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Title: Patterson & Lippincott, Poplar Street wharves Wholesale lumber dealers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description: Trade advertisement depicting the lumber yard near the Delaware River operated by William H. Lippincott and Henry C. Patterson. Office employees and stevedores, including African Americans, pose among stacks of wood planks, near the business office, and on the docked ships. In the distance, the wharves of Camden, New Jersey are visible., Title printed on mount., Date inferred from content., Printed label on mount: Patterson & Lippincott, Lumber Commission Merchants, Poplar Street Wharves, Philadelphia, U.S.A., Purchase 2000., 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., Gutekunst, a prominent commercial photographer most known for his portraiture of eminent people, operated a studio in Philadelphia from 1856 until his death in 1917.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Gutekunst [P.9767.1]

Title: [Lombard Street Central Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the Philadelphia African American church at 834 Lombard Street completed in 1848 after designs by Philadelphia architect, William L. Johnston. Shows the front entrance to the two-story building with pediment. In front of the building is a wrought iron fence and gate and a lamppost. In the foreground is the sidewalk and a partial view of the street. Established in 1844 under Rev. Stephen H. Gloucester, the church formed from dissenting members of the Second African Presbyterian Church following Gloucester's loss of that church's pulpit., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner., 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [Philadelphia]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Newell [P.9060.5b]

Title: Colossal hand and torch "Liberty"
Description: View of Bartholdi's Electric Light or Liberty Enlightening the World hand and torch statue on display near the lake. A group of men, including an African American man in the foreground, stand near the kiosk and two white men stand on the balcony of the torch. The Women's Pavilion designed by Hermann J. Schwarzmann and Horticultural Hall designed by James H. Windrim are partially visible in the background. Money raised at the fair, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art, helped to pay for the completion of the statue and pedestal., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., Stamped on mount: Grade 2., White curved mount with rounded corners., Purchase 1989., 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., 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: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.9260.45]

Title: Colossal hand and torch "Liberty"
Description: View of Bartholdi's Electric Light or Liberty Enlightening the World hand and torch statue on display near the lake. A group of men, including an African American man in the foreground, stand near the kiosk and two white men stand on the balcony of the torch. The Women's Pavilion designed by Hermann J. Schwarzmann and Horticultural Hall designed by James H. Windrim are partially visible in the background. Money raised at the fair, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art, helped to pay for the completion of the statue and pedestal., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., Stamped on mount: Grade 2., White curved mount with rounded corners., Purchase 1989., 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., 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: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.9260.45]

Title: International Live Stock Exhibition, Philad'a, 1876
Description: Series of views depicting thoroughbred horses at the International Live Stock Exhibition on the Centennial grounds in 1876 include, "Graphic," owned by W.T. Cook of Foxborough, Massachusetts, "Bismark," owned by F.G. Wolbert of Jersey City, New Jersey, and two thoroughbred stallions from Canada. Also shows a view of the "Herefords" shed and three herefords (a type of cattle bred for market) on view during the livestock display at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. The cattle display was held under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture from September 21st until October 4th. An African American man holds the bridle of one of the steer on display before the shed., Title printed on mounts., Publisher's imprint printed on mounts., Printed labels and manuscript notes on versos of four stereographs [P.9915.3-6] provide names of owners, horses, and statistics. Owners and horses illegible on two because of damage to labels., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., 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., Four of the images gift of Helen Beitler, 2001 [P.9915.3-6], One of the images gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984 [P.9047.66]
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hovey - Exhibitions [P.9047.66; P.9915.3-6]

Title: George's Hill
Description: View of the bandstand, built in 1872, on George's Hill near Fifty-Second Street in West Fairmount Park. Also shows a flag pole and three horse-drawn coaches with passengers parked in the foreground. Two African American men, possibly carriage drivers, stand nearby. The hill was given to the city by siblings Jesse and Rebecca George in 1868., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., 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., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James, 1990., Digitized.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.83]

Title: East front of Main Building
Description: Oblique view of the east front of the Main Building on the grounds of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. In the foreground, a white man rests his right foot on a box as he has his shoes polished by an African American man, who kneels on the ground. Two white men browse through a box of goods that an African American man peddler, attired in a white hat and apron, carries on a strap around his shoulders. Two other white men stand to the right and look at the viewer. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title and photographer's imprint on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., 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., Gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984., 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., George Barker was a prolific New York stereographer in the 1860s whose gallery catered to the tourist trade in Niagara Falls.
Creator: Barker, George, 1844-1894
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Barker - Centennial [P.9047.69]

Title: East front of Main Building
Description: Oblique view of the east front of the Main Building on the grounds of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. In the foreground, a white man rests his right foot on a box as he has his shoes polished by an African American man, who kneels on the ground. Two white men browse through a box of goods that an African American man peddler, attired in a white hat and apron, carries on a strap around his shoulders. Two other white men stand to the right and look at the viewer. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title and photographer's imprint on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., 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., Gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984., 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., George Barker was a prolific New York stereographer in the 1860s whose gallery catered to the tourist trade in Niagara Falls.
Creator: Barker, George, 1844-1894
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Barker - Centennial [P.9047.69]

Title: Cotton field
Description: Depicts African American women and children picking and collecting cotton in the field. In the center, an African American woman, attired in a short-sleeved dress, stands facing left with a bag slung over her shoulder. In the left, a child looks at the viewer, and an African American woman, attired in a dress with the sleeves rolled to the elbows and an apron, holds cotton in her hands in front of a large basket filled with cotton. In the right, a young girl holds a large basket filled with cotton on her head. Two more women and a child look at the viewer. In the background is a house and trees., Contains paper label on verso printed by Jas. L. Gow, including photographer's imprint and advertisement: A large stock of Views of Negro Groups, Cabins, Teams, Cotton Fields, and Plants, etc. kept constantly on hand. Also, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina Views., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Advertised in The Philadelphia photographer, March 1875, p. 96., Purchase 2002., 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., James A. Palmer (1825-1896) was an Irish American photographer who produced thousands of stereographs about life in Aiken, South Carolina and Georgia, specializing in photographs of the African American community.
Creator: Palmer, J. A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - miscellaneous photographer - Palmer [P.2002.4.6]

Title: Cotton field
Description: Depicts African American men, women, and children picking and collecting cotton in the field. In the center, an African American man, attired in a long-sleeved shirt that is open at the chest, holds a handful of cotton that he puts in a bag strapped across his chest as he looks at the viewer. In front of him is a basket full of cotton. In the left, an African American woman, attired in a head kerchief, a plaid, long-sleeved dress, and a dark-colored apron, stands and looks at the viewer. To the left, two people are bent over at the waist picking cotton. Two children and two women stand in the field and look at the viewer. In the background is a house and trees., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Contains paper label on verso printed by Jas. L. Gow, including photographer's imprint and advertisement: A large Stock of Views of Negro Groups, Cabins, Teams, Cotton Fields, and Plants, etc. kept constantly on hand. Also, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina Views., Advertised in The Philadelphia photographer, March 1875, p. 96. [LCP Per P 81]., Purchase 2002., 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., James A. Palmer (1825-1896) was an Irish American photographer who produced thousands of stereographs about life in Aiken, South Carolina and Georgia, specializing in photographs of the African American community.
Creator: Palmer, J. A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - miscellaneous photographer - Palmer [P.2002.4.5]

Title: Col. R. S. Strader horses - Bulletsville Boone Co Ky
Description: View showing five horses, including Burlington and Draco, under the inspection of two men standing near a dog, in front of a stable in Bulletsville, KY. Shows Draco, grandson of the great trotter Alexander's Abdallah, attached to a manned sulky and the other horses controlled by groomsmen, including an African American man. Two white women and two young, white boys stand near the men., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Burlington Draco - in sulky., Manuscript note on verso: Burlington/ 1870 by Wyatt's Abdallah son of Alexander Abdallah; dau a mare by Yankee Boy. Draco/ 1853 by Perkin's Young [Morril?]; dam the dam of Danville Boy & Draco 2nd., Gift of Helen Beitler, 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Schreiber & Sons specialized in photography of domestic animals and photographed almost every noted horse in North America during the latter nineteenth century.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - Animals [P.2002.67.37]

Title: [Diorama of a scene from the American Revolution displayed at the 27th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, held in the Main Building, Fairmount Park, Phila., 1880]
Description: Shows the diorama displayed at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1880 showing British troops during the Revolutionary War marching in formation past a residence adorned with a banner inscribed, "Don't Tread on Me." The family stands outside of the house, and an African American woman domestic stands in the front doorway., Title supplied by cataloger., Text printed on mount: 27th Annual Exhibition of the Penna State. Agricultural Society, held in the Main Building, Fairmount Park, Phila., 1880., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Francis James Dallett, 1994., 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: E.F. Hovey, pub., 813 Arch St
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Hovey - Exhibitions [P.9461.2]

Title: View in old park
Description: View looking north from the south garden, adorned with trees and benches, at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. In the left, an African American, attired in a bowler hat, a white shirt, a dark-colored waistcoat, and pants, possibly a groundskeeper, stands with a broom. Two park guards stand and converse in front of the Diana statue at the base of the promenade leading to the inclined walkway on Reservoir Hill. Another man walks down the promenade toward the guards. In the foreground, a man, attired in a bowler hat, a white shirt, and dark-colored pants, stands leaning his left arm on a tree with his back to the viewer. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872. The south garden was laid out in the 1830s., Attributed to James Cremer., Title from manuscript note on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Accessioned 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Public Utilities [P.9260.51]

Title: [Pine grove, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View from a grove of pine trees in West Fairmount Park looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. In the right foreground, two African American men park guards, attired in caps and uniformed suits, stand in a field divided with wooden fences. In the distant background, the New York Connecting Railway Bridge is visible., Possibly by R. Newell & Son., Title supplied by cataloger., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note written on verso: "Pine Grove.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Jane Carson James, 1990.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9299.44]

Title: Wissahickon
Description: View showing the Wissahickon Creek hostelry, Old Log Cabin Hotel, reconstructed out of the log cabin built during William Henry Harrison's 1840 presidential campaign, operated by Tommy Llewellyn. The hotel containing a dining room, drinking room, and ladies saloon, also displayed wildlife as a novelty attraction. A white woman and an African American man with a horse stand in front of the hotel. The creek is visible in the foreground. The hotel was razed in 1872., Title from manuscript note on mount., Inscribed in negative: 76., Orange mount with rounded corners., Reissue of a circa 1870 view entitled "Old Log Cabin" by R. Newell & Son of Philadelphia from the series "Stereoscopic views. Fairmount Park views.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James, 1990., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Hotels [P.9299.50]

Title: Indian Rock Hotel
Description: Exterior, oblique view depicting the roadhouse hotel opened in 1848 by Reuben Sands north of Rex Avenue Bridge near Indian Rock in the Wissahickon Valley. Shows the two-story building with a covered veranda. Two white men stand leaning against the columns on the veranda, while another man stands on the ground. A white woman with a young girl stand behind the bannisters on the second-story veranda. An African American man, attired in an apron, stands in the left on a staircase beside the house. The hotel was sold to the Fairmount Park Commission in 1872 and Sands opened a second Indian Rock Hotel at a nearby location., Pale pink mount with rounded corners., Paper label on verso listing over sixty Fairmount Park stereoscopic views published by the firm., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Joseph D. Bicknell's The Wissahickon in History, Song, and Story written for the City History Society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of October 10, 1906 (Philadelphia, 1908), p. 18., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell and Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Newell - Hotels [P.9260.69]

Title: Perkins & McFarland, late of Rand, Perkins & Co. Sole manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers in the air-tight standard heaters & cooking ranges
Description: Photographic advertisement depicting the storefront of Perkins & McFarland Standard Heaters, Ranges, and Stoves at 211 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia. Heaters, stoves, and equipment parts line the sidewalk in front of the store. An African American man ascends from the cellar entryway. Stove parts and pipes jut out from open windows. A broadside for "The Black Crook" at Arch St. Theatre is pasted to the side of the building. Partial views of the buildings on either side of "Perkins & McFarland" are visible., Title printed on mount., Printed above title: E. F. Perkins; E. McFarland., Purchase 1986., 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: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Photographs-Unidentified Photographers-Business [P.9153.3]

Title: The Centennial - George's Hill from Elm Avenue
Description: View from the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 depicting an African American man standing next to an occupied horse-drawn passenger cart decorated with flags and posters in front of George's Hill in Fairmount Park. The observation tower upon the hill, and several sheds, pavilions, and tents are seen in the background., Title and photographer's imprint on mount., Number 1017 in a series of views entitled: The Centennial., Manuscript note on verso: No. 21., Manuscript note on verso: Isaac Sterns Burlington, VT., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984., George Barker was a prolific New York stereographer in the 1860s whose gallery catered to the tourist trade in Niagara Falls.
Creator: Barker, George, photographer
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Barker [P.9047.20]

Title: Lincoln Monument, Phila. Park
Description: View showing the Lincoln Monument at the entrance (Kelly and Lemon Hill Drives) of Fairmount Park surrounded by men who stand and look at the viewer, including white men spectators and three men guards, one possibly African American, attired in caps with insignia pinned to their lapels, and holding swords. In the right, two white men sit within a horse-drawn carriage. Sculpted by Randolph Rogers, Abraham Lincoln is depicted seated with a quill in his hand after just signing the Emancipation Proclamation. The statue rests upon a pedestal adorned with sculpted garland, bronze eagles, and the City of Philadelphia's Coat of Arms. The granite base is adorned with four panels inscribed with a dedication to and quotes from Lincoln of which two are visible. Unveiled in September 1871, the monument was commissioned by the Lincoln Monument Association, one of the first such associations formed in the country to raise funds for a city monument in memory of Lincoln. City Park Hotel is seen in the background., Manuscript note written on verso: K. Duefor? Oct. 21, 1871., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Distributor's label on verso: E. Borhek & Son, Opticians, No. 628 Chestnut St., Monument described in Fairmount Park Association's Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's treasures in bronze and stone (New York: Walker Publishing Company, 1974) p. 46-52. (LCP Print Room Uy 8, 3208.F)., Monument described in Penny Balkin Bach's Public art in Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992) p. 49-50, 198. (LCP Print Room Is 4, 9379.Q)., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Co., photographer
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Monuments and statues [P.9260.68]

Title: Children's goat carriage. American scenery. Central Park N.Y
Description: View of an open air children's goat carriage steered by an African American man coach driver in New York City's Central Park. The driver, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a dark-collared suit, and a brimmed hat, holds the reins to two white goats with horns. Riding as passengers in the carriage are two white girls, attired in fine hats and coats. In the right background, a white woman and two children sit on a bench., Title from item., One of a series of copy issues entitled: American Scenery., Gift of Saul Koltnow, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereographs - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia-New York [P.9022.23]

Title: A group of natives, Chipigana. Tropical Scenery. Darien Expedition
Description: Stereoview depicting a group of Panamanian Black men and boys posed in front of huts and next to their half-made canoes. View from T.O. Selfridge's 1870-1871 naval expedition of the Isthmus of Darien. Authorized by the U.S. Government, Selfridge explored and surveyed the area as a possible route for a ship canal in Panama. He was accompanied by photographer T.H. O'Sullivan in 1870 and Philadelphia photographer John Moran in 1871., Title from item., Publication information supplied by Darrah., Manuscript note on verso: Bessie J. Smith., J.F. Jarvis was the largest manufacturer of stereoviews in Washington D.C. during the late 19th century. He published his own trade list and numerous views of government surveys., Gift of Eleanor Smith, 1977., 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: Jarvis, J. F. (John Fillis), 1849-1931
Date: [1870 or 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Darien Expedition [66653.D.10]

Title: International live stock exhibition, Philad'a., 1876
Description: View of the "Herefords" shed and three herefords (a type of cattle bred for market) on view during the livestock display at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. The cattle display was held under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture from September 21st until October 4th. A number of men stand around the shed and near the cattle and look at the viewer. An African American man holds the bridle of one of the steer on display before the shed., Title printed on mount., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1876 by E.F. Hovey, publisher, 1113 Chestnut St. Phila., Gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984 [P.9047.66]., 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: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Hovey [P.9047.66]

Title: Future rulers of Florida U.S.A
Description: Racist scene showing an African American family of a mother, father, and four children seated on the porch to a wooden dwelling. In the left, the mother breastfeeds her youngest child, a baby. She is seated next to her three older, but young children. The father sits to the right on the other side of the children who sit and stand. He has his arm behind the next to youngest child. The mother is attired in a kerchief, plain shirtwaist, and long, plain skirt. The father wears a vest, shirt sleeves, pants, and work boots. The children are attired in worn shirts and the oldest also in worn pants., Title printed on negative., Yellow mount with curved corners., Date inferred from format of stereograph., Gift of Ivan Jurin., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo - Portraits & Genre [P.2019.2.2]

Title: Mason's challenge blacking Philadelphia
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist and whimsically absurd advertisement, including an African American shoe shiner, to promote the premier manufactory of blacking established in 1832 by James S. Mason. Depicts the shoe-shiner "blacking" a boot near a white shoe-shine boy with a puppet and a dog. The shoe-shiner, portrayed with grotesque features, holds a brush overhead in his right hand and a boot over the hand of his other arm. He wears a button-down shirt with an open collar, suspenders, and breeches. To his right, is an oversize boot on which the boy has a propped a puppet. The puppet is an African American dandy-like character. The puppet attired in a jacket and high collar shirt holds an umbrella above his head. A dog, as he looks behind, flees from the puppet. The dog's face is reflected in the foot of the boot. The young shoe-shiner, attired in a cap, jacket, and breeches, smiles and points toward the dog. Scene also includes an oversize opened tin of blacking in the foreground. Following the death of Mason in 1888, his son Richard assumed the business which was in operation into the 20th century., Date inferred from address of engraving firm., Advertising text printed on verso: July 15th, Reduced prices Mason's Challenge Blacking. Net prices, ornamental cases, adapted for display in retail stores, or shipping, without re-packing, holding three dozen each. No. 1, or Small Size, per doz. 25 cts. " 2, or N. Medium Size, " 30 ." " 4, or Large Size, "50." To obtain this Blacking in the original Show Cases, not less than three dozen of a kind should be ordered. The American News Company, New York.
Date: [ca. 1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - unid. photo. - Advertisements - M [P.2016.65]

Title: [Mount Pleasant mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Exterior view of the front of Mount Pleasant Mansion (i.e. Arnold Mansion) main house built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. View shows wildflowers in bloom on the front lawn and benches lining the front walk. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Date inferred from type of mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Series title printed on mount., Title supplied by cataloger., Title printed on mount erroneously identifies site as Washington's Headquarters - Fairmount Park., Gift of Raymond Holstein, 2011., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Fairmount Park [P.2011.47.1013]

Title: Customer. "Rather cool weather Pete, for a close crop like that." Pete. "Can't help it Boss---the proprietor says long hairs gits in de wittles."
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a racist, comic scene showing an African American waiter serving a bearded, white man seated at a restaurant table. The African American waiter is depicted with exaggerated features, including an oblong-shaped head. He wears a black suit, a white shirt with a high collar, and an apron around his waist. The waiter stands beside the table that is covered in a tablecloth. He rests his left hand on it and holds a bowl of soup on a saucer in his right. The customer, attired in a tuxedo, rests his left arm near a pitcher, glass, napkin and condiment display on the table. In the background, a bald man, sits and eats at a nearby table. Paneling adorns the walls of the restaurant on which the morphed shadow of the waiter is visible., Title printed on negative., Yellow mount with curved corners., Date inferred from attire of depicted figures., Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo - Portraits & Genre [P.2018.16.8]

Title: Uncle Jimmie, Beaufort, S.C
Description: Stereograph depicting “Uncle Jimmie,” an older African American man knitting the corner edge of a mesh fishing net extended out in front of him from a pole on the porch of a wood cabin. Shows the man, with receding, short, cropped hair, seated, and in profile. He wears a white, long-sleeve, button-down shirt; dark-colored pants; and work shoes. The man, possibly Gullah, uses a flat rule and needle on the edge of the net. Behind the man, in the background, an open door to an entryway with an open window is visible. A vertical beam is also visible in the left of the image. Knitting fish net was and is one of a number of Gullah traditions (customs developed by enslaved Africans living along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina) practiced in Beaufort, S.C., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of Wilson & Havens partnership., Orange mount with rounded corners., Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Wilson & Havens, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photographer - Wilson & Havens [P.2020.38]

Title: Diorama - Washington at Yorktown
Description: View of the diorama with mannequin figures and a painted backdrop exhibited during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 recreating a scene from the Battle at Yorktown in October 1781. Shows troops marching and parading before officers, including Washington, on horseback. An African American man stands beside a horse, who is possibly a portrayal of Washington's enslaved valet William Lee. The diorama by Colonel F. Lienard was displayed within a skating rink at Twenty-Third and Chestnut Streets. Figures of Generals Lafayette and Rochambeau were also portrayed., Title from item., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., 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., See "Washington at Yorktown," Philadelphia inquirer, December 13, 1875., See related print [Philadelphia roller skating rink, Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia] (trade card - Philadelphia [P.9839])., Purchase 2001.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: Centennial Photographic Company
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Company [P.9982.2]

Title: [Mr. and Mrs. Fairman Rogers chaperoning coach of young ladies, May 10, 1879]
Description: Shows the Philadelphia engineer and noted coaching enthusiast and his wife Rebecca in the cab of a four-in-hand coach in a landscape setting. Several young ladies from prominent Philadelphia families sit on the deck behind the couple. Two African American groomsmen stand near the horses. Rogers was the founder of the Philadelphia Coaching Club and the first person in Philadelphia to drive a four-in-hand, which was painted by Thomas Eakins., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Saturday May 10, 1879. Mr. & Mrs. Rodgers [sic]; Hattie Meigs; Annie Williams; Lily Sturgis; Marian Rawle; Emily Newbold; Maidie Hart; Maud Potts; May McMichael; Mrs. Dick; Harriet Etting., Purchase 2010., 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.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons
Date: May 10, 1879
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - Schreiber (by photographer) [P.2010.18.1]

Title: [Stereograph showing the office of the Grand Union Hotel advertising Maine druggists J.H. Irish & Co. on verso]
Description: Interior view of the office of the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. showing two employees at the front desk. An African American man, attired in a suit, stands and leans his left elbow on the desk. A white man, attired in a suit, stands behind the desk with a large book opened in front of him. Architectural details of the large space include columns draped in flower garlands, a tiled floor, and a large clock hanging above the desk. Built originally as Gideon Putnam's tavern and boarding house in 1802, the hotel formed through many expansions and additions. The name of the hotel as it appears on the stereograph was adopted in 1869. Demolished 1852-1853., Title supplied by cataloger., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Advertisement printed on verso printed by Wm. Miller Co., 57 Cedar, N.Y.: J.H. Irish & Co., druggists and apothecaries, dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals, fancy and toilet articles, school books, stationery, periodicals, etc., Gorham, Maine. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - I [P.9828.6186]

Title: [Unidentified African American man]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a seated African American man superimposed in front of a background of an ornate parlor interior. Sitter, attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, a jacket with large, decorative buttons, and pants, sits facing forward with his hands on his knees and his head slightly looking right., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitter., 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., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - unidentified male [P.8910.36]

Title: A Ku Klux Klan party in North Carolina
Description: Altered photograph depicting the "Plan of the Contemplated Murder of John Campbell." Shows nine Ku Klux Klansmen (comical faces drawn on their hoods) surrounding a kneeling noosed white man - John Campbell - holding his hat. A Klansman holds the noose. Campbell was a leading member of the Republican Party in Poplar, North Carolina whose political affiliation was adjudicated a crime by the Klan. On August 10, 1871, the Klan abducted and sentenced him to be hung in the woods near his residence. A secret serviceman Joseph G. Hester had infiltrated the North Carolina order and stopped the hanging and arrested the Klansmen. Soon thereafter Hester commissioned a photograph with Campbell reenacting the Klan tribunal with "actors" attired in the Klan's confiscated regalia. The actors have been purported to be the African American acquaintances of Campbell. The photograph was distributed to the Northern press and authorities in Washington D.C. Engravings with commentary after the photograph were later issued and circulated., Title from manuscript note on verso authored by Charles E. Smith., Manuscript note on verso: A Klu Klux Klan party captured in Western N. Carolina in 1871 by a company of the 4th artillery, Captain F.G. Smith & photographed on the Spot. Charles E. Smith., Manuscript note on verso: My nephew said that the prisoner would not stand still to be photographed, as he took off their disguises & put them on some of his own men. A crowd of the natives stood around watching the operation. One of them said- "I bet that them Yankees will send that picture up North" "& lie about it & say that it is took of we uns, while it is their own men insich, all the while-" "It's just like them mean yankees to do it", Charles Emory Smith (1842-1908), a United States Minister, was also a prominent political journalist and Republican delegate who as editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia newspaper, "The Press" cemented the journal's reputation as the leading Republican paper of Pennsylvania., 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., Variant photograph of the reenacted scene in the collections of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO., See research file - Campbell, John.
Date: [1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo-unidentified-Associations [5779.F.153]

Title: [Emma Louisa Gutekunst as the "Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe"]
Description: Full-length portrait of Emma Louisa Gutekunst depicted as the Mother Goose character, the old woman who lived in a shoe. She wears her hair in bangs and is attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white collar and cuffs. She stands inside an oversized shoe and holds a doll in her right hand. A variety of different sized dolls are all over the shoe and also on the floor, including two African American dolls., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the photographer at the address and depicted age of the sitter., Photographer's imprint on verso: F. Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia., Manuscript note written on verso: F. Gutekunst's daughter as the "Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe" (photo he gave me, together with childhood picture of Adelina Patti)., Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection – Photos [P.2017.120.140]

Title: Effect of the Fifteenth Amendment Indignant mother, "Cum in out of dat mud right straight! Fust ting you'll know you'll be took for Irish chil'en!"
Description: Photographic reproduction of a drawing after a racist cartoon published in Harper's Bazar in 1871 alluding to the social and political tensions between Irish and African American people following passage of the right to vote amendment. Shows an African American woman, a broom in one hand, her other hand on her hip, at her front porch, watching her two sons playing in the dirt. The woman is portrayed in racist caricature and speaks in the vernacular. She has a rotund figure and is attired in a head kerchief, a button-down shirt, an ankle-length skirt, and an apron. Her children make a mud pie beside the porch and in front of a tall wooden fence. Another African American boy, attired in a broad-rimmed hat and slipper-like shoes too large for his feet, sits and balances himself on the fence. View also includes a dust pan, the edge of a bench, and a tall weed near the mother's feet., Title from item., Date inferred from similar cartoon published in Harper's Bazar, March 4, 1871., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Events [P.2015.29]

Title: [Unidentified African American man with a dog]
Description: Full-length portrait of an African American man, wearing a mustache and attired in a white collared shirt, a waistcoat, a jacket, a riding coat, and pants, standing in front of a backdrop adorned with ornate decorative columns. He holds a walking stick, crosses his right leg over his left, and leans on a balustrade on which a top hat rests. A white and brown spaniel dog lies in the foreground., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 2001., 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., Parlor Gallery, operated by Lewis Horning, was in business at 523 South 9th Street from around 1876 until 1885.
Creator: Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - photographer - Parlor [P.9981.7]

Title: Gov. Andrews, Mass
Description: Half-length portrait of John Albion Andrew, Massachusetts governor, abolitionist, supporter of John Brown, and organizer of the first African American Civil War regiment. Andrew, attired in a white collared shirt, a dark-colored bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, and pants, sits on a wooden chair with his head turned to the left., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Purchase 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Warren, S., photographer
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Andrew [P.8752.2a]

Title: [Abraham Lincoln]
Description: Bust-length photographic reproduction of engraved portrait vignette of the 16th President of the United States and author of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, looks right., Title supplied by cataloger., Accessioned 2001., 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: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Lincoln [P.9881]

Title: Anna Dickinson
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker orator, lecturer, author, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. Dickinson, wearing her hair tied back with curls around her face and attired in a patterned dress with a white lace collar, a brooch, and drop earrings, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note on verso., Probably by Philadelphia photographer Peregrine Cooper., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996., 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: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Dickinson [P.9516.3]

Title: [Unidentified African American woman and boy]
Description: Copy print of a circa 1850 daguerreotype of a fair-skinned African American woman, seated, holding the hand of a fair-skinned boy, probably her son, who stands next to her. In the right, the woman wears her hair with waves, parted in the middle, and tied behind her head and is attired in a long-sleeved, striped dress with white cuffs and a white collar or scarf tied around her neck. In the left, the boy wears his hair parted to the right with waves and is attired in a long-sleeved shirt with buttons down the center, a white collar or scarf around his neck, and light-colored pants., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of unidentified 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., Schreiber & Son(s), a Philadelphia partnership of father, George Schreiber, and his several sons, specialists in portraiture and animal portraiture, were in business from 1857 until 1900, operating at 818 Arch Street from 1867 until 1879.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - photographer - Schreiber & Son [8313.F.10c]

Title: Fred. Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist and orator. Douglass, with white hair and a mustache and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a dark-colored waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right while his eyes look to the left., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., 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., New York photographers Napoleon Sarony and Jeremiah Gurney & Son, two of a small number specializing in celebrity portraits, produced a majority of such portraiture in the 1860s and 1870s.
Creator: Sarony's and Gurney & Son's, photographer
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Douglass [P.2282.112]

Title: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, sits holding a book, her elbow resting on a side table, a drape with tassels in the background., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date from duplicate in private collection., Attributed to Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown from inscription in modern hand on verso., 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., Frederick A. Wenderoth, William Curtis Taylor, and Frederick Brown, a Philadelphia photographic firm established in 1865, operated until around 1884. Wenderoth, a technician in the studio of Samuel Broadbent starting around 1860, assumed the business of his employer, with his first partner Taylor, around 1863.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, photographer
Date: photographed December 1860, printed ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Mott [(2)5750.F.150c]

Title: Fred. Douglas[s]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist taken at Warren's studio at 289 and 465 Washington Street, Boston. Douglass, wearing a beard and white hair and attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces left. Portrait was also used for the frontispiece to Douglass's third autobiography, "Life and Times" (1881)., Title from manuscript note on verso., Name of photographer and date of photograph supplied by Martha A. Sandweiss, ed. Photography in the nineteenth century (New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1991), p. 60., 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: Warren, G. K. (George Kendall), 1834-1884, photographer
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Douglass [P.9363.9]

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: Class of '78, University of Pennsylvania
Description: Group portrait of male students, attired in suits and most with hats and canes, including an African American man, posed on the steps of College Hall. According to the University's history, the first African American student matriculated in 1879., Title from mount., Manuscript note on verso: Prichett. Probably, Thomas Barclay Prichett, University of Pennsylvania, class of 1878., Purchase 1980., 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., Suddards & Fennemore, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers William L. Suddards and George H. Fennemore from around 1870 until 1879, specialized in portraiture.
Creator: Suddards & Fennemore, photographer
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education [P.8612]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a jacket with velvet lapels, faces left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of photographer and presented age of sitter., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996., 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 as opposed to technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Phillips [P.9516.2]

Title: Mrs. Amanda Smith
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the African American Methodist evangelist preacher, missionary, and temperance advocate who was born to enslaved parents in Maryland. Shows Smith, standing, slightly turned to her right, and attired in medium-colored, Quaker-like garb including a shawl, shirtwaist with an upright lace collar adorned with a pendant, skirt, and scoop bonnet. She holds a book, possibly a Bible, in her right hand, top edge down, and with her fingers interspersed between a few pages. A chair is partially visible in the right of the image and dark-colored drapery serves as the backdrop. Smith, her freedom bought by her father when a child, entered preaching in 1869. Known as a compelling speaker and singer, she preached at Methodist Episcopal churches throughout the East and Midwest, including Philadelphia. In 1878 she felt called to travel to Keswick, England for a Methodist convention and remained in the country to minister and then worked as a missionary in India (1879-1881) and West Africa (1882-1890). In 1890 she returned to the United States and settled in Chicago where she was also a prominent member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (Smith joined in the 1870s). In 1893 her "Autobiography" was published, from which she began to raise funds for an orphanage for African American children. 1n 1899 the Amanda Smith Orphan's Home, later the Amanda Smith Industrial Home opened in Harvey, Il. The home was razed by fire in 1918., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso. Also includes a vignette depicting the British coat of arms., Mount designer's imprint printed on verso., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2018, p. 59 - 60., RVCDC, Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Pettitt, Alfred, -1880
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Smith [P.2018.13]

Title: Amy Smith, April 17, 1876
Description: Half-length portrait of Smith, a young African American woman, posed to the left. She looks forward toward the viewer. She wears a plaid-patterned garment, a white, upturned collar, and a bowtie-like ribbon at her neck. Her hair is pulled back and she wears a hair band. Smith, born in Virginia resided in Philadelphia by 1870. Smith was buried at the Harmony Burial Ground, the burial ground of the African Friends to Harmony at 41st and Chestnut Street in West Philadephia. African Friends, founded in 1826, sought to provide a cemetery for low-income African Americans to be interred with dignity and respect. Several of those buried in the cemetery were associated with the Monument Baptist Church or the Mount Pisgah A.M.E. Church. The property was sold in 1910. In 2020, the remains of over 160 burials were transferred to Eden Cemetery., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Printed on verso: No. [57860]. Duplicated any time if orderd by the original, or by a responsible person., Manuscript note on verso: died March 23d 1878., Partially purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC
Creator: Reimer, Benjamin F., approximately 1826-1899, photographer
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Smith [P.2023.17.1]

Title: Go way white trash, dis chile dance yer blind
Description: Reproduction of a sketch by G. W. Leonard depicting an African American shoeshine boy dancing to the musical accompaniment of a white boy and girl, while a white boy mocks him in the background. The smiling African American boy, portrayed in racist caricature with exaggerated features, is in the center of the image. He is attired in a white, long-sleeved open neck shirt, baggy striped pants with suspenders, and a hat with turned up brims, his hands at his side, and mid step. To his right, stand a white boy playing a concertina and a white girl playing the violin. The boy is attired in a newsboy's cap, a jacket, and pants with patches at the knees. The girl is attired in a short-sleeved, calf-length, light-colored dress, with a sash draped over her right shoulder (the one on which she plays the violin). A shoeshine box marked (with the letter s's backwards), "t. Smith. Boss Shine, 5 cts.," rests near the feet of the trio of children. In the background, a white boy, attired in torn and worn clothes and with mop-like hair, appears in a clomping stance with his arms raised to his shoulders, his back leg bent at the knee, and his other leg kicked out. His hat lays on the ground near him., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1877, by J. P. Soule., John P. Soule was a Boston photographer who also published stereographs and cartes de visite. He served in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts at the end of the Civil War., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund and funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - caricatures and cartoons - G [P.2015.63]

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