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Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie with white polka dots, and a black waistcoat and jacket, sits slightly facing left., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date from attire of the subject., Gift of David Doret, 2004., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.2004.44.10]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts Senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a gray waistcoat, and a black jacket, sits slightly facing right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from attire of the sitter., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-S [P.8911.929]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from variant published as frontispiece in C. Edward Lester's Life and public services of Charles Sumner (New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874). (LCP Am 1874 Les, 19880.0)., Gift of Bruce Pearson, 2013., Includes tissue paper overlay., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-S [P.2013.58.13]

Title: Charles Sumner, U. S. Senator, from Mass
Description: Periodical illustration depicting a bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, slightly faces right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from item., Date inferred from inscription on recto., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [(3)5750.F.67a]

Title: Thaddeus Stevens
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Pennsylvania Congressman, abolitionist, civil rights advocate, and member of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. Stevens, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Printed signature of sitter below image., Variant appears in William H. Barnes' History of 39th Congress (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868), p. 29., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: G.E. Perine & Co., engraver
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.8911.908]

Title: Thaddeus Stevens
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Pennsylvania congressman, abolitionist, civil rights advocate, and member of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. Stevens, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie and waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.909]

Title: Charles Sumner "Do not let the Civil Rights bill fail."
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from item., Printed signature of sitter below image., Date from variant published as frontispiece in C. Edward Lester's Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner (New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874). (LCP Am 1874 Les, 19880.0)., Gift of Dr. Milton and 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.9363.97]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Printed signature of sitter below image., Published in American portrait gallery (New York: J.C. Buttre, 1877), vol. 1, pl. 33. (LCP Uz 1t, 6584.Q), Accesssioned 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.8911.926]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie with white polka dots, and a black waistcoat and jacket, sits slightly facing left., Title from item., 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: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.8911.931]

Title: Official first day of issue. Honoring Martin Luther King, 1929-1968. Distinguished civil rights leader. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Black Heritage USA Series
Description: ArtCraft "First Day Cover" (i.e., designed envelope with a stamp affixed and cancelled on the day the stamp was issued) containing vignette illustrations depicting Martin Luther King, Jr. Shows a bust-length, left-profile portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a view from behind King during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., August 28, 1963. View includes a mass of people in the background., Title from item., Date supplied from research and content., Logo of printer printed in lower left corner: Text "ArtCraft" set on a paint palette with brushes inserted through the hole for the artist's thumb., Image caption: "I Have A Dream.", Contains ink-stamp postmark: Atlanta, GA Jan 13 1979 3030A and cancelled "First Day of Issue" Black Heritage USA color-printed 15-cent stamp after the design of Jerry Pinkney and depicting a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. and an inset of a view of King and several men and women walking at a protest march. The King stamp issued in 1979, was the second issued for the Black Heritage Series begun in 1978 by the U.S. Postal Service to recognize "the contribution of Black Americans to the growth and development of the United States.", Contains mailing label., The Washington Press ArtCraft brand was introduced in 1939 for the printing of First Day Covers. The firm stopped producing ArtCraft First Day Covers in 2016.
Date: [1979]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - envelopes - King [P.2019.80.5]

Title: James Weldon Johnson
Description: Bust-length portrait of the eminent African American civil rights activist, poet, writer, and educator. Johnson, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, and a dark-colored jacket, looks slightly left. Johnson was a prominent member of the NAACP, serving as an organizer and field secretary from 1920 to 1931, a lawyer, lyricist of the "Negro National Anthem," a U.S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, and author of several works including, "The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man.", Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Accessioned 1992., 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 cabinet card portraits - sitter - Johnson [P.9398]

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