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- Title
- Prof. S. P. Burdict, surgeon chiropodist, office, 1334 Parrish St., Philada Corns removed without pain or drawing blood. All orders by mail, or leaving address, promptly attended to, and families waited on without extra charge. Single visit, $1.00; by the year, $10.00. Immediate relief for corns and bunions. Inverted toe nails, chilblains, frosted feet, and excessive perspiration cured. Club nails, bony tumors, moles, &c., treated, and satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. Prof. Burdict's celebrated compound or cooling mixture for feet; also Grecian salve & bunion lotion, and American corn plaster for sale as above. Office hours--7 to 9, A.M.; 1 to 2 and 6 to 8, P.M. Sundays--3-5, P.M
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a foot., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Burdict [P.2006.20.21]
- Title
- Edwin A. Atlee
- Description
- Half-length portrait of the physician and abolitionist, attired in a white shirt, a waistcoat, and a jacket with spectacles perched on his forehead, facing left. Atlee was a prominent Philadelphia physician and author who was active in the abolition movement., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Manuscript note on recto: When will this be ready for the press on Monday., Detailed manuscript notes, possibly by artist in a conversation with a hearing person, on verso about background and lightness of a print: John Carlin / I can make you another / Background with trees without / sky/ Without any work on it / any [Back?] I may make / will have much work on / account of the great size of / the Picture if you make / all sky much work / all trees / There is less work on [these?] / than any [other ?] Because / the Building is Light / you are all right / if you intend sending the Letter / you should be quick for else / you will lose much time / waiting, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Albert Newsam (1809-1864) was a respected deaf and non verbal Philadelphia engraver and lithographer who studied under Peter S. Duval. He received early art training at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
- Creator
- Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - A [(1)5750.F.22a]
- Title
- Caspar Wistar, M.D
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted seated at a desk, on top of which are a set of books. He holds a sheet of paper in his left hand. He is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar, vest, and jacket., Gift of David Doret, 2004., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Neagle, John B., ca. 1796-1866, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1820]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [P.2004.44.18]
- Title
- Caspar Wistar, M.D Late professor of anatomy to the University of Pennsylvania and President of the American Philosophical Society &c. &c
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted sitting in a chair and is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and double-breasted jacket., Printed below image: From the original picture in the possession of Mr. Wistar., Variant appears in the Analectic magazine (Philadelphia: 1818) vol. 12, p. 441. (LCP Per A 192, vol. 12)., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Charles Goodman and Robert Piggot, Philadelphia engravers, worked as partners from 1817 to 1822.
- Creator
- C. Goodman & R. Piggot, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1818]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [1885.F.33]
- Title
- Caspar Wistar, M.D
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted sitting in a chair and is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and double-breasted jacket., Probably by C. Goodman & R. Piggot after painter Bass Otis., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
- Date
- [ca. 1818 - ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [5750.F.159c]
- Title
- Caspar Wistar, M.D
- Description
- Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and a double-breasted jacket., Appears in volume three of several editions of James Barton Longacre and James Herring's The National portrait gallery published by various Philadelphia publishers between 1835 and 1868. LCP holds the imprints: 1834-1839; 1856; and 1867, (3)5750.F.160c originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., P.9156.9 gift of Charles Rosenberg, 1986., P.9660.16 gift of William Helfand, 1999., Access points revised 2021., Description 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
- Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1835 - ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [(3)5750.F.160c; P.9156.9; P.9660.16]
- Title
- [Group portrait photograph of Dr. Mudgett and four African American physicians outside of Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 2030 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Group portrait depicts Dr. John Herbert Mudgett and four African American physicians, posed, standing and seated, on the steps outside the entryway to the hospital and training school. In the right, two physicians, attired in dark-colored suits and ties, stand next to Mudgett and the other men seated on the stairs. One of the physicians also wears a mustache. They look past the photographer. In the center, Mudgett, grey-haired, wearing glasses, and attired in a white suit with bow tie, sits on the outer edge of the middle stair. He looks past the photographer and his hands are clasped and rest in his lap. To his right, another two physicians sit next to him on the stairs. They are attired in dark-colored suits with either a tie or bow tie. One physician wears glasses. They rest their hands and/or arms on the upper part of their bent legs. They look at the photographer. The visible shoes of the men are shined, except Mudgett’s which are scuffed. View also shows a boot scraper near the foot of Mudgett, at the base of the steps, and in the right, the sign reading "Dr. Mudgett’s Private Hospital" adorning the wall of the building., Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses was established by New Hampshire-born white (per census records) physician John H. Mudgett and chartered in 1919. Mudgett served as the medical director of surgery. In 1921, the school was one of a number of nursing schools advertised in the "Evening Public Ledger" as offering "Free Tuition, Board, Lodging, and a Nominal Fee" to be trained as a nurse. Mudgett, graduated Dartmouth Medical School in 1896 and resided in Philadelphia as a physician by circa 1905. By 1925, he was listed as only a physician with no listing for the training school. Mudgett, a member of the First African Baptist Church, died in 1945. At the time of his death he was in a multiracial marriage with Adeline Mudgett (1889-1958), a former dressmaker. His race on his death certificate had been altered from white to “colored.”, Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photograph with complementary content and article about “Mudgett’s Hospital Has Its First Commencement,” Philadelphia Tribune, July 19, 1919., Name of photographer from photographer's stamp on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Helen Waller. Helen Waller (1897-1925) was one of the first nurse graduates of Mudgett’s Hospital in 1919. By 1924, she worked as a child hygiene nurse before her death in 1925 from tuberculosis., See also complementary group portrait photographs - Education - M [P.2022.5.2 & 3].
- Creator
- Paul, Dan E., photographer
- Date
- [1919]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education - Mudgett's Hospital [P.2022.5.2]
- Title
- [View of operating room with Dr. J.H. Mudgett and African American men physicians and African American women nurses at a surgical procedure at Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 2030 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View shows Dr. John Herbert Mudgett and African American physicians and nurses surrounding an African American person lying on a surgical gurney and covered in surgical drapes in an operating room. Mudgett, center and looking at the camera, and attired in a surgical cap and gown, rests his hands on the patient. To his right stands a nurse, attired in a cap and a white surgical gown who looks with a side glance at the camera. To her right, a man anesthesiologist, in right profile, is seated, and holds his hands above the face of the patient. In the right foreground, two men physicians, attired in surgical caps and gowns stand over and have their hands on the patient. One man looks at the patient and the other man looks at the camera. In the left, center background, possibly Miss Harris, super-intendant of the nurses, attired in a striped, nurse's cap looks over the shoulder of Mudgett. In the far right background, a nurse attired in a surgical cap and gown looks, with a slight frown, at the camera. The face and head of another nurse wearing a surgical cap is seen behind her. View also includes two uncovered windows in the background., Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses was established by New Hampshire-born white (per census records) physician John H. Mudgett and chartered in 1919. Mudgett served as the medical director of surgery. In 1921, the school was one of a number of nursing schools advertised in the “Evening Public Ledger” as offering "Free Tuition, Board, Lodging, and a Nominal Fee" to be trained as a nurse. Mudgett, graduated Dartmouth Medical School in 1896 and resided in Philadelphia as a physician by circa 1905. By 1925, he was listed as only a physician with no listing for the training school. Mudgett, a member of the First African Baptist Church, died in 1945. At the time of his death he was in a multiracial marriage with Adeline Mudgett (1889-1958), a former dressmaker. His race on his death certificate had been altered from white to "colored.", Title supplied by cataloger., Name of attributed photographer from complementary photographs., Date inferred from photographs with complementary content and article about "Mudgett’s Hospital Has Its First Commencement," Philadelphia Tribune, July 19, 1919., See also complementary group portrait photographs - Education - M [P.2022.5.1 & 2].
- Creator
- Paul, Dan E., photographer
- Date
- [1919]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education - Mudgett's Hospital [P.2022.5.3]