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- Title
- Don't get above your business
- Description
- Comic genre scene set at a shoemaker's shop depicting a cobbler's assistant measuring the stocking foot of a woman, who is seated with her skirt slightly raised. Her female companion and the shoemaker, who has stopped work on a boot, watch with concern. Also shows a painted backdrop adorned with shoes and cobbler's tools., Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold by Underwood & Underwoood, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas., Buff mount with rounded corners., Negative number printed on mount: 337A., Title printed in six different languages on verso., Gift of Jesse Randall., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Littleton View Co.
- Date
- c1893
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2005.19.10]
- Title
- "That pesky rat again"
- Description
- Comic genre scene showing a male suitor "hunting" a rat loose in the bedroom of two young ladies attired in their bed clothes. The man rests on his knees and holds a shoe above the rat, which flees under a bed on which one woman, in a nightdress and on all fours, looks in fear. Another woman, in underclothes, stands on a chair near an overturned plant stand and the man while holding a plate in the air in wait for the "rat." Also shows wallpapered walls, drapery covering windows, and a framed print showing a couple in a canoe., Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwoood, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title printed in six different languages on verso., Gift of Jesse Randall., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Strohmeyer & Wyman
- Date
- c1896
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2005.19.11]
- Title
- Don't tell me you won't wash
- Description
- Comic genre scene showing a shrewish woman attacking her hen-pecked husband at a wash tub to satirize the New Woman. In a semi-dilapidated kitchen setting, the woman stretches over the tub and grabs her grimacing husband by his hair. Wash lays on the floor near a small heating stove. The walls are adorned with a rolling pin, clock, birdcage, portrait prints, and placard reading "Home & Mother.", Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Warped pink mount with rounded corners., Negative number printed on mount: 12263., Companion stereograph to 1897 Kilburn stereogaph, #12262, "Woman's Rights," showing a New Woman at leisure as her husband does laundry at a washtub., Gift of Jesse Randall., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn, successor to stereograph publisher Kilburn Brothers in 1877, broadened the firm's portfolio from White Mountain scenery to include genre and comic subjects and international views.
- Creator
- Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
- Date
- c1897
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Genre [P.2005.19.8]
- Title
- A little too thin
- Description
- Comic genre scene set in a parlor depicting a young man courting a young woman as he shows her a bolt of fabric. An older woman, possibly the man's mother, sits at a table to the side of them and inspects the cloth and the young woman. Bolts of cloth surround them., Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold by Underwood & Underwoood, Baltimore, Md. - Ottawa, Kas., Buff mount with rounded corners., Negative number printed on mount: 541., Copyrighted by F. G. Weller., Gift of Jesse Randall., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Littleton View Co.
- Date
- c1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2005.19.9]
- Title
- "Dar boss, how's dat?"
- Description
- Racist, satiric genre scene staged in a cargo hold setting. In the left, shows a well-dressed white man attired in a floor-length overcoat and bowler hat with valises at his side. He stands and watches an African American worker, attired in a cap and overalls, who secures the man's trunk with rope and his foot. Clothes hang out of and lie in front of the trunk. Stacks of trunks and valises line the wall in the background., Title from label on negative., Buff mount with rounded corners., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: Robert Miller, 1110 W. Nor'W St., Gift of George R. Allen, 2013., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., The Standard Series of New York was a producer of pirated views during the 1890s.
- Date
- [ca. 1895]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2013.65.14]
- Title
- "Deed Child's, I's didn't know you was dare."
- Description
- Racist, comic genre scene showing a young African American woman emerging from a cellar and accidentally knocking two children off the cellar doors. Depicts the woman standing out from the cellar and opening the cellar doors with both her hands. A young white girl has rolled off the door in the left and a young white boy lies on the edge of the door in the right. The girl, lies on her side, her head toward the viewer, her dress tousled, and her hands over her eyes. The boy, attired in a romper ensemble, sucks his thumb, and lies on his right side. The woman, smiles, and looks toward the boy. She is attired in a wide-brimmed hat, a shirt waist, and a skirt. The image also shows the outer wall of a stone dwelling and a window in which the figure of a man is visible. The window, adorned with drapery, is over the cellar., Curved buff mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Date and name of photographer from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1898, by T.W. Ingersoll., Printed on mount: High Grade Original Views. Sold only by Subscription., Gift of George R. Allen, 2022., RVCDC
- Creator
- Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward), 1862-1922
- Date
- 1898
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Ingersoll [P.2022.42.19]