12036.F.c recto
Title
Library Company of Philadelphia share collection, 1803-1929
Description
The collection consists of John McAllister Sr.'s original share (1803), forms transferring ownership of the share to Thomas Beveridge (1830), to John McAllister Jr. (1835), and from Anna Mitchel McAllister to John McAllister of Media, Pa. (1924). Also included are 23 receipts for annual dues dating from 1824 to 1929, and a bank envelope annotated: "This share is to always be kept in the family it having been kept in same since 1803.", John McAllister Sr. (1753-1830), emigrated from Scotland in 1775 and became a successful whip and cane manufacturer in Philadelphia. In 1796 he bought a stock of spectacles; this sideline evolved into the family's principal business. John McAllister Jr. (1786-1877) joined the business in 1807. Successive members of the family maintained the business through 1890. Anna Mitchel McAllister, daughter of John McAllister Jr., was a practising physician, having graduated from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1873. John McAllister Sr. purchased his Library Company share, no. 397, in May, 1803. Upon his death, his son, having previously purchased his own share (no. 743), sold share no. 397 to Rev. Thomas Beveridge. In 1835, Beveridge sold the share back to John McAllister Jr. After his death in 1877, John McAllister Jr.'s granddaughter, Jessie Grant, purchased the share. She died in 1881 and the share was purchased by her aunt, Dr. Anna Mitchel McAllister. In 1924, share no. 397 was sold to John McAllister of Media, Pa. The share was forfeited in 1937.
Creator
McAllister family
Date
1803
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll McAllister Shares 12036.F
12036.F.c verso
Title
Library Company of Philadelphia share collection, 1803-1929
Description
The collection consists of John McAllister Sr.'s original share (1803), forms transferring ownership of the share to Thomas Beveridge (1830), to John McAllister Jr. (1835), and from Anna Mitchel McAllister to John McAllister of Media, Pa. (1924). Also included are 23 receipts for annual dues dating from 1824 to 1929, and a bank envelope annotated: "This share is to always be kept in the family it having been kept in same since 1803.", John McAllister Sr. (1753-1830), emigrated from Scotland in 1775 and became a successful whip and cane manufacturer in Philadelphia. In 1796 he bought a stock of spectacles; this sideline evolved into the family's principal business. John McAllister Jr. (1786-1877) joined the business in 1807. Successive members of the family maintained the business through 1890. Anna Mitchel McAllister, daughter of John McAllister Jr., was a practising physician, having graduated from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1873. John McAllister Sr. purchased his Library Company share, no. 397, in May, 1803. Upon his death, his son, having previously purchased his own share (no. 743), sold share no. 397 to Rev. Thomas Beveridge. In 1835, Beveridge sold the share back to John McAllister Jr. After his death in 1877, John McAllister Jr.'s granddaughter, Jessie Grant, purchased the share. She died in 1881 and the share was purchased by her aunt, Dr. Anna Mitchel McAllister. In 1924, share no. 397 was sold to John McAllister of Media, Pa. The share was forfeited in 1937.
Creator
McAllister family
Date
1803
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll McAllister Shares 12036.F
12036.F.d recto
Title
Library Company of Philadelphia share collection, 1803-1929
Description
The collection consists of John McAllister Sr.'s original share (1803), forms transferring ownership of the share to Thomas Beveridge (1830), to John McAllister Jr. (1835), and from Anna Mitchel McAllister to John McAllister of Media, Pa. (1924). Also included are 23 receipts for annual dues dating from 1824 to 1929, and a bank envelope annotated: "This share is to always be kept in the family it having been kept in same since 1803.", John McAllister Sr. (1753-1830), emigrated from Scotland in 1775 and became a successful whip and cane manufacturer in Philadelphia. In 1796 he bought a stock of spectacles; this sideline evolved into the family's principal business. John McAllister Jr. (1786-1877) joined the business in 1807. Successive members of the family maintained the business through 1890. Anna Mitchel McAllister, daughter of John McAllister Jr., was a practising physician, having graduated from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1873. John McAllister Sr. purchased his Library Company share, no. 397, in May, 1803. Upon his death, his son, having previously purchased his own share (no. 743), sold share no. 397 to Rev. Thomas Beveridge. In 1835, Beveridge sold the share back to John McAllister Jr. After his death in 1877, John McAllister Jr.'s granddaughter, Jessie Grant, purchased the share. She died in 1881 and the share was purchased by her aunt, Dr. Anna Mitchel McAllister. In 1924, share no. 397 was sold to John McAllister of Media, Pa. The share was forfeited in 1937.
Creator
McAllister family
Date
1803
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll McAllister Shares 12036.F
Jefferson ist Präsident!
Title
Jefferson ist Präsident!
Description
Caption title., At head of title: Postscript. zum Readinger Adler. Reading, den 20sten Februar, 1801., Printed area measures 13.8 x 7.3 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[1801]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1801 Jeffe 106022.D (Roughwood)
Trade cards, advertisements, and bill heads for Philadelphia merchants.
Title
Trade cards, advertisements, and bill heads for Philadelphia merchants
Description
Contents: [1] J. Yeager engraver Juniper first door below Chesnut & Race Street 103 Philada. -- [2] Printing done with expedition and care, by Richard Folwell, No. 33, Carter's Alley -- [3] Jonathan Meredith, tanner and currier, Philadelphia -- [4] Spectacles, hardware in general also whips and canes of every description, made and sold by John McAllister, No. 48 Chesnut Street Philadelphia -- [5] Edward Penington sugar refiner No. 155 Sassafras Street, Philada. lump -- [6] Jno. P. & Chas. Wetherill, manufacturers of white lead, billhead, dated May 23, 1829, and addressed in MS. to Messrs Pleasants & Graff -- [7] Carpenter's chemical warehouse Philadelphia -- [8] Superior black ink ... Clemens & Baker., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Zinman, Michael, collector
Date
[between 1797 and 1847?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Zinman Trade cards 111893.O (Zinman)
One penny specie.
Title
One penny specie One penny specie. F The president, directors and company of the Bank of North-America promise to pay to the bearer, on demand, one ninetieth of a dollar. F August 6, 1789
Description
Two printed sections, each inside ornamental border. The top section measures 39 x 55 mm, and the ornamental border incorporates: 1789 Bank. The bottom section measures 40 x 56 mm, and the ornamental border incorporates: BFB 1789., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy has MS. note: Chas. A. Poulson Esq. with the regards of Jno. A. McAllister Feb 29, 1864., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bank of North America
Date
[1789]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm #Am 1789 Bank 3321.F.70 (McAllister)
Christlicher Haus-Segen, nebst der Zwölf Stunden-Gedächtniss.
Title
Christlicher Haus-Segen, nebst der Zwölf Stunden-Gedächtniss
Description
This 18th-century German house blessing, with twelve-hour reminder, served as a model for format, though not for content, of printed Pennsylvania house blessings. See Yoder, D. Pennsylvania German broadside, p. 200-202., Printed on laid paper; hand-colored; printed area measures 38.0 x 30.3 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[178-?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1780 Christ 10138.F (Roughwood)
An essay of a declaration of rights, : brought in by the committee appointed for that purpose, and now under the consideration of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania..
Title
An essay of a declaration of rights brought in by the committee appointed for that purpose, and now under the consideration of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania
Description
Imprint supplied by Evans., Printed area measures: 32.9 x 17 cm., Library Company copy 962.F.92 annotated in the hand of Benjamin Franklin.
Creator
Pennsylvania, Constitutional Convention, (1776)
Date
[1776]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1776 Pen Con 962.F.92, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1776 Pen Con Dickinson 24.7
Das goldene A B C für jederman, der gern mit Ehren wollt bestahn.
Title
Das goldene A B C für jederman, der gern mit Ehren wollt bestahn
Description
A broadside of moral and religious aphorisms in rhyme., Caption title., At head of title: Im Nahmen der allerheiligsten Dreyfaltigkeit., Sometimes attributed to Christopher Dock. While he may have used this broadside in his school, the text predates him., Printed on laid paper with watermark "P"; printed area, including double-rule border, measures 33.9 x 28.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[between 1770 and 1800?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1770 Goldene 9523.F (Roughwood)
[Cartoon depicting a Liberty Pole] [graphic].
Title
[Cartoon depicting a Liberty Pole]
Description
Title from LCP exhibition catalogue: Pierre Eugene Du Simitière. His American Museum 200 years after, entry #8:8., Date inferred from content., Possibly by Pierre Eugene Du Simitière., Du Simitière, a Swiss-born historian, antiquarian, and artist, traveled and documented North America and the West Indies from the 1750s to 1770s. He settled in Philadelphia in 1774, and in 1782 opened the American Museum, which contained his collected antiquities., Purchase at auction, Du Simitière's American Museum, March 10, 1785., Described in Michael Wynn Jones’s The cartoon history of the American Revolution (New York: G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1975), p. 36., Minimal-level record.
Date
[New York]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Du Simitière Collection [396.F.Vol. II]
Benjn. Randolph cabinet maker, at the golden eagle in Chesnut Street between Third and Fourth Streets, Philadelphia : [graphic] Makes all sorts of cabinet & chair work. Likewise carving, gildings &c. performed in the Chinese and modern tastes. / I. Smithe
Title
Benjn. Randolph cabinet maker, at the golden eagle in Chesnut Street between Third and Fourth Streets, Philadelphia Makes all sorts of cabinet & chair work. Likewise carving, gildings &c. performed in the Chinese and modern tastes
Description
Advertisement with a central text area surmounted by a large eagle and surrounded by an elaborate ornamental border containing images of Chippendale-style furniture including chairs, desks, fire screens, stools, a table, a sofa, a bed and a tall case clock, and architectural fragments including the entrance gate to Randolph's "ware room," columns and cornices., Reproduced and described in Edwin Wolf, 2nd and Marie Elena Korey, eds. Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981) entry #172., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #7., Reproduced and described in Fiske Kimball, "The Sources of the Philadelphia Chippendale II. Benjamin Randolph's Trade Card," Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Musuem 23 (October 1927), 4-8., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Smither, James, engraver
Date
[1769]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11 x 14 - Advertisement - Randolph [13080.Q]
(No. 8.) Your province tax. Lawful money. :
Title
(No. 8.) Your province tax. Lawful money ... Your town and county rate. Lawful money. ... The assessors sit at Faneuil-Hall in Boston, on Wednesdays, from 3 to 5 of the clock afternoon, to whom any person aggrieved may apply for ease, as the law directs. 1764. Errors excepted
Description
A tax assessment form., Printed area measures 8.0 x 10.4 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol; Ford, W.C. Broadsides., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Mr. Willm. Fisher, assessment total £12.3.0; Sampson Salter, collector., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
Creator
Boston (Mass.), Collector of Taxes
Date
[1764]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1764 Boston 16921.Q (Zinman)
Shipped by the grace of God, in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] :
Title
Shipped by the grace of God, in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] in and upon the good ship called the [blank] whereof is master, under God, for this present voyage, [blank] and now riding at anchor, in [blank] and by God's grace bound for [blank] to say, [blank] being marked and numbered as in the margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order, and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of [blank] (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto [blank] or to h[blank] assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods [blank] with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said ship, hath affirmed to [blank] bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; the one of which [blank] bills being accomplished, the other [blank] to stand void. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen. Dated in [blank]
Description
Three bills of lading printed one above the other on a single half sheet; each of the three blank forms begins with an ornamental letter S., Printed area measures 32.1 x 15.6 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy completed in MS. in triplicate for Nathaniel West Dandridge, shipping eight hogsheads of tocabbo to Messrs. Farrel & Jones, Bristol, England, aboard the ship Realto, at anchor in York River, John Thomas, master; dated Aug. 30, 1762 and signed by John Thomas., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
Date
[not after 1762]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1762 Shipped 16922.Q (Zinman)
Maryland, ss. Frederick, absolute lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c. To all persons to whom these presents shall come, Greeting in our Lord God everlasting.
Title
Maryland, ss. Frederick, absolute lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c. To all persons to whom these presents shall come, Greeting in our Lord God everlasting Know ye, that [blank] according to the certificate of survey thereof, taken and returned into our land-office, bearing date the [blank] day of [blank] seventeen hundred and [blank] and there remaining, together with all rights, profits, benefits, and privileges, thereunto belonging, royal mines excepted, to have and to hold the same, unto him the said [blank] his heirs and assigns, for ever, to be holden of us and our heirs, as of our manor of [blank] in free and common soccage, by fealty only for all manner of services, yielding and paying therefore, yearly, unto us, and our heirs, at our receipt at our city of St. Mary's, at the two most usual feasts in the year, viz. the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Michael the Arch Angel, be even and equal portions, the rent of [blank] sterling, in silver or gold
Description
A land patent form., Second line of text, last word: Know., Printed on vellum; printed area measures 27.0 x 29.5 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Library Company copy completed in MS. for John Wallace, Jan. 28, 1754, granting him land in Somerset County; signed by Horatio Sharpe; with a MS. docket title., signed: Thos. Jennings clk., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771
Date
[not after 1754]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1754 Balti 10210.F (Zinman)
Shipped by the grace of God in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] :
Title
Shipped by the grace of God in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] in and upon the good ship called the [blank] whereof is master under God for this present voyage [blank] and now riding at anchor in the [blank] and by God's grace bound for [blank] to say, [blank] being marked and numbred [sic] as in the margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of [blank] (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto [blank] or to [blank] assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods [blank] with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to [blank] bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; the one of which bills being accomplished, the other [blank] to stand void. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen. Dated in [blank]
Description
A bill of lading form., Ornamental initial letter S shows a ship under full sail; the woodcut initial is unsigned., Printed area measures 9.3 x 19.4 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Jonathan Belcher, shipping sugar, molasses, rum, 12 oak tables, 5 dozens chairs, and 6 dozen pails from Boston to "Nansymum in Virginia or So. Carolina" (i.e. Nansemond, Va.), aboard the ship Dove, William Winter, master; dated Boston, Sept. 12, 1723, and signed by Winter., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
Date
[not after 1723]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1723 Shipped 16872.Q (Zinman)
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Back cover (P.2008.36.49)
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