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Title: GETTYSBURG.
Description: The boldest and the bloodiest raid (14 vs.) By Robert Morris, Esq.; Respectfully dedicated to General Meade; publ. with music by Lee and Walker; copy- right secured. 24.5 x 17.7 cm.

Title: Poems for children
Creator: Sigourney, Lydia Howard, creator
Date: 1836
Location: Am 1836 Sig

Title: DISGRACE and SHAME
Description: Hallo! what's the matter (7 vs.) Air—"The Campbells are coming." T. o. border. 21.5 x 16.2 cm.

Title: ASSU Illustration 7711
Description: Block numbered in two places: 7711., Image of an unidentified flower and its roots., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 6

Title: ASSU Illustration 0062
Description: Block numbered in two places: 62; also numbered: 580[?] and 5850[?]., Image of a girl in front of a spider web outdoors; the girl holds a book in her hand; the woman behind her holds the girl’s shoulder with one hand and points toward the spider web with the other., “N.J. Wemmer. 5 Pear St. Phila.” – Stamped on back of block twice. Nelson J. Wemmer is listed (as an artist) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1848 to 1856., “Child & Spider Web” – Inscribed on back of block., Illustration appears in New book of two hundred pictures, p. 79., , Provenance:, , Variant:
Date: [between 1848 and 1856?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 29

Title: SUSY AND PAT MURPHY.
Description: Och, it's of a rich farmer in Limerick did dwell (8 vs. and chor. with 7 interlocutory lines, and moral) Air.—"Vilikins and his Dinah". Wrigley moon border. 23.8 x 14.4 cm.

Title: Atwood, Jesse
Description: Jesse Atwood, born ca. 1802 in New Hampshire, was a portrait painter whose rendering of Gen. Zachary Taylor was used in an 1847 S. A. & A. F. Ward fashion advertisement printed by Philadelphia lithographer Thomas Sinclair., Atwood was listed as a portrait painter with residences in North Philadelphia in city directories intermittently between 1841-1869. He also displayed work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art during the Artist's Fund Society Exhibition of 1841.
Date: b. ca. 1802
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: The baptism; or The little inquirer
Creator: Jewell, creator
Date: 1835
Location: Am 1835 Jewel

Title: Rebel cabinet envelope
Description: Image: Five cartoonish men write letters to Great Britain in the foreground, while Jefferson Davis presides over the group from a pedestal in the background., Verse 1090: Jeff announceth to ye rebell Cabinett ye grayte scheme of invytynge Grayte Brittayne to send out a Royal Babbie to take chge of ye Cottonocracy of ye South-ye whych produceth much merrymeant among ye Cabinett aforesayd., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: WHO CAN FIND US NOW?
Description: Oh! don't you hear de Captain say (4 vs. with second lines chors. and main chor.) By D.D. Emmet of Bryants' Minstrels; publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan clown border. 26 x 16 cm.

Title: MOLLY ASTHORE.
Description: As down by Banna's banks I stray'd (7 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. [Publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan military cupid border. 24.8 x 16.1 cm., Variant: b. Title: "Molly Bawn Astore"; long lines; sheet no. 1158; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.2 x 15.6 cm.

Title: ASSU Illustration 3485
Description: Block numbered in one place: 3485, also 1315 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a girl supporting or holding the arm of an older woman who is leaning on a thin walking stick; the girl holds her other hand out, possibily gesturing to something ahead of them., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 26

Title: CAMP SONG.
Description: Now we have joined the Cavalry (4 vs. and chor.) Air—"This Night we'll joint the Revelry." By Corporal------; dedicated to Col. R. Butler Price, of the Second Pennsylvania Cavalry. 21.5 x 13.2 cm.

Title: Letters to a very young lady
Date: [between 1843 and 1853?]
Location: Am 1843 Ale

Title: Panoramic view of fortifications around Washington, D.C. envelope
Description: Image: Bird's eye view of Washington, D.C., showing bridges and settlement near the Potomac River(?)., Verse 1699: Panoramic View of the Fortifications around Washington., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: Song sheet headpiece 182
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 2148a, 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: LET US LIVE WITH A HOPE.
Description: Let us live with a hope for a better day, Mary (3 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Print. Andrews. T. o. border. 23.7 x 15.3 cm., Variant: b. With exclamation point at end of title; 3 chors. A-J border. 20 x 12.5 cm. (cropped), Variant: c. With exclamation point at end of title; publ. Johnson (3); advs: You will save 25 per cent, and Cards, Circulars, Billheads, etc. T. o. border. 23.3 x 15.7 cm., Variant: d. [Without comma after "day" in first line;] sheet no. 271; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border, col. 25 x 16.2 cm.

Title: LARRY MAGEE'S WEDDING.
Description: Pay attention a while, and I'll sing you a ditty (6 vs.) Air: Lannegan's Ball. By Eugene T. Johnston., Variant: a. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 216, col.; [publ.] Magnus (1). 20 x 12.3 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 1106; publ. Wrigley (1) [2-line imprint]. Wrigley horned imp border. 24 x 15 cm., Variant: c. [As above; with 3-line imprint upside-down.] 24.3 x 15 cm.

Title: ASSU Illustration 5363
Description: Block numbered in at least three places: 5363., Image of a kangaroo in a natural setting., “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., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Date: [not before 1848?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 2

Title: THE PIG IS GREASED BEHIND.
Description: Come, listen all, ye jolly boys (4 vs.), Variant: a. Publ. De Marsan (2). De Marsan trapper border; cop: 1860, H. De Marsan, SDN.Y. 25.5 x 16.5 cm.

Title: Song sheet headpiece 3
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 1089g, 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: Union and Confederate old men envelope
Description: Image: In both images, two older men, probably representing the Union and the Confederacy, face each other. The man on the left holds a Confederate flag in the bottom cartoon. Possibly mocking the self-importance of the southerners., Verse 511: "Don't see it", Verse 201: Big thing! Don't see it., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: OH JEFF! WHY DON'T YOU COME?
Description: Jeff Davis are you coming? we'll be glad to see you here (6 vs.) Air—"Willie we have missed you.", Variant: a. T. o. [Bonsai] border. 23 x 13.3 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] blue paper. 24.9 x 15.7 cm.

Title: Bourquin, Gordon M.
Description: Gordon M. Bourquin, son of lithographer Frederick Bourquin, was born in New York in August 1839. In 1860, Bourquin worked as a lithographer while a resident of Camden, N.J. He abandoned his family and profession and relocated to the Upper Monclair area of New Jersey in 1888. He died in Passaic County, New Jersey in February 1906.
Date: July 1839 - February 1906
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Dress and care of the feet
Date: 1871
Location: Am 1871 Dress

Title: Home education
Creator: Taylor, creator
Date: 1838
Location: Am 1838 Taylor

Title: CARRIER'S ADDRESS OF THE NEW-YORK DAILY TIMES.
Description: Kind Friends and Patrons! That, I think's, the way (21 vs.) With date "1856" at top; print. Baker and Godwin (1). Red and blue ink; border of elaborate floral ornaments, at top figure of Enterprise. 61.2 x 48.4 cm.
Location: 2#Am 1856 Carriers

Title: ASSU Illustration 8149
Description: Block numbered in two places: 8149, also 1202 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of two men standing indoors grasping hands; one stands facing the open door and the other stands on a mat just inside, looking down and holding his hat under his other hand., Signed: Lauderbach Sc. [i.e., James W. Lauderbach?]
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 22

Title: THE CHOICE.
Description: A maiden lovely as tbe [sic] spring (9 vs.) Air: The Memory of the Past. [Maritana.] Words by Edward E. Rogers; publ. De Marsan (1). T. o. border. 24 x 15 cm.

Title: American system of education. First thoughts; or, Beginning to think
Date: 1855
Location: Am 1855 Ame Sys Edu

Title: COME WHERE MY LOVE LIES DREAMING.
Description: Come where my love lies dreaming (2 vs. and chor.) Sheet no. 854; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 25 x 16 cm.

Title: Memorial of Charles H. Marshall
Date: 1867
Location: Am 1867 But

Title: THE WILD IRISH BOY.
Description: Farewell to the dear land I leave far behind (5 vs.) Sheet no. 1105; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24 x 15 cm.

Title: DO YOU REALLY THINK SHE DID?
Description: I courted a nice young girl: I'll tell you if I can (6 vs. and chor.) Air: She had such a delicate way. Publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan fountain border. 26 x 16.9 cm.

Title: Observations on the structure, physiology, anatomy and diseases of the teeth
Creator: Burdell, Harvey, creator
Date: 1838
Location: Am 1838 Bur

Title: SWILL MILK NO. 2.
Description: Kind folks, to my song will you listen (4 vs. and chor.) Air: Broth of a Boy By G. W. Anderson; print. Andrews. T. o. border. 23.7 x 14.8 cm.

Title: [Double portraits of an elderly unidentified man and woman.]
Description: Man is on the left, seated in an ornamented chair, arms resting on the chair arms. He is wearing a black suit with a satin vest. Woman is on the right, sitting on the edge of the chair, holding a cane in her left hand. She is wearing a white cap tied under her chin, and a large white bib collar., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. No design., Photographer's business card located behind the portrait of the woman. Advertises "P.F. Cooper's Photographing Rooms, all on ground floor, at 1338 Chestnut Street, opposite U.S. Mint, Philadelphia" and describes the photographer's areas of specialization., Gift of Gordon Marshall, October 2, 1976.
Creator: Cooper, Peregrine F., photographer.
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [66530.D]

Title: SOLDIER'S CKLU
Description: Rise, Soldiers, rise, with free, bold, brave acclaim (4 vs.) Tune—Russia. Sheet no. 766; sold by Partridge (2). T. o. border; flag. 20.5 x 12.2 cm.

Title: BRING MY BROTHER BACK TO ME.
Description: Bring my brother back to me (3 vs. and chor.) By Stephen C. Foster; Music published by S. T. Gordon (2)., Variant: a. [Publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan kissing cupids border. 25.2 x 16.6 cm., Variant: b. Publ. De Marsan (3). De Marsan fountain border. 24.6 x 14 cm., Variant: c. Adv: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2). Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 100, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.4 x 12.7 cm., Variant: d. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 126, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 19.4 x 12.2 cm., Variant: e. Adv: Ten illustrated Songs, publ. Magnus (1). Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 186, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 19.3 x 11.8 cm., Variant: f. Letter paper; hdpc. Magnus 215, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 19.5 x 12.7 cm. (cropped?), Variant: g. Sheet no. 1154; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24 x 15.7 cm.

Title: Lowell, as it was , and as it is
Creator: Miles, Henry A., creator
Date: 1845
Location: Am 1845 Mil

Title: ASSU Illustration 5913
Description: Block numbered in two places: 5913, block also numbered 183 in two places, now defaced. Block also inscribed 13 on back of block., Image of a man who appears to be in distress, in an interior setting. One of his hands is clasped to his head, and the other appears to be dropping coins [?] into an open drawer., Signed in reverse: VanIngen-Snyder., Van Ingen & Snyder, a partnership between William H. Van Ingen and Henry M. Snyder, was active between 1853 and 1871., “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., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Date: [between 1853 and 1856?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 11

Title: The Boston almanac, for the year 1840
Date: 1839
Location: Am 1839 Bos Alm

Title: THE PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS.
Description: tell us where, are our gallant soldiers gone (5 vs.) Air: — The Blue Bells of Scotland., Variant: a. Print. A. H. Senseman (2); adv: Handbills, Programmes, Bill-Heads, etc. T. o. border. 24 x 15.5 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with small figures of guard and soldier with horse. 19.5 x n cm. (cropped)

Title: Finnigan, Jeremiah F.
Description: Jeremiah F. Finnigan was a lithographer and printer, active in Philadelphia between ca. 1860 and 1889. In 1862, he was nominated as the secretary of the Lithographic Printers Union. His residences included 708 Fallon Street during the 1860s and 239 Marriott Street in 1889.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Perfumery and kindred arts : a comprehensive treatise on perfumery
Creator: Cristiani, Richard S., creator
Date: 1877
Location: Am 1877 Cri

Title: A guide to the orchard and fruit garden
Creator: Lindley, George, creator
Date: 1846
Location: Am 1846 Lindl

Title: ASSU Illustration 3064
Description: Block numbered in one place: 3064., Image of a bee.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 3

Title: ASSU Illustration 3270
Description: Block numbered in at least one place: 3270., Image of a jackal in a natural setting., Illustration appears in The Union spelling book (Philadelphia, 1838), p.10., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Date: [1838?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 2

Title: Eyes to the Blind.
Description: The winds' soft sighing fills mine ear, (6 vs.), Matt xxv. 34-40. Ornamental border, 26.5 x 11.5 cm.

Title: Seventh annual report of the Iowa State Agricultural Society, to the Governer of the State, for the year 1860
Creator: Iowa State Agricultural Society, creator
Date: 1861
Location: Am 1861 Iow Sta

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