Search results

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: [Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning unidentified woman family member portrait]
Description: Half-length portrait. Shows the woman, her hair parted in the middle, and pulled back and attired in a long-sleeved dark dress adorned with a white collar and buttons down the bodice. Sitter also wears drop earrings., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note on detached label., Accompanied by detached photographer's label., Removed to Print Department from Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Object Collection., 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., 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., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Creator: Fenton, J., photographer
Date: Summer 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Portrait Collection [P.2012.37.4]

Title: [Unidentified African American woman]
Description: Near full-length portrait showing an African American woman attired in a narrow-brimmed, high-domed, ornamented bonnet; dark-colored, button-down shirt waist; and white skirt with ruching at the hips. A broach with a four-leaf clover detail adorns her collar. She stands between a post to her right and a stringy, hay bale-like prop to her left. She rests her left hand on the prop and holds a parasol perpendicular to the floor in her right. A photographer's head clamp is positioned to the left of the post and a backdrop illustrated with an outdoor setting is visible in the background. The studio is partially visible in the left of the image., Title supplied by cataloger., Accompanied by detached photographer's label (P.2017.14.4b)., Date inferred from "N.B." on photographer's label., Description and access points reviewed 2022.
Creator: Fenton, J., photographer
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department tintypes - photographer - Fenton [P.2017.14.4a&b]

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: [Portrait of an unidentified woman looking slightly to her left.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple., Mat: Oval., Case: Oval thermoplastic. Spray of mixed flowers and leaves, with one prominent rose. Same design on verso., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.20]

Title: [George Henry Lea, 1853-1915]
Description: Portrait of Lea as a young man, hair parted neatly on one side, looking quite serious., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Royal blue velvet. No design., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Oval thermoplastic. Spray of mixed flowers and leaves, with one prominent rose. Same design on verso. This design is called Bunch of Flowers and is #2-109 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. : Huntington Valley Press, 1995.)., See Lea Family Research File., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.19]

Title: [Gilbert Livingston Bishop as a young man.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet with a geometric design., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Oval thermoplastic. Geometric design. This design is #3-438 in Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames by Paul K. Berg (Huntington Beach, Ca. 92647: Huntington Valley Press, 1995.) It is designated as scarce. Same design on verso., Accompanied by typed note: Gilbert Livingston Bishop, 1845-1926., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Conarroe Family Collection [8259.F.3]

Title: [Portrait of a seated, unidentified young man, hands resting in his lap.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded gold colored velvet with border of leaves and scrolls., Mat: Oval with military ornamentation., Case: Leather. Within a double elliptical border is a design with curled loops with a diamond in the center. Same design on verso.
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9491.4]

Title: [Group portrait with Captain William Wallace Rogers, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, at military encampment in unidentified location]
Description: Group portrait of Captain William Wallace Rogers, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, and seven individuals, including white military officers, a white boy, and an African American man posed in front of tents at an unidentified military encampment. In the center, Rogers, wearing a mustache and attired in a Union uniform and hat, stands with his right hand on his hip and his left hand on the back of a chair. Two Union officers sit in the left, one holding a sword. In the right, a bearded man sits, attired in shirtsleeves and with a pipe in his mouth and another man sits attired in uniform. To the right of Rogers, a man, attired in uniform, stands holding a flag on a pole. In the right, a boy, possibly a messenger or scout, attired in cap, shirtsleeves, and pants, stands with his left leg crossed over his right. In front of the men, an African American man, probably a camp laborer/servant and possibly an enslaved freedom seeker, lies on the ground on his side, propped up on his left elbow, and looks at the viewer. He wears shirtsleeves and pants. The tops of trees are visible in the background. William Wallace Rogers (1832-1890) served in the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil War and served in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, including the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was wounded in July 1863. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1865 and retired from service in 1889., Title supplied by cataloger from information provided by donor, descendent of William Wallace Rogers., Date inferred from content and information provided by donor., Pad: Red velvet with a decorative scroll in the center surrounded by an ornamental border with flowers and leaves., Mat: Nonpareil., Case: Leather. Geometric design of a scroll in the center surrounded by vases of flowers and leaves. Same design on verso., Gift of John J. Nesbitt III, 2016.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos – sitter – Rogers [P.2016.78.1]

Main menu