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Title: [Portrait of a prim, unsmiling, unidentified young woman wearing a white lace collar.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented elliptical. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Dinmore, Phil., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. Small geometric design in center surrounded by scrolls. Fancy scrolls at each corner.
Creator: Dinmore, Walter, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9957.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified young woman, hair parted in the middle, wearing a black ribbon attached to a pin at her neck.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval. Photographer's imprint: Germon. 702 Chest. St. Phila., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. Floral spray within an oval. Lines radiating out to a double elliptical border.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9563]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, young woman, wearing a white lace cap, her right arm is resting on a table. ]
Description: Waist-length portrait of a seated young woman facing forward. She wears a bonnet on her head and her dress is adorned with a large lace collar and cuffs. Her right arm rests on a table., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Pad: Red velvet embossed "Willard Market St. Ab 16th Philada." Geometric border., Mat: Fancy nonpareil., Case: Leather. Geometric design with a small oval surrounded by fanciful leaves within four scrolls. Same design on verso.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., d. 1876, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9636.2]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, bearded man, head tilted slightly to his left.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Germon. 702 Chest. St. Phila., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. Small urn on a pedestal in the center surrounded by ornate scrolls and swirls.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8504.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, bald, bearded man, looking straight ahead, his right arm is resting on a table.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded orange velvet embossed Willard No.1628 Market St. Geometric scrolled border., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical., Case: Leather. A geometric design with a small sunburst within four scrolls. Same design on verso.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., d. 1876, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.16]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified woman.]
Description: She is wearing a black dress with white cuffs and a white lace collar. A cameo pin is at the collar. Her hair is parted severely in the middle and pulled back., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. A double handled urn is within an oval in the center. Scroll work all around. The design of the case is called The Loving Cup and is plate 175 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in some quantity, ca. 1861.
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9491.10]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified girl sitting on a chair.]
Description: Her right foot is on the chair, her left foot is on the floor. She is holding onto the arm of the chair with her right hand. Hand colored pink on dress., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval, Case: Leather. Lacking cover. A rose and leaves are within a 12 sided modified oval. Scroll work all around.
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9491.6]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified older woman, hair parted in the middle, wearing eye glasses.]
Description: White collar and cuffs on her dress. Her right hand is resting on a table, and a book is in her left hand., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet embossed Willard Market St. 1630 Philada. Geometric scrolled border., Mat: Fancy nonpareil., Case: Leather. A short urn with stylized leaves within a fancy scrolled border. Same design on verso.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., d. 1876, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9844.52]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified boy, dressed in white, sitting on a sofa holding a toy musical instrument.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark red velvet with geometric border. Embossed: J. Kolbeck 43 North 8th St. Philada., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather. Spray of three tulips within a nonpareil-like border. Same design on verso.
Creator: Kolbeck, Joseph, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9967.3]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified seated young girl.]
Description: She is wearing an off the shoulder dress with a very full skirt. She has a half-smile on her lips. Two books rest on the table beside her. Hand colored pale pink on her cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. Geometric design with a segmented oval in the center and scrolls all around.
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9491.8]

Title: [Unidentified child]
Description: Half-length, hand-tinted portrait of a young girl wearing an off the shoulder black dress cinched at the waist. Her short hair is parted in the middle with a soft curl on either side of her forehead., Pad:, Mat: Non pareil., Case: Leather with a geometric design. Fancy scrolled border, modified diamond shape in center with circles and scrolls., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.15]

Title: [Full-length portrait of an unidentified older woman seated in a wheelchair]
Description: Full-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified older white woman, seated in a wheelchair positioned at a slight angle. Sitter has gray hair parted in the center and is attired in a dark-colored lace cap with lappets and a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress with a white collar. Her cheeks are tinted pink. She holds a book, with the spine towards the viewer, in her right hand on her lap. Her left arm is propped on the armrest. A small pouch-like bag hangs from the corner of the back of the wheelchair visible in the left of the image. The chair back is covered with a patterned cloth., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on cheeks., Pad: Red velvet with a leaf in the center and decorative scroll border., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Decorative geometric and leaf pattern in the center with leaves in the corners. Same design on verso.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo –unid sitter - ambro [P.2021.31]

Title: [Full-length portrait of an unidentified, seated girl]
Description: Full-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified, young, white girl seated on a chair. Sitter has dark hair parted in the middle with a curl on her forehead. She is attired in an off-the shoulder, boat neckline, short-sleeved dress with decorative swirls around the collar and cuffs, a necklace, white stockings, and black Mary Jane shoes. She sits on a child-sized, wooden chair with her left arm on the armrest and curled right hand, slightly clenched, resting on her lap. Her lips and cheeks are tinted pink., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on lips and cheeks., Pad: Red velvet with a diamond-shaped, decorative scroll in the center., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. The design of the case is called the Oval, Diamond and Circle and is plate 198 in American miniature case art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Uncommon., Gift of Robert DeMento, 2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2012.50]

Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified man]
Description: Half-length, forward facing portrait of a white man. Sitter has dark hair, parted to the right, and pink tinting on his lips and cheeks. He is attired in a white shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket. His slightly curled right hand rests on his leg. His left arm and hand rest on a side table in the right., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of photographer at address in photographer’s imprint., Pink tinting on lips and cheeks., Gift of David Doret., Pad: Brown velvet embossed with photographer’s imprint “Willard, No. 1628 Market St.” in the center., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Mother of pearl inlay in a geometric design in the center. Some pieces of inlay lacking. No design on verso., Oliver H. Willard operated from No. 1628 Market Street, Philadelphia between 1858 and 1860.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., -1875, photographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2021.34.2]

Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified woman, seated]
Description: Half-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified white woman. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, and looped behind her ears. She is attired in a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress with buttons down the bodice and a white collar, and black lace, fingerless gloves. A broach adorns her collar. Her lips and cheeks are tinted pink. She is seated and holds a book labeled, Message and Documents 1857-8 Part 1 (i.e., Congressional documents), on her lap with her right hand. She crosses her left arm over her right and rests her left hand on her right wrist., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on lips and cheeks., Cased image accompanied by a lock of hair and four feathers from an Amazon parrot., Gift of Ivan Jurin, 2022., Pad: Red velvet with flowers within a decorative scroll border., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Decorative geometric and scroll pattern in the center with leaves in the corners. Same design on verso.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2022.29.1-1a]

Title: [Double image of the Magee Family posed in front of and in back of Magee Farm in Marcus Hook.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval, Case: Leather. In a scalloped oval, within a larger oval, are several bunches of grapes. Scrolled border. Same design on back., Accompanied by manuscript note: Ambrotype of the farm at Marcus Hook known as the 'Magee Farm' taken by James F. Magee [on] Saturday, August 13th 1859., See Magee research file for biographical information about James F. Magee. Also see Board report dated April 29, 2002 regarding the aquisition of these ambrotypes.
Creator: Magee, James Francis, 1834-1903, photographer
Date: August 13, 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2002.22a&b]

Title: [Unidentified, somber looking, little girl wearing an off the shoulder black dress, her hands folded in her lap.]
Description: Hand colored dark pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Rust colored velvet embossed D. F. Bower's 317 Nth Second St. Philadelphia. Scroll border., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather. In center a striated eight pointed star. Fancy scroll work all around. Same design on verso.
Creator: Bowers, D. F., photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified young woman.]
Description: Portrait of a young woman seated in a high backed chair in front of a painted landscape background. One arm rests on a table and she holds a book in her lap., The sitter's earrings, brooch, and rings are hand colored gold., Verso and recto of case are detached and may not belong together., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Rust colored velvet embossed D. F. Bower's 317 Nth Second St. Philadelphia. Scroll border., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. In center a striated eight pointed star. Fancy scroll work all around. Tangent circle design on verso., Gift of Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer.
Creator: Bowers, D. F., photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2010.38.14]

Title: [Portrait of a young man]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Pad: Red velvet. Embossed in center Reimer 617 N. 2nd St. Philada. Fancy scroll work all around., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design in center surrounded by fancy scrolls and swirls. Same design on verso.
Creator: Reimer, Benjamin, 1826-1899, photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.8]

Title: [Portrait of two seated men]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Pad: Faded red velvet embossed with scrollwork., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: W. Dinmore Phila., Case: Leather. Geometric design in center surrounded by fancy scrolls and swirls. Same design on verso.
Creator: Dinmore, Walter, photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.9]

Title: [Walter Wood, 1849-1934]
Description: A sweet faced, seated, nine year old Wood is wearing a jacket with buttons down the front and a white collar. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. No design on front or back., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.17]

Title: Grandma Sailer
Description: Possibly Elizabeth Carson Sailer. Wearing a full skirted checked dress, Grandma Sailer is sitting primly with her right arm resting on a table and her left arm in her lap., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet with fancy border. Embossed in center Reimer 617 N. 2nd St., Philada., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather. Three concentric circles with geometric border. Same design on verso. Accompanied by manuscript note: Grandma Sailer., See Hormann collection folder.
Creator: Reimer, Benjamin, 1826-1899, photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9470.28]

Title: [Portrait of a balding, unidentified man with his right arm is resting on a table. ]
Description: Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark red velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. Patent July 4th & 11th 1854., Case: Leather. Label pasted behind image on the inside of the case: Directions. It will be perceived that the black varnish constituting the back ground of these Ambrotypes is not in contact with the Picture, but upon a second glass cemented to that on which the picture is made. If, therefore, the varnish should crack, or become rubbed from the glass, the picture will not by this be the least impaired, as the whole of the varnish may may be removed without injury, and a new back ground supplied by the addition of a new coating of black varnish. This is not the case with pictures made on a single glass, and which are not cemented, as the least injury to these destroys the picture for ever. Ambrotypes are not reversed, without glare, fine in tone, and brilliant in effect, besides being proof against acids, water, air or climate. Patented in the United States, Great Britain and France, and made in Philadelphia By I. Rehn, only American Gallery of Photography, No. 126 Arch St., See Board report, September 18, 2001 which describes the advertising label for the Rehn and Cutting ambrotype process pasted on the inside back of the case., PEAES purchase.
Creator: Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9950]

Title: [George Henry Lea as a very young boy]
Description: Bust length portrait of a bare shouldered Lea. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Geometric design in center, scrolls all around., Mat: Oval. Stamped: Ambrotype by V. L. Richardson., Case: Leather. Geometric design. Modified octagon surrounding a four sided figure. Scrolls all around. Same design on verso., See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Richardson, V. L., photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.10]

Title: [Bootmaker with a boot on the table beside him.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Embossed in center Reimer 617 N. 2nd St. Philada. Fancy scroll work all around., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design in center surrounded by fancy scrolls and swirls. Same design on verso.
Creator: Reimer, Benjamin, 1826-1899, photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2003.23]

Title: [Double portrait of two young siblings, Anna and George Henry Lea.]
Description: Double images. On the left, George Henry Lea, age 4 years and 9 months, hair parted low on the left side. On the right, Anna Lea (later Bakewell), age 9 years and 7 months, hair parted in the middle with big ribbons on each side. Hand colored pale pink on cheeks of both children., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. Chestnut St. Patented July 4 & 11 1854. Inscribed in mat: Feb. 1858., Case: Leather. No design., Small slip of paper inside case identifying the date and ages of the children. See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date: February or March 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.9a&b]

Title: [Mrs. Isaac Lea, 1799-1874.]
Description: Portrait of Frances Carey Lea at about 60 years of age. Her hair is parted in the middle and she is wearing a lace scarf on her hair that comes down the sides of her face. Hand colored pale pink on her cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet with geometric design with a crown on top., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical. Stamped at top, upside down: Ambrotype by Rehn. Stamped on bottom: Patented July 4 and 11, 1854., Case: Thermoplastic. Geometric design with interlocking swirls.This design is #3-131in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. : Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as common. Same design on verso., See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date: ca.1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.12]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, pleasant looking young man.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: W. L. Germon. 168 Chest St Phila., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. No design.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.4]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified young woman, hair parted in the middle, wearing a big lace collar with a cameo pin at her neck.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Swirls in the center, and all around., Mat: Ornamented oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: W. L. Germon. 168 Chest St Phila., Case: Leather. Spray of flowers within an oval surrounded by a wreath. Nonpareil-like border. Geometric design on verso with a circle within an oval.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9577.1]

Title: Sister Emma
Description: Portrait of a serene woman, hair parted severely in the middle. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. No design.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.18]

Title: [Three quarter length portrait of a seated, unidentified young woman, hair parted in middle, wearing dress with lace collar and cuffs.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet embossed in center: Root Gallery. Cook Artist. Cor Chestnut & Fifth. Phila., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Leather. No design on front or back.
Creator: Cook, George S. (George Smith), 1819-1902, photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Root [P.9841.25]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified couple sitting side by side.]
Description: She is wearing a checked dress with a white collar. He is wearing a jacket with a velvet collar. Hand colored pale pink on their cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded tan velvet with a peacock in the center, and scrolls all around., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Two birds are over a basket of flowers, under a spray of water from a fountain. Scroll work all around. The design of the case is called Birds and the Fountain and is plate 93 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in quantity, ca. 1857.
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9491.9]

Title: [Small bust length portrait of an unidentified young man with mustache and small beard.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. Patent July 4th & 11th 1854, Case: Leather. No design on front or back., Gift of Mr. E. Perot Walker, May 23, 1980.
Creator: Rehn, Isaac, photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8514.1]

Title: [Maria Conarroe, 1835?- 1906]
Description: Possibly portrait of Maria Conarroe as a young woman sitting demurely with her hands clasped in her lap. Her long hair is parted in the middle and pulled back. She is wearing an off the shoulder dress., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Geometric scrolled design in center with geometric border., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Gutekunst & Bro. Patented July 4 & 11 54., Case: Leather. Geometric with cross hatch design. Different geometric design on verso with small oval in the center., See Conarroe Family research file., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Creator: Gutekunst & Bro., photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8259.F.7]

Title: [George M. Conarroe, 1831-1896.]
Description: Portrait of Conarroe with small mustache and small goatee. Hair curling on the side., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Gutekunst & Bro., 164 Arch St. Patented July 4 & 11 54., Case: Leather. Geometric design. Two concentric scalloped ovals. Same design on verso., See Conarroe Family research file., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Creator: Gutekunst & Bro., photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8259.F.6]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified man with curled hair down his cheeks, looking slightly to his left.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Imprint stamped on mat: M. A. Root Philada., Case: Leather. Elongated oval within a geometric oval. Stamped on verso: Root Gallery. Cook Artist. Cor Chestnut & Fifth. Phila.
Creator: Cook, George S. (George Smith), 1819-1902, photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Root [P.9844.53]

Title: [George Washington Conarroe, 1803-1882 or 4]
Description: Portrait depicting Conarroe in profile., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Large spray of flowers in the center. Geometric border all around., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. Spray of flowers within a modified nonpareil border. No design on verso., See Conarroe Family research file. See also Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), fig. 38., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8259.F.2 ]

Title: [Anna Lea Bakewell as a girl.]
Description: Young Anna Lea Bakewell is sitting sideways on a chair, facing to her right. She wears a woolen cloak. Her hair is parted in the middle. Hand colored pink on cheeks, and hand coloring on her cloak., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Geometric design with fancy swirls., Mat: Curved oval., Case: Leather. A small spray of flowers is in an oval bordered by a curved oval. Scrolls all around. Same design on back., See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.7]

Title: [Edward Randolph Wood, b. 1840]
Description: Depicts Wood as a young man, wearing a big black bow tie. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval. Stamped on left bottom corner: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. No design., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.18]

Title: [Double portraits of unidentified couple.]
Description: On the left a rather stern looking man, on the right a woman wearing a white cap and a shawl., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Gutekunst & Bro. Patented July 4 & 11 '54., Case: Double ambrotype case. Leather with a single large clasp. No design.
Creator: Gutekunst & Bro., photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8711]

Title: [Julianna Randolph, b. 1794]
Description: Seated portrait of a matronly Randolph wearing a black taffeta dress with a tight fitting bodice and a white scarf. She is also wearing white gloves. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet embossed: Willard 120 W. Market St. 8 Doors E. Schl. 6th St. [i.e. 17th St.], Mat: Modified non pareil., Case: Leather. In a circle in the center are grapes and other fruits, surrounded by a six pointed star. Same design on verso., Julianna Randolph was the aunt of Julianna Randolph Wood, 1810-1885. See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., d. 1876, photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.9]

Title: [George Washington Conarroe, 1803-1882 or 4]
Description: Portrait of a mature Conarroe looking slightly to his left. He has frown marks on his forehead., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Photographer's embossed imprint in the center is torn and illegible. Geometric border all around., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint embossed on pad: Richards 179 Chestnut St. Philada., Case: Leather. Large spray of flowers within an octagonal border. No design on verso., Conarroe was a Philadelphia portrait and genre painter. See Conarroe Family research file., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8259.F.1]

Title: [Standing portrait of a little girl posed next to a chair.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Rose in an oval in the center with scrolls all around., Mat: Onamented ornate elliptical., Case: Leather. In center, an urn overflowing with flowers and leaves within a modified nonpareil border. The design of the case is called The Romanesque Urn and is plate 141 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in large quantity and a number of variants, ca. 1857., Gift of Mr. E. Perot Walker, May 23, 1980.
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8514.3]

Title: [Charlotte Conarroe, b. 1804]
Description: Conarroe is sitting sideways facing right. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back, with curls hanging down on the sides. She is wearing lace gloves and her left arm is resting on a table with a patterned tablecloth. A book and a beaded purse (?) rest on the table beside her., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk., Mat: Ornamented octagonal., Case: Leather. Spray of roses in a square border. The design of the case is called The Delicate Roses, variant and is plate 124 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Generally produced in large quantity, circa 1845. Same design on verso., See Conarroe Family research file., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8259.F.5]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified little girl sitting on a high chair.]
Description: She is wearing an off the shoulder dress with a very full skirt. A book rests on the table next to her. Hand colored pale pink on her cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. Two birds are over a basket of flowers, under a spray of water from a fountain. Scroll work all around. The design of the case is called Birds and the Fountain and is plate 93 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co. Inc., 1969.) Produced in quantity, ca. 1857.
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9491.7]

Title: [Ariovistus Pardee, Jr.]
Description: Bust-length portrait of Pardee as a young man. He wears his hair long, swept over, and with a side part. He also has a mustache. He is attired in a dark-colored jacket, white, high-collared shirt, and necktie. Pardee was a prominent Civil War Union officer celebrated for his leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg. He was also the son of Ariovistus Pardee, the founder of Hazleton, PA., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from inferred age of sitter., Pad: No pad., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: M. P. Simons, Philada., Case: No case. Two of four preservers detached., Gift of Samuel Earle.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), 1810-1880, photographer
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Pardee Family [P.2016.58.5]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified man]
Description: Bust-length portrait of an unidentified man., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from casemaker patent., Case designed by Littlefield, Parsons & Co., Florence, Massachusetts., Dark-colored backing missing from behind image. Image nearly indistinguishable., Pad: Green velvet with scroll-pattern design in center., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mount: Ambrotype by [Gute]kunst, 706 Arch St.., Case: Thermoplastic. Central geometric design within a border with a filigree design. Same design on verso., Gift of Samuel Earle.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Pardee Family [P.2016.58.6]

Title: [Sallie Sherrel Bonnell Houston, 1829-1913]
Description: Portrait of Bonnell wearing a plaid dress with a white lace collar. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back widely from her face. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded gold colored velvet., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather, in the shape of a book. No design. See Fig. 42 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Stamped at bottom of inside front cover H. A. Eichmeyer. Patent Feb. 27, 1855. Henry Adolph Eichmeyer, of Philadelphia, was a case manufacturer., Filed under Eichmeyer. The portrait was taken at the time of her April 8, 1856 marriage to Henry Howard Houston (See P.8896 for a daguerreotype of Houston.) See Research File., Gift of Charlotte Dallett, great granddaughter of Sallie Bonnell, 2003.
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2003.11.1]

Title: [Stuart Wood as a young child.]
Description: Three year old Wood, hair parted neatly on the side, is looking straight ahead. His left arm is resting on a table, and he seems to be holding a hoop in his right hand., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded and scratched purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. No design on front or back. Note inside case reads: Stuart Wood, about 1856., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.14]

Title: [Portrait of an elderly unidentified woman.]
Description: Her left arm is resting on a table. She is holding a book in her left hand and her eyeglasses in her right hand. Hand colored very pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet with geometric border. Embossed: Hutchinson, Daguerreotypist., Mat: Ornamented nonpareil., Case: Leather. Geometric diamond design in center. Same design on verso.
Creator: Hutchinson, Thomas, photographer
Date: ca. 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9577.2]

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