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A Bookkeeping room- Strayer's Business College
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A corner of the Gray Room, B F Keith's New Theatre
A drafting room, school of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
A lecture room, School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
A Merry Christmas, University of Pennsylvania
A Musical Evening at Green Hill Pres. Church
A Quality Product, partial decorative oval design
A Sail with the Ports from St. Patricks Pier
A. Reichard Altar Cloths and Church Linens
Postcard to Miss Elizabeth (Shaughuessy)
Active Linen Finish Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
H. Vernet; Mayer & V.G. Kininger, Sculpt.
Advance Pencil Tablet (illustrated cover)
Aerial Age Weekly, May 12, 1919, pages 437-438
Aero Photograph of the Manor at Alden Park
Airplane View showing hotels and Steel Pier
Albion Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) served as secretary and aide-de-camp to Washington during the American Revolution. After the war, he studied law and began a distinguished service in the new government. In 1789 he became the first United States Secretary of the Treasury and was instrumental in organizing the country's finances and in establishing a national bank. Hamilton died at the age of forty-seven from wounds suffered in a duel with his political opponent Aaron Burr. This plaster replica of Giuseppe Ceracchi's 1794 marble bust was made by Lanelli following Hamilton's tragic death. Ceracchi (b.1751), the renowned Roman sculptor, visited Philadelphia in 1791 and 1794. Here he modeled many of America's founding fathers, Washington, Jefferson, etc., in the guise of Roman emperors. The engraving of Hamilton on the US $10 bill is based upon the Ceracchi bust. Banished from Italy because of his liberal political views, Ceracchi was executed in Paris in 1801 after plotting to assassinate Napoleon. The bust was painted in 1955.
Alexander I / Aleksandr Pavlovich / Александр Павлович (1777-1825)
All the oaks are vigorous winter picture-makers
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps to Sarah Josepha Hale
America's Leading Bands, Minstrels, Dancing, Photo Plays
Postcard to Mr. Otto Chamberlain from Nancy Smith
Ancient courtyard scene with women, children and dog
Anna Hansen Devacy to Sarah Josepha Hale
Anne Charlotte Lynch to Sarah Josepha Hale
Botta, Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch), 1815-1891
Antar Writing Tablet Arabian Linen (illustrated cover)
Antiopa (decorative design, possibly for a book cover)
Areo View, Delaware River Bridge, between Camden NJ and Philadelphia PA
Ariel Linen Finish Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Born in the autumn of 1798, the younger of two daughters, Jane Caroline Armat was raised in the newly built family home of Loudon in Germantown, Philadelphia. By the age of 11, Jane and her sister Sara were left solely in the care of their grandparents following the death of their mother and father within just three years of each other.
At the age of 21, in 1819, Jane married her cousin William Armatt with whom she had two daughters. It was in the early years of their marriage that the artist Henry Inman is believed to have painted this portrait of Jane.
Inman, who had established himself as one of the prominent portraitists in New York City by 1829, was also credited with the first successful attempt of genre painting by an American-born artist. His somewhat Romanticised style is perhaps what first appealed to Jane when commissioning this portrait, however it is thought that Jane Caroline Armatt and Henry Inman were good friends too. Their friendship lasted long after the passing of William Armatt in 1822 as Inman is also attributed to painting two later portraits of Jane and her second husband, James Skerrett, an Athenaeum shareholder, after their marriage in 1825.
Inman, Henry (attributed). Alternate attribution: Jacob Eichholtz.
This handsome chair descended through the family of its maker, French émigré cabinetmaker Michel Bouvier (1792-1874). The chair is unusual for its slip-in upholstered scrolled back and scrolled arms which terminate in carved eagle heads. The arms have the horizontal forward thrust of earlier French models and show the slight curve which was then coming into vogue. The legs mark the reintroduction of the cabriole form. The chair was restored and reupholstered in black horsehair--a popular upholstery material in the nineteenth century--as suggested by surviving fragments discovered under later upholstery.