Depicts a group of cows resting under a tree on a hill. A few cows are standing in the distance, closer to a fence dividing the field. Trees fill the valley in the background., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Form part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.24]
Depicts a group of cows in a fenced pasture resting under a tree., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.9106.1]
Depicts cows resting under a tree in a fenced pasture., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso; blind stamp, l.l., Title from inscription on mount., Exhibited in 1889 Third Annual Exhibition of Photographs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1891
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. - Redfield [P.9106.4]
Depicts cows standing in shallow water, behind a wooden fence. Birds are perched on a cable above the fence., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.11]
Depicts cows sitting and standing in an enclosed, muddy area. A small barn structure stands outside of the gate nearby and a residence is visible in the distance., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.9106.3a]
Depicts five cows grazing on a hill above an unidentified body of water., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.9106.3b]
Depicts a man feeding a calf from a metal pail. A young girl stands nearby, eating a cracker as she watches the feeding., Title from inscription on mount., Photographer's blind stamp lower left., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1891
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. Redfield [P.8983.40]
Portrait of an African American man on a horse-drawn sulky on a farm. The man, attired in a brimmed hat, a coat, pants, and shoes, holds the reins to the horse. In the background are two log cabins, grazing calves, and men with a hay wagon., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s, exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs often won prizes.
Creator
Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.179]
Plate one from the 1832 edition of, "Scraps," Johnston's popular satirical series of societal caricatures published between 1828 and 1840, and in 1849. Depicts a montage of nine scenes lampooning contemporary social issues and every day life such as corporal punishment, public drunkenness, popular fashion, marital relations, and libraries. Includes "Lock on the Understanding in two Toms bound in boards" depicting two "Toms" locked in a stockade without refreshment discussing their "Dry Goods" & "Stationary" business;" Heavy Wet" depicting a white man homeowner shocked to see a bank of snow fall from his roof unto a passerby's head; 'What a piece of work is a Man...." depicting hogs ashamed to be seen with a white man drunkard unconscious in their slop near a distillery; "Cowed Down" depicting a white wife upset about her cow's well-being as she watches her "mischievous" white husband being gored by it; "The Menagerie" depicting a confused African American man witnessing children mistaking a white man dandy and white woman dandiette for wild creatures at an animal menagerie; "Bullying Up" depicting a white farm boy haranguing a bull in front of his angry mother; "The Cat Doth Play & After Slay" depicting a picture "copied from an innkeeper's sign in Jugtown, N. Jersey" showing a cat playing a fiddle in front of a horse-drawn sleigh; "The Library" depicting the interior of a library where a foppish white woman, a Frenchman, and white men librarians misinterpret and misunderstand comments about popular literature; and "A Soporific" depicting an ailing white man unaffected by "laudanum opium" requesting his Reverend to preach a sermon in order to put him to sleep., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed in upper left corner: Plate 1., Published in D.C. Johnston's Scraps No. 3 1832 (Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1832), pl. 1., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1893., 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.
Creator
Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865
Date
[1832]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1832 Scr (a) [5656.F.25]