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Title: J.R. Giddings
Description: Bust-length portrait of radical antislavery Ohio congressman Joshua Reed Giddings, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, waistcoat, and jacket, facing left., Published as frontispiece in Julia Griffiths', ed. The Autographs of freedom (New York: Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 1854). (LCP Am 1854 Griff, 70567.O)., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career in 1877, "American portrait gallery," a three-volume set of celebrity portraiture which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-G [P.8911.396]

Title: B.F. Wade
Description: Half-length portrait of the aged abolitionist Senator from Ohio, as an older man. Wade, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right. Wade fought for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, was a partisan of the 14th Amendment, and was a supporter of the Freedman's Bureau and numerous civil rights bills., 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: Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-W [P.8911.1021]

Title: B.F. Wade
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist Senator from Ohio. Wade, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, sits in a wooden chair and faces left. Wade fought for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, was a partisan of the 14th Amendment, and was a supporter of the Freedman's Bureau and numerous civil rights bills., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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 - W [P.8911.1116]

Title: S.P. Chase
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sit facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from the working dates of the engraver and the attire of sitter., Carpenter made professional trips to Washington, D.C. in 1855 and 1864, the latter to paint the president and his cabinet., Buttre, a New York portrait painter and engraver, worked in the city from the mid to late 19th century., 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: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-Chase [P.8911.221]

Title: S.P. Chase Likeness from a recent photograph from life
Description: Full-length portrait of the antislavery leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, seated by a writing table in front of a heavily decorated fireplace and mantle., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Co., 1861-1864), vol. 2, p. 320. (LCP Uz 3, 3333.Q)., Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portrait Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subjects' faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph., 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: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [P.8911.228]

Title: S.P. Chase
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, and judge's robe, faces slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Artist's signature in pencil below image., Published in Hampton L. Carson, The Supreme Court of the United States: it's history (Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Co., 1891), opp p. 389., Gift of Beatrice Garvan, 1994., 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: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, etcher
Date: [1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [P.9476.94]

Title: Sec. Chase
Description: Full-length portrait of Salmon P. Chase, the abolitionist leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, pants, and shoes, sits beside a table that has with an inkwell and papers on top of it., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on presented age of sitter., Possibly by Mathew B. Brady., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Chase [(1)5750.F.80g]

Title: S.P. Chase United States senator from Ohio
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces forward., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date based on the engraver., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Jones, a printer, mezzotint and stipple engraver, worked as an engraver and printer in Cincinnati after 1854.
Creator: Jones, Fitz Edwin, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-Chase [(1)5750.F.82c]

Title: S.P. Chase
Description: Reproduction of a bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces forward., 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 1885 and 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [P.8911.228]

Title: S.P. Chase Likeness from a recent photograph from life
Description: Full-length portrait of the abolitionist leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a black jacket, pants, and shoes, sits at a writing desk with a pen in his hand. In the left is a footstool covered in papers. In the background is a decorated fireplace and mantle., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Co., 1861-1864), vol. 2, p. 320., Publication information from a duplicate print., Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's "Portrait Galleries" of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subjects' faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies 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-Chase [P.8911.222]

Title: Chief-Justice Chase. Portrait of the dead Chief Justice
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolition leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right. Includes accompanying obituary., Title from item., Published in The Daily graphic, May 1873., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister, 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [(1)5750.F.79c]

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