Details
Contributor Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Title Civil War era patriotic ream wrappers [graphic].
Date ca. 1863.
Extent 8 prints: wood engraving, color; 38 x 32 cm. (14.5 x 9.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Collection includes ream wrappers for ruled note paper from Ellsworth Mills; Fremont Mills; McClellan Mills; Parsons Paper Co. (Holyoke, Mass.); and S.C. Upham (Philadelphia, Pa.). Also includes two "Union Note Paper" wrappers issued from unidentified sources. Majority of wrappers contain ornate borders and patriotic designs including eagles, the figure of Liberty, portraits of Elmer Ellsworth and George McClellan, and military iconography.
Notes 5793.F.33a contains inscriptions about ream price.
Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War miscellanies and materials related to George McClellan.
Seven of the collection trimmed.
Genre Wood engravings Color 1860-1870.
Ream wrappers Color 1860-1870.
Subject Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861 Portraits.
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 Portraits.
Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885,
Ellsworth Mills.
Fremont Mills.
McClellan Mills.
Parsons Paper Company.
Paper mills.
Liberty.
Eagles.
Spatial coverage United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Is part of Civil War Envelope Collection
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Ream wrappers [(2)5786.F.159f; (5)5786.F.169d; 5793.F.33a&35a; P.2006.1.13a-d]
Accession number (2)5786.F.159f
(5)5786.F.169d
5793.F.33a
5793.F.35a
P.2006.1.13a
P.2006.1.13b
P.2006.1.13c
P.2006.1.13d