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Title: [Full-length portrait of an unidentified Asian man]
Description: Full-length portrait of an unidentified, young, Asian man attired in a white collared shirt, bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, pants, and dress shoes. He stands looking directly at the viewer with his hands at his sides. Studio backdrop includes a side table and a vase full of flowers., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the photographer., Photographer's imprint on recto: "Bartholomew, Lansdale, PA" and a monograph of "JCB.", John C. Bartholomew (1862-1943) began his career as a traveling photographer with a portable studio where he stopped in Quakertown, Perkasie, Sellersville, Souderton and Telford, Pa. He opened a photography studio in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. in 1882. He then moved and opened a studio in Lansdale, Pa. in 1891, where he worked photographing portraits and local landmarks and landscapes until his death.
Creator: Bartholomew, John C, 1862-1943, photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT PRINT cabinet card portraits - photographer - Bartholomew [P.2025.17]

Title: [Wu Ying Ding]
Description: Bust-length portrait of Wu Ying Ding, attired in a tight-fitting cap and a shirt with a Mandarin collar and frog closures, facing slightly right. Hu Quang Yung exhibited a selection of his collection, including cloisonne, bronzes, and ceramics, at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Yung's nephew, Wu Ying Ding, attended the Centennial as an envoy with the objects., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the photographer., Manuscript note written on verso: To General Mrs. Basban, With best Compliments of Wu Ying Ding, Mandarin of China, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1877., Text printed on verso: No. [996]. In ordering duplicates please send no. as above, and name., Gustavus Gerlach and Gustavus Fromhagen were Philadelphia photographers who were in partnership from circa 1875 to 1878.
Creator: Gerlach & Fromhagen, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Ding [P.9664]

Title: Chinese prisoner
Description: Full-length portrait of an unidentified Chinese man with his queue tied to a ladder. The man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a blue robe, belt, and cloth slip-on shoes, stands facing to the left with his hands inside his sleeves at his waist and his right foot forward. His hair is tied to a ladder that leans against the wall in the right. The manuscript inscription labels the man as a "Chinese prisoner.", Title from manuscript note written on recto under the image: Chinese prisoner., Date inferred from content., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - unid. photographer - unid. men sitters [P.9057.71]

Title: [B.L. Dai looking at books of the Nashi who inhabit the high mountains between China & Tibet several hundred years ago. Now in The Library of Congress]
Description: Photograph depicting B.L. Dai, attired in a suit and tie, standing in front of shelves of folio books at the Library of Congress's Oriental Division on Jan. 9, 1931. He holds open a book of pictographs, probably Dongba, the script of the Nashi language. The Nashi (or Nakhi, Naxi) people inhabit the foothills of the Himalayas., Title supplied by cataloger from manuscript note on verso: Books of the Nashi who inhabit the high mountains between China & Tibet several hundred years ago. Now in the Library of Congress., Corporate photographer and publisher from stamp on verso: This credit line should not be omitted, altered, or abbreviated: Underwood & Underwood Studios. This photograph is realeased for use in one publication only and must not be used for trade or advertising purposes, copied, loaned, syndicated or rented. Underwood & Underwood, Inc. 1230 Connecticut Ave, Washington, D.C., Label on the front, Underwood & Underwood, Washington., Identity of sitter from duplicate photograph in the collections of the Library of Congress., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of William H. Allen.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- Underwood & Underwood [P.8512.11]

Title: [Full-length portrait of Maung Shaw Loo]
Description: Full-length, forward-facing portrait of Maung Shaw Loo, attired in traditional Burmese clothes, including a gaung baung (head wrap); a light-colored shirt; a striped longyi (sarong or long skirt); and a floor-length, striped cloth cape around his shoulders. He stands with his right hand on the back of a wooden chair. A curtain hangs in the right, and a patterned carpet is visible on the floor. Maung Shaw Loo (1839-1929) was born in Burma (Myanmar) and traveled to the United States in 1858. He attended the University of Lewisburg (later renamed Bucknell University) in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1864. He earned a medical degree from Cleveland Medical College in 1867, becoming the first Western-trained Burmese physician. He returned to Burma and continued work as a physician and educator., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from sitter's time in Lewisburg, Pa., Photographer's imprint on verso: E.L. Mowry, Photographer, Lewisburg, Pa.
Creator: Mowry, E.L, photographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Loo [P.2024.2]

Title: Kanrokuro Nakayama
Description: Bust-length portrait of Kanrokuro Nakayama. He wears his hair parted to the left and is attired in a white collared shirt, tie, and jacket. Kanrokuro Nakayama (1855-1934) attended Harvard Law School from 1877 to 1880. He returned to Japan and became Secretary to the Minister of the Interior., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso: Khanrokuro Nakayama, 5 April 1878., Photographer's imprint on verso: G.W. Pach, Photographer, No. 841 Broadway, Cor. 13th St. New York. Branches at Harvard and Yale. Poughkeepsie, Long Branch, and West Point, Ocean Grove. For duplicates order [214]., Gift of E. Perot Walker, 1980.
Creator: Pach, G.W, photographer
Date: 1878
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Nakayama [P.8514.28]

Title: Pundita Ramabai and her little girl
Description: Full-length portrait of Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, the Indian social reformer, educator, and Bible translator, with her daughter Manorama Medhavi. Ramabai wears her dark hair parted in the middle and tied back and is attired in a light-colored dress and a long shawl draped over her shoulder and lap. Her daughter Manorama wears her dark hair parted in the middle and curled with a headband and is attired in a long-sleeved dress with embroidered leaves decorating the collar, chest, cuffs, waist, and hem; dark-colored stockings; and button-up boots. Ramabai is seated, and Manorama stands in the left and leans and places her hands on her mother's lap. Ramabai's left hand holds Manorama's left wrist. Both look slightly to the left. Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was born into a Brahmin family in India. She became a Sanskrit scholar, and in 1878, Calcutta University conferred on her the titles of Pandita and Sarasvati in recognition of her knowledge of various Sanskrit works. She married Bipin Behari Medhvi, a Bengali lawyer, who died in 1882. She traveled to Britain and converted to Christianity. She toured and lectured in the United States and Canada raising money for destitute Indian women. She advocated for women's rights and opened Mukti Mission, a school for child-widows. Manorama Medhavi was educated at the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Chesbrough Seminary, and earned a degree from Bombay University. She assisted her mother at the Mukti Mission until her death in 1921., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount under the image and on verso., Printed label on verso: Ramabai's Daughter. Manorama, the daughter of Pundita Ramabai, who returned to India last fall, has become her mother's prime minister. Manorama has graduated in June 1900, at the A.M. Chessborough Seminary, North Chili, N.Y. She was at the head of her class, received honors, and was awarded the prize by the board of regents of New York University. Professor and Mrs. Roberts, principals of the seminary, speak with unqualified praise of her ability, strength of character, good judgment, and devotion to her chosen work. Her self-poise and yet utter unconsciousness of self charmed all who met her. She has joined in her mother's work for child-widows with a spirit of consecration and a degree of energy remarkable in a girl not yet out of her teens. -- Woman's Journal.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Ramabai [P.8654.4]

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