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Title: Ho all ye quick runners, fast walkers & fun lovers A grand pic-nic will take place at Strawberry Mansion! on Monday, Sept. 28, '63, for which occasion the following it the programme: 1st---Sack race, ... 2d---Bell race, ... 3d---400 yard race, ... 4th---Short races, (for persons not less than 200 pounds weight.) To conclude with the champion walking match between the champion walker and three others, the champion giving 20 seconds start in 2 miles. The whole to be plentifully seasoned with dancing & other good things of life A fine band of music will be in attendance N.B.--Cars leave 2d & Arch Sts. for the place every 5 minutes
Description: David Jarvis, hotel, 131 N. Fourth Street, is listed in Philadelphia directories from 1862 to 1865., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Jarvis, David, hotel-keeper
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Jarvis (1)1322.F.280 (McAllister)

Title: Grand celebration of the Battle of Buena Vista! Come see it. Come see it. The slaughtering of a mammoth hog which is supposed by many good judges to wiegh 800 pounds! will take place at the house of W.S. Sager, Willow Grove on Monday, Feb. 23d, 1863, at 10 o'clock, A.M. Gentlemen, this hog is pronounced by all who have seen her, to be the best proportioned big hog exhibited to the public this season; we therefore invite you, one an all, to be in attendance on that day, as we expect to have a good time any how. The hog to be sold to the hihgest [sic] bidder after slaughtering
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Clayton, C. S.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Clayton (1)1322.F.277 (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia, Nov. 5th, 1862. Dear Sir: During the past two seasons in the city of New York there has been given a series of grand concerts, by the famous Seventh Regiment Band, ... In a city like Philadelphia, there is a great want of an entertainment of this kind, and there is no reason why such an enterprise should not succeed here, if properly encouraged, and judicially managed. ... I have engaged a full military band and grand orchestra, composed of forty of the best musicians, under the direction of two well-known and popular conductors, to be know as the "Orpheus Musical Association," and propose to give a series of first class concerts at the Academy of Music. To enable me to accomplish this, (as it involves a great expense,) I must obtain one thousand subscribers, who will each take a season ticket
Description: Printed on blue paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Weston, Edward P. (Edward Payson), 1819-1879
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Weston (1)1322.F.143 (McAllister)

Title: Lamplighter's address. For 1863 for New Year's 1863
Description: Verse in two stanzas; first line: The happy time again has come., Printed on card stock; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 11.7 x 8.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Lamplighter (1)1322.F.151 (McAllister)

Title: "My friends." When in July 1863, the city of New York was under the reign of a mob, when stores were closed, workshops shut, cars and stages laid up, alarm bells ringing, dwellings burning, inoffensive women and children seeking prisons for safety, unoffending men hanging and roasting at lamp posts, the horizon lighted up by burning orphan asylums, at such a time when no man felt safe, when every citizen had to guard his home, when peaceful law-abiding citizens had to patrol the streets for mutual protection, when law and order were as it seemed, dead, when arson, plunder, murder, and all the infernal passions of a brutalized mob were holding high carnival, and civilization went draped in mourning, then Horatio Seymour. the candidate of the McClellan Confederate Peace Democracy for governor of New York, requested the men doing these bloody deeds, to meet him in front of the City Hall in New York, and there began his coaxing, blarneying address to them, with the words "My friends."
Description: Printed area, including the ornamental border, measures 26.0 x 17.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 My friends 5741.F.71c (McAllister)

Title: The following is the official price list of clothing, &c
Description: Table showing the money value of clothing, arms, and equipment allowed to the Union Army., "Clothing furnished by state authorities will be charged at the above prices unless otherwise specially directed.", Signed: Adjutant General's Office, January 1, 1863. Official: L. Thomas, adjutant general., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Adjutant-General's Office
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Uni Sta Adjut 5786.F.58a (McAllister)

Title: For Register of Wills 1864 Fifth Ward. Fifth Ward. Frederick M. Adams. Subject to the decision of the National Union Convention
Description: Printed in black, red, blue, and gold., The illustration is an eagle on a shield, signed "Printed by King & Baird", with the banner: Lincoln, Johnson and victory., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Adams, Frederick M.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Adams (2)1322.F.53 (McAllister)

Title: Franklin Book & Job Printing Establishment rear of 52 No. Sixth St. Philadelphia. Newspaper, book and plain & fancy job printing
Description: A four-line poem at head of title: A Union of lakes and a Union of lands, A Union of states none can sever, A Union of hearts and a Union of hands, And the flag of our Union for ever., A four-line poem printed vertically, flanking the title: The flag of our country, long may it wave, O'er the land of the free & home of the brave. No pent up Utica contracts our powers, But the whole boundless continent is ours., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 27.8 x 21.0 cm., The illustration shows an eagle with the flag and the banner: Our country our flag & liberty., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Library Company copy 5786.F.123a printed on yellow paper., Library Company copy 5786.F.124c printed on rose-colored paper., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Young, William S., publisher
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Young 5786.F.123a (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Young 5786.F.124c (McAllister)

Title: Institute for Colored Youth. 716 Lombard Street, Philadelphia The managers of the Institute for Colored Youth desire to place before the view of the friends of the institute, and of others who take an interest in the intellectual advancement of the colored race, the following statement of facts connected with the financial condition of this school. ... Below will be found a subscriptions list, upon which the reader is requested to place his name, with the amount which he is willing to contribute annually for three years or a longer period
Description: "The greatly increased cost of living has rendered necessary an advance of the salaries of our teachers, ... An appeal was made to the friends of the institute for annual subscriptions for a short term of years, which met with a liberal response ..."--Institute for Colored Youth, Annual report, 1865, p. 17., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864 or 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Inst Col Log.(1)1322.F.115 (McAllister)

Title: The legend of the clock
Description: Verse in eight stanzas; first line: The old clock stands in the library wall,., Caption title., Library Company copy has MS. note: This ancient clock was exhibited in the department of Relics, curiosities & autographs, & the following lines were composed & printed by its owner & sold beneath the clock for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission. It may be well to mention that it was the time keeper of the department. I.J., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Leedom, B. J. (Benjamin Jones), 1807-1883
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Leedom 9982.F.16 (McAllister)

Title: Fair for the Cooper Shop Hospital and Soldiers' Home to be held at Concert Hall, commencing Monday, June 9th, at 7 o'clock, and continue during the week. Season tickets, 25 cents. Single tickets, 10 cents. For sale by the conductor
Description: June 9 fell on a Monday in 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; printer's MS. note: 100 May 24., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Fair 5778.F.5f (McAllister)

Title: Fair for the Cooper Shop Hospital and Soldiers' Home At Concert Hall, commencing Monday, June 9th, at 7 o'clock, and continue during the week. Season tickets 25 cents. Single tickets 10 cents. For sale by the conductor
Description: June 9 fell on a Monday in 1862., Printed in red and blue, on card stock the shape of a shield., The illustration shows a U.S. flag and a crowd in front of a building, with the banner: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon free., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; "by the conductor" is crossed out, and MS. note makes it "For sale here.", Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Fair 5778.F.6b (McAllister)

Title: Seventh grand fancy and citizens' dress festival o [sic] Pocahontas Tent, No. 1, D. of F, on Tuesday, Feb. 25th, 1862, at National Guard's Hall, Race Street, below Sixth, for the benefit of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. Tickets, fifty cents. Tickets must be pre-paid. Ladies' refreshments included
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; printer's MS. note: 100 on cards white bonnet brand Feb 13., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Seventh 5778.F.4b (McAllister)

Title: Union Skate Depot, No. 38 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Open evenings The undersigned desires to call the attention of parents, gaurdians [sic], the boys, the girls, and all good loyal people to the fact that he has in store and for sale low a choice and varied stock of boy's skates, ... Particular attention paid to children, and every care taken to please them. Orders from schools and seminaries gratefully received. A holiday skating song in preparation. Let all the children, young and old, call and get one
Description: William W. Bates, printer, is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1862 to 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Union Skate Depot
Date: [between 1862 and 1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Union (2)5786.F.161b (McAllister)

Title: S. Silberman & Co., importers and wholesale dealers in fancy goods No. 13 North Fourth St., above Market, Philadelphia, request buyers to examine their well-assorted stock of porte monnaies, purses, wallets, ladies' & gents' travelling bags, porte folios, writing desks, work boxes, photograph albums, pipes. Bryer wood, meershaum, lava, &c. segar cases, tobacco pouches, tobacco boxes, match boxes, meershaum tubes, and other articles for smokers. Beads, cornelian and jet goods, fans. Watch guards, watch keys, spectacles, hair, tooth and cloth brushes. Combs, soaps and perfumery, knives, scissors, razors, India rubber goods, and a full line of fancy articles, and novelties, at the lowest cash prices
Description: Surrounding the advertisement: Suttler's supplies. Army goods. Sutler's supplies. Army goods., Printed on yellow paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: S. Silberman & Co.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 S Silber (2)5786.F.156b (McAllister)

Title: Soldiers your health, comfort, and usefulness, and your country's welfare, will in a great measure depend on your keeping your feet dry many are now lying in hospitals, but for wet feet might be rendering their country good service. One box of Frank Miller's leather preservative and water proof oil blacking, manufactured by Frank Miller & Co. Warsaw, N.Y. will last you one year. Try it, use it, and tell it to your fellows
Description: Dyott & Sons are listed at this address in the 1860 Philadelphia directory; by 1861, the company is listed as Dyott & Co. at 232 North Second Street., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Frank Miller & Co.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Frank (2)5786.F.161e (McAllister)

Title: Rules and regulations Citizens' Volunteer Hospital Broad & Washington Streets, Philadelphia
Description: The hospital was organized Sept. 5, 1862 and closed Aug. 11, 1865., Printed on card stock; printed area, including single-rule border, measures 32.3 x 24.6 cm, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [between 1862 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Citizens 5778.F.40a (McAllister)

Title: U.S. Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia Agency, No. 1307 Chestnut Street, November 30th, 1863. Sir A public meeting, intending to express to the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the grateful appreciation felt by the citizens of Philadelphia, for his great services in the cause of our country in England, will be held at the Academy of Music, on Thursday, December 3d, at 8 P.M. Mr. Beecher will deliver an address on that occasion. You are invited to occupy a seat on the stage. This invitation should be presented at the entrance of the Academy, on Locust street, west of Broad
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia Branch
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Uni Sta Sanitary (1)5781.F.1c (McAllister)

Title: Catalogue of articles in the Machinery Department to be sold at public sale on Friday morning, July 1st, 1864, at 11 o'clock, at the Great Central Fair Building
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Great (1)5781.F.63a (McAllister)

Title: Notice to shareholders of the Mercantile Library Company, U.S. Sanitary Commission, Department of Colleges, Libraries, and Literary Institutions Dear sir: According to a resolution of the stockholders you are entitled to an extra share of the stock in the Mercantile Library Co., without charge, if taken before the 1st of January, 1865. ... T. Morris Perot, chairman of the Committee of Colleges, Libraries and Literary Institutions, 621 Market St
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Merc Lib (1)5781.F.97a (McAllister)

Title: Freedmen's and Union Refugees' Department of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. Circular Saint Louis, Mo., March 17th, 1864. The war for the Union has shaken the prison of slavery to its foundations, and is to demolish it utterly. Many millions of slaves are liberated. The nation has accepted the able-bodied men among them as soldiers, and they are surpassing all expectations by their good conduct. The families of these accepted defenders of the republic are homeless; are unused to the responsibilities of freedom; are destitute of all things. ... There are also thousands of homeless whites, made so by the rebellion. ... N.B. This is believed to be the only fair which has such a department
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair (1864 : Saint Louis, Mo.). Freedmen and Union Refugees' Dept, Freedmen and Union Refugees' Dept
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Miss Valley (2)5781.F.143a (McAllister)

Title: National Sailors' Fair An effort is about to be made to establish a home, free to seamen and marines disabled in our naval service. It is proposed to acquire the means of founding such an institution through the instrumentality of a great National Sailors' Fair, to be held in Boston, Mass., in the early part of November next
Description: Caption title, with first lines of text., The fair was held Nov. 9-19, 1864., Signed on p. [2]: William Perkins, Albert Fearing, Gardiner Howland Shaw, committee on finance., Last page blank., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Sailors' Fair (1864 : Boston, Mass.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Nat Sailor (1)5781.F.142b (McAllister)

Title: Circular to hospital surgeons. Extra clothing for sick and wounded soldiers U.S. Sanitary Commission, 244 F. Street, Washington, D.C., September, 1862. The U.S. Sanitary Commission call the attention of surgeons of Army hospitals and other medical officers to the following joint resolution of Congress, approved July 12, 1862
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States Sanitary Commission
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta Sanitary (1)5781.F.2b (McAllister)

Title: United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Agency. No. 27 South Sixth Street Aid societies in the country, sending boxes or packages should have them legibly directed to Robert M. Lewis, U.S. Sanitary Commission, No. 27 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, and send them by railroad or otherwise. The freight will be settled for by the Philadelphia Agency. Any of the publications of the commission may be had, or further information obtained, by addressing the superintendent, at the depository. Supplies wanted for the hospitals
Description: Letter on p. [3]-[4], signed and dated at end: C.J. Stillé, W.H. Ashhurst, Thos. Kimber, Jr., Hugh Davids, Geo. M. Conarroe, committee on the depository. Philadelphia, February, 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia Branch
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Uni Sta Sanitary (2)5781.F.57c (McAllister)

Title: Old Abe Lincoln and his abolition war!
Description: Verse in two cantos; first line: Who sowed the seeds of discontent, hatred, strife., Caption title., Includes four letters, each signed "Julien": first, to James Gordon Bennett, dated Louisville, Sept. 8, 1861; second, to the president, dated Chicago, Aug. 10 1861; and third and fourth, both address "Dear Brother," and dated New York, Nov. 28 and New York, Dec. 22, 1861., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 56.5 x 41.2 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Julien
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Julien 5792.F.90 (McAllister)

Title: Purely mutual life insurance. New-York Life Insurance Co Established 1845. Home office, 112 & 114 Broadway, N.Y. ... This is one of the oldest, safest, and most successful life insurance companies in the United States and offers advantages not excelled, and, in some respects, not equalled by any other. It has paid to widows and orphans of the assured over two million dollars. ... Dividends declared annually. For 1865, fifty per cent
Description: Printed in red, blue, and black., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: New York Life Insurance Company
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 New York Life 15022.Q

Title: Fair for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. To the citizens of the United States The Ladies Visiting Committee of the Soldiers' Home, in the city of Philadelphia, propose to open a national fair at the Academy of Music, on the twenty-third day of October next, for the purpose of raising a building and endowment fund for the institution with which they are connected
Description: Caption title, with first lines of text., Signed on p. [3] by forty-four prominent Pennsylvania men, and dated: Philadelphia, April 14th, 1865., "Donations in money for the fair may be sent to Wm. Struthers, treasurer, No. 1022 Market Street. Donations in goods, provisions, &c., may be sent to the Soldiers' Home, corner of Race and Crown Streets, Philadelphia, marked to care of Mrs. D. Haddock, Jr., president, or Mrs. J. Horner, secretary. All donations duly acknowledged. Philadelphia, May 23d, 1865."--p. [3]., Printer's name from p. [3]., Head-piece on p. [1] shows a disabled soldier and a disabled sailor flanking a sick room scene., Printed on p. [1] and [3] only., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Soldiers and Sailors Home Fair (1865 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Soldiers (1)5781.F.142c (McAllister)

Title: Draft! Philadelphia Guard Reg't Col. A.A. Lechler. $400 bounty $400 For one year's service only!
Description: Colonel Ambrose A. Lechler served in the 176th Pennsylvania Infantry and the 199th Pennsylvania Infantry., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1862 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Draft (3)5777.F (McAllister)

Title: Avoid the draft Rally! Men! Rally! Volunteer for one year and receive four hundred dollars bounty! Don't wait to be drafted All veteran officers. Head-quarters, Commonwealth Building, 611 Chestnut St
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1863 Avoid (3)5777.F (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia City Guard! 157 157 157th Regiment, Pennsylvania Vols. Col. Wm. A. Gray. Fall in! Fall in!! Fall in!!! "Your country calls in the hour of peril." Recruits wanted! This is the last regiment authorized by the War and State departments. $152 bounty! $152 Recruits mustered in, uniformed and sent to camp immediately! Each recruit furnished with a gum blanket. Head quarters No. 627 Chestnut Street
Description: The Philadelphia City Guard, the 157th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, began recruiting in Oct. 1862; in 1865 it was consolidated with the 191st Regiment. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 833, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 140., Printed in red and blue., The illustration shows a regimental parade, with a sergeant major leading, left arm raised, four drummer boys, and one mounted officer., Library Company copy very fragile; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 157th (1862-1865)
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (3)5777.F.12 (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia City Guard! 157 157 157th Regiment, Pennsylvania Vols. Col. Wm. A. Gray. Fall in! Fall in!! Fall in!!! "Your country calls in the hour of peril." Recruits wanted! This is the last regiment authorized by the War and State departments. $152 bounty! $152 Recruits mustered in, uniformed and sent to camp immediately! Each recruit furnished with a gum blanket. Head quarters No. 627 Chestnut Street
Description: The Philadelphia City Guard, the 157th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, began recruiting in Oct. 1862; in 1865 it was consolidated with the 191st Regiment. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 833, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 140., Printed in red and blue., The illustration shows a regimental parade, with a sergeant major leading, left arm raised, four drummer boys, and one mounted officer., Library Company copy very fragile; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 157th (1862-1865)
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (3)5777.F.12 (McAllister)

Title: Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home Academy of Music Philadelphia October 23. to November 4. 1865
Description: Wholly engraved., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Soldiers and Sailors Home Fair (1865 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Soldiers (2)5781.F.25b (McAllister)

Title: A promenade concert will be given at the Masonic Hall on Thursday evening, May 12th, for the benefit of the Sociers' Union Fair
Description: May 12 fell on a Thursday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: May Flower Association
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 May (1)5781.F.4a (McAllister)

Title: Andalusian stallion Hidalgo The following letter from Mr. Sprague, American Consul in Gibraltar, gives the history of this horse: ... There are only two colts of his get now at the stables of his owner, at Tarrytown. The above horse, presented by Mr. Aspinwall to the Metropolitan Fair for the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers, will be sold at auction, by Edward Schenck, on Thursday, 21st inst., at 4 o'clock, at the fair grounds, 15th Street
Description: The Metropolitan Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission opened in New York in March 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Metro (2)5781.F.136a (McAllister)

Title: Home squad. Company A. Supplies Each member is required to equip himself with the articles enumerated, as follows: and to be ready in marching order when Jeff Davis crosses the Wire Bridge. ... N.B.--Each private that cannot pack the above things in his knapsack, will be obliged to furnish himself with a coal heaver's wheelbarrow, and to gather huckleberries on the road. Each article must be examined by the Pennsylvania State and Philadelphia City, Mouldy Provision, Hidey Coffee, Gill Net Blanket, and Pine Shaving Soled Shoe Committee. Headquarters, at the Feather Foundry, 4th of July and Plum Streets. By order of [blank]
Description: Facetious list of equipment and supplies required by Pennsylvania recruits., The illustration shows four comic figures., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Home 5786.F.65a (McAllister)

Title: Special order, no. 4 Nurses, attendants and convalescents from the hospitals are forbidden to visit Gettysburg, except with a pass bearing the date of the day of such visit and signed by the chief medical officer. All persons found in Gettysburg in violation of this order, shall be arrested by the provost guard and confined in the jail at Gettysburg; nurses and attendants till they can be sent to their regiments, and convalescents till further orders from these headquarters. A picket of the provost guard will be established upon each road leading into the Borough of Gettysburg, who shall examine the passes of such persons above described as may be seeking to visit the town and arrest all such persons not provided with passes in accordance with this order. The provost marshal will see to the enforcement of this order and increase his guard sufficiently for that purpose
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army of the Potomac, York District
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Uni Sta Army 5786.F.111f (McAllister)

Title: Pro bono publico! Erect a monument to the memory of the brave & devoted fireman Samuel M'Menamin Fleetwood! who perished in the flames of the late fire in the Second Ward, whilst endeavoring to rescue a female fellow being!
Description: Fleetwood died Feb. 8, 1865, in a fire at 9th St. and Washington Ave., Philadelphia., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Pro bono (1)1322.F.254 (McAllister)

Title: A model love-letter To Miss [blank] The great love that I have hitherto expressed for you
Description: "The reader, after perusing this ingenious little letter, will please read it again, commencing on the first line, and then the third and fifth, and so continue, reading each alternate line to the end." When following these instructions, the text begins: The great love I have hitherto expressed for you increases daily. ..., Printed area measures 21.6 x 14.3 cm., Text within ornamental border (De Marsan comic heads border. Cf. Wolf, E. Amer. song sheets, border S)., Henry De Marsan is listed at 54 Chatham Street in New York City directories for 1861 through 1863., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1861 and 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Model 14553.Q (Roughwood)

Title: Hubbel & Co.'s Celebrated Golden Bitters. The best tonic in the world By tonics are understood those substances the operation of which is to give vigor and strength to the system. ... This tonic is no humbug, but is in fact the best in the world
Description: On verso: Geo. C. Hubbel & co., proprietors of the Celebrated Golden Bitters., At head of title, each side: See index to advertisers page 51., At foot, each side: See over., "These Bitters, although only recently brought into the market, have acquired a marked degree of public favor, which must soon create for them a very general demand all over the country."--advertising article in the New York Times, April 25, 1864., Illustration of an eagle on an American shield signed: Pease sc., Printed on yellow paper., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Geo. C. Hubbel & Co.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Geo C 111846.O (Helfand)

Title: Drugs and medicines F.L. Allen, wholesale and retail dealer in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, dye stuffs, perfumery, camphene, burning fluid, &c., No. 33 State-Street, New-London, Conn. ... Phoenix Guano, from McKean's Island. ... Combined Guano, ... For sale by Williams & Haven, New-London, Ct
Description: A leaf removed from The New-England almanac, and farmer's friend, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1863 (New London : Printed by Starr & Farnham, 1862)., On verso: Dr. Sweet's Infallible Liniment, the great external remedy, ... Richardson & Co., proprietors, Norwich Ct. ..., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Allen, F. L., of New London, Conn
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Allen 111469.D (Helfand)

Title: Circular to the trade Office of B.L. Judson & Co. 106 Franklin Street, New York. On and after March 26th, 1864, the prices of the following articles will be: ... The large advance in prices of all things used in the manufacture of the above articles renders it necessary to advance our prices to the above figures, which we believe are lower than the prices of many other standard remedies
Description: Printed on p. [1] only., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: B.L. Judson & Co.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 B L Juds 112601.D (Helfand)

Title: "A slight cold," coughs, hoarseness, or sore throat which might be check with a simple remedy, if neglected, often terminates seriously. Few are aware of the importance of stopping a cough, ... "Brown's Bronchial Troches" were first introduced in the year 1850
Description: Testimonials dated 1860 and 1861., Printed area measures 32.5 x 14.7 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: John I. Brown & Son
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 John 16772.Q (Helfand)

Title: Eighteen 100 sixty 1. Multum in parvo. Read this carefully before laying it aside! As you will find something that will interest, and possibly benefit you. The people of France, Germany, Prussia, and other states of the Old World, have used Rosenberger's Balm of Gilead Ointment, for nearly a century for all kinds of wounds, bruises and putrifying sores, to the exclusion of every other ointment, plaster, liniment or external remedy
Description: German text on verso: Achtzehn 100 sechzig 1. Multum in parvo. (Viel im Kleinen.), Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: G.T. Taft & Co.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 G T Taft 11544.F (Helfand)

Title: Brown's Vermifuge Comfits, or Worm Lozenges Much sickness undoubtedly with children and adults, attributed to other causes, is occasioned by worms
Description: One testimonial dated Jan. 27, 1864., Printed area measures 19.9 x 13.2 cm., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Curtis & Brown
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Curtis 15210.Q

Title: Dr. Hooker's medicines J.T. Webber & Co., druggists and apothecaries, No. 7 State Street, Springfield, Mass. Proprietors of Dr. Hooker's Cough and Croup syrup, Solidified Balsam and Liquid Balm. Dealers in patent medicines, cooking extracts, perfumery, toilet articles, &c., &c. Pure wines and liquors for medicinal purposes. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded
Description: Joseph T. Webber began his drug business on State St., Springfield, Mass. in 1863, and moved to the corner of State and Main in 1865., "Family knitting machines. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company."--p. 2. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company was organized in Springfield, Mass. in 1865., A leaf detached from an unidentified work, with running title: Advertisements., One illustration signed: T. Chubbuck sc. Springfield., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J.T. Webber & Co.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 J T Web 112072.D (Helfand)

Title: Office of Fletcher Brothers general lottery agents Covington, Kentucky Dear Sir, Knowing that a good prize sent to some influential person in your part of the state ... our business and reputation as prize sellers would be greatly benefited .... Here is our offer: We will send you for $20. ... tickets in the "Royal Havana or Cuba Plan Lottery" to be drawn at Covington, Kentucky, July 30th 1864 .... and we will agree that if the certificates we send you do not draw at the very least $5000 each, we will forward you two packages in one of the extra lotteries .... To facilitate the prompt execution of our proposal use the enclosed envelope, and make your remittance to our exchange office in New York
Description: Purchased with NEH-PEAES funds., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Fletcher Brothers
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Fletcher 15026.Q

Title: Pocket calendar describing Hunnewell's Universal Cough Remedy Hunnewell's Tolu Anodyne Hunnewell's Eclectic pills
Description: At head of title: 1862 1862., A folded sheet with four panels on each side when unfolded. The "outside" contains a title panel, a panel certifying J.L. Hunnewell's membership in the American College of Pharmacy (with an illustration engraved by William Tyler), and two 1862 calendar panels, each with a note "Please read inside carefully." The "inside" has the caption title "Special points in Hunnewell's Triple Remedies," and three panels, numbered 2-4, with running title "Hunnewell's Triple Remedies.", "John L. Hunnewell, proprietor, practical chemist and pharmaceutist, Boston, Mass."--panel 4., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Hunnewell, John L.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Hunne 112074.D (Helfand)

Title: The Great American Tea Company, No. 51 Vesey Street, New York, take pleasure in sending their price list of teas which are marked at two cents (.02 cents) per pound above cost, believing this to be attractive to the many who have heretofore been paying enormous profits. This company have created a new era in the history of selling teas in this country
Description: Title from first lines of text on p. [2]., Signed and dated on p. [4]: Great American Tea Company, importers and jobbers, 51 Vesey Street, New York. Dated December 15th, 1863., With a large illustration of the company headquarters on p. [1]., Library Company copy inscribed: Wm H. Ward., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Great American Tea Company
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Great Amer 16528.Q

Title: Marriage certificate This is to certify, that Mr. [blank] and M[blank] [blank] were by me united in matrimony, this [blank] day of [blank] one thousand eight hundred and [blank] according to law, and the custom of the church
Description: At head of title: "Whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 15.6 x 21.1 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Martin Mellinger and Miss Sarah Burry [i.e. Barry], married Dec. 13, 1864, by Rev. F.W. Kremer; with a five-cent stamp attached., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitied by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [not after 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Marri 16513.Q (Doret)

Title: The drafted men! Headquarters, Prov. Marshal, 16th Dist., Pa. August 22, 1863. For their own convenience, as well as that of the board, drafted men are requested, whether expecting to enter the service, pay three hundred dollars, furnish a substitute, or obtain exemption from disability or any other cause, to report at the time indicated in the notice each will receive, and not before. Nothing will be gained by coming in advance, whilst if each comes at his proper time, the board will be able to give to his case all the attention it merits. It being impracticable in this district for the government to obtain public transportation, drafted men reporting at the place of rendezvous are entitled, by law, to travelling pay. Each notice, served upon drafted men, will be numbered. These notices should be bro't along when men report at the rendezvous
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Pennsylvania : 16th District)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # am 1863 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.69e (McAllister)

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