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Title: The first lesson
Description: Unidentified young girl with guitar., Printed on mount: Presentation Picture, 1888, Photographic Society of Philada., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Bartlett, John, photographer
Date: 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo -Bartlett [P.8983.43]

Title: Geo. W. Flagg, banker and broker, 255 Thames St., Newport, R.I
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a profile bust portrait of a woman with flowers in her hair. A guitar, bottle of wine, and flowers embellish the upper left corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of George R. Allen., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Flagg [P.2011.8]

Title: The largest retail shoe store, Hallahan's, 35 & 37 North 8th Street, cor. Filbert
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy playing a guitar and serenading a girl. He kneels on one knee while playing and she holds a fan and leans in his direction on the cushion of a chair., Advertising text printed on verso: The largest retail shoe store, Hallahan's, nos. 35 & 37 North Eighth Street, cor. Filbert., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hallahan's [1975.F.439]

Title: [African American woman playing tambourine]
Description: Snapshot photograph showing an African American woman outside and playing a tambourine between two white women who play guitars. The white woman in the left is partially removed from the view and the white woman in the right is partially obscured by the woman playing tambourine. The tambourine player has her hair pulled back and wears a silk shawl and long, ruffled, tiered skirt. Spectators, including an African American boy attired in overalls, and white men attired in summer suits stand near and behind the women. Wooden warehouse and barn-like structures, including one with signage reading "Sterline," are visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from format of photograph and attire of sitters., Gift of Ivan Jurin, 2019., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - female [P.2019.2.1]

Title: Maison Doree, No. 8 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. W.A. Clawson
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children at play, including two girls playing with a jack-in-the-box; two boys playing with a balloon and a dog; a boy playing a guitar and serenading a girl; and a boy and two girls dangling a cat toy on a string in front of their pet cat., Title from text printed on versos of three prints [1975.F.640-642]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Clawson [1975.F.638; 1975.F.640-642]

Title: [African American musicians performing on a riverboat]
Description: Scene depicting a group of four African American men singing and playing guitars while surrounded by spectators, seated on the deck of a riverboat, possibly in Tennessee. The musicians sit on a raised platform with their feet dangling. The third performer to the right plays a star shaped guitar and sings with his head tilted back and mouth wide open. He props his right foot on a stool. In the right, two African American men sit in wooden chairs. Surrounding the musicians, white men, women, and children sit and stand and look on. In the background, people walk on the deck and the smokestacks are visible., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the sitters., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre scenes of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs won several prizes.
Creator: Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Wood [P.8743.189]

Title: Pretty Hula Girls, Honolulu, Hawaii
Description: Photograph showing four Hawaiian women playing musical instruments and dancing outside at Punch Bowl Mountain in Honolulu. The women wear their long hair down and are attired in flower leis around the crown of their heads and around their necks, white chemise shirts, and skirts. Two women sit holding a gourd and a guitar. Behind them, two women stand with their left arms out as they dance the hula., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1901, by B. L. Singley., Text printed on verso: We here see a group of hula dancers, with leis of fragrant leaves and flowers crowning their heads and cast about their necks, a very pretty custom of the Hawaiians, especially worn on festive occasions. The hula hula has always been a feature of court festivities and also a common entertainment of the islanders, often danced in the lanai or open parlor of the home. The ancient hula was not danced to the accompaniment of musical instruments but rhythmic measures muttered by old men who kept time by striking a gourd; in the modern version of the dance, the lissom dancers, trained from childhood to delight the senses, sway their graceful figures to the music of the flute, guitar and other stringed instuments and the beat of the tom-tom. The white chemise and airy skirt with garlands about head and shoulders and sometimes ankle decorations form the dress of the dusky hula girls. This view was taken in the crater of Punch Bowl Mountain, an extinct volcano., 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
Date: 1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits & Genre [P.2014.12.5]

Title: [Sharpless & Sons trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting women in a variety of settings, including a woman sitting on the beach with a parasol and fan; a woman attired in gypsy-inspired clothing kneeling next to an urn; the bust of a woman wearing a large plumed hat superimposed onto a painting palette; and another bust portrait of a woman wearing a hat. Also shows men in hunting gear with rifles and dogs; clowns balancing on the hardware of a clock; a couple on the beach stopped in front of an enormous hermit crab, birds and guitar; a chef wielding a large knife with his hand around the throat of a large duck; a couple standing inside of a large lantern; men working on a large paper lantern that hangs from a tree branch; a couple being transported in a covered gondola; and a table containing wine, fruit, bread and dishes superimposed onto a painting palette., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include D. Hutinet (Paris), Bognard (Paris) and John A. Lowell & Co. (Boston)., Advertising text printed on versos: Sharpless & Sons, importers, jobbers & retailers of dry goods, 801, 803, 805 & 807 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Sharpless [1975.F.760; 1975.F.762; 1975.F.766-768; 1975.F.780; 1975.F.794; 1975.F.812; 1975.F.814; 1975.F.825; 1975.F.838-840]

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