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Title: Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896
Description: Author., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.24c]

Title: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Description: In Stowe, H.B. May flower (Boston, 1855), frontispiece., Facsimile signature: Truly Yours H.B. Stowe., Bust-length portrait of the writer.
Date: [1855?]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/stowe.htm

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls and attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white lace collar, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from presented age 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 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, a three volume set of celebrity portraiture, "American Portrait Gallery," in 1877, which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [between 1850 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.918]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait after a daguerreotype of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls and attired in a long-sleeved white dress with a lace collar and a dark-colored shawl, tilts her head down and rests the left side of her cheek and chin on her left hand., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from medium and content., 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 - S [P.8911.919]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a young woman. Stowe, attired in a dress with a white neckline, looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age 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., Wilcox, an engraver and portrait painter, was active in Boston from 1860 until the early 20th century.
Creator: Wilcox, John Angel James, 1835-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.8911.920]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Three-quarter length, left profile portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls with a headband and attired in a long-sleeved, dark-colored dress with a shawl, holds a pencil in her hands, which rest on an open book in her lap., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1872 by Johnson, Fry & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Published in Evert Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women in Europe and America:... (New York: Johnson, Wilson, & Co, 1872-1874), vol. 2, p. 434. (LCP Uz 1,4915.Q), 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., 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 subject's faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph.
Date: 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [(1)5750.F.235b]

Title: Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in in a bun with curls around her forehead and attired in a headband, a dark-colored dress with a white, ruffled collar around the neck, a brooch, and a necklace, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note written on recto., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Mount contains red border., 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., 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 rather than technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Stowe [P.9363.12]

Title: Sanford and troupe, one night more with a great change Sanford in his great acts. The troupe in variety The quartet in new solos, glees, duets & choruses Sanford in his great delineation of Uncle Tom ... Sanford's version of Uncle Tom is a true picture of slavery! The press and the profession pronounce Sanford as the head and front of minstrelsy, and the best delineator of Ethiopian character extant! For this occasion a great bill will be given. Inquire of the character of the entertainment: the verdict: all pleased. The report: the best in the world. The evidence: the house was crowded Admission, 25 cents Children, fifteen cents. Doors open at 7 o'clock. the performances to commence at 8
Description: The company includes: Mr. Batchelor, E. Haven, Fulton Myers, J.R. Myers, S.S. Sanford, E.J. Turner, and J. Williams., Illustration signed: Spiegle & Johnson Phila., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 56.4 x 20.4 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Readex Aug. 2017 update: fixed field language code supplied.
Creator: Sanford's Opera Troupe
Date: [1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Sanford (27)5761.F.117 (McAllister)

Title: For positively one night only Town Hall, Bordentown! on Thursday evening, July 2d, 1863 The far-famed and old established Sanford's Opera Troupe, from his opera houses, Philad'a and Harrisburg The best troupe in the world. Two companies condensed into one. Sanford, the pioneer of minstrelsy will appear in his special acts. Mr. Sanford will have the honor of presenting the best troupe of artists that has ever been concentrated into one body, embracing operatic talent, tragic merit, comic ability, delineations of men, manners and customs, and the special acts, as given with unbounded applause! for the past fourteen years, to the elite of the world. ... Deaf as a post ... "Them" Irishmen, ... To conclude with the sketch, entitled Uncle Tom's Cabin ... Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents Front seats invariably reserved for ladies. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Performance to commence at 8 o'clock
Description: The company includes: Mr. Batchelor, Tom W. Brown, E. De Haven, G.L. Hall, E. Haven, A. Linwood, Fulton Myers, J.R. Myers, S.S. Sanford, E.J. Turner, J. Williams, and Mr. Wilson., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 42.5 x 16.4 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Sanford's Opera Troupe
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Sanford (25)5761.F.86a (McAllister)

Title: Temperance Hall, Trenton Grand gala night! in commemoration of the glorious 4th 4th of July 1776 Sanford's Opera Troupe! will appear on Friday evening, July 3d, 1863, and Saturday afternoon and evening, July 4th presenting the entire troupe in an entire new programme, same as to be given at Barnum's Museum, July 6th, where Sanford is engaged at an enormous expense, for the summer season. Mark the attraction: Uncle Tom's cabin ... The hall.--A spacious gallery will be erected by Mr. Sanford, giving accommodations superior than heretofore, thus reserving the entire front seats for ladies and families. ... Deaf as a post ... "Them" Irishmen, ... Uncle Tom's cabin ... Donnybrook fair, ... The musician fooled
Description: The company includes: Mr. Batchelor, Tom W. Brown, E. De Haven, G.L. Hall, E. Haven, A. Linwood, Fulton Myers, J.R. Myers, S.S. Sanford, E.J. Turner, J. Williams, and Mr. Wilson., Library Company copy may not be complete: there are no admission prices and no imprint at foot; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Sanford's Opera Troupe
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *PB 1863 Sanford (25)5761.F.86b (McAllister)

Title: This popular place of amusement will open for six nights only on Saturday evening, June 11th, 1864, for the purpose of producing the celebrated moral drama of Uncle Tom's cabin! with an excellent comp'y of first-class artists The drama will be produced with every attention to perfectness of detail and scenic requirements. We invite the attention of heads of families, wives and mothers, maidens and children, and the public generally to this announcement, assuring them that in return for the patronage we solicit, we will present an entertainment of the most pleasing and unexceptional character. ... Admission. Parquet 25 cents Tickets, admitting a gentleman and two ladies, 60 cents. Boxes, for colored persons 25c Gallery 15c Front seats reserved for ladies and children. Grand matinee, for families on Wednesday afternoon!
Description: Performers include: G.H. Andrews, Mr. Archer, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Banks, Mr. Chipp, Anna Davenport, Lizzie Davenport, P.A. Fitzgerald, Mr. Hays, Mr. James, Billy Rose, Mr. Sullivan, Miss Warner, Mr. Watson, Anna Weaver, and Maria Wells., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Theatre and Music Hall (Wilmington, Del.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB Wilm Theatre 1864 (26)5761.F.36a (McAllister)

Title: Fulton Hall! One night only: Wednesday eve'ng, April 22, 1863 The far-famed Sanford Opera Troupe: oldest company in the world! Samuel S. Sanford, manager. Mr. Sanford will have the honor of presenting the best troupe of artists that has ever been concentrated into one body, embracing: operatic talent, tragic merit comic ability, delineations of men, manners & customs and the special acts, as given with unbounded applause at his opera houses, Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Sanford appearing each evening! with his star troupe ... The exempts, ... Them Irishmen, ... Sanford's black edition of Romeo and Juliet ... The whole to conclude with Sanford's scene, entitled Uncle Tom's cabin. ... Admission, 25 cents. Children 15 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at quarter of 8. Front seats invariably reserved for ladies. Tom W. Brown, ag't
Description: The company includes: Raffael Abecco, Mr. Batchelor, T.W. Brown, Hughey Dougherty, G.L. Hall, E. Haven, A. Linwood, Fulton Myers, S.S. Sanford, E.J. Turner, and J. Williams., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Sanford's Opera Troupe
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Sanford (25)5761.F.56b (McAllister)

Title: Odd Fellows' Hall, Downingtown One night only: Thursday eve'ng, April 23d, 1863 The far-famed Sanford Opera Troupe: oldest company in the world! Samuel S. Sanford, manager. Mr. Sanford will have the honor of presenting the best troupe of artists that has ever been concentrated into one body, embracing: operatic talent, tragic merit comic ability, delineations of men, manners & customs and the special acts, as given with unbounded applause at his opera houses, Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Sanford appearing each evening! with his star troupe ... The exempts, ... Them Irishmen, ... Sanford's black edition of Romeo and Juliet ... The whole to conclude with Sanford's scene, entitled Uncle Tom's cabin. ... Admission, 25 cents. Children 15 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at quarter of 8. Front seats invariably reserved for ladies. Tom W. Brown, ag't
Description: The company includes: Raffael Abecco, Mr. Batchelor, T.W. Brown, Hughey Dougherty, G.L. Hall, E. Haven, A. Linwood, Fulton Myers, S.S. Sanford, E.J. Turner, and J. Williams., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Sanford's Opera Troupe
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Sanford (25)5761.F.61b (McAllister)

Title: Horticultural Hall One night only: Friday evening, April 24th, 1863 The far-famed Sanford Opera Troupe: oldest company in the world! Samuel S. Sanford, manager. Mr. Sanford will have the honor of presenting the best troupe of artists that has ever been concentrated into one body, embracing: operatic talent, tragic merit comic ability, delineations of men, manners & customs and the special acts, as given with unbounded applause at his opera houses, Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Sanford appearing each evening! with his star troupe ... The exempts, ... Them Irishmen, ... Sanford's black edition of Romeo and Juliet ... The whole to conclude with Sanford's scene, entitled Uncle Tom's cabin. ... Admission, 25 cents. Children 15 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at quarter of 8. Front seats invariably reserved for ladies. Tom W. Brown, ag't
Description: The company includes: Raffael Abecco, Mr. Batchelor, T.W. Brown, Hughey Dougherty, G.L. Hall, E. Haven, A. Linwood, Fulton Myers, S.S. Sanford, E.J. Turner, and J. Williams., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Sanford's Opera Troupe
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Sanford (25)5761.F.62a (McAllister)

Title: Sanford's new Opera House Race Street, between Second & Third Sanford's complimentary benefit, on Saturday evening, Dec. 17th, 1864 on which occasion a bill of rare attraction will be presented. Sam Long, the great clown will sing his last new songs. Larry Tooley, renowned dancer, will appear--together with Sanford's Troupe! ... Nino Eddie! in his great act of the tight rope. Miss Julia Sanford in her grand dance. Programme. ... Sanford's dramatic effect of "Villikins and his Dinah!" ... Brother Josh and Gus ... To conclude with Sanford's version of Uncle Tom's cabin ... Cinderella for the holidays! Look out for the "Frightened family." Cards of admission, 25 cents Orchestra seats, 50 cts Private boxes, dress circle, $5 Private boxes, family circle, $4 & $3 Office will be open from 9 to 2 o'clock, for the sale of secured seats and boxes, without extra charge. Doors open at quarter before 7 o'clock. To commence quarter before 8
Description: The company includes: F. Basquin, Sam Long, J.M. Mortimer, Fulton Myers, H.J. Raynor, J.P. Reese, Eddie Rivers (a.k.a. El Nino Eddie), Julia Sanford, S.S. Sanford, W. Schaffer, Larry Tooley, Jake Wallace, and J. Williams., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Sanford's Opera House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB Phi Sanford 1864 (26)5761.F.72b (McAllister)

Title: Eminent women Mary A. Livermore. Sara Jewett. Grace A. Oliver. Helen Hunt. Nora Perry. Lucy Larcom. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Louise Chandler Moulton. Louisa M. Alcott. Julia Ward Howe. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Description: Composite photograph created through the "paste-up" technique of cut-up negatives that are arranged, pasted together, and then rephotographed to present a realistic scene. Depicts a group of eminent Victorian women, including authors, writers, and women's rights, temperance, and abolitionist movements advocates, "posed" in the Montreal residence of railway financier George Stephens. Sitters (left to right), in the background, and standing, include: Mary A. Livermore; Sara Jewett; Grace A. Oliver; Helen Hunt; Nora Perry; Lucy Larcom; and Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sitters (left to right), in the foreground, and seated, include: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Louise Chandler Moulton; Louisa M. Alcott; Julia Ward Howe; and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Backdrop interior imagery shows parts of the reception hall, drawing room, stairwell, and conservatory of the Stephens' residence. Vases, a mantel, light fixtures, drapery, and a fountain are included in the backdrop. Pictorial details of foliage and a pond surround the portrait within a circular frame. Canadian photographer William Notman created the original portrait negatives used in the composite created by L'Africain. Notman was known for his innovative photography and his studio specialized in composite photographs by the 1870s. This image was also distributed "compliments" of the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, CT., Title from item., Date in negative in lower right corner., Name of photographer and publisher from imprint in negative and printed on mount and verso., Name of artist in negative in right corner., Sitter's names in title depicted with a single dot between first, middle, and last names and with double dots between full names., Copyrighted., Photographer and publisher's illustrated imprint printed on verso: W. Notman. The Notman Photographic Co. Limited. 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Also at 48 North Pearl St. Albany, N. Y. Saratoga, N. Y. Newport, R. I. Illustration depicts an objet d'art composed of a crown, foliage, banners, scrolls, coat of arms, and exhibition medals, including from the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Image also contains text, including: "Honi Soit Qui Mal [Y Pens]e. Photographer to Her Majesty. Montreal." Imprint surrounded by ornately-designed border including lavishly-ornamented cornices., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 64-66., Description reviewed 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Creator: Notman Photo Co. (Boston, Mass.)
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photo - Notman [P.2016.73]

Title: Worship of the North
Description: Graphic cartoon steeped in Confederate bitterness toward the "Republican" North depicting a scene of Northern idolatry of the African American. Worshippers near a mound of skulls surround a blood-stained altar upon which lies the shackled sacrificed body of American youth. The altar, with a bust of Lincoln dressed as a clown overhead, is constructed from Northern principles such as "Puritanism," "Free Love," and "Negro Worship." Behind the altar an African American man idol, barefoot and bare-chested and portrayed in racist caricature, sits upon the "Chicago Platform." Near the idol stands the statue of "St. Ossawattomi" (i.e., John Brown). The worshippers include General Scott, General Halleck and a loot-laden General Butler, as well as Secretary Edwin Stanton, John Fremont, a knife wielding Henry Ward Beecher, a torch carrying Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley with a censer, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, praying and kneeling atop a volume of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Printed in the top corners is "Ego.", Published in: Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), pl. 1., Issued as plate 1 in Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), a series of pro-Confederacy cartoons drawn and published by Baltimore cartoonist Adalbert John Volck under the pseudonym V. Blada. The "first issue" of 10 prints (numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 21, 24), with imprint "London, 1863" were printed as etchings. The remaining 20 prints (numbered 4, 8, 9-11, 14, 17-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 45) headed "Second and third issues of V. Blada's war sketches" and dated "London, July 30, 1864" were printed as lithographs., Title and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Accessioned 1979., RVCDC, 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Aldabert Volck (1828-1912), i.e., V. Blada, was a prominent Southern cartoonist from Baltimore who is best known for his 1863 work "Sketches from the Civil War," later republished circa 1886 by Porter & Coates in Philadelphia under the title "Confederate War Etchings."
Creator: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1863 - Wor [P.2275.6]

Title: American Celebrities Albums
Description: Two volume set of albums containing predominately cartes-de-visite photographic portraits of prominent American 19th-century figures in politics, education, and the arts, ca. 1870.
Date: 1869

Title: American celebrities album
Description: Two volume set of albums containing predominately cartes de visite photographic portraits of prominent American 19th-century figures in politics, education, and the arts. Portraits depict actors, artists, authors, Congressmen, educators, governors, military leaders, physicians, publishers, religious leaders, social reformers, scientists, and U.S. presidents and their spouses. Includes mostly vignette and bust-length portraits and a small number of full length portraits. Also contains a small number of trimmed portrait engravings, tintypes, and a photo-collage depicting evangelist D. L. Moody with the under photograph copyrighted 1877. Small number of sitters are unidentified., Men sitters include P. T. Barnum; Henry Ward Beecher; John Brown; Ned Buntline; Samuel Clemens; Jefferson Davis; O. S. Fowler; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Abraham Lincoln; Samuel Morse; Thomas Nast; Hiram Powers; Winfield Scott; Gerrit Smith; Cornelius Vanderbilt; John Wanamaker; Brigham Young; Native American chiefs Ouray, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull; and African Americans Frederick Douglass and performer "Blind" Tom. Women sitters include presidential spouses Frances Cleveland and Lucretia Garfield; reformers Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull; authors Louisa May Alcott, Helen Hunt (Jackson), Harriet Beecher Stowe; sculptors Harriet Hosmer and Vinnie Ream; and performers Maria Albani, Charlotte Cushman, and Kate Field., Title from item's cover., Photographers include Mathew Brady, E. & H. T. Anthony; Jeremiah Gurney; and George Kendall Warren., Majority of sitters identified by a manuscript note on the album page or on portrait or an inscribed label., Brown leather bindings with gilt, stamped in gilt on front boards: Volume I: American Celebrities. Vol. I.; Volume II: American Celebrities. Vol. II. Stamped in gilt on spines: Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See "American Celebrities Album" item-level records for digital images of all identified individual sitters.
Date: [ca. 1870-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9100.1 & 2]

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