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Certificate of marriage. [graphic] / Engraved and Published by Croome Meignelle & Co. Phila.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A58
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Creator
Croome, Meignelle & Co., engraver.
Title
Certificate of marriage. [graphic] / Engraved and Published by Croome Meignelle & Co. Phila.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Croome Meignelle & Co
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date
[ca. 1846]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving ; sheet 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Description
Marriage certificate illustrated with vignettes within an ornamental border. Depicts vignettes representing peace and love including doves near an altar with an eternal flame, and cherubs floating on clouds, reaping grain, and rowing a gondola.
Notes
Issued to John A. Jones and Mary Anne Dickerson. Signed by Rev. William Douglass, officiant, and by Samuel Van Brackle and George W. Hopewell, witnesses.
Copyright secured.
Title from item.
Date based on date of the event represented.
Purchase 1993.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note
Croome, Meignelle & Co. was a Philadelphia engraving firm operated by engraver, William Croome, and banknote engraver, James Meignelle in the 1840s.
Subject
African Americans -- Marriage -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Doves.
Putti.
Genre
Engravings -- 1840-1850.
Marriage certificates -- 1840-1850.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *albums (flat) [P.9427] - Dickerson Family Collection - Miscellaneous
Accession number
P.9427.26
In Collections
Dickerson Family Cased Portrait Collection
African American History Photographs
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