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- Title
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Description
- Half-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman," as an older, bearded man. Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.44c]
- Title
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat, a jacket, and an overcoat with a fur collar, faces slightly left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on depicted age 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., Schoff, an engraver working in Boston during the 1850s and 1860s, specialized in portrait and bank note engraving.
- Creator
- Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - W [P.8911.1050]
- Title
- [ John Greenleaf Whittier]
- Description
- Half-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman," as an older, bearded man. Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing slightly left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Plate includes artist's monogram lower right corner., 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
- [between 1870 and 1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - W [P.8911.1049]
- Title
- [John Greenleaf Whittier]
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, with white hair and beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket with velvet on the lapels, faces left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Sitter incorrectly identified as Ralph Waldo Emerson on verso., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., 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., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer as opposed to technician of the portraits.
- Creator
- Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Whittier [P.9363.14]
- Title
- John G. Whittier
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Printed below image: Truly thy friend, John G. Whittier., Published as frontispiece in John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1849). (LCP Am 1849 Whi, 12099.O)., 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.
- Creator
- Warren, Asa Coolidge, 1819-1904, engraver
- Date
- [1849]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-W [P.8911.1051]
- Title
- Pap, soup, and chowder
- Description
- Depicts the 1852 presidental Whig candidate Winfield Scott, President Millard Fillmore, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster riding on the shoulders of newspaper editors. In the center, General Winfield Scott, attired in a military uniform, sits on New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley's shoulders. Scott holds a bowl labeled, "soup," which spills down Greeley's neck. A white man representing the South, pulls on Scott's arm who says, "don't budge another step towards the White House, yonder, until you satisfy me about my fugitive slave." Scott replies, "I will give you every satisfaction about your Fugitive slave after I have arrived at the White House." In the right, Daniel Webster sits on the shoulders of Courier & Enquirer editor J. Watson Webb and eats a bowl of chowder. In the left, Millard Fillmore eats a bowl of "government pap" while sitting on the shoulders of the New York "Mirror" editor. In the background, Franklin Pierce on horseback carries a flag that reads, "The Union and the Compromise" and travels towards the White House. A rifle and a knife lie on the ground., Title from item., Date and publisher from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by P. Smith, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southn Distt of N,Y,, Text printed on recto: For sale at No. 2 Spruce St. N.Y. Address of Currier & Ives firm in 1852., RVCDC
- Date
- 1852
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1852 - 17W [P.2023.61.1]

