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Civil War scrapbook of envelopes and portraits
[graphic].
ca. 1860-1910.
1 scrapbook (ca. 250 prints, photographs, envelopes, stationery, and ephemera):
engraving, lithograph, albumen on carte de visite mount, letter press work, inscription, autograph, photomechanical print;
32 x 25 cm.(12 x 9.5 in.)
Various artists and photographers including Edward Anthony, Mathew Brady, John Henry Bufford, John Chester Buttre, Alonzo Chappel, Washington Lafayette Germon, Herline & Hensel, James Magee, Charles Magnus, and George E. Perine.
Various publishers and distributors including John Dainty, James Gates, Harbach & Brother, Oscar H. Harpel, Franklin Hedge, Johnson & Fry, and Wm. S. & A. Martien.
Scrapbook containing portraiture, predominately patriotic envelopes, of Civil War military and political figures. Majority of the envelopes issued by prolific New York publisher Charles Magnus, with several from his series "Generals of the Potomac Army" and "Heroes of Successful Expeditions." Also contains portrait prints, stationery, and non-portrait and ephemera materials, including newspaper clippings, manuscript letters, autographs, playbills, an illustrated songsheet, and a performance program. Several of the portrait prints were originally published in the 1861-1863 volumes of "The Rebellion Record" edited by Frank Moore.
Majority of clippings detail the controversial death and funeral of Col. Edward D. Baker. Manuscript letters include correspondence from 28th PA Regt. Beck Band musician, Samuel A. Murray to John McAllister, Jr. about collecting Southern Civil War relics and letters. Also includes W.S. Hancock correspondence denying a citizen's pass to cross military lines. Songsheet, performance program, and majority of playbills relate to special performances, including an 1862 Washington birthday commemorative program, at the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment military camp. Ephemera materials include a facsimile of the correspondence from General Grant to General Buckner for unconditional surrender following the Battle of Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862 and plain envelope covers inscribed by Col. Frank P. Blair and General Henry Halleck (General-in-Chief). Other materials include a print and newspaper clipping showing the Merrimac and Monitor; a cartoon satirizing supporters of defeated 1860 Constitutional Unionist presidential nominee John Bell; a Ulysses S. Grant family portrait photomechanical reproduction from the Photo History of the Civil War (1910); and the autographs of generals John W. Geary, Samuel P. Heintzelman, and William S. Rosencrans. Also contains a small number of non-Civil War era items, including an A. & J.B. Bartholomew trade card promoting Grant for president and an invitation to an 1879 Philadelphia City Council reception for former President Grant.
Portraiture predominately depicts Edward Dickinson Baker; Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; John Bell; Louis Blenker, John C. Breckinridge; Ambrose Everett Burnside; Michael Corcoran; Samuel Ryan Curtis; Stephen Douglas; Samuel Du Pont; David Glasgow Farragut; Andrew H. Foote; John Geary; Ulysses S. Grant; Henry W. Halleck; Winfield Scott Hancock; Samuel P. Heintzelman; David Hunter; Nathaniel Lyon; Peter Lyle, Irvin McDowell; James A. Mulligan; Joshua Thomas Owen; Robert Patterson; John Pope; Benjamin M. Prentiss; Jesse Lee Reno; William S. Rosecrans; Richard Rush; Thomas W. Sherman; William T. Sherman; James Shields; Silas H. Stringham; Edwin V. Sumner; and James S. Wadsworth.
Disbound and trimmed scrapbook pages re-housed in folders.
Oversize 1893 color lithograph "General Grant's Farewell Address to the Union Army in the Field 1865" removed to flat storage, see *GC-Grant [5758.F.69a].
Select link below for complete inventory of sitters.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Baker, Edward Dickinson,
1811-1861
Portraits.
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss,
1816-1894
Portraits.
Bell, John,
1797-1869
Portraits.
Blenker, Louis,
1812-1863
Portraits.
Breckinridge, John C.
(John Cabell),
1821-1875
Portraits.
Burnside, Ambrose Everett,
1824-1881
Portraits.
Corcoran, Michael,
1827-1863
Portraits.
Curtis, Samuel Ryan,
1805-1866
Portraits.
Douglas, Stephen Arnold,
1813-1861
Portraits.
Du Pont, Samuel Francis,
1803-1865
Portraits.
Farragut, David Glasgow,
1801-1870
Portraits.
Foote, Andrew H.
(Andrew Hull),
1806-1863
Portraits.
Geary, John White,
1819-1873
Portraits.
Grant, Ulysses S.
(Ulysses Simpson),
1822-1885
Portraits.
Halleck, H. W.
(Henry Wager),
1815-1872
Portraits.
Hancock, Winfield Scott,
1824-1886
Portraits.
Heintzelman, Samuel Peter,
1805-1880
Portraits.
Hunter, David,
1802-1886
Portraits.
Lyon, Nathaniel,
d. 1861
Portraits.
Lyle, Peter
1821-1879,
Portraits.
McDowell, Irvin,
1818-1885
Portraits.
Mulligan, James Adelbert,
1830-1864
Portraits.
Owen, Joshua Thomas,
1821-1887
Portraits.
Patterson, Robert,
1792-1881
Portraits.
Pope, John,
1822-1892
Portraits.
Prentiss, Benjamin M.
(Benjamin Mayberry),
1819-1901
Portraits.
Reno, Jesse Lee,
1823-1862
Portraits.
Rosecrans, William S.
(William Starke),
1819-1898
Portraits.
Rush, Richard Henry,
1824-1893
Portraits.
Sherman, Thomas W.
(Thomas West),
1813-1879
Portraits.
Sherman, William T.
(William Tecumseh),
1820-1891
Portraits.
Shields, James,
1806-1879
Portraits.
Stringham, Silas H.,
1797-1876
Portraits.
Sumner, Edwin V.
(Edwin Vose),
1797-1863
Portraits.
Wadsworth, James S.
(James Samuel),
1807-1864
Portraits.
Albumen prints
1860-1870.
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Autographs
1860-1870.
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Cartes de visite
1860-1870.
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Envelopes
1860-1870.
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Engravings
1860-1880.
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Ephemera
1860-1880.
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Group portraits
1860-1870.
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Inscriptions
1860-1880.
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Letterpress works
1860-1870.
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Lithographs
1860-1880.
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Photomechanical prints
1900-1910.
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Portrait prints
1860-1870.
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Portrait photographs
1860-1870.
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Scrapbooks
1860-1910.
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Stationery
1860-1870.
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SP10
Philadelphia artists.
Anthony, Edward
photographer.
14117
Brady, Mathew B.,
1823 (ca.)-1896
photographer.
10825
Bufford, John Henry,
1810-1870
printer.
16655
Buttre, John Chester,
1821-1893
engraver.
36469
Chappel, Alonzo,
1828-1887
artist.
55110
Germon, W. L.
photographer.
44052
Magee, James
printer.
Magnus, Charles
printer.
2479
Perine, George Edward,
1837-1885
engraver.
60727
Herline & Hensel
lithographer.
36917
Printer
Dainty, John,
publisher.
Printer
Gates, James,
publisher.
Printer
Harpel, Oscar H.
(Oscar Henry),
b. 1828,
publisher.
Printer
Hedge, Franklin,
b. ca. 1830,
publisher.
Provenance
McAllister, John A.
(John Allister),
1822-1896,
collector.
Imprint
PA. Philadelphia.
1860-1910.
Printer
Harbach & Brother,
publisher.
Printer
Johnson & Fry,
publisher.
Printer
Wm. S. & A. Martien,
publisher.
Library Company of Philadelphia
Print Dept.
Print Room Annex - McAllister [(7)5785.F]
(7)5785.F
Inventory
http://www.librarycompany.org/FindingAids/McAllister(7)5785.F.pdf
Manuscripts - McAllister [(7)5785.F]
(7)5785.F
LCPD
Manuscripts - McAllister [(7)5785.F]
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PA. Philadelphia.
1860-1910.
Imprint
Dainty, John,
publisher.
Gates, James,
publisher.
Harbach & Brother,
publisher.
Harpel, Oscar H.
b. 1828,
publisher.
Johnson & Fry,
publisher.
Hedge, Franklin,
b. ca. 1830,
publisher.
Wm. S. & A. Martien,
publisher.
McAllister, John A.
1822-1896,
collector.