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Title: [Post mortem portrait of an unidentified man]
Description: Portrait of deceased elderly man with closed eyes wearing a high-collared shirt and jacket and resting his head on a pillow., Title supplied by cataloger., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark red velvet with geometric border. Embossed: Keenan 248 South Second St. Philada., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Single rose within nonpareil border surrounded by floral scroll work. Same design on verso.
Creator: Keenan, John A., photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2011.13]

Title: Photographs! Photographs! Photographs! With all the latest improvements The subscriber would respectfully inform the citizens and soldiers of Chestnut Hill and vicinity, that he has located the excelsior sky and side-light photograph and ambrotype car cor. Willow Grove Avenue and Main St., Chestnut Hill, opposite the hospital, were he takes photographs and ambrotypes of the latest improved styles. He would invite all those wishing photographs or ambrotypes to send away in letters, to call and examine his stock of pictures before going elsewhere. Satisfaction guarantied. Large size photographs, one dollar Carte de visites, five for one dollar Particular attention will be paid to taking pictures of children. Pictures copied. Invalids waited on at their residences. Likenesses of deceased persons taken. Also, ladies' and gentlemen's pictures taken on horseback, or in their carriages. Pictures taken equally as well in cloudy as clear weather. Call and examine for yourselves. Cor. Willow Grove Ave. & Main St., Chestnut Hill on the road leading to the hospital
Description: The Mower Hospital opened on Willow Grove Avenue in Chestnut Hill in Jan. 1863., The illustrations shows an eagle on a field of stars, with the banner: E pluribus unum., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Paul, Harry A.
Date: [between 1863 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Paul (6)5777.F.7b (McAllister)

Title: Gorge du Triege, Salvan Route, Switzerland
Description: Glass negative of a photograph showing the Gorge du Triege, a waterfall flowing down a steep cliff face. A wooden platform juts from the rocks. A man leans over its railing to look down into the gorge. The Pennine Alps, also known as Valais, are a western part of the Alps located in Valais Switzerland. The trail to the Gorge du Triege was constructed in 1870 and included a wooden gallery and bridge., Photographer remarks: Copy of photo, Time: 3:40, Light: No sun, good light, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 7, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1630]

Title: Gorge du Trient, Switzerland
Description: Glass negative of a photograph showing the Gorge du Triege. A wooden platform runs along the left cliff face and crosses the gorge to continue running along the right side. The Pennine Alps, also known as Valais, are a western part of the Alps located in Valais Switzerland. The trail to the Gorge du Triege was constructed in 1870 and included a wooden gallery and bridge., Photographer remarks: Copy, Time: 3:40 PM, Light: no sun, good light, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 7, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1631]

Title: View of Dole, France. Copy
Description: Glass negative showing a page of an open book with a photograph of a bridge spanning a river in front of the hillside of Dole, France., Photographer remarks: From a picture of J.E. Wilkinson's., Light: sun out, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 7, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1627]

Title: Garden of the Tuileries, Paris. Copy of J.E. Wilkinson's photo
Description: Glass negative showing a page of an open book with a photograph of Jardin des Tuileries. Straight rows of trees extend toward a large building in the distance as a statue of a man fighting a snake stands in the foreground. A stone wall and leafy shrubs border the garden on the left side. Behind the book is the unfocused pattern of a porch railing., Light: sun out, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 7, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1628]

Title: Copy of a card photo of J. Gurney Hill
Description: Glass negative showing a card portrait of J. Gurney Hill mounted on a paneled wall. Hill was a deceased Haverford College student., Time: 2, Light: sun on picture, The emulsion has been slightly discolored in the center of the negative., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: November 24, 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.464]

Title: Group at Triberg, [Germany], Jones, Tommy, Jimmy Wilkinson & Quinn
Description: Glass negative of a photograph showing Jones, Tommy, Jimmy Wilkinson, and Quinn posed among rocks and trees at Triberg, Germany. The men sit on the rocks, each facing a slightly different direction. A waterfall cascades in the background., Photographer remarks: Copy of photo. In 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 box., Time: 3:30, Light: No sun, good light., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 7, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1629]

Title: Porcelaines de Prusse
Description: Shows an exhibit of Prussian porcelain on a cabinet-like pedestal. Includes vases, urns, and pedestal. Also shows signage for photographer "Gustav Schauer, Berlin" and framed displays of his work on the wall in the background. Other brass works surround the pieces, including a clock, lamps, and objets d'art. The exposition held April 1-November 3, 1867 celebrated the technological and economic progress of the Second Empire, as well as originated the classification system followed by proceeding international exhibitions., Title printed on mount., Blindstamped on mount: Concession Unique., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: M. Leon & J. Levy
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Stereographs [P.2008.36.33]

Title: Important from Charleston. Major Anderson taken! Entrance obtained under a flag of truce New Yorkers implicated! Great excitement. What will the Southern Confederacy do next? On the 8th inst., about 12 hours before midnight under cover of a bright sun, Col. George S. Cook, of the Charleston Photographic Light Artillery, with a strong force, made his way to Fort Sumter. ... Col. Cook immediately and heroically penetrated to the presence of Maj. Anderson, and levelling a double barrelled camera, demanded his unconditional surrender in the name of E. Anthony and the photographic community. Seeing that all resistance would be in vain, the major at once surrendered, and was borne in triumph to Charleston, forwarded to New York, and is now for sale in the shape of exquisite card photographs at 25 cts. per copy
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: E. Anthony (Firm)
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 E Anthony 5794.F.6a (McAllister)

Title: Birthplace of G[eorge] Fox
Description: Glass negative showing a photograph of George Fox's house pinned to a wood paneled wall. The photograph is titled "The Birthplace of George Fox, at Fenny Drayton, Warwickshire, A.D. 1624, founder of the 'Society of Friends,' He died A.D. 1690, and was Interred in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London." It shows an old two-story brick house with a wooden fence and a woman standing near the gate., Time: 10:20, Light: Strong sun out., Same as 463., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: December 5, 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.481]

Title: Copy of a cabinet photo of Sam [B. Morris], taken 4 mo. 1885
Description: Glass negative showing a cabinet card with a photograph of Marriott C. Morris' brother Samuel Buckley Morris as a boy. He turns his head to the left and wears a collared jacket. The cabinet card is set on a textured surface and is signed "Broadbent Brothers, 911 Chestnut St.", Photographer remarks: Sun on picture., Time: 3:50, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: June 26, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.945]

Title: Copy of cabinet photo of Sam taken 4 mo. 1885
Description: Glass negative showing a cabinet card with a photograph of Marriott C. Morris' brother Samuel Buckley Morris as a boy. He turns his head to the left and wears a collared jacket. The cabinet card is set on a textured surface., Photographer remarks: Larger than last as I used W.A. lens., Time: 3:50, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: June 27, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.946]

Title: Copy of the picture of the Semi-Centennial Reunion at Haverford [College] 10/27 '83
Description: Glass negative showing a framed photograph of a large group posed in front of Barclay Hall, the brick residential hall with a prominent central spire at Haverford College. The caption below the image reads, "Semi-Centennial Re-Union, Haverford College, Tenth Month 27th 1883, - Barclay Hall." Barclay Hall was built in 1877 to expand the living quarters of the college, originally founded in 1833., Time: 2:30, Light: Dark day, no sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 29, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1131]

Title: Copy of photo of Mrs. Cleveland lent by Miss Saine
Description: Glass negative showing a cabinet card photograph of a Mrs. Grover Cleveland as a young woman wearing a high necked dress with a ruffled bodice. The card is mounted with pins against a wooden surface and signed by J.E. Hale., Time: 1, Light: Bright sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: August 27, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1192]

Title: Harry Paiste on his bicycle in a rain storm in the Juras
Description: Glass negative of a photograph showing Harry Paiste riding a bicycle in the rain. He wears a suit and a round hat as he lowers his face into the wind., Photographer remarks: Copy from a cabinet [Phillips, Philadelphia, photographer]., Time: 3:40 PM, Light: no sun, good light, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 7, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1633]

Title: Picture of house where Geo. Fox was born. (From a photograph)
Description: Glass negative showing a photograph of George Fox’s house pinned to a wood paneled wall. The photograph is titled "The Birthplace of George Fox, at Fenny Drayton, Warwickshire, A.D. 1624, founder of the ’Society of Friends,’ He died A.D. 1690, and was Interred in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London." It shows an old two-story brick house with a wooden fence and a woman standing near the gate., Time: 2:00, Light: Strong., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 15, 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.75]

Title: Arc du Triomphe, Paris. Copy
Description: Glass negative showing a page of an open book with a photograph of the Arc du Triomphe. Behind the book is the unfocused pattern of a porch railing., Photographer remarks: From a picture of J.E. Wilkinson's, Light: sun out, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 7, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1626]

Title: Front of [Deshler-Morris House], 5442 [Germantown Avenue] (copy) small
Description: Glass negative showing a photograph mounted and resting on a easel of the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue. In the photograph, a boy rides a bicycle down the sidewalk in front of the wooden fence that stands to the left of the house. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752, adding the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President George Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and John Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The house stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1880-ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.99.10]

Title: [Booker T. Washington]
Description: Half-length portrait of the prominent African American educator and founder of the African American normal school, Tuskegee Institute. Washington, attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly right., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Manuscript note on verso misidentifying sitter: Paul Dunbar., 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: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Washington [P.9363.10]

Title: Copy of the picture of the Semi-Centennial Reunion at Haverford 10/27/1883
Description: Photograph showing a framed photograph of a large group posed in front of Barclay Hall, the brick residential hall with a prominent central spire at Haverford College. The caption below the image reads, "Semi-Centennial Re-Union, Haverford College, Tenth Month 27th 1883, Barclay Hall." Barclay Hall was built in 1877 to expand the living quarters of the college, originally founded in 1833., Photograph from negative number 1131., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 29, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2105]

Title: Copy of the picture of the Semi-Centennial Reunion at Haverford 10/27/1883
Description: Photograph showing a framed photograph of a large group posed in front of Barclay Hall, the brick residential hall with a prominent central spire at Haverford College. The caption below the image reads, "Semi-Centennial Re-Union, Haverford College, Tenth Month 27th 1883, Barclay Hall." Barclay Hall was built in 1877 to expand the living quarters of the college, originally founded in 1833., Photograph from negative number 1131., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 29, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2106]

Title: I wish I was in Dixie
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist and anti-abolition caricature of Abraham Lincoln showing Lincoln as a banjo playing Southerner with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his pocket., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4f]

Title: I wish I was in Dixie
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist and anti-abolition caricature of Abraham Lincoln showing Lincoln as a banjo playing Southerner with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his pocket., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4f]

Title: Portraits of Major Robert Anderson 1st Regiment of Artillary. ... Sent free, by mail, to address. A liberal discount to dealers. Wholesale orders should be sent in immediately
Description: The illustration is a U.S. flag., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: D. Appleton and Company
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 D Apple 5794.F.7b (McAllister)

Title: Copy of large group picture of [F.A.] Elwell European Bicycle party of 1890 taken at Zurich
Description: Glass negative of a photograph showing the F.A. Elwell European Bicycle party of over a dozen young men posed in front of a large American flag and taken at Zurich. Some men sit on the ground, others sit on a low wall and the back row of the group stands. Some of the men wear three-piece suits while others do not wear suit jackets. The background also includes a backdrop depicting a townscape and the Alps. Frank A. Elwell was part of the League of American Wheelmen and conducted bicycle tours through Europe, America, and Bermuda beginning around 1884. He added ladies tours in 1892., Written in the lower right corner of original photograph: Ph. Link, Photograph, Zürich., Photographer remarks: overtimed - intensified 6/14 '91, Light: Fair sun, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: March 19, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1617]

Title: [Copy photograph of African American woman caregiver with her young white charges]
Description: Copy photograph of a circa 1860 three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman caregiver, seated, and with a white baby on her lap and a young white boy standing to her left. The caregiver has her right hand resting on the head of the baby and her left arm wrapped around his/her waist. The baby wears a medium-colored dress, which their nanny's hand has slightly tugged up. The baby has their left hand in their mouth. The nanny wears her long, wavy dark hair, parted in the center, and pulled away from her face. She is attired in a patterned shirt waist and dark satin skirt with crinoline underneath. The boy to her left wears a dark-colored, mandarin-style jacket and dark pants. All the sitters look straight at the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on type of mount and address of photographer., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount and verso. Imprint on verso includes decorative insignia composed of an ornamented letter "G" with a coat of arms in its interior. The coat of arms includes a lion and bird., Inscribed in pencil on verso: 100801., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photo - Gutekunst [P.2016.17.2]

Title: [Copy photograph of African American woman caregiver with her young white charges]
Description: Copy photograph of a circa 1860 three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman caregiver, seated, and with a white baby on her lap and a young white boy standing to her left. The caregiver has her right hand resting on the head of the baby and her left arm wrapped around his/her waist. The baby wears a medium-colored dress, which their nanny's hand has slightly tugged up. The baby has their left hand in their mouth. The nanny wears her long, wavy dark hair, parted in the center, and pulled away from her face. She is attired in a patterned shirt waist and dark satin skirt with crinoline underneath. The boy to her left wears a dark-colored, mandarin-style jacket and dark pants. All the sitters look straight at the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on type of mount and address of photographer., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount and verso. Imprint on verso includes decorative insignia composed of an ornamented letter "G" with a coat of arms in its interior. The coat of arms includes a lion and bird., Inscribed in pencil on verso: 100801., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photo - Gutekunst [P.2016.17.2]

Title: Portico of Centennial Photographic Company's Building
Description: Porch view of the Centennial Photographic Company's building. Depicted in the background are numerous trees, buildings, and a fountain. In the bottom-left corner is a framed picture on an easle.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.15a]

Title: [Copy of Hinkle's picture of Deshler-Morris House, 4782 Main Street. To send with Perot Reunion invitations]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the Deshler-Morris House (later 5442 Germantown Avenue), a two-story stone house, seen from across a brick road. The house has shuttered windows and ivy climbing the walls. A boy rides a bicycle in front of the wooden fence that extends from the left side of the building. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752, adding the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President George Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and John Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The house stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009., Title supplied by cataloger., David Hinkle (1836-1916) was a popular studio photographer in Germantown around the 1860s., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.10.1]

Title: Photograph Dept
Description: Unmounted stereograph shows a woman sitting behind a desk in the Photograph Department. Framed photographs cover the walls, patriotic bunting hangs from the ceiling, and a banner for "F. Gutekunst" hangs high on the wall behind the woman. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from printed paper label below image., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.160b]

Title: Photograph Dept
Description: Unmounted stereograph shows a woman sitting behind a desk in the Photograph Department. Framed photographs cover the walls, patriotic bunting hangs from the ceiling, and a banner for "F. Gutekunst" hangs high on the wall behind the woman. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from manuscript note on paper label pasted on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.170b]

Title: J.W. LeMaistre. No. 48 N. Eighth St., Philadelphia Embroideries, laces, white goods, real and Nottingham lace curtains, corsets, gloves, &c
Description: Racist trade card promoting lace manufacturer J.W. LeMaistre and depicting a white man photographer showing a Native American person his photograph outside a pavillion. In the left, the Native American person, portrayed in racist caricature and attired a feathered headress, a tunic with a feathered skirt, hoop earrings, bracelets, and anklets, bends slightly forward and looks at a portrait photograph of themself. In the right, the photographer, attired in a long-sleeved blue shirt with a white collar, a pink bowtie, white pants, and black shoes, bends forward as he holds up the photograph from the floor with both hands. A large camera with hood stands behind him. Several white men pedestrians, an obelisk, and a neoclassical building can be seen in the left background. John W. LeMaistre (1840-1915) is listed in the Philadelphia directories as a lacemaker from circa 1880s. He incorporated the firm, the LeMaistre Lace and Embroidery Co., in 1905., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Includes copyright statement: Copyrighted., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - LeMaistre [P.2022.9]

Title: ASSU Illustration 9361
Description: Block numbered in two places: 9361, also 1049 on small adhesive label on back of block., Block damaged: cracked., Joints not visible on sides of composite block.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 24

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