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Title: Calve s crossing the stream
Description: View of four women walking through water with their dresses pulled up to their knees., Inscribed on mount: 1169, Name of distributor stamped on mount: Sold only by Griffith & Griffith, Philadelphia, Chicago, London, Hamburg, Ger., Milan, Italy., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau -Portraits & Genre [P.2007.20.8]

Title: A pl easant evening at home
Description: Genre photograph showing an interior view of a family recreating in their den or living room. Shows a mother watching her two daughters as one plays the piano and the other holds sheet music. Their father reads the newspaper nearby., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; London; Hamberg, Ger.; and St. Petersburg, Russia., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Portraits and genre [P.9738]

Title: When a man's married his trouble begins
Description: Comic genre photograph set in a kitchen, showing a family gathered around, as the father, with soot all over his face, tries to fix a problem with the stove. His wife stands nearby and holds a flue pipe and their daughter kneels near the stove and watches her parents., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; London; Hamberg, Ger.; and Milan, Italy., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Col. Gatter.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Portraits and genre [P.9319.5]

Title: "Be patient, dear; don't swear."
Description: Comic genre photograph set in a kitchen, showing a man who has just fallen off of the stool he was standing on as he tried to fix the stove. His wife and daughter reach to help him up., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; London; Hamberg, Ger.; and Milan, Italy., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Col. Gatter.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Portraits and genre [P.9319.4]

Title: "Is that tooth mine?"
Description: Comic genre scene showing a man seated in a dentist's chair. A boy has just relaxed the scarf he positioned around the patient's neck, which was used to restrain the patient while his tooth was being pulled. The dentist, attired in a silk robe and pileus, shows the patient the extracted tooth. A sign reading, "S.B. Smith, dentist," hangs on the wall., Title printed on mount below image., Distributor supplied by cataloger., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See complementary stereograph "Extracting Teeth" [stereo - unid. - Genre (P.2009.13.3)]., Gift of William Helfand., Sears Roebuck & Company issued the Metropolitan Series from 1905-1920.
Date: [photographed ca. 1870, printed ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2009.13.4]

Title: Love on a tub
Description: Comic genre scenes depict a man standing outside on a wooden tub courting a woman who stands inside at a window. The man hands the woman flowers, then falls into the tub., Additional places of publication printed on mounts, including Chicago; London; Hamberg, Ger.; and Milan, Italy., One item [P.9319.1] series of 1903 by George W. Griffith., One item [P.9319.2] series of 1904 by George W. Griffith., Title printed on mounts., Publisher's imprint printed on mounts., Distributor's imprint printed on mounts., Buff and gray curved mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Col. Gatter.
Date: [printed 1903 and 1904]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Portraits and genre [P.9319.1-2]

Title: Mr. & Mrs. Turtledove's new French cook
Description: Series of titled comic genre photographs include "Mr. & Mrs. Turtledove's new French cook," "You sweet thing, when did you arrive?" "Now don't be so shy!" "Oh my, but you are lovely," "Sh! Sh! I hear my wife coming," "Heavens, what does she mean," "Well, I am caught sure enough," "She must leave this house at once," "Mr. Turtledove trying to get out of the difficulty," "Mr. Turtledove making promises to be good," "Darling, I love you more than ever," and " Mr. & Mrs. Turtledove's next "French" cook." Images depict a straying husband's relationship with the pretty French cook, his wife's discovery of the relationship, and his attempts and success at reconciling with his wife. The pretty female cook is eventually replaced by an unattractive "French" cook, represented by a man dressed as a woman., Series copyrighted 1902 by William H. Rau., Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher's imprint printed on mounts., Gray curved mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: c1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.9872.1-12]

Title: A darktown wedding, the ceremony
Description: Racist depiction of the nuptials of a young African American couple officiated by a white-haired African American man and witnessed by six African American attendants. In the left, the officiant, attired in a suit, holds a paper as he conducts the ceremony. The bride, attired in veil pinned to the back of her hair, a white dress with a large boutonniere of flowers, and white gloves, has her head tilted down and holds the hand of the groom. The groom, attired in a white collared shirt, a waistcoat, a jacket with a large flower boutonniere, pants, and shoes, stands facing left towards the officiant. Two women and three men stand behind the couple and watch the ceremony. One man alters a placard on the wall that reads, “suffer little children to come unto me” by crossing out “me” and writing “us” inverting the “s.” The dilapidated wall with exposed brick is sparsely decorated with another placard, “God bless our home” and a framed picture. A top hat rests on a stool., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1901 by C.H. Graves., Publisher's blindstamp on mount., Distributor's blindstamp on mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Philadelphia, Napierville, Ill., London, Paris, Hamburg., Stamped on mount: 4574., Purchase 2001., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Graves - Genre [P.9922]

Title: " Does you love me hun?"
Description: Racist stereograph of an outdoor caricatured, genre scene showing a man woman couple, portrayed in Blackface, seated together, and embracing each other on a wooden swing in the countryside. The woman sits next to the man, her legs dangling. She smiles and looks up toward him. He smiles and looks out, his legs crossed at the ankle and his feet touching the ground. The woman wears a kerchief, dark-colored shirtwaist, a striped skirt, white stockings, and laced shoes. He wears a cap, long-sleeved white shirt, light-colored pants and boots. Scene also includes a pile of branches behind the couple and a wood fence in the distant background., Title from item., Date inferrred from publisher and places of publication., Curved buff 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., RVCDC
Creator: Griffith & Griffith
Date: [ca. 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Rau Misc. Collection [P.2012.56.56]

Title: The "new man" on Blue Monday
Description: Genre scene satirizing the role of the "new man" in relation to the "new woman". Shows the lady of the house sitting with her feet propped and reading a newspaper as her husband washes and hangs the laundry nearby., Copyrighted by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Printed text in six languages on verso: Es ift blauer Montag; L'"Uomo Nuovo" in Blue Monday.; Le "Nouvel homme" le lundi; El lúnes del "Nuevo Hombre"; Den "ny mand" på en blå Mandag; Den nykomne på blåmåndag., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2004.5.2]

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