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Title: Lined up for march to dinner, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing a group of African American men, attired in uniforms, white gloves, and caps, standing in formation at the Hampton Institute. The men stand in two rows facing forward. In the background are trees and a three-story brick building. In the left, a man walks with a bicycle beside a woman. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.463]

Title: Starting the march, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing a group of African American men, attired in uniforms and caps, marching in straight lines across a lawn at the Hampton Institute. The men march with their backs to the viewer in four groups of two rows each. Two men carry flags, including an American flag. In the background is a white, two-storied house with shuttered windows and a brick building. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.464]

Title: Virginia Hall before dinner, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing a group of well-dressed people gathered in front of Virginia Hall at Hampton Institute. White and African American men and women stand and converse in front of the brick, ivy-covered building. Several people stand on the fire escape, including a white man holding a camera taking a photograph of the scene. In the left background, a group of women sit and stand on a second-story balcony and look on. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington. Virginia Hall was built in 1873 as the main campus building., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.466]

Title: Students before forming lines, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing a large group of African American men, attired in uniform, white gloves, and caps, marching in formation across a wide field at Hampton Institute. The men, walking in five columns, come from the right and march towards the viewer. Hampton River stands in the background with trees growing along the bank. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.469]

Title: Virginia Hall, [Hampton Institute, Va.]
Description: Film negative showing Virginia Hall, a five-story brick building covered in ivy at Hampton Institute. In the foreground, African American men, attired in uniforms and caps, stand at attention in two columns facing one another on the grass. A group of men and women spectators stand near the entrance at the Hall. More spectators look out from open windows and stand on the fire escape. The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War. It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland. The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984. Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington. Virginia Hall was built in 1873 as the main campus building., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Gift of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.472]

Title: Mechanical target and gun. Mutual Novelty Manufacturing Co., 813 Girard Ave., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated flier for "comic head" mechanical target issued by the Mutual Novelty Manufacturing Company. Contains image of target (Patented Aug 28 1877), which includes the racist, comic head of an African American clown, portrayed in caricature with a slack jaw and grotesque features, and pictorial details of the "Target Arrow" (Pat. Sep. 5 1876). Flier also contains vignette of "Toy Target Arrow For Boys and Girls." Shows a child's hand pulling the arrow through an egg-shaped barrel. Vignette surrounded by advertising text reading "Throws the Arrow very accurately, and affords hours of amusement for both young and old. Made of hard wood, finely polished, beautifully colored. Price, per gross, $35.00 nett. Sample, by mail, 50 cts." Mutual Novelty Manufacturing Co. operated until at the least the 1920s., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Several lines of advertising text printed below image explicating the size, construction, price, and shipping of toy, and advertising potential of "Target and Envelope." Text also includes the solicitation that "Agents can earn over $30,000 weekly, and Canvassers from house to house more than $3.00 daily, selling our different Novelties. We would like to make you an Agent, and if you send out Sub Agents you can make upwards of $2,000 yearly.", Purchased with funds from the Walter J. Miller Trust for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Advertisements - M [P.2013.36.4]

Title: James K. Polk
Description: Bust-length portrait within an ornate border of the U.S. president responsible for the statehood of Texas. Polk, attired in a white collared shirt, a black cravat, waistcoat, and jacket, faces to the right and tucks his left hand into his waistcoat. Border includes the figure of the American eagle, and a vignette titled "Annexation of Texas" depicting a trio of military officers reading the declaration of annexation to a crowd of civilians, including a cheering African American man. Border also includes angelic male torsos, flourishes, scrolls, and ornaments., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content., Gift of Dr. Milton and Mrs. Joan Wohl, 1991., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Edwards, an English engraver, worked with New York publishing firms in the mid-19th century.
Creator: Edwards, W. Joseph, active 1843-1867, engraver
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Polk [P.9363.81]

Title: David Murray, our waiter at Haverford [College] & his wife at door of Gym
Description: Glass negative showing African American waiter David Murray and his wife posing in a doorway at Haverford College (founded 1833). In the left, Murray, attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, a waistcoat, a jacket, pants, and black shoes, stands placing his left hand on the back of the chair his wife sits in to the right and slightly in front of him. Mrs. Murray, wearing her curly hair tied behind her head and attired in hoop earrings, a long-sleeved checkered blouse with a white lace collar and decorative buttons running down the middle, a dark-colored skirt with ruching at the bottom, and dark-colored shoes, sits with her hands on her lap. David looks at the viewer while Mrs. Murray faces slightly left., Photographer remarks: Undertimed., Time: 11:10, Light: Faint sun out., 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., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 29, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.611]

Title: James K. Polk
Description: Bust-length portrait within an ornate border of the U.S. president responsible for the statehood of Texas. Polk, attired in a white collared shirt, a black cravat, waistcoat, and jacket, faces to the right and tucks his left hand into his waistcoat. Border includes the figure of Liberty, depicted as a white woman, and a vignette titled "Annexation of Texas" depicting a trio of military officers reading the declaration of annexation to a crowd of civilians, including a cheering African American man. Border also includes angelic male torsos, flourishes, scrolls, and ornaments., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Andrews and Babson, Boston engravers, collaborated in the 1850s.
Creator: J. Andrews & R.E. Babson, engraver
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Polk [P.8911.790]

Title: [Hand-in-Hand Fire Company fire fighters and steam engine in front of the company fire station at Ninth Street above Poplar Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts fire fighters, including an African American man, posed near a pump engine in front of the station adorned with the signage "1741 Hand In Hand 1741." A rooster stands on the pump. Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, one of the city's first volunteer fire companies, was organized on March 1, 1741 or 1742., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on content and attire of the people., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Fire [(8)1322.F.5e-1]

Title: Cotton field
Description: Depicts African American men, women, and children picking and collecting cotton in the field. In the center, an African American man, attired in a long-sleeved shirt that is open at the chest, holds a handful of cotton that he puts in a bag strapped across his chest as he looks at the viewer. In front of him is a basket full of cotton. In the left, an African American woman, attired in a head kerchief, a plaid, long-sleeved dress, and a dark-colored apron, stands and looks at the viewer. To the left, two people are bent over at the waist picking cotton. Two children and two women stand in the field and look at the viewer. In the background is a house and trees., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Contains paper label on verso printed by Jas. L. Gow, including photographer's imprint and advertisement: A large Stock of Views of Negro Groups, Cabins, Teams, Cotton Fields, and Plants, etc. kept constantly on hand. Also, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina Views., Advertised in The Philadelphia photographer, March 1875, p. 96. [LCP Per P 81]., Purchase 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., James A. Palmer (1825-1896) was an Irish American photographer who produced thousands of stereographs about life in Aiken, South Carolina and Georgia, specializing in photographs of the African American community.
Creator: Palmer, J. A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - miscellaneous photographer - Palmer [P.2002.4.5]

Title: [African American woman nursing a baby on a porch in the presence of a man]
Description: Stereograph depicting an African American mother seated on the porch steps and nursing her baby. The woman, wearing her hair tied up in braids and attired in a polka-dotted shirt and a checked skirt, cradles an infant on her lap as it suckles on her breast. Seated in the right, the African American man, attired in a hat, a long-sleeved white shirt, a ring, and pants, looks over at the mother and child. On the porch is a wooden chair beside the closed door., Title supplied by cataloger., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: Herr Klebenice?, Gift of David Long, 2002., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization 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.2002.8.5]

Title: Eden Baptist Church Phila Rev. T.P. Wilson pastor
Description: Exterior view of the African American church on South Sartain Street, Philadelphia. Shows the front entrance to the brick building with shuttered windows. View includes portrait inset depicting the Rev. T.P. Wilson wearing a mustache and goatee and attired in a clerical collar and a jacket. Eden Baptist Church was founded in 1894., Title inscribed on negative., Date from manuscript note on verso., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1916
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Religion [P.9981.8]

Title: [Group portrait of brick masons]
Description: Depicts seven masons, including two African American men, posed at an outside worksite in front of a partially completed brick wall. They stand on wood scaffolding and look at the viewer. Most hold tools of the trade, including trowels. Bricks, buckets, and other equipment are on the scaffolding around the worksite., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - occupations - masons [P.9985.3]

Title: Williams Ogle, coach & harness maker No. 280, Chesnut [sic] Street, above 10th south side, Philadelphia Premium coach
Description: Advertisement showing an elegant coach parked in front of the ground floor of "Ogle's. Coach Manufactory" on the 1000 block of Chestnut Street. An African-American coachman stands behind the lively two-horse team hitched to the coach that is adorned with fringe on the drivers' seat, a lamp, and window shades. Two gentlemen converse in the street at the rear wheels of the vehicle and a couple admires if from the sidewalk. The figure of an animated horse adorns the "280" sign displayed above the entrances to the building. Ogle, previously of Ogle & Watson, operated as a sole proprietor from the address 1847-1850., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W457 [P.2243]

Title: Col. R. S. Strader horses - Bulletsville Boone Co Ky
Description: View showing five horses, including Burlington and Draco, under the inspection of two men standing near a dog, in front of a stable in Bulletsville, KY. Shows Draco, grandson of the great trotter Alexander's Abdallah, attached to a manned sulky and the other horses controlled by groomsmen, including an African American man. Two white women and two young, white boys stand near the men., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Burlington Draco - in sulky., Manuscript note on verso: Burlington/ 1870 by Wyatt's Abdallah son of Alexander Abdallah; dau a mare by Yankee Boy. Draco/ 1853 by Perkin's Young [Morril?]; dam the dam of Danville Boy & Draco 2nd., Gift of Helen Beitler, 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Schreiber & Sons specialized in photography of domestic animals and photographed almost every noted horse in North America during the latter nineteenth century.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - Animals [P.2002.67.37]

Title: High Street and market shambles
Description: View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows white men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street. In the right of the image, an African American man walks beside a white man. Two African American men are depicted in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The man attached to the whipping post is attired in a white cloth that is tied around his waist. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 301., Title from item., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 354, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., RVCDC, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - High (2 copies)
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Markets [9245.Q.21]

Title: Cars loaded with cotton bales on levee near cotton growing district, Texas
Description: Scene showing a group of African American men using hand trucks to move large bales of cotton into or out of freight cars. In the left are stacks of baled cotton with two men standing on top of the bales. In the center, lines of men hold hand trucks of cotton, some turn and look at the viewer. In the right are open freight cars. A bridge and buildings are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood., View is numbered P-V22091, the V indicating it was originally part of stereograph publisher and distributor, Underwood & Underwood's stock. An additional number- P215 indicates what position the stereograph had within a set. Pedagogical text printed on the verso reads "Freight cars loaded with cotton bales on the levee near cotton growing district, Texas...", Purchase 1998., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Keystone View Company was founded in 1892 by B.L. Singley, an amateur photographer from Meadville, Pennsylvania. Keystone View Company was the leader in promoting stereographs for educational purposes. In 1912, the company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. The company remained in business until 1970.
Creator: Keystone View Company, publisher
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone - Work [P.9600.12]

Title: Cotton plantation scene
Description: View of African American men agricultural workers picking cotton. In the foreground, an African American boy, attired in a green hat, a blue shirt, and blue pants, stands in front of a large pile of cotton with cotton in his left hand. In the left is a basket full of cotton. In the right, a young white girl, attired in a pink dress, sits next to the pile of cotton with her right hand shielded over her eyes. In the background, African American men work in the field picking cotton., Title from item., Date inferred from attire of clothes and photographic medium., Purchase 1998., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - work [P.9600.13]

Title: A new song suitable to the season, to the tune of good English beer
Description: A cartoon supporting the Old Ticket Party of Pennsylvania which advocated a conversion from a proprietary government to a royal colony. Depicts well-to-do Philadelphians in a tavern drinking and singing "Huzza Old ticket, Old Ticket Forever." An African American server serves the men as he states in patois his support of the Old Ticket. As the devil exits the tavern, he indicates his support for the New Ticket Party which supported the existing proprietary government. Contains an electioneering song of six verses from which the depicted Philadelphians sing verses. The tavern was often used as a place to canvass election support and treat voters., Place and date of publication supplied by Evans., Possibly the work of Henry Dawkins., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1765]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons -[1765] - New [959.F.87a]

Title: The results of abolitionism!
Description: Cartoon reflecting the fear among Northern white workers of job competition with free African Americans. Depicts African American men bricklayers, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in vernacular, on a construction site giving orders to white laborers in a reversal of roles. The laborers work on a large multi-storied brick building fronted by scaffolding and a ladder. The African American supervisors hold trowels and stand at the top of the scaffolding. They hurl orders and abuse at white workers exclaiming: "Bring up the mortar you white rascals" and "You bog-trotters, come along with them bricks." An African American man standing on the ground, attired as a dandy, exclaims, "White man hurry up them bricks." A white man climbs the ladder and two white men work on the ground shoveling and picking up bricks. Another white man stands and says, "Sambo hurry up the white laborers.", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons - 1835 - Res [5780.F.1]

Title: I take it on my responsibility
Description: Cartoon critical of Andrew Jackson's decision to discontinue federal deposits to the Bank of the United States and his denial that his informal circle of close advisors, known as the "Kitchen Cabinet," influenced his decision. Depicts Jackson pinned to a column at the top of the stairs of the bank as he and other white men are being drenched by white men wielding fire hoses, one labeled "United States," in the street. Near Jackson, a kettle boils, fueled by burning papers labeled "Constitution" and "Globe," the pro-Jackson newspaper. Behind him several men, one labeled "K.C.," are involved in altercations. Other men run down the steps, one colliding with an African American man carrying barrels. In the street, a rotund white man, attired in a military uniform, observes the soaking of Jackson with delight while two other white men appear to be coming to Jackson's aid., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1834]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1834-12W [5760.F.57]

Title: Much ado about nothing or a militia court-martial!!
Description: Spoof on the decadence and pretensions of the American local militiamen of the Jacksonian era showing a courtmartial of a militiaman. Several white officers sit around a table, many dozing, others commenting on the trial's length, stipend, and eventual outcome. Behind them rest oversize militia hats and a sword inscribed in Latin, "Guided by Patriotism." Two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular, presume that the officer holding the "List of Witnesses" and who is inquiring about the defendant’s profession "...mus be Col. Pluck or some sich great man." The defendant claims that he is "a self taught gentleman" who "showed considerable genius for this profession." Col. Pluck was an illiterate hostler elected colonel of the 84th Pennsylvania militia in a controversial election in 1824., Title from item., Artist supplied by Reilly., Possible publication date supplied by Weitenkampf., Purchase 1970., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Johnston, known as the American Cruikshank, was a respected comic illustrator, engraver, and lithographer.
Creator: Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865, artist
Date: [between 1832 and 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1832-3 [7876.F]

Title: Scent to the legislature
Description: Racist cartoon expressing disdain for African Americans who were elected to office as a result of Reconstruction. Depicts a bust-length portrait of an African American man legislator, portrayed in racist caricature with grotesque features, attired in a white collared shirt, a plaid bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, smiling. He is flanked by two white men legislators who hold their noses as though he had a bad "scent." Many African American legislators were targeted as the source of corruption in politics during the era., Title from item., Date of publication of 1868 is used as the content suggests that the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment has occurred. Weitenkampf suggests an earlier date of 1865 arguing that African Americans were elected to office during the early era of Reconstruction, Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1868?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1868 Sce [5760.F.117]

Title: Jeff. Davis., the compromiser, in a tight place
Description: Cartoon expressing Northern exasperation with Jefferson Davis's attempt to negotiate for peace in 1865. Depicts Davis being slammed between the doors of the "United States Senate" by Uncle Sam and an armed Zouave soldier. Davis carrying on his back a bundle of "Compromise Goods. Latest Styles" begs the unsympathetic soldier to let him alone as Uncle Sam holding a noose declares that Davis has cheated him too often and deserves execution. In the left, an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, holds a "Trinkets" box and says in the vernacular, "It pears to me, Massa Davis bring his goods to de wrong market dis time. All de better for cullored folks, Yah! Yah!", Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1865-1W [5795.F.a]

Title: [Eagle Hotel and Farmer's and Mechanic's House, probably at Water and Spruce streets]
Description: View showing the conjoined taverns, probably on the 100 block of Spruce Street. Men, including possibly an African American man, stand near and sit at the entranceways of the Eagle Hotel (right). The seated men sit near barrels. Repaired shingles are visible on the pent roof to the building. Also shows signage adorning the adjacent Farmer's and Mechanic's House indicating the proprietor as Michael MacVey and the street number as 129, as well as a bulkhead cellar door., Title supplied by cataloger., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: September 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - E [(7)1322.F.53e]

Title: Pier 84 South [Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts an African American man pier construction worker laboring on rows of steel piping attached to a concrete slab. Shows the man, attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved shirt, and pants, bent over at the waist and touching the metal pipes. In the right background, a white man stands and faces the viewer. Includes a partial view of the adjacent pier in the background., Title inscribed in negative., Negative annotated: Negative No. 657. Contract no. 345; Bulkhead, south side, work completed to July 20: 48.22%. Reinforcing steel for Deck Slab and front of retaining wall., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1989, p. 42., Purchase 1989., 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: Philadelphia (Pa.), Dept. of Wharves, Docks and Ferries
Date: July 27, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - piers [P.9260.165]

Title: Link-Belt type "CF" loader furnished to Baugh & Sons Company, Philadelphia, for handling acid phosphate to power operated buggies
Description: Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing an African American man laborer near a Link-Belt loader inside the Philadelphia warehouse at 20 South Delaware Avenue. An African American man laborer, with debris covering his hat and clothes, stands behind the machine and looks at the viewer. Loader displays a manufacturer's plate for the Philadelphia branch of the company. Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Erwat, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874., Title and date typed on recto., Inscribed in negative: Link-Belt 17061., Contains four hole punches., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Purchase 1990., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: November 1927
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.12]

Title: High Street Prison and Market Shambles
Description: View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street and two African American men in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol. 1 and later editions., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Mumford, Thomas Howland, -1816, engraver
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pr Pr - 8x10 - Prisons - H [(7)1322.F.231]

Title: The house intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing the executive mansion, originally built for President Washington, on Ninth Street below Market Street. Erected between 1792 and 1797 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the residence (completed after Washington's term in office), never housed a president, and was later purchased by the University of Pennsylvania. In the foreground, a horse-drawn cart travels the street; an African American man rides on horseback; and a white woman with a basket, possibly a peddler, sits across the street. Views of the Alms House and House of Employment are visible in the background., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 13., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 13/P.2276.25]

Title: [Political rally outside the Philadelphia headquarters of Republican presidential nominee William McKinley]
Description: Scene depicting a bearded white man speaking to a crowd outside the campaign headquarters for presidential nominee William McKinley on South Front Street in Philadelphia. The man stands in the large open window of the building, one of four rowhouses, adorned with an American flag, a flag labeled "McKinley League of Philadelphia," and a sign inscribed "For President Maj. Wm. McKinley of Ohio." The large crowd of men, including African Americans, listen attentively. Views of an adjacent import business and the building with signage, "Irwin McBrid[e?]," are visible., Title supplied by cataloger., 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.
Date: [ca. 1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - unidentified - political elections [P.8443]

Title: Philadelphia Divinity School 1931
Description: Group portrait depicting the graduating students, including a woman and an African American man, posed outside of the school at 42nd and Spruce Streets. The fifteen students, attired in caps and gowns, sit and stand in three rows. A religious instructor, attired in a black robe and a necklace with a large cross, stands among them. The Philadelphia Divinity School, incorporated in 1863, was an outgrowth of the Diocesan training school started by Protestant Episcopal Bishop Alonzo Potter. An official Department of Women was established at the Divinity School around 1939., Title and date from note inscribed on negative: PDS 1931., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-11x14 [P.8888.8]

Title: [Graham House, Edgmont Avenue, Chester, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Exterior view of the Graham House built for John Hoskins in 1688 on the southeast corner of Edgmont Avenue and Graham Street, Chester, Pennsylvania. Shows an oblique view of the two-story brick house with shuttered windows and three dormer windows protruding from the roof. Two sets of stairs lead to the front door, which is covered by a portico. A white picket fence surrounds the property. A sign hangs on the front of the house, "Graham House John Hoskins 1688." An African American man leans on the second-story windowsill with his left hand resting on his face and looks at the viewer. Hoskins operated the house as an Inn., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note written on mount: Pennsylvania Bi-centennial Photographs, 1882., Forms part of a series of eleven Pennsylvania Bi-centennial photographs by Bennett., Purchase 1978., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Bennett, Nathaniel M., photographer
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Photographs-Bennett [P.8458.4]

Title: Lobby, Hotel Walton, Phila, Pa. Lukes & Zahn, prop[rietor]s
Description: Interior view of the ornate lobby of the Hotel Walton located at Broad and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. The lobby, decorated with ornamental plaster moldings, marbles, and two mural paintings, is furnished with leather chairs and benches. Shows white men hotel guests who sit, read, converse together, and stand at the desks. Hotel staff stand behind the desks, and two African American men hotel porters wait in the right. Designed by Angus S. Wade, the hotel (formerly part of the Hotel Metropole building), was completed in 1895 and considered one of the most elegant in the city with its multiple dining rooms, reception rooms, and salons., Photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1908 by The Rotograph Co. N.Y., The Rotograph Co. was a prolific postcard publisher that also issued this view as a postcard., Gift of Joan Bonner Conway, 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: Byron, photographer
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Byron [P.9354.2]

Title: [Forrest Theatre prior to demolition for the construction of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building at the southeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets, Philadelphia ]
Description: View of the old Forrest Theatre on Broad Street at night shortly before being razed to be replaced by the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building. Spectators watch as laborers, mainly African American men, dismantle and remove building materials through a large hole in the side of the theatre. Signs for "Removal Sale" and "Drugs" are visible on the front of the building. Signage on the upper story window advertises "U.T.A United Tourist Agencies Travel Bureau." The Forrest Theatre, built in 1907, was Philadelphia's leading musical theater until its demolition in 1927., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Inscribed in negative: 1501, Gift of Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS), 1989., 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: 1927
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Jennings - Fidelity series [P.9264.1]

Title: On a Virginia turnpike
Description: View of a rural turnpike where a man driving a horse-drawn cart pulls up near a man standing in front of a wooden shed. Two African American agricultural workers, a boy carrying hay and a man carrying a sack, stand on the dirt road with their backs to the viewer and look on at the cart. A church, pastures, and a mountain range are seen in the background., Title from mount., Inscribed: Presentation Picture, 1887, Photographic Society of Philad'a., Manuscript note on verso: Photographed July, 1886. Carbutt Special Plate. Ross 11 inch Rapid Symetrical Lens. F/22 2 Seconds Exposure., The Photographic Society of Philadelphia, founded in 1862, by Charles Guillou, was one of the earliest existing amateur photography clubs in the world. The Society held annual exhibitions where the members competed for best portrait and landscape., 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., Bullock was a respected Philadelphia pictorial photographer, a former president of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, and founding member of photography as art movement, Photo-Secession.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Bullock [P.9352]

Title: [Fire truck in front of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia]
Description: Scene in front of St. Patrick's Church showing a man in a suit climbing an extension ladder attached to a fire truck parked on Rittenhouse Street. Firemen attend the ladder from inside the truck. Spectators, including an African American man, gather on the street corners near a drugstore and residence., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Part of a series of five views of the scene., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1926]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8802.42]

Title: [Dock workers transporting ice on a pier in Philadelphia]
Description: View showing an active pier on the Delaware River depicting dock workers, including African Americans, transporting barrels and ice from a "Retail Ice" shed on the pier. In the left, barrels line the pier. In the right, men stand within several docked ships, probably fishing boats, which include the "Majorie" and "Josephine.", Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8836.6]

Title: [African American family in front of their Pennsylvania residence]
Description: Depicts the African American family of four women, two men, and a boy posed in front of their two-story house with a porch, trellis, and picket fence. In the left, an older African American man, wearing white hair, stands behind the picket fence and looks directly at the viewer. A woman, wearing her hair tied up in a bun and attired in a long-sleeved dress with decorative stripes at the bottom, stands with her left arm resting on top of the open gate and looks to the left. Three women, attired in brimmed hats and long-sleeved dresses, stand resting an arm on the picket fence. The barefooted boy, attired in a cap, a shirt, a collared jacket, and pants that end just below the knees, stands next to a dog. In the right, the man, wearing a mustache and attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, holds the reins as he sits on top of a horse, which stands on the sidewalk in front of the house., Title supplied by cataloger., Mount has decorative gold border., See accompanying manuscript notebook United States View Company's Instructions to Salesmen. (P.9502)., Gift of Martha Graybill, 1988., 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., The United States View Company, was established by Newton Graybill and Lewis Garman of Richfield, Pennsylvania in the 1890s. It was one of several view companies which employed operators and salesmen to photograph and sell the prints of small town residents posed in front of their homes and community buildings.
Creator: United States View Company, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - United States View Company - residences [P.9253.74]

Title: Robert Bogle
Description: Bust-length portrait of the respected Philadelphia African American caterer, proprietor of the Blue Bell Tavern, and member of Frank Johnson's band. One of several variant reproductions of the only known portrait of Bogle, possibly a study sketch for a print to accompany Philadelphia antiquarian Dreer's private printing in 1865 of Nicholas Biddle's 1830 poem, "Ode To Bogle," originally written in 1830. Bogle, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a brown jacket with a black collar, faces slightly left., Title from item., Date inferred from content., See LCP exhibition catalogue: The Larder Invaded, p. 65., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [(1)5750.F.55b]

Title: 1022 Chestnut Street (rear)
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting Clifton Street and the rear of a three-story brick building. Shows the building’s fire escape and security bars protecting the doors and windows. In the foreground is a street sign reading, “Clifton St.” In the left is an adjoining parking lot with cars lined up. Two African American men, one seated and one standing with a cigarette in his mouth, man the lot. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company., Title from typewritten 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.9784.29]

Title: Patterson & Lippincott, Poplar Street wharves Wholesale lumber dealers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description: Trade advertisement depicting the lumber yard near the Delaware River operated by William H. Lippincott and Henry C. Patterson. Office employees and stevedores, including African Americans, pose among stacks of wood planks, near the business office, and on the docked ships. In the distance, the wharves of Camden, New Jersey are visible., Title printed on mount., Date inferred from content., Printed label on mount: Patterson & Lippincott, Lumber Commission Merchants, Poplar Street Wharves, Philadelphia, U.S.A., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Gutekunst, a prominent commercial photographer most known for his portraiture of eminent people, operated a studio in Philadelphia from 1856 until his death in 1917.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Gutekunst [P.9767.1]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861
Description: Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, freedom seekers. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865., Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 771, Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto of 5778.F Union Volunteer: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Manuscript note on recto of P.2023.2: Mr. McNally with the compliments of Samuel B. Fales, No. 707 Vine St. Philadelphia., Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2021., P.2023.2 gift of Philadelphia Magazine., Digital image shows 5778.F Union Volunteer., Queen was a premier Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, who served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W412 [5778.F Union Volunteer and P.2023.2]

Title: Indian Queen Hotel
Description: Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story hotel at 15 South Fourth Street operated, as indicated by a placard above the door, by Horatio Wade. Wade remained proprietor from 1831 until 1833. Elegantly dressed white guests enter the building, converse on the sidewalk, and rest and read inside near the first floor windows. On the sidewalk, well-dressed white men and women pedestrians stroll. An African American hotel porter, attired in a black top hat, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, pants, and shoes, pushes a wheelbarrow of luggage. The Indian Queen Hotel established in 1771, the building altered several times until razed in 1851, was until the mid 19th century incorrectly identified as the site of Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence., Title from item., Manuscript note on verso: No. 15 So. Fourth Street., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 381, Poulson inscription on recto: 1831, no. 15 So. Fourth Street., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W184 [P.2051]

Title: Shad fishing (taking up the net.) On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance
Description: View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background., Title from item., Date from manuscript note written on recto: April-May 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 691, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen was a premier Philadelphia genre, nature, and advertisement lithographer who with fellow lithographer P.S. Duval, was an early successful chromolithographer.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W335 [P.2189]

Title: Shad fishing (taking up the net.) On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance
Description: View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background., Title from item., Date from manuscript note written on recto: April-May 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 691, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen was a premier Philadelphia genre, nature, and advertisement lithographer who with fellow lithographer P.S. Duval, was an early successful chromolithographer.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W335 [P.2189]

Title: Chesnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the third building of the popular theater, known as "Old Drury," at Chestnut Street above Sixth. White men and women pedestrians, a white newspaper boy, and laborers stroll the sidewalk. An African American huckster sells his wares to a customer in the street. The building, designed by William Strickland, was erected in 1822 after fire claimed the second building at Sixth and Chestnut Streets. It was demolished in 1855., Title from item., Published in John Howard Hinton's The history and topography of the United States (London: I.T. Hinton, & Simpkin & Marshall, 1830-1832), vol. 2, aft. p. 502. (LCP Am 1830 Hinto (2231.Q))., Printed in upper right corner: 47., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Philadelphia illustrations., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Fenner, Sears & Co., engraver
Date: [May 15, 1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 8x10 - theaters [(1)1525.F.47a]

Title: Two souls with but a single thought
Description: Lantern slide formerly owned and probably used in art lessons by Philadelphia painter, photographer, and art teacher, Xanthus Smith of a racist depiction of African Americans in caricature by comic artist, Thomas Worth. Depicts a young and dapperly-dressed African American couple eating a piece of watermelon on a porch as the parents of one of the couple watches them from a doorway. Seated on a bench, the woman, wearing her hair tied up with a pink ribbon and attired in a blue shirt with buttons down the center, a white skirt with ruffles at the bottom, red and black checked stockings, and black shoes, sits beside the man, attired in a gray bowler hat, a white shirt with stripes, a gray waistcoat, gray and black striped pants, and black shoes. They hold a large slice of watermelon up together and bite from it while looking at one another. In the left, the mother, attired in a blue and pink plaid head kerchief, a pink and black striped shirt with a white lace collar, and a pink skirt, and the father, attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, and black pants, looks on at the couple from an open doorway. A banjo hangs from the post of the porch in the right. In the background, trees and the night sky is visible., Title from label on mount on verso., Gift of Edna Andrade, 1994., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides-Smith, Xanthus [P.9471]

Title: No. 15 South 4th St., 1831
Description: Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story hotel at 15 South Fourth Street operated, as indicated by a placard above the door, by Horatio Wade, the proprietor from 1831 until 1833. Elegantly dressed white guests rest and read inside near the first floor windows and converse in front of the hotel. On the sidewalk, well-dressed white men, women, and children pedestrians stroll. An African American man, probably a hotel porter, pushes a wheelbarrow of luggage. The Indian Queen Hotel established in 1771, the building altered several times until razed in 1851, was until the mid-19th century incorrectly identified as the site where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence., Later copy of an Evans watercolor created for Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 probably based on lithographic trade card for the Indian Queen Hotel published by Childs & Inman in 1831 (Wainwright #184)., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Accessioned 1982., 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.
Date: 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.8933.6], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc336.html

Title: [Folk art portraits of two African American women and two African American men]
Description: Folk art bust-length portraits of two African American men and two African American women, portrayed in racist caricature, shown in a row, alternating woman, then man. In the left, the woman, wearing her hair in two braids tied with blue bows on either side of her head that stick out, with red lips, and attired in an off-the-shoulder blue dress with ruffles, faces forward with her eyes looking left. Beside her the man, with red lips and attired in a white collared shirt, a pink tie, and a black jacket, slightly faces left and his eyes look at the woman. The woman, wearing her hair tied in multiple braids, with pink lips, and attired in a pink, ruffled dress, looks to the left. In the right, the man, with pink lips and attired in a blue bowtie, a white shirt with blue stripes, and a black jacket, faces left and looks at the woman., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984., RVCDC, 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.
Date: [1909]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings & Watercolors - Unidentified - Faces [P.9057.28]

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