La victoire en chantant nous ouvre le barriere (1 vs.) Hymne de Guerre [Juillet 1794] par Marie-Joseph de Chenier; publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan comic heads border. 25.1 x 16.4 cm.
The smirking conductor wears a green uniform and red cap. The valentine criticizes him for paying too much attention to a woman passenger., Text: O! gallant Conductor, pray don't think us blind, / We saw you conduct her with airs so refined; / Pray alter your conduct, or proceed with care, / Your quite too attentive collecting your fair., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
The angry woman beats her philandering lover with a broom as he lies across her lap. A speech bubble by her head reads " HOW DARE YOU PLAY WITH THE SERVANT?" as he cries, "Oh! Oh!" The man is contorted and the woman appears larger than him, which makes him look childlike, and her appear domineering., Text: It's evident my angry fair, / Whate'er your wrongs, how much you (bare) bear / Tho' I would rather not be sharing / My lot with on who's so for-bareing: / Such wives as thee who ever's got 'em, / Will find they're very hard at BOTTOM! / So I for my part would decline, / Such a very striking Valentine., Variant of Valentine 1.19, Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Image: Depicts three bust portraits of Irish Union soldiers, including Michael Corcoran, James Mulligan, and Thomas Meagher. The portraits are separated by harps and shamrocks., Verse 348: Col. Corcoran / Col. Mulligan / Col. Meagher., Caption: Sons of Erin., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Portrait of a serious looking Maria is looking straight ahead. She is wearing a high necked dress with a brooch., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Pale apricot colored velvet with a leaf design within a star border., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Small urn of flowers within an inverted octagonal border. Photographer's imprint stamped in gold on verso: Swift & Mahan, 312 Market St. Phila., See Conarroe Family research file., Gift of Hugh P. Brinton, January 3, 1977.
Creator
Swift & Mahan, photographer.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8259.F.10]
My song is of a nice young man (7 vs.), Variant: a. An Affecting Song on the Sorrowful Death of Peter Gray and Lizzy Anna Querl; publ. De Marsan (2). De Marsan comic heads border. 24 x 16.5 cm., Variant: b. Publ. Johnson (2); adv: Cards, Circulars, Bill-Heads, etc. T.o. border. 24 x 12 cm.
You're looking fresh as the morn, darling (3 vs)., Variant: Publ. J.H. Johnson (3); adv; You will save 25 per cent. by getting your Printing done at Johnso [sic] Cheap Card and Job Printing Office. Cards, circulars, bills heads, &c., &c., neatly printed. T.o. border. 23 x 15 cm.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord (5 vs. and chors.) By Mrs. Julia Ward Howe; published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments. Female figure with shield and eagle. 24.2 x 15 cm.
Little Jenny Dow lives be- yond the mill (3 vs. and chor.) Music obtained of Horace Waters (1); [publ.] De Marsan (4). De Marsan kissing cupids border. 24.5 x 16 cm.
Hand colored very pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark red velvet with geometric border. Embossed: Keenan 248 South Second St. Philada., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Spray with one rose and one bud within a nonpareil-like border. Geometric design on verso.
Creator
Keenan, John A., photographer.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8535]
O! I'm glad I live in a land of freedom (6 vs. and 4 chors.) Tune, "Dixie's Land." By A. W. Muzzy, (a member of the Guards) of Panama, New York; Dedicated to Cassius M. Clay's Washington Guards; cop: 1861, A. W. Muzzy, SDN.Y., and "Copyright Secured" preceding title; text prefaced by letter from L.H. Sigourney and followed by three other letters. 30.3 x 12.4 cm.
Theodore Bosin, born ca. 1840 in Germany, was an engraver and lithographer active in Philadelphia ca. 1869-ca. 1885 . He engaged in two short-term partnerships. In 1870, he partnered with Philadelphia lithographer Edward Busch at 320 Walnut Street, and in 1871, he partnered with Philadelphia lithographer Theodore Leonhardt at 324 Chestnut Street. By 1873, Bosin had left the Leonhardt partnership and by 1875 worked as a lithographer from 23 South Third Street., In the early 1870s, Bosin lived in West Philadelphia at 3720 Story Street before relocating to 514 Powell Street (Center City) in 1875. In 1880, he lived at that address with his German-born wife Lina and worked as an engraver. He continued to be listed in city directories until 1885. By 1887, his wife was listed in city directories as a widow at the Powell Street address.
Date
ca. 1840-ca. 1886
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
I'm lonesome since I cross'd the hills (8 vs.), Variant: a. Publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan military cupid border. 24.5 x 15.5 cm., Variant: ab. With "cros'd" in 1st line; publ. Johnson (2). A-J border. 21.4 x 12.4 cm., Variant: b. Adv: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2). Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 213a, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.4 x 12.6 cm., Variant: c. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 233, col. 20.4 x 12.6 cm., Variant: d. Sheet no. 76; publ. Partridge (1). T. o. border. 22.5 x 12.3 cm.
I once loved a damsel whose raven black hair (2 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Sung by T. B. Prendergast, at Bryants' Minstrels; publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan fountain border. 25.8 x 16.3 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 543; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.6 x 16.1 cm.
Block numbered in at least one place: 7148., Image of two martin birds in an exterior setting. One bird is perched on a nest, the other is in flight., Illustration appears in The Swallows of Leigh Farm : a story for children (Philadelphia, 1893?), p. 11. This title was listed in the American Sunday-School Union catalogue for 1893. Caption of illustration -- "The Window Martins.", Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Depicts row homes along the south side of Green Street west of 19th Street., Numbered 4906 on recto., Sheet number: 156B07., Real photo. Divided 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. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Block numbered in one place: 3748., Image of a man resting his head on one of his hands, appearing to be in deep thought. The man’s other hand holds a watch., Tape (inscribed “934”) on obverse., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Block numbered in two places: 86., Image of two birds in a natural setting., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper., , Provenance:, , Variant:
'Tis just one year ago to-day (3 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. [Publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan Ethiopian border. 24.7 x 15.6 cm., Variant: b. First line beginning: "It was"; publ. Johnson (2); advs: Cards, Circulars, Bill-Heads, etc., and 25 per cent, less than any other Printer in the City. A-J border. 21 x 12.7 cm.
Depicts Rittenhouse Bridge, a large stone bridge with a small arch opening carrying Forbidden Drive in Fairmount Park. View of bridge near Lover's Leap looking north along the Wissahickon Creek. Marks the entrance to the upper Wissahickon Valley., Contains 3 postcards printed in color and 3 in black and white., Majority of postcards issued by the Philadelphia Post Card Co., Philadelphia., Sheet numbers: 62A06 and 62B01., 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 [Fairmount Park - Bridges - Miscellaneous - 62]
Jacob Weiss, a lithographer who specialized in maps, born ca. 1834 in Saxony, Germany, operated in Philadelphia from 1858 to 1866, working from 600 Chestnut Street (1858-1864) and 320 Walnut Street (1865-1866). Weiss immigrated to the United States by 1854 and resided and worked as a lithographer in Boston by January 9, 1854 when he agreed to provide Jonathan Frock with "good and proper lithographic stones, and will lithograph thereon separately, the map of each and every State of Mexico.", By 1858, Weiss resided in Camden, New Jersey. He soon thereafter relocated to Philadelphia, where he lived at various residences, including 430 Appletree Alley; the same address as lithographers George Eimerman 1865-1866 and brother Peter in 1867. Between 1858 and 1864, Weiss worked with lithographers Eimerman; Worley, Bracher & Matthias; Louis Haugg; and Frederick Bourquin at 600 Chestnut Street (later site of the new Public Ledger building) before he relocated his business to 320 Walnut Street. Weiss published Civil War maps, including "Map of Charleston Harbor" (1861) and the 1860 maps "Map of Hampton Roads and Norfolk Harbor Showing the Location of Fortress Monroe & Forts Calhoun & Norfolk and "A Correct Map of Pensacola Bay Showing Topography of the Coast, Fort Pickens, U.S. Navy Yard and all other fortifications."
Weiss died most likely in 1866 as inferred by his wife, Henrietta Weiss (1838-1916), listed as a widow in the 1867 Philadelphia directory. He was survived by three sons, "engravers on stone" George (b. 1859) and Charles (b. 1861), and Albert (b. 1863).
Date
ca. 1834-1866
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
The valentine depicts the bust of a man with rounded features and curly hair. He wears a green coat and necktie. His forehead is labeled "impudence", and he sucks air out of a yellow bag labeled "bag of wind.", Text: Some are pinched the wind to raise, / But you've enough to blow your praise, / While such a bag of wind you share, / You cannot die for want of air., Cf. 1.28., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 999d, 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).
George S. Harris, born 1823 in Bridgeton, New Jersey, worked in Philadelphia as a lithographic and letterpress printer, producing lithographic trade cards, can and cigar box labels, circulars, calendars and stamped envelopes between 1847 and 1891. Although trained in law, Harris pursued printing and opened his own job and fancy card printing establishment ca. 1847 at 119 North Fourth Street. By 1848 Harris already owned and operated a Ruggles' small card press, which "attract[ed] the attention of visitors [sic] by its handiwork," and in 1854, he relocated his company to the southeast corner of Fourth and Vine Streets (a building he later replaced to accommodate growing operations). By 1867 his firm had an estimated worth of $25,000 according to his credit report where Harris was consistently cited as "prompt" and "reliable.", His eldest son, George T. Harris (b. January 1851), became a partner in 1872, followed by his younger sons William T. (b. ca. 1856) in 1880 and Frank S. (b. ca. 1861) in 1889. In 1882, Geo. S. Harris & Sons moved into a seven-story, "iron front" building erected for the company at 718-724 Arch Street, where by the end of the 1880s the company operated the largest lithographic firm in the city, with about 600 employees producing items for patrons worldwide. Geo. S. Harris & Sons also produced a plethora of trade cards in addition to chromolithographed advertising calendars with genre scenes for its own business, including an 1886 calendar containing a whimsical scene of a woman at a masquerade ball., In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Harris was also a director of the Mantua Land and Improvement Company. Geo. S. Harris & Sons remained on Arch Street until George S.'s death on July 7, 1891, at which time his estate was appraised at $439,624 with his firm at $400,000. His sons managed the company for approximately ten years, until partnering with Joseph Knapp to form the New-York based American Lithographic Company., Harris resided in the Northern Liberties Ward of Philadelphia early in his career in the 1850s, and remained north of Market Street after marrying Annie M. (b. ca. 1827) and starting a family. In 1860, they lived in Ward 12 and in 1870 Ward 13. By 1880 they lived at 650 North Fifteenth Street in Ward 15; the family's residence at the time of George S. Harris's death on July 8, 1891 in Atlantic City. A "cottager" in that city for many years, Harris died while driving in a carriage at Chelsea.
Date
1823-July 7, 1891
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
I have travelled this wide world over (7 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Print. Andrews. Andrews ivy border. 23.8 x 14.1 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint added. 24.3 x 15.4 Cm.
Now, ladies, your attention (4 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. T. o. [Andrews] border. 23.5 x 15 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint added. 23.5 x 14.3 cm.
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