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Title: Thoughts on the present collegiate system in the United States.
Creator: Wayland, creator
Date: 1842
Location: Am 1842 Wayland

Title: The coal trade of British America
Creator: Johnson, Walter R., creator
Date: 1850
Location: Am 1850 Johns

Title: THE COLORED SOLDIER BOY!
Description: My poor old mother and I did part, when I was very young (3 vs. and chor.) By Samuel Nickless, late Corporal Company I, 24th Regiment U.S.C.T.; print. Johnson (2). 20.4 x 10.9 cm.

Title: THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
Description: It was late last night as I was going to bed (8 vs. and chor., 1 vs. spoken) As sung by Low Gaylord, at the Art Union-Stull's Lyceum, Sixth Street, below Arch; publ. Walter Warren (7). T. o. border. 20.7 x n.7 cm.

Title: Song sheet headpiece 25
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 2316b, 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: The Fountain of Living Water: or One Hundred Meditations
Date: 1848
Location: zin 1585

Title: The Amethyst: or Poetical gems
Date: 1851
Location: Am 1851 Ameth

Title: Token of friendship
Date: 1845
Location: Am 1845 Token

Title: Pear culture : a manual for the propagation, planting, cultivation, and management of the pear tree
Creator: Field, Thomas Warren, creator
Date: 1858
Location: Am 1858 Fie

Title: The Presser Home for Retired Music Teachers
Description: Exterior view of front facade and side of retirement home built circa 1913 by Davis & Davis., Founded and endowed by music publisher and teacher, Theodore Presser, in 1907., Sheet number: 138B17., Divided back. History of Presser Home on verso., 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: c1938
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: Song sheet headpiece 7
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 1544a, 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: Ocean steam navigation and the ocean post
Creator: Rainey, Thomas, creator
Date: 1858
Location: Am 1858 Raine

Title: Rhododendrons Horticultural Grounds.
Description: Interview showing rhododendron flower bed in the center with adjacent plants and flowers.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.32d]

Title: Proclamation! Richard Magee [advertisement]
Description: The Proclamation is an advertisement for R. Magee's valentines and consists of the text. Inscribed: Apl 1872., Text: PROCLMATION! /RICHARD MAGEE, /No. 316 Chestnut St. / REMEMBER 316 CHESTNUT STREET / Call at the Headquarters Neat, / Of R. MAGEE, on Chestnut Street, / And purchase there, at Love's High Court, / Valentines of every Sort; / Valentines all Hearts to Move, / Valentines on happy Love; / Valentines of every Hue, / Valentines all Fresh and New; / Valentines for Friends who Roam, / Valentines for Friends at Home; / Valentines with Pictures Rare, / To please the Men and Charm the Fair; / Valentines on Fashion, Queer, / Valentines all Hearts to Cheer; / Valentines of each Device, / Valentines at every Price; / Valentines both Small and Large, / And directed Free of Charge. / All of which, quick, Call and See, / At the Famed Store of R. MAGEE. / [Signed.] CUPID. / Valentines at all Prices, Valentines Direct, / Valentines Delivered Free of Charge, / At R. MAGGE'S 316 Chestnut Street., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [1872?]

Title: CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS, OF THE CARRIERS OF FITZGERALD'S CITY ITEM TO THEIR PATRONS, DECEMBER 25, 1857, AND JANUARY 1, 1858.
Description: The old year is fleeting, what a tale it doth tell (12 vs.) T. o. border. 33.8 x 24.3 cm.
Location: #Am 1857 Christmas

Title: The Connecticut business directory
Date: 1851
Location: Dir Conn 1851

Title: Song sheet headpiece 133
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 196i, 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: ASSU Illustration 3558
Description: Block numbered in one place: 3558., Image of Moses trying to save an Israelite from being beaten by an Egyptian. There is a pyramid and an obelisk in the background., Illustration appears in The Infant scripture library (Philadelphia, 1857-1907?), p. 1?, Tape (inscribed “752”) on obverse., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 8

Title: The elements of moral science
Creator: Wayland, creator
Date: 1836
Location: Am 1836 Wayland

Title: ASSU Illustration 0051
Description: Block numbered in three places: 51., Image of a man lying on the ground, while another attends to him in apparent alarm, and another appears to be running but is also looking at the man on the ground with concern., Signed in reverse: G.G. [i.e., George Gilbert?]., Tape (inscribed “1759”) on obverse., , Provenance:, , Variant:
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 9

Title: Dixie ensnarled in "secession" snake envelope
Description: Image: Dixie, depicted as a woman, crouches over and covers her head, as a snake, labeled "secession", prepares to strike., Verse 504: DIXIE!, Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: JEFFIE D. OR, THE PETTICOATED PRESIDENT.
Description: With Bowie-knife, in guise of wife (8 vs. and chor.) Tune: Yankee Doodle. T. o. border. 27.4 x 12.1 cm.

Title: ASSU Illustration 6659
Description: Block numbered in three places: 6659; also numbered 666[?]; irregular shape (re-used?)., Image of a decorative border of what appear to be leaves and small flowers.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 32

Title: I'D MOURN THE HOPES THAT LEAVE ME..
Description: I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (4 vs.) Sheet no. 943; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley military cupid border. 25 x 15.6 cm.

Title: Money; its uses and abuses, : coinage, national bonds, currency and banking illustrated and explained
Creator: DeWolf, Lyman E., creator
Date: 1869
Location: Am 1869 DeWolf

Title: THE WATCHMAN.
Description: Past twelve O'clock: past twelve (4 vs.) Sheet no. 657; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border, col. 24.5 x 15.7 cm.

Title: Blucher, Xavier
Description: Xavier Blucher worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia between 1853 and 1855 on Marriott (i.e., Montrose) Street above Sixth Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: WHO WILL CARE FOR NIGGERS NOW? A PARODY ON: WHO WILL CARE FOR MOTHER NOW?
Description: List to me, plantation niggers (3 vs. and chor.) With narrative preceding text, beginning: "During Gen. Grant's Southern campaign, an extinguished American citizen wid de African scent . . ."; publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan horned imp border. 25.5 x 16.2

Title: THE MURDERED POLICEMAN, EUGENE ANDER- SON, WHO WAS SHOT BY THE DESPERATE ITALIAN BURGLAR, MICHAEL CANCEMI, COR. OF CENTRE AND GRANT STREETS, JULY 22, 1857.
Description: O sad and mournful tale, yet the truth I'll relate (10 vs.) Air—Indian Hunter. By Saugerties Bard; print. Andrews. T. o. border. 24 x 14.5 cm.

Title: ASSU Illustration 7786
Description: Block numbered in two places: 7786., Image of an ocelot [?] in a natural setting., Back of block mostly obscured by pasted-down paper.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 1

Title: The Boston Almanac for the Year 1856
Creator: Damrell & Moore, and Coolidge, George, creator
Date: 1855
Location: zin 1410

Title: The illustrated family gymnasium
Creator: Trall, R. T. (Russell Thacher), creator
Date: [c1857]
Location: Am 1857 Trall

Title: BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY.
Description: Scots, who. hae wV Wallace bled (3 vs.), Variant: a. Title: "Robert Bruce's Address to His Army"; 6 vs. with second version; by Robert Burns; with narrative be- ginning: "[Syme of Ryedale states that this fine ode was composed during a storm . . . "; print. Johnson (2). 23.5 x 15.5 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 606; publ. Wrigley (1); [with WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER on verso.] Wrigley kissing cupids border, col. 24.3 x 14.7 cm., Variant: c. [As above; without song on verso.] 24 x 15.5 cm.

Title: ASSU Illustration 5888
Description: Block numbered in two places: 5888, also numbered 15 in two places, now defaced., Image of a boy and a girl in an outdoor setting, walking. The girl is towing the boy by the hand., “N.J. Wemmer. 5 Pear St. Phila.” -- Back of block. Nelson J. Wemmer is listed (as an artist) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1848 to 1856.
Date: [not before 1848?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 12

Title: "Truth is stranger than fiction." : An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"), from 1789 to 1879
Creator: Henson, Josiah, creator
Date: 1879
Location: Am 1879 Hens

Title: KISS ME GOOD-NIGHT, MOTHER.
Description: Mother, dear Mother, the day has seemed long (2 vs. and chors.) Sheet-Music published by Russell and Patee, owners of the copyright., Variant: a. [Publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan kissing cupids border. 24.6 x 16.2 cm., Variant: b. [Without comma after "Good-Night" in title; and hyphen in "copy-right"; without "Sheet" before "Music";] adv: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2). Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 215, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.3 x 12.8 cm., Variant: c. [As above;] sheet no. 118; publ. Wrigley (1); [with COME, OH! COME WITH ME on recto.] Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.5 x 15.6 cm.

Title: The country of the dwarfs
Creator: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), creator
Date: 1872, [c1871]
Location: Am 1872 Du Cha

Title: YOUNG RECRUIT.
Description: See! these ribbons gayly streaming (3 vs.), Variant: a. Publ. Auner (3). A-J border; yellow paper. 23 x 14.8 cm., Variant: b. Publ. Auner (5). A-J border. 23.3 x 14.5 cm., Variant: c. With "The" in title; publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan eagle border. 25.6 x 16.5 cm., Variant: d. [As above;] publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan fountain border. 24.5 x 16 cm., Variant: e. Publ. Johnson (2); adv: Send for a Catalogue of over 600 Songs. Double-line border. 21 x 12 cm., Variant: f. Advs: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2), and Ten illustrated Songs. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 138, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.5 x 12.6 cm., Variant: g. [As above; without adv: Ten illustrated Songs;] hdpc. Magnus 213a, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20 x 12.5 cm., Variant: h. With "The" in title; sheet no. 828; sold by Partridge (2); [with I WANT TO GO HOME on recto.] T. o. border. 21 x 12.6 cm., Variant: i. With "The" in title; as sung by Miss Melinda Nagle, at the Metropolitan Concert Hall, Chestnut Street, below Seventh; publ. Warren (2); adv: Warren's assortment of Songs is the largest (by 800) of any other Publisher in the city. T. o. border; two small figures of Union Soldiers. 22.5 x 12 cm., Variant: j. With "The" in title; sheet no. 989; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.4 x 14.7 cm.

Title: The Delaware water gap : its scenery, its legends and early history
Creator: Brodhead, L. W. (Luke Wills), creator
Date: 1870
Location: Am 1870 Bro

Title: Are you a Christian? or Aid to self-examination
Creator: Winslow, Hubbard, creator
Date: 1836
Location: Am 1836 Winslow

Title: DIVIDING CREEK VOLUNTEERS.
Description: There was a Company F., that left Dividing Creek (4 vs.) Tune—"Joe Bowers." Composed At Dividing Creek; print. Johnson (2). 23.2 x 9.7 cm.

Title: DIXIE'S SUNNY LAND OR, THE CRUELTY TO OUR UNION PRISONERS.
Description: Dear friends and fellow-soldiers brave, come listen to our song (8 vs.) Air—"Twenty Years Ago." Publ. Johnson (2)., Variant: a. Title in three lines. 19.5 x 11.7 cm., Variant: b. Title in two lines without the comma in title, and with adv. for music. 17. 8 x 10.5 cm., Variant: c. Title: "Cruelty to Our Union Prisoners While in Dixie's Sunny Land." Elephant wearing boots and carrying banner. 23.2 x 15 cm., Variant: d. Title: "The Song of Union Prisoners From Dixie's Sunny Land"; July, 1865. Elephant wearing boots and carrying banner inscribed I am off for home. 20.3 x ll.l cm.

Title: The curse : or, the position in the world's history occupied by the race of Ham
Creator: Tarbox, Increase N. (Increase Niles), creator
Date: 1864
Location: Am 1864 Tar

Title: The poultry yard
Creator: Boswell, Peter, creator
Date: 1841
Location: Am 1841 Bos

Title: White slavery
Creator: Burton, Warren, creator
Date: 1839
Location: Am 1839 Burt

Title: SEE OUR OARS.
Description: See our oars with feathered Spray (4 vs.) Headed: "The Celebrated Glee Song"; advs: You will save 25 per cent, by getting your Printing done, and See the Songs of Row, Brothers, Row, Will you come to my Mountain Home, etc., and Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, etc.; publ. Johnson (3). T.o. border. 22.3 x 13.5 cm.

Title: First lessons about natural philosophy, for children
Creator: Swift, Mary A., creator
Date: 1833
Location: Am 1833 Swift

Title: Organic chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology
Creator: Liebig, Justus, creator
Date: 1841
Location: Am 1841 Lie

Title: OH, GIVE ME FREEDOM EVER.
Description: Oft, give me freedom ever (2 vs. and chor.) Publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan musical instruments border, col. 25.3 x 17.2 cm.

Title: Henry Avenue Bridge over the Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Depicts the Henry Avenue Bridge spanning the Wissahickon Creek at Lincoln Drive and Henry Avenue. The bridge was built from 1930-1932 after designs by Ralph Modjeski and and Paul Cret., Numbered 175 on recto., Also known as the Wissahickon Memorial Bridge., Postcard issued by Lynn H. Boyer, Jr. of Philadelphia, Pa. & Wildwood, NJ, and Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago., Sheet number: 62L01., Divided back. Text on verso describing the construction history of the bridge., 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. 1935
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - Miscellaneous - 62]

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