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Title: A defence of the American policy
Creator: Whitney, Thomas R., creator
Date: [c1856]
Location: Am 1856 Whit

Title: The Free Library of Philadelphia, Southwark Branch, N.W. corner Fifth and Ellsworth Streets
Description: Exterior view of front facade of library built circa 1911 after designs by David Knickerbacker Boyd., Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia, and the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., Sheet number: 132B06., Divided back., 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. 1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]

Title: Agnes Serle
Creator: Pickering, Ellen, creator
Date: 1836
Location: Am 1836 Pic

Title: Fenderich, Charles
Description: Charles Fenderich, the eminent mid-19th century portrait lithographer of American statesmen trained by Zurich lithographer Joseph Brodtmann, born February 10, 1805 in Laufenburg, Switzerland, worked in Philadelphia in the 1830s. In Paris by 1830, Fenderich worked for premier French lithographer Godefroy Engelmann until April 1831 when the Fenderich family emigrated to the United States due to financial troubles. Shortly thereafter, the family settled in Philadelphia., An experienced designer and pressman, Fenderich found employment in Philadelphia with Childs & Inman at 37 North Fourth Street by 1832. Fenderich designed mostly commercial and ephemeral prints, including city views, advertisements and certificates, for the firm. By about 1833, he worked with fellow Swiss lithographer John Caspar Wild producing lithographs with the imprint "Fenderich & Wild's Lithographic Press," at 215 Callowhill Street. The short-lived partnership dissolved when Wild relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1834. Fenderich continued to operate the press in Philadelphia, where in 1837 he is listed at La Grange Place, an alley west of North Second Street. The addresses "No. 95 North 3rd Street" and the "corner of Vine and 3rd Streets" are also associated with Fenderich, but it is unclear if he lived or worked at these properties., Fenderich moved to Washington D.C. by October 1837 and capitalized on his experience, talent and the demand for portraits of American statesmen. He planned to publish by subscription Fenderich's Port Folio of Living American Statesmen, and contributed portrait drawings to The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. Though his plans to publish by subscription did not succeed, he created approximately ninety-four portrait lithographs in Washington by 1848, the earliest of which were published by Lehman & Duval in Philadelphia., On December 11, 1841, Fenderich married Anna Mills, the fourth daughter of architect Robert Mills. By 1849, he had moved west to California and held a share in a newly laid-out town, Eliza City. A fellow traveler's diary described him as a bachelor. Fenderich eventually resettled in San Francisco, where he was listed as an artist in city directories as late as 1887. He died on March 29, 1889.
Date: February 10, 1805-March 29, 1889
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Haehnlen, Jacob
Description: Jacob Haehnlen, born in Harrisburg May 17, 1824, operated one of the "most extensive" lithographic establishments in Philadelphia during the mid 19th century. Son of Christian F. Haehnlen (1795-1898), a German immigrant grocer, Haehnlen worked in the family business before relocating to Philadelphia in 1841. At his new city of residence, Haehnlen continued in the grocery business as a partner in Haehnlen & Brown before entering the lithography trade ca. 1854 as a partner with Eugene Ketterlinus in the respected firm E. Ketterlinus & Co. In 1857, the partnership was dissolved, and Haehnlen and Ketterlinus served as early officers of the Citizen's Mutual Building and Saving Fund Association before he established his own "lithographic & fancy printing establishment" ca. 1859 at 125 and 127 South Third Street., During the first years of his firm, Haehnlen promoted his former association with Ketterlinus; advertised his printing of labels, visiting cards, forms, and show cards; and employed Frederick C. Smith. The firm proved successful as documented by IRS tax assessments for 1864 and 1865. Within a few years, Haehnlen's studio would garner a reputation as ranking "amongst the first in the country" when in 1866 he relocated to Goldsmith's Hall at 418 Library Street where he operated one of the largest print shops in the city. The hall, so named as it was originally used for goldsmith work, contained six floors from which Haehnlen occupied the five upper floors. The establishment contained salesrooms and offices, a machine shop and drying room, lithographic presses, and floors dedicated to card printing and the printing of "pamphlets, hand bills and other similar work." From 1867 to 1868, the father and son lithographers George and Charles Spohni worked for the respected lithographer who also published maps and issued "transfer work for coach and car manufacturers.", Within a few years, Haehnlen's work, as well as a small fire at his establishment, appeared to be taking a toll on his person, and on April 12, 1872 he filed for a passport "in pursuit of pleasure and restoration of health, accompanied by [his] son Edward Gustavus Haehnlen..." Soon thereafter, around 1873, Haehnlen sold his lithography business to Lehman & Bolton, and partnered in an artist's supply business with his brother Louis. Despite the change in career, Haehnlen continued to own Goldsmith's Hall as well as the rear five-story building. In 1882, a major fire destroyed the hall (valued at $100, 000 and containing the chamois business of he and his son Edward [E.G. Haehnlen & Co.] in the basement) and the rear building occupied by A.C. Farley, lithographer and stationer. By 1884, he and his son's business, now listed as a druggist's sundries store, would return to 418 Library Street and Haehnlen would be associated with it until the end of his life., Despite his long residency in Philadelphia, Haehnlen kept his connection to Harrisburg, including the overseeing of and summering at his family property Belle Vue bought by his father. In 1867 he entered into partnership with his brother, Louis, and Harry and Louis Brown, to form the Pennsylvania Brown Free Stone Company, a Harrisburg quarrying company for the building materials trade. In 1876 he built a multi-thousand dollar residence at the family homestead, which in 1910 became Bellevue Park, the first fully planned residential community., Haehnlen was married to Margaret (1828-1900) with whom he had five children including W. Frank (d. 1910), professor of obstetrics at the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, Louis F., proprietor of the Belle Vue fruit farm, and youngest son Edward. During much of his lithography career he lived at 228 Vine Street (1850s-1861) or 431 North Sixth street (1862-1876). He was a member of the German Society and the Mercantile Beneficial Association; stockholder in the West Harrisburg Market Company, the City Passenger Railway Company, National Bank and the Harrisburg Bridge Company, and was the founder of the Prospect Hill Cemetery Company., Haehnlen died at 1421 North Broad Street (his residence since 1877) in April 1892 and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Following his death, the Jacob Haehnlen estate remained profitable and in 1904, the "rear building" at 418 Sansom Street known as the Haehnlen building was sold at a value of $115, 000 by his son W. Frank.
Date: May 17,1824-April 23, 1892
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Aristotle’s Master-piece
Creator: Aristotle’s Masterpiece, creator
Date: 1830
Location: Am 1830 Ari

Title: Annals of the peninsular campaigns
Date: 1831
Location: Am 1831 Ham

Title: Incidents of travel in Yucatan
Creator: Stephens, John Lloyd, creator
Date: 1843
Location: Am 1843 Ste

Title: Obituary addresses of the death of the Hon. William R. King, of Alabama, vice president of the United States
Creator: United States. Congress(33rd, 1st session : 1853-1854), creator
Date: 1854
Location: Am 1854 Obi

Title: Cap Sewer.
Description: A woman sews a cap. Her face is large, and the shading around her mouth appears to be facial hair. The valentine mocks her for gossiping and trying to appear richer than she is., Text: You nasty thing, think any chap / Would woo the stitcher of a cap? / You walk down town, (and such a caper!) / With dinner tied up in a newspaper? / To make folks believe you've been shopping, / In buying shoes or a pair of stockings, / Your figure's bad and when at your labors, / You talk too much about your neighbors., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Kuhl, George
Description: George Kuhl, born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany in 1820, traveled to New York in 1837 and was naturalized in Philadelphia in 1842. He was active as a lithographer in Philadelphia 1842-1846, where he died of tuberculosis at his residence at 4 Courtlin Place on November 26, 1846. He was a partner with Frederick Kuhl in the firm of F. & G. Kuhl during the mid-1840s.
Date: 1820 - November 26, 1846
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Everts, Louis Humphrey
Description: Louis Humphrey Everts, pioneer map, atlas, and county history publisher and entrepreneur, born in East Otto, New York on April 14, 1836, worked with Philadelphia lithographers and operated in Philadelphia 1874-1900s. Everts moved with his family to Geneva, Kane County, Illinois in 1851. In 1859 he married his first wife, Louisa J. Ferson and worked as a clerk in St. Charles, Illinois. The same year he relocated to Chicago after his wife's death and worked in a dry goods store before he joined the military in 1861. He met his first business partner, Thomas Hinckley Thompson, while serving in the military, and between 1867 and 1872, the newly established partnership of Thompson & Everts began creating county atlases with lithographic illustrations of Iowa and Illinois. From 1870 to 1872, Thompson & Everts contracted Philadelphia lithographers Norman Friend and Thomas Hunter to complete the engraving and printing of their projects., Everts partnership with Thompson dissolved, but he continued to produce atlases in Chicago under the partnership names Evert, Baskin & Stewart (1872-1873), Everts & Stewart (1873-1874), and L. H. Everts & Company (1874-1875) and expanded his geographical focus to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. The expansion resulted in the relocation of his business to Philadelphia in 1874. County histories and religious reference works began to dominate his business efforts from the mid-1870s through the 1880s, under the partnership of Everts, Ensign & Everts and other associated companies., Everts non-publishing endeavors included real estate investments in Washington state and shares in the Dakota Mortgage Company. He served as president of the Cold Blast Feather Company in Chicago and invested in the manufacture of coffee pots., Everts married Adeline H. Utley in 1872 in Illinois, a few years before they relocated east, and had one daughter, Louisa Everts. This marriage ended in the late 1880s and he married Emma M. Montgomery of Philadelphia in 1892., Everts businesses suffered losses in the 1890s and he filed for bankruptcy in 1900. He formed the Century Map Company to continue atlas publishing in 1902. He retired in the 1910s and in 1918, admitted himself into the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio, but by 1920 had returned to Philadelphia. He died on January 26, 1924 and was buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Date: April 14, 1836-1924
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Song sheet headpiece 102
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 1016k, 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 operative's friend, and defence : or, hints to young ladies, who are dependent on their own exertions
Creator: Porter, James, creator
Date: 1850
Location: Am 1850 Por

Title: ASSU Illustration 6913
Description: Block numbered in three places: 6913., Image of a boy, seated with his head resting on one hand; he holds a scrub brush in the other hand., Signed: Van Ingen-Snyder. Van Ingen & Snyder, a partnership between William H. Van Ingen and Henry M. Snyder, was active between 1853 and 1871., “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., Block damaged: cracked.
Date: [between 1861 and 1871?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 14

Title: The Universalist manual
Creator: Rayner, Menzies, creator
Date: 1839
Location: Am 1839 Rayn

Title: The spiritual telegraphic opposition line; or science and divine revelation against spiritual manifestations
Creator: Campbell, Z., creator
Date: 1853
Location: Am 1853 Camp

Title: REILY'S RELEASEMENT AND MARRIAGE WITH COOLEEN BAWN.
Description: Now, having left Reily's Fair one in sorrow for to vail (9 vs.), Variant: a. Publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan clown border. 24 x 15.5 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 1028; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley Ethiopian border. 24.1 x 15.5 cm.

Title: MY HEART IS SAD FOR THEE, ANNIE.
Description: My heart is sad for thee, Annie (2 vs. and chor.) Air: Gentle Annie. Anecdote: Specimens of Western oratory; [publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan kissing cupids border. 25 x 16.1 cm.

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, bald, bearded man, looking straight ahead, his right arm is resting on a table.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded orange velvet embossed Willard No.1628 Market St. Geometric scrolled border., Mat: Ornamented double elliptical., Case: Leather. A geometric design with a small sunburst within four scrolls. Same design on verso.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., d. 1876, photographer.
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.16]

Title: A Recruiting Officer.
Description: A soldier stands at a bar drinking a tankard of beer. A sign behind him reads, "Wanted Recruits for the Army." The valentine mocks the recruiting officer for using alcohol to recruit unfit men., Text: Gentility, neatness and courage / In a warrior I hold to be dear / But uniform don't make the soldier / Nor a coward get courage from Beer., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [1861-1865?]

Title: CALL ME NOT BACK FROM THE ECHOLESS SHORE, IN REPLY TO "ROCK ME TO SLEEP."
Description: Why is your forehead deep furrowed with care (2 vs. and chors.) Words by Chas. Carrol Sawyer; Music by Henry Tucker; music had of Sawyer and Thompson., Variant: a. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 214, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.2 x 12.7 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 1108; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.1 x 15.4 cm.

Title: The Philipena, or Friendship’s token
Date: 1852
Location: Am 1852 Phil

Title: SOUND ON THE GOOSE.
Description: A new song I've got to please you to-night (5 vs. and chor.) Tony Pastor's Comic Songster, published by Dick and Fitzgerald; publ. Auner (3). A-J border. 22.2 x 14.6 cm.

Title: Camp Barcly envelope
Description: Image: Depicts cavalrymen lined up in rows, in front of rows of tents and tethered horses at Camp Barcly. Smoke rises from all of the tents., Caption: Camp BARCLY, Meridian Hill D.C., 1st Lancers 6th Penna Cavalry. Col. R.H. Rush. - Lt. Col. J.H. McArthur - Major C. Ross Smith - Jun. Major, Robert Morris, Jr., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: Song sheet headpiece 209
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 1736e, 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: IT WAS MY MOTHER'S CHOICE.
Description: Oh! Mother dear, I had a drink (3 vs. and chor.) Air: It was my Mother's voice. By J. Cross Casten; [publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan Ethiopian border. 25.5 x 16.1 cm.

Title: Nouveau jardiniere de la Louisiane
Creator: Lelievre, J. F., creator
Date: 1838
Location: Am 1838 Lel

Title: The Oak Lane Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of church built in 1902 at the southeast corner of North Eleventh Street and Oak Lane. The church was organized on November 20, 1891 and the first service held in May of 1892 in the old church building at the corner of Seventh Street and Sixty-sixth Avenue., Sheet number: 50B06., Undivided back. Post marked 1909., 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. 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: MARCH ON FOR THE UNION.
Description: Say: can this Union sever (8 vs. and chor.) Air: Wait for the Wagon., Variant: a. Publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan border with eagle, drapery with stars and stripes, col. 21.3 x 14.4 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] De Marsan ship border, with war scenes in lower corners. 25.3 x 14.5 cm., Variant: c. [Without period at end of title;] with dash after "Air" and comma after "Say" in first line; By Thomas Leslie; sheet no. 832; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 25.5 x 15.5 cm.

Title: New price list, Pettee's patent improved envelopes.
Description: Large price list with diagrams of envelopes., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Spangler, E. J., creator
Date: [ca. 1865?].
Location: #Doret Ephemera

Title: THE CHESTNUT STREET BEAU.
Description: A sight for the tailors was Jonathan Spring (5 vs. and chor.) Printed and sold at the S.E. cor. 4th and Vine, Phila. [George S. Harris] Multi-line border. 20.6 x 10.6 cm.

Title: Mary Gay, or, Work for girls
Creator: Abbott, Jacob, creator
Date: 1865
Location: Am 1865 Abbott

Title: THE UNION FOR EVER FOR MEl
Description: America! Gem of this wide, wide world (3 vs. and chor.) Publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan ship border, with war scenes in lower corners. 23 x 13.9 cm.

Title: Soldier with bayonets envelope
Description: Image: A soldiers stands near a cannon with a bayonet held upright in the crook of his left arm. Three other bayonets stand nearby. A large Union flag flies from the top of a tent behind the soldier., Verse 1951: Spirit of "'76.", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: Bethany Church postcards
Description: Exterior views of church built 1866-1868 and 1871-1874 after designs by Sloan & Hutton and Addison Hutton at the southeast corner of Bainbridge and Twenty-second Streets with portrait vignettes of the founder John Wanamaker., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 in black and white., Sheet numbers: 50A01 and 50B01., 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: 1905-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: A translation of Jacobs’ Greek reader
Creator: Jacobs, Friedrich, creator
Date: 1842
Location: Am 1842 Jacobs

Title: LOVE'S FAREWELL, A REPLY TO LOVE'S CHIDINGS.
Description: Meet me to-night, when dewy stars (3 vs. and chor.) Words by Finley Johnson; Music composed by Jno. W. Odiorne; cop: 1864, Sep. Winner, EDPa.; [sold by] Sep. Winner's Music Store (3). A-J border. 20.2 x 12.8 cm.

Title: History of West Point, and its military importance during the American Revolution.
Creator: Boynton, Edward C., creator
Date: 1863
Location: Am 1863 Boynton

Title: STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Description: Come all you jolly Farmers, bold, who on the plow depend (9 vs.) Sheet no. 639; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley horned imp border, col. 24.5 x 15.5 cm.

Title: Battle scene at Mill Spring, Kentucky No. 8 envelope
Description: Image: Depicts uniformed soldiers hiding behind trees, taking aim and firing their rifles. Smoke rises from the field in the distance., Verse 171: Battle of Mill Spring, Ky., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: DOWN UPON THE RAPPAHANNOCK.
Description: Down upon the Rappahannock (2 vs. and chors.), Variant: a. Publ. Auner (4). A-J border. 23.5 x 14.8 cm., Variant: b. [Without 2nd chor.;] publ. Johnson (2); adv: Catalogue of over 600 Songs. Double-line border. 19.5 x 11.5 cm., Variant: c. [As above;] with different adv: Johnson's New Cata- logue. A-J border. 24.7 x 15.2 cm.

Title: That Precious Baby.
Description: An overweight child holds a doll and a stick., Text: Doting parient [i.e. parent] -- I thought that maybe / You'd like a portrait of your baby; / If so, just look above you'll find / A dogrotype, by----- Valentine., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Rum Seller.
Description: The rum seller stands at a bar and holds a decanter and a glass. He smiles, and a man smiles in the background. "Tin" is slang for "money.", Text: With a gay smiling face, or, with a sly wink. / Always ready to deal out something to drink; / Smashes, cocktails, and juleps, rum, brandy or gin; / It's no matter what, you want only the tin., Cf. Valentine 9.16, Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Centre Square Water Works postcards
Description: Depicts the neo-classical style marble pump house, completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827. Includes the Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpted in wood in 1809 by William Rush for the Centre Square Water Works, but later moved to the Fairmount Waterworks on the Schuylkill River., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Public utilities - [P.9049.31 - 32]

Title: Fragments from German prose writers
Creator: Austin, Sarah, creator
Date: 1841
Location: Am 1841 Aus

Title: Recollections of two distinguished persons : La Marquise de Boissy and the count de Waldeck
Creator: Smith, Mary Rebecca Darby, creator
Date: 1878
Location: Am 1878 Smi

Title: THE OLD SIXTH CORPS
Description: God bless our noble army (5 vs. and chor.) Adv: Soldiers can receive 14 Songs for 50 cents [sold by] G. P. Hardwick, Washington, D.C. T. o. border in red; letter paper; blue ink; wreath of ivy with eagle on top, surrounded by flags, bayonets, drum and can

Title: Letters from Italy and Switzerland
Creator: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, creator
Date: 1863
Location: Am 1863 Men

Title: History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. v. 1
Creator: Prescott, creator
Date: [838
Location: Am 1838 Presc

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