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Title: Market Street Subway postcards
Description: Depicts the underground tracks and steel skeleton of the Market Street subway. Includes a view of an approaching train., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet numbers: 158A01 and 158A11., 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: 1907-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: THE POOR SOLDIER BOY.
Description: Gather a round me, one and all, short and tall, great and small (6 vs.) Air—Bold Soldier Boy. Publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan ship border, with war scenes in lower corners. 24.5 x 16 cm.

Title: Little Henry and His Bearer
Creator: Sherwood, Mrs., creator
Date: 1863
Location: zin 1514

Title: Forget-me-not; or The philipena
Date: 1848
Location: Am 1848 Forget

Title: The dew-drop of the sunny south: : a story written from every day life.
Creator: Rush, Caroline E., creator
Date: 1851
Location: Am 1851 Rush

Title: Mr. Disagreeable.
Description: The disagreeable man frowns and has a creased face., Text: A proverb that I often hear, / Most truthfully to you applies; / Let's whisper it into your ear -- / 'Tis, "Vineagar never catches flies.", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Cotton picker envelope
Description: Image: An African American man is picking cotton and loading it into wicker baskets., Verse 1571: One of the Rebels., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: WILLIE AND l.
Description: We love to go to Sabbath School, - Willie and I (4 vs.) 2nd song: "Children's Invitation"; adv: The following Hymns can be had at Johnson's (2). T. o. border. 23.8 x 16.3 cm.

Title: Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami
Creator: Clarke, Jno., creator
Date: 1810
Location: zin 1643

Title: My Dear Old Mother's Smile.
Description: There's a picture I can see (3 vs. and chor.) Headed: "A Happy Near Year to All!"; Keep this song and give a trifle to the disabled Soldier who hands it to you. T.o. border; bust of woman with rose. 19.7 x 11.7 cm.

Title: COME, OH! COME WITH ME.
Description: Come, oh! come with me, the moon is beaming (2 vs. and chors.) 2nd song: "My Skiff is by the Shore.", Variant: a. Print. Andrews. T. o. border. 24 x 15 cm., Variant: b. [Publ.] De Marsan (1). De Marsan Ethiopian border, col. 25 x 16 cm., Variant: c. Sheet no. 477; [without 2nd song;] publ. Wrigley (1); [with KISS ME GOOD-NIGHT MOTHER on verso.] Wrigley Ethiopian border, col. 24.5 x 15.6 cm.

Title: THE PROPLE TO THE PRESIDENT.
Description: Oft, let the Constitution stand (5 vs.) Air—Maryland, My Maryland; German Melody: O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, wie griin sind deine Blatter. By A Lady of Washington City., Variant: a. Adv: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2). Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 6, col.; [publ.] Magnus (1). 21 x 13.2 cm., Variant: b. [As above; without period at end of title;] hdpc. Magnus 121, col. publ. Magnus (1). 20.4 x 12.5 cm., Variant: c. Adv: Magnus' Ornamental and Glorious Union Packet. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 6, col.; [publ.] Magnus (1). 19.7 x 11.5 cm.

Title: Selection from the Elkington exhibit, Main Building.
Description: Exhibit title: Elinston [sic] & Co., Birmingham, Exhibit #134, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Ornate vases decorated with figurines of ladies and cherubs, platters, and a mirror. Titles on labels: Helicon Vase--England, and: Helicon Vase and Pompeian Lady with gold and silver mirror, and: Taken expressly for Harper's weekly.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: *Centennial - photos [P.8700.11]

Title: Guide to domestic happiness
Creator: Giles, W., creator
Date: 1836
Location: Iu Giles

Title: POOR OLD LINCOLN.
Description: I hear the noise of battle (4 vs.) Air—"I have no Mother now." Headed: "Song." T. o. border; a gentleman with top-hat in his hand. 28 x 13.3 cm.

Title: The art of conversing
Date: 1848 [c1846]
Location: Am 1848 Art

Title: Reminiscences of the late Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D.D., of Newport, R.I.
Creator: Patten, William, creator
Date: 1843
Location: Am 1843 Patt

Title: With the most ugly of all faces, Go on, and mimic all the graces:
Description: A woman walks her small black dog. She wears an ornate gown, a flowered bonnet, and eyeglasses., Text: With the most ugly of all faces, Go on, and mimic all the graces: / How can you think, when in the street, The laughing, giggling men you meet, / That every laugh is but a smile, And that they love you all the while? / Good-bye, old maid-- without a clog, Go through the mud-heaps with your dog; / I don't know which I like the least, You or your dirty little beast., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Song sheet headpiece 75
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 1467m, 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: Indecision : a tale of the far West
Creator: Mitchell, John Kearsley, creator
Date: 1839
Location: Am 1839 Mit

Title: A token for children
Creator: Janeway, James, creator
Date: 1848
Location: Am 1848 Jane

Title: The Irish Schoolmaster.
Description: Old Teddy O'Rourke kept a bit of a school. (4 vs. and 2 chors., varying lengths) No. 645. Wrigley moon border. 24 x 15.6 cm.

Title: THE STREETS OF NEW-YORKr
Description: Are you who've been around the town (6 vs. and chor.) Air: Original. As sung by Tony Pastor., Variant: a. Publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan comic heads border. 22.4 x 14.5 cm., Variant: b. Publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan ship border, with war scenes in lower corners. 25 x 16 cm.

Title: Semi-tropical California : its climate, healthfulness, productiveness, and scenery
Creator: Truman, Benjamin Cummings, creator
Date: 1874
Location: Am 1874 Tru

Title: The Officer who paid for his commission
Description: A Union soldier stands behind a tree while other soldiers fight in the background. The valentine mocks the cowardice of soldiers who buy their commissions., Text: Charge boys, charge, while I stand behind a tree; / The fighting is for you, and it's left for me to see. / I suppose you will ask me how I got my position, / I hauled out my money and paid for my commission., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [1861-1865?]

Title: A system of useful formulae, : adapted to the practical operations of locating and constructing railroads
Creator: Borden, Simeon, creator
Date: 1851
Location: Am 1851 Borde

Title: Seal of New York City envelope
Description: Image: A white colonist and a Native American man sit on the ground near the water. The colonist holds a sextant in his left hand. The Native American man wears traditional clothing, with a feathered headband and an arm band. He holds an ax in his right hand. Between the two men sits the seal of New York City, noticeable because of the beaver, flour barrel and windmill blades. In the left background a man is poised to spear a moose. Ships are visible in the distance. Union flags and a shield with stars and stripes decorate the border around the image described above., Verse 1834: Seal of New York City., Caption: The War for the Union., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: The Rollo philosophy
Creator: Abbott, Jacob, creator
Date: 1843
Location: Am 1843 Abbott

Title: The theory of horticulture
Creator: Lindley, John, creator
Date: 1841
Location: Am 1841 Lind

Title: ASSU Illustration 4077
Description: Block numbered in two places: 4077., Image of three birds, crows [?] in a natural setting., Illustration appears in Rhymes for the nursery (Philadelphia, 1865), p. 118.
Date: [not before 1865?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 2

Title: ASSU Illustration 0087
Description: Block numbered in two places: 87., Image of a pigeon [?] in a natural setting., , Provenance:, , Variant:
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 2

Title: Worley, Bracher & Matthias
Description: See Worley & Bracher.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Self-culture, and perfection of character : including the management of youth
Creator: Fowler, O. S., creator
Date: 1847
Location: Am 1847 Fow

Title: Memoirs of the life of Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII
Creator: Benger, Elizabeth E., creator
Date: 1850
Location: Am 1850 Ben

Title: BE KIND TO THE LOVED ONES AT HOME.-.
Description: Be kind to thy father—for when thou wast young (4 vs.) Print. Andrews. T. o. border. 25 x 14.7 cm.

Title: The Boston almanac for the year 1847
Date: c1846
Location: Am 1846 Bos Alm

Title: A history of the rise, progress, and present condition of the Bethlehem Female Seminary
Creator: Reichel, William Cornelius, creator
Date: 1858
Location: Am 1858 Reichel

Title: I HAD A DREAM.
Description: I had a dream, a happy dream (3 vs.), Variant: a. Publ. De Marsan (2). De Marsan trapper border; cop: 1860, H. De Marsan, SDN.Y. 25.3 x 16 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 679; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley military cupid border, col. 24.6 x 15.7 cm.

Title: Queen, James F.
Description: James Queen, the premier Philadelphia artist, lithographer, and chromolithographer, known for his attention to detail and composition, was born in Philadelphia 1820 or 1821. Son of William Queen, a cordwainer, he began his career in lithography at around 14 years of age with an apprenticeship to George Lehman and P. S. Duval (whom he would associate his entire career) on November 24, 1835. Apprenticed for five years, Queen began to design lithographs of all genres for Duval, including illustrations for his "U.S. Military Magazine" (1840-1841), advertisements, sheet music, and city views, in the early 1840s. During this period, he also married Sarah (Sally) Harvey (b. ca. 1826) in 1843 with whom he had three daughters Emma (b. ca. 1845), Mary (b. 1850), and Elizabeth (b. ca. 1858) and resided in his home neighborhood of Southwark., By the middle of the 1840s, Queen began to work with Duval's main business rival Wagner & McGuigan as well, including drawing a ca. 1847 advertisement showing the interior of their firm. Nonetheless, the majority of his work continued to be printed by Duval. Working from his own sketches, other artists' works, and drawing directly on the stone, Queen produced with Duval certificates (particularly agricultural fairs), fashion prints, church views, and the noted genre views "Shad Fishing" (1855) and "Souvenir of the Coldest Winter on Record" (1856). As a result of these diverse skills, in 1861, Duval made Queen the superintendent of his drawing department. By this time, the artist owned personal property worth $400 and his own home worth $1800 at 812 Wharton Street., Queen continued his success in the trade in the 1860s. Despite enlistment in the Pennsylvania Militia during the summers of 1862 and 1863, he designed firefighting scenes for certificates and several Civil War related views. Queen's Civil War work showcased his skills for details and he served as the prime artist for most of the fundraising chromolithographs of the era, including views of Cooper Shop and Union volunteer refreshment saloons (many printed by Thomas Sinclair), hospitals, soldiers, and armories. He also delineated a series of patriotic, sentimental and comic collecting cards after the designs of Henry L. Stephens during this period. By 1864, Queen earned enough income to be taxed by the I. R. S. and Duval enlisted his "best artist" to draw the highly-regarded chromolithograph "Buildings of the Great Central Fair, in Aid of the U. S. Sanitary Commission Logan Square, Philadelphia, June 1864," printed on the grounds of the fair as a fund raiser and to promote the still novel color print process in the city., Queen did not only delineate separately-issued prints and views of Philadelphia between the 1840s and 1860s, but also views of Pennsylvania, Niagara Falls, and Virginia in addition to portraits and illustrations for congressional documents and books. He also maintained a study collection of prints, including British and French lithographs and specimens of photolithographs., Despite his prolific output in the trade, Queen also found time for benevolent work. Queen was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows as well as the Weccacoe Engine Company, which he depicted in ca. 1851 and 1860 certificates. This benevolence also extended to his personal life and he shared his Southwark residence with his sister-in-law and nephew by 1860., Queen resided in Southwark most of his life, first with his parents at 489 South Second Street (i.e., below Catherine Street), then Third Street above Federal Street by 1847; and 409 South Second Street and 533 Queen Street during the 1850s before relocating to Wharton Street in 1860., By 1870, Queen continued to live at 812 Wharton Street, and owned real estate worth $7000 and personal property worth $1000. He also predominately worked as a chromolithographer, including designing an advertisement for fellow lithographer Ferdinand Moras's establishment. Soon thereafter, his chromolithographic work would focus on genre, sentimental and art reproductions for parlor prints, initially with Duval & Hunter (successors to Duval) and later with prolific chromo publisher Joseph Hoover. As of the 1880 census, Queen listed his occupation as "chromo-artist," he was a widower, and he headed a household with a servant at 724 Pine Street (his residence since 1874)., Queen died on January 15, 1886 from multiple sclerosis, four years after receiving a $60,000 bequest from his successful, publisher brother Francis. At the time of his death, Queen bequeathed $500 worth of railroad stock to a family friend, voided promissory notes owed by his former employers P. S. and Stephen Duval, and owned real estate worth $20,000 and personal property worth $12,500.
Date: 1820 or 1821-January 15, 1886
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: THE PIRATE'S SERENADE.
Description: Come love, come, come away with me (4 vs. and chor.) Air.: I am off for Baltimore. By Geo. A. W. Langford Fahie; print. Andrews., Variant: a. Andrews ivy border. 23 x 14.5 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint added. 24.3 x 15.2 cm.

Title: GREEN MONSTERS' SONG.
Description: Come all you Good Will heroes (6 vs.) Air—William Reilly's Courtship. By J. E.; publ. Scroggy. T. o. border. 30.1 x 12.9 cm.

Title: Alfred Hand Photographic Negative Collection
Description: Collection of 179 glass and film negatives created by Alfred Hand between 1920 and 1921. They depict historic houses, places of worship, and Revolutionary War sites in Germantown and the Philadelphia region, and are accompanied by negative sleeves with descriptive manuscript notes about each site.
Date: 1920-1921

Title: OUR VOLUNTEER SONG!
Description: We are marching on with shield and banner bright (3 vs. and chor.) As sung in the public schools. 14.5 x 10.2 cm. (cropped)

Title: The American family cook book : containing receipts for cooking every kind of meat, fish, and fowl
Creator: Leslie, Eliza, creator
Date: 1858
Location: Am 1858 Les

Title: The poetical works of Thomas Moore
Creator: Moore, Thomas, creator
Date: [c1871]
Location: Am 1871 Moor

Title: Express-Man.
Description: A man is seated in a cart pulled by a running horse. Two ships are in the background, one with a steam engine, and one with masts and sails. The valentine implies that the recipient presses the sender to engage in premarital sex. The sender rejects him because she does not believe he will marry her., Text: G'lang ole hoss -- high up, my spunky one! / Show 'em you'll do it -- can't you, though -- get on! / Allow me, sir, to interrupt you, -- do: / And, as you are, I will be EXPRESS, too; / I can't be pressed to favor your address, / And trust you'll make your pressing suit EX-PRESS., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: "ROUGH and TUMBLE," OR THE AMOS STREET FIGHT, BETWEEN POOLE and MORRISSEY.
Description: Come "Boys' draw nigh and listen to this my little ditty (8 vs. and chor.) Air—I'll Throw Myself Away. Print. Andrews. T. o. border. 22 x 14.5 cm.

Title: American National Monument of Memorials, for all our people throughout all the land, to honor the fathers of our country forever. To be on Independence Square, in Philadelphia, in the buildings and halls where their work was done "Its character to stand entirely national and its purpose universal as such this print is dedicated to all our people throughout our union and all who love our country throughout the world
Description: Promotional print showing Independence Hall remodeled to accommodate an unrealized national monument conceived during the Centennial movement by patriot and roofer Joseph Leeds to honor the Founding Fathers of the United States. Shows Independence, Congress, and old City Hall connected by corridors resting on arches to be interiorly decorated with exhibits representing the history of the country from 1607-1876. Also contains an ornamental border including the American eagle and the forty-eight state seals; several paragraphs explicating the necessity, design, and administration of the monument; and patriotic slogans., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 19, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., LCP holds original edition of accompanying pamphlet. See "Honor to the fathers of our country: the duty and privilege of every patriot..." (Philadelphia: Joseph Leeds, 1879). [Am 1879 Lee 23645.D.9]., See also Joseph Leeds's One hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and Independence Square, and the three main buildings thereon, in Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania: as a monument of memorials sacred and forever to honor the fathers of our beloved country and their principles (Philadelphia, 1872) in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [UPA/Pam F 158.65.I3 L44 1872].
Creator: Carbutt, John, 1832-1905, photolithographer.
Date: c1878
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Government buildings [(3)1322.F.18a]

Title: GREAT PRIZE FIGHT, BETWEEN BRADLEY and RANKIN.
Description: Attend you sporting circles give ear to what I state (14 vs.) Composed by Arthur McCann. T. o. border; boxers and crowd. 30.4 x 24.2 cm.

Title: Franklin's grave postcards
Description: Depicts Benjamin Franklin's grave in Christ Church's cemetery at the southeast corner of Fifth and Arch Streets. Includes sightseers behind the iron fence that replaced a section of the stone wall built in 1858 to allow for a better view of the tomb., Contains 20 postcards printed in color and 6 printed in black and white. Also includes 1 linen postcard., 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: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Franklin's Grave - 99]

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