On the 11th of September eighteen hundred sixty-two (8 vs.) Air: While everything is lovely, and the goose hangs high. By Col. Max Langenschwartz., Variant: a. Cop: 1864, Charles Magnus, SDN.Y. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 16, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.2 x 12.6 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 74, bronze ink; publ. Mag- nus. 19.5 x 13 cm.
Edited by Louis Carrion, whose name appears on A3v., Printer's name from Wing CD., Includes index., "Burrhi impetus juveniles" (divisional title), a reprinting of the work by Sir John Borough, has separate pagination; register is continuous.
Creator
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592
Date
anno Dom. M.DC.LX. [1660]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Wing B6218 64766.D
Block numbered in one places: 661107 [sic]; corrected in pencil on back: 6107., Image of a woman sitting by a tree with a dog, overlooking a body of water., "Tail Piece Young girl & Dog"-- Inscribed on side of block., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
When I am dead and gone from you, darling (3 vs. and chor.) Sheet no. 12; publ. U.S. Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh. T.o. border; purple paper. 22.5 x 14.6 cm.
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 998d, 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).
David O'Leary, born ca. 1845, was a Philadelphia lithographic printer stabbed while at the Southwark Hose House in November 1867. Although reported in a "dangerous condition," he may be the David O'Leary listed in the 1870 census who resided in a boarding house in Quarry Street in Ward 6.
Date
b. ca. 1845
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
George C. Urwiler, born on April 5, 1827 in Pennsylvania, worked briefly as a lithographer in 1862, possibly with family members John J. Urwiler and Benjamin F. Urwiler, lithographers who worked with W.H. Rease and William Hart from the mid-1850s until the mid-1860s., By 1850, when in his early twenties, Urwiler worked as an engineer soldier and resided in Cornwall, New York, near the United States Military Academy at West Point. He returned to Pennsylvania by 1856, the year he married his wife, Caroline Lindnner (1836-1920), at the First Presbyterian Church of Kensington, where he later served as an elder and superintendent of the Sabbath School. First listed in Philadelphia city directories as a conductor living at Twenty-fourth and Coates Streets in 1860, he was listed as a lithographer living at 2334 Wallace Street in 1862. Their first-born child, George Herman (1857-1910), was born before Urwiler enlisted as a captain in the Pennsylvania Infantry of the Sixty-Seventh Regiment in 1861. After he was mustered out in 1865, the family lived at 2037 Frankford Avenue and Urwiler worked as a conveyancer and his wife worked in "trimmings." Urwiler's daughters, Kate R. (b. 1869), and Lillian G. (b. 1872), were born around the same time the family moved to 104 East Sharpnack Street in Germantown. By this time, Urwiler worked steadily as a conductor, until the 1890s when he, along with his son, worked as a clerk. He died in 1898 as recorded in his wife's application for his Civil War pension as a widow on July 25th.
Date
April 5, 1827-1898
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Louis F. Citti, born of Italian descent in Philadelphia about 1827, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia, Richmond, Virginia, and Jersey City, New Jersey between 1850 and 1893. Reared in Philadelphia by a family of artists, including his lithographer brothers Orelius and Theodore, Citti began his lithographic career in 1850 with partner Franklin B. Hallman with whom he worked until 1853., By 1860, Louis relocated to Richmond, Virginia and worked as a lithographer for Charles L. Ludwig. Seven years later he returned to the print trade in Philadelphia while residing with his wife, Charlotte (a.k.a. Charlotta, b. ca. 1833), and son, John B. (b. 1852), at 335 Marriott (i.e. Montrose) Street, their residence until 1874. In 1875, Louis and son John, partnered with Herman F. Bitterlich, and set up the operations of L. F. Citti & Co. at the corner of Seventh and Market Streets. According to credit reports, the firm did a "fair trade" and had "fair credit" with an estimated worth of $3000. In the same year, the family moved their residence to 3412 North Eleventh Street. Citti lived and worked in Philadelphia until about 1888, when he established a residence in Jersey City, New Jersey and worked for Williams Citti & Co. in New York City. He died about 1893 (his last listing in the Jersey City directory with a concurrent Philadelphia directory listing for his wife as a widow).
Date
ca. 1827-ca. 1893
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
As I went a walking one evening in June (11 vs.), Variant: a. Sheet no. 834; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24 x 15.3 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] Wrigley Ethiopian border. 24.5 x 15.6 cm.
Image: A slave, shrinking in anticipation, is bound to a pole and flogged., Verse 2243: The persuasive eloquence of the Sunny South., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Block numbered in two places: 6208, also 1388 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a woman in a peaked bonnet holding or rocking a cradle suspended from a beam or other support., “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., “Am.S.S.U” – Back of block in three places., “Lapland. Rock a by Baby.” – Inscribed on side of block.
Block numbered 6253 in two places., Image of a woman and a man seated at a table; the man has a book in front of him; a mantelpiece is in the background., “The Young Wife, p. 89 [illegible] ‘He bent over the little book’”—Inscribed on side of block.
The morn of life is past, and evening comes at last (3 vs. and 3 chors.) Sung nightly with Tremendous Applause, by E. P. Christy's celebrated Band of Minstrels, 472 Broadway, N.Y., Variant: a. [Publ.] De Marsan (1). De Marsan Ethiopian border. 24 x 16.9 cm., Variant: a.1. [As above;] No imprint. T.o. border. 23 x 16 c.m., Variant: b. [Without "Sung nightly, etc";] only 1 chor.; adv: You will save 25 per cent, by getting your Printing done; publ. Johnson (3). T. o. border; dog. 19.8 x n.2 cm., Variant: c. Sheet no. 60; publ. Wrigley (3). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24 x 15.3 cm.
A Union military drummer carries a rucksack and a large snare drum on his side. The valentine criticizes the soldier's bad behavior before the war., Text: Folks do say, my little drummer, / That once you were a perfect bummer; / Made your living gathering junk, / And spent your money getting drunk. / If this be so, young friend of mine, / You'll never make a Valentine., "509", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 1467k, 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).
I'll tell you of a nice young gal, a gal that I have seen (4 vs. and chor.) Written by Frank Spear, and sung by J. H. Bundworth; sheet no. 998; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley Ethiopian border. 25 x 15.5 cm.
Image: An eagle faces right., Verse 405: Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, the queen of the world and the child of the skies; Thy genius commands thee; With rapture behold, while ages on ages thy splendors unfold., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Depicts William Penn's treaty of 1682 for Pennsylvania as a peaceful interaction with Native Americans., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Divided backs., Accession numbers: P.9049.22 and P.9049.25., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1908-1919
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Historic events - [various]
We are coming, father Abraham, six hundred thousand more (4 vs.) [By James Sloan Gibbons.], Variant: a. With "Abraham" spelled "Abra'm" in title and ex- clamation point at end; "Abram" in 1st line; words by J. Cullen Bryant; music by D. A. Warden; publ. Auner (5). A-J border. 23.1 x 14.4 cm., Variant: b. Title and authors of words and music as above; with Abra'm in 1st line; publ. Auner (3); music obtained of D. A. Warden (3). A-J border. 23.5 x 14.9 cm., Variant: c. Title: "Three hundred Thousand more"; first line with Abraam and ending "three hundred thousand more"; [sold by] Louis Bonsai. T. o. border. 22.8 x 13.7 cm., Variant: d. Title and first line as above; but with "Abraham" in 1st line; from the New York Evening Post. 13.9 x 11.5 cm., Variant: e. [Without "600,000 More" in title;] but with chor.; short lines; publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan clown border. 26 x 15.1 cm., Variant: f. [Without comma after "Coming" in title;] with last part of verses indented as chor.; words by J. Cullen Bryant; music by D. A. Warden; song with Piano accom- paniment had at Johnson's (2); publ. Johnson (2). 24.2 x 15.2 cm., Variant: g. [As above, but without "song with Piano accompani- ment . . .";] with adv: Cards, Circulars, Bill-Heads, etc. 24.5 x 15.3 cm., Variant: h. [As above;] but with different adv: Prof. Brooks' Ball Room Monitor. A-J border. 21.4 x 12.6 cm. (cropped), Variant: i. [Without commas after "Coming" and "Abraham" in title;] with last part of verses indented as chor.; [publ.] Johnson and Co. Double-line border. 18.3 x 11.8 cm., Variant: j. Title: "Six Hundred Thousand More"; with "Abraam" in first line; sold by Partridge (2). T. o. border. 23.2 x 15.5 cm., Variant: k. Title: "Three Hundred Thousand More!"; 1st line with "Father Abraham," and ending "three hundred thousand more" (5 vs.); print. Young. 19.9 x 11.7 cm.
Image: This image appears to be hand drawn and painted in watercolor. The Stars & Stripes flies from a pole erected in the midst of a shield (also decorated with the Stars and Stripes), a wheeled cannon with a pile of cannon balls, a drum, and a fasces which is a hatchet held in a bundle of rods., Verse: Stand by the flag., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Block numbered in one place: 4739., Image of a man praying on his knees in a garden. There appear to be two other human figures seated in the background., ‘The Garden On The Mount’ -- caption of block., Illustration appears in Stories of the good shepherd, p. 220. In the story, the man is Jesus, visiting the garden one last time before his death. This title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogues from Jan. 1857 to at least 1893., Illustration also appears in Life of Christ, p. 239., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Hearken to me, brother, hearken! I've something I would say (8 vs.) Text as above with varying vs.; publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan military cupid border. 25.4 x 16.5.
A man plays a large fiddle. "Catgut" means a thick cord made from sheep intestines used for violin strings. The valentine criticizes the fiddler for disrespecting women., Text: I'm a single Musician, / I fiddle with glee, / And think all the fair sex / Mere fiddle-de-dee., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 56f, 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).
