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- Title
- A.V. Burlingame
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist. Burlingame, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, sits facing slightly right. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's violent attack of antislavery Senator, Charles Sumner, in Congress in 1856., Possibly by Mathew B. Brady., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date inferred from photographic medium., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [ca. 1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Burlingame [(1)5750.F.63h]
- Title
- Hon. Anson Burlingame, M.C., from Massachusetts
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist attired in a white collared shirt, plaid waistcoat, black bowtie and jacket. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's physical attack of antislavery senator, Charles Sumner, in 1856., Title from item., Date from manuscript written on recto: 1856., Published with an accompanying article in Frank Leslie's Illustrated magazine, October 18, 1856, p. 301. [LCP **Per L, 1856]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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
- Brightly, Joseph H., 1818-1901
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [(1)5750.F.63i]
- Title
- Benj. F. Butler
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket with a boutonniere, looks slightly right. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", 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. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.100]
- Title
- Benjamin F. Butler
- Description
- Right profile, bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler wears a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", 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 - B [P.8911.103]
- Title
- Maj. Gen. Butler
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly right. Probably published in one of several editions by various publishers between 1862 and 1882 of John S.C. Abbott's The History of Civil War in America...(LCP Am 1864 Abbo, (2)15996.O). Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., LCP book plate differs., 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
- Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.104]
- Title
- Benj. F. Butler
- Description
- Right profile, bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler wears a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket. While commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, he declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", 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
- Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.105]
- Title
- Benj. F. Butler Likeness from the latest photograph from life
- Description
- Full-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in his military uniform with a sword, sits beside a table covered in a patterned cloth. There are papers on the table and strewn on the floor. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1861-1864), p. 423. (LCP Uz 3, 3333.Q)., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portraits Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subject's faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies that he situated in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph., 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
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.128]
- Title
- Horace Mann
- Description
- Half-length portrait of the antislavery advocate, congressman, and founder of the modern public school system. Mann, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing slightly left. Mann assisted in the legal defense of abolitionists who aided freedom seekers., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date inferred from attire of sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Accessioned 1977., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [between 1855 and 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs-Mann [8313.F.13b]
- Title
- Horace Mann
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the educator, abolitionist, and congressman who assisted in the legal defense of abolitionists who aided freedom seekers. Mann, attired in a white collared shirt and a black jacket, faces left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from medium., 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-M [P.8911.1110]
- 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
- Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Butler
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly left. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Printed below image: Your obedient servant, Benj. F. Butler., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Putnam operated his own publishing business between 1857 and 1867., 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
- Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.63]
- Title
- Major General B.F. Butler, U.S.A
- Description
- Playing card size bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General attired in military uniform. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on the presented age of the sitter., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", 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. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.62]
- Title
- Hon. 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, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing slightly right., Title from item., Date inferred from the working dates of the engraver and the attire of sitter., Printed signature of sitter below image: Ever Yours, Charles Sumner., Published in Frank Moore's Heroes & martyrs: notable men of the time...(New York: G.P. Putnam, 1861), p. 187. (LCP *Am 1861 Moo, 2864.Q)., 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
- Hall, Henry Bryan, 1808-1884, engraver
- Date
- [1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-S [P.8911.927]
- 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
- 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
- Half-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a dark-colored waistcoat and jacket, sits on a wooden chair slightly facing right., 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.
- Creator
- James R. Osgood and Company, printer
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-S [P.8911.930]
- 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
- [Benjamin F. Butler]
- Description
- Reproduction of a bust-length portrait print of the Massachusetts Governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in uniform, sits facing slightly left. As commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, he declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on depicted age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., 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. 1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits- sitter - Butler [P.2282.107]