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Title: You talk so much of what you'll do,
Description: A man stands between two women who wear restricted skirts that reveal their feet; they do not appear to be wearing bustles. He has a shocked expression as they both press leaflets to his chest. The valentine mocks women's involvement in politics and connects it with immodest and flirtatious behavior. Bustles were not in vogue between 1876 and 1883, as they were before and after those years., Text: You talk so much of what you'll do / When women have their proper show; / That for your country, in your zeal, / You would the men caress and feel; / Excuse me, if I here portray / A female politician's way., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Creator: Beard, Frank, 1842-1905, ill., creator
Date: [between 1876 and 1883?]

Title: " Sew on your own buttons, I'm going for a ride."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house dressed in bloomers (bicycle garb), telling her husband to do the sewing while she goes out for a ride. The husband is seated with their daughter next to him as his wife, who hovers above them, gives the order with his shirt in her outstretched hand., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1896 by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See related: stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2017.3.3] and stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.9897]
Creator: Keystone View Company
Date: 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2003.21]

Title: Trials of bachelorhood
Description: Comic genre scene showing a man having difficulty sewing his shirt. Two women peer over a clothes screen at the scene with grins on their faces. The room is messy with clothing and scraps strewn about. A guitar leans up against a table., Copyrighted by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2003.22]

Title: You ugly, cross and wrinkled shrew,
Description: A woman holds a whip and stands over a fallen man. Her hair forms horns., Text: You ugly, cross and wrinkled shrew, / You advocate of woman's rights, / No man on earth would live you, / For fear of endless fights., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Don't tell me you won't wash
Description: Comic genre scene showing a shrewish woman attacking her hen-pecked husband at a wash tub to satirize the New Woman. In a semi-dilapidated kitchen setting, the woman stretches over the tub and grabs her grimacing husband by his hair. Wash lays on the floor near a small heating stove. The walls are adorned with a rolling pin, clock, birdcage, portrait prints, and placard reading "Home & Mother.", Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Warped pink mount with rounded corners., Negative number printed on mount: 12263., Companion stereograph to 1897 Kilburn stereogaph, #12262, "Woman's Rights," showing a New Woman at leisure as her husband does laundry at a washtub., Gift of Jesse Randall., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn, successor to stereograph publisher Kilburn Brothers in 1877, broadened the firm's portfolio from White Mountain scenery to include genre and comic subjects and international views.
Creator: Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Genre [P.2005.19.8]

Title: Don't get the clothes too blue!
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house dressed in bicycle garb with her bicycle at her side pointing her finger and instructing her husband on how to do the laundry. The husband stands in front of the wash tub, article of clothing in hand, with dirty laundry piled in the baby's cradle next to him., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola., Kilburn, successor to stereograph publisher Kilburn Brothers in 1877, broadened the firm's portfolio from White Mountain scenery to include genre and comic subjects and international views.
Creator: Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Portraits and genre [P.2003.32.3]

Title: "Sew on your own buttons, I'm going for a ride."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house dressed in bicycle garb with her bicycle at her side, telling her husband to do the sewing while she goes out for a ride. The husband is seated with their daughter next to him as his wife, who hovers above them, gives the order., Copyrighted by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See related: stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2003.21] and stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2017.3.3].
Creator: Keystone View Company
Date: c1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.9897]

Title: The "new woman."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house sitting at a table reading a newspaper as her husband stands in the kitchen dryng dishes. With a confused look, he peers at her from the other room. She is dressed in bicycle garb with her bicycle resting in the doorway nearby., Copyrighted by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Printed text in six languages on verso: Die "moderne frau."; La 'donna nuova."; La femme nouvelle."; La Nueva Mufer."; Den "ny kvinde."; and Des "na kvinnan.", Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola.
Creator: Keystone View Company
Date: c1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.9964.2]

Title: The "new man" on Blue Monday
Description: Genre scene satirizing the role of the "new man" in relation to the "new woman". Shows the lady of the house sitting with her feet propped and reading a newspaper as her husband washes and hangs the laundry nearby., Copyrighted by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Printed text in six languages on verso: Es ift blauer Montag; L'"Uomo Nuovo" in Blue Monday.; Le "Nouvel homme" le lundi; El lúnes del "Nuevo Hombre"; Den "ny mand" på en blå Mandag; Den nykomne på blåmåndag., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2004.5.2]

Title: The new woman--wash day
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role reversal of men and women in the home. Depicts a woman attired in bloomers and gloves (bicycle garb), with one foot propped on a chair as she smokes. Her husband bends over the wash tub and wrings an article of clothing as he does her laundry, some of which dries above their heads on a line. The woman's bicycle is propped near the door., Additional places of publication printed on mount include: London; Toronto-Canada; Ottawa-Kansas., Printed on mount: Works and studios. Arlington, N.J.; Littleton, N.H.; and Washington, D.C., Sun sculpture trademark printed on mount., Copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Title also printed on verso in five additional languages., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola.
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Portraits & genre [P.2004.5.1]

Title: What is home without a husband?
Description: Faded genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role reversal of men and women in the home. Shows the woman of the house, shawl draped over her arm, who has just entered the room from outside. Her husband sits on a stool doing housework near the fireplace. Their pet cat sits on the floor near his feet., Copyright 1889 by Littleton View Co., Title printed on mount below image., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Baltimore, Md., Ottawa, Kan., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola.
Creator: Littleton View Co.
Date: c1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Littleton View Co. [P.2003.32.1]

Title: The new woman barber
Description: Genre photograph satirizing the "new woman" depicting a scantily clad female barber sitting with her legs crossed and holding a razor in mid-air as she prepares to shave the beard of her frightened male patron., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.2008.9]

Title: Woman's Rights.
Description: A woman holds a leash around her husband's neck, and he holds a baby. The valentine criticizes advocates of women's rights for degrading men., Text: She who be-littles her husband's name, / Knows not what to woman's grace belongs; / The Rights some silly women claim, / Are nothing less than a husband's wrongs., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: "Have dinner at one dear."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house dressed in bloomers (bicycle garb) with her back to her children who play with toys on the floor. With her bicycle by her side, she tells her husband, who is washing clothes, to have dinner ready by one., Copyrighted 1897 by William H. Rau on negative., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; Hamburg, Germany, and Milan, Italy., Title on negative., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Griffith & Griffith, established in Philadelphia in 1896, expanded in 1908 to included offices in St. Louis and Liverpool. The non-Philadelphia offices were relocated in 1910., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.2003.32.2]

Title: You're all aflame with woman's rights,
Description: A woman bends forward towards a crowd of women, in the "Grecian Bend" created by wearing fashionable restrictive gowns and bustles. Behind her are signs that read " The Original Grecian Bend for State Millener" and "The Pink of Fashion, Mme. Lecreme." The Grecian Bend style of bustle became popular after 1869. New York city directories for 1867-72 list Fisher and Denison at the same address, noting that Denison lived in Maryland., Text: You're all aflame with woman's right, / And hope thereby to see strange sights; / No place too bold for such a trump-- / You'd even go so far as mount the stump. / If you thus cast all social laws aside, / You'll never be a happy bride., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Creator: Beard, Frank, 1842-1905, ill., creator
Date: [between 1870 and 1872]

Title: The new woman--wash day
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role reversal of men and women in the home. Depicts a woman attired in bloomers and gloves (bicycle garb), with one foot propped on a chair as she smokes. Her husband bends over the wash tub and wrings an article of clothing as he does her laundry, some of which dries above their heads on a line. The woman's bicycle is propped near the door., Additional places of publication printed on mount include: London; Toronto-Canada; Ottawa-Kansas., Printed on mount: Works and studios. Arlington, N.J.; Littleton, N.H.; and Washington, D.C., Sun sculpture trademark printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Title also printed on verso in five additional languages., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Portraits & genre [P.9998]

Title: I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the African American itinerant preacher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate born into slavery and originally known as Isabella Baumfree. Shows Truth, seated, and attired in a dark-colored, long sleeved dress with white collar, white shawl with fringe, and a white cap. She wears wire-rimmed glasses and faces front and is turned slightly to her left. She holds knitting in her left hand which rests on a small table that has a decorative table cloth. A notebook and vase of flowers adorn the table. A string of yarn runs across her lap. Truth escaped to freedom in 1826. During the period of the Civil War, Truth captioned, marketed, copyrighted, and sold at least eleven different carte-de-visite portraits of herself at her lectures and through the mail to earn personal funds and advocate for the abolition of slavery. Her knitting probably alludes to her promotion of the handcraft as an industry for advancement for former enslaved persons., Title from item., Publication information from copyright statement on verso: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by Sojourner Truth, in the Clerk's Office, of the U. S. District Court, for the Eastern District of Mich., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 66-67., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Truth [P.2017.27]

Title: Pundita Ramabai and her little girl
Description: Full-length portrait of Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, the Indian social reformer, educator, and Bible translator, with her daughter Manorama Medhavi. Ramabai wears her dark hair parted in the middle and tied back and is attired in a light-colored dress and a long shawl draped over her shoulder and lap. Her daughter Manorama wears her dark hair parted in the middle and curled with a headband and is attired in a long-sleeved dress with embroidered leaves decorating the collar, chest, cuffs, waist, and hem; dark-colored stockings; and button-up boots. Ramabai is seated, and Manorama stands in the left and leans and places her hands on her mother's lap. Ramabai's left hand holds Manorama's left wrist. Both look slightly to the left. Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was born into a Brahmin family in India. She became a Sanskrit scholar, and in 1878, Calcutta University conferred on her the titles of Pandita and Sarasvati in recognition of her knowledge of various Sanskrit works. She married Bipin Behari Medhvi, a Bengali lawyer, who died in 1882. She traveled to Britain and converted to Christianity. She toured and lectured in the United States and Canada raising money for destitute Indian women. She advocated for women's rights and opened Mukti Mission, a school for child-widows. Manorama Medhavi was educated at the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Chesbrough Seminary, and earned a degree from Bombay University. She assisted her mother at the Mukti Mission until her death in 1921., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount under the image and on verso., Printed label on verso: Ramabai's Daughter. Manorama, the daughter of Pundita Ramabai, who returned to India last fall, has become her mother's prime minister. Manorama has graduated in June 1900, at the A.M. Chessborough Seminary, North Chili, N.Y. She was at the head of her class, received honors, and was awarded the prize by the board of regents of New York University. Professor and Mrs. Roberts, principals of the seminary, speak with unqualified praise of her ability, strength of character, good judgment, and devotion to her chosen work. Her self-poise and yet utter unconsciousness of self charmed all who met her. She has joined in her mother's work for child-widows with a spirit of consecration and a degree of energy remarkable in a girl not yet out of her teens. -- Woman's Journal.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Ramabai [P.8654.4]

Title: Woman's Rights.
Description: A woman stands at a podium with her hand raised. A smaller man and woman sit in the audience. Figure possibly caricature modeled after Quaker women's rights advocate Lucretia Mott or sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimke., Text: Peace! brainless babbler -- what's the use / Of proving to mankind that you're a goose, / By asking husbands -- so runs your speeches -- / To put on frocks, while you wear their breeches., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: The black Republicans at their devotions
Description: Cartoon exploiting the stereotypes of the factions comprising the recently formed antislavery political party, the Republicans, before the Presidential Election of 1856. Depicts a meeting of the party members singing "Du da, du da." In the left is a white man, attired in a brimmed hat, a white collared shirt, a white waistcoat, and a black jacket and carrying a paper that reads, “Bobtail Hoss.” He represents a "puritanical bigot" abolitionist “who goes strongly in favor of stealing negroes.” In the center is a white man, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, who is a "disciple of Free Love and Fremont" (i.e., John C. Fremont, the Republican presidential nominee). In the right, is a white man, wearing long hair and a beard and attired in spectacles, a ruffled, white collar shirt with a brooch, and a black jacket, who represents the "long bearded spiritualist." In the left foreground is an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, who remarks in the vernacular, “Mass mos’ as good as brudder Bones.” In the background, more people sing “Du da,” including a woman, attired in spectacles, and described as “a hooked nosed, masculine crocodile, who is descanting upon woman’s rights and niggers’ wrongs.” Also visible is a statue of a man holding a staff atop a pedestal labeled “Du da.”, Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto, below image: “The Mustang colt is young and strong, Du da du da; His wind is good, his knees not sprung, Du da du da da!” The artist has given in this group a representative of nearly all the isms that go to make up the pie-bald conglomeration of which the Black Republican party is composed. Here is the long-bearded spiritualist, who, like his candidate, has more hair than brains; then we have the genuine Aminidab Sleek, or the true disciple of Free Love and Fremont; then there is the sour, morose, puritanical bigot, who goes strongly in favor of stealing negroes, because their services can be secured at a much lower rate than he would have to pay white men; the darkey, emerging from below, is grinning with ferocious delight at the ‘Du da du,’ which is to exalt niggers above “sassy white people;” there is a wide and foul-mouthed slang-monger, in the back-ground, who goes in for free discussion on one side; a hooked nosed, masculine crocodile, who is descanting upon woman’s rights and niggers’ wrongs, because he is too lazy to work. There is the picture—look at it. Du da du. Nero fiddled while Rome was burning. Black Republicans sing foolish songs while the glorious fabric which our fathers reared in peril and blood, is dissolving in the fires of fanaticism. They make no appeal to our reason, but to our imagination; the reason and the judgment is not addressed, only our passions and our prejudices. They cannot sing a mere political adventurer into the Presidential chair., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, 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.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1856-Bla [5760.F.94]

Title: Grand complimentary benefit to Jos. Lindsay and Corp. R.L. Sanford Joseph Lindsay was formerly a member of Baxter's Fire Zouaves, 72d Regiment, P.V., and was severely wounded at the Battle of Savage Station. Corp. R.L. Sanford was formerly a member of the 118th Regiment, Corn Exchange, and was deprived of his leg at the Battle of Antietam. These gentlemen respectfully solicit the patronage of their friends and public in general. Great array of talent for this occasion. Read the programme. ... Woman's rights! ... Stump speech! ... Burlesque stranger! ... Comic act! ... The Gobble family! ... To conclude with The masquerade ball! ... Admission, 25 cents Children, 10 cents. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Performances to commence at 8. Front seats reserved for ladies
Description: Performers, many of whom appeared in Philadelphia in April 1863 with the Rose and Burr Opera Troupe, include: W. Archibald, F. Anthony, N.J. Bark, A. Fisk, R.J. Harrison, H. Kirk, S. Lane, W. Lynch, the Marion Brothers, C. Renz, Billy Rose, and R.L. Sanford., Illustration signed: Strong., Library Company copy cropped at foot, possibly removing imprint; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Grand (25)5761.F.50a (McAllister)

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