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- Title
- [Portrait of a rather stern, unidentified, older woman wearing a lace collar and cap.]
- Description
- Die-engraver's imprint stamped on lower left corner of case: C. Loekel Phila., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Urn in center, fancy scrolls all around., Mat: Double elliptical. Label on mat: Collins, 3d & Chesnut., Case: Leather. One rose, buds and leaves in a scalloped border. The design of the case is called Forget Me Not and is plate 174 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co. Inc., 1969.) Rare. Highly prized by collectors. A token of remembrance. The die-engraver was Charles Loekle, Phila., ca. 1855. Geometric design of interlocking scrolls on verso.
- Creator
- Collins, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1850
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9584]
- Title
- [Portrait of an unidentified, young woman, wearing a white lace cap, her right arm is resting on a table. ]
- Description
- Waist-length portrait of a seated young woman facing forward. She wears a bonnet on her head and her dress is adorned with a large lace collar and cuffs. Her right arm rests on a table., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Pad: Red velvet embossed "Willard Market St. Ab 16th Philada." Geometric border., Mat: Fancy nonpareil., Case: Leather. Geometric design with a small oval surrounded by fanciful leaves within four scrolls. Same design on verso.
- Creator
- Willard, Oliver H., d. 1876, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9636.2]
- Title
- Rock me to sleep
- Description
- Lyricist: Florence Percy (pseudonym of Elizabeth Allen)., Number 2 1/2 in 6 pointed star on tp; 3 additional verses printed on page 5., Another version of this is listed in "Early American Sheet Music" by Dichter and Shapiro, p.150., Song for piano., In poor condition: torn and discolored., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Mack, Edward, d.1882, cmp
- Date
- c1861
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Rock (2) 7594.F.14
- Title
- On freedom's altar glows a fire An appeal to arms
- Description
- Illustration: Large eagle, wings outspread, with rippling American flag in its mouth., Engraver: Crap., Number 2 us1/2 inside a 6 pointed star on tp.; Publisher's Plate# 8241.4., Civil War song., "Inscribed to the Pennsylvania Volunteers.", Badly stained., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Lady of Philadelphia, cmp
- Date
- c1861
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Onf 11351.F
- Title
- Prayer for the Union our country
- Description
- Lyricist: Mrs. E. Coleman., "Dedicated to the choirs of the United States.", Electrotyper: Lucas' Baltimore Type Foundry., Advertisement for piano instruction books is printed on last page; price: five cents., Civil war song., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- c1861
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Pray 5782.F.5
- Title
- Don't get above your business
- Description
- Comic genre scene set at a shoemaker's shop depicting a cobbler's assistant measuring the stocking foot of a woman, who is seated with her skirt slightly raised. Her female companion and the shoemaker, who has stopped work on a boot, watch with concern. Also shows a painted backdrop adorned with shoes and cobbler's tools., Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold by Underwood & Underwoood, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas., Buff mount with rounded corners., Negative number printed on mount: 337A., Title printed in six different languages on verso., Gift of Jesse Randall., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Littleton View Co.
- Date
- c1893
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2005.19.10]
- Title
- The sanitary fair polka
- Description
- Music Stereotyper: Warren, 43 Centre St., New York., "To the Patrons of the Brooklyn Fair.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Parkhurst, E. A., Mrs., cmp
- Date
- c1864
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare *Sheet Music San 5781.F
- Title
- Reply to the bonnie blue flag
- Description
- Lyricist: Mrs. C. Sterett., Illustration: color engraving of waving American flag., Engraver: Geo. Swain., "To Our Brave Volunteers.", This piece is a reply to a popular Confederate song entitled "Bonnie Blue Flag;" 3 verses for chorus are printed on page 5; number 2 1/2 in 6 pointed star on tp., M. H. Frank is listed as the "Author of the Burnside Expedition" on tp., Civil War song for piano., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Frank, M. H., cmp
- Date
- c1862
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Reply 7594.F.22
- Title
- Savournin’s Celebrated Snow White Diamond for beautifying the complexion
- Description
- Diamond-shaped advertisement with ornamental border containing a vignette-size, waist-length portrait of a young lady stroking her hands through her long tresses., Leonhardt operated from 114 So. 3rd Street circa 1868-1871., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 202, Gift of Margaret Robinson.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.46]
- Title
- CCXI. sociable letters
- Description
- Letters CXC and CXCI only, removed from the whole work, describing London in a cold and snowy winter., Library Company copy is tipped at p. 683 of Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); followed by a leaf of Collinson's MS. notes.
- Creator
- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674
- Date
- 1664
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.13
- Title
- Friendship album
- Description
- Album with locks of hair sewn onto the pages in loops of stylized flowers with colored drawings of flowers. The hair was assembled by Margaret Williams. Family names contained in the book are: Williams, Barmore, Mary, Washburn, Lee, Holden, Pullen, Armstrong, Darlen, Underhill, McIntyre, Rasnell, Halsted, Marshall, Philips, and Smith., Exhibited in: the Library Company's exhibition, Picturing Women (2004) ; and the Living Book: New Perspectives on Form and Function (2017-2018).
- Creator
- Williams, Margaret
- Date
- 1839
- Location
- OBJ 846
- Title
- Barbara A. Townshind Silhouette Album
- Description
- Album containing amateurly-cut, primarily bust-length silhouettes of men and women. Majority include caricatured or non-descript features. Small number of the prints depict full-length silhouettes, including a man holding an eye glass, a man holding a book near a table, and a man holding a filled basket. Also includes a silhouette of a tall male figure and squat female figure and corresponding pencil sketch. Many silhouettes also include hair adornments and other fashion details.
- Title
- Needlework Sampler
- Creator
- Pillard, Catherine
- Location
- OBJ 721
- Title
- A Berkshire road. 1888
- Description
- Depicts a slender young woman, her sleeves rolled up, wearing an apron over her long skirt and a bonnet, carrying a spray of flowers in her left hand and a basket over her right arm. She stands in a narrow dirt road., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- 1888
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.8]
- Title
- Reward of merit
- Description
- Contains central vignette showing a female allegorical figure seated in a chariot pulled by lions. She wears a crown, and holds a key and sceptor. Figure possibly personifies earth or represents the republic of the United States., Includes verse: Love thy Maker-let it be duty and delight to thee. When the day breaks o'er the hill. At the sunset hour so still. Let each living creature share Thy warm love & be they care; Let what'er thine eyes may see Form a link twixt heaven & thee., 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. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.155]
- Title
- Three women sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing three young women, each wearing a long dark dress, sitting on a set of white marble steps in Philadelphia. They are wearing jewelry. There is a handsome double door behind them that appears to be framed in marble., Kodak postcard., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1927
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.47]
- Title
- Woman standing in front of brick house with stone porch, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait of a young woman with dark hair wearing a two-piece dress standing in front of a stone porch in Philadelphia. Her blouse is plain with an inset of striped fabric and some embroidery. The skirt is full-length and made of striped fabric. Patent leather shoes complement her dress. Behind her is a decorative iron grille on a cellar window., Defender postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 228., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1928
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.133]
- Title
- Woman standing on sidewalk in front of porch, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait of a woman dressed in an ankle-length pleated skirt with a dark jacket and a light-colored vest standing in front of a porch in Philadelphia. She also wears a hat with a pompom on top, dark leather gloves, and laced up dress shoes. She stands in front of a large brick house with a porch over a stone foundation. The cellar window is protected by a wrought iron screen., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.131]
- Title
- Young woman standing on woodland path, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait of a young woman, her hair neatly combed, standing on a path in a woodland. She wears a long sleeveless flower-printed dress that is trimmed with a dark ribbon bow and a necklace., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.152]
- Title
- Woman standing in front of window, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait of a young woman with neatly combed hair and a dress with pleats and matching jacket standing in front of a screened window and a screened cellar window in Philadelphia. The jacket is a bit blurred because of the wind. There is a big bow at the neck of her dress and she also wears a bead necklace and holds a purse. The window frame is very worn and in need of paint. A lace curtain hangs in the window behind her., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.18]
- Title
- Young woman standing in front of window, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait of a young woman, about twenty years of age, dressed in a dark velvet overblouse, a light-colored pleated silken skirt and dress shoes, standing, hands on hips and smiling, in front of a window of a brick house in Philadelphia. In the window two children and an adult watch from inside the activity outside on the sidewalk. The cellar window is protected by a wrought iron screen which is attractively painted., The unidentified young woman is also the subject of John Frank Keith photographs P.2008.10.92 and P.8649.36, in which she wears the same clothing., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.23]
- Title
- Young woman standing in front of stone wall, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait of a young woman posing in a two-piece dress in front of the stone wall of a porch in Philadelphia. She wears stockings and high-heeled shoes. Her dark hair is cut short. The large cellar window behind her is protected by a carefully painted wrought iron screen., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.33]
- Title
- Hammocks, hammock ropes, hammock spreaders, Saratoga hammock, pat'd July 19th, 1881
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a woman relaxing in a hammock in a yard adjacent to a dwelling with a balustrated porch., Advertising text printed on verso illustrates and promotes hammock attachments, including the anchor rope and spreader, sold by G.M. Lee, Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Saratoga [1975.F.787]
- Title
- Three bells polka
- Description
- Composed by T. J. Cook., Polka for piano., Illustrated by P. S. Duval Son & Co. Lith. Color lithograph depicts a piano keyboard set within a large cabinet. Folded flag is draped at bottom., Provenance: Gift of the heirs of Helen Beitler, 2002., This piece is one of "Six Favorite Polkas for the Drawing Room" by T. J. Cook. Title page is stained and discolored, otherwise the piece is in good condition., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Cook, T. J., fl. 1864, cmp
- Date
- c1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Thr 14790.Q (Beitler)
- Title
- Daisy Deane Song and chorus
- Description
- Decorative square border on tp., Title from cover; regiment numbers appear under their respective names., Publisher's Plate# 325-4., Number 2 1/2 on tp; "Root & Cady's Later Publications," p. [2]; publisher's advertisement, "A Circular List of Circulating Publications," p. [6]., Signature on cover: Mary [J?]., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Winthrop, T. F. (Thomas F.), b. 1842, cmp
- Date
- c1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Dai 6600.F
- Title
- The star spangled banner
- Description
- Illustration: Color lithograph of crossed American and French flags., Lithographer: J. H. Buffords, Boston., Caption title: National Music., This piece is one of 7 French and American patriotic songs inluded in collection "National Music"; A fifth verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894, is included., Publisher's plate #19950., Seal of seller at top right corner has been cut off; Partial name and address are visible: Newcom... 524 Broadway., Library Company copy title page torn, missing upper left corner; inscribed in several hands: Mary Vaux, Sally Vaux, Mr. James..., Hattie Van.... 134 South 11th., Philadelphia, 1861., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843, lyr
- Date
- c1861
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Sta 5808.F.6
- Title
- Silvery waves original theme with variations for the piano forte
- Description
- Dedication: To the Ladies of the Washington Female Seminary., Decorative square border on tp., Page 12 is a "Select list of new & beautiful music published by S. Brainard & Sons.", Handwritten signature at top of tp: Miss Carrie Hughes., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Wyman, Addison P., 1832-1872, cmp
- Date
- c1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Sil 7518.F.26
- Title
- Whisperings of love valse sentimentale
- Description
- Green decorative border on tp; birds and flowers., "To Miss Anna Taylor.", "Charles Kinkel, author of "Charming Waltz," "Mountain Belle Schottisch," &c.", Publisher's Plate# 3782.4., Handwritten signature at top of tp: Miss Carrie Hughes., In poor condition - badly discolored and stained., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Kinkel, Charles, cmp
- Date
- c1864
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Whi 7518.F.12
- Title
- Wooden spoon lanciers
- Description
- Arranged by J. M. Lander., Quadrille "as performed by Helmsmüller's band at the Wooden Spoon Promenade Concert music hall New Haven, June 19, 1865.", "Respectfully dedicated to the cochleaureati of [18]'66, Yale College.", Illustration: color lithograph of the crest of the Yale "Cochlearureati," with an arm holding a wooden spoon above a shield, which has crossed wooden spoons in the upper left quarter and an upside down Phi Beta Kappa key in the lower right. The words "Super Sinistram Lugemus [We feel bad over the left]" written diagonally across the shield in a blue sash. "Honi soit qui mal y pense [Shame upon him who thinks evil of it]" written on either side of shield and "In hoc signo vinces [In this sign you will conquer]" underneath., Lithographer: F. Mayer & Co., 96 Fulton St., N.Y., Publisher's Plate# 3171-8; Number 7 1/2 in 6 pointed star on tp., Pencilled signature at top of tp which has been partially cut off: Miss Carrie Hughes., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- c1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Woo 2518.F.28
- Title
- Two women standing in front of old house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two women, arms around each other, standing in front of a wooden house in Philadelphia that is in need of paint and a restoration of the foundation. The woman on the left wears an unbelted vertically striped dress with white stockings and heels. The woman to the right wears a dark "good" dress; her slip is showing. She wears white stockings and heels as well., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.13]
- Title
- Two women standing in front of stone porch, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two young women, one in a suit, the other in a two-piece dress, both wearing white stockings and high heeled shoes, standing in front of a stone porch in Philadelphia. They have their arms around each other. Their hair is neatly combed and both wear lipstick., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.69]
- Title
- Two women standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two women who could be mother and daughter, both in their best dresses, standing with arms around each other in front of a window in a brick house in Philadelphia. The older woman on the right wears a dress with an ornate collar and cuffs. The window has open shutters and a fringed shade., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.77]
- Title
- Two women standing in front of tall wooden fence, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two well dressed women in hats standing in front of a tall wooden fence with horizontal slats. The fence probably divides residential backyards., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.3]
- Title
- Three young women standing in front of window, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing three young women, dressed up in their best dresses with stockings and dress shoes, standing in front of the window of a brick house in Philadelphia. Behind them, from inside the house, two small children and an adult can be seen looking out the window at the activity on the sidewalk. Two of the women wear glasses., The young woman in the middle is also the subject of John Frank Keith photographs P.2008.10.92 and P.8649.23, in which she wears the same clothing., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.36]
- Title
- Young woman standing in front of window, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait showing a young woman dressed in a skirt and belted four-pocket jacket standing in front of a window with open shutters in Philadelphia. Paint peels from the wooded clapboard and shutters in front of which she stands., Kruxo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1917
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.51]
- Title
- Marsh vegetation
- Description
- Landscape view shows a woman seated and leaning next to a tree near a creek., Attributed to John Moran., Title stamped on mount., Distributor's stamp, printed in red ink, pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Moran, John, 1831-1903
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [P.9326.1]
- 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
- Young woman standing in front of brick wall and windows, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait showing a young woman standing in front of a brick house in Philadelphia, in between two windows on the first floor and two cellar windows. She wears a dress with two large pockets, a wide fabric belt, and a ruffle collar around the neck, and white shoes laced up to her calves with white stockings. The cellar windows are protected by wrought iron screens., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 North 6th St., Phila., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.28]
- Title
- Two young women standing in front of open window of brick house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two young women standing, arms around each other's waist, in front of an open window in Philadelphia. They both wear cotton dresses and one wears a necklace., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.28]
- Title
- Two women sitting on marble steps in front of door, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two smiling women with their arms around each other sitting on marble steps in front of an intricately carved door in Philadelphia. One woman wears a dark belted jacket with white trim., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1918
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.12]
- Title
- Two nicely dressed young women standing in front of brick building, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two young women, one with her arm around the shoulders of the other, standing in front of a brick building in Philadelphia. They both wear dark dresses and dress shoes., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.118]
- Title
- Four older women standing in grassy backyard, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing four women standing in a backyard in Philadelphia. They wear jewelry and fine dresses made of embellished material., Kruxo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1917
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.156]
- Title
- She fastened the door with a skewer
- Description
- Comic genre photograph showing a smiling young woman putting a skewer through a door latch., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow 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.9299.16]
- Title
- Barbara A. Townshind silhouette album
- Description
- Album containing amateurly-cut, primarily bust-length silhouettes of men and women. Majority include caricatured or non-descript features. Small number of the prints depict full-length silhouettes, including a man holding an eye glass, a man holding a book near a table, and a man holding a filled basket. Also includes a silhouette of a tall male figure and squat female figure and corresponding pencil sketch. Many silhouettes also include hair adornments and other fashion details., Inscribed on verso of front cover: Barbara A. Townshind, Stanley Place, May 1804., End papers and verso of back cover contain semi-legible pencil inscribed verse., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box.
- Creator
- Townshind, Barbara A.
- Date
- May 1804
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9723]
- Title
- Old Arbor Vitae Tree (1400 years old) over bed of Cascase near Forest Inn, [Cedar Creek, VA]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a fallen arbor vitae tree extending over a riverbed. A man stands on the tree, with one leg bent, while three women sit on the trunk to either side., Photographer remarks: Good neg., Time: 10, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- October 15, 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1049]
- Title
- Palmetto Palms at Long house, [Bermuda]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a large, leafy palm tree set in a garden at Long House. Other trees and foliage surround the palm while a woman stands beneath it with her hands folded., Photographer remarks: Susie K. Lough beneath., Time: 1:00 PM, Light: Good sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- March 27, 1889
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1469]
- Title
- [Unidentified woman by palm tree, possibly Bermuda]
- Description
- Film negative showing a woman standing beneath a palm tree looking to her right. Trees and other foliage grow behind the palm tree in the background., 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. 1900-ca. 1930
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.65.5]
- Title
- Reward of merit To [blank] from [blank] teacher. [blank] 186[blank]
- Description
- On verso, printed inside ornamental border signed "Childs sc.", with an illustration signed "Childs sc.", a poem: Light house. Star of hope to the benighted, First to greet the wanderer's eye: Joy in hearts hath oft been lighted, When thy beams shone on the sky! Harbinger that bliss is coming, Glimmer by the dark blue sea! And upon the ocean roaming, I will sing in praise of thee!, Library Company copy inscribed to Mary Morgan from Carrie Smith., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Reward 79129.O .3
- Title
- Reward of merit To [blank] from [blank] teacher. [blank] 186[blank]
- Description
- On verso, printed inside ornamental border signed "Childs sc.": Good children. Good children are generally happy. We have seen many little boys and girls that were unhappy, simply because they were naughty. One naughtly word or deed will cast a cloud over any bright and smiling face., Library Company copy inscribed to Mary Morgan from Carrie Smith, Jan. 24, 1865., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Reward 79129.O .2
- Title
- Reward of merit To [blank] by [blank] teacher
- Description
- Printed in gold ink., Library Company copy inscribed to Mary Morgan by C. Smith., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Reward 79129.O .1