Archives of American Art

Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. photograph collection

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.librcomp
Creators:
Library Company of Philadelphia. Print Dept
Dates:
[ca. 1850]-1890
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.2 Linear feet
(on partial microfilm reel)
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Photographs of 19th century artists, including Thomas Sully, Rembrandt Peale, Frederick de Bourg Richards, Edward Moran, John Moran, William Trost Richards, Edmund Darch Lewis, George Bacon Wood, Isaac Williams, James Reid Lambdin, Samuel Bell Waugh, Peter Frederick Rothermel, the Sartain family, the Sartain home, John Sartain, Samuel Sartain, William Sartain, Emily Sartain, Thomas Buchanan Read, Thomas Eakins's motion studies, the Pennsylvania State Capitol, group portraits of women from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Artists Fund Society, James S. Earle and Son, and the Fine Art Gallery at the Great Sanitary Fair.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Archive repository; Philadelphia, Pa.

Administration

Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reel 3919 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals in the Library Company of Philadelphia, Print Department.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Microfilmed in 1986 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Photographs were compiled from various collections of the Print Dept. of the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

More Information

Other Finding Aids

Other Finding Aids
Finding aid available on microfilm.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Photograph collections -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Photographs Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photography -- Early works to 1900 -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Photographs Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Photographs Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Richards, Frederick de Bourg, 1822-1903 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Moran, Edward, 1829-1901 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Moran, John, 1831-1903 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Richards, William Trost, 1833-1905 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Lewis, Edmund Darch, 1835-1910 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1910 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Williams, Isaac, 1817-1895 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Waugh, Samuel Bell, 1814-1885 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sartain family (Philadelphia, Pa.) Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sartain, John, 1808-1897 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sartain, William, 1843-1924 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sartain, Emily, 1841-1927 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Artists' Fund Society Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
James S. Earle & Son Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
United States Sanitary Commission Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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