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Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits in left profile. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from presented age of 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.
Creator: Stuart, Frederick T., 1837-1913, engraver
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-P [P.8911.768]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of our times; or leading patriots of our day...(Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co., 1868), Pl. 17. (LCP Am 1868 Sto, 17904.D)., 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: Smith, Henry Wright, -1828, engraver
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-P [P.9363.82]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a jacket with velvet lapels, faces left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of photographer and presented age of sitter., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996., 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., 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Phillips [P.9516.2]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women’s rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., 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: [United States]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33b]

Title: Anna Dickinson
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker orator, lecturer, author, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. Dickinson, wearing her hair tied back with curls around her face and attired in a patterned dress with a white lace collar, a brooch, and drop earrings, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note on verso., Probably by Philadelphia photographer Peregrine Cooper., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996., 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. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Dickinson [P.9516.3]

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