August L. Weise, born in 1834 in Germany, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia from the mid-1860s to early 1900s. He began his career producing mostly labels, advertising posters and sheet music in Philadelphia ca. 1865 with William Boell at 311 Walnut Street. By 1867, he was one of the proprietors of A. L. Weise & Co., with Herman Pfeil and Louis Haugg, at 29 South Fourth Street. Weise and Haugg remained at this location until 1871 when they relocated to 45 South Fourth Street. In 1876, they relocated to Duval & Hunter's old shop at 401 Ranstead Place, where Stephen C. Duval (b. ca. 1832) remained and managed the newly named "Weise Lithographic Printing House" until 1879, when the business moved to 101 North Sixth Street. Weise's indebtedness to several creditors noted in an R.G. Dun & Co. credit report in October 1877 most likely caused the business to relocate rapidly and with varying partnerships and managers. By 1880, the printing house had moved again, this time to 101 North Sixth Street, where the business ended by July 1883. A member of the Lithographic Printers Union and its translating secretary in 1862, Weise also served as the president of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde by 1890 and was a member of the Humboldt Lodge No. 359 of the Free and Accepted Masons., Weise resided north of Center City (Ward 13) in 1859, the year his Pennsylvania-born daughter Lilly (b. 1859) was born. By 1870, Weise and his German wife Katharine (b. 1836), lived at 418 Vine Street and welcomed four more children into the family: Albert (b. 1861), Clara (b. 1863), Bertha (b. 1865) and Emma (b. 1868). Albert, Clara, and Bertha were all identified as printers in the 1880 census, by which time three more children were born: Ernst (b. 1873), Mary (b. 1875) and William (i.e., Willie, b. 1878). The family resided for many years at 526 Powell (i.e., Delancey) Street, until relocating to 547 North Sixth Street by 1900 when Weise's children Albert, Bertha, and Emma worked as clerks, and William as a lithographer. Weise died on June 25, 1914.
Date
1834-June 25, 1914
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Image: Depicts soldiers marching in formation with rifles, led by an officer riding a horse. Rows of tents are visible in the background., Caption: Camp Davies, near Upton Hill, VA, 142nd Regt. N.Y. Vols. Col. Roscius W. Judson, Lieut. Col. N. Martin Curtis, Maj. Nolteau G. Axtell., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
A woman hikes up her skirt, revealing her crinoline and petticoats. "Ducky" is a term of endearment, and "kiver" is a dialect for "cover." "Timbers" refers to her legs and suggests that they are indelicately large. The sender mocks the recipient for her careless immodesty., Text: Hey ducky dumpling, gazing high, / Parading in your t'others, / We look less high, and there we spy, / 'Till laughing almost smothers. / However cold may be your liver, / Such timbers, ducky, ne'er can shiver. / Especially with, such hoops to kiver., Cf. 4.50., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Our hearts are with our native land (4 vs.), Variant: a. Print. Andrews. Andrews ivy border. 24 x 15 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint pasted over Andrews'. 24.2 x 15 cm., Variant: c. Sheet no. 108; publ. Wrigley (1); [with THE UNION VOLUNTEERS on verso.] Wrigley kissing cupids border. 22 x 13.6 cm.
Exterior view of front of hotel, believed to have been constructed in 1734. Demolished in 1913 to make way for Winston Road., Sheet number: 117B01B., Undivided back., 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. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Lauber's through Stenton - 117]
Exterior view with the words, "Butter & Cheese Factory" and "Butter & Cheese Exhibition" prominently displayled and a porch running along the side of the building.
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (4 vs.), Variant: a. 2nd song: "Remember Thee!"; print. Andrews. T. o. border. 24.3 x 14.9 cm., Variant: b. Taken from "Moore's Melodies"; sheet no. 939; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley military cupid border. 25 x 15.5 cm., Variant: c. [As above;] publ. Wrigley (3). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.4 x 15.1 cm.
Block numbered in two places: 719 ; another number on side of block has been defaced., Image of an unidentified flower., Housed with fragment of another stereotype., , Provenance:, , Variant:
Interior view of Horticutural Hall showing arches and a staircase. Also shows two boilers under the staircase indicated by a sign, "Smith and Lynch, Manufacturers, Greenhouse Return Flue Boiler, Boston, Mass."
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 1238f, 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).
Block numbered in two places: 1668., Image of a well-dressed man in a top hat speaking to two young boys, one on either side of him. One of the boys has put his hands in the air., Tape (inscribed “341”) on obverse.
Charles Shober, the premier Chicago lithographer born in Germany in February 1831, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia 1856-1857. Shober immigrated to the United States in 1854 and in 1855 delineated a lithographic plate for "The Horticulturist (N.Y.)." By 1856 Shober was listed in Philadelphia city directories as a lithographer at 17 Minor Street where by map lithographers, including George Worley and Benjamin Mathias also worked. In 1857 Shober partnered with Charles Reen in Reen & Shober at 5 South Sixth Street. By 1859 the partnership relocated to Chicago, where that year Shober established his own business and published the map "City of Ypsilanti" (1859). Shober operated his own firm and in partnerships (Charles Shober & Co.) until the great fire of 1871 when he took over the management of the Chicago Lithographing Company (Louis Kurtz and Edward Carqueville). In 1876 Kurtz left the firm that issued "The International Exposition 1876 at Philadelphia, PA. U.S.A. View from George's Hill" (1876) and Shober & Carqueville was established. The partners printed sheet music, posters, maps, and trade cards. Shober left the company in the early 1880s, possibly after a fire at the firm according to Groce & Wallace. He later became president of the Chicago Bank Note Company., Shober married Annie (b. 1844) in 1861 and with her had several children born in Chicago starting in 1865. Shober remained listed in censuses as of 1900.
Date
b. February 1831
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
When the Twenty-fourth Regiment first began to form (6 vs. and chor.) Composed and Dedicated to the 24th Regiment, U.S.C.T. By Corporal Sam'l Nickless, Co. I., Variant: a. With sans serif caps in first line of title; print. Johnson (2). 24.4 x 15 cm., Variant: b. With more compact caps with serifs in first line of title. 17.5 x 10 cm. (cropped)
White folks, gib attention, -I've fotched de banjo 'long (8 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Short lines; publ. Auner (3). A-J border. 22.5 x 14.5 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 701; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley horned imp border, col. 24.6 x 15.5 cm.
Exterior views of front facade of church built in 1904 by Rowland W. Boyle., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 in black and white., Sheet numbers: 50A07 and 50B10., 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
1905-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Be traitors cursed! accursed of God (13 vs. and 2 chors.) Coyyright [sic] Secured; to be had at Franklin Job Printing Establishment. T. o. border; floating hemisphere with flag and motto Our Country. 23.3 x 19.2 cm.
Hope of the race which from Heroes descended, Variant: a. 3 vs. and chors.; publ. Auner (3). A-J border. 22.5 x 15.2 cm., Variant: b. 3 vs. and chor.; publ. Johnson (2); adv: Union Badges, Letter and Note Papers, etc. A-J border. 24.4 x 15.4 cm.
I once was unknown by the happy and gay (3 vs.) Written and composed by C. Archer; music publ. by Lee and Walker; publ. by permission of the owner of the copyright; cop: 1865, C. Everest, EDPa.; publ. Johnson and Co. 22.1 x 13.9 cm.
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.35b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "a Union soldier in Zouave uniform, saber drawn, attacking a Confederate soldier."
Come, all ye true Americans that love the Stripes and Stars (7 vs.) Air—'Tis my delight on a shiny night. Sheet no. 505; as sung by Private Ephraim Peabody, on the night after the march through Baltimore; sold by Par- tridge (2). T. o. border. 20.3 x 12.3
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 548a, 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).
J. & T. Doughty was the partnership between brothers John and Thomas Doughty (1793-1856) who published the lithographically illustrated periodical "The Cabinet of Natural History and Book of American Rural Sports" (1830-1834). Thomas, a prominent landscape painter, served as the lithographer of the plates of the twelve parts of volume one and three parts of volume two printed by Childs & Inman before departing the partnership. Following Thomas's departure, John continued as sole publisher of the periodical that was printed until 1834, with the last edition issued as the third part of volume four., Thomas Doughty, born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1793, was a prominent landscape painter of the Hudson River School who worked in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New York, and Washington, D.C. In September 1830, he returned to Philadelphia from Boston and worked from a studio at the lithographic establishment of C. G. Childs, later Childs & Inman, at 80 Walnut Street. During the early 1830s, he drew a number of local and regional scenic views printed by the Childs firm. In 1832, Doughty relocated his residence to Boston and in the ensuing years lived and worked in Europe and New York. Doughty was also a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited frequently in addition to several other venues. Doughty died on July 22, 1856. He was married to Sarah (b. ca. 1800) with whom he had three children.
Date
fl. 1830-1834
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Vs a contraband from de old plantation (5 vs. and chor.) Words by John L. Zieber; music by Rudolph Wittig; cop: 1865, W. R. Smith, EDPa.; W. R. Smith, Agt. Music and Musical Instruments; publ. Auner (5). A-J border. 24.2 x 15 cm.
I'll sing you a song in machine poetry (23 vs. and chor.) Air.—"Things I don't like to see." Headed: "Song". Double-line border with ornamental corners. 30 x 22.8 cm.
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 431b, 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).
Negative number: 2373, Street view looking north from the most recently constructed steel bent, Bent 62. Beams and other construction materials line both sides of the street. Men and boys stand and sit on the sidewalks in front of the store fronts.
View of The 20 Ton Rodman Gun in front of the U.S. Government Building. The background depicts a grassy area surrounded by trees, in the center of which a statue sits atop a pedastal.
Image: A woman, with a robe wrapped around her hips is naked from the waist up, and leans her left arm on a rock. An eagle is perched on the rock behind her., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
