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Title: [Portrait of a woman at her toilet]
Description: Half-length portrait of a young woman after Titian's masterpiece "Woman with a Mirror." Shows the woman holding her long hair off of her shoulder. One of the first two lithographs printed by Peale., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from artist signature and date in the lower left recto: Rem Peale 1826., Gift of David Doret., Created postfreeze., Library Company of Philadelphia, Annual Report, p.68-69., Described in Sarah J. Weatherwax's "A Newly-Discovered Rembrandt Peale Lithograph" in Imprint: Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society (Spring 2006), p. 29-32.
Creator: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1826]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - unidentified [P.2004.24]

Title: Loug head and Co., established 1885, engravers, art printers, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1947 promoting the engraving company Loughead and Co. Shows an embossed, bust-length, left-profile, cameo-like portrait of a woman, in white, placed against a blue background. A blue, corded tassel is tied at the top center. Issac M. Loughead founded the firm in 1885., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1946]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.20]

Title: Mrs. Kemper
Description: Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Elizabeth Marius Kemper. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Kemper attired in a ruffled bonnet, earrings, necklace, and a fichu shawl over her dress. She was married to Daniel Kemper (1749-1847,) who served as a Colonel during the American Revolution and later was the customs receiver for the port of New York., Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs. Daniel Kemper., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.36]

Title: [Miss Rogers]
Description: Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin possibly of Sarah Elizabeth Rogers. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Rogers wearing her curly hair up with a headband and attired in a dress with a ruffled collar. Portrait identified by descendants as Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of New York merchant Moses Rogers and Sarah Woolsey Rogers. Sarah Elizabeth Rogers would have been twenty years old, and the sitter appears older. Inscription also reads, Mrs. Rodgers, which is crossed out. [See Elaine Mile. Saint-Memin and the neoclassical profile portrait. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p.382-383.], Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs.[crossed out] Rodgers. Miss Rogers., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.38]

Title: [Christina Livingston Macomb]
Description: Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Christina Livingston Macomb. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Macomb wearing her curly hair up with a headband and attired in a dress with a ruffled collar. Christina Livingston Macomb was the daughter of Philip P. and Sarah Johnson Livingston of New York. She married merchant John Navarre Maccomb (1774-1810) in 1797., Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs. John Navane Maccomb [sic]., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.37]

Title: Mrs. Clinton
Description: Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin of Cornelia Tappen Clinton. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Clinton attired in a ruffled bonnet and a fichu shawl over her dress. Cornelia Tappen Clinton was born in Kingston, New York to Petrus Stoffelse Tappen (ie. Peter Tappen) and Tjaatje Cornelise Wynkoop. She married George Clinton, Vice President of the United States under Jefferson and Madison., Title from manuscript note written under image: Mrs. Clinton., Date inferred from photographic medium., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.34]

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: Protest against the British government; [Portrait of a young woman]
Description: Political print designed by Joseph H. Brightly protesting the British government's policies toward Ireland containing a half-length portrait in left profile of Robert Emmett above text protesting for the equal rights of the Irish. Portrait surrounded by border captioned "Martyred Emmett. 'Let no man write my epitaph till Ireland is free.'" Text surrounded by a border shaped as a lyre and adorned with a heart marked "Liberty," vines of clover, and two bare-breasted angels holding scrolls. Scrolls inscribed with the names of eighteen Irish nationalists including John Mitchel; T.F. (Thomas Francis) Meagher; P. O'Donohue; and Rich. O'Gorman. Text references the infringement of franchise, a free press, and the separation of church and state; the American Revolution; the epitaph of Emmett; and the 'High court of Heaven.", Portrait showing a young woman holding a bouquet of roses. Roses adorn her hair., Two-sided lithograph containing a political print on recto and portrait on verso., One title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., First line of text: Time is the arbiter of all things; slow in its progress, but wonderful in its results., Gift of Davd Doret.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *political cartoons - [1858] Pro [P.2005.36.19a&b]

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: The bloomer schottisch. Dedicated to Mrs. Bloomer and the ladies in favor of the Bloomer costume
Description: Sheet music cover depicting a white woman attired in bloomers. In the center, the woman stands, wearing her hair parted in the middle and attired in a bonnet, a long-sleeved white shirt, a purple dress with blue tiers, and white bloomers. She holds her hands together and juts her left foot out. Image is surrounded by an ornamental scroll border, labeled "Autumn dress" at the bottom., Title from item., Text printed on recto: 25 cts. Nett., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1851 by W. Hall & Son in the Clerk's Office of the Disct Court of Southern Dist of N.Y., Library Company copy has front cover only., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Dressler, William, composer
Date: 1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Fashion - U.S. [P.2011.45.18]

Title: The Silver cascade, in the north of the White Mountains
Description: View depicting the Silver Cascade in the White Mountains of New Hamshire. Shows water flowing down the mountain. Two men fish at the edge of the water, and a man and a woman look on at the falls. Trees grow along the shoreline and cliffs., Title and date from item., Text printed below image: Cascade d’argent, dans le ravin des montagnes blanches. Die silbercascade in der thalenge der weissen berge., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Havell, Frederick James, 1801-1840, engraver
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. - New Hampshire [P.2010.6.27]

Title: Woman's mission
Description: Genre print showing Union women volunteers, in plain clothes, aiding soldiers within a tent. In the central foreground, a seated volunteer comforts a soldier, lying in a cot, his head bandaged, and a pen and paper resting on his blanket. The aid worker pats him with one hand and holds a book in the other. Across from the soldier's knapsack, rifle, and tin cup, a dog watches nearby, his head resting on the soldiers blanketed legs. In the right, another young woman volunteer stands with a basket over her arm. In the left, an older volunteer offers a bowl of food to another soldier, still in uniform, and also lying on a cot under a window flap. Also shows crates of supplies of the "Ladies Aid Mission" piled and open. In the left background, male aid workers assisting soldiers on the grounds are visible through the tent opening., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Artist's signature lower left., To the patriotic and benevolent ladies of the Union who by their devoted services aided their country in its trying hour and comforted its brave defenders this print is respectfully dedicated., Passage from Sir Walter Scott's "Marimon Canto vi. Stanza 30" printed below the image: Oh woman in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy and hard to please, and variable as the shade. By the light quivering aspen made, when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Walter, Adam B., 1820-1875, engraver
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Hospitals - W [P.2009.17.7]

Title: On foot of Blue Ridge Mountains, Pa
Description: Lithograph showing a covered wagon hitched to four hourses. In the center, a man sits on horseback and talks to a man standing and holding a whip. A woman holds a baby and stands in front of a wooden home with a paddock. In the left is an empty cart. Trees and hills fill the background., Printed lower left: 13., Title from inscription lower right., Date based on publication date of series: North American Foliage and Trees., First word in title on print in lower case: on., Gift of David Doret., See Nicholas B. Wainwright, "Augustus Kollner, Artist" in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 84 (1960) 325-351.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1812-1906, artist
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC-Views-United States-Pennsylvania [P.2010.35.4]

Title: A View of Reading Taken from the west side of Schuylkill and most respectfully dedicated to the citizens of Berks County Pa
Description: View depicting Reading, Pa. from the west side of the Schuylkill River. In the foreground, foot and vehicular traffic travels on the dirt roads alongside the river’s edge, including a woman carrying a pail, a barefooted white boy with a bag and a dog at his feet, and a horse-drawn carriage carrying a white man and a woman. The women’s faces are obscured by the bonnets they wear. Also near the river, three cows lie down and one stands beside a wooden fence. Boats travel down the river. In the background, the cityscape of Reading is visible including buildings, houses, churches with steeples, and roads., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Holtzwart, Frederick A., artist
Date: [ca. 1837]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.40]

Title: The Oakland Schottisch composed for and respectfully dedicated to the young ladies of the Oakland Female Institute, Norristown, Pa. by Charlie C. Converse
Description: Sheet music cover containing an exterior view of institute building and grounds from the Delaware River. Students stroll on the lawn. A passenger train of the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norrristown (later Philadelphia & Reading) Railroad passes in the foreground and a boat is moored on the river bank. The institute was established in 1845. This view issued shortly before the building underwent major renovation and enlargement 1852-1855., View published as the frontispiece for Circular and catalogue of the Oakland Female Institute, Norristown, PA. for the year ending September 25, 1851 (Philadelphia: Printed by John Young, Black Horse Alley, 1851) with the artist's credit line "From nature and on stone by W.E. Hitckcock [i.e. Hitchcock]." (LCP Am 1850 Nor Oak, 74806.O and HSP *VoM 65 vol. 10) (POSP 155.1)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 155.2, LCP also holds copy, including sheet music [Sheet Music Oakland 11856.F (Doret)]. Copy gift of David Doret., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 17:39. FLP variant copy includes imprint: From nature & on Stone by J. Queen.
Creator: Hitchcock, William E., ca. 1823-ca. 1880, artist
Date: c1852
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Education [P.9210.11]

Title: The Oakland Female Institute. [diploma]
Description: Diploma depicting an exterior view of the institute building and grounds from the Delaware River. Students stroll on the lawn. A passenger train of the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norrristown (later Philadelphia & Reading) Railroad passes in the foreground and a boat is moored on the riverbank. The institute was established in 1845. View depicts the enlarged building following a major renovation and enlargement 1852-1855., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Ella J. Snodgrass on August 7, 1868. Signed by J. Grier Ralston; Mary L. Ralston; Lizzie J. Greir; Amelia G. Halsey; Agnes C. Ralston; L.M. Schneidre; Thos. O'Neill; Sarah E. Broughton; Anna L. Ralston; and O.P. Spang., Contains a blue ribbon and the Oakland Female Institute's embossed seal., Frederick Bourquin and P.S. Duval partnered in the firm known as P. S. Duval & Co. from about 1852 through 1857., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 156, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certificates - Education - Oakland [P.2009.24.1]

Title: Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy This certifies that [Rev. William Hance]
Description: Certificate for life membership in the Philadelphia Sabbath Association and depicting a church next to a canal. In the center, shows a church. Men and a woman walk towards the church and enter through the front door. In the foreground is a canal with a canal boat docked and a railway car. In the right are several buildings. In the left are horses and cows in a fenced in field, and a house is visible in the background. The Philadelphia Sabbath Association was founded in 1840 and aimed to promote the protection of the Sabbath and provided Sunday services for canal workers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed and manuscript written on recto: ...by a contribution of twenty dollars made by [M.E. Union Church, Phila. June 1, 1856] is constituted a Life Member of the Philadelphia Sabbath Association. [John A. Brown] President. [Milfred Hall] Cor. Secy. [Martin Buehler] Treasurer., Gift of David Doret., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2009, p. 56-7.
Creator: Robyn, Edward, 1820-1862, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certifcates - Phila. Sabbath [P.2009.24.11]

Title: [Virginia and Trudy at the Daylesford, PA train station]
Description: Two smiling women, a suitcase at their feet, stand on a wooden train platform next to a small station identified with a sign as Daylesford. In the center, two white women, attired in brimmed hats, gloves, jackets, and skirts, look at the viewer. Empty train tracks stretch out behind them. Built as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the station, razed in 2000, was located on Lincoln Highway and Conestoga Street, 18 miles west of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note written on recto: 1914; Daylesford, Pa; Va and True., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1914
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - unidentified - Transportation [P.2010.6.22]

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: Traveling teams of Mr. J. Campbell Harris,- starting from his "White Mountains" stables, to return to Philadelphia. (his mountain buggy-team on the left.)
Description: View showing three horse-teams each harnessed to the three carriages waiting in the yard of a clapboard house and stable. In the left, a white man driver sits in one carriage and holds the reins. In the center, a man stands beside the horse hitched to another carriage. In the right, the third carriage is empty. Two woman sitting on the porch and a boy in the yard watch the carriages. An unhitched carriage sits below the wide roof of the stable's verandah. Harris, son-in-law of Thomas Powers of Powers & Weightman, was a Philadelphia businessman involved in real estate development., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Merrow, Edward L., ca. 1861-1922, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Merrow [P.2010.6.21]

Title: The First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, L Rev. Benjamin M. Palmer, D.D. Pastor
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-Revival style church built in 1857 after the designs of architect Henry Howard. Shows the front entrance of the church with the large steeple. Men, women, and children pedestrians walk on the sidewalks and cross the street in front of the church. The church building was destroyed by fire in 1854. The newly rebuilt church opened in 1857 and was destroyed by a hurricane in 1915. Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902) served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans from 1856 to 1902. He advocated for Louisiana to secede and join the Confederacy., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and publisher and content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Churches & Meetinghouses - First [P.2010.35.1]

Title: U.S.P.O. & C., Lancaster, PA
Description: Exterior view of the United States Post Office and Courthouse built in 1892 after the designs of architect William Alfred Freret Jr. at 120 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa. Shows the Venetian-Renaissance style building with a tower, and an American flag flying on a pole. A woman walks through the front door. Men, women, and children pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. A woman and girl walk a dog, and a dog runs through the street towards them. A horse-drawn carriage and a man on horseback travel down the street. The building was converted into City Hall in 1931., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and publisher and content., Printed signature under the image: Will. A. Freret, Supervising Architect., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Peters, N. (Norris), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Government buildings - PA [P.2010.21.4]

Title: Eugenie Empress of France and ladies of her court
Description: Print depicting the Empress of France, Eugénie de Montijo, and eight of her ladies-in-waiting seated on the grass surrounded by trees. The Empress, attired in a white, off-the-shoulder dress with a red bow and a crown of flowers, holds a bouquet of flowers in her left hand. From right to left in a circle, the eight ladies sit and stand: Anne d'Essling, attired in a blue, off-the-shoulder dress; Louise Poitelon du Tarde, attired in white-and-black striped, off-the-shoulder dress and a black bow choker necklace; Jane Mary Thorne, attired in a white and peach colored, off-the-shoulder dress; Adrienne de Villeneuve-Bargemont, attired in a blue, off-the-shoulder dress, holds a bouquet of roses; Anne Mortier de Trévise, attired in a dark blue, off-the-shoulder dress, holds a hat with a blue ribbon in her right hand; Claire Emilie MacDonell, attired in a white and peach, off-the-shoulder dress; Nathalie de Ségur, attired in a light blue, off-the-shoulder dress; and Pauline Marie Ghislaine de Bassano, attired in a white, off-the-shoulder dress and a red shawl. Empress Eugénie de Montijo commissioned Franz Xaver Winterhalter to create this painting in 1855 to be exhibited at the painting salon of the Exposition Universelle., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and content., Text printed below image: Me La Mse de Latour-Maubourg, Me La Mse Marismias, Me La Anne de Malaret, Me La Ctesce de Montebello, Me La Desse de Bassana, S. M. L'Impertrice, Mc La Vtessa de Lezay-Marnezia, Me La Bnne de Pierres, Me La Pcesse D'Esseling., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Recreation [P.2010.35.2]

Title: [View of the Centennial Machinery Hall with people from all nations]
Description: Block-printed wallpaper depicting an exterior view of Machinery Hall designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Horse-drawn carriages bring visitors to and from the Hall. A large crowd of spectators walk on the grounds. In the foreground, people from various nationalities and ethnicities are represented including Native Americans attired in feather headdresses; two men, including a Black man, attired in fez hats; two Chinese men, one carrying a fan, attired in conical hats and robes; two Arab men in white headdresses and robes; and a Scottish man attired in a kilt. Other spectators include a man attired in a sailor’s uniform, men and women couples, and young boys., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.49]

Title: Bowling Green
Description: Street level view of fenced-in park containing trees and large fountain surrounded by streets lined with rowhouses. In the center is a building labeled, Washington. Also includes heavy street with men on horseback, horse-drawn carts, and a horse-drawn omnibus. Men, women, and children pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and streets. Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan is New York City's oldest park., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Magnus, Charles, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. -New York [P.2010.6.25]

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