'Twas a beautiful night, the stars shone bright (3 vs. and chors.) As sung by Miss Agatha Mandeville., Variant: a. Title: "The Gay Cavalier"; print. Andrews. T. o. border. 23.4 x 15.5 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint added. 23.5 x 16 cm., Variant: c. With "At Jenkin's Concert Saloon, Seventh and Chestnut Sts." following singer's name; publ. Zieber; print. Harris. T. o. border. 19.1 x 13 cm., Variant: d. With "Gay" in title; sheet no. 441; publ. Wrigley (1); [with FAIRY BELLE on recto.] Wrigley Ethiopian border. 25 x 15.7 cm.
Forms part of a twenty-three page song book, filed under 1523.1., I'll deck my brow with roses (4 vs. and chor.) No. 84. Publ. E. Nason Co., 21 Ann Street, New York. T.o. border. 24.5 x 15.5 cm.
Exterior views of front facade of baptist home for ministers constructed circa 1895 after designs by J.F. Stuckert & Son., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 100A05 and 100B09., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Block numbered 6009 in two places., Image of a girl standing at a table, looking over her shoulder., “N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila” – Back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876.
James Hennesey, born ca. 1862, worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia in 1880. He lived with his Irish-born mother Mary (b. ca. 1840) and a fellow lithographic printer Albert Matlack (b. ca. 1830) in Center City (Ward 8).
Date
b. ca. 1862
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
A simian nurse sits in a chair next to a baby in a craddle. A bottle marked "laudinum" [i.e. laudanum] is on the shelf above her, and she threads a needle. The border features a woman embracing a man; the pair resemble Commedia dell'arte characters. At the bottom is a pack of matches marked "Lucifer's matches.", Hush-a-by, baby! / Your slumbers be light, / With laudanum, maybe, / You're not on a "tight.", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red-orange silk. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. A lovely, delicate spray of mixed flowers is in a fancy multi-curved border. Same design on verso., Etched on the bottom of the plate is the signature of the daguerreotypist: Marvin - Artist, 116 Chesnut St. Phila. See Board report of November 9, 1999.
Creator
Marvin, P. B., photographer.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9740]
Come, cheerful companions, unite in this song (4 vs. and chors.) Revised and Printed expressly for the Public Schools; publ. Auner. A-J border. 24.8 x 15 cm. (cropped)
Contains images of Woodside Park in Fairmount Park built circa 1897. Includes the bandstand, showing an all female orchestra performing on stage; the Mountain Scenic Railway ride and a general view of people walking through the park., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Woodside Park depended greatly on the Fairmount Park Transportation Company, the operator of the Park trolley lines that transported visitors to and from the park and the primary investor of the Woodside Real Estate Company who owned the amusement park., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the Natioinal Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Woodside Park - 169]
The snob, or shoemaker, sews the leather upper to the sole of the shoe. The valentine mocks his appearance, drinking, and courtship of unobtainable women., Text: Now, Mr. Snobby, when next you're at work, / At hammering a sole on your lap, / For the sake of the woman who'd ever have you, / Just commit suicide with your strap. / Oh! wax'd ends and leather! tho' what do I see, / Getting toddy'd wherever you can; / Both stupid and lazy, and shabbily dress'd, / I believe that he thinks he's a man., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 2549c, 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).
William Fitzgerald, born ca. 1836 in Ireland, worked as a lithographic printer for P. S Duval & Co., F. Bourquin & Co., and Breuker & Kessler between ca. 1857 and ca. 1871., Fitzgerald was listed in the 1860 and 1870 censuses as a printer who resided in Ward 4. By the 1870 census, his household relocated to 11 Mead Street from 748 Sansom Street and included his wife Mary (b. ca. 1840) and two children.
Date
b. ca. 1836
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Fellow Soldiers join the chorus (9 vs. and chor.) Tune.—Gay and Happy. By B. F. Kern, Phila.; [sold by] William F. Richmond. Single-line border. 24.1 x 10.8 cm.
Block numbered in two places: 7172, also 987 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a woman wearing a veil and sitting or standing behind a pile of some kind of objects outdoors, perhaps in a marketplace; she looks forward and pulls her veil over the lower half of her face with one hand; behind her are a figure and a pack animal, and a building with a dome and a spire or minaret., Signed: B.R. [?], "V. Grottenthaler, 402 Library St Phila." – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1869 to 1876.
Seated portrait of either young Joseph or William Francis. His left arm is resting on a table, and his right arm is on his lap., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet., Mat: Double elliptical. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. 250 Chestnut St. Patented July 4 & 11 1854., Case: Leather. Small urn with flowers in center. No design on verso. Manuscript note pasted on verso: Joseph or William Francis.
Creator
Rehn, Isaac, photographer.
Date
ca. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8639]
A man wears rustic attire and a wide-brimmed hat. He holds a long walking stick and stands next to a fence. The figure's posture, expression, and facial features are androgynous, and the valentine associates being "lovesick" with effeminancy., Text: Cease your sighing day and night, / Moping like a lovesick dove, / Go 'list, and serve the Right, / And prove yourself worthy of my love., Signed: Green., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector., Provenance: Green.
Image: A snake supports two criss-crossed Confederate flags. Includes a full-length view of woman (Victory) in armor, underneath of the phrase "Sic Semper Tyrannus"., Verse: Don't Tread on Us., Caption: Ever ready with our lives and fortunes., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Of all the banjo songs that have been sung of late (7 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Print. Andrews. T. o. border. 24.4 x 15.5 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint added. 24.8 x 15 cm.
Image: A freed African American man stands with his right hand on his hip and his left hand holding a hoe. Refers to the contraband policy that banned soldiers from returning runaway slaves to their owners once they crossed Union lines., Verse 1381: Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter., Caption: The latest contraband of war., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Och, Norah dear, this heart ye're breaking (2 vs. and chor.) A Parody on: Good-bye, Sweetheart, good-bye; [publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan Ethiopian border. 24.3 x 16.1 cm.
Flag! veil your starry glories now (4 vs.) Headed: "The Memory of Depeyster"; with explana- tion "The melancholy death of this most estimable gentle- man and accomplished sailor, carried deep grief . . ."; [signed] Capt. Saml. Whiting, Jacksonville, East
The wide-awakes they like to bluster (7 vs. and chors.) Air—Dixie's Land. By Frank; [publ.] De Marsan (2). De Marsan Yankee pedlar border, col.; cop: 1860, H. De Marsan, SDN.Y. 22.8 x 14.6 cm.
Image: A woman dressed in red, white and blue clothing holds an upraised Union flag in her left hand, and rests her right hand on a shield. A Native American woman, wearing a brown dress and a headband with feathers, kneels and looks up at the other woman., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
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