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Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified African American girl dressed for Easter]
Description: Half-length portrait of an unidentified young African American girl, wearing her hair tied back with a large bow on top of her head and attired in a long-sleeved shirt with a high neckline and a pinafore adorned with a pin., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note on verso: Easter Greetings 1912., Mount contains ornate border., Purchase 1993., 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: Rose Studio, photographer
Date: 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - unidentified female [P.9410.28]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of an unidentified African American girl]
Description: Bust-length portrait of a young African American girl facing slightly right. She wears her curly hair in bangs at her forehead, with half of her long hair tied up and the rest draped behind her back. She is attired in small hoop earrings and a dress with a crocheted lace collar with a pin at the neck., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from the photographer and attire of the sitter., Gift of David Long, 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.9981.11]

Title: Bartram gardens, Phila[delphia]
Description: Depicts three well-dressed children, including an African American girl, posed on and around a large stone trough by the wall of a building in Bartram's Garden. In the left, a white boy, attired in a white collared shirt, a striped tie, light-colored shorts, black socks, and shoes, stands facing the viewer with his left hand on the trough. The African American girl, attired in a short-sleeved dress with white trim at the neck, cuffs, and waist, stands behind the trough with her left hand resting on its rim. In the right , a white boy, attired in a short-sleeved, white collared shirt, shorts, and socks, sits on the trough with his legs hanging inside it. Bartram's Garden, the first botanic garden in the country cultivated by botanist and farmer John Bartram in the mid-18th century, was restored by the John Bartram Association in the 1920s after many years of neglect., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access point 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.115], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson115.htm

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified African American girl]
Description: Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of an African American girl seated on a chair with an ornate, wooden back. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, crimped, and tied in pig tails. She is attired in a dark-colored, short-sleeved dress with white lace decorating the cuffs. She clasps her hands together slightly and rests them at her waist. Her cheeks are tinted pink. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded red velvet with fleur de lis in center surrounded by scrolls., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design with a six pointed star within a shield flanked by banners. Same design on verso., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 17-24., Reproduced on cover and on page 44 of Julie Winch's The Elite of our people (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000)., Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1855-ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.9]

Title: Salvation Army Home, 5415 Lansdowne Avenue, Phila
Description: Postcard promoting the Salvation Army Rescue Children's Home and Hospital. The home, established in 1893, provided shelter, training and medical care to destitute mothers and children. Depicts a group portrait of a row of eleven small children, including an African American girl, attired in identical white jumpers. The children are lined up from shortest to tallest child., Inscribed in negative: 26770., Contains manuscript note on verso addressed to Mrs. A. G. Crandall, Montpelier, Vermont., Purchase 2002., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked April 16, 1910.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Hospitals, asylums and homes [P.2002.52]

Title: [58 Good Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting a young African American girl walking past a residence with a covered porch in the West Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia. The girl, attired in a long-sleeved shirt, a skirt, white socks, and Mary Jane shoes, walks on the sidewalk towards the right. On the porch are several chairs, a side table, and potted plants. The Jackson Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from content., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1945]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.24]

Title: 923 Olive St. (house torn down)
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting African American children leaning against a building adjacent to a vacant lot scattered with debris. Nine boys and girls stand against the wall. The girl in the left holds a broom. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from content., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1940]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.7]

Title: Philadelphia Health Council. Camp Happy tents
Description: View depicting young female campers, including African Americans, near pitched tents on a campground. Shows a field with a line of tents. The girls stand in front of the opening of the tents. In the right background, a small building is visible. Probably an "open air" program to rehabilitate tuberculosis patients sponsored by the Philadelphia Health Council and Tuberculosis Committee. The committee, founded in 1920 by Dr. Lawrence Flick, operated until 1944., Title from negative sleeve., Photographer's imprint inscribed on negative., Purchase 1978., 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: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9479.11781]

Title: [Girls High School class of 1900]
Description: Class portrait, including African American students, posed before the school at 17th and Spring Garden streets. The students sit on the front steps of the school and stand along the sides and at the top. Some hold and display personal mementoes. Established in 1848, the high school, located at Spring Garden from 1876 to 1958, was the first municipally funded secondary school for girls in the United States. The school relocated to 1400 West Olney Street in 1958., Right corner missing., Photographer's imprint ink stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1991., 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: Broadbent Company, photographer
Date: [1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education [P.9359]

Title: Graduating class of June 19[24]. The McMichael School - Phila. PA
Description: Class portrait of students, including African American children, from the school at 36th Street and Fairmount Avenue named after Philadelphia mayor Morton McMichael. Six rows of children sit and stand, posed outside the school, which was organized in 1892 from students from the Belmont and Haverford schools., Title from item., Photographer's stamp on verso: Dan E. Paul Commercial Photography Bell Phone 2225 N. 2nd St. Phila, PA., Gift of Elizabeth MacGuire, 2002., 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: Paul, Dan E., photographer
Date: 1924
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - education - McMichael School [P.2002.35.1]

Title: Old Lutheran Church, in Fifth Philadelphia
Description: Street scene showing Fifth Street with the Old Lutheran Church (i.e., St. Michael's Church). Depicts well-dressed white women in small groups, a woman and child, and men strolling passed the church, a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street, and three white men conversing around a horse hitched to a post near two African American girls. One of the girls holds out her hand. Also shows dogs standing and running in the street. St Michael's Church, built 1743-1748 and demolished in 1872, was occupied in 1777 by British chaplains and used as the garrison church of the British troops during the American Revolution., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 7., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 7/P.2276.13]

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