Ye sons of Freedom, wake to glory; 3rd line: Your children, wives, and grand- sires hoary (4 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Print. Andrews; with Astley's imprint pasted over Andrews'. T. o. border. 23.5 x 15 cm., Variant: b. [Without "The" in title;] publ. Auner (2). A-J border; eagle with flag. 25 x 15 cm., Variant: c. [Publ.] De Marsan (1). De Marsan ship border, col. 24.6 x 16 cm., Variant: d. [Without comma in first line;] sheet no. 242; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.5 x 14 cm.
Image: Jefferson Davis, in military uniform, peers into binoculars while standing with one foot at the edge of a bowl that carries six other armed men at sea. A jolly roger flag is raised., Verse 1877: "Seven wise men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl.", Caption: Jeff's Knave-y., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Image: Depicts the main building (left) and the right wing, which housed the slavequarters and holding pen for "surplus" slaves that were headed to markets in Mississippi. Once owned by Franklin & Armfield, Price, Birch & Co. owned this slave pen during the Civil War, when it became a jail under Union occupation., Verse 1911: Slave pen, Alexandria, Va., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 487a, One of 297 song sheet headpiece designs identified by Edwin Wolf in his bibliography, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides Collection, 1850-1870: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1963).
The German American, or Pennsylvanian Deutsch, soldier holds a pot marked "Krout" and wears a Union uniform. His cap is marked "Commissariat," and he has a long white beard., Text: Poor soldiers have mighty few thigns to be merry at, / When fed from the hands of a Dutch commissariat; / Krout for their breakfast, and their dinners, and teas, / And now and then scraps of bad Limburger cheeses. / So go, red-necked Dutchman, you ne'er can be mine, / You never were meant for a sweet Valentine., "505", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Stayman & Brother was a Philadelphia music importing and publishing firm that published the L. N. Rosenthal lithograph "Interior view of Independence Hall"(1856). Established by brothers John K. (b. 1823), Jacob A. (b. 1825), and Fletcher A. Stayman (b. January 26, 1831) in 1851, the firm initially operated from 160 Chestnut Street , i.e. 628-632 Chestnut Street, also known as Swaim's Building., Originally from Carlisle, Pa. the brothers relocated to Philadelphia 1850-1851, with eldest John having arrived first and working as a merchant while a resident of a hotel in the Chestnut Street Ward. In 1854, John K. departs the business (he later becomes a professor of languages at Dickinson College) and the younger brothers relocate the firm to the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets., By September of 1855, they relocated to 210 Chestnut Street,. From this address, Stayman & Brother published "neighbor" L. N. Rosenthal's Independence Hall lithograph in addition to sheet music such as Francis Weiland's "Old Independence Hall" containing lithography advertised in the "Public Ledger" as "a perfect facsimile of the fifty-six signatures to the Declaration of Independence." The brothers remained in business at 210 Chestnut Street until 1858, after which Jacob possibly entered the field of medicine. The 1867 Philadelphia City Directory lists a Jacob A. Stayman as a physician.
Date
fl. 1851-1858
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
The valentine depicts a man with a duck bill [?] wearing a large hat. He rings a bell, perhaps like a town crier. The text suggests that he is trying to sell himself., Text: My fair lady I've just come out / With noisy sound of bell, / To try to find a purchaser / To whom myself to sell., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
I am a darkey from the Country O (3 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Sheet no. 934; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 21.1 x 13.2 cm., Variant: aa. With "Oh" in the 1st line; publ. Johnson (2); adv: Johnson's assortment of Songs and Song Books. A-J border. 21.5 x 12.5 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] Wrigley Ethiopian border. 24.4 x 15.6 cm.
Block numbered in one place: 6450, also 1269 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a seated man pointing toward a standing boy and holding a walking stick in his other hand; to their side is a table which has what appears to be a propped-up book on it., “Every man his own fortune-teller” – Inscribed on back of block.
Alphonse Bigot, born April 17, 1828 in France, was a noted lithographer active in Philadelphia ca. 1854-1872. Immigrating to Philadelphia before 1854 (possibly in 1849), Bigot lived in Center City and during the 1850s was employed at the lithographic establishments of Thomas Sinclair, Alphonse Brett, and L. N. Rosenthal, as well as worked as an engraver. Bigot, known for his chromolithographs, designed the finely-executed 1854 advertisements printed by Brett for perfumer Apollos W. Harrison and between 1857 and 1860, designed a number of noted color lithographs printed by Sinclair, including "Washington's Grand Entry into New York. Nov. 25th, 1783" (1860) and a ca. 1860 advertisement for "T. Sinclair & Co." Bigot also delineated book and periodical illustrations and well as executed paintings., In 1860, Bigot resided at 233 North Thirteenth Street (Ward 14) in a multifamily home, with his Pennsylvania-born wife Matilda (ca. 1826-1900), and their children as well as his siblings and lithographer father Francis (b. ca. 1805) and lithographer Francis Roux (b. ca. 1825) and his family. That year, he also painted a series of views of South America and held personal estate valued at $1000 and real estate at $3000. By 1861, he relocated his residence to 847 North Broad Street and started work at the lamp shade manufactory and lithographic establishment of Victoria Quarre, V. Quarre & Co., where he would be employed until 1872. During this period, he served as a witness for fellow lithographer (and later Quarre's husband) George Wedekind's patents for improved lamp shades in 1862 and 1863, designed the women's invitation for the Lithographic Printer's Union Second Ball (1863), and earned enough income to be taxed by the I.R.S. As of 1870, he remained at his North Broad Street address with his immediate family, including his father and sisters. Bigot died on January 25, 1872 in a horse riding accident, according to family folklore, and was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Date
April 17, 1828-January 25, 1872
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
The heart bowed down by weight of woe (2 vs. and chors.), Variant: a. Sheet no. 1103; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24 x 15.5 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] Wrigley Ethiopian border. 23.8 x 14.8 cm.
Timothy Abbott Conrad, born June 21, 1803 in Burlington County, New Jersey to a family interested in natural history, was a naturalist, conchologist, paleontologist, author, and artist of lithographic book plates. Educated at Westtown, Conrad drew lithographic plates for natural history works that he authored and include "American Marine Conchology, or Descriptions and Colored Figures of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast" (1831); "Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America" (1832); and "New Fresh-water Shells of the United States, with Lithographic Illustrations and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say" (1832)., Son of Solomon White Conrad (1779-1831), a publisher and printer and professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, Conrad worked as a clerk for his father in the 1820s, and upon the elder's death assumed management of the establishment. After a few years, he abandoned the printing business to pursue his natural history studies, and in 1837 he was appointed Geologist of the state of New York. A member of the Academy of the Natural Sciences beginning in 1831 and later the American Philosophical Society, he contributed approximately twenty-two illustrated articles in the 1830s, some to the Academy's journal, and helped to found the Association of American Geologists in 1840., By 1850, he lived with family in the High Street Ward in Center City. Working as a geologist according to the 1860 census, he lived in his brother-in-law's household in Trenton (Ward 3). He returned again to Center City Philadelphia (Ward 9) by 1870. He never married, and according to one biography, was often melancholy, especially in his later years. He passed away in Trenton on August 9, 1877.
Date
June 21, 1803-August 9, 1877
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
George W. Breuker, lithographer, printer, and photographer, was born in Hannover, Germany on September 21, 1834 and emigrated to the United States on the ship Louise Marie from Bremen, Germany in October 1854. By 1855, he worked as a "photographist" and resided with his brother, Frederick, in South Philadelphia on Worth Street above Franklin (i.e., Cross Street above Tasker Street). By 1866, George was a lithographer living in Ward 12 who had worked at the Philadelphia lithographic establishments of Eugene Ketterlinus and Jacob Haehnlen until he formed his own shop, Breuker & Kessler with Harry C. Kessler at Seventh and Chestnut streets in 1866. Breuker remained with the company, which retained good credit throughout the 1870s and 1880s, until his death on June 19, 1896., George was married to Madeline (1834-1891) and had three sons, William G. (b. 1860), George W., Jr. (b. January 1863), and John C. (b. 1865). He resided with his family in Ward 12 of the city until his death. George Jr. was also a lithographer and joined Breuker & Kessler in 1886, eventually serving as Vice President of the firm in the 1910s. His brothers William and John were both photographers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. John C. became a lithographer in the mid-1890s and eventually served as President of Breuker & Kessler in the 1910s.
Date
September 21, 1834-June 19, 1896
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 2515b, One of 297 song sheet headpiece designs identified by Edwin Wolf in his bibliography, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides Collection, 1850-1870: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1963).
The twilight hour is stealing (5 vs.) By James Robinson; Respectfully dedicated to Ser- geant Wheeler, U.S.A.; with short explanation ending: ... intended for a companion to Annie Laurie and the same Air; [publ.] De Marsan (1). De Marsan kissing cupids bo
