Block numbered in one place: 7054, also 1741 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a man pushing or guiding a girl toward a woman sitting on a small sofa or fainting couch; the girl looks back and up at the man and holds one of his hands, and extends the other toward the woman; the woman leans against the arm of the sofa; the bottom half of a portrait of a man is visible on the wall behind the sofa., “[V] Grottenthaler [?]” — Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories from 1867 to 1876., “[?] 296” – Inscribed on back of block., Back of block partially obscured by small pasted-down paper., Illustration appears in Child's world, v. 15 no. 11 (1876), p. 3., Illustration also appears in Jessie Burton; or, danger in delay (Philadelphia, 1869), opp. p. 317.
Block numbered in two places: 7500, also 1645 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of two standing women, a kneeling man, and a small girl holding a doll; one woman leans over to look at something the man holds in his hand. They appear to be unpacking a trunk. A mallet, a chisel, and books are strewn in the foreground., "V. Grottenthaler, 402 Library St Phila." – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1869 to 1876., Signed: B.
Block numbered in one place: 6086., Image of a woman watching a young girl look at herself in a mirror, in an interior setting., “N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila.” -- back of block. Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper., Image of two seated women who appear to be playing tambourines, possibly in a graveyard., Illustration appears in The pictorial Sunday book: designed for the use of families, Bible classes, and Sunday School teachers: derived principally from the manners and customs of the Jews ; the rites, traditions, and antiquities, of eastern nations, explanatory of many portions of the Old and New Testaments together with interesting descriptions of the principal places mentioned in the Bible, illustrated by numerous landscape scenes, from sketches taken on the spot (New York, 1846), p. 322. Caption of illustration - "Mourning women.", Tape (inscribed “1832”) on obverse., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Block numbered in two places: 6169, also 1409 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a woman and two girls indoors; the woman appears to be knitting or crocheting, and a girl stands before her regarding her work; a smaller girl sits behind her regarding or working on something in her hands., “N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila” – Back of block in two places. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876., “The Blue Socks” – Inscribed on side of block.
Block numbered in one places: 3710, also 18 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a seated woman with needlework in her lap who looks over her shoulder toward a man who has just entered the room from outdoors and holds extends one hand, apparently showing her a pumpkin., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down piece of paper., “[?] sent to you [?] Page 30.” – Inscribed on side of block., Signed: J.N. [?]
Block numbered in two places: 7015, also 1444 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a woman in a doorway looking at a boy and a girl; the boy holds what appears to be a book strap holding books over his shoulder, and looks at a kneeling girl who reaches into a basket on the ground., "V. Grottenthaler, 402 Library St Phila." – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1869 to 1876., Obscured inscription on back of block., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down piece of paper.
Numbered in two places: 5224., Image of a seated woman handing flowers to a boy in bed., “N.J. Wemmer. 5 Pear St. Phila.” – Back of block. Nelson J. Wemmer is listed (as an artist) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1848 to 1856.
Block numbered in two places: 7548, also 1750 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a woman and a girl standing in a doorway with the door open, looking at a girl who walks in front of the house in the rain barefoot, slightly hunched and carrying a basket with one arm while holding her hat down with her other hand., N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila” – Back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876.
Block numbered in two places: 9017, also 1887 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a woman and a girl in a woodworker’s shop; the woman regards the woodworker over the girl’s head, and the girl faces the woman, back turned to the woodworker; the woman wears what appear to be large furry mittens, and the girl holds knitting needles; the woodworker wears a loose cap and sits carving at a workbench; the workbench has two carved goats on it, and on the wall hang several carvings of boys’ heads, at least one an angel with wings, and what appears to be a small boar., “V. Grottenthaler Phila.” – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories from 1867 to 1876.
Block numbered in two places: 3580, also 1255 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a seated woman doing needlework while regarding a man who leans against the side of a bed or sofa, grasping what may be a flask in one hand; a bottle, bowl, and spoon sit on a table beside the woman., "[?] Leaf 20." – Inscribed on back of block., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Block numbered in one place: 8672., Image of four people in what appears to be a kitchen; a boy or young man stands beside a broken object on the floor and holds a broom; a woman points at either the boy or the object; another young man stands behind the woman; a second woman stands behind her holding something, possibly a plate., Signed: F.E.L.
Block numbered in one place: 9400, also 1224 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a man and a woman in a small boat; the woman wears a bonnet and holds a basket or woven bag in her lap; the man, who wears a tall hat rests his chin on his clasped hands, possibly leaning on a small cane; behind the boat a short distance away is a spired building on the shore, likely a church.
Block numbered in two places: 6145., Image of two women outside a building [a tavern?] identified with the sign “Rose & Crow [i.e., Crown?].” A flag is suspended over the sign. Men, one of whom wears suspenders, are gathered at a table in the background., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper., “N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila” – Back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876.
In Hannah Corcoran, the missing girl of Charlestown (Boston, 1853), title page vignette., Three-quarter length portrait of the young woman, wearing a Maltese cross brooch.
In Kirkland, C.M. The book of home beauty (New York, 1852), plate opposite p. 132., Shoulder-length portrait of Mrs. James Wadsworth, with lace bonnet., Based on drawing by Charles Martin.
In Kirkland, C.M. The book of home beauty (New York, 1852), plate opposite p. 144., Bust-length portrait of Mrs. S. Ward., Based on drawing by Charles Martin.
In Kirkland, C.M. The book of home beauty (New York, 1852), plate opposite p. 120., Bust-length portrait of Mrs. Coventry Wardell, with flowers in her hair., Based on a drawing by Charles Martin.
In Kirkland, C.M. The book of home beauty (New York, 1852), plate opposite p. 96., Shoulder-length portrait of Mrs. Schermerhorn, with a wreath of leaves on her head.
In Wheeler, J.H. Trial of Rev. Issachar Grosscup (Candaigua, N.Y., 1848), title vignette., Three-quarter length portrait of the young woman, wearing a bonnet.
Margaret Burke was the sister of Mathew Carey. Not long after her portrait was taken, she followed her brother to the United States. She married a Baltimore sea captain named James Burke, who presently abandoned her and their children. She moved to Philadelphia and for a while worked as a school mistress and a milliner., Gift of Mrs. H. Lea (Mary) Hudson, 1994.
In Chapin, J.R. The historical picture gallery (Boston, 1856), p. 359., Full-length portrait of the frontier wife, kneeling behind a fence with a rifle aimed at a bear in her dooryard; a pig runs away from them. According to the text, the rifle failed to discharge, which was fortuitous because a wounded bear would have been even more dangerous; the bear returned to the woods. Possibly Isabella W. Austin (1826-1901), of Geneva, Ohio.
Textile label for the woolen mills containing a vignette surrounded by pictorial details and filigree. Vignette depicts the head of a woman partially framed by a garland of flowers. Pictorial details include banners. Todmorden Mills, originally established in 1831 as John Bancroft & Son in Media, Pa., was sold by the family in 1842 and repurchased by Joseph Bancroft in 1854. By the 1870s, it was one of the largest woolen mills in the country., Printed and inscribed on recto: Style 29. Size 68 x 136., 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
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.104]
Sheet music cover showing four well-dressed women in a finely-decorated parlor with a sewing machine. Two women, with a cat and sheet of paper at their feet, work at the machine in the center of the room. Near them another woman stands and observes as another woman across the room sews by hand while seated on a chair. In the background, skyline at dusk is visible through a large window with drawn-back drapery., Printed on recto: 5., Inscribed lower left corner: 51., See also proof before letters and color [P.9349.56b]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
c1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.36a]
Sheet music cover showing four well-dressed women in a finely-decorated parlor with a sewing machine. Two women, with a cat and sheet of paper at their feet, work at the machine in the center of the room. Near them another woman stands and observes as another woman across the room sews by hand while seated on a chair. In the background, skyline at dusk is visible through a large window with drawn-back drapery., Printed on recto: 5., Inscribed lower left corner: 51., See also proof before letters and color [P.9349.56b]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
c1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.36a]
Comic genre scene showing a woman in masculine clothing sitting on the back of a chair defiantly smoking in front of a "No smoking" sign., Title on negative., Printed on mount: American and Foreign Views sold by canvassers., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.9964.1]
Genre photograph showing two women, one standing and grinning at the photograher and holding the other's eyes shut, while the other woman, seated at a desk, attempts to write a letter., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.7]
View of two women attired in capes and hats sitting on rocks in a shaded nook., Title from photographer's label on verso. Also lists thirty-six other titles in series (No. 362-397)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bartlett, George O., photographer
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Views [P.9168.3]
Film negative showing a group of four men and three women gathered near a campfire at Egg Harbor. One man tends a pot on the fire while the rest of the group reclines in the folilage next to the fire., April 13 & 14, 1906., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
April 1906
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.32]
Glass negative showing Valley Creek with trees lining either bank at Valley Forge. On the far side of the stream there is a path where three women stand conversing. From December 1777 to June 1778, the Continental Army camped at Valley Forge. The area became Pennsylvania’s first state park in 1893., Time: 1:15, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
April 30, 1887
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1112]
Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a view of a steamship with two masts and a smokestack on the water seen from the deck of another ship. Passengers stand on the deck of the second ship looking out across the water., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.21]
Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a two-story stone house with one wall covered in vines. A man and a woman stand on either side of a wooden gate next to the house., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.25]
Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a woman walking down a dirt road carrying a large bundle of sticks and leaves on her head. The woman wears a long skirt and a shirt with a floral pattern., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
Summer 1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.13]
Bust-length portrait of a young African American woman facing slightly right. Sitter is attired in gold drop earrings with red stones, a three-strand gold necklace with a gold pendant, and a blue dress with a white lace collar., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by Currier & Ives in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Purchase 2004., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Currier & Ives
Date
1872
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Framed graphics [P.2004.25]
Depicts a Jewish man standing and an Irish woman seated on a staircase between Water and Front Streets, north of Market Street, Philadelphia. A sign reading " 'The Headless Wonder' Made without 'Heads'. No useless Expense. All Quality. Flexo Giants Cigars. 10 for 30 cents" is pasted to the brick wall next to the people., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not in Florence, Genoa or Naples. An outside stairway between Water and Front Sts., No., of Market St., Phila. The characters are not Italians. The man is a Jew and the young woman is Irish., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.11: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 162.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 107 [P.8513.107], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson107.htm
Film negative showing an elderly woman seated for a portrait in front of a backdrop on a porch. The woman wears a cap, lacy shawl and a dark dress., August & September, 1908., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.259]
Film negative showing a woman wrapped in a knitted shawl standing under a large pine tree at Haddonfield, N.J. A wooden fence borders the garden and a bench sits in the foreground. The Haddonfield area was originally developed by Elizabeth Haddon (1680-1762) who immigrated to the United States in 1701 to manage property her father had bought in the colonies., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
July 29, 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.377]
Tintype showing a man and woman posing for a portrait in front of a backdrop. The woman wears a white dress and decorated hat. She sits in a chair holding the man's hat in her hands. The man stands behind her resting his arm on her shoulder and wears a suit and tie., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.568]
Film negative showing three men and a woman stringing rope between stakes in a field at Pocono Lake. Thick underbrush grows in the field and trees border the clearing. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.327]
Advertisment showing a waist-length, profile view of a woman with dark, loose-curled hair, draped in a cloth, and looking into a mirror. She also wears an arm band., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 58, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 Dr. Roby
Date
c1860
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 Dr. Roby
Waist-length portrait of Harriet Ware, wearing a bonnet and a dress with lace collar, knitting., In Wayland, Francis. A memoir of Harriet Ware (Providence, 1850), frontispiece., Harriet Ware was an educator and philanthropist who founded the Providence Children’s Friend Society after retiring as a teacher at Indian Point, a suburb of Providence., “She seldom allowed herself to sit many minutes without work of some kind in her hands. While entertaining callers and friends, knitting was her most common employment, and, even while intensely interested in conversation, her needles would be flying, as if impelled by some unseen power. Knitting work came at length to be called her ‘coat of arms;’ and in the daguerreotype portrait, a copy of which was taken only at the urgent request of her friends, which I believe is to accompany the memoir of her, her knitting work has its appropriate place, and may serve as a fit emblem of the homely virtues which she honored and practiced.”--P. 129-30.
In Wheatley, P. Poems on various subjects, religious and moral (London, 1773), frontispiece., Possibly based on a drawing by Scipio Moorhead., Three-quarter length portrait of writer, seated at a table, with pen in hand; inkwell and book nearby.
In Wiley, I.W. The mission cemetery and the fallen missionaries of Fuh Chau, China (New York, 1858), p. 200., Mrs. Wentworth was the daughter of J.J. Lewis, Esq., and the wife of Rev. Dr. Wentworth. She and her husband were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Mission. They arrived in China in May 1855., Waist-length portrait of the missionary.
In American missionary memorial (New York, 1853), p. 230., Mrs. Scudder and her husband were sent to Ceylon by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions., Waist-length portrait of the missionary.
In White, C.I. Life of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton (New York, 1853), frontispiece; portrait also stamped in gold on cover and spine., Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Seton, in profile, wearing a crucifix.
In Woods, L. Sermon, preached at Haverhill, Mass. 4th ed., enl. (Boston, 1814), frontispiece., Waist-length portrait of the woman missionary, with a ruffled collar., Artists' signatures illegible; identification based on the copy of the 1st ed. (1814) owned by the American Antiquarian Society and copy of the 2nd ed. (1814) owned by Bowdoin College. Library Company's copy of the 8th ed. (1818) has portrait frontispiece engraved by Ralph Rawdon., Another portrait appears in: American missionary memorial (New York, 1853), p. 74.
In Hale, S.J. Woman's record (New York, 1853), p. 868. "Illustrated by two hundred and thirty portraits, engraved on wood by Lossing and Barritt.", Bust-length portrait of Mrs. Hill, with a lace collar.
