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Title: [Photographic Society of Philadelphia, interior of office, 31 South 15th Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts the office of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, showing two wooden tables and a scroll-top desk; two persian rugs; framed images hanging on the walls; and a sink in the corner of the room. Books and mail appear to cover the tables in the office., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.2]

Title: [Redfield residence, 211 Upland Way, Wayne, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Exterior views the photographer's home in Wayne. One shows two boys standing on the boarded sidewalk in front of house. The younger boy is sitting in a wheelbarrow held steady by an older boy. In the background, the asymmetrical stone house is depicted from the street, showing a projecting two-story oval-shaped wing topped by a balustrade. Shingles unite the bell-shaped roof of the opposite corner wing with the hipped roof of the central body. The front of the house is shaded by a wide, ivy-covered porch. A large brick chimney rises from the house, near the front entrance., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: September 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.15a & b]

Title: [Redfield residence, 211 Upland Way, Wayne, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Dog and young boy in front of the photographer's home in Wayne. In the background, the asymmetrical stone house is depicted from the street, showing a projecting two-story oval-shaped wing topped by a balustrade. Shingles unite the bell-shaped roof of the opposite corner wing with the hipped roof of the central body. The front of the house is shaded by a wide, ivy-covered porch and striped awnings cover each of the windows. A large brick chimney rises from the house, near the front entrance., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: October 19, 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.16]

Title: [Interior of parlor, Redfield residence, 211 Upland Way, Wayne, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Depict the interior of the Redfield residence in Wayne, probably the parlor, showing a table with two chairs, a chandelier, a bookcase and framed pictures on the papered walls. The fireplace is visible in one of the images, the mantle of which is covered in porcelain., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.19 & 20]

Title: [Children playing on wagon chassis.]
Description: Depicts three boys and two girls sitting on a wooden wagon frame, pretending to steer an elevated log set up in front of the wagon. Probably in Mount Washington, Massachusetts., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: March 20, 1892
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.12]

Title: [Redfield residence, 211 Upland Way, Wayne, Pennsylvania]
Description: Depicts four children playing with a wagon and a bicycle on the boarded sidewalk in front of the photographer's home in Wayne, Pa. The asymmetrical stone house is depicted from the street, showing a projecting two-story oval-shaped wing topped by a balustrade. Shingles unite the bell-shaped roof of the opposite corner wing with the hipped roof of the central body. The front of the house is shaded by a wide porch and most of the windows are covered by striped awnings. A large brick chimney rises from the house, near the front entrance., Numbered #1871 on mount., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: September 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.13]

Title: [Redfield residence, 211 Upland Way, Wayne, Pennsylvania]
Description: Views of the photographer's home in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The asymmetrical stone house is depicted from the street, showing a projecting two-story oval-shaped wing topped by a balustrade. Shingles unite the bell-shaped roof of the opposite corner wing with the hipped roof of the central body. The front of the house is shaded by a wide porch. A large brick chimney rises from the house, near the front entrance. Men are working on the porch of the house and a woman stands with a baby stroller on the grass nearby., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.14a & b]

Title: [English farm with a pig]
Description: Depicts a pig passing a gate near a cluster of stone, thatch-roofed barn buildings., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.51]

Title: "Contentment."
Description: Depicts cows resting under a tree in a fenced pasture., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso; blind stamp, l.l., Title from inscription on mount., Exhibited in 1889 Third Annual Exhibition of Photographs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: ca. 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. - Redfield [P.9106.4]

Title: "Crackers and milk."
Description: Depicts a man feeding a calf from a metal pail. A young girl stands nearby, eating a cracker as she watches the feeding., Title from inscription on mount., Photographer's blind stamp lower left., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: ca. 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. Redfield [P.8983.40]

Title: "Grinding toil"
Description: Depicts a man sharpening a tool on a wheel, which is turned by a young boy. A young girl stands next to a metal pail nearby, holding an unidentified object. A cradle scythe rests in the grass next to the man. A house and fence are visible in the background., Title from inscription on mount., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: ca. 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. Redfield [P.8983.41]

Title: Philadelphia Zoo Photograph Album
Description: Album of photographs predominantly showing the grounds of the Philadelphia Zoo in Fairmount Park, in West Philadelphia. Contains views of the Victorian-style gatehouse after the designs of Frank Furness; "The Dying Lioness" statue after the design of Wilhelm Wolff casted in 1875 at the entrance courtyard; lions, tigers, a jaguar and a zebra walking, standing, and grazing in their caged areas; an elephant, camel, lama, mountain goat, and caribou in fenced yards; buffalo grazing on a pasture; and Solitude, the country retreat of John Penn built in 1785 on the grounds of the zoo (miscaptioned as "Wm Penn's House, Fairmount Park"). Images include zoo keepers, visitors, gates, fencing, "Admission Today" signage, and partial views of other buildings on the zoo grounds. Also contains portrait photographs of a man and woman, probably Josie and Emil, and sculler "Andrew C. Craig, Undine Boat Club" on the Schuylkill River. Craig view also includes cityscape and trees along the riverbank in the background. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the nation, opened in 1874.

Title: [The Brook]
Description: Depicts a brook running through grassy area surrounded by bare trees., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Possibly #239 from the Philadelphia Photographic Salon, 1898.
Creator: Welford, Jeanie A., photographer
Date: ca. 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Welford [P.8983.49]

Title: [Marsh landscape with farm buildings.]
Description: Depicts grassy vegetation and a stream in the foreground, extending to a hill in the distance, upon which sits unidentified residences and farms., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Mary Panzer.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: ca. 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.9123.1]

Title: Heloise
Description: Bust-length portrait of the photographer's daughter, Heloise Guillou Redfield, richly attired in a fur lined cape with a collar and a large, ruched hat., Exhibited at the Philadelphia Photographic Salon in 1899., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.42]

Title: Philadelphia Zoo photograph album
Description: Album of photographs predominantly showing the grounds of the Philadelphia Zoo in Fairmount Park, in West Philadelphia. Contains views of the Victorian-style gatehouse after the designs of Frank Furness; "The Dying Lioness" statue after the design of Wilhelm Wolff casted in 1875 at the entrance courtyard; lions, tigers, a jaguar and a zebra walking, standing, and grazing in their caged areas; an elephant, camel, lama, mountain goat, and caribou in fenced yards; buffalo grazing on a pasture; and Solitude, the country retreat of John Penn built in 1785 on the grounds of the zoo (miscaptioned as "Wm Penn's House, Fairmount Park"). Images include zoo keepers, visitors, gates, fencing, "Admission Today" signage, and partial views of other buildings on the zoo grounds. Also contains portrait photographs of a man and woman, probably Josie and Emil, and sculler "Andrew C. Craig, Undine Boat Club" on the Schuylkill River. Craig view also includes cityscape and trees along the riverbank in the background. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the nation, opened in 1874., Calligraphed on cover: Photographs., Contains pasted label on front page: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Uncle Joe from Josie & Emil., Contains pasted label on back cover: Ward's Souvenir Album. Made in Light Gray and Dark Gray Leaves. This book is no. 141., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box.
Date: 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [8193.F]

Title: [Abraham Lincoln]
Description: Half-length portrait of the 16th President of the United States and author of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Lincoln, without a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, is in right profile. Photographed in Springfield, Illinois by Chicago photographer Alexander Hesler, the negative was acquired by George B. Ayers in 1865. Ayers printed and distributed a limited number of copy prints from the negative in the 1880s, and large numbers in the 1890s., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Copyright George B. Ayers Phila., Gift of Julia S. Obermayer, 1985., Illustrated in James Mellon's The Face of Lincoln (New York: Bonanza Books, 1979), p. 78., LCP also holds larger framed photomechanical print of the same portrait. (Inv. #657)., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895, photographer
Date: photographed June 3, 1860, printed ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitters - Lincoln [P.9078.1]

Title: [Silas McMinn residence, Lake Idaho?]
Description: Portrait of an African American man on a horse-drawn sulky on a farm. The man, attired in a brimmed hat, a coat, pants, and shoes, holds the reins to the horse. In the background are two log cabins, grazing calves, and men with a hay wagon., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s, exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs often won prizes.
Creator: Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.179]

Title: "She lives way down dar"
Description: Scene depicting an older African American woman giving directions to another African American woman in front of her home. At her open gate, the woman, wearing gray hair and attired in a long-sleeved, patterned dress, a plaid shawl, and a white apron, points left indicating the desired direction. The other woman, attired in a bonnet, a long-sleeved shirt, and a skirt, holds a milk can in her right hand and looks left with her back to the viewer. In the background is a wooden house with a large vine propped up on poles., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Signed by photographer on verso., Alternate title from lantern slide at the Staten Island New York Historical Society., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs won several prizes.
Creator: Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date: [photographed ca. 1886, printed ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.177]

Title: [Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning and Chew families portrait collection]
Description: Collection of primarily professional portrait studio photographs depicting members of the Venning, Chew, Saunders, and Sanders lines of the African American middle-class Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning Family. Portraits show the sitters when children and/or when adults. Sitters include Sallie Venning Holden ( P.2014.51.16-17) and her nieces Lillie Venning and Mary Venning; Harriette Elizabeth Richardson Saunders and George Saunders (parents of Georgine Saunders Chew); Cordelia Sanders (Chew) and her sons Richard Sanders Chew (P.2014.51.4) and Charles Sanders Chew (“Papoo”) (P.2014.51.6); Georgine Saunders Chew (“Dama”), her daughters Cordelia Sanders Chew (Hinkson) and Agnes Saunders Chew (Upshur), and her siblings Joseph S. Saunders (dentist), Mary Saunders (Patterson) (soprano and music instructor), Charles Saunders, Susan Saunders (Williams), Agnes Saunders. Small number of portraits document school graduations, including those of Cordelia Chew (Hinkson), Agnes Chew (Upshur), and Joseph S. Saunders. Also contains an unidentified silhouette of a young man, probably a member of the Cogdell family., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., One paper photograph (P.2014.51.1) mounted in daguerreotype brass mat., Silhouette (P.2014.51.3) mounted in daguerreotype case., Various photographers including Herbert Bridle (Philadelphia), Broadbent and Phillips (Philadelphia), H. D. Garns & Co. (Philadelphia), William Kuebler (Philadelphia), Snellenburg & Co. (Philadelphia), William C. Withers (Philadelphia), Keet & Gemmill (Harrisburg), Le Rue Lemer (Harrisburg), Arthur W. Sheppard (Brooklyn), W. E. Perry (Cresson, Pa.), and Abraham L. Myers (Atlantic City)., Sitters identified from manuscript notes on versos and/or accompanying photographic prints., See Lib. Company Annual Report, 1991, p. 26-31., Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky., See LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., Genealogical charts available at repository., P.2014.51.1-3 housed separately in phase box., RVCDC, Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1800-ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection [P.2014.51]

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