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[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.
Library Company of Philadelphia
PRINT
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UNITED STATES.
1852-1876.
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