South China Restaurant [graphic].
Title
South China Restaurant
Description
Clipping from a serial advertising the South China Restaurant located at 913 Race Street, Philadelphia and containing typography and pictorial elements. Includes Chinese characters and text promoting lunch and dinner at the restaurant. A black border surrounds the text., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto: Authentic Delicious Oriental Dishes, Luncheon 35¢ Dinner 50¢, Facilities for Parties; Modern and Pleasant. Phone--Mar. 9140., Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
Date
[ca. 1939]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - advertisements - South [P.2023.27.5]
Europe 1931 – March – April
Title
Europe 1931 – March – April
Description
Scrapbook of souvenirs, keepsakes, clipped illustrations, and manuscript documenting the European travels of Janet Morris during the spring of 1931. Morris’s travels included attending a wedding in Switzerland. Contents include personal letters received on the ship S.S. Bremen, as well as keepsakes like the ship’s log; a wedding souvenir “The Happiness of Your Home by E. Etter, Rohrschach published by The Swiss Society of Public Utility and Public Utility Society of Swiss Women”; numerous programs for musical concerts and theater performances in Germany, Italy, and France (e.g. Berner Stadttheater, Don Kosaken Chor, Societa’ Veneziana Concerti Sinfonici); mementoes from and anecdotes about the Munich Hotel and the Glyptotek (Munich); French chocolate wrappers illustrated with flowers native to Southern France ; business cards for a Parisian seamstress and hairstylist; clothing tag for the Paris department store Aux Galerie Lafayette (i.e. Galeries Lafayette); and pressed flowers., Title from manuscript note on cover., Cover illustrated with clipped color-printed illustration from program cover for the “Galas R. Karsenty” theater company. Shows an outdoor, nighttime scene where a man kisses the hand of a woman in masquerade., Janet Morris, later Butler, was the daughter of amateur photographer and philanthropist Marriott C. Morris. She attended Germantown Friends' School and Connecticut College. She married Harvey Butler in Nevada in 1961. She lived in Claremont, Ca. at the time of her death.
Creator
Morris, Janet, 1907-2010, compiler
Date
1931
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2016.37.1]
Library Company of Philadelphia scrapbook
Title
Library Company of Philadelphia scrapbook
Description
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, photographs, ephemera and prints predominantly issued between the 1930s and 1970s documenting exhibitions, loans, collections, events and the history of the Library Company. Clippings include newspaper articles about a loan of American political cartoons to the Toledo Museum (1936); exhibitions commemorating the centenary of librettist W.S. Gilbert (1936); the tercentenary of Swedish Settlement (1938); and the library's African American history collection (1971). Columns also describe the presentation of the Christopher Sower library (1909); the return in 1876 of a book 99 years overdue since the American Revolution (1938); the demolition of the Library's Juniper and Locust streets building for a parking lot (1939); and the vandalism of the former Ridgway Building at 901-933 Broad Street (1969). Photographs predominantly depict the exteriors and reading rooms of the library buildings at Fifth and Library Streets, Juniper and Locust Streets, and Broad Street (Ridgway Building). Other photographs include a series of views from the 1939 unveiling ceremony of the James Logan memorial (to be erected in Fairmount Park) on the steps of the Ridgway Branch. Ephemera includes invitations (several from The Women's Committee), brochures, catalogs, announcements and placards related to library events; bulletins and pamphlets describing collections; dues notices and book plates; the variant 1884 and 1906 "Rules of the Library Company"; an off-print of the 1882 Louise Stockton entry in "A Sylvan City..." about "The Old Philadelphia Library"; and a 1961 citation from the city recognizing the library as a "Philadelphia first.", Title supplied by cataloger., Cut outs of the seal and motto of Library Company from bookplate pasted on title page., Some contents annotated with dates and typewritten descriptions., Several loose photographs removed and rehoused as "Library Company of Philadelphia Scrapbook Photographs Collection" [P.2010.17]. Contains a ca. 1865 portrait of library donor John A. McAllister misidentified as librarian Lloyd P. Smith, a ca. 1935 portrait of librarian George Abbot, and interior and exterior views of the library buildings, including artifacts, at Fifth and Library Streets, Juniper and Locust Streets, and Broad Street (Ridgway Building)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Typewritten index inserted in volume., The Library Company of Philadelphia, America’s first successful lending library and oldest cultural institution, was founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin as a subscription library supported by its shareholders. Until the 1850s it was the largest public library in America. It was transformed into a research library in the 1950s.
Creator
Library Company of Philadelphia
Date
[ca. 1865-ca. 1971, bulk ca. 1936-ca. 1945]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.2010.17], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Library Company of Philadelphia Scrapbook Photographs Collection [P.2010.17]