Library Company of Philadelphia
African American basketball team by Library Company of Philadelphia
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Group portrait photograph depicting members of an African American basketball team with their coach, probably in Philadelphia. Posters for good health and African American participation in athletics hang on the walls, possibly of a Boys’ Club or YMCA.
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Free!, ca. 1863 by Library Company of Philadelphia
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Depicts an African American man celebrating his freedom as he reached Union territory. Forms part of a collection of twelve titled carte-de-visite size cards depicting the evolution of the life of an African American man from a slave to a Union soldier.
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Emancipation: the past and the future by Library Company of Philadelphia
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Emancipation print from 1863 depicting a series of scenes contrasting African American life before and after slavery. Central scene portrays the interior of a freedman’s home where several generations of the family socialize around a “Union” stove as the mother cooks. Below this scene is a vignette depicting Father Time holding a baby angel who has the year 1863 above his head and who frees the shackles of a kneeling male slave before him. Above the central scene is a depiction of Thomas Crawford’s statue of freedom as well as the hell hound Cerberus fleeing Liberty. Scenes to the right display the horrors of slavery including the flogging, branding, selling, and capturing of slaves. Scenes to the left display the forthcoming results of freedom including the exterior of a freedman’s cottage, African American children attending public school, and African Americans receiving payment for their work. (10)1540.F
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Depicts two African American women teachers overseeing a class of African American grade school children. The younger children play on the floor and at tables with blocks. The older ones sit and read on benches lining the wall. On the floor, a group of girls play with white dolls as others ride on tricycles and push a carriage. One teacher stands by two blackboards; one board lists the names of good and bad boys, and the other of good and bad girls. Stencils of wild animals and playing white children decorate the walls.
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The new home of the A.M.E. Union Church by Library Company of Philadelphia
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Interior view of the sanctuary of the African Methodist Episcopal church at North 16th Street and Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia. Rev. Oliver W.H. Childers was minister when postcard was issued.
[Churches - Miscellaneous - 50] Photomechanical print (postcard), c. 1905.
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Wanted/25000 Student Nurses/U.S. Student Nurse Reserve by Library Company of Philadelphia
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World War I-era poster depicts woman in foreground wearing white nurse uniform. Woman raises right hand to her heart. Shadowy figures in background carry guns with bayonets. Poster urges viewers to “enroll at the nearest recruiting station of the Womans Committee of the Council of National Defense.” Published by New York: John H. Eggers Co., artist: Milton Bancroft, ca. 1917- ca. 1919.
Accession Number: P-2284-188
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Joan of Arc Saved France by Library Company of Philadelphia
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World War I-era poster urges American women to buy War Saving Stamps by using Joan of Arc as a symbol of female patriotism. Issued by the United States Treasury Department; artist: Haskell Coffin.
Accession Number: P.2284.122b
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Card with Geometric Diagram and Lord’s Prayer by Library Company of Philadelphia
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Our Father Who Art in Heaven. Boston, 1833. Raised-letter specimen card. 8.5 x 5 in.This pictures shows a tactile specimen made from a piece of light brown rectangular cardstock with a geometric shape and the Lord’s prayer embossed into its surface. There is a crease in the middle of the paper, as though it has been folded. There is a geometric shape comprised of squares and triangles on the upper half of the print, with alphabetic letters A through I and K at each corner of the figure. The words on the lower half of the card form part of the Lord’s prayer and read as follows: “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven: give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we for”. The text ends at the word “for,” without punctuation. Specimen was originally included in the “Address to the Trustees of the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind” (Boston 1833). commontouch.librarycompany.org/
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“A token of love from me, to thee”
Amy Matilda Cassey’s Friendship Album
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Page from Amy Matilda Cassey album drawn by Sarah Mapps Douglass, ca. 1833 depicting a black butterfly with the title “A token of love from me, to thee.” Douglass, an artist and prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, was best known as an educator and anti-slavery activist.
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The Library Company of Philadelphia recently acquired this copy of the first edition of William Maitland’s History of London that belonged to the London merchant and naturalist Peter Collinson (1694-1768) and was heavily annotated by him throughout. Over his years of ownership, Collinson tipped in numerous additional plates, plans, notes, documents, and clippings, with the last note dated just two years before his death. The hundreds of annotations and notes in Collinson’s hand deal with both the changing physical fabric of the city of London and events of daily life.
Not only did Collinson “discover” Benjamin Franklin, he also served as the first book purchasing agent for the Library Company of Philadelphia.
A hand-colored view of London, ca. 1764-1768. Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson’s copy of William Maitland’s The History of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
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