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Title: Views of a wedding ceremony
Description: Series of titled wedding photographs include "Kissing the bride," "The wedding march," and "The blessing". Images depict a bride and groom with a bridal party in a room full of plants and shows the groom leaning in to kiss the bride; the entire group posing for the photographer; and everyone kneeling and praying in a circle., Copyrighted 1897 on negative by William H. Rau., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; London; Hamburg, Ger.; and Milan, Italy., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., 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.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.9765.1-3]

Title: Room 5, Lincoln School, Pittsburg, Pa
Description: Elementary school class portrait, including African American children, posed outside their school. Shows the forty-six boys and girls sitting and standing in six rows facing the viewer. In the second row from the bottom, a white girl holds up a slate that reads, Room 5 Lincoln School, Pittsburg, Pa. 1896. The young white woman teacher is seated in the left., Title from item., Gift of Perot Walker, 1981., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - education [P.8684.34]

Title: [Group portrait in front of the rear of a frame residence at an unidentified location]
Description: Portrait of a large group standing before a picket fence before a house at an unidentified location. In the right, five white men stand and sit, attired in uniforms, possibly baseball uniforms. In the center, a group of white men, women, and children, possibly a family, sit and stand and look at the viewer. In the left, a group of African Americans, who possibly work with the family, include two women one of whom holds a baby, a young girl, and a man who holds the reins of a horse. Several dogs are also in the portrait., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by attire of the sitters., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - family [P.9260.615]

Title: [Group portraits aboard the Ericsson en route to Betterton, Md.]
Description: Depicts a large group of people sitting on an Ericsson steamboat from Philadelphia, en route to Betterton, Md., a popular summer resort town made accessible to visitors via the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Sitters include William H. Doering, Catharine Rupp Doering, and their children Albert and Karl., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.126-128]

Title: [Group of young girls posing in the water, near Betterton, Md.]
Description: Depicts five female bathers posing in the water. The shoreline is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.129]

Title: [Group in a sailboat, Chesapeake Bay.]
Description: Depicts a group of men and women sitting on a sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay. Includes the photographer, William H. Doering (left), and his wife Catharine Rupp Doering (second woman from the left). The boy in the middle is one probably of their sons, Albert or Karl., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.111 & 112]

Title: [Group portrait of bathers, Chesapeake Bay.]
Description: Depicts a group of men, women and children standing in shallow water and posing in their bathing suits in the Chesapeake Bay. Includes Albert Lindsay (second from the left) and possibly Albert and Karl Doering (crouching boys in the front row)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.113]

Title: [Bathers swimming in the Chesapeake Bay.]
Description: Depicts various men, women and children swimming in the Chesapeake Bay. Includes bathers splashing, playing and posing for pictures in shallow water. One bather dives into the water from the shoulders of two men. Depicts sailboats in the far distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.117-122]

Title: [Group portrait of the Doerings and Lindsays in Fairmount Park.]
Description: View of Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer, Al Lindsay, the photographer's brother George Doering, and Mrs. Lindsay sitting on a bench near their bicycles on a trail in Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.40]

Title: [Wooden foot bridge near the old Livezey mill on the Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia.]
Description: View of an unidentified man with two young girls leaning against the wooden supports of a foot bridge near a dilapidated stone mill building on the Livezey homestead., Title supplied by cataloguer., Thomas Shoemaker constructed a dwelling and outbuildings, including a grist mill, from 1733 to 1739. Thomas Livezey purchased the property, including a grist mill, from Shoemaker in 1747 and named it Glen Fern. In 1909 became the Valley Green Canoe Club., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.50]

Title: [Unknown group eating watermelon.]
Description: Depicts young men and women sitting in the grass eating watermelon., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.66]

Title: [Group portrait of unknown young persons standing in a row.]
Description: Depicts five young women and three young men standing in a row in a wooded area. The fifth person from the front may be Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer. The Doering family dog's head is visible in the image., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.67]

Title: [Group portrait of three women and a baby.]
Description: View of two women sitting in the foreground and one woman standing behind them, holding a smiling baby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.68]

Title: [Woman holding a baby.]
Description: Depicts a woman sitting in an unidentified backyard and holding a baby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.69]

Title: [Four children in a swing suspended from a tree.]
Description: Depicts the photographer's three young nephews and an unidentified young girl posing from a wooden swing suspended from a tree. George Doering, the photographer's brother, stands in the background. A baby carriage is visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.74]

Title: [Group portrait of the Doerings with Mrs. Lindsay in a wooded area.]
Description: Depicts five people sitting on tree stumps in a wooded area including the photographer's brother, George Doering; the photographer's wife, Catharine Rupp Doering, with their son, Albert Doering; Mrs. Lindsay and an unknown man., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.75]

Title: [Group portrait with Catharine Rupp Doering and Charles Rupp in a wooded area.]
Description: View of three men, one of them Charles Rupp, the photographer's brother-in-law, with Catharine Rupp Doering, the photographer's wife. She is standing to the side, wearing a hat and holding an umbrella. One of the men is reclining on tree branches. Charles Rupp stands in the center holding a cigar and facing a man sitting on a tree stump, offering him a bottle., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.76]

Title: [Group portrait of the Doerings and Lindsays sitting on a large tree limb.]
Description: Depicts Albert Lindsay, Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), Mrs. Lindsay and George Doering (brother of the photographer), sitting on a large tree limb., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.77]

Title: [Group portrait of the Doerings and Lindsays sitting on a large tree limb.]
Description: Depicts Albert Lindsay, Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), Mrs. Lindsay and George Doering (brother of the photographer), sitting on a large tree limb., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.78]

Title: [Doering family canoeing on Perkiomen Creek, Pa.]
Description: Views of the Doering family canoeing along the calm waters of Perkiomen Creek. Includes Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer); Annie Doering (photographer's sister-in-law); Jules Doering (photographer's brother); Jules' three sons; George Doering (photographer's brother) and the photographer's sons, Albert and Karl., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.96 & 97]

Title: [George Doering and two nephews overlooking a stream in the Pocono Mountains, Pa.]
Description: Depicts George Doering (brother of the photographer) lounging with his two young nephews, Jules and Bill, near a large tree, overlooking a stream in the Pocono Mountains. One image focuses on the small group and the other captures the stream, showing the standing figure of George Doering and his nephews off to the side., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.98 & 99]

Title: [Group portrait in front of a stone mill building, Fairmount Park.]
Description: View of men and women posed in front of a stone mill building in Valley Green, including Catharine Rupp Doering (center), wife of the photographer, Mrs. Lindsay (far right) and Albert Lindsay (leaning in doorway). A woman seated in the front row holds a black dog. Panels are missing from the window frame in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.56]

Title: [Druid Hill Park, group portrait underneath entranceway, Baltimore, Md.]
Description: Two boys (possibly the photographer's sons Karl and Albert Doering), four women and a man pose underneath of the entrance arcade to Druid Hall Park. Purchased in 1860 to provide recreational space for city residents., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.59]

Title: [Children sitting in the backyard of the Doering residence, 1837 N. Bouvier Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts three children, including Alma Lindsay (left) with her arm around Albert Lindsay Doering (center) and Karl Doering (right), sitting on a back step of the Doering residence. A small planted tree sits in front of them. A wide eyed statue of a dog rests next to Karl Doering against the brick wall., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.150]

Title: [Children sitting in the backyard of the Doering residence, 1837 N. Bouvier Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts four children, including Alma Lindsay, Albert Lindsay Doering (son of the photographer) and Albert's cousins, William and Ed Doering, dressed in wool coats and hats for cold weather and posing on a back step of the Doering residence., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.151]

Title: [Catharine Rupp Doering with the Lindsays on a pathway.]
Description: Depicts Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer) standing and facing Al Lindsay on his bicycle. Standing next to him is his wife, Mrs. Lindsay, who holds a bunch of flowers in her hand. They stand underneath a large tree and in front of an illegible wooden sign., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.200]

Title: [Group sitting on steps of Washington's Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pa.]
Description: Depicts three women, including Mrs. Lindsay and Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), sitting on the front entrance stairs of the Potts residence, built 1758-1777 by Isaac Potts. Later served as George Washington's headquarters. Al Lindsay stands on the top step behind them against the front door., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.172]

Title: [Group sitting on steps of Washington's Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pa.]
Description: Depicts three women, including Mrs. Lindsay and Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), and three men sitting on the front entrance stairs of the Potts residence, built 1758-1777 by Isaac Potts. Later served as George Washington's headquarters., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.173]

Title: [Group sitting on steps of log outbuilding, Washington's Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pa.]
Description: Depicts three women, including Mrs. Lindsay and Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), and four men sitting near the entrance of the log outbuilding near the Potts residence, built 1758-1777 by Isaac Potts. Later served as George Washington's headquarters., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.174]

Title: [Outing in the country, group portrait with Catharine Rupp Doering sitting on steps of unidentified building.]
Description: Depicts two women, one of them Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), sitting with three men on the entrance steps of an unidentified building. One man (right) holds a camera in his lap. An identical entrance is visible nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.175]

Title: [Outing in the country, siblings of William Doering sitting on fence.]
Description: Depicts three siblings of the photographer: George Doering, Catherine Doering Went and Jules Doering, posing near a wooden fence. George and Catherine are sitting on the fence, but Jules stands behind., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.176]

Title: [Outing in the country, group sitting on fence eating lunch.]
Description: Depicts four women and six men gathered near a wooden fence, eating sandwiches. Includes Al Lindsay (left), Mrs. Schwarts (second from left), Mrs. Lindsay (center) and Catharine Rupp Doering (right). Rest unidentified., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.177]

Title: [Outing in the country, group sitting on stairway of unidentified building.]
Description: Depicts four women and four men gathered onto the entrance stairs of an unidentified clapboard building. Their bicycles stand nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.178]

Title: [Group portrait with Al Lindsay and Catharine Rupp Doering on porch of unidentified house.]
Description: Depicts four women, a man, a boy, and a dog sitting on the steps of a porch. Albert Lindsay is the only person standing (left) and Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer) is seated to the far right. Three large single dwellings are visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.161]

Title: [Bicycling trip, with Al Lindsay and William Doering in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts Al Lindsay (standing in the foreground) and William Doering (photographer, right of Al Lindsay) posed with three other men with their bicycles on a trail in Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.165]

Title: [Bicycling trip, observing icicles in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts Al Lindsay (crouching, left) and William Doering (photographer, leaning against rocks) with three other men leaning against a rocky ledge covered with icicles in Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.166]

Title: [Bicycling trip, William Harvey and Catharine Rupp Doering and friends.]
Description: Depicts a group of four men, three women and one boy with bicycles on the side of a road, including Karl Doering (son of the photographer), Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), William Harvey Doering (photographer), Mrs. Schwarts (photographer's sister), her husband Al Schwarts and Al Lindsay., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.190]

Title: [Halloween party, Doering family and friends in costume at the Doering residence, 1837 N. Bouvier Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts eight people standing and posing in a corner, dressed in costumes for a Halloween party held by the Doerings in their N. Bouvier Street home circa 1897. Catharine Rupp Doering (left) is dressed as a man. The three boys have painted their faces black, but one is wearing a bonnet, the other a conical dunce cap. Two of the boys may be dressed as maids. A woman in the center wears a cloth covered with stars on her head., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.156]

Title: [Man and two girls in front of the old Livezey mill on the Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia.]
Description: Distant view of two girls sitting on a stone near a door of the old Livezey Mill. A man stands in the middle of the path leading to a foot bridge nearby. The old stone building is abandoned and windowless., Title supplied by cataloguer., Thomas Shoemaker constructed a dwelling and outbuildings, including a grist mill, from 1733 to 1739. Thomas Livezey purchased the property, including a grist mill, from Shoemaker in 1747 and named it Glen Fern. In 1909 became the Valley Green Canoe Club., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.291]

Title: [Philadelphia children in Blackface]
Description: Group portrait in a house foyer of nine white costumed children in Blackface and holding tin horns. The children, four seated and five standing, are possibly attired to perform a minstrel show for home entertainment. The photographer's daughter, Hazel, is seated on a rocker, in the right, attired in a large ruffled hat with a mask-like cloth veil. "Blackface minstrelsy is a popular entertainment form, originating in the United States in the mid-19th century and remaining in American life through the 20th century. The form is based around stereotypical and racist portrayals of African Americans, including mocking dialect, parodic lyrics, and the application of Black face paint; all designed to portray African Americans as othered subjects of humor and disrespect. Blackface was a dominant form for theatrical and musical performances for decades, both on stage and in private homes.", Title from Library Company catalog, An African American miscellany, p. 27., Description of Blackface minstrelsy from Dorothy Berry, Descriptive Equity and Clarity around Blackface Minstrelsy in H(arvard) T(heater) C(ollection) Collections, 2021., Purchase 1988., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Rich was a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer who produced several candid portraits of family and friends.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rich [P.9266.870]

Title: [African American family in front of their Pennsylvania residence]
Description: Depicts the African American family of four women, two men, and a boy posed in front of their two-story house with a porch, trellis, and picket fence. In the left, an older African American man, wearing white hair, stands behind the picket fence and looks directly at the viewer. A woman, wearing her hair tied up in a bun and attired in a long-sleeved dress with decorative stripes at the bottom, stands with her left arm resting on top of the open gate and looks to the left. Three women, attired in brimmed hats and long-sleeved dresses, stand resting an arm on the picket fence. The barefooted boy, attired in a cap, a shirt, a collared jacket, and pants that end just below the knees, stands next to a dog. In the right, the man, wearing a mustache and attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, holds the reins as he sits on top of a horse, which stands on the sidewalk in front of the house., Title supplied by cataloger., Mount has decorative gold border., See accompanying manuscript notebook United States View Company's Instructions to Salesmen. (P.9502)., Gift of Martha Graybill, 1988., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., The United States View Company, was established by Newton Graybill and Lewis Garman of Richfield, Pennsylvania in the 1890s. It was one of several view companies which employed operators and salesmen to photograph and sell the prints of small town residents posed in front of their homes and community buildings.
Creator: United States View Company, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - United States View Company - residences [P.9253.74]

Title: [Group portrait with George and Catherine Rupp Doering in the country]
Description: Depicts George and Catherine Rupp Doering posed with a group of three white men and three white women sitting and lounging on top of an old stone foundation. Two young African American boys, attired in hats, shirts, jackets, pants, and shoes, sit on the ground in front of the stone wall and look at the viewer. Behind the wall are a number of trees., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Albert L. Doering, 1994., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.70]

Title: [Group portrait with George and Catherine Rupp Doering in the country]
Description: Depicts George and Catherine Rupp Doering posed with a group of three white men and three white women sitting and lounging on top of an old stone foundation. Two young African American boys, attired in hats, shirts, jackets, pants, and shoes, sit on the ground in front of the stone wall and look at the viewer. Behind the wall are a number of trees., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Albert L. Doering, 1994., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.70]

Title: Group on the Hand Cart Taken at Stony Run, Section #10 Whitaker Station, Foreman P.G. McNamee [including] 1. Geo. W. Andrews, F of B & B 2. Dr. Robb, Medical Examiner 3. Wm. A. Pratt, Div Engr M of W 4. P.G. McNamee, Foreman.
Description: View of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company employees who conducted the 111-mile survey of the bridges, culverts and stations along the newly constructed Philadelphia Division connecting Baltimore and Philadelphia. Includes from left to right: George W. Andrews, Dr. Robb, William A. Pratt, and P.G. McNamee.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.129]

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