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Title: Kohl, August
Description: 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

Title: THE VOLUNTEER.
Description: 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.

Title: Allen, Christopher
Description: 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

Title: Memoir of Anna Jane Linnard
Creator: Robert Baird, creator
Date: 1835
Location: Am 1835

Title: Letters from the backwoods and the Adirondac
Creator: Headley, Joel Tyler, creator
Date: 1850
Location: Am 1850 Hea

Title: Proverbial philosophy
Creator: Tupper, creator
Date: 1847
Location: Am 1847 Tuppe

Title: Falls M.E. Church, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: 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]

Title: A treatise on sheep
Creator: Blacklock, Ambrose, creator
Date: 1841
Location: Am 1841 Bla

Title: ANNUAL GREETING OR CARRIERS' ADDRESS OF THE DAILY NEWS: TO THEIR PATRONS, JANUARY 1, 1859.
Description: To old and young, to grave and gay (2 columns) T. o. border; ornamental arms of Philadelphia. 45.4 x 30.3 cm.
Date: 1858
Location: #Am 1858 Annual

Title: OH, CHERISH ME.
Description: 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.

Title: Woman in her social and domestic character
Creator: Mrs. John Sanford, creator
Date: 1839
Location: pattison

Title: A plain treatise on horse-shoeing
Creator: Miles, William, creator
Date: 1856
Location: Am 1856 Miles

Title: OLD FRIEND OF YOUTH.
Description: Give me your hand, old friend of youth (3 vs. and chor.) Publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan kissing cupids border, col. 24.8 x 16.3 cm.

Title: THE MARSEILLES HYMN.
Description: 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.

Title: Scriptural illustrations of the daily morning and evening service, and litany of the Protestant Episcopal Church, with notes.
Creator: Benjamin Hale, creator
Date: 1835
Location: Am 1835

Title: Jefferson Davis at sea envelope
Description: 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
Date: 1861-1865

Title: JENNY JONES.
Description: My name's Edward Morgan I live in Llangollen (8 vs.) Sheet no. 687; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley horned imp border, col. 24.6 x 15.6 cm.

Title: Lectures to young people in manufacturing villages
Creator: Clarke, creator
Date: 1836
Location: Am 1836 Clark

Title: Slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia envelope
Description: 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
Date: 1861-1865

Title: New illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology
Creator: Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), creator
Date: c1859
Location: Am 1859 Fow

Title: The spirit of life
Creator: Clark, Willis Gaylord, creator
Date: 1833
Location: Am 1833 Cla

Title: Song sheet headpiece 220
Description: 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).

Title: A guide to true peace; or, a method of attaining to inward and spiritual prayer.
Date: 1858
Location: Am 1858 Guide

Title: Poor soldiers have mighty few things to be merry at,
Description: 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.
Date: [1861-1865?]

Title: The young maiden
Creator: Muzzey, A. B. (Artemas Bowers), creator
Date: 1844
Location: Am 1844 Buzz

Title: Stayman & Brother
Description: 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

Title: Who'll Have Me.
Description: 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.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Aids to preaching and hearing
Creator: Skinner, Thomas H. (Thomas Harvey), creator
Date: 1839
Location: Am 1839 Skin

Title: CLAP YOUR HANDS TILL DADDY COMES HOME.
Description: 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.

Title: ASSU Illustration 6450
Description: 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.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 26

Title: Brushwood
Creator: Read, T. Buchanan, creator
Date: 1882
Location: Am 1882 Read

Title: Bigot, Alphonse
Description: 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

Title: THE HEART BOW'D DOWN.
Description: 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.

Title: Aunt Sally; or, The cross the way of freedom
Date: 1860
Location: Am 1860 Aunt

Title: [George Henry Lea as a very young boy]
Description: 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]

Title: The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them
Creator: Norris, Thaddeus, creator
Date: 1864
Location: Am 1864 Nor

Title: Offenbach in America. Notes of a travelling musician.
Creator: Offenbach, Jacques, creator
Date: 1877
Location: Am 1877 Off3

Title: The Coronal and young lad's remembrancer
Date: 1853
Location: Am 1853 Cor

Title: The Mother’s assistant, and young lady’s friend
Date: 1841
Location: Per M 164.3

Title: The practical farrier, for farmers
Creator: Mason, Richard, creator
Date: 1860, c1848
Location: Am 1860 Mas

Title: The Robber
Creator: G. P. R. James, creator
Date: 1838
Location: pattison paper labels

Title: Narrative of a visit to the West Indies, in 1840 and 1841.
Creator: Truman, George, creator
Date: 1844
Location: Am 1844 Tru

Title: [Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Livingston Bishop at Horse Shoe Falls, Niagara Falls.]
Description: 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]

Title: Horn & Hardart's Automat postcards
Description: 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]

Title: The Rhode-Island book : selections in prose and verse, from the writings of Rhode Island citizens
Creator: Lynch, Anne C., creator
Date: 1841
Location: Am 1841 Rhode

Title: The life and thoughts of John Foster
Creator: Foster, John, creator
Date: 1849
Location: Am 1849 Fost

Title: Machinery Hall - South Avenue from West End
Description: Interior view of Machinery Hall along South Avenue from West end. Depicts various industrial machinery.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.19b]

Title: Infant baptism explained and defended
Creator: Griggs, Leverett, creator
Date: 1845
Location: Am 1845 Griggs

Title: The teachers manual
Creator: Palmer, Thomas H., creator
Date: 1840
Location: Am 1840 Pal

Title: Wall-street to Cashmere
Creator: Ireland, John B., creator
Date: 1859
Location: Am 1859 Ire

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