| Contributor |
Ehrgott & Fobriger, printer. |
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Klauprech & Menzel, printer. |
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Leonhardt, Theo. (Theodore), 1818-1877, printer. |
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Illman Brothers, printer. |
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Stein & Jones, printer. |
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William F. Murphy's & Sons, printer. |
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William Grattan & Co., printer. |
| Title |
[Specimens album] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
UNITED STATES. 1852-1876 |
| Date |
[ca. 1852-ca. 1876] |
| Physical Description |
ca. 6750 items in 1 scrapbook : engravings, mezzotints, lithographs, chromolithographs, chromoxlographs, embossed works ;
scrapbook 50 x 39 cm (19.75 x 15.5 in.)
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| Description |
Scrapbook of print specimens and proofs probably compiled by a printer associated with the Philadelphia lithographic firm
Stein & Jones. Contains book and periodical plates and illustrations; sheet music covers; proof prints; collecting cards;
trade cards (several glossed); bank notes, checks, billheads, and receipts; certificates; advertising calendars; and chromolithographed
labels and scraps. Majority of contents include several plates from Thomas Allom's "China: In a Series of Views,..." (London,
1860), Albert Barnes's "Scenes and Incidents in the Life of the Apostle Paul" (Philadelphia, 1869), John Fleetwood's "The
life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" (Philadelphia, 1871) and Daniel March's "Our Father's House , or The Unwritten
Word" (Philadelphia, 1871); illustrations and plates depicting genre, religious, sentimental, historical, natural history,
scientific, and scenic views from children and gift books, and periodicals, including "Leila in England" and "Leila at Home"
(Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1875-1880), "Peterson's Magazine" (plates engraved by Illman Brothers), "Ladies Companion,"
"Graham's Magazine," "Odd Fellow's Casket," "Transactions and Proceedings of American Entomological Society" and "Annals Lyceum
of Natural History"; and several works printed by Stein & Jones and Cincinnati lithographers Klauprech & Menzel and Ehrgott
& Fobriger, including trade cards, labels, tickets, invitations, certificates, receipts, checks, bank notes, sheet music covers,
advertisements, and book illustrations.
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Bank notes, receipts, checks, and certificates document primarily Philadelphia and New York bank, coal, oil, steel, and real
estate businesses, including Bank of Fashion, Belmont Petroleum Refinery, and Union College Bank. Trade cards, tickets, invitations,
and labels represent primarily Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York, Cincinnati and Chicago businesses and organizations, including
printers and art supply dealers; perfume, patent medicine, wine, dry goods, and clothing dealers; doctors and dentists; bankers
and brokers; and manufacturers. The materials contain patriotic, agricultural, and transportation vignettes, views of buildings,
anaglyptography (i.e., medal engraving), allegorical figures, and Centennial Exhibition (1876) imagery. Sheet music covers,
predominantly printed by Ehrgott & Fobriger, depict mainly genre and Civil War scenes, portraiture, including images of entertainers,
and advertisements such as "Sewing Machine Polka." Work by the Cincinnati lithographers also include several book illustrations
depicting Ohio and Cincinnati asylums, institutes, seminaries, and landmarks, as well as uncut sheets of views of cemetery
monuments for "The Cincinnati Cemetery of Spring Grove..." (Cincinnati, 1862). Several of the ephemera also printed by Grattan
& Co., Theodore Leonhardt, and Wm. F. Murphy & Sons.
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Scrapbook also contains 1860s Berlin wool work patterns ("Peterson’s Ladies National Magazine"); ornate border print specimens,
some with cut-out overlays; proofs and final states of textile, fruit, liquor, druggist labels, and tobacco labels printed
predominantly by Stern, Jonas & Co. and Steng & Paxson and depicting romantic, patriotic, and mystical themes, including "I
Am Free" logo illustrated with an African American man ; European prints, including plates from Bernard-Romain Julien "Cours
Elementaire," and issued by German publisher A.H. Payne (some hand-colored); ca. 1855 Bowen & Co. plates of birds from "United
States Pacific Rail Road Expedition and Survey"; color printed and numbered proof lithographs depicting Mo-Hon-Go; Shar- I-Tar-Ish;
Se-Quo-Yah after plates in McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America"; Philadelphia Sketch Club signage;
portraits of Catholic bishops, celebrity and political figures, and lithographers Rudolph Stein and Alfred Jones; mechanical
views printed by William Boell; job printing specimen vignettes depicting masonic, military, allegorical, and patriotic imagery,
transportation views, women, entertainers, agriculture, buildings, animals, and machinery; collecting cards showing George
and Martha Washington, Civil War generals, celebrities, including Lydia Thompson and Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosasea, wild life,
Biblical animals, fashion, and satiric scenes; and chromolithographic scrap portraits of women.
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| Notes |
Stamped on spine: Specimens. |
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Various artists, engravers, lithographers, and printers including Ackerman; John Alexander; Thomas Allom; William Boell; John
T. Bowen,; Bowen & Co.; Byram & Slack; C. E. Wemple & Co.; Donaldson Brothers ; G. Dow; Ehrgott & Fobriger; Dominque Fabronius;
Grattan & Co.; The Hatch Lith. Co.; Otto Knirsch; L. H. Bradford & Co.; Klauprech & Menzel; Theodore Leonhardt; London Printing
and Publishing Company; McLaughlin Bros.; Antoine [Maurin?]; A.H. Payne; Prang & Co.; Rawdon, Wright & Hatch; William H. Rease;
Sarony & Major; John Sartain; Samuel Sartain; R. Trembley; J. Shobe; Steng & Paxson; Stern, Jonas & Co.; A. B. Walter; and
Wm. F. Murphy & Sons.
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Index of general subjects illustrated available at repository. |
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Several items found loose in album removed and housed separately. |
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Gift of Margaret Robinson, 1991. |
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RVCDC |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Subject |
Stein, Rudolph, -1871 -- Portraits. |
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Jones, Alfred T., 1822-1888 -- Portraits. |
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Philadelphia Sketch Club. |
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African American men. |
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Animals. |
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Agriculture. |
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Asians -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Birds. |
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Business enterprises. |
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Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Courtship. |
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East Indians -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Fashion. |
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Fruit. |
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Indians of North America. |
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Indigenous peoples -- United States. |
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Liquor industry. |
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Machinery. |
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Natural history. |
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Patriotism. |
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Patent medicines. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Religion. |
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Tobacco industry. |
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Transportation. |
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Women. |
| Geographic subject |
China -- Pictorial works. |
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Cincinnati (Ohio) -- Pictorial works. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works. |
| Genre |
Scrapbooks -- 1850-1880. |
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Bank notes -- 1850-1880. |
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Bank note vignettes -- 1850-1880. |
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Billheads -- 1850-1880. |
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Calendars -- 1850-1880. |
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Certificates -- 1850-1880. |
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Checks -- 1850-1880. |
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Chromolithographs -- 1850-1880. |
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Ephemera -- 1850-1880. |
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Engravings -- 1850-1880. |
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Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1880. |
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Genre prints -- 1850-1880. |
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Illustrations -- 1850-1880. |
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Invitations -- 1850-1880. |
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Labels -- 1850-1880. |
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Lithographs -- 1850-1880. |
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Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1880. |
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Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1880. |
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Portrait prints -- 1850-1880. |
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Proofs -- 1850-1880. |
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Scraps (Decorations) -- 1860-1880. |
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Sheet music covers -- 1850-1880. |
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Specimens -- 1850-1880. |
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Tickets -- 1850-1880. |
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Trade cards -- 1850-1880. |
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Wood engravings -- Color -- 1860-1880. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *albums (flat) [P.9349] |
| Accession number |
P.9349 |
