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Title: [1130 Olive Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting a two story brick warehouse along Olive Street. A truck from New York is unloading its goods into this warehouse. The adjacent building in the background is occupied by an auto shop. Several cars are parked along the street in the foreground., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on recto., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.10]

Title: 119th Reg. P.V For three years or the war, under the auspices of the Gray Reserves Colonel P.C. Ellmaker. $162 bounty Active, able-bodied young men wanted for this regiment, at [blank] Each man will receive $100 in cash before leaving for the seat of war
Description: The 119th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers drew heavily from Col. Ellmaker's former command, the First Regiment Infantry Reserve Brigade, known as the Gray Reserves; it was organized in July 1862 and mustered out June 6, 1865; Benjamin Saylor was mustered in as 1st. Lieut. of Company C. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 4, p. 1, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 133., Printed in red and blue., 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, 119th (1862-1865), Company C.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.11 (McAllister)

Title: 119th Reg. P.V For three years or the war. Under the auspices of the Gray Reserves Colonel P.C. Ellmaker. $162 bounty Active, able-bodied young men wanted for Company "H," at the Barley Sheaf Hotel, 2d St., below Vine. Each man will receive $100 in cash before leaving for the seat of war
Description: The 119th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers drew heavily from Col. Ellmaker's former command, the First Regiment Infantry Reserve Brigade, known as the Gray Reserves; it was organized in July 1862 and mustered out June 6, 1865. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 4, p. 1, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 133., Printed in red and blue., 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, 119th (1862-1865), Company H.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.10 (McAllister)

Title: [11th Infantry Regiment New York, "Fire Zouaves"]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers. They are depicted with rifles slung over their right shoulders.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188a]

Title: 11th Ward $702 bounty All recruits accredited to the 11th Ward will be entitled to the following bounties: ... The committee appointed to pay the extra ward bounty of $50 to all recruits accredited to the Eleventh Ward, will be in attendance at the hall, N.E. corner of Second and Coates Streets, (second story) every afternoon, from 3 to 6, until the quota is filled. Recruits can rely upon receiving the ward bounty at once, upon presenting to the Disbursing Committee a certificate of having been accredited to the ward. Disbursing Committee: Wm. Remick, chairman, ... William H. Wright, treasurer
Description: There are an additional seventeen names following Wm. Remick in the Disbursing Committee., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (11th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.28a (McAllister)

Title: 121st Regiment, P.V Twenty-third Philad'a Light Infantry Col. Chapman Biddle. Wanted, able-bodied men for Co. I in this regiment, going into camp immediately. $162 bounty! As follows: $25 U.S. bounty in cash. $50 Philadelphia city bounty. $10 extra bounty. $2 on mustering in, and $75 U.S. bounty at end of the war. Arrangements will be made by which soldiers' families may receive, in this city, allotments of monthly pay
Description: The 121st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in Sept. 1862, and mustered out in June 1865; Chapman Biddle was discharged in Dec. 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 30, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 135., 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, 121st (1862-1865), Company I.
Date: [1862 or 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.38d (McAllister)

Title: 121st Regiment, P.V. Recruits wanted for the above regiment, now in the field. Good able-bodied men will receive all the bounties Recruits sent to Camp Cadwallader, near Odd Fellows' Cemetery, as soon as mustered. For further information, apply at the rendezvous, 337 Chestnut Street! Below Fourth
Description: The 121st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in Sept. 1862, and mustered out in June 1865; Charles L. Atlee was promoted to 1st Lieut. Feb. 9, 1864, and to Captain Aug. 10, 1864. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 30, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 135., The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is an eagle on a shield with a blank banner., 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, 121st (1862-1865)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.38c (McAllister)

Title: 122 S. 17th St
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting a three story brick building, occupied by various shops and offices, looking west at the northwest corner of Seventeenth and Sansom Streets. Signs for a barber shop, Magic cleaners and beauty shop are visible in the ground floor windows. Several pedestrians pass by on the sidewalk and a Railway Express truck is parked curbside. An unidentified brick high-rise is visible in the background., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on recto., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.14]

Title: 1227 + 1229 Market St., [Philadelphia, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of 1227-1235 Market Street. Horse-drawn carriages and carts stand on the cobblestone street. Awnings and large signs hang from the buildings. 1235 Market Street has a sign reading "[Wil]liam B. Drew, [...] and Feathers." 1233 Market Street has signs reading "Established 1831, W.P. Walter's Sons, 1233 Hardware 1233." 1231 Market Street has signs reading "Commonwealth Brewing Co., Real German Lager., Ostendorff's." 1229 Market Street has signs reading "Firmin Michel originator of the hot roast beef sandwich Lunch and Dining Room. D.C. Humphreys Adv. Sign Co., 1227 Market St., 25c Regular Dinners, Light Lunch Cafe." 1227 Market Street has signs reading "E.C. Eisenbrey's Famous Shirts., Tents and Decorations, D.C. Humphrys & Co. 1227 Signs, Headquarters for G.A.R. Decorations.", Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.556]

Title: 1227 + 1229 Market St., [Philadelphia, PA]
Description: Glass negative a view of 1227-1235 Market Street. Horse-drawn carriages and carts stand on the cobblestone street. Awnings and large signs hang from the buildings. 1235 Market Street has a sign reading "[William] B. Drew [...] Feathers." 1233 Market Street has signs reading "Established 1831, W.P. Walter's Sons, 1233 Hardware 1233." 1231 Market Street has signs reading "Commonwealth Brewing Co., Real German Lager., Ostendorff's." 1229 Market Street has signs reading "Firmin Michel originator of the hot roast beef sandwich Lunch and Dining Room. D.C. Humphreys Adv. Sign Co., 1227 Market St., 25c Regular Dinners, Light Lunch Cafe." 1227 Market Street has signs reading "E.C. Eisenbrey's Famous Shirts., Tents and Decorations, D.C. Humphrys & Co. 1227 Signs, Headquarters for G.A.R. Decorations.", Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.557]

Title: 1227-1229 Market St. after the great fire at Hunt, Wilkinson + Co's 1212-19 Market St., [Philadelphia, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of a collapsed building at 1227 Market Street. A building with a sign reading "1229 Freihofer's Central Branch" stands with broken windows to the left. A sign reading "D.C. Humphrys Co. Signs, 13 N. 13th St." rest on top of the rubble., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: October 25, 1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.558]

Title: 129er (Pattie Mellor) near well in woods. [Manasquan, NJ]
Description: Glass negative showing Pattie Mellor sitting in the grass beneath a tree at Manasquan. N.J., Time: 11, Light: No sun., The emulsion is severely damaged and the image is barely discernible., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: July 18, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1157]

Title: 12TH REGIMENT, NEW-YORK STATE MILITIA.
Description: The gallant Twelfth where e'er they go (4 vs. and chors.) Air: Viva la. By Archibald Scott; publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan lyre border. 26 x 14.7 cm.

Title: 12th Ward $702 bounty All recruits accredited to the 12th Ward will be entitled to the following bounties: ... The committee appointed to pay the extra ward bounty of $50 to all recruits accredited to the Twelfth Ward, will be in attendance at F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall, No. 532 North Third Street, every afternoon until the quota is filled. Recruits can rely upon receiving the ward bounty at once, upon presenting to the treasurer a certificate of having been accredited to the ward. Disbursing Committee: Job W. Rickards, ... Davis Pearson, treasurer
Description: There are an additional seven names following Job W. Rickards in the Disbursing Committee., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (12th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.28b (McAllister)

Title: 12th Ward National Union ticket! Congress, Leonard Myers! Senator, Isaac A. Sheppard! Representative, 9th district, Charles Foster. This district takes the 1st, 2d, 5th and 6th precincts, 12th Ward. Select Council, Chas. M. Wagner. Common Council, M. Hall Stanton. School directors, Lewis H. Esler. W.C. Hannis. Aaron Waters, Wm. Franck, one year for the unexpired term of Wm. B. Hartman. Constables, William Myers, William Britton
Description: Leonard Myers served six terms in the House, from 1863 to 1875, having been defeated in the 1874 election; Charles M. Wagner and M. Hall Stanton were elected to Councils in 1864., Printed in red and blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Twelfth (24)1540.F.154 (McAllister)

Title: 12th Ward National Union ticket! Congress, Leonard Myers! Senator, Isaac A. Sheppard! Representative, 11th district, Franklin D. Sterner! This district takes the 3d, 4th and 7th precincts, 12th Ward. Select Council, Chas. M. Wagner. Common Council, M. Hall Stanton. School directors, Lewis H. Esler, W.C. Hannis, Aaron Waters, Wm. Franck, one year for the unexpired term of Wm. B. Hartman. Constables, William Myers, William Britton
Description: Leonard Myers served six terms in the House, from 1863 to 1875, having been defeated in the 1874 election; Charles M. Wagner and M. Hall Stanton were elected to Councils in 1864., Printed in red and blue., The illustration is a U.S. flag., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Twelfth (5)5777.F.32 (McAllister)

Title: 130. City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., Masonic Temple in left foreground
Description: Postcard depicting a view of North Broad Street, Philadelphia showing City Hall built 1871-1901 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. and the Masonic Temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of James Hamilton Windrim. In the left, shows a partial view of Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church built 1869 to 1870 after the designs of Addison Hutton. Numerous pedestrians walk along the sidewalks and across the street., Title from item., Date from the publication series number., Series number printed in right corner on recto: 3A-H575., Divided back., Gift of David Doret, 2019., Curt Teich (1877-1974) founded the Curt Teich Company in Chicago in 1898 and began producing linen postcards in the 1930s.
Date: 1933
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.28]

Title: 131 W. Walnut Lane
Description: Glass negative showing a view of Marriott C. Morris' three-story house at 131 West Walnut Lane. The house has a porch and a front lawn dotted with trees and surrounded by a metal fence. A driveway runs along the right side of the house with a telephone pole standing at the entryway., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.9.11]

Title: 131 W. Walnut Lane
Description: Glass negative showing a view of a three-story house, featuring a porch with plants growing up trellises, owned by Marriott Morris at 131 West Walnut Lane. A lawn extends in front of the house surrounded by a metal fence. A driveway runs along the left side of the house., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.11.6]

Title: 131 W. Walnut Lane, [Germantown, PA]
Description: Film negative showing a view of the side of Marriott C. Morris' three-story house with shuttered windows at 131 W. Walnut Lane. Trees and shrubs grow in even rows in the manicured lawn, which is bordered by a low wire fence., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: October 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.406]

Title: 131 W. Walnut Lane, [Germantown, PA]
Description: Film negative showing the back porch and side of Marriott C. Morris' house and garden at 131 W. Walnut Lane. A path runs in front of the porch on the front of the house and a tree grows in the lawn to the left., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: October 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.407]

Title: 131 W. Walnut Lane, [Germantown, PA]
Description: Film negative showing a side view from across the street of Marriott C. Morris' three-story home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. The house has shuttered windows and a garden bordered by a metal fence. Trees grow next to the street and in the yard., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: October 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.408]

Title: 1326-28 Chestnut St
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting the Hale Building at the southwest corner of Chestnut and Juniper Streets, on the former site of Dr. John Rea Barton's residence. Built in 1887 for Keystone National Bank after designs by Willis Gaylord Hale and altered by him from 1890 to 1892. Lousols' women's clothing store occupies the art deco addition at the street level, next to Stinson Drugs at 1332 Chestnut Street. The Presbyterian Board of Education Building (1334-36) and a partial view of the Real Estate Title & Trust Co. Building (1340-50) are visible in the background., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company., Title from manuscript note on recto., Also known as the Lucas Building and the Penfield Building, for the Penfield Theatre Ticket Co., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.30]

Title: 13th Ward! The citizens of the ward will meet at the Washington Hall Spring Garden Street, above Eighth, Monday eve'ng, Feb 8th, 1864, to hear the report of the committee to whom was referred the raising of the ward's quota! Without reference to a draft. Eminent speakers will address the meeting. Let every citizen be at his post!
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (13th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.52b (McAllister)

Title: [1433-1435 South Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by Albert M. Greenfield & Co. probably for publication in the firm's monthly Real Estate Bulletin depicting a three-story commercial building containing empty storefronts. Building contains signage for Greenfield & Co. offering the building for sale or rent. In the left, a woman bundled against the cold sits on the front stoop. In the center, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, an overcoat, and pants, stands on the sidewalk with his hands in his pockets and looks left. There is a partial view of an adjoining shoe store and two automobiles., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso and embossed on recto., Manuscript notes on verso: 1433-35 South St. [and] 1433-35 South., Manuscript note on verso: S-128., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: 1926-1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Greenfield collection [P.9789.5]

Title: 144th 144th Brian Boru United Irish Legion or 144th Regiment, P.V., of Philadelphia, have been accepted by the Secretary of War and Governor Curtin, to be attached to Gen. Corcoran's brigade. Government and city bounty secured U.S. bounty, $100; city bounty, $50; one month's pay, $13; when mustered, $2; when companies are mustered in to the full strength of 80 men, the captains will receive $5 per man---total when he is mustered in, $450. Irishmen remember Clontarf and Brian the Brave. Corcoran shall lead us now to victory, as our heroes did of old. Don't wait to be drafted, but form companies and squads, and come to these head-quarters, Connelly's Hotel opposite the State House, Philadelphia, before the 20th, as drafting will take place after the 15th inst. This regiment is the last that will receive bounties. Come from all counties and cities of the state, and we will receive you like brothers. Telegraphic despatches promptly replied to. Free transportation on all railroads
Description: "The troops recruited for the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Regiment, never had a regimental organization, and were consequently assigned to other commands."--S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 518 note., Printed in red and green; printed area, including double-rule border, measures 105.1 x 72.9 cm., The illustration, signed H.L.S. L.Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield with the banner: Fall in and keep step to the music of the Union., 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, 144th (1862)
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.13 (McAllister)

Title: 146th Regim't, P.V. for the war The Merchants' Regiment. Col. John D.C. Johnson $165 bounty Active men between the ages of 18 and 45 wanted. Head-quarters, 519 Arch Street
Description: "The troops recruited for the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment, never had a regimental organization, and were, consequently, assigned to other commands."--S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 551 note., Printed in red and blue; printed area, including double-rule border, measures 104.3 x 72.7 cm.., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 146th (1862)
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.14a (McAllister)

Title: 14th Pennsylvania Light Cavalry! Last chance for cavalry! Don't wait to be drafted! James M. Schoonmaker, com'g. Wanted, men accustomed to horses! $162 bounty! One months' pay in advance. $100 government bounty, 50 city bounty, 10 extra bounty, 2 premium for enlistment. Recruiting stations, [blank] [blank]
Description: The 159th Regiment, 14th Cavalry of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in Aug. 1862 and mustered out in Aug. and Nov. 1865; Joseph A. Crawford was promoted to Captain Nov. 22, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 851, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 174., Printed in red and blue; printed on two sheets, 60 x 78 cm. and 52 x 78 cm., pasted together., The illustration shows a cavalry charge, with two buildings in the background., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 14th (1862-1865)
Date: [between 1863 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1863 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.43 (McAllister)

Title: 151st Regt. P.V. Col. Rob't A. Parrish. Lieut. Col. Garrick Mallery, Jr Bounties same as other regiments Don't wait to be drafted, but enroll yourselves under officers who have seen service A few able-bodied men will be received for Co. G, at No. 335 Walnut Street
Description: The 151st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was recruited in Sept. 1862 and mustered out in July 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 677., 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, 151st (1862-1863), Company G
Date: [1862 or 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.51a (McAllister)

Title: 15th Ward National Union ticket For president, Abraham Lincoln For vice president, Andrew John Electors. Morton McMichael ... Be careful and examine you tickets
Description: Twenty-five additional electors are listed after Morton McMichael., Printed in red and blue., The illustration is a U.S. flag, surrounded by the type-set verse: The Union forever, hurrah boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars, And we'll rally 'round the flag boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Fifteenth (5)5777.F.24b (McAllister)

Title: Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1600-1800

Title: 1600 block of Chestnut St., south side looking east
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting commercial store fronts along the south side of the 1600 block Chesnut Street, looking east. The WCAU Building (1618-1622) towers over adjacent three and four story stores and shops. Built circa 1931, purportedly after designs by Harry Sternfeld and Gabriel Blum Roth. Includes Sun Ray drug store (1624); Whitman & Son Retail Store (1626), built in 1929 after designs by Edmund Beaman Gilchrist; Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Shop (1628), built in 1927 after designs by Rankin & Kellogg; and Mann & Dilks' clothing store (1630). Automobile traffic and parked vehicles are visible in the foreground., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.31]

Title: 1710 The prison at 3rd & High (Market) sts
Description: Detail of a view looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls (built 1710) during the colonial era. Shows a couple in colonial attire walking on the sidewalk and two men in a stockade at the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles was replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Originally part of the lithograph titled "Philadelphia in the Olden Times," printed by F.J. Wade, Philadelphia, and copyrighted in 1875 by Smith & Cremens in Washington, D.C. [HSP Bc 864 W 121], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39, Inscribed on verso: Mrs. Hampton L. Carson 5/21/[19]25.
Date: [1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39

Title: 1750-56 N. Front St
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting the large brick warehouse of H. Siemon & Sons Barrels on North Front Street, near Palmer Street. Includes two men painting the entrance door to the neighboring chemical company at 1746-48 North Front Street. The skeleton of the elevated railroad is visible., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on recto., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.18]

Title: 1776. Centennial Fountain, 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Erected under the auspices of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America
Description: View showing the fountain designed in honor of prominent Irish or Catholic Revolutionary heroes that was erected 1875-1877 by the national temperance society at Fountain Avenue and Avenue of the Republic on the Centennial grounds. The monument designed in the shape of a maltese cross by Herman Kirn contains statues of Father Theobold Matthew (Irish temperance reformer), Charles Carroll (only Catholic signer of the Declaration), Commodore Barry (Irish-born naval commander known as the Father of the American Navy), and Archbishop Caroll (first Catholic Bishop of the U.S.) mounted on fountain pedestals. The statues surround the central sculpted figure of Moses who holds the Ten Commandments. The Moses sculpture rests upon a rock-mound within a marble basin. Water flows over the rocks into a pool. Also shows visitors, including a woman with a parasol, strolling around the memorial. Another drinks from a cup at the "Matthew" fountain. The names of the revolutionary heros are printed below the image respective to their corresponding statue., Presented to James J. Brannen of Pittsburgh, a subscriber., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 2
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2002.28]

Title: 1776, Centennial International Exhibition, 1876 History of the United States
Description: Print containing a central view of the proposed Main Exhibition Building surrounded by titled vignettes showing key events in the history of the United States. View includes trains of people arriving by foot, on horseback, and by omnibus in front of the exhibition hall. The length, width, and square footage of the building are printed below the image. Vignettes, predominately events from the American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican American and Civil War, include "Drafting the Declaration of Independence - The Committee"; "Reading the Declaration of Independence"; Celebration of the Fourth of July After the [Civil] War"; "Battle at Manmouth"; "Entry into Mexico"; "Battle of Lake Erie"; the raising of the American flag at "Fort Sumter"; "Surrender of Lee"; and Lincoln's celebratory "Entry into Richmond." Many of the images include victorious military leaders in addition to celebratory crowds. Other vignette views show street and pedestrian traffic in front of "Independence Hall or State House, Phila." and "The Memorial Building or "Art Gallery," Phila." Also contains the figure of America; an American eagle; a bee hive icon for "Agriculture" and train icon for "Mechanics"; Native American figures incorporated into the border; and banners reading "Great World Fair" and "Industry of All Nations." The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Farimount Park., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 3, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 8 S 325
Creator: Schile, H. (Henry)
Date: [c1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW -Centennial [7859.F]

Title: Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1801-1865

Title: 1815 Delancey Place, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of one of the Victorian style row houses built on the 1800 block of Delancey to accommodate the growing number of the Philadelphia elite moving west in the mid-19th century. The house, designed by an unknown architect, was built in 1853 for Mrs. Alexander H. Scott. An African American man pedestrian walks on the sidewalk in the right and looks at the viewer., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wells, John R., photographer
Date: [ca. 1952]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wells [P.9167.18]

Title: 1832. Democracy. 1864
Description: Entered ... 1864 by L. Prang & Co. ... Mass., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-24 [6262.F]

Title: Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1866-1900

Title: 1888-1889 third supplement to catalogue of electrotypes from A. Blanc, Horticultural Engraver, No. 314 N. Eleventh St. Philada., Pa., U.S.A Registered Cable Address, "Blanc, Philadelphia."
Description: Catalog, including section “New Electros of Vegetables for 1889,” of electrotype specimens for the premier Philadelphia horticultural engraver and lithographer containing images of flowers, plants, fruits, and vegetables. Varieties of flowers, plants, fruits, and vegetables represented include begonias, carnations, chrysanthemums, ferns, pansies, poppies, roses, verbena, corn, melons, lettuces, onions, peppers, pumpkins, squashes, and tomatoes. Illustrations include specimen numbers and prices (ranging from $.50-$10), and most include titles. Images predominantly depict sentimental and genre views of women, children, and animals containing or bordered by flowers; baskets of fruit or flowers; wilderness scenes; insects; single letters and words embellished with floral details; potted plants and flowers; flower bushes; residential views containing flowers; flower and vegetable vignettes; bean pods; single, fields, patches, and bushels of fruits and vegetables; and gardening tools and agricultural implements and equipment., Other specimens depict reproductions of lithographs; female representations of months of the year; “Bulbs grown in Bamboo rod”; a montage, including a crate with packages of bulbs; "Craig’s New Chrysanthemum, Mrs. A. Blanc"; "The Philadelphia Prize Chrysanthemum of 1888"; "Cornfield"; "Insect Destroyers" (i.e., insect destroying insects); and "Odds and Ends" showing bottles of herbs. Also includes a photomechanical studio portrait of an African American boy and girl attired in winter coats and hats, a racist metamorphic montage showing a melon morph into a caricaturized African American figure; and an illustrated advertisement with testimonials promoting W. M. Giradeau’s Seminole Watermelon. Contents also include statements describing the flowers depicted; promoting made to order cuts and the possibility for the addition of text (mortised); noting possible alterations, including “each cut separate” and reductions in price; and indicating "3/4 natural size.", Cover annotated in pencil with date: 1890., Some leaves contain page numbers: 58-134., Cover contains photomechanical illustrations of a studio portrait showing a seated, barefoot girl in simple attire, holding a basket of roses under her arm, and holding a flower to her nose with the other. Attire includes a wide-brimmed hat adorned with several flowers. Grass and flowers rest at her feet. Portrait bordered by a large pictorial detail depicting two stemmed roses. Portrait is specimen 4817 in catalog., Contains promotional text to "Dear Sir" and dated Philadelphia, September 1, 1888 on inside front cover. Text advertises "list of new electrotypes, issued since last year’s supplement … that will enable you to give your catalogue an entirely different appearance" and references how it’s "an important item to the Horticultural trade" and Blanc’s stocks of electros are a “trifling expense” compared to original cuts. Text also explains the deferment of the reprinting of an entirely new catalog due to his addition of a large number of new electros, as well as ordering information including the necessity of a signed order sheet in which purchaser agrees not to sell or loan the electros; ability to make to order any cut for exclusive use; no discounts excepting for orders amounting to over $100; terms strictly cash with order; and cuts ordered to be mailed require a 10% additional fee for postage. Text also advertises "List of My Catalogues," including "Catalogue of Fruit and Tree Cuts"; "Cuts for Catalogue Covers'; "Lawn Views"; and "Sheets of Potato Cuts, Oats, Wheat, Grasses, etc."; their prices of 15 to 20 cents each or $1 for set, which is deductible from orders amounting to $5; and note about "Correspondence en Francais.", Several specimens include Blanc's copyright statement or name., Includes order sheet inscribed with addition equations., Back cover and end pages missing, RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., See the Albert Blanc entry in the Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers., See the Edward Stern & Co. entry in the Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers., William M. Giradeau (b. 1852), owner of Girardeau Seed Company in Monticello, Fla., developed the first commercial machine for separating seeds from watermelons, making Jefferson county, the top watermelon seed supplier in the world by 1884.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, 1850-
Date: [1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Blanc [P.2013.69.2]

Title: 1900-40 E. Huntingdon St
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting brick industrial buildings along the south side of the 1900 block of East Huntington Street. Several brick towers with water tanks rise from various buildings on the block. A sign spelling "drugs" projects from Isaac S. Gadol's corner drugstore at 1846 East Huntingdon Street, separated from the industrial buildings by Jasper Street., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company., Title from manuscript note on verso., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Creator: Parker & Mullikin, photographer
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.19]

Title: Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1901-1980

Title: 1908 South Street
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by Albert M. Greenfield & Company depicting Silverman's Pawn Shop and Old Reliable Clothing House for sale. Clothing, jewelry, and musical instruments are prominently displayed in the store windows. Image includes adjacent buildings at 1906 and 1910 South Street of an African American "Hair Shop of Mme. V.V. Maginley," and an abandoned Army & Navy store. The hair shop displays several beauty products and Black dolls. Posters for the "101 Ranch Wild West Street Parade" hang in the windows of the abandoned store. Also visible in the right is a man pedestrian (out of focus and ghost-like). The real estate firm was established in 1905. The Greenfield Bulletin contained photographic illustrations, property listings, and articles about the firm's important brokerage and development deals., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date based on content and active dates of the photographer., Photographer's imprint inscribed on negative., Negative inscribed: 606 D2., Stamped on verso: Greenfield Bulletin, Issue June. Page 4. No. 4., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Rau Studios, established in Philadelphia in 1887 by William Herman Rau, was a respected commercial firm which operated until around the early 1930s.
Creator: Rau Studios, photographer
Date: [ca. 1927]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Greenfield Collection [P.9789.13]

Title: THE 195TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. BALLAD NO. 2.
Description: At Berryville, fifteen days we stayed (6 vs.) Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 136, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.4 x 12.6 cm.

Title: 19th Century Cloth Bindings Database
Description: A searchable database detailing the structure, condition, and appearance of approximately 4000 cloth bindings. Search the 19th Century Cloth Bindings Database.

Title: 19th Ward Avoid the draft At a meeting of the Bounty Fund Committee of the 19th Ward, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, that the citizens of the ward pledge themselves not to contribute, directly or indirectly, to any fund to procure exemption for any citizen, in employment and health, who may be drafted and who has not contributed to the ward bounty fund; and they will also guaranty exemption to any man who may be drafted, under the present call, who has contributed twenty dollars to the fund. Mass meetings will be held on Friday, Monday & Tuesday eve'ngs March 4th, 7th and 8th, at Temperance Hall, cor. York and Trenton Avenue. Rev. Father McLaughlin is expected to address the meeting on Monday night
Description: March 4 fell on a Friday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (19th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.52c (McAllister)

Title: 1st Coal Reg't Col. John R. Haslett $50 bounty! Rally for the old California Reg't (Seventy-first.) Fall in! Fall in! Head-quarters, Burns' Cottage, Sixth and Minor Sts
Description: Colonel John R. Haslett commanded the 197th Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, called the Third Coal Exhange Regiment; it was organized July 22 and mustered out Nov. 11, 1864. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 450, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 278., 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, 197th (1864)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.36f (McAllister)

Title: 1st dam on Brandywine from race bank back of Cos. Elizabeth Canby's, [Wilmington, DE]
Description: Glass negative showing a distant view of a dam on the Brandywine Creek. The creek rushes over rocks seen from the tree-lined bank. A wooden walkway spans a small gap between the path and the bank., Time: 12:30, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: December 20, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1385]

Title: 1st eleven of the Hav[erford] Coll[ege] Cricket Club. On a bench near cricket field
Description: Glass negative showing a group of young men from the Haverford College Cricket Club posed on a bench next to a field. Some of the men hold cricket bats and many of them wear striped suits. Five men sit on the bench while three stand behind and three sit on the grass at their feet. The man on the far left sitting on the ground wears shin pads. Haverford College was founded in 1833., Time: 5:15, Light: Not very good light., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: June 4, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.614]

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