Genre view of a barefoot girl, seated and holding a spoon, as a pig eats from a bowl in front of her., Copyrighted by Melander & Bro., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: James Cremer, publisher of stereoscopic views, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Stereoscopes and views, wholesale and retail., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, 21, Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Melander, L. M.
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Melander - Genre [P.9022.16]
View of nine musicians, including one woman, with instruments playing outside in a field., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Butterfield, J. B. (Joseph B.)
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Butterfield - Portraits and genre [P.9982.3]
Comic genre scene showing the interior of a drug store or pharmacy. Apothecary and medicine bottles line shelves covering the walls and broadsides advertising Ayers Augue Pills, Hair Invigorators, Castoria, and Catarrh treatments hang on the walls and doors. Shows a practitioner shocking his patient with an electro-magnetic device. An amused employee holding a pestle and mortar watches from the doorway., Copyrighted 1872 by F. G. Weller., Title from publisher's imprint on verso., Publisher's imprint printed on verso within decorative border., Tan mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand.
Creator
Weller, F. G. (Franklin G.), 1833-1877
Date
c1872
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Weller [P.2009.13.1]
Full-length portrait of a Chinese man and Chinese woman seated at a table. In the left, the woman, attired in a decorative headdress and a dress with large, full sleeves, sits on a carved, wooden chair with her feet on a wooden footrest. In the right, the man, attired in a cap, a traditional robe with fur at the cuffs, and cloth slip-on shoes, sits with his legs crossed and faces the viewer. A vase of flowers and possibly a tea set are on a tablecloth-lined table in-between the man and woman., Title from publisher's printed series list on verso with thirty other titled views (No. 1-36)., Date inferred from content., Series number (No. 28) also written in manuscript note on mount below image., Photographer's imprint printed on verso above titled series list., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: S.R. Marrines., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James., Indianapolis photographer D. R. Clark was included in one of eight observation parties sponsored by the United States government to gather information about the December 8, 1874 Transit of Venus. His party traveled to Vladivostock, Russia.
Creator
Clark, D. R., photographer
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Clark - Non-Phila. [P.9299.5]
Comic genre scene depicting a frowning female proprietor asking for money from a male customer patronizing her rustic tavern. She holds her hand out to the surprised man seated on a barrel and rummaging in his pants pocket. Another male customer points and laughs at the man from behind the slightly ajar tavern door. In the background, patrons smoke long pipes, play cards, and are served below a sign inscribed "Pay to Day & Trust Tomorrow.", Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., 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. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.13]
