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Title: Notes on the United States of North America during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40
Creator: Combe, George, creator
Date: 1841
Location: Am 1841 Com

Title: THE CAVALIER.
Description: 'Twas a beautiful night, the stars shone bright (3 vs. and chors.) As sung by Miss Agatha Mandeville., Variant: a. Title: "The Gay Cavalier"; print. Andrews. T. o. border. 23.4 x 15.5 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint added. 23.5 x 16 cm., Variant: c. With "At Jenkin's Concert Saloon, Seventh and Chestnut Sts." following singer's name; publ. Zieber; print. Harris. T. o. border. 19.1 x 13 cm., Variant: d. With "Gay" in title; sheet no. 441; publ. Wrigley (1); [with FAIRY BELLE on recto.] Wrigley Ethiopian border. 25 x 15.7 cm.

Title: I'll Be All Smiles To-Night, Love.
Description: Forms part of a twenty-three page song book, filed under 1523.1., I'll deck my brow with roses (4 vs. and chor.) No. 84. Publ. E. Nason Co., 21 Ann Street, New York. T.o. border. 24.5 x 15.5 cm.

Title: Nugent Home postcards
Description: Exterior views of front facade of baptist home for ministers constructed circa 1895 after designs by J.F. Stuckert & Son., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 100A05 and 100B09., Divided backs., 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. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]

Title: ASSU Illustration 6009.
Description: Block numbered 6009 in two places., Image of a girl standing at a table, looking over her shoulder., “N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila” – Back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876.
Date: [between 1861 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 32

Title: Hennesey, James
Description: James Hennesey, born ca. 1862, worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia in 1880. He lived with his Irish-born mother Mary (b. ca. 1840) and a fellow lithographic printer Albert Matlack (b. ca. 1830) in Center City (Ward 8).
Date: b. ca. 1862
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: A key to uncle tom's cabin
Creator: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, creator
Date: 1853
Location: Am 1853 Sto

Title: Nurse.
Description: A simian nurse sits in a chair next to a baby in a craddle. A bottle marked "laudinum" [i.e. laudanum] is on the shelf above her, and she threads a needle. The border features a woman embracing a man; the pair resemble Commedia dell'arte characters. At the bottom is a pack of matches marked "Lucifer's matches.", Hush-a-by, baby! / Your slumbers be light, / With laudanum, maybe, / You're not on a "tight.", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: The life of Benjamin Franklin
Creator: Holley, O. L. (Orville Luther), creator
Date: 1848
Location: Am 1848 Holl

Title: Lectures on witchcraft
Creator: Upham, Charles W., creator
Date: 1831
Location: Am 1831 Uph

Title: [Portrait of a balding man with sideburns.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red-orange silk. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. A lovely, delicate spray of mixed flowers is in a fancy multi-curved border. Same design on verso., Etched on the bottom of the plate is the signature of the daguerreotypist: Marvin - Artist, 116 Chesnut St. Phila. See Board report of November 9, 1999.
Creator: Marvin, P. B., photographer.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9740]

Title: The flower vase
Creator: Mayo, Sarah C. Edgarton, creator
Date: 1848
Location: Am 1848 Mayo

Title: The Fairy's search, and other poems.
Creator: Smith, Mrs Emeline S., creator
Date: 1847
Location: Am 1847 Smith

Title: Political debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the celebrated campaign of 1858
Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, creator
Date: 1860
Location: Am 1860 Lin

Title: The Rev. Leigh Richmond's letters and councels to his children.
Creator: Richmond, Rev. Leigh, creator
Date: 1848
Location: Am 1848 Richm

Title: COME CHEERFUL COMPANIONS.
Description: Come, cheerful companions, unite in this song (4 vs. and chors.) Revised and Printed expressly for the Public Schools; publ. Auner. A-J border. 24.8 x 15 cm. (cropped)

Title: Woodside Park postcards
Description: Contains images of Woodside Park in Fairmount Park built circa 1897. Includes the bandstand, showing an all female orchestra performing on stage; the Mountain Scenic Railway ride and a general view of people walking through the park., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Woodside Park depended greatly on the Fairmount Park Transportation Company, the operator of the Park trolley lines that transported visitors to and from the park and the primary investor of the Woodside Real Estate Company who owned the amusement park., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the Natioinal Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector.
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Woodside Park - 169]

Title: Casper
Creator: Warner, Anna Bartlett, creator
Date: 1856
Location: Am 1856 Warner

Title: COME, WAKE UP, MY LADY LOVE!
Description: Come, lend an ear, my lub, to me (4 vs. and chors.) Publ. Auner (3). A-J border. 23 x 14 cm.

Title: To a Snob.
Description: The snob, or shoemaker, sews the leather upper to the sole of the shoe. The valentine mocks his appearance, drinking, and courtship of unobtainable women., Text: Now, Mr. Snobby, when next you're at work, / At hammering a sole on your lap, / For the sake of the woman who'd ever have you, / Just commit suicide with your strap. / Oh! wax'd ends and leather! tho' what do I see, / Getting toddy'd wherever you can; / Both stupid and lazy, and shabbily dress'd, / I believe that he thinks he's a man., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Song sheet headpiece 164
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 2549c, 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: Fitzgerald, William
Description: William Fitzgerald, born ca. 1836 in Ireland, worked as a lithographic printer for P. S Duval & Co., F. Bourquin & Co., and Breuker & Kessler between ca. 1857 and ca. 1871., Fitzgerald was listed in the 1860 and 1870 censuses as a printer who resided in Ward 4. By the 1870 census, his household relocated to 11 Mead Street from 748 Sansom Street and included his wife Mary (b. ca. 1840) and two children.
Date: b. ca. 1836
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: DAVIS, BEAUREGARD and CO.
Description: Since treason now is rampant South, and rebels rule the hour (5 vs.) Air— Nonsense, No! T. o. border. 24.7 x 15.8 cm.

Title: SONG OF THE UNION, DEDICATED TO THE 29TH REG. PA. VOL. COL. J. K. MURPHY.
Description: Fellow Soldiers join the chorus (9 vs. and chor.) Tune.—Gay and Happy. By B. F. Kern, Phila.; [sold by] William F. Richmond. Single-line border. 24.1 x 10.8 cm.

Title: An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce
Creator: Riley, James, creator
Date: 1859
Location: Am 1859 Riley

Title: Childhood songs
Creator: Larcom, Lucy, creator
Date: 1875
Location: Am 1875 Larco

Title: ASSU Illustration 7172
Description: Block numbered in two places: 7172, also 987 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a woman wearing a veil and sitting or standing behind a pile of some kind of objects outdoors, perhaps in a marketplace; she looks forward and pulls her veil over the lower half of her face with one hand; behind her are a figure and a pack animal, and a building with a dome and a spire or minaret., Signed: B.R. [?], "V. Grottenthaler, 402 Library St Phila." – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1869 to 1876.
Date: [between 1869 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 32

Title: Woman in the nineteeth century
Creator: Fuller, Margaret, creator
Date: 1845
Location: Am 1845 Ful

Title: Memoirs of the life of Mrs. Abigail Waters
Creator: Huntington, Joshua, creator
Date: 1817
Location: Am 1817 Hunt

Title: Joseph or William Francis
Description: Seated portrait of either young Joseph or William Francis. His left arm is resting on a table, and his right arm is on his lap., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet., Mat: Double elliptical. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Ambrotype by Rehn. 250 Chestnut St. Patented July 4 & 11 1854., Case: Leather. Small urn with flowers in center. No design on verso. Manuscript note pasted on verso: Joseph or William Francis.
Creator: Rehn, Isaac, photographer.
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8639]

Title: Cease your sighing day and night.
Description: A man wears rustic attire and a wide-brimmed hat. He holds a long walking stick and stands next to a fence. The figure's posture, expression, and facial features are androgynous, and the valentine associates being "lovesick" with effeminancy., Text: Cease your sighing day and night, / Moping like a lovesick dove, / Go 'list, and serve the Right, / And prove yourself worthy of my love., Signed: Green., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector., Provenance: Green.
Date: [1861-1865?]

Title: Confederate flags, snakes and woman in armor envelope
Description: Image: A snake supports two criss-crossed Confederate flags. Includes a full-length view of woman (Victory) in armor, underneath of the phrase "Sic Semper Tyrannus"., Verse: Don't Tread on Us., Caption: Ever ready with our lives and fortunes., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: Horticultural Hall - East Front.
Description: Exterior of Horticultural Hall with the Mott fountain in front. Sculptures of children, angels, and women decorate the fountain.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9580.6]

Title: Fifty years in chains; or, The life of an American slave
Creator: Ball, Charles, Negro Slave, creator
Date: 1858
Location: Am 1858 Ball

Title: JORDAN IS A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL. NO. 4.
Description: Of all the banjo songs that have been sung of late (7 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Print. Andrews. T. o. border. 24.4 x 15.5 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint added. 24.8 x 15 cm.

Title: "Latest contraband" envelope
Description: Image: A freed African American man stands with his right hand on his hip and his left hand holding a hoe. Refers to the contraband policy that banned soldiers from returning runaway slaves to their owners once they crossed Union lines., Verse 1381: Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter., Caption: The latest contraband of war., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: GOOD-BYE, FALSE HEART, GOOD-BYE.
Description: Och, Norah dear, this heart ye're breaking (2 vs. and chor.) A Parody on: Good-bye, Sweetheart, good-bye; [publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan Ethiopian border. 24.3 x 16.1 cm.

Title: REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYLVANIA CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE BEAR VALLEY COAL BASIN
Date: 1839
Location: Am 1839 Repo

Title: A comic history of the United States ; copiously illustrated by the author from sketches taken at a safe distance
Creator: Hopkins, Livingston, creator
Date: 1880
Location: Am 1880 Hopki

Title: A complete descriptive and statistical gazetteer of the United States of America
Creator: Haskel, Daniel, creator
Date: 1844
Location: Am 1844 Haskel

Title: The Boston book
Date: 1836
Location: Am 1836 Boston

Title: IN MEMORIAM. CAPTAIN F. A. DEPEYSTER, LATE GOVERNOR OF SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR, STATEN ISLAND.
Description: Flag! veil your starry glories now (4 vs.) Headed: "The Memory of Depeyster"; with explana- tion "The melancholy death of this most estimable gentle- man and accomplished sailor, carried deep grief . . ."; [signed] Capt. Saml. Whiting, Jacksonville, East

Title: Posthumous memoirs of his own time
Creator: n. w. wraxall, creator
Date: 1836
Location: pattison paper labels

Title: UNION SONG. BELL AND EVERETT CAMPAIGN SONG
Description: The wide-awakes they like to bluster (7 vs. and chors.) Air—Dixie's Land. By Frank; [publ.] De Marsan (2). De Marsan Yankee pedlar border, col.; cop: 1860, H. De Marsan, SDN.Y. 22.8 x 14.6 cm.

Title: Two women with Union flag envelope
Description: Image: A woman dressed in red, white and blue clothing holds an upraised Union flag in her left hand, and rests her right hand on a shield. A Native American woman, wearing a brown dress and a headband with feathers, kneels and looks up at the other woman., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: A book without a title
Creator: Tyler, M. W. (Martha W.), creator
Date: 1855
Location: 2 Wright 2568

Title: Dissertatio lithologica variis observationibus & figuris illustrata / auctore Joanne Groenevelt
Description: Format from Wing., Unedited record.
Creator: Groeneveld, Joannes, 1647-1710?
Date: 1687
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Wing G2062 Log. 526.O

Title: Nolan's system for training cavalry horses.
Creator: Nolan, creator
Date: 1862
Location: Am 1862 Nolan

Title: SHERMAN'S MARCH.
Description: Now, listen to my song (2 vs. and chors.) Air: Ginger Blue. By Michael Fee; [publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan kissing cupids border. 26.2 x 16.4 cm.

Title: The lady of the lake
Creator: Scott, Walter, Sir, creator
Date: 1847
Location: Am 1847 Scott

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