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Title: Rev. Samuel Clark
Description: Three quarter length portrait of Clark seated with his hands clasped on his lap. He has a short beard, and is wearing a high white collar., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Case: Uncased., Accompanied by manuscript note: With the affectionate regards of the victim of the photographic art. Rev. Samuel Clark, Gift of Edwin Wolf, 2nd, March 14, 1989.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9255.2]

Title: Sarah Wilkinson. Born Feb 15 1788. Married (John) Wm. Trautwine, Apr 27 1809 (Mother of John C. Trautwine, Civ. engr. March 30 1810 Died 1883) Died July 25 1855
Description: Trautwine is wearing a white cap and collar, and is holding a folded fan in her left hand., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical., Case: Uncased., Title from typed note pasted on verso of plate.
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9577.11]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood, 1810-1885.]
Description: Wood wears a black lace shawl over a ruffled dress, is seen in profile. She is seated, resting her left arm on an open book. Pale hand painted pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded dark red silk. No design., Mat: Oval. Stamped on mat: M. P. Simons, Philada., Case: Leather. (Design seems upside down.) A spray of roses and leaves. The design is similar, but not identical to, A Spray Of Roses, Variant plate 125 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) This design, with many variants, was produced in large quantity. Same design on verso., 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8928.2]

Title: [Portrait of two unidentified young girls.]
Description: One is standing with her right hand on the left shoulder of the seated girl. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Eagle with outstretched wings on top. Embossed: S. W. Colton Sky Light Gallery 265 Race St. below 8th Phila. Pa. Daguerreotype galleries., Mat: Elliptical., Case: Leather. Three roses in a circle surrounded by scrolls and leaves. Same design on verso.
Creator: Colton, Sabine W., photographer
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9274.17]

Title: [George B. Wood, 1797-1879]
Description: Bust length portrait of Wood wearing a high white collar and a large black scarf ending in a big bow around his neck., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. A small circle is within a larger circle, both surrounded by a wavy design. A piece of blue leather not original to the case and without a design on verso., 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: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.3]

Title: Mrs. Isaac Lea
Description: Hand colored portrait of Frances Carey Lea, wife of Isaac Lea. She wears grey dress with lace and velvet trim and a close fitting bonnet decorated with lace and blue ribbons. She wears a brooch at her neck., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Case: Uncased., Manuscript note on verso: Mrs. Isaac Lea., See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, May 1996.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9514.1]

Title: [Portrait of stylishly dressed unidentified young man]
Description: The seated man wears a plaid jacket, and large bow tie. His hair is styled in an upswept wave. His cheeks are hand-painted pink., Mat: Oval., Uncased.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.11]

Title: [Joseph Morgan Eldridge, 1787-1859]
Description: Portrait of an elderly Eldridge with long white whiskers, head tilted slightly to his right. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval., Removed from frame. Gold gilt wooden oval. No design., Joseph Morgan Eldridge was Sewell Biggs' great-great- grandfather. Mr. Biggs also donated an original manuscript documenting Eldridge's indenture, at the age of six, to James Molony, a Philadelphia currier, in September, 1804. See Board Report of January 20, 1998., Gift of Sewell C. Biggs, December 12, 1997.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9565.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified young man looking slightly to his right.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval., Uncased. In rectangular velvet frame., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: ca. 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.13]

Title: [George Henry Lea as a very young boy]
Description: Copy photograph of Richardson ambrotype portrait of Lea (see 8326.F.10). Portrait is reversed with edges of the original mat visible in the image., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Uncased., 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.11]

Title: [Portrait of a little boy standing beside a table holding a kite in his left hand.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Uncased. Plate only., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.14]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, young man with sideburns and a short beard.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Van Loan., Case: Uncased.
Creator: Van Loan, Samuel, photographer
Date: ca. 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.11]

Title: Hon. Morton McMichael
Description: McMichael is sitting on a high backed chair with patterned upholstery. The fingers of both hands are touching each other. He appears to be in his early 40's and is looking slightly to his left., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Uncased., Manscript note on verso: Hon. Morton McMichael - Daguerreotype portrait taken about 1848., Morton was a Philadelphia editor and newspaper publisher. For additional biographical information about McMichael see LCP 1996 Annual Report, pp. 43-44, and research file.
Date: ca. 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9506]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified man wearing a black satin vest with his left arm is resting on a book on a table.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Marston's, Case: Uncased.
Creator: Marston, Joseph, photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9577.5]

Title: [Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Livingston Bishop at Horse Shoe Falls, Niagara Falls.]
Description: She is seated with her husband, in top hat and frock coat, is standing next to her on the edge of the falls., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical., Case: Uncased., Manuscript note on verso: Mr. & Mrs. G.L.B. Horse Shoe Falls. Canadian Side, June 7th 1869. Typed note taped on verso: Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Livingston BIshop taken June 71th 1869. G.L.B. - 1845-1926. Mrs. G.B.L. 1840-1921., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Date: June 7, 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Conarroe Family Collection [8259.F.9]

Title: [Elizabeth Lea, 1797-1877]
Description: Half-length portrait of Elizabeth Lea wearing a heavy robe. Her hands are resting on her lap. Wide curls frame her face. She is wearing two caps, one white, the other black., This small tintype is in a mourning envelope and is inserted in the case with the ivorytype of Elizabeth Lea (P.2006.32.9). Biographical notes are inserted in the case (P.2006.32.9)., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.8]

Title: [Elizabeth Lea, 1797-1877]
Description: Bust-length hand tinted portrait of Elizabeth Lea facing very slightly left. Her white hair is styled with wide curls on either side of her face. Her lace cap is untied and the ends are resting on her shoulders., Pad: Dark burgundy velvet. No design., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Full plate size leather with a diamond geometric design in the center. Same design on the back., Biographical notes about and tintype of Lea (P.2006.32.8) in mourning envelope included in case. The Wenderoth, Taylor and Brown Fine Art Studio was at 912-914 Chestnut St. 1864-1866., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.9]

Title: [Isaac Lea, 1792-1886]
Description: Bust-length, hand-tinted portrait of a rather stern Isaac Lea facing very slightly left. He is wearing eye glasses. His white hair is neatly combed, and his sideburns come down to form a short beard under his chin., Pad:Deep burgundy velvet. No design., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Full plate size leather. No design., See Research File for biographical information about Isaac Lea. The Wenderoth, Taylor and Brown Fine Art Studio was at 912-914 Chestnut St., Philadelphia in 1864-1866., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.11]

Title: [Double portraits of Caroline Wood and her mother, Julianna Randolph Wood in an oval brooch.]
Description: Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Engraved on verso: C. H. Wood, 1848., 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: 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8971.1]

Title: [Robert B. Davidson, 1808-1876.]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia broker and recording secretary of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society. Davidson, attired in a white collared shirt, a black cravat, a waistcoat, and a dark colored jacket, faces slightly right. The Pennsylvania Colonization Society promoted Black American emigration to resolve the problem of race inequality and to dissolve the institution of slavery., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on paper label on verso of plate., Mounted in square ornamented brass frame with yellow painted borders., Manuscript note in pencil on verso: "7-6-37 #25" and "Robt. B. Davidson, 1838.", Purchase 1988., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cornelius operated the first commercial daguerreotype portrait studio in the United States.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, daguerreotypist
Date: May 1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - photographer - Cornelius [P.9251]

Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified man]
Description: Half-length portrait of an unidentified white man, slightly facing right. Sitter has dark-colored hair, combed and parted to the left, and is attired in a white shirt with a turned-up collar, a broad, black bowtie, and a black jacket. His cheeks are tinted pink., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium, attire of the sitter, and dates of operation of the photographer., Pink tinting on cheeks., Gift of Michael Gibson, 2017., Mat: Oval. Stamped: McClees & Germon. Phila., James E. McLees (1821-1887) and Washington Lafayette Germon (1822-1877) operated as partners from 1846 to 1855 in Philadelphia.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – photographer – McClees & Germon [P.2017.57]

Title: [Half-length portrait of an unidentified man]
Description: Half-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified white man. Sitter wears a mustache and goatee and has dark-colored hair, combed and parted to the left. He is attired in a white shirt with a turned-up collar, a broad bowtie with polka dots, a patterned waistcoat, and a black jacket with a velvet collar and a pocket kerchief., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Gift of Michael Gibson, 2017., Mat: Double elliptical.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2017.58]

Title: [Bust-length length portrait of an unidentified man]
Description: Bust-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified white man. Sitter has dark hair, combed and parted to the left, long sideburns, and a chinbeard. He is attired in white shirt with a turned-up collar, a patterned, broad bowtie, and a dark-colored jacket. His cheeks are tinted pink., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter., Pink tinting on cheeks., Daguerreotype in engraved pocket watch setting., Gift of Michael Gibson, 2017., Mat: Oval., Case: Pocket watch case engraved with decorative scrolls.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2017.60]

Title: [Unidentified young woman]
Description: Bust-length painted portrait of a young woman. Her curly hair is pulled back from her face. Underneath her ruffled white collar is a pink rose., Pad: Dark burgundy velvet., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather., Gold-toned pendant., Gift of Charles Lea Hudson, Ann L. Salmon, and Mathew C. Hudson.
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2006.32.16]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified young woman holding a daguerreotype]
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a seated, young, white woman with brown hair. She rests an elbow on a book on a table beside her and holds a daguerreotype in her opposite gloved hand. She sits in front of a painted landscape backdrop depicting high cliffs near a body of water., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Faded rust colored velvet with an eagle at the top. Photographer's imprint: "Daguerreotype artist, Goodridge's Extra Sky- Light Gallery, York, Pa.", Mat: Brass nonpareil., Case: Leather. Within a nonpareil-like border, striated lines surround a geometric design in the center. Same design on verso. Front cover detached., See John Vincent Jezierski's Enterprising images: The Goodridge brothers, African American photographers, 1847-1922 (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University, 2000) and "'Dangerous opportunity': Glenalvin J. Goodridge and early photography in York Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania history. (Spring 1997, vol. 64, no. 2), pp. 310-333 for additional information on Goodridge., Accessioned 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Goodridge, an African American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer, operated a gallery in York, Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1862. He primarily produced daguerreotypes from 1847 to around 1855.
Creator: Goodridge, Glenalvin J., 1829-1867, daguerreotypist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Goodridge [P.9989]

Title: [Ralston family cased photograph collection]
Description: Collection of daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits, several by Norristown daguerreotypist William Stroud, portraying clergyman and founder of Oakland Female Institute James Grier Ralston, his wife Mary Anderson Larimore Ralston, their daughters, and his and his wife’s female siblings, and women teachers at the Institute. Contains bust-, half-, three-quarter, and full-length portraits of individual and pairs of sitters. Sitters are often seated, but a number of the portrait depicts sitters in a standing pose. The women’s and girl’s attire includes bonnets; off-the-shoulder bateau neckline dresses; high-neck, long-sleeved dresses with lace collars and cuffs; brooch and belt chatelaines; and earrings. Dresses worn by the female sitters are often a solid dark color, but occasionally are of a pattern design or light color. James Grier Ralston’s attire included broad bow ties, vests, jackets, and suits. Many of the images also contain props, including covered side tables, chairs, flowers, possibly an ambrotype, and a crumpled piece of cloth., Sitters in addition to James Grier Ralston and Mary Anderson Larimore Ralston include their daughters Anna Larimore Ralston, Ella Grier Ralston, Lilly Grier Ralston (who died at 11 months old), and Cora (Cara) Ralston; Institute music teacher Mrs. John Hunsicker, i.e., Fannie Henry Hunsicker (married by James G. Ralston); Mary’s sister and Institute graduate, Hetty Clark Larimore; and Institute teacher and sister of James, Agnes Caldwell Ralston; Institute graduate Martha (Mattie) Divine (Mrs. Fleming); and an unidentified woman., Posed portrait pairs include images of Mary Anderson Larimore Ralston and daughter Anna Larimore Ralston (P.2012.5.6) in which Anna sits in Mary’s lap with her mother’s hand on her head; and Anna Larimore Ralston and Ella Grier Ralston (P.2012.5.8) which Anna stands next to Ella who sits on a chair, while she rests her arm on a covered side table adorned with a basket of flowers; Anna Larimore Ralston and Fanny Hunsicker (P.2012.5.16) in which Fanny, seated, has her one hand at her hip and her other hand and arm around the waist of Anna who stands; and Hetty Clark Larimore and Mary Larimore Ralston (p.2012.5.17) in which the women are seated, side by side, and Hetty holds a bound object, possibly an ambrotype and Mary holds a crumpled white cloth., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and age and attire of sitters., Photographers include William Stroud (Norristown, Pa.) and Theodore L. Chase (Philadelphia, Pa.)., Various-shaped mats, including oval, elliptical, double elliptical, and non pareil., Various colored pads, including blue, red, and maroon velvet or silk, several with embossing. Embossings include photographer’s imprints and/or imagery. Imagery includes floral and geometric designs, scroll work, and eagles., Primarily leather cases, and one thermoplastic case. Case designs vary, but are predominantly rose and mixed flower designs, in addition to geometric, scroll, and quatrefoil designs. Designs also include Pressed Flower, plate 154; The Delicate Roses, variant, plate 123; A Spray of Roses, plate 131; Mixed Garden Flowers, plate 133; Two Lilies, variant, see plate 112 and 113 in American miniature case art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969)., Majority of sitters identified by accompanying slips of paper with manuscript notes., Several of the images contain pink tinting on the cheeks of the sitters., P.2012.5.4, P.2012.5.8, P.2012.5.11-15, P.2012.5.21 contains daguerrean's imprint on pad or inside rim of case. Various imprints include: William Stroud, Norristown; William Stroud's Skylight Gallery, Norristown, Pa.; Stroud’s Ambrotypes Norristown, Pa., P.2012.5.6 contains dagurrean's imprint on pad: Theodore L. Chase, N.E. cor. Chestnut & Fifth Sts., Fannie Henry Hunsicker was a woman of Chinese descent. Official records are conflicting as to whether she was born in China, at sea, or in Connecticut., Several of the images contain weeping glass deterioration, tarnished plates, or other damage., Inventory of collection available at repository., See Sarah Weatherwax, "Revealing the Ralston Family," The Daguerreian Society Quarterly (July-September 2021), p. 3-6., Clergyman James Grier Ralston (1815-1880) founded Oakland Female Institute in 1845 in Norristown, Pa. Ralston studied at the Theological Seminary at Princeton and headed the Female Seminary at Oxford, Chester Country, PA before establishing Oakland. He married Mary A. Larimore (1822-1891) in 1842 and they had four children Anna L. (1848-1902), Ella M.(1847-1924), Lillie G. (1852-1853) and Cara G. (1856-1928), with Lillie dying in infancy. Ralston’s children were educated and/or taught at Oakland, as did his sister Agnes C. Ralston. The Institute operated until 1880 and the death of Ralston
Date: [ca. 1845-ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cased photos - Ralston Family [P.2012.5.1-22]

Description: Portrait of a seated older woman resting her arm on a table. She wears a lace bonnet, a dress with a lace collar, a fringed shawl held together by a brooch and gloves. Eliza M. Young McAllister (1790-1853) married John McAllister (1786-1877) in 1811., Title from accompanying ms. note on paper., Pad: Red velvet embossed Root's Gallery 140 Chestnut St. Philada., Mat: Plain octagonal., Case: Leather. Floral and grape design. No design on verso. Attached to case is ms. note on paper: Mrs. E. Y. McAllister, 1851/62.

Title: [Amos G. Dubree as a young man.]
Description: Portrait of a young, handsome Dubree looking slightly to his left. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Very faded red silk., Mat: Octagonal. Blue paper mat., Case: Leather. No design. Printed label with manuscript insertions (noted in brackets) on verso of plate: M[r. Amos G. Dubree]. Daguerreotyped [April 14] 184[6] by M.P. Simons, No. 120 Chestnut Street, below Fourth, south side, Philadelphia. Miniatures of all sizes, Family Groups, &c., taken in the most faithful manner. Oil Paintings and Pictures Of all kinds Copied and Colored in Imitation of the Original, upon the most reasonable terms. Addtional manuscript notes above and below label read Amos Dubree and John Dubree respectively., Dubree is listed in city directories in the late 1840s as a wood corder and later as a brushmaker. See Board Report, November 12, 1997. See also 1997 Acquisitions folder., LCP purchase.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: April 14, 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9560.1]

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: Grandma Toppan
Description: Portrait of elderly woman looking slightly to her right. She is wearing a white lace cap tied under her chin., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk - design obliterated., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. Cornelius, Philada., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9137.5]

Title: [Mary Elizabeth Garesche and child]
Description: Lovely portrait of Garesche turned slightly to her left with a white lace bonnet tied under her chin. She is cradling her daughter in her arms. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. Floral design in center, fanciful scrolls all around., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. Floral spray within a curved octagon. Ornate scrolls work all around. Same design on verso., Gift of Mrs. Custus B. Swope, December 31, 1979., Reproduced in Samuel Broadbent, Daguerreian Artist in The Daguerreian Annual, 2001, page 145.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8510 ]

Title: [Elizabeth Lea Jaudon Bakewell, aged 42.]
Description: Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Ivory silk. Stamped on pad: Suddards & Fennemore 820 Arch St. Philada., Mat: Oval., Case: Oval dark purple velvet., See also 8326.F.21. See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Suddards & Fennemore, photographer
Date: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.22]

Title: Sally Shober Lewis and Mrs. Francis Gray of Boston
Description: Copy photograph of sentimental painted portrait of the two sisters by Alexander Gottfried, a Philadelphia portrait painter, dated 1855., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. No design., Sitters were the great aunts of the donor, Mr. Pemberton H. Shober. Accession book entry reads: Daguerreotype of painting signed and dated 'Alexander Gottfried 1855.' See also portrait of Mrs. Wm. Geo. Spencer., Gift of Mr. Pemberton H. Shober, May 23, 1980.
Date: after 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8515]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood holding her baby son Stuart.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. No design., Manuscript note in case reads "As you think about making this a little larger Mother & baby." Proably taken at the same time as P.8926.11., 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: 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.6]

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: [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: [George Thompson, 1794-1876]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet with a small spray of flowers in the center and swirls all around. Note on pad reads George Thompson, brother of my grandfather, James B. Thompson - John T. Morris., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather. A bouquet of mixed flowers in a modified octagonal border, with scroll work all around. Same design on verso., See the article The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) pgs. 210-221 for information about the Roberts and Thompson Families. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.2]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified elderly man, looking slightly to his left.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Burgundy velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Large spray of mixed flowers and leaves. Butterflies at each corner. No design on verso., Originally part of the Powel Family Papers., Sitter might be Col. John Hare Powel (1786-1856).
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8421.F.1]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood in a dark dress, holding a daguerreotype portrait of a Richard D. Wood in her right hand.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. (Design is horizontal) A wavy spray of mixed flowers and leaves is in an oval. No design on verso., See P.8926.4 for the daguerreotype portrait of Richard D. Wood that Julianna holds in this image. 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: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.10]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a plaid dress with a white scarf at the neck.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk. No design., Mat: Elliptical. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: McClees & Germon Phila Cor. Chesnut & 8th, Case: Leather. Within a fancy nonpareil-like border is a spray of mixed flowers. No design on verso.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: 1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8637]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified man with a long, narrow face, wearing a high white collar and a wide black tie. ]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet with scroll border., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Housekeeper, 159 Chest St., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers in a nonpareil-like border. Same design on verso.
Creator: Housekeeper, Cheney H., photographer
Date: 1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9981.10]

Title: [Walter Wood as a young child.]
Description: Three year old Walter Wood, hair parted neatly on the side, is wearing checked pants and is looking straight ahead. His left arm is resting on a table on which there is a toy horse., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded and scratched purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. A floral spray with one rose and several buds within a border of scrolls and swirls. Geometric design on back. Manuscript note inside case reads: Walter Wood, 1852., 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: 1852
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.16]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified woman holding a baby.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Eagle at top, scroll work around. Embossed: Root, 140 Chestnut St., Philada., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. On front: One rose in center surrounded by leaves and other flowers within a nonpareil like border. On verso: A variation of the rose design within a fanciful nonpareil border.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.26]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, older woman, wearing a white cap, looking slightly to her right.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design with F scrolls in center and interlocking scrolls at top and bottom. No design on verso., Originally part of the Powel Family Papers.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8421.F.2]

Title: [Henry Howard Houston, 1820-1895]
Description: Portrait of Houston as a young man. He has a full head of hair, and is wearing a wide black tie. Houston was a prominent Philadelphia businessman with interests in railroads, shipping and oil. His real estate dealings led to the development of the Chestnut Hill neighborhood in Philadelphia., Previously attributed to Robert Cornelius. See Rachel K. Wetzel, "The Robert Cornelius Project: Formulating Attributions Through a Collaborative Research Process," Daguerreian Annual 2019, fig. 21., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Brown felt. Manuscript note under pad: Augusta, Georgia February 1840. Henry Howard Houston., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso., Reproduced in Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography by William F. Stapp (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1983), plate 14. 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. 53., Gift of Mrs. James Dallett, 1981.
Creator: Mifflin, J. Houston (John Houston), 1807-1888, photographer
Date: 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8896.1]

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: [Potrait of three sisters, Caroline, Mary, and Julianna Wood.]
Description: Studio portrait of three of the sixteen children of Richard and Julianna Randolph Wood. Shows the girls posed in a window frame with grape vines growing along thee edge. A strw hat hangs down in front of them., Daguerreotypist attribution based on use of window frame with creeping vine prop used by Samuel Broadbent's studio., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. No design., Mat: Double elliptical., 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. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified child.]
Description: She/he is holding an unidentifiable object in her hands. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet with elongated geometric design., Mat: Nonpareil. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. N. Keely, 332 N. 2d St., Philada., Case: Leather. Two roses and other flowers within an oval in the center. Scrolls at the corners.
Creator: Keely, Robert N., photographer
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.5]

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