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- Title
- Summer scene in the country
- Description
- Genre print depicting a scene of leisure in front of a large Victorian-era, Italianate home and garden enclosed by a stone and iron-work fence. In the foreground, an elegantly-attired couple (the woman on sidesaddle) rides on horseback on a dirt road, while within the fenced grounds, a woman in wide-brimmed hat tends a rose garden across from a young girl petting a sheep. In the background, a man stands at the main entrance and a woman on a side porch of the house and look toward the couple in the road. In the far left, a man grooms a horse in front of a small stable and near a flock of chickens. The dirt road winds its way past grazing cattle, shrubbery and other homes, toward a body of water in the distance. Sailboats are visible on the water in the right background., Not in Wainwright., Joseph Hoover, a prolific producer of chromolithographed parlor prints, located to 804 Market Street in 1864., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 245, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2642], Digital image shows Smithsonian copy. LCP copy acquired after 2010.
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Genre [P.2013.22], Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2642]
- Title
- [Mr. and Mrs. Fairman Rogers chaperoning coach of young ladies, May 10, 1879]
- Description
- Shows the Philadelphia engineer and noted coaching enthusiast and his wife Rebecca in the cab of a four-in-hand coach in a landscape setting. Several young ladies from prominent Philadelphia families sit on the deck behind the couple. Two African American groomsmen stand near the horses. Rogers was the founder of the Philadelphia Coaching Club and the first person in Philadelphia to drive a four-in-hand, which was painted by Thomas Eakins., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Saturday May 10, 1879. Mr. & Mrs. Rodgers [sic]; Hattie Meigs; Annie Williams; Lily Sturgis; Marian Rawle; Emily Newbold; Maidie Hart; Maud Potts; May McMichael; Mrs. Dick; Harriet Etting., Purchase 2010., 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
- Schreiber & Sons
- Date
- May 10, 1879
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - Schreiber (by photographer) [P.2010.18.1]
- Title
- Col. R. S. Strader horses - Bulletsville Boone Co Ky
- Description
- View showing five horses, including Burlington and Draco, under the inspection of two men standing near a dog, in front of a stable in Bulletsville, KY. Shows Draco, grandson of the great trotter Alexander's Abdallah, attached to a manned sulky and the other horses controlled by groomsmen, including an African American man. Two white women and two young, white boys stand near the men., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Burlington Draco - in sulky., Manuscript note on verso: Burlington/ 1870 by Wyatt's Abdallah son of Alexander Abdallah; dau a mare by Yankee Boy. Draco/ 1853 by Perkin's Young [Morril?]; dam the dam of Danville Boy & Draco 2nd., Gift of Helen Beitler, 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Schreiber & Sons specialized in photography of domestic animals and photographed almost every noted horse in North America during the latter nineteenth century.
- Creator
- Schreiber & Sons, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - Animals [P.2002.67.37]
- Title
- Funeral Car, erected by Wm. H. Moore & Son (Undertakers, No. 181 Arch St. Pha.) Especially for the occasion of the funeral obsequies of the Late President of the United States, General Zachary Taylor, Philadelphia, July 30th, 1850
- Description
- View showing the horse-drawn catalfaque drawn by eight white horses and led by eight grooms displayed during the mourning ceremonies arranged by Philadelphia city councils for the 12th president who died July 9, 1850. Black draping, fringes, and a canopy surmounted by an eagle figure adorn the car. Black covers are draped over the horses. The grooms wear black suits and hats. The hats are adorned with white bands that fall down the length of the men's backs. Also contains a simple border with filigree at the cornices. The July 30th funeral obsequies included a military parade, a civic procession, and a memorial sermon given by Rev. William Bacon Stevens at Christ Church., Artist's signature printed lower right on the stone., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 87, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
- Date
- 1850
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Funeral rites [P.8970.17]
- Title
- [Champion horse]
- Description
- Portrait of a champion racing horse draped in a garland of flowers at a track. The jockey, still mounted, holds the reins. An African American man groom controls the horse by his bridle bit. A crowd of men and women spectators look on and congratulate the winner., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 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.
- Creator
- Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-Non-Philadelphia-Portraits-Sports & recreation
- Title
- Kendall's Spavin Cure
- Description
- Trade card promoting B.J. Kendall Company, manufacturer of proprietary medicine and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man jockey portrayed with exaggerated features. The jockey sits atop a brown, galloping racehorse. He is attired in a red buttoned jacket, red and white striped pants and hat, and black boots. In the left, an African American groomsman portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in white pants and a collared yellow shirt with black dots, and black shoes, stands with one hand raised and another holding a white towel. He speaks in the vernacular that he "nebber will let dat pickaninny ride dat yar hoss agin unless he stops usin' Kendall's Spavin Cure." In the background, a fence marked in red writing "Kendall's Spavin Cure" runs alongthe track. In the right, behind the fence, a white man in a lookout tower holds out his arm and shows a paper marked, "4.17 1/4." Burney James Kendall (1845-1922) founded the B.J. Kendall Company in Enosburg Falls, Vermont in 1879. Kendall Company was incorporated in 1883. The success of Kendall’s Spavin Cure spurred the firms line of products to expand to proprietary medicines for other animals in addition to people. The Company declined and closed in 1957 following the invention of automobiles., Title from item., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business and the genre of print., Text printed on recto: "Golly! I nebber will let dat pickaninny ride dat yar hoss agin unless he stops usin' Kendall's Spavin Cure, 'cause it limbers him up so. In all my 'sperience in the hoss line I nebber seed sich 'provement in an animile afore. Facts am stranger dan friction." Advertising text printed on verso: Kendall's Spavin Cure. The most successful remedy ever discovered, as it is certain in its effects and does not blister. Also excellent for human flesh. Read proof below., Testimonial printed on verso:From Col. L.T. Foster. Youngstown, Ohio, May 10, 1880. Dr. B.J. Kendall & Co., Gents: I had a very valuable Hambletonian colt which I prized very highly; he had a large bone spavin on one joint and a small one on the other, which made him very lame. I had him under the charge of two veterinary surgeons who failed to cure him. I was only one day reading the advertisement of Kendall's Spavin Cure in the Chicago Express. I determined at once to try it, and got our druggists here to send for it; they ordered three bottles; I took them all and thought I would give it a thorough trial; I used it according to directions, and the fourth day the colt ceased to be lame, and the lumps have disappeared. I used but one bottle and the colt's limbs are as free from lumps and as smooth as any horse in the state. He is entirely cured. The cure was so remarkable that I let two of my neighbors have the remaining two bottles, who are now using it. Very respectfully, L.T. Foster. Kendall's Spavin Cure on Human Flesh. Waterloo, Ind., Sept. 7, 1881. Boyer & Campbell, Gentlemen: The bottle of Kendall's Spavin Cure I purchased of you has cured me of a very lame back, (after using almost everything else) the relief was almost instant. I put only a very little on at a time and rubbed it in well. I consider it the best liniment for man or horse extant. I would not do without it for ten times the amount it costs. Yours truly, Hiram Leib., Testimonial printed on verso: Wilton, Minn., Jan. 11, 1881. B.J. Kendall & Co., Gents: Having got a horse book of you by mail a year ago, the contents of which persuaded me to try Kendall's Spavin Cure on the hind leg of one of my horses, which was badly swollen and could not be reduced by any other remedy. I got two bottles of Kendall's Spavin Cure of Preston & Ludduth, druggists of Waseca, which completely cured my horse. about five years ago, I had a three years old colt swelled very bad. I used your remedy as given in your book without rowelling, and I must say to you credit that the colt is entirely cured, which is a surprise not only to myself, but also to my neighbors. You sent me the book for the trifling sum of twenty-five cents, and if I could not get another like it, I would not take twenty-five dollars for it. Yours truly, Geo. Mathews. Kendall's Spavin Cure is put up in two sizes. Refined, expressively for human flesh, in red wrappers, price $.50. In light wrappers, for animals, price, 1.00. That in light wrappers can be used with perfect safety on human flesh, if desired. B.J. Kendall & Co., Proprietors, Enosburg Falls, Vt., U.S.A. Sold by all druggists., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - BJ Kendall [P.2017.95.11]
- Title
- [Photographic Society of Philadelphia's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal excursion, May 21-29, 1882 album]
- Description
- Album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Primarily documents the Photographic Society of Philadelphia's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal excursion (May 21-29, 1882), including views of the Falls of the Potomac, Point of Rocks, Md., Harpers Ferry, Va., and Bedford, Pa. Society members attending the excursion included Charles Barrington, Joseph William Bates, Charles Pancoast, Frederick Graff, Samuel Corlies, George Bacon Wood, Samuel Sartain, W.H. Walmsley, Francis T. Fassitt, lens maker Joseph Zentmayer, Thomas H. McCollin, and Browne. Views depict scenes during the excursion along the canal, including canal barges; bridges, aquaducts; Paw Paw Tunnel; John Brown's Fort; a white Bedford woman attending an outside bake oven; men and boys, including a barefooted African American boy, sitting upon a porch of an old Maryland mill; the Photo Party at Patterson's Creek, Md.; a horse team pulling an oak log near Harper's Ferry; an old Bedford mill; and a barn covered with circus posters. Additional views depict the Brooklyn Bridge; sailing vessels on the New York Harbor, including the steamboat Maryland; and animals at the Philadelphia Zoo. Other animal portraiture includes horses posed with African American handlers (p. 26-27), a cow and calf at Forrest Hill, PA, a white girl on a pony ride at Central Park, and family dogs. Also includes a portrait of Lizzie Gilpin at Forrest Hill., Title supplied by cataloger., Front free end paper signed John C. Browne., Blue cloth binding, with gilt and stamped: Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See John C. Browne's "The Photographic Society of Philadelphia Annual Excursion, May 21-29, 1882," Philadelphia photographer 19 (July 1882), p. 213-215., See George Bacon Wood research file, copy of "Excursion of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia over the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, May 22 to 29th 1882. Read at meeting June 7th, 1882 by Geo. B. Wood.", Insert: handkerchief printed with photograph vignettes [P.9318a] removed and housed with Textiles Collection, Print Department., Gift of Col Getter, 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Browne was a founder of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
- Creator
- Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
- Date
- [1882-1886]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9318]