11916nkc a2201693 a 4500 000279117 20230913195335.0 kj mo 010416i18521876vp nnn kneng d 1 3 10 NEHE-1569 ppl PPL dcrmg [Specimens album] [graphic]. [ca. 1852-ca. 1876] ca. 6750 items in 1 scrapbook : engravings, mezzotints, lithographs, chromolithographs, chromoxlographs, embossed works ; scrapbook 50 x 39 cm (19.75 x 15.5 in.) Stamped on spine: Specimens. 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. 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. 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. 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. Index of general subjects illustrated available at repository. Several items found loose in album removed and housed separately. Gift of Margaret Robinson, 1991. RVCDC Description revised 2021. Access points revised 2021. Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. Stein, Rudolph, -1871 Portraits. Jones, Alfred T., 1822-1888 Portraits. Philadelphia Sketch Club. African American men. 67138 Animals. lctgm 67576 Agriculture. lctgm 67266 Asians Caricatures and cartoons. Birds. lctgm 68487 Business enterprises. lctgm 68935 Chinese Caricatures and cartoons. Courtship. lctgm 70567 East Indians Caricatures and cartoons. Fashion. 72012 Fruit. lctgm 72607 Indians of North America. 74085 Indigenous peoples United States. lctgm Liquor industry. lctgm 75353 Machinery. lctgm 75609 Natural history. 76783 Patriotism. lctgm 77674 Patent medicines. lctgm 77657 Racism in popular culture. Religion. lctgm 79087 Tobacco industry. lctgm 81259 Transportation. lctgm 81359 Women. lctgm 82663 China Pictorial works. Cincinnati (Ohio) Pictorial works. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works. 81785 Scrapbooks 1850-1880. gmgpc Bank notes 1850-1880. gmgpc Bank note vignettes 1850-1880. gmgpc Billheads 1850-1880. gmgpc Calendars 1850-1880. gmgpc Certificates 1850-1880. gmgpc Checks 1850-1880. gmgpc Chromolithographs 1850-1880. gmgpc Ephemera 1850-1880. gmgpc Engravings 1850-1880. gmgpc Engravings Hand-colored 1850-1880. gmgpc Genre prints 1850-1880. gmgpc Illustrations 1850-1880. gmgpc Invitations 1850-1880. gmgpc Labels 1850-1880. gmgpc Lithographs 1850-1880. gmgpc Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1880. gmgpc Lithographs Tinted 1850-1880. gmgpc Portrait prints 1850-1880. gmgpc Proofs 1850-1880. gmgpc Scraps (Decorations) 1860-1880. gmgpc Sheet music covers 1850-1880. gmgpc Specimens 1850-1880. gmgpc Tickets 1850-1880. gmgpc Trade cards 1850-1880. gmgpc Wood engravings Color 1860-1880. gmgpc Women. 82663 SP3 African American History SP10 Philadelphia artists. Ehrgott & Fobriger, printer. Klauprech & Menzel, printer. Leonhardt, Theo. (Theodore), 1818-1877, printer. 66869 Illman Brothers, printer. 57482 Stein & Jones, printer. William F. Murphy's & Sons, printer. William Grattan & Co., printer. Imprint UNITED STATES. 1852-1876. 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