How are you and all my friends (4 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Publ. De Marsan (3) De Marsan eagle border. 25 x 16.4 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 749; sold by Partridge (2). T. o. border. 20.4 x 12.3 cm., Variant: c. [Without "No. 2" in title;] as sung by Billy Ward, at the Kossuth Concert Saloon; publ. Warren (1); to be had at H. Myers; for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, at Jacob K. Search. T. o. border. 24.3 x 16.2 cm., Variant: d. [Without "No. 2" in title;] with long lines; "Fourth Edition"; as sung by Ed Wray, at the Canterbury Hall, N.W. Corner Fifth and Chestnut; publ. Warren (2); adv: This Song and 600 others can be had at Jacob K. Search. T. o. border; man carrying adv. 21.4 x 12 cm., Variant: e. [Without period after "No" and "2";] sheet no. 1016; publ. Wrigley (1) Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24 x 15.3 cm.
A woman stands with her hands on her hips and her nose turned up. She flexes her right arm. The woman has pox marks on her cheek. The valentine possibly alludes to sexually transmitted diseases., Text: See what results from passion vile! / Look on this face, what ravage! / Let those beware, who would defile / Their natures like this savage., Cf. Valentine 9.47., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Free-standing hand and torch from the Statue of Liberty mounted on subscription kiosk. A small crowd at the base of structure and two men at the hilt of the torch. In background is New York 'Tribune' Building, Women's Pavilion, and Drinking Fountain. The 'Liberty' hand and torch was designed by Fridiric Bartholdi; the Drinking Fountain was erected by the Sons of Temperance of Pennsylvania.
I am lonely to-night, in my sad little chamber (2 vs. and chor.) Sung by S. C. Campbell; 2nd song: "The Hero When Fallen's No Longer A Foe"., Variant: a. [Publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan Ethiopian border. 22.5 x 14 cm., Variant: b. Publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan fountain border. 25.4 x 16.8 cm., Variant: c. [As above;] De Marsan ship border, with war scenes in lower corners. 26 x 17 cm., Variant: d. [Without chorus;] Varying: "As sung by Charles H. Pease, of Carncross and Dixey's Minstrels"; 2nd song: Meet Me To-Night; adv: Ten illustrated Songs. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 242, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.4 x 12.6 cm., Variant: e. Sheet no. 1186. Wrigley kissing cupids border. 23.2 x 13.7 cm.
Block numbered in two places: 6204, also 1417 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a boy selling books (Bibles?) in the street, carrying a tray suspended around his neck while extending one to a man looking on; several other people are gathered around, including women wearing cloth headdresses resembling wimples., “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., “Italy. Buy the light, the true light” – Inscribed on side of block.
Of girlhood's happy days I dream (2 vs.), Variant: a. From the Opera: The Rose of Castille; 2nd song: There is a Flower that Bloometh; [publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan kissing cupids border. 25 x 16 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 985; Words by Messrs. A. Harris and E. Falconer; Music by W. Balfe, from the new opera of the Rose of Castille; Sung by Miss L. Pyne; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.6 x 15.5 cm.
I knew by the smoke, that so gracefully curl'd (3 vs. and chor.) 2nd song: "Colleen Bawn"; [publ.].De Marsan (4). De Marsan Ethiopian border. 24.5 x 15.9 cm.
Come all ye likely lads that have a mind for to range (5 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Print. Andrews. T. o. border. 23.5 x 15.2 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint pasted over Andrews' 23.6 x 15.2 cm.
James Johnson, born in Ireland ca. 1834, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Center City (Ward 8) with his wife, Maria (b. ca. 1836), and their Pennsylvania-born daughter, Susan (b. ca. 1859).
Date
b. ca. 1834
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
August Kohl, born ca. 1844 in Holland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1880. He resided at 335 East Little Crown (i.e., China) Street with Charles Burk and family in Ward 12. Kohl has previously been conflated with lithographer-turned druggist August Hohl, born in Germany in 1845, who in 1880 operated a drug store at the northeast corner of Fourth Street and Girard Avenue and resided with his wife in Ward 12.
Date
b. ca. 1844
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Adieu to peace and all its charms (8 vs.) Adv: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2)., Variant: a. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 93, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.5 x 12.6 cm., Variant: b. [Asabove;] hdpc. Magnus 100, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 19.3 x 11.5 cm., Variant: c. 2nd adv: Ten illustrated Songs, publ. Magnus (1). Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 102, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.2 x 13 cm., Variant: d. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 103, col.; [publ.] Magnus (1). 19.5 x 12.2 cm.
Christopher Allen, born about 1832 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia from 1857 to about 1881. He started his career in the late 1850s with P. S. Duval & Son at 8, later 22 South Fifth Street., Allen relocated to New York by the Civil War and enrolled in Company F of the 4th New York Calvary Regiment on September 9, 1861. He served as a full corporal and was discharged in 1864 at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Though he survived the war, Allen lost his right arm., Allen returned to Philadelphia after the war, and from about 1867 to the mid 1870s, Herline & Co. employed him at their 620 Chestnut Street establishment., Allen resided with his wife, Ellen, also a native of Ireland, and three children in Ward 2 of Philadelphia in 1860. Ten years later they lived in Ward 9, most likely at 9 South Seventeenth Street, with four additional children. By 1880, Allen was incarcerated in the House of Correction, Employment and Reformation, finishing a two-year sentence for being a "habitual drunkard." During that time, his family lived at 1134 Guirey (i.e. Wilder) Street (Ward 1)., In 1893, Allen signed over his pension and entered the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Togus, Maine. He died on June 28, 1911.
Date
b. ca. 1832-1911
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Exterior view of church built circa 1872., Sheet number: 50B02B., Real photo. 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 [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Oh, cherish me, my loved one dear (5 vs.) From "Life Illustrated," by Topsy; print. Andrews., Variant: a. T. o. border. 23 x 14 cm., Variant: b. [As above; with Astley's imprint added.] 24 x 15 cm.
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.
Copy photograph of Richardson ambrotype portrait of Lea (see 8326.F.10). Portrait is reversed with edges of the original mat visible in the image., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Uncased., See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator
Richardson, V. L., photographer.
Date
ca. 1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.11]
She is seated with her husband, in top hat and frock coat, is standing next to her on the edge of the falls., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical., Case: Uncased., Manuscript note on verso: Mr. & Mrs. G.L.B. Horse Shoe Falls. Canadian Side, June 7th 1869. Typed note taped on verso: Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Livingston BIshop taken June 71th 1869. G.L.B. - 1845-1926. Mrs. G.B.L. 1840-1921., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Date
June 7, 1869
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8259.F.9]
Contains images of Horn & Hardart's Automat at 818-820 Chestnut Street, one of the largest of 50 automats operated by the company in the Philadelphia and New York areas in the first half of the 20th century. Opened circa 1902. Depicts interior views of the electric order section, main dining area and customer's helping themselves to coffee. The Philadelphia automat closed in 1968 and was given to the Smithsonian Museum of American History., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1906-1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Business - [P.9587.1 - 4]
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).
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