]. Duplicated any time if orderd by the original, or by a responsible person., Manuscript note on verso: died March 23d 1878., Partially purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC
Creator: Reimer, Benjamin F., approximately 1826-1899, photographer
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Smith, Amy [P.2023.17.1]

Title: Philadelphia fashions
Description: Periodical illustration showing fashionable clothes on men and women. In the right, a white woman, attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved dress with a white collar, and a cross pendant, holds a small purse and stands facing the viewer. In the left, a man and woman couple link arms and stand with their backs to the viewer. The man is attired in a top hat, a long jacket, pants, and shoes and carries a cane. The woman is attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved dress with a white collar, and carries a shawl in her left hand. In the background, two men and a woman stand in front of a building with decorative columns and a statue on top. A dog runs by. Trees grow in the background., Title from item., Date from the text printed beneath the image: Engraved for the Souvenir published by Philip Price Jr. No. 66 Lombard St. March 1828., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: 1828
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr 11x14 - Fashion [P.2011.45.12]

Title: Harrison's Columbian hair dye Manufactured by Apollos W. Harrison, 8 1/2 South 7th St
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing an ornate frame comprised of vignettes, pictorial details, and ornaments surrounding ornamented text. Vignettes depict patriotic symbols of the American eagle and U.S. shield and two scenes. Scene in the left shows a gentleman being attended to by his valet. The gentleman has wavy, ear-length, dark hair and wears a blue and red patterned dressing gown. The valet, in a grey suit, looks at a bottle in his gentleman's left hand. The gentleman scratches his head with his right hand. Scene in the right shows a woman, looking down, pulling her fingers through her long dark hair that rests over her shoulders past her waist. She wears a peasant-like dress with a red bodice and green-striped skirt with a paisley pattern. The border also contains scroll-like pictorial details, geometric shaped ornaments, and pattern backgrounds. A thick, blue block of color frames the border like an outline. Harrison, originally a book, map, and ink dealer, began operating his perfumery, including hair dyes, circa 1853. By the late 1850s, Harrison employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Artist's imprint in lower right and left of stone., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2015.71.2]

Title: Catalogue of theatrical and public celebrities
Description: Trade catalog containing pages with rows of numbered vignette-size reproduced portrait photographs of female , male, and child entertainers. Includes bust-length, half-length, and full-length portraiture, with one sitter often depicted in several differently posed portraits. Sitters, predominantly women, are usually attired in costume and occasionally are posed as couples, or in character and with props and ornate backdrops. Costumes and props include hats and head pieces; tights and shorts; nautical, peasant, medieval and roman garb; umbrellas, fans and valises; chairs and hammocks; guns and swords; and instruments and animals. Unique costumes and poses include Jeannie Winston as a devil with wings; Kate Forsyth depicted as a sculpted bust; and Lizzie Harold sprawled on a floor., Sitters include French operatic soprano Marie Roze (1846-1926); American entertainer Lotta [Crabtree] (1847-1924); American actress Annie Pixley (1858-1893); comic actors Charles E. Holland and Ben Maginley (d. 1888); actress and theater manager Mrs. John Drew (i.e., Louisa Lane Drew); French magician Prof. Hermann, i.e., Alexander Hermann(1843-1896), author and actress Lillian Chester; and characters from "Pinafore.", Accompanied by pocket-size, printed catalog with preface promoting Gilbert & Bacon's large stock of portrait views of the "most artistic and prominent in their profession" in the sizes "Cabinets" and "Panels." Includes lists of sitters for 1692 "Cabinets" and 115 "Panels.", Front endpaper inscribed: George P. Campbell, Continental Hotel, August 1880. Campbell, probably a Gilbert & Bacon agent, resided at the hotel in the 1880s., Cloth binding, stamped "Scrap" on front cover and "Patented March 1876" on back cover., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gilbert & Bacon, the portrait studio established by Philadelphia photographers Charles M. Gilbert (b. ca. 1848) and William F. Bacon (ca. 1843-1900), operated ca. 1874-ca. 1929. The firm specialized in celebrity portraiture and photographed actors, baseball players, and members of high society. Following the death of Bacon in 1900, the firm continued in business under the management of Gilbert and Bacon's son Frank T. into the early 20th century.
Creator: Gilbert & Bacon
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.8681.1 & 2]

Title: Beauty on the street--front view E. B. Hall, druggist. Established 1852. Wellsville, N.Y
Description: Racist trade card promoting druggist E.B. Hall and depicting an African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a brimmed hat with decorative feathers, an elegant, long-sleeved dress with ruffles, gloves, who carries a tiny purse. She walks down the street carrying a parasol in her right hand and her small dog's leash in the other. Edwin B. Hall opened his drug in Wellsville, N.Y. in 1852., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Purchase 2001., 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., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hall [P.9984.3]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Good evening Miss..."
Description: Sexist caricature satirizing middle-class mores and depicting a white man dandy sexually harassing a well-to-do white woman as she traverses a Philadelphia street. The man stands next to her, in the right, and the woman has an aghast expression. She has a bouffant hairstyle adorned with flowers and ribbons. She wears a long hooded cape over her hourglass shape and large hair. The dandy is dressed in a corset, a top hat, coat with tails, vest, gloves, and large bow tie. He holds a walking stick toward the ground in his right hand. A handkerchief hangs out of his right coat pocket. Cityscape and two men pedestrians are seen on the street in the background., Title from item., Date from item., Inscribed: Plate 8., The symbol of a key is used in place of the name Clay., Contains five lines of dialogue above the image: “Good evening Miss, shall I have the pleasure of walking with you?” _ Me sir!! for whom do you take me, sir? __”Come, come that’s a good one!__ for whom do I take you? Why for myself to be sure!”__, William Simpson was a Philadelphia "fancy store" proprietor who published the first 11 prints of the "Life in Philadelphia" series. He also marketed the series as part of his "Artists' Repository.", Bottom corners mended., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: 1828
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9692]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. Fancy ball
Description: Social caricature showing a white man-woman couple in costume at a Philadelphia ball. The man, in the left, his head slightly turned to the right, wears a costume reminiscent of the 16th century. He is attired in red and blue striped ballooned knickers, a green brocade jacket with a red sash and cape, white ruffle collar, and a blue cap adorned with white ostrich feathers in the front. The woman, in the right and looking toward her left, is dressed in a pastorial attire. She wears a flat yellow head piece with red and blue bows on top, a white shirt with a low décolleté neckline and puff sleeves beneath a black corset, and a blue skirt with yellow trim underneath a white apron adorned with bows and a floral border. Scene also includes men and women attendees standing behind the couple., Title from print., Date from print., Inscribed: Plate 10., The symbol of a key is used in place of the name Clay., William Simpson was a Philadelphia "fancy store" proprietor who published the first 11 prints of the "Life in Philadelphia" series. He also marketed the series as part of his "Artists' Repository" and possibly helped finance the cost of production., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: 1829
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9693]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Good evening Miss..."
Description: Sexist caricature satirizing middle-class mores and depicting a white man dandy sexually harassing a well-to-do white woman as she traverses a Philadelphia street. The man stands next to her, in the right, and the woman has an aghast expression. She has a bouffant hairstyle adorned with yellow flowers and ribbons. She wears a long pink cape with a blue hood over her hourglass shape and large hair. The dandy is dressed in a corset, a black top hat, blue coat with tails, pink vest, gloves, and large pink bow tie. He holds a walking stick toward the ground in his right hand. A white handkerchief hangs out of his right coat pocket. Cityscape and two men pedestrians are seen on the street in the background., Title from item., Date from item., Inscribed: Plate 8., The symbol of a key is used in place of the name Clay., Contains five lines of dialogue above the image: “Good evening Miss, shall I have the pleasure of walking with you?” _ Me sir!! for whom do you take me, sir? __”Come, come that’s a good one!__ for whom do I take you? Why for myself to be sure!”__, Sarah Hart was a Jewish Philadelphia stationer who with her son, Abraham Hart, a future eminent Philadelphia publisher, assumed publication of the "Life in Philadelphia" series in 1829. She, alone, reprinted the entire series of 14 prints in 1830., Reaccessioned as P.9701.2., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9701.2]

Title: Promenade in Washington Square
Description: Caricature depicting a modishly dressed white couple (man and woman) strolling through Philadelphia's Washington Square near the Society Hill section of the city. The woman wears a bright yellow dress with extremely puffed leg o'mutton sleeves and a dramatically large yellow hat with a massively wide brim. Blue and yellow striped ribbons are attached to the hat and hang down from the brim. A kerchief and necklace adorn her neck. She carries a purple purse and a pink umbrella in her left hand and a pink monocle in her right. She holds the monocle close to the side of her chin. The man wears a blue waistcoat with massively puffed leg o'mutton sleeves, a plaid cravat, brown trousers, and top hat. He holds a walking cane in his left hand to the side of his waist. Both figures are depicted with corseted waists. Two fashionably dressed women, a fashionably dressed couple (man and woman) with a child, and multi-story buildings and trees are seen in the background. In the early 1800s Washington Square evolved from a pasture ground and a burial ground for the city’s African American community, indigent community, and Revolutionary War soldiers in the 18th century to a park at the request of the wealthy residents in the neighborhood., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of later plates in the series., Probably published by William Simpson., Inscribed: Plate 1., Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American political caricaturist of the Jacksonian era. (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 86. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O)., Part of the 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Accessioned in 1999.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9688]

Title: [Unidentified African American woman and boy]
Description: Copy print of a circa 1850 daguerreotype of a fair-skinned African American woman, seated, holding the hand of a fair-skinned boy, probably her son, who stands next to her. In the right, the woman wears her hair with waves, parted in the middle, and tied behind her head and is attired in a long-sleeved, striped dress with white cuffs and a white collar or scarf tied around her neck. In the left, the boy wears his hair parted to the right with waves and is attired in a long-sleeved shirt with buttons down the center, a white collar or scarf around his neck, and light-colored pants., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of unidentified portraits. 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., Schreiber & Son(s), a Philadelphia partnership of father, George Schreiber, and his several sons, specialists in portraiture and animal portraiture, were in business from 1857 until 1900, operating at 818 Arch Street from 1867 until 1879.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - photographer - Schreiber & Son [8313.F.10c]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman]
Description: Bust-length portrait of a young African American woman, possibly Ella Townsend, looking slightly right. She wears her hair parted in the center and tied back and is attired in a calico shirt with puff sleeves and a bib-like neckerchief adorned with a pin., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of photographer and attire of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Manuscript note on verso: Ella Townsend. Grinaye?-Webster-Gleves., Purchase 2000., 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: Withers, William C., photographer
Date: [ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Withers [P.9853.5]

Title: [Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman standing with her left hand resting on a side table covered in a patterned tablecloth. She wears her hair tied back with curls at the top of her head and is attired in a patterned shirtwaist with a high-neckline, a ruffled collar, and lace cuffs, and a matching skirt. The background is a painted backdrop of a parlor., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from operation of the photography studio and attire of the sitter., Purchase 2001., 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., Parlor Gallery, operated by Lewis Horning, was in business at 525 South 9th Street from around 1886 until around 1894.
Creator: Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Parlor [P.9957.8]

Title: Game of Dr. Busby
Description: Early edition of the popular matching and memory card game designed by Ann Abbot and composed of four suits of five cards (Busby, Doll, Mr. Ninny-Come-Twitch, and Gardener). Suits are denoted with a different pictorial detail in the upper right corner: a mortar and pestle; pan of milk; an eye; and a spade. Suit of mortar and pestle cards depict “Dr. Busby” attired in a top hat, blue jacket with tails, and yellow pantaloons while standing with a walking stick and a bottle of medicine in his left hand in front of the corner of the “Busby Medicine's Drug" storefront with large display windows; “his Wife” attired in a long-sleeved red dress with yellow neckerchief and yellow cap while seated and embroidering; his “Son” wearing a mustache, a blue, cinched blouse, black pants, and a mortarboard, and standing with a walking stick in front a seminary-like building in the distant background; his female “Servant” wearing her hair in a low bun, a blue, deep neck dress with the sleeves pushed up, and a red apron while ironing a shirt next to a basket of laundry on a table; and “Doll, the dairy-maid’s black-eyed Lover” attired in a long-sleeved white shirt, red neckerchief, apron, and blue pants and standing, arms crossed, in front of a broom, wheel barrow of hay, and a barn yard in the distance., Suit of pan of milk cards depict “Doll, the dairy-maid,” her head tilted to the side, and attired in a corseted, red dress with half sleeves, a V-neck, and yellow apron while standing with a pail in one hand and the other behind her back near a fence and a milking stool; her “Father," balding, attired in a dark jacket, yellow vest, and blue pantaloons, while seated on a chair with a newspaper in his lap, a mug in one hand and smoking a pipe with the other beside a table with a tablecloth, lit candle, eye glasses, and a book; her “Brother” attired in a white, flouncy blouse with collar and red tie, yellow pants, and a yellow wide-brimmed straw hat and holding a rake in front of mounds of hay; her “Servant,” shown from the back, and attired in a blue sack coat, tan pants, and black wide-brimmed hat, while using a milkmaid’s yoke to carry pails of milk; her “pan of milk” being lapped at by a black cat while on a round table above a pail underneath it., Suit of eye cards depict Mr. Ninny-Come-Twitch attired in a top hat, yellow vest, red cravat, long black coat, and blue trousers with one hand on a walking stick and the other tucked into his coat while standing beside a dog resembling a greyhound; “his Wife,” her long hair on her shoulders and attired in a red, long-sleeved dress with bandeau neckline, and yellow apron while playing a piano from a book of music; his “Son” attired in a school outfit of a yellow short jacket with a white collar and blue pants, and his cap on the ground as he defends himself from a fight with another boy in school attire (red cap, red short jacket, and yellow pants) and with his fists up; his “Servant,” an African American man attired in a top hat, green coat with red collar and cuffs, ruffled white shirt, and tan pants while holding a basket over one arm and a whip in his opposite hand; and “One Eye” colored blue and part of a person’s face., Suit of spade cards depict “the Gardener” attired in a red jacket, yellow vest, and blue pants while holding a hook knife near a ladder and under a grape vine across from his hat on the ground and a fenced pasture in the background; “his Wife” attired in a blue, long-sleeved dress with white ruffled collar, and a yellow bonnet while using her apron to hold a bushel of roses in front of a young girl attired in a red dress with yellow pantaloons and yellow bonnet and holding a rose and basket; his “Son” attired in a red, blousy shirt, apron, blue pants, and wide-brimmed hat while using a hoe; his “Servant” attired in a short blue jacket, yellow vest and tan pants while walking through a fenced pasture and carrying a basket of fruit on his shoulder that hides his face; and his “Spade” resting idle on a stone wall on which a rose bush and other greenery climbs and two potted plants are displayed. "The Improved and Illustrated Game of Dr. Busby" first published in 1843 purportedly sold over 15,000 copies in 18 months. The game has been credited with creating the explosion in popularity of games in America during the 19th century and containing one of the earliest representations of an African American in an American game., Title from label pasted on maroon paper slip case: Gam[e] of Dr. Busby., Paper slip case contains a partially-removed illustrated label printed on green paper. Label depicts a woman ironing, i.e. the illustration on the Busby suit “Servant” card., Date from copyright statement printed on leaf of “Directions” pasted to inside of inner white cradle: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by W. & S. B. Ives, in the Clerk’s Office of the District court of Massachusetts., "Directions" explicate the suits, "players should sit round a table," and a player is to call upon his right hand neighbors for any card not in his own hand until "he calls for one which his neighbor has not in his hand." Directions also explain the next player needs to "call for those cards which have been called for and obtained by the first" so players must be attentive as "the game is made longer and more complicated by every failure of memory" until its close when the victor has all "four families united in his hand", LCP copy has variant title: Game of Dr. Busby., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Housed in phase box., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Abbot, Anne W. (Anne Wales), 1808-1908
Date: 1843
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Busby [P.2015.28]

Title: Use Queen Anne Soap I'se a waiting
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting a full length portrait of an African American woman walking a small brown dog. The woman is attired in an elaborate orange, yellow, and green feathered bonnet, a blue and red dotted and frilled dress with white and blue details, a pendant, white and yellow fingerless gloves, red stockings, and black heeled shoes. She holds the dog's leash and a red and blue fan in her left hand and a blue parasol in her right hand. Visible behind her is a large yellow ribbon which is attached to the back of her dress. The woman leans forward while jutting out her backside and stands with her right foot in front of her left. The woman is portrayed with exaggerated features. Queen Anne Soap was owned by the Detroit Soap Company, which in 1915 was acquired by the Buffalo-based Lautz Bros. & Co., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Advertising text on recto: Purest and best in the world., Series number on recto: 58., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Queen [P.2017.95.145]

Title: Harrison's Columbian hair dye Manufactured by Apollos W. Harrison, 8 1/2 South 7th St
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing an ornate frame comprised of vignettes, pictorial details, and ornaments surrounding ornamented text. Vignettes depict patriotic symbols of the American eagle and U.S. shield and two scenes. Scene in the left shows a gentleman being attended to by his valet. The gentleman has wavy, ear-length, dark hair and wears a blue and red patterned dressing gown. The valet, in a grey suit, looks at a bottle in his gentleman's left hand. The gentleman scratches his head with his right hand. Scene in the right shows a woman, looking down, pulling her fingers through her long dark hair that rests over her shoulders past her waist. She wears a peasant-like dress with a red bodice and green-striped skirt with a paisley pattern. The border also contains scroll-like pictorial details, geometric shaped ornaments, and pattern backgrounds. The background is printed in red and is framed by a blue border. Harrison, originally a book, map, and ink dealer, began operating his perfumery, including hair dyes, circa 1853. By the late 1850s, Harrison employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Title from item., Date and publication information supplied Library Company duplicate with variant colors., Not in Wainwright., See related: *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2015.71.2]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291a
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.45]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Good evening Miss..."
Description: Sexist caricature satirizing middle-class mores and depicting a white man dandy sexually harassing a well-to-do white woman as she traverses a Philadelphia street. The man stands next to her, in the right, and the woman has an aghast expression. She has a bouffant hairstyle adorned with yellow flowers and ribbons. She wears a long red cape with a blue hood over her hourglass shape and large hair. The dandy is dressed in a corset, a black top hat, blue coat with tails, pink vest, yellow gloves, and large yellow bow tie. He holds a walking stick toward the ground in his right hand. A yellow handkerchief hangs out of his right coat pocket. Cityscape, a lamp post, and two men pedestrians are seen on the street in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., Attributed to William Summers., Inscribed: Plate 8., Contains five lines of dialogue above the image: “Good evening Miss, shall I have the pleasure of walking with you?” _ Me sir!! for whom do you take me, sir? __”Come, come that’s a good one!__ for whom do I take you? Why for myself to be sure!”__, Charles Hunt was a respected 19th-century London engraver who was most known for his aquatints of sporting subjects., LCP copy has left side mended., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Purchase 1968.
Creator: Summers, William, artist
Date: [ca. 1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [7706.F]

Title: Celluloid waterproof collars, cuffs & shirt bosoms
Description: Trade card advertising celluloid collars and cuffs and depicting a caricature of a Japanese woman. Shows the Japanese woman wearing her hair up and adorned with kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in a multi-colored kimono with a celluloid collar and cuffs and geta shoes with celluloid on the bottom. She walks with her right hand holding her kimono up and carries a parasol made of celluloid. She walks through grass with pink flowers in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on verso: Celluloid (Waterproof linen.) Collars, cuffs and shirt bosoms. The following will commend the use of these goods to all who study convenience, neatness and economy. The interior is fine linen. The exterior is Celluloid – the union of which combines the strength of Linen with the Waterproof qualities of Celluloid. The Trouble and expense of washing is saved. When soiled simply rub with soap and water (hot or cold) used freely with a stiff brush. They are perspiration proof and are invaluable to travelers, saving all care of laundrying. Advice. In wearing the turn-down Collar, always slip the Necktie under the roll. Do not attempt to straighten the fold. The goods will give better satisfaction if the Separable Sleeve Button and Collar Button is used. Twist a small rubber elastic or chamois washer around the post of Sleeve Button to prevent possible rattling of Button. To remove Yellow Stains, which may come from long wearing, use Sapolio, Soap or Saleratus water or Celluline, which latter is a new preparation for cleansing Celluloid. Goods for sale by all dealers., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Celluloid [P.2025.35.2]

Title: [Sharpless & Sons trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting women in a variety of settings, including a woman sitting on the beach with a parasol and fan; a woman attired in gypsy-inspired clothing kneeling next to an urn; the bust of a woman wearing a large plumed hat superimposed onto a painting palette; and another bust portrait of a woman wearing a hat. Also shows men in hunting gear with rifles and dogs; clowns balancing on the hardware of a clock; a couple on the beach stopped in front of an enormous hermit crab, birds and guitar; a chef wielding a large knife with his hand around the throat of a large duck; a couple standing inside of a large lantern; men working on a large paper lantern that hangs from a tree branch; a couple being transported in a covered gondola; and a table containing wine, fruit, bread and dishes superimposed onto a painting palette., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include D. Hutinet (Paris), Bognard (Paris) and John A. Lowell & Co. (Boston)., Advertising text printed on versos: Sharpless & Sons, importers, jobbers & retailers of dry goods, 801, 803, 805 & 807 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., 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 - Sharpless [1975.F.760; 1975.F.762; 1975.F.766-768; 1975.F.780; 1975.F.794; 1975.F.812; 1975.F.814; 1975.F.825; 1975.F.838-840]

Title: The Universal clothes wringer
Description: Metamorphic trade card promoting the American Wringer Company's Universal Wringer. Depicts a racist "before and after" scene with and without the product. The before scene shows an African American laundress "Dinah" wringing clothes by hand over a tub. She states in vernacular speech that "de wringing am awful." A white woman chastises her to "look at these torn clothes." She holds up a square shaped cloth with tears. A clock is visible in the background. The women are shown as bust-length. Dinah wears a kerchief, an open collared shirt, and her sleeves are rolled up. The after scene shows a smiling "Dinah," wringing laundry with a "Universal" clothes wringer under the happy gaze of her employer. The women reach a hand out to one another. Dinah wears a high ruffled collar shirtwaist with a bow at her neck, long sleeves, an apron, and kerchief. A clock rests on a sideboard in the background. The American Wringer Company was established about 1861 and operated until at least the early 20th century. The company often provided a clock as a premium to purchase their laundry equipment., Title from item., Date inferred from attire of figures depicted., Text printed on recto: Oh mistis de wringing am awful, always tear de clothes 'spect dat I neber get through. What Dinah, six o'clock and not done yet! And look at these torn clothes. "What Dinah! Finished washing so soon! Why it's only three o'clock." "Hi golly! Mistis, been done dese two hours dis chile hab no more trouble, since you done got dis wringer. Neber tear de clothes neder., Advertising text on verso: The Universal Wringer Has the Following Points of Superiority. 1. Rolls of Solid White Rubber. 2. Rowell's Double Cog-wheels. 3. Two Independent Pressure Screws. 4. Double cogs at both ends of each Roll. 5. Folding Apron or Clothes Guide. 6. Rocking Springs of wood and rubber. N. P. Baker, Dealer in General Merchandise, Sunapee, N. H., Purchased with funds from the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American [113420.D]

Title: Beadle's half dime singer's library. Selected favorites. Comic and sentimental songs of all nations and ages "An encyclopedia of song." For sale here. Price five cents
Description: Poster-size advertisement containing a montage of the cover illustrations for Beadle & Adams songbooks No. 1- No. 17 published May 18, 1878 - September 14, 1878. Montage laid out as a grid. Illustrations often depict gender, ethnic, and racial stereotypes. Includes No. 1. "Whoa Emma and 59 other songs" depicting the profile of a woman attired in a horse costume composed of a horse head-shaped head piece and red dress with an immense bustle and a horse tail; No. 2. "Captain Cuff and 57 other songs" depicting a blonde male effete wearing a monocle, checkered suit, blue overcoat with red lapels, and holding a top hat in one hand and twirling the tip of his mustache with his other; No. 3. "The Gainsboro' Hat and 60 other songs" depicting a profile portrait of a fashionable brunette woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat, red long-sleeved dress with yellow and blue bodice and holding a parasol stick in one hand and a flower to her mouth in the other; No. 4. "Johnny Morgan and 60 other songs" depicting a dark-haired, mustached male organ grinder singing and playing his street organ; its strap hung over his shoulder; No. 5. "I'll Strike You with a Feather and 60 other songs" depicting a fashionable blonde woman in a coy pose and holding a feather in one hand and her gathered skirt edge in the other; No. 6. "George the Charmer, O! And 60 other songs" depicting an African American male dandy, with a mischievous glint in his eye and attired in a top hat, ruffled white shirt, yellow vest adorned with a watch fob, blue waist coat with tails, red checkered pants, and gloves;, No. 7. "The Belle of Rockaway and 52 other songs" depicting a brunette woman in swim attire (kepi, long-sleeved blue blouse, yellow and green two-tiered, ruffle edged knee length bustled skirt); No. 8."Young Fellah, You're too Fresh and 60 other songs" depicting a blonde male bon vivant attired in an orange bowler, white collared shirt, red bow tie, blue jacket, fob, and light blue pants, standing, leaning back and with his hands, one holding an upturned cane, in his pockets; No. 9. "I'm a Shy Young Girl and 65 other songs" showing a young blonde woman attired in a long-sleeved green dress with red and yellow details and multi-tiered, ruffled skirt, and standing in a demure pose, her head slightly tilted, as she slightly leans over, with her hands clasped over each other and placed near her knees; No. 10. "I'm the Governor's only Son and 59 other songs" depicting a dark-haired, mustached, confident-looking man, attired in a bowler, tan coat with collar, and light blue pants, as he stands, one leg crossed over the other, and with one hand in a coat pocket and the other resting on a walking stick; No. 11. "Comin' Thro the Rye and 55 other songs" depicting a Scottish lad, attired in a cap and kilt, and blonde-haired lass, embracing each other about the waist, and on a stroll in a rye field; No. 12. "Wave my fan just so! And 60 other songs" showing a light-haired woman, attired in a red evening gown with gold trim, and holding a blue shawl over her arm and a large green fan to her face;, No. 13 "The Rollicking Irishman" depicting a hod carrier, attired in a yellow broad-rimmed hat, an open-collared red shirt, and blue pants, and standing with a hod over his shoulder near a ladder and a pile of bricks; No. 14 "Old Dog Tray and 62 other songs" depicting a fair-headed woman, her eyes closed, attired in a blue Elizabethan-style dress with red details, and holding a black long-furred dog by his collar; No. 15. "Whoa, Charlie! And 59 other songs" depicting a fashionably-attired couple with a dark-haired, mustached man on his knee, hands clasped, and behind a fair-haired woman who stands and looks over her shoulder at him; No. 16. "In this Wheat by and by and 62 other songs" depicting anthropomorphized grasshoppers, with valises, and at rest from travel, including playing sticks, on and near a fence post; No. 17. Nancy Lee" depicting a light-haired woman, attired in green shirt, yellow kerchief at her neck, and a red skirt, standing on a pier, and waving goodbye with a red-striped handkerchief to a ship at sea., Date inferred from date of publication (September 14, 1878) of last songbook advertised: No. 17. Nancy Lee., Advertisement reverses the titles of No. 11 and 12 from their listings in Albert Johannsen's "House of Beadle and Adams" (1950)., Gift of Robert Staples and Barbara Fahs Charles., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Orr, Nathaniel, engraver
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Advertisements - B [P.2013.86]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Behold thou art fair Deborah,..."
Description: Caricature satirizing the manners of Quakers and depicting a white Quaker couple, Deborah and Timothy, courting in front of a fireplace in a sitting room. In the right, Timothy, depicted in left profile sits stiffly in a wooden, straight back chair with his hat in his lap. He is portrayed with full lips, a pronounced nose, and large ears and with his brown hair in a cowlick at the back top of his head. He wears a brown long coat, brown pants, and tied shoes. He compliments Deborah by reciting verses from the biblical love poem Song of Solomon. In the right, Deborah, portrayed facing the viewer, and looking down, sits stiffly in a wooden, straight back chair with her hands in her lap. She is attired in a brown plain, long-sleeved dress, and a white kerchief over her shoulders. She also wears a white cap out of which sprays of her brown hair are visible on her forehead. Dorothy replies she is overcome by him and recites that his hair is like a flock of goats "from Gilead." A small dog with a curled tail sits between their feet. Also shows, in the background, wooden, straight back chairs flanking the mantelpiece of the fireplace on which two candles rest., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Plate 2 of the original series published in Philadelphia., After the work of Edward W. Clay., Probably published by Anthony Imbert of New York., Contains five lines of dialogue below the image: Behold thou art fair Deborah, thou hast doves eyes! Behold thou art fair Deborah, yea pleasant! Turn away thine eyes from me, Timothy, for they overcome me; thy hair is a flock of goats that appear from Gilead!, Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of the Jacksonian Era (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 88. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O)., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Accessioned 1999.
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT. Life in Philadelphia (New York Set) [P.9701.6]

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