Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African weaver with her loom. A similar loom appears in the frontispiece for the London Yearly Meeting's Report of the committee managing a fund raised by some friends for the purpose of promoting African instruction (London, 1822)., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 180., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date
[1814]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 180, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2933
Report includes William Singleton's "Account of a Visit to the Gambia and Sierra Leone," in which he described the weaver featured in the frontispiece. Recalling his arrival in Tankrowall (Gambia), Singleton wrote, "The African loom here took my attention; and here too I first saw a female use the distaff: she was spinning cotton, and frequently dipped her finger into a white powder, prepared from burnt bones." (p. 30) As the frontispiece attests, the weaver's loom was sheltered, and she sat on the ground as she worked. A similar loom is depicted in René Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sénégal (Paris: 1814), vol. 4, p. 180., Frontispiece for the London Yearly Meeting's Report of the Committee Managing a Fund Raised by Some Friends for the Purpose of Promoting African Instruction . . . (London: Printed by Harvey, Darton, and Co., 55, Gracechurch-Street, 1822)., Caption below the image read: "The plate presented to the work by some friends to the cause.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date
[1822]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Lond Yea Meet 5593.O frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2927
Four books assembled by Daisy Lowengrund: 1. "Sewing Book" in brown paper with front and back pockets. Pockets contain drawings on trace paper and small sewn blocks, some dated 1902-1905. Book contains embroidered pictures in various colors. 2. Half-bound volume of "Mat Weaving" containing weaved paper designs in various colors. 3-4. Two accordion-folded portfolios of colored paper cut-outs. Exhibited in Library Company of Philadelphia's exhibition, The Living Book: New Perspectives on Form and Function (2017-2018)., Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bendiner, 1998.
Depicts a group, including Bertha Taylor Webster and Anna B. Taylor, sitting on rocking chairs on a lawn in front of Mt. Equity's west wing. At the center of the circle formed by the chairs is a large pile of branches the group is pulling apart to make baskets or brooms. The photographer's maternal aunt, Hannah Mary S. Taylor, rented the property in Pennsdale, Pa. during the summer months of 1889 and 1890., A small stone section of Mount Equity, known as "The Cottage," was constructed near the Wolf Run House in Pennsdale, Pa. ca. 1810 by Mercy Ellis after the death of her husband, William Ellis. After her death in 1848, her children used the cottage primarily during the summer months. Her son Charles Ellis built a stone addition to the house in 1861 and a rear kitchen wing was added by the family in 1882. It was around this time that the enlarged house shed its name as "The Cottage," and was known as Mount Equity. The property is now home to a Buddhist Monastery, Mt. Equity Zendo Jihoji., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator
Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.55]
Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts, probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 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.
Creator
Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana
Interior view of Machinery Hall featuring the Verviers of Belgium Section. Depicts the exhibit as indicated by multiple signs reading, "Verviers Belgique". Also shows numerous looms on display, as Verviers of Belgium were makers of fine broad cloths and overcoats.
Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 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.
Creator
Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana
Interior view of Machinery Hall depicting the exhibit by the American Watch Company. Also shows the equipment and machinery used in the watch industry.
