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Announcing an Unparalleled Gift from Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg

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January 31, 2025
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Wm. A. Selser, Bee Farmer and Breeder of Italian Bees & Queens. Blossom Nectar and Beeswax. Jenkintown, Pa. (Philadelphia: Craig, Finley & Co., ca. 1900).

A Bee Farmer’s Ode to Summer

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August 15, 2018
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Printed in color and selling for a dollar wholesale, the “orange blossom” certificate was the preference of the about twenty-five-year-old Thomas Radle (b. 1861) and teen-aged Mary Dasher (b. ca. 1867-1894). Containing their portrait photographs, the certificate documents that D.W. Proffitt (1841-1913) of the United Memorial Brethren Church married the couple in September 1885 in Pittsburgh. Thomas appears in a suit, derby hat, and with a cigarette in his mouth. Mary wears a long-sleeve, dark-colored dress with a bustle. Although used in a marriage certificate, and especially given Radle’s pose, the photographs, as with the previous couple, were probably ones the couple already possessed. They had not acquired them for the occasion, although possibly for the certificate. A genealogical record, the certificate’s content also provides a trail of evidence for more concrete information about the couple. Mary, likely a domestic servant before her marriage, passed away in 1894. As traced in census and marriage documents, Thomas, a railroad laborer, then farmer, later marries her sister Clara Dasher (1872-1960). He is listed as widowed and she as his housekeeper in the 1900 census. By the summer of 1900, a Pennsylvania marriage license has been issued to the couple. And in the 1910 census, Clara is described as Thomas’s wife. Weddings are history-making events for the couple married. In the modern era, they can also be history making in terms of cost. The Crider & Brother prints and ephemera are humble, yet symbolic artifacts of wedding commercialization. They are captivating mementoes of wedding practices of the past, while also perspicacious harbingers of wedding practices of today. Erika Piola Associate Curator, Prints and Photographs and Director, Visual Culture Program Sources: Ancestry.com accessed April 16 and 17, 2018. Crider & Brother, Publishers and Proprietors of the Original Photograph Marriage Certificates, York, Pa. (York, Pa., 1884). George Reeser Prowell, History of York County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1907), vol. 2, 497-498.

Wedding Industry, Victorian-Style

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June 8, 2018
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Donald C. Taber, An Artist's Conception of Swarthmore Crest. A Highly Restricted Residential Park, ca. 1930. Pencil and watercolor.

To Beguile and Belie

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April 30, 2018
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Charles Martin Crandall, Pigs in Clover ([Waverly, N.Y.]: [Waverly Toy Works], [ca. 1889]).

Shall We Play A Game?

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March 30, 2018
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Oblique view of extended tunnel book A View of the Tunnel under the Thames, as it will Appear When Completed  (London: S. E. Gouyn, 1828).

Curator’s Favorite: A Tunnel Book by Any Other Name …

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March 30, 2018
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Playground Association of Philadelphia. Tag Day May 20th 1908. I am tagged to help the children of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: E. A. Wright, [1908]

Curator’s Favorite: Tagged!

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March 30, 2018
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“The Lady of the Lake,” from The Judge, ca. 1883. Chromolithograph.

Curator’s Favorite: Popular Medicine

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March 30, 2018
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Robert Newell, American Mechanic, Arch Street below 8th, Philada., albumen print stereograph, ca. 1864.

Curator’s Favorite: All in a Day’s Labor

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March 30, 2018
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Trade card for the Philadelphia Roller Skating Rink. (ca. 1881). Chromolithograph.

Curator’s Favorite: Roller Skating Fun

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March 30, 2018
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Page from Carson R. Draucker photograph album. Gelatin silver photographs, ca. 1912.

Curator’s Favorite: The Story of Bob

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March 30, 2018
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David Heston, Manufacturer of Advertising Cards, Frankford, Phil'a. (Philadelphia, ca. 1880). Color wood engraving.

Curator’s Favorite: David Heston, Frankford Printer

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March 30, 2018
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Charles Adams Dry Goods, S.E. corner Eighth and Arch Streets, ca. 1860

Curator’s Favorite: The Hugo Sebald Collection

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March 30, 2018
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Albert Hatch's Philadelphia residence at 577 North Twenty-Fifth Street, ca. 1885.

Curator’s Favorite: Albert Hatch Photograph Album

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March 30, 2018
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Timothy O’Sullivan, Santa Maria del Real, from Tropical Scenery. Darien Expedition. Comd’r Selfridge, Comd’g. (Washington, D.C.: J.F. Jarvis, 1870 or 1871).

Curator’s Favorite: Expedition Stereographs

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March 30, 2018
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The Philadelphia Wagon Manufactured by Rech-Marbaker Co. Girard Ave & 8th St. Philadelphia Pa. ([Philadelphia], 1913).

Curator’s Favorite: Soaking Up History

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March 30, 2018
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R. Newell & Son, “Herod’s Palace and Towers,” No. 6 in Cyclorama of Jerusalem and the Crucifixion. Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. Albumen print on stereograph mount. Recto.

Curator’s Favorite: Cyclorama in Philadelphia

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March 30, 2018
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William Jennings. Ralph, Sara, and Bill Jennings at Fern Rock Camp, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1912.

Curator’s Favorite: William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946)

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March 30, 2018
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Library Company of Philadelphia Scrapbook

Curator’s Favorite: Library Company of Philadelphia Scrapbook

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March 30, 2018
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“The Goldfish” in Ada M. Skinner’s A Child’s Book of Modern Stories (1935).

Curator’s Favorite: The Jessie Willcox Smith Collection

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March 30, 2018
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