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Title: The capture of an unprotected female, or the close up of the rebellion
Description: Cartoon satirizing the capture of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, , while wearing his wife’s overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Davis, attired in a bonnet and long-sleeved dress, is surrounded at gunpoint by jeering Union soldiers. Davis holds his hands in the air as one soldier pulls up his dress to reveal trousers and boots with spurs. Mrs. Davis, the lone female figure, begs the soldiers to leave her husband alone as they mockingly comment on his legs., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1865 by Currier & Ives in the clerk's office of the district court of the United States for the southern district of N.Y., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Cameron, John, artist
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1864-31W [P.8978]

Title: The capture of Jeff Davis His last official act "the adoption of a new rebel uniform." He attempts to "clear his skirts," but finds it "all up in Dixie"
Description: Cartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Union soldiers on horseback riding through marshes and chasing down Davis, who flees on foot. The president wields a dagger and wears a woman's dress and cape as well as a "Blockade Runner" boot. Nearby, Mrs. Davis scolds the soldiers "not to provoke the President." In the background, a horse packing a sack of "Confederate Gold" gallops away ( an allusion to Jefferson's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury)., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Printed above the title: "Don't provoke the President, or he may hurt some of you!", Name of artist supplied by Weitenkampf., Retrospective conversion record; original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Giles, J. L., lithographer
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-18W [6381.F]

Title: The last ditch of chivalry or, a president in petticoats
Description: Cartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Union soldiers chasing a fleeing Davis, who wears a bonnet and dress and carries a bag of gold (an allusion to Davis's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldiers wave pistols and swords and harrass Davis about his surrender, the bounty on his head, his ineffectual disguise, and his having reached his "last ditch." Davis responds that he thought that their government was "more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children." In the background, Davis's wife warns the soldiers "Look out you Yankees, if you make him mad he will hurt some of you.", Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1865 by Currier & Ives in the clerk's office of the district court of the United States for the southern district of N.Y., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-32W [6384.F]

Title: The last of the chevaliers. (End of the play.) Jeff. "I thought your government was more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children."
Description: Comic collecting card satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts a full-length view of Davis, attired in a shawl, a hoop skirt with a patch, and boots with spurs. A bonnet is tied around his neck, the edge of his skirt cage is visible, and he holds up a dagger in his right hand. A disembodied hand with a gun is pointed at him from the left., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by L. Prang & Co., in the Clerk’s Office, of the district court of Mass.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Civil War - Davis [P.2017.22.3]

Title: Jeff. Davis caught at last. Hoop skirts & Southern chivalry
Description: Cartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife’s overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Jefferson Davis, attired in a bonnet, long-sleeved dress, and boots, holding a daggar as he is captured by Union soldiers. In the right, one soldier holds a rifle to Davis as another soldier crouches downs and lifts up his hoop skirt revealing his boots with spurs. In the left, two women speak to the soldiers that it is a "poor Grandma" and "poor mother" going to the "well for a bucket of water," and another soldier makes a joke about "Jack and Gill.", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto: The only true picture of the capture of Jeff. Davis, from the account furnished by Col. Prichard of the 4th Mich. Cavalry., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1865-22 [P.2275.30]

Title: [Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building construction, northeast corner of Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Part of a series of progress photographs commissioned by the builders Irwin & Leighton documenting the construction of Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building from March 1927 to beginning of 1928. Documents the clearing of the site, laying of the foundations, the erection of steel framing, the progress of exterior masonry work and the completed building. Also contains interior views of the framing between floors and details of the ornamental doorway., Negative numbers: 4-31, P.9479.6067 negative for photographic print P.9479.31.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: 1927-1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Jennings - Fidelity series [P.9264.4-31]

Title: [Forrest Theatre during demolition for the construction of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company building, northeast corner of Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior views of Forrest Theatre before demolition and construction., Negative numbers: 1546 & 1547., Negative inscribed: Mar. 7, 1927. Fidelity Building. Irwin & Leighton, builders. Simon & Simon, architects., Photographs commissioned by Irwin & Leighton.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: March 7, 1927
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Jennings - Fidelity series [P.9264.2-3]

Title: [Sketchbook of Europe, Boston, and the Philadelphia area]
Description: Sketchbook containing pencil and ink drawings of ships, landscapes, sites in Paris, Boston, and the Philadelphia area, including exterior views of buildings and architectural features, and portraits. Sketches include: [Ships on the water]; Willow Tree, Chester Park 6/13/19; Hunting the Hun; Bridge Chester Park June 13, 1919; Musée de Cluny, Paris 7/17/20; 15th Cent. Well-Head from house near Amboise, Musée de Cluny 7/23/20; Top of Stair Tower, Musée de Cluny, Paris 8-10-20; [Exterior view of the wall with windows, probably Musée de Cluny]; Arc de Triomph Aug. 4, 1920; Musée de Cluny 7/4/20; South Side, Notre Dame, Paris, D.R.C.-Aug. 12-1920; Main Door of Deshong Art Gall., Chester, Pa.; Old Friend's Meeting House, Providence Road, Media, 1682, 11/14/20; Stable-Bartram's Gardens 5/21/21; Palmer's Mills, Crum Creek 11/21/20; Paul Taylor at Bartram's Gardens May 21, 1921; Doorway- Bartram's May 21, 1921; D.R.C. by Paul Taylor Bartram's - May 21-'21; [Portrait of a woman resting her head on her hand] 8/21/21; Park Street Church, Boston, Mass. - 8/25/'21; Hancock L.I. Building from Cloister of Trinity Church, Boston 9/1/'21; [exterior view of an unidentified building] 9/3/'21; Charles St. Church, Boston - Sept. 10-'21; Old House Newton Upper Falls, Mass. - 9/18/21; Hinge & Lock on Central Door Trinity Church - Boston, Boston Library Part 1; Elmus Americanus; Plan Pantheon., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from dates written on individual sketches., Cloth binding with "Sketches" embossed on the front cover and stamped "D.R. Cochran" on the back cover., Label pasted on endpaper: F. Weber & Co. Sketch Book. 9 x 6" - Each 30 cts., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Donald Robb Cochran (1897-1986) was born in Chester, Pa. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1921. From 1921 to 1923, he worked as a draftsman at the Boston firm of Frohman, Robb & Little. He then worked at the Philadelphia firm Mellor, Meigs & Howe until 1932. In 1933, he joined Sun Oil Co. as a staff architect.
Creator: Cochran, Donald Robb, 1897-1986
Date: 1919-1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – albums [P.2022.62.3.50]

Title: Japanese bronze stork
Description: View showing a bronze sculpture of a stork on display at the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows the large stork with its beak facing upwards. It stands in front of a painted backdrop of trees with a stone pillar in the right. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.528]

Title: Japanese bazaar
Description: View showing the Japanese bazaar, built by Japanese craftsmen with Japanese material and which sold Japanese goods, at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows the Japanese-style building with a tiled roof. Various sized vases are displayed in the windows. Surrounding the building is a Japanese garden. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.327]

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