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Title: Diorama - Washington at Yorktown
Description: View of the diorama with mannequin figures and a painted backdrop exhibited during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 recreating a scene from the Battle at Yorktown in October 1781. Shows troops marching and parading before officers, including Washington, on horseback. An African American man stands beside a horse, who is possibly a portrayal of Washington's enslaved valet William Lee. The diorama by Colonel F. Lienard was displayed within a skating rink at Twenty-Third and Chestnut Streets. Figures of Generals Lafayette and Rochambeau were also portrayed., Title from item., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., See "Washington at Yorktown," Philadelphia inquirer, December 13, 1875., See related print [Philadelphia roller skating rink, Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia] (trade card - Philadelphia [P.9839])., Purchase 2001.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: Centennial Photographic Company
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Company [P.9982.2]

Title: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union Volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Copyrighted by Wm. M. Cooper, C.V. Fort & Co., (i.e., Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon Committee), Contains the seal of the Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloon blindstamped on the recto., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C7849., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals materials., Print containing an exterior and interior view of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon situated near the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad station, the transportation hub between the North and the South. Exterior view shows recently arrived troops marching toward and into the saloon passed civilians and intermingling soldiers, including Zouaves. Banners and flags promoting the Cooper Shop and soliciting contributions adorn the saloon buildings. Interior view shows the saloon committee gathered in the dining hall in front of a long table at which soldiers dine. Female volunteers attend to the men who also stand at a dining bar. Also shows officers dining at a smaller table to the right next to an unidentified woman, possibly Mrs. William M. Cooper, posed near the committee. The names of the thirty committee members are printed below the image. Also contains the figure of liberty astride an eagle in front of a banner printed "Unanimitas Hodie Et In Aeterum Virtus, Libertas et Indepentia." The Saloon, established in 1861 in the old cooperage of William M. Cooper & Co., was a volunteer relief agency that provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 400, 000 military personnel, refugees, and freedmen., Depicted committee members include S.W. Nickles; E.S. Cooper; L.W. Thornton; E.T. Hall; Philip Fitzpatrick; J. Coward; Thomas H. Rice; A.H. Cairn; Isaac Plant; Wm. R.S. Cooper; B. Frank Palmer; C.V. Fort; H.W. Pearce; Capt. A.O. Davis; William M. Maull; E. Herety; A.M. Simpson; William Sprole; R.G. Simpson; J.J. Hill; William H. Dennis; L.B.M. Dolby; Jacob Plant; Walter R. Melon; R.H. Ransley; T.L. Coward; Wm. H. Morrison; and H.H. Webb.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897., creator
Date: c1862.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W085.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W85 [5778.F]

Title: View of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, Philadelphia, where over 300,000 Union soldiers have been fed. [graphic] / Schell del; Adrian - Probasco sc.
Description: Signature of Corresponding Secretary inscribed on recto: S.B. Fales., Inscribed on recto of 5778.F.8c: Organized May 27th 1861 - finally closed Dec. 1st 1865 - torn down Jany 3, 1866 - 1,025,000 meals furnished to soldiers, sailors, freedmen & c. SBF, Inscribed on recto of P.2006.1: John Mcallister Jr. with regards of Samuel B. Fales. Organized May 27th 1861 - finally closed Dec. 1st 1865 - torn down Jany 3, 1866 - 1,025,000 meals furnished to soldiers, sailors, freedmen & c. SBF, Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper Shop and Union Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals., Exterior view showing heavy street activity in front of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train arrives on the grounds, soldiers line up to enter the saloon, fire company wagons being used as ambulances pass in the streets; and a crowd of men and women stand near a policeman. Contains the names of committee officers and members below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing.
Creator: Adrian & Probasco, engraver., creator, Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, delineator., creator
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Ph Pr - 11x14 - Associations [5778.F.8c; 9a; 30b; P.2006.1.27]

Title: View of the encampment of the Corn Exchange Regiment 118th. Penn. Vols. near Falls of Schuylkill. [graphic] / Del. & Lith. by J. Magee ; Lith & Print. by W. Boell, 311 Walnut St.
Description: Printed below the title: To the President and members of the Corn Exchange and the officers and men of the Regiment this Plate is respectfully dedicated by the Artists., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc54 P544., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places and Events., Shows a line of civilians near a large flagpole watching the regiment drill in front of their tents at the camp near East Falls, Philadelphia. Civilians include men and women on horseback, women in a carriage, a family with their pet dog, and a child playing with a hoop. Also shows a military band leading the troops, officers on horseback, and other civilians walking the tree-lined circumference of the camp called Camp Union. Also contains the names of the "Committee of the Corn Exchange Regiment" printed below the image. The Exchange raised an infantry of 1000 men during the summer of 1862 through the enticement of a liberal bounty.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist., creator
Date: 1862.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W429.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W429 [5779.F]

Title: View of the encampment of the Corn Exchange Regiment 118th. Penn. Vols. near Falls of Schuylkill. [graphic] / Del. & Lith. by J. Magee ; Lith & Print. by W. Boell, 311 Walnut St.
Description: Printed below the title: To the President and members of the Corn Exchange and the officers and men of the Regiment this Plate is respectfully dedicated by the Artists., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc54 P544., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places and Events., Shows a line of civilians near a large flagpole watching the regiment drill in front of their tents at the camp near East Falls, Philadelphia. Civilians include men and women on horseback, women in a carriage, a family with their pet dog, and a child playing with a hoop. Also shows a military band leading the troops, officers on horseback, and other civilians walking the tree-lined circumference of the camp called Camp Union. Also contains the names of the "Committee of the Corn Exchange Regiment" printed below the image. The Exchange raised an infantry of 1000 men during the summer of 1862 through the enticement of a liberal bounty.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist., creator
Date: 1862.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W429.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W429 [5779.F]

Title: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union Volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Copyrighted by Wm. M. Cooper, C.V. Fort & Co., (i.e., Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon Committee), Contains the seal of the Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloon blindstamped on the recto., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C7849., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals materials., Print containing an exterior and interior view of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon situated near the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad station, the transportation hub between the North and the South. Exterior view shows recently arrived troops marching toward and into the saloon passed civilians and intermingling soldiers, including Zouaves. Banners and flags promoting the Cooper Shop and soliciting contributions adorn the saloon buildings. Interior view shows the saloon committee gathered in the dining hall in front of a long table at which soldiers dine. Female volunteers attend to the men who also stand at a dining bar. Also shows officers dining at a smaller table to the right next to an unidentified woman, possibly Mrs. William M. Cooper, posed near the committee. The names of the thirty committee members are printed below the image. Also contains the figure of liberty astride an eagle in front of a banner printed "Unanimitas Hodie Et In Aeterum Virtus, Libertas et Indepentia." The Saloon, established in 1861 in the old cooperage of William M. Cooper & Co., was a volunteer relief agency that provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 400, 000 military personnel, refugees, and freedmen., Depicted committee members include S.W. Nickles; E.S. Cooper; L.W. Thornton; E.T. Hall; Philip Fitzpatrick; J. Coward; Thomas H. Rice; A.H. Cairn; Isaac Plant; Wm. R.S. Cooper; B. Frank Palmer; C.V. Fort; H.W. Pearce; Capt. A.O. Davis; William M. Maull; E. Herety; A.M. Simpson; William Sprole; R.G. Simpson; J.J. Hill; William H. Dennis; L.B.M. Dolby; Jacob Plant; Walter R. Melon; R.H. Ransley; T.L. Coward; Wm. H. Morrison; and H.H. Webb.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897., creator
Date: c1862.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W085.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W85 [5778.F]

Title: D'Epineuil Zouaves Co. I Head quarters, S.E. cor. Third and Gaskill Streets. Good men wanted! To join this handsome regiment, now at camp, at Staten Island
Description: The D'Epineuil Zouaves, the 53rd New York Volunteers, were organized Aug. to Nov. 1861, and mustered out March 21, 1862., Printed in red and blue., The illustrations shows a portrait of a Union officer, surrounded by a laurel wreath and scenes of battle, with the legend: No compromise with traitors!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 53rd (1861-1862), Company I.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.39a (McAllister)

Title: The Imperial Zouaves! Wanted, at once, 20 men to complete a company of the splendid regiment of Col. D'Epineuil Pay and rations commence at once. Look at the imposing uniform---furnished at once. Recruiting office, at [blank] house for three days. Head-quarters, 533 Chestnut Street Philadelphia
Description: The D'Epineuil Zouaves, the 53rd New York Volunteers, were organized Aug. to Nov. 1861, and mustered out March 21, 1862., The illustrations shows an eagle with a blank banner., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 53rd (1861-1862)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.18b (McAllister)

Title: Active young men wanted, to join a company, to be attached to Col. D'Epineuil's Zouave-Regiment now at camp, at Staten Island, N.Y. Head-quarters, 403 Walnut Street
Description: The D'Epineuil Zouaves, the 53rd New York Volunteers, were organized Aug. to Nov. 1861, and mustered out March 21, 1862; George W. Bratton is associated with Company I., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; corner damaged, removing the initials of the two lieutenants., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 53rd (1861-1862), Company I.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.39c (McAllister)

Title: The Southern confederacy! Col. Robert C. Anderson, who was impressed into the rebel army in Louisiana sixteen months ago, having just reached his family in this city, will deliver a lecture, in Washington Hall, Spring Garden Street above Eighth St., on Thursday evening, November 6th, on the causes of the rebellion, and the present political and social condition of the South. As Col. Anderson has spent twenty-five years of active life in the Southern States, he will speak of the people and their institutions from personal knowledge, and represent matters just as they are. Twenty-five cents admission, for the benefit of our sick soldiers in the hospitals. Doors open at 7 o'clock, commence at 8 o'clock
Description: Nov. 6 fell on a Thursday in 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Southern (6)5777.F.32a (McAllister)

Title: The Bergner & Engel Brewing Co., Philadelphia
Description: Album containing 37 lithographic illustrations documenting the Philadelphia brewing complex on Thirty-second Street between Jefferson, Master and Thompson Streets, including exterior and interior views of individual buildings within the complex and detailed scenes of laborers operating equipment, transporting the finished product to and from railroad stations, and loading it onto ships. Shows exterior and interior views of the office building on Master Street; exterior views of the brew house and milling department, machine repair shop and fermenting houses; interior views of refrigerating machines, the first and second floors of the brew house, fermenting room, beer storage, cooper shops, racking room, wash house, shipping department, boiler house, pump room, electric light machines, machine repair shop, the ale and porter brewery and bottling house; and modes of transport including a refrigerating car, delivery wagon and locomotive. Other plates depict out-of-state depots and offices in Washington D.C.; Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Trenton, Sea Isle City, and Atlantic City, New Jersey and commemorative illustrations of the company's first-place winnings at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and Paris Exposition in 1878., The partnership of Bergner & Engel was formed in 1870 at the brewery of Bergner (erected 1857-1858) following the dissolution of the partnership of brewers Wolf & Engel. Construction of new buildings and additions and the purchase of new equipment for the Brewerytown complex took place in the 1870s. At this time, Bergner & Engel was one of the largest breweries in the country and had an international reputation. Bergner & Engel ceased operations during prohibition., Title from cover., Bound in a fine diagonal-ribbed maroon cloth, black and gilt stamped, with the company's trademark phoenix on the front board., Plates signed A.M.J. Mueller., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 15
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [67310.D]

Title: View of the encampment of the Corn Exchange Regiment 118th. Penn. Vols. near Falls of Schuylkill
Description: Shows a line of civilians near a large flagpole watching the regiment drill in front of their tents at the camp near East Falls, Philadelphia. Civilians include men and women on horseback, women in a carriage, a family with their pet dog, and a child playing with a hoop. Also shows a military band leading the troops, officers on horseback, and other civilians walking the tree-lined circumference of the camp called Camp Union. Also contains the names of the "Committee of the Corn Exchange Regiment" printed below the image. The Exchange raised an infantry of 1000 men during the summer of 1862 through the enticement of a liberal bounty., Printed below the title: To the President and members of the Corn Exchange and the officers and men of the Regiment this Plate is respectfully dedicated by the Artists., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 795, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc54 P544., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places and Events.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W429 [5779.F]

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard," and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by scroll ornaments, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens, and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., Second state., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 813.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 U 58b (3 copies). Two of HSP copies contain blind stamp of B.S. Brown.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W438.2 [P.9001.2]

Title: East view of Philadelphia, Pennsylva. and part of Camden, New Jersey
Description: Bird's eye view looking from Camden toward the east side of the city. Tree-lined blocks of residential and commercial buildings in Camden predominate the foreground. The tower of the Philadelphia-Camden Ferry House and light traffic on Market Street comprises the townscape as well. Several types of vessels, including ferries, steamboats, and sailing ships traverse the Delaware River. In the distance, the cityscape of Philadelphia between Port Richmond and Southwark to West Philadelphia is visible. Includes Fairmount, Girard College, the Navy Yard, Blockley Almshouse, and the steeple of Christ Church. View also shows Smith and Windmill islands, and several ships docked along the piers lining the Delaware riverfront., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 200, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc864 K81.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: c1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W104 [P.2083]

Title: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union Volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia
Description: Print containing an exterior and interior view of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon situated near the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad station, the transportation hub between the North and the South. Exterior view shows recently arrived troops marching toward and into the saloon passed civilians and intermingling soldiers, including Zouaves. Banners and flags promoting the Cooper Shop and soliciting contributions adorn the saloon buildings. Interior view shows the saloon committee gathered in the dining hall in front of a long table at which soldiers dine. Female volunteers attend to the men who also stand at a dining bar. Also shows officers dining at a smaller table to the right next to an unidentified woman, possibly Mrs. William M. Cooper, posed near the committee. The names of the thirty committee members are printed below the image. Also contains the figure of liberty astride an eagle in front of a banner printed "Unanimitas Hodie Et In Aeterum Virtus, Libertas et Indepentia." The Saloon, established in 1861 in the old cooperage of William M. Cooper & Co., was a volunteer relief agency that provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 400, 000 military personnel, refugees, and freedmen., Depicted committee members include S.W. Nickles; E.S. Cooper; L.W. Thornton; E.T. Hall; Philip Fitzpatrick; J. Coward; Thomas H. Rice; A.H. Cairn; Isaac Plant; Wm. R.S. Cooper; B. Frank Palmer; C.V. Fort; H.W. Pearce; Capt. A.O. Davis; William M. Maull; E. Herety; A.M. Simpson; William Sprole; R.G. Simpson; J.J. Hill; William H. Dennis; L.B.M. Dolby; Jacob Plant; Walter R. Melon; R.H. Ransley; T.L. Coward; Wm. H. Morrison; and H.H. Webb., Copyrighted by Wm. M. Cooper, C.V. Fort & Co., (i.e., Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon Committee), Contains the seal of the Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloon blindstamped on the recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 160, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C7849., Original watercolor of exterior scene held in the collections of HSP., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals materials.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W85 [5778.F Cooper Shop]

Title: William Russell Birch Collection
Description: Collection containing primarily engravings, watercolors, and drawings executed by English-born artist and engraver William Birch and his descendants between the 18th and later 19th century. Several of the graphic materials are by William Birch and represent engraved work he completed in Britain before 1794 and following his immigration to the United States that same year. His British work includes plates from his unpublished satiric volume “The Busy World, or London Dissected ...” (ca. 1792-ca. 1793) showing a charlatan at work, a fight between Richard Humphreys and Daniel Mendoza, a May Day procession, and rag dealers (P.2016.50.28-33); loose plates from his book of British landscapes “Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne” (1791) (P.2016.50.34, 36, 42); the rural and scenic “The Porcupine Inn Yard Rushmore Hill” (p.2016.50.38); the disaster print “The Great Fire of London in the Year 1666” (P.2016.50.55); and portraits of the poetical character Secander (P.2016.50.40) and his mentor “Sir Joshua Reynolds” (P.2016.50.22). His American work includes variant editions of plates from his “Views of Philadelphia” originally published as a series 1798-1800 (P.2016.62.21-37); variant editions of plates from his “Country Seats” originally published in 1808 (P.2016.62.38-45a); and the 1800 commemorative portrait “George Washington. Late President of the United States of America” (hand-colored and black and white [P.2016.50.59 & P.2016.62.55])., British and American work of Birch is also included in the collection in the form of watercolors, drawings, paintings, a sketchbook, and as photographic reproductions. These graphics depict portraits of family members (some photographed ca. 1910s by Charles W. Parker), including his children Priscilla, Thomas, George, and Albina while young as well as his purportedly his mother Anne (P.2016.50); ca. 1800s plan and views of his Bucks County country seat Springland (purchased in 1798) (P.2016.50.48-50); views of the Philadelphia country seat China Retreat, Gunpowder Falls near Hampton, MD, and the George Read estate in New Castle, DE (P.2016.50.43, 45-46); an annotated sketch of Westminster Bridge from the Adelphi Terrace (P.2016.50.51); a drawing of a group of boys (P.2016.62.2); and pencil sketches of male and female figures within an undated sketchbook (P.2016.62.59). Additionally, Birch’s work is represented by a preparatory sketch of an A. Sheffer portrait of Lafayette (P.2016.50.21); portrait drawings of unidentified sitters (P.2015.25 & 26); a ca. 1795 miniature enamel painting of his daughter Deborah (P.2016.50.67); a palette of his paint colors (P.2016.50.66); and an 1830s oil painting of an older Thomas Birch (1779-1851) attributed to William (P.2016.62.1)., Other original and reproduced material is attributed to William Birch or by Birch family members or by other artists and engravers. This includes a 1742 Thomas Worlidge pencil portrait of William’s father Thomas (P.2016.50.14), a Birch portrait of William King (father-in-law of son Thomas), and portraits and a "Museum" (i.e., Peale Museum) blind-stamped silhouette of Birch (P.2016.50.16); ca. 1785 Robert Freebairn watercolor of Hampstead Heath (Birch’s British county of residence); engravings by M. Marigot of “Mount Vernon ...” and “View of the City and Port of Philadelphia ...” from Janson's "Stranger in America" (London, 1807); Franklin Birch 1860s pencil sketches of a printing press and plows (P.2016.62.5-6)); Louise S. Birch's oil renderings of flowers (P.2016.62.12-13); sketches of a title page to the 1852 edition of Thomas Day’s “The History of Sanford and Merton” and of rural and landscape scenes and animal studies (Thomas Birch?; P.2016.62.3, 8-11); John McAllister, Jr. 1860 restrikes (some signed by Agnes McAllister) of Philadelphia views by Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Birch and William Strickland and the 1798 “Congressional Pugilists cartoon (P.2016.62.46-52; and engraved portraits of Major Genl. Brown (P.2016.62.53) and Edward Shippen (P.2016.62.54)., Collection also contains a unique ca. 1810 mockup by Birch for a revised and enlarged edition of his “Country Seats” (P.2016.62.59).The album includes plates from the first edition as well as a proof plate of the Devon view, three watercolors showing “Analostun, or Masons Island with one wing of the house at Georgetown and two of Mr. Custus’s in the distance”; “Point Breeze. The Residence of Joseph Bonapart – at Burdentown on the Delaware”;“The Mill & House of Mr. E. Esirel late sheriff of Phila., Near Christeen,” and a pencil sketch “Mr. Bells Buildings at Richmond.” Other unique items in the Birch Collection include his two variant volumes of manuscript copies of “The Life and Anecdotes of William Russell Birch ...”(bulk written after War of 1812 and into the 1820s), including accounts of his work and travels (P.2016.50.61 & 62); “Birch’s American Cottage. Volm. 2nd” of personal anecdotes, including discussion of Springland (P.2016.50.63); Birch’s “Book of Profitts” with entries dated 1813-1830 (P.2016.50.64); and probably his personal copy of “Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne” (P.2016.50.65). An imperfect copy of “Les Delices” formerly owned by original subscriber Francis Longe (and including his book plate) and a copy of “Transactions of the Society Instituted at London” (1785) referencing a Birch award (p.183) are also included with the materials (P.2016.50.65 & 60)., A small number of manuscripts written by William Birch comprise the collection as well. These materials include a ca. 1800-ca.1805 calligraphic and manuscript title page to "Views of and from The Country References of William Birch. Drawn by Himself wih a sett of Drawings of Springland"; a ca. 1818 letter to an unidentified granddaughter (P.2015.50.1); an undated letter addressed to the Duke of Grafton and Duke of Richmond about “forgetting their subscriptions” (possibly about subscription to Delices... [1791]) (P.2015.50.2); scraps with names of subscribers to “Busy World” (P.2015.50.3) as well as titles completed and to be completed (P.2015.50.4&5); ca. 1805 list of views of “Beautys of Springland not Pictured” (P.2015.50.6); and an 1811 receipt for 5 dollars issued to Ben Wilson for “Views.” (P.2015.50.7). Ephemera also forms the Birch Collection and includes Birch’s certificate of United States citizenship issued in 1808 (P.2016.50.52); a broadside advertising the 1789 titles to be issued by “J. Bell of the British Library” and addressed to Wm. Birch, Hampstead Heath (P.2016.50.53); the bookplate of historian and writer Thomas Birch (1705-1766) (P.2016.50.35 &P.2016.62.15); completed tags for William Birch miniatures on display at the 1911 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters Tenth Annual Exhibition (P.2016.62.17-20); early twentieth-century receipts and labels for works by Thomas and William Birch (P.2016.62.62-66); and an unused enamel plate (P.2016.50.27)., Various artists, engravers, printers, and photographers including William Russell Birch, Thomas Birch, Franklin Birch, Louise Birch, J. N. Gimbrede, Jan Griffier, Augustus Kollner, M. Marigot, Charles W. Parker, Charles Willson Peale, P. Roberts, J. Rogers, Julius F. Sacshe, Ary Sheffer, Samuel Shelley, Thomas T. Stiles, Gilbert Stuart, Benedictus Antonio Van Assen, E. Wellmore, J. Wood, and Thomas Worlidge., Various publishers and distributors including J. Bell, William Birch, R. Campbell & Co., James Cundee, E. Jeffrey, Edward J. Parker, R. Pollard, C. Taylor, and T. Thornton., Research files, genealogical reference files, and modern photographic reproductions of the artists' work that accompanied the collection when acquired are available at the repository., See Emily T. Cooperman and Lea Carson Sherk, Picturing the American Scene (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)., See Emily T. Cooperman, ed., The Country Seats of the United States. William Russell Birch (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)., See S. Robert Teitelman, Birch's Views of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000)., See Martin P. Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 73 (July 1949), 271-315., See Martin Snyder, "Birch's Philadelphia Views: New Discoveries," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 88 (April 1964), 164-173., See Martin P. Snyder, "William Birch: his ’Country seats of the United States,’" Pennsylvania magazine of History and Biography 81 (1957), 225-254., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2017, p. 49 - 51., P.2018.55 photographic reproduction of Mrs. Robinson engraved by William Birch after Sir Joshua Reynolds housed with collection., William Russell Birch (1755-1834), trained in England under Sir Joshua Reynolds, was a respected Philadelphia engraver, miniaturist, and enamel painter. Birch was also one of the most important landscape artists in America’s Federal period. He engraved and published the first viewbook of an American city, "The City of Philadelphia in the Year… 1800" and the respected "The Country Seats of the United States of North America" in 1804. His son Thomas Birch (1779-1851) assisted him in the drawing and engraving of his viewbooks. He became a respected artist in his own right and specialized in marine paintings.
Date: [ca. 1742 - ca. 1913]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Collection [P.2016.50 & 62 and P.2017.54 and P.2018.55]

Title: Camp Meigs
Description: View showing the Civil War camp under the command of Col. R.H. Rush at Old Second Street and Nicetown Lane on the estate of James Logan. In the foreground, soldiers drill on horseback in front of drill sergeants, officers-in-charge, and camp visitors, including men, women, and children. Also shows rows of tents for companies A-K, Conestoga wagons, hitched horses, a flagpole, and a locomotive traveling past the camp in the right background. Also includes the names and ranks of the field and staff officers, and a key to the camps depicted, including the names of the ranking officers, below the image. Officers include Lieut. Col. J.H. McArthur; 1st Major C. Ross Smith; Chaplain Rev. Erben, Surgeon Willliam Moss, and Quartermaster Sergeant Richard M. Sheppard. Company captains include George E. Clymer (G), Joseph Wright (D), and Howard Ellis (K)., Copyrighted by Charles Baum., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 79, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 54 M 512
Date: c1861
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 54 M 512

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard, and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by filigree, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. and freedmen., Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., First state., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 V 58c
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital. Corner of Broad St. and Washington Avenue. [graphic] / Drawn & lith. by James Queen, Philada.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of material concerning Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals., Fundraising certificate containing views of the exterior and interior of the volunteer hospital opened September 5, 1862 opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot. Exterior view shows civilians and a troop of Union soldiers standing in front of the hospital as a train arrives. Interior view shows rows of beds lining a central hallway. Women volunteers attend to bed-ridden soldiers and set a long table for a meal. Framed by decorative motifs including the seal of Philadelphia; angels hovering above an able-bodied and an injured soldier in front of columns inscribed "The Glory of the Volunteer"; American flags; and floral elements. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. Closed on August 11, 1865.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
Date: [1862]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W068.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W68 [5778.F]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital. Corner of Broad St. and Washington Avenue. [graphic] / Drawn & lith. by James Queen, Philada.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of material concerning Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals., Fundraising certificate containing views of the exterior and interior of the volunteer hospital opened September 5, 1862 opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot. Exterior view shows civilians and a troop of Union soldiers standing in front of the hospital as a train arrives. Interior view shows rows of beds lining a central hallway. Women volunteers attend to bed-ridden soldiers and set a long table for a meal. Framed by decorative motifs including the seal of Philadelphia; angels hovering above an able-bodied and an injured soldier in front of columns inscribed "The Glory of the Volunteer"; American flags; and floral elements. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. Closed on August 11, 1865.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
Date: [1862]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W068.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W68 [5778.F]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital. Corner of Broad St. and Washington Avenue
Description: Fundraising certificate containing views of the exterior and interior of the volunteer hospital opened September 5, 1862 opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot. Exterior view shows civilians and a troop of Union soldiers standing in front of the hospital as a train arrives. Interior view shows rows of beds lining a central hallway. Women volunteers attend to bed-ridden soldiers and set a long table for a meal. Framed by decorative motifs including the seal of Philadelphia; angels hovering above an able-bodied and an injured soldier in front of columns inscribed "The Glory of the Volunteer"; American flags; and floral elements. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. Closed on August 11, 1865., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 130, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of material concerning Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W68 [5778.F Citizens Volunteer]

Title: "Saturday Jaunts: One-Day Holidays Spent Near the City" by the Ledger Monastery
Description: Volume composed of reprinted "Saturday Jaunts" columns (spring and summer 1891) and 25 photographs documenting the one-day excursions of the "Saturday Jaunters," employees of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia. Saturday Jaunters (identified with "monkish" pseudonyms) referenced in and authors of the columns include Bonifacius (William E. Meehan), Benedict (Addison B. Burk), Chrysostum (Joel Cook), Angelo (John J. Mckenna), Damon (Charles S. Spangler), Photius (Edmund Stirling), Friar Tuck (Edward Robinson), Constantius (Stephen J. Burke), Pius (Israel F. Sheppard), Sacristan (C. Johann), Fabian (Dr. William H. Burk), Medicus, Ananias (Collins W. Walton), Titian (John A. Johann), Cephas (Peter J. Heborn), and Brother Alban (Captain Robert C. Clipperton). Contains the columns: I. Marble Hall and Spring Mill. II. A Visit to the Coal Fields of Pottsville. III. A Trip along Cresheim Creek and the "Happy Valley." IV. A Roundabout Journey to Edge Hill. V. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir. VI. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir (Continued). VII. A Pleasant Pilgrimage into New Jersey. VIII. A. Walk Up the Wissahickon Valley. IX. A Trip to Reading and Its Grand Environs. X. The Soapstone Quarries and Rockdale. XI. Villanova and Its Vicinity. XII. Glimpses from a Car window of a Picturesque Country. XIII. A Trip to Mount Gretna and the Cornwall Ore Banks.

Title: Saturday jaunts one-day holidays spent near the city by the Ledger Monastery
Description: Volume composed of reprinted "Saturday Jaunts" columns (spring and summer 1891) and 25 photographs documenting the one-day excursions of the "Saturday Jaunters," employees of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia. Saturday Jaunters (identified with "monkish" pseudonyms) referenced in and authors of the columns include Bonifacius (William E. Meehan), Benedict (Addison B. Burk), Chrysostum (Joel Cook), Angelo (John J. Mckenna), Damon (Charles S. Spangler), Photius (Edmund Stirling), Friar Tuck (Edward Robinson), Constantius (Stephen J. Burke), Pius (Israel F. Sheppard), Sacristan (C. Johann), Fabian (Dr. William H. Burk), Medicus, Ananias (Collins W. Walton), Titian (John A. Johann), Cephas (Peter J. Heborn), and Brother Alban (Captain Robert C. Clipperton). Contains the columns: I. Marble Hall and Spring Mill. II. A Visit to the Coal Fields of Pottsville. III. A Trip along Cresheim Creek and the "Happy Valley." IV. A Roundabout Journey to Edge Hill. V. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir. VI. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir (Continued). VII. A Pleasant Pilgrimage into New Jersey. VIII. A. Walk Up the Wissahickon Valley. IX. A Trip to Reading and Its Grand Environs. X. The Soapstone Quarries and Rockdale. XI. Villanova and Its Vicinity. XII. Glimpses from a Car window of a Picturesque Country. XIII. A Trip to Mount Gretna and the Cornwall Ore Banks., Columns, signed by the author, reference the attending jaunters; describe their routes taken by foot, train (Reading Railroad), elevated rail, and coal cars; and provide stories, myths, and histories of the botany, geology, fauna, and architecture of the locales and sites visited. Specific sites and landmarks described in detail include Marble Hall marble pit; Spring Mill (Schuylkill Valley); Reading Coal and Iron Company; Livezey's meadow and Devil's Glenn (Wissahickon Valley); the "Great Valley," i.e., Chester, Plymouth, and Whitemarsh valleys; George Bullock's former land and mill (Gulf Creek); Plymouth Quaker Meeting House; Belvoir Estate on the summit of Sandy Hill; "Crystal" and Cold springs (Laurel Springs, Camden County, N.J.); Norristown Railroad Bridge; John Kelpius's log cabin and caves (Germantown); Rittenhouse Mill on Monoshone Creek; McKinney’s Quarry (Wissahickon); Neversink Mountain; Bear Inn (Reading); Rockdale picnic grounds; Barren Hill; Augustinian College (i.e., Villanova University); monastery and church of the Augustinian Fathers at Villanova; Berks, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Columbia, Northumberland and Union counties; Port Carbon; and Cornwall Ore Bank Company. Columns also report about the railroad and industrial officials who provided tours and served as guides; "Photius"'s photographs; jaunter's scientific, philosophical, and literary discussions, including the plant life, flora, and fauna of the Wissahickon, the geology and landscapes of the Schuylkill and Lebanon valleys, and Potsdam sandstone; and jaunter's activities including fishing, collecting arrowheads, and playing baseball. Columns also report about the jaunters more colloquial conversations, including the three different Indian Rock hotels and Joseph “Rooty” Smith root museum on the Wissahickon and the Mt. Gretna Farmer’s Encampment Association annual encampment (August 16-22, 1891)., Photographs taken by "Photius," (i.e., Edmund Stirling) a photographer by avocation, depict group portraits of the "jaunters" and their families during excursions; a summer home in Chestnut Hill; a Marble Hall pit; Pottsville coal mine; a tree in the Plymouth Meetinghouse yard; a Germantown cave where Johann Kelpius or his followers resided; cascades, creeks, and streams in "Happy Valley," Laurel Springs, and the Wissahickon; Mt. Gretna train station; and a portrait of "jaunter" Alban, i.e., Robert C. Clipperton, attired in walking gaiters, and a handkerchief under his hat during the Villanova jaunt., Tan leather binding stamped "Saturday Jaunts" on spine., Includes illustrated title page containing the figure of a plump monk, in his robes, and holding a pipe., Names of jaunters supplied from unillustrated edition in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Vd. 503)., Photographs annotated: H [number]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Edmund Stirling, born September 13, 1861 in Philadelphia, began his career in the newspaper trade as a reporter in his later teens. By the 1890s, he started his avocation of photography and worked as an editor at the Public Ledger. Stirling was also active in the Photo-Secession Movement and a member of several other clubs in addition to the "jaunters," including the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, the Pen and Pencil Club, and Manufacturer's Club. He was married to Anne J. Biddle, who also practiced photography. The couple had one son, Charles Biddle, who died in infancy.
Date: [MDCCCXCVIII. [1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Saturday [79214.O]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia. [graphic] : Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861 / J. Queen, del. & lith.
Description: Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: [1863]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W412.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W412 [5778.F]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia. [graphic] : Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861 / J. Queen, del. & lith.
Description: Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: [1863]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W412.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W412 [5778.F]

Title: [Michael Zinman world's fairs collection]
Description: Collection of graphic materials documenting world's fairs of the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, predominantly the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 (Philadelphia) and Exposition Universelle de 1867 à Paris. Includes stereographs, trade cards, collecting cards, lantern slides, and souvenirs. Graphics also depict the Great Exhibition of 1851; New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854); the Exposition Universelle de 1867 a Paris; the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878; the Chicago World's Fair of 1893; the Pan American Exposition of 1901 (Buffalo, N.Y.); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (St. Louis, Mo.); and the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 (Philadelphia). Views show panoramas of the exhibition grounds and exteriors and interiors of exhibition buildings, including displays showing the wares and products of specific companies and countries, particularly porcelain and terra cotta; art, predominantly sculpture; and dioramas representing the social life and customs of different nations (Morocco, Japan, Sweden, and South America). Several trade cards issued during the Chicago World's Fair advertising the Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Penn'a. also contain anecdotal, caricatured scenes portraying prominent historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, and Benjamin Franklin. Collection also contains a small number of portraiture, views of events and prominent local buildings related to the Philadelphia exhibitions, and lantern slides issued by the Centennial Photographic Company., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, publishers, and manufacturers including Centennial Photographic Company; Curt Teich & Co.; Donaldson Bros.; Thomas Hunter; Ketterlinus; Longacre & Co.; M. Leon & J. Levy; Pan American Exposition Co.; and Philip Frey & Co., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Series IV. Lantern slides housed separately.
Date: [1851-ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36]

Title: View of the reception of the 29th Regiment, P. V., at Philadelphia
Description: An innovatively designed view of the December 23, 1863 procession of the Pennsylvania Volunteer regiment in honor of their heroic service with the Army of the Potomac. Depicts the procession as a serpentine with the order of procession arranged from top to bottom, with a large eagle, holding an American shield, and patriotic flags by the "Ladies for the 29th" flanked by banners reading "Welcome Home" above the entire view. Soldiers on horseback lead the procession, followed by infantrymen transported in horse-drawn wagons, with one also pulling a cannon, which are followed by a small brass military band. After the musicians, the 29th Regiment marches on foot, some carrying flags, amongst which additional military bands and officers on horse-back also process. Horse-drawn volunteer fire company ambulances carrying soldiers follow the troops, including the vehicles of Northern Liberty Fire Co. no. 1, Vigilant Fire Co., Assistance Fire Co., Weccacoe, Southwark Hose Co., and Hope Hose Company. Along the route men, women, and children watch and join the procession, shake soldier's hands, and cheer. Also shows two boys in a scuffle among the spectators., Buildings line the route, most in shadowy, partial views except the Cooper Shop Soldiers Home at Race and Crown (opened December 1863) and the adjacent buildings near the top of the view. Women crowd the windows of the home and a large American flag marked "Cooper Shop Soldiers Home" stands in front of the building. Also contains the names by Field and Staff Officers, Non-Commissioned Staff, and by Company, of the "Veterans of the 29th," including the African American Company K in addition to the names of the "Board of Managers of the Cooper Shop Soldiers' Home." The procession commenced at about one o'clock from Market Street Bridge down Market Street to Twenty-First Street eventually arriving at the Cooper Shop Soldiers Home where the members of the 29th regiment had dinner before proceeding to the National Guards Hall (518-520 Race Street) to be welcomed by Colonel John Price Wetherill. The order of the procession was as follows the First City Troop; 27th New York Battery; Liberty Coronet Band; Henry Guards; four companies of invalids corps; Provost Guard; discharged members of the regiment; Birgfield's Band; former (Murphy) and present (Rickards) commander of the regiment; Lieut. Col. Zulick of the regiment; the regiment; female family members; First Regiment, Jefferson Coronet Band, Pennsylvania Military Institute cadets, City Council members, and other guards and regiments; and lastly the ambulances of the firemen. The veterans of the 29th Regiment home on furlough re-inlisted for additional service, which was announced at the procession., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 807, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc85 B347., Reception described in the Philadelphia Inquirer (December 24, 1863).
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***W435 [P.2262 and (12) 1540.F]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861
Description: Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, freedom seekers. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865., Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 771, Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto of 5778.F Union Volunteer: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Manuscript note on recto of P.2023.2: Mr. McNally with the compliments of Samuel B. Fales, No. 707 Vine St. Philadelphia., Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2021., P.2023.2 gift of Philadelphia Magazine., Digital image shows 5778.F Union Volunteer., Queen was a premier Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, who served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W412 [5778.F Union Volunteer and P.2023.2]

Title: Satterlee Polka for the piano. Composed and respectfully dedicated to Surgeon I.I. Hayes U.S.V. Comg. Satterlee U.S.A. Genl. Hospital W. Phila
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking down at the Satterlee U.S.A. General Hospital grounds from a hill in West Philadelphia. In the foreground, soldiers, women, and children, on foot and horseback, descend a path on the elevation en route to the Civil War Union hospital. Recuperating soldiers and visitors recline on a large rock on the hillside and in the adjoining valley. A foot bridge lined by trees leads from the valley to Satterlee. Several figures are visible walking, and arriving by foot and omnibus at the hospital grounds that are also lined by tents. In the left, a horse-drawn omnibus crosses a bridge, overshadowed by trees, spanning Mill Creek., Manuscript note on recto: NW fr. Balto Ave. N of 43rd St., Price printed on recto: 4., pdcc00023, Philadelphia on Stone, Library Company copy acquired after POS 2010: P.2011.63.5., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 9:71, Hayes served as the ship's surgeon during Elisha Kent Kane's Artic explorations (1853-1855) and organized his own Arctic exploration in 1860 before serving at Satterlee General Hospital.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 9:71

Title: Civil War Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals Ephemera Collection. 1861-1868 (inclusive)
Description: The Civil War Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals Ephemera Collection holds ephemera and a few pieces of correspondence (including letters to and from Samuel Bradford Fales, William M. Cooper, and Arad Barrows) that illustrate and describe the workings of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, and both of their hospitals. The ephemera is somewhat similar for each group, and consists primarily of donation acknowledgements, event tickets and programs, flyers, and circular letters that the committees used to raise funds., At the start of the American Civil War, thousands of enlisted men from the northeast arrived in Philadelphia on their way to fight in the South. No government or military agencies had made provisions for feeding or caring for these transients, so Philadelphians citizens founded the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. Both saloons opened for service in late May 1861. At no charge to the servicemen, they provided meals, newspapers, bathing facilities, changes of underwear and socks, and assistance in writing letters to families. Between them, the saloons operated twenty-four hours a day and depended solely on contributions of time and goods from neighborhood citizens and merchants. Those donations were supplemented by funds raised at a benefit fairs, concerts, and lectures held around the city, some of which benefited both organizations.
Creator: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts MSS McA 5778.F (McAllister)

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862 Erected September 5th 1862 for temporary relief of sick and wounded soldiers, arriving in and passing through Philadelphia. Closed August 9th 1865
Description: Certificate containing a view showing a bustling street scene around the hospital situated opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot at the corner of Broad Street and Washington Avenue. On the sidewalk, soldiers converse, men and women pedestrians stroll, and a female peddler and vendor sell their goods and wares, the latter patronized by Zouaves. In the street, medical personnel and doctors accompany injured soldiers, by stretcher, foot, and on crutches toward the hospital. Men, women, and children walk, converse, and greet each other, and horse-drawn carriages, including possibly an ambulance, travel past and stop near the hospital. Children include a boy carrying a basket and two attempting to help a man with his valise. Also shows surrounding buildings in the background. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. The hospital closed on August 11, 1865., Signed Thomas T. Tasker Junr President and F. Bayle Secretary pro tem., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 129, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Variant of image used as central scene in Wainwright 69.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W67 [P.8650]

Title: [Family photograph album of views of Eastern and Central Pennsylvania]
Description: Family snapshot photograph album photographed and compiled by a Lorah family member, possibly Mary (Lorah) Rismiller and containing portraits of family members and friends and views of Eastern and Central Pennsylvania during family visits and excursions between 1907 and 1916. Album pages are annotated with the name of town visited and often the date of the visit. The photographs are captioned with descriptive or identifying titles and/or annotated with the names of the sitters photographed. Towns and cities visited include Houtzdale, Pa. in 1910; Emaus, Pa. in 1911; Duncannon, Pa. in 1911; Millerstown, Pa. ; Philadelphia, Pa.; Ocean Grove, N.J.; Atlantic City, N.J.; Camden, N.J.; Mexico, Pa. in 1915; and Wernersville, Pa. in 1916. Imagery includes views of businesses and industries, several churches, schools, residences, and recreational areas, as well bridges, streetscapes, cityscapes, and landscapes. Sites depicted show the Houtzdale Coal Mining Region, including views of workers, the entrance, the breaker “after the fire,” and the air shaft; Camden, N.J. Alms House Hospital and Stables; Edwin Glass near the brick oven of a bake shop and “Novelty works” (Duncannon, Pa.); a duck farm (Emaus, Pa.); the Office of Dr. M.J. Stine, Old & New Shirt Factory of B.W. Paget & Son, a wooden tripod structure “Devils Catcher,” and Slaughterback Hill (Millerstown, Pa.); the Juniata River; a bridge and shirt factory (Mexico, Pa.) and South Mountain Park (Wernersville, Pa.), Several photographs document the facilities and staff, including Mary’s brother W. C. Lorah, at the State Hospital at Wernersville. The views show the “Filtering Bed,” “Turburcular” [sic] ward, “Stables,” the “Reservoir,” “Refectory,” “Day Room,” “Isolation Building,” “Laundry/Cold Storage,” “Industrial Building,” “Green Houses,” “Infirmary Force,” (i.e. hospital attendants); and the “Dormitory.” Also contains views from the Lorah family hometown of Blandon, Pa., including the “Lorah House”; views of the railroad, including tracks, stations, and bridges; camping along the Delaware River; and the Camden Carnival., Portrait photographs show men, women, and children posed in front of residences, in yards and public spaces, and on outings. Several of the portraits depict Mary Ritzmiller’s mother Ellen Becker Lorah, as well as niece Selena Lorah, and nephew Merit O. Lorah (as a baby), and brother W.C. (William Chester) Lorah. Other portraits depict a group portrait of “J. Benson employees” posed in front of a shoe store in Holzdale; “Mrs. Lukens” posed from her wheelchair; and an out of focus view of W.C. Lorah “Among the Fens.” Portraiture also includes a portrait taken in Blandon and captioned “Black Annie” and shows an older Black woman standing on the steps of probably a general store and attired in a kerchief, heavy jacket, and skirt. She wears a tambourine at her waist and walks with a cane. A few portraits depict women in chicken coops and Ellen Lorah holding a goose. Several portraits are also annotated with humorful and wry-toned captions, including a series of images of individuals posed to represent “Sports," “Obeying,” “Cherubs,” “Temptation,” and “Just for Fun.” Many of the photographs include objects of the everyday, including horse-drawn vehicles, water pumps, wash tubs and a hand-powered washer, baby carriages and rockers and other children’s furnishings, dolls and stuffed animals, and an automobile. Album also contains portraits of friends from and views of Toledo and Gibsonburg, Ohio in June 1907., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from content., Stamped on front cover: Photographs., Photographs arranged in diagonal patterns on p. [24-30]., Many of the pages contain titles., Majority of images annotated with a caption., Mary Lorah Rissmiller (1883-1959), daughter of Allen Lorah (1849-1922) and Ellen Becker Lorah 1856-1917), was born in Blandon, Pa. and married railroad freight laborer William Rismiller (1879-1959) in 1903. Her siblings included Daniel Clement Lorah (b. 1874), Josiah Curtis Lorah (1876-1957), Allen Harvery Lorah (1886-1967), and William Chester Lorah (1888-1918).
Creator: Rismiller, Mary Lorah, 1883-1959
Date: [1907-1916]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2022.14]

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