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- Title
- The neglected picture From the Home journal. The following lines were suggested on seeing the painting styled the "Neglected picture," by W.M. Davis, of Port Jefferson, now on exhibition at Messrs. Ball, Black and Co.'s
- Description
- Caption title, with first lines of text., First line of the seven-verse poem: What ails you Jeff.? hast had a "smash?", On verso: Done gone. From the New York herald. The fine arts. Mr. William M. Davis, of Port Jefferson, Long Island, whose painting, styled the "Neglected picture," has attracted so much notice of late, has just produced another picture, ... The title "Done gone," selected by the artist, will be readily recognized by all who have travelled in the South ..., At foot of each side: Photographic copies, carte de visite size, 25 cts. each., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Davis, William M., 1829-1920
- Date
- [1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Davis 5795.F.69 (McAllister)
- Title
- The chivalry at the English court
- Description
- Cartoon mocking Southern secessionists who sought foreign aid for the Southern Confederacy by depicting white men emissaries from the "Gentlemen colony of South Carolina" asking Queen Victoria if she can spare a King. The South Carolinians stand before the throne and present bales of “Cotton” to the Queen. Behind them a contingent of enslaved African American children, portrayed as racist caricatures, carry an umbrella, a fan, a serving tray of “julips,” and hold the tail of the emissary’s jacket. In the right, Queen Victoria sits on her throne surrounded by white boys and flanked by a lion and a unicorn. She responds that her family is small but possibly a "Coburg" relation may satisfy their needs., Title from item., Publication date supplied by Weitenkampf., Text printed below image: May it please Your Majesty, We, the Republicans of the Gentlemen Colony of South Carolina are desirous of having a Royal Master; would You graciously please to spare us a King out of your illustrious house? Her Majesty. Thank you Gentlemen, but my Family is small, you know; -- perhaps one of my Coburg Relations may accommodate you, I can recommend them, they give Satisfaction in every Place., Accessioned 1899., RVCDC, 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1860-6W [5780.F]
- Title
- Lecture Saturday evening, May 28th, at Sansom St. Hall Come one and all, ladies and gentlemen, and hear the condition of the South by one that has just made his escape from there. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Lecturing to commence at 8. Admittance, 50 cents
- Description
- May 28 fell on a Saturday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Lecture (2)5786.F.82b (McAllister)
- Title
- [Caricature of Jefferson Davis attired as a Chinese man]
- Description
- Shows Davis on a coast in front of a fleet of ships labeled "200 Chinese fleet" sailing toward a Chinese pagoda labeled "Richmond" in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Jefferson Davis and Confederate material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5795.F.7d]
- Title
- Procession envelope
- Description
- Image: Ragtag military procession including soldiers riding horses or mules, a wagon labelled "pork and beans," and men carrying signs., Verse 78: Advance Guard, Grand Army C.S.A., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
- Date
- 1861-1865
- Title
- South
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of a racist caricature showing an African American boy as a visual metaphor for the South, i.e., the Confederate States. Shows a raggedly dress boy holding a banjo and the Emancipation Proclamation, while standing on the Confederate flag. Face of toddler after carte de visite photograph showing a bust-lenth portrait of an African American toddler titled "Young Africa, Or the Bone of Contention" issued by E. Anthony in 1862., One of two companion cartes de visite titled "North" and "South." LCP holds "North." [5780.F.52r], Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., See LCP copy "Bone of Contention" (cdv - Anthony [P.2002.5])., Duplicate listed in Early American Historical Auctions Catalog (April 2014) contains stamp on verso: A.M. Bailey agent for American Photography.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52e]
- Title
- Died, near the South-Side Rail Road, on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, the Southern Confederacy, aged four years Conceived in sin, born in iniquity, nurtured by tyranny, died of a chronic attack of punch. Abraham Lincoln, attending physician. U.S. Grant, undertaker. Jaff Davis, chief mourner
- Description
- "Epitaph."--ten-line poem printed in two columns at foot; first line: Gentle stranger, drop a tear., Printed on white card stock; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 15.2 x 19.2., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Died 5795.F.88b (McAllister)
- Title
- A Prayer for the Southern cause
- Description
- Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 18.2 x 8.7 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; 5795.F.82a printed on yellow paper., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Prayer 5795.F.81c (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Prayer 5795.F.82a (McAllister)
- Title
- A Prayer for the Southern cause
- Description
- Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 18.2 x 8.7 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; 5795.F.82a printed on yellow paper., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Prayer 5795.F.81c (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Prayer 5795.F.82a (McAllister)
- Title
- "Done gone."
- Description
- Reproduction of an allegorical drawing depicting a tombstone inscribed "Hic Jacet Secesh" to represent the death of the South from Secession. Shows a black drape partially covering the tombstone and objects symbolizing the South, including a straw hat, hoe, corn cob, and dime novel, "the Pretty Milkmaid," laid around it., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
- Date
- c1862
- Location
- Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52s]
- Title
- "Secesh" taking a moonlight stroll
- Description
- Reproduction of a satiric drawing showing an alligator in a marsh in the moonlight., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52n]
- Title
- Confederate States of America Ephemera Collection, 1861-1865 (inclusive)
- Description
- The collection contains financial instruments, forms, and ephemera that emanated from the South during the Civil War. The material was once kept in a folio album, and some of the documents, particularly the currency and newspaper clippings, remain attached to their album pages., Folder 1 holds bonds and certificates, many uncut with coupons attached, and one album page with receipts for bonds. Folder 2 holds sixteen album pages of Confederate currency and a folder with fourteen loose dollar bills in various denominations, a few of which are labeled as facsimile notes (as part of their engraved design) and were printed in Philadelphia. There is also one page with Treasurer's bank checks, and a sheet of white paper with CSA watermarks, which is inscribed “Bank note paper manufactured for the Confederate States of America. Part of the cargo of the Blockage runner Bermuda captured 27 April 1862 & brot into the Port of Philadelphia.” Folder 3 holds clippings cut from unidentified newspapers, most of which contain announcements of regiment activities, bonds sales, defense loans, etc. Folder 4 holds ephemera printed with “Southern rights” and other secessionist slogans. Folder 5 holds miscellaneous material printed in the South, primarily government and military forms. There is also a blank sheet of light brown paper inscribed “Rebel writing paper from North Carolina.”, Confederate correspondence is filed in Series III of the McAllister Collection's Civil War Manuscripts (McA MSS 024)., Includes counterfeit currency that was featured on the program "Mysteries at the Museum" (Season 12, Episode 31, in the segment entitled "Civil War Counterfeiter"), which aired 2 February 2017., John A. McAllister was an antiquarian collector living in Philadelphia.
- Creator
- McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896
- Date
- 1861
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts MSS McA 5795.F (McAllister)
- Title
- The dis-united states. Or the Southern Confederacy
- Description
- Cartoon mocking the inherent dissension within the newly formed Confederacy depicting the Confederate state leaders as conniving self-opportunists led by the Governor of the first state to secede, South Carolina's Francis Pickens. Pickens, armed with a whip and pistol, is astride the back of an enslaved African American man on all fours, and demands as a "file leader," obedience from Stephen R. Mallory of Florida, William Yancey of Alabama, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, Joseph Brown of Georgia, and an unidentified white man from Louisiana. The Confederates seated upon representations of their state interests (a wrecked hull, bales of cotton, and a barrel of sugar) ignore Pickens and demand acquiescence to their different state needs including coastal control, control of profits from the sale of cotton, and increased bonds and duties as compensation for separating from the Union., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Date of publication supplied by Reilly., Purchase 1964., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Currier & Ives
- Date
- [1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1861-6R [6612.F]
- Title
- Writing the Emancipation Proclamation
- Description
- Pro-Confederacy caricature bombasting Abraham Lincoln's legal and moral authority to write the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicts a demented Lincoln writing the Proclamation seated at a table adorned with a spectral eye; ram horned African American heads, portrayed in racist caricature; and legs ending in cloven hooves. He sits upon a chair with a back decorated with the head of an ass, the "U.S. Constitution" trampled beneath his foot. Atop the table, the devil holds his inkwell before him. A liquor decanter rests upon a sidetable nearby. On the wall, framed paintings hang depicting "saintly" St. Ossawotamie (i.e., John Brown), and the "murderous" rebellion of the enslaved in the 1790s in "St. Domingo"(i.e., Haiti). Behind Lincoln, near window drapes held back by a vulture headed tie back, a statue of liberty, her liberty cap fallen over her face, rests her shield down upon the wall pedestal on which she stands., Inscribed upper left corner: 25., Issued as plate 25 in Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), a series of pro-Confederacy cartoons drawn and published by Baltimore cartoonist Adalbert John Volck under the pseudonym V. Blada. The "first issue" of 10 prints (numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 21, 24), with imprint "London, 1863" were printed as etchings. The remaining 20 prints (numbered 4, 8, 9-11, 14, 17-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 45) headed "Second and third issues of V. Blada's war sketches" and dated "London, July 30, 1864" were printed as lithographs., Title and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., RVCDC, 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 25 [2990.F.10]
- Title
- Arms of ye confederacie
- Description
- Civil War print using the allegory of a coat of arms to criticize slavery and Southern culture. Depicts the shield adorned with symbolic Southern imagery, including a mint julep, pistol, whip and manacles, and enslaved African Americans, including a woman with a baby, working in the field. The shield is flanked by a white man plantation owner, attired in spurs and smoking a pipe, and a bare-chested, barefooted, enslaved African American man in manacles. Above the shield stands a rooster between the Confederate flag and a flag with a skull, cross-bones, and the number 290. Above the rooster is a streamer inscribed "Servitudo Esto Perpetua." In the background, white men plantation owners play cards, two white men duel, and an auction of enslaved people is in progress., Title from item., Possible date of publication supplied by Reilly., RVCDC, Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Tilley, H. H., engraver
- Date
- [1862?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1862-13R [P.2275.9]
- Title
- Oh! Massa Jeff. dis sesesh fever will kill de nigger
- Description
- Cartoon depicting the ill effect of secession on enslaved people. In the dwelling of the enslaved African American men, Jefferson Davis, attired in a broad-brim hat and with the Union flag hanging from his pocket, checks the pulse of an emaciated, bedridden African American man with "Bond Plasters" on his chest. An angst-ridden enslaved African American man stands behind the bed and weeps as he holds a bottle of medicine. On the wall behind him are three posters advertising various medicines: "Dr. Jeffy's Celebrated Bond Plasters ...," "The Great Southern Remedies," "Dr. Jeffy's Celebrated Lettres du Marque A Radical Remedy for all Constitutional Afflictions.", Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 1961., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1861
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1861-22W [6449.F]
- Title
- The house that Jeff built
- Description
- Cartoon attacking slavery and Jefferson Davis as the Confederate President. Contains twelve vignettes indicative of the inhumanity of the institution of slavery with accompanying verse following the frequently used cartoons scheme of the nursery rhyme "The House that Jack Built." The vignettes starting with the house that Jeff built (a depiction of a "Slave Pen") continue to include images of bales of cotton; enslaved African Americans working in the cotton fields; an auction of enslaved African American men, women, and children; a white man auctioneer; shackles; a white man enslaver whipping an enslaved African American woman; and a portrait of "arch rebel" Davis. The vignettes end with the image of several smashed symbols of slavery, such as shackles and whips alongside a notice of Davis's execution. The accompanying verse predicts that "Jeffs infamous house is doom'd.", Title from item., Artist and publication information supplied by Reilly., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863 by D.C. Johnson in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts., Purchase 1966., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., David Claypoole Johnston (1779-1860), known as the "American Cruikshank," was a respected comic illustrator, engraver, and lithographer.
- Creator
- Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865, artist
- Date
- 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1863-9 [7549.F]
- Title
- The question settled
- Description
- Cartoon depicting Abraham Lincoln as "Old Abe," a white cat who drives "Jeff," (i.e., Jefferson Davis) depicted as a grey striped cat with a noose around his neck from the "United States" food dish. The black cat, "Contraband," (i.e., African American Civil War freedom seeker) makes his way into the dish from the other side. The plate rests upon the Union flag and a map depicting the lower Southern States blockaded by figures of Union ships., Title from item., Possible date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Purchase 1970., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [1862?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862-12W [7870.F]
- Title
- The drummer boy of Shiloh as sung by the First Tenn. Concert Troupe
- Description
- For voice and piano., "Words and music by Will S. Hays"--Crandall., First line of text: On Shiloh's dark and bloody ground., "Dedicated to Mr. Harry B. Macarthy.", Illustration: battlefield scene of a wounded Confederate soldier holding up a drummer boy. B. Duncan & Co. Lith., "B. Duncan & Co. Lith. Columbia, S.C.", Imprint continues: Richmond, Va. : J.W. Randolph ; Jas. Woodhouse & Co. ; Macon, Ga. : J.W. Burke, Agt. ; Mobile, Ala. : H.C. Clarke., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907
- Date
- [c1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music Drum 11375.F
- 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
- A traitor's peace! Workingmen! The politicians who cry out for "peace," and "the Union as it was," tell us that it is a very easy thing to settle the troubles between the North and the South. Read the following conditions on which the Richmond Enquirer of the 16th of October, proposed to settle and have "peace:"--- ... Comrades! Vote for the party that stands by the government, and vote for the men who stand by us, and by our brave brothers in the field, and let the ballot-box tell the story of your patriotism, and your resolve not to be the "white slaves" of traitors or their friends
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 49.
- Creator
- Democratic workingman
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Democrat (6)5777.F.102a (McAllister)
- Title
- Smuggling medicines into the South
- Description
- Partisan genre scene depicting the unloading of a rowboat with medical supplies along a shoreline near dense thickets of trees. In the center, a white man Confederate military officer keeps the boat moored through a rope in his hand. He looks back toward a white man, possibly a doctor, climbing down from a tree. An enslaved African American man (his back to the viewer), ankle deep in the water, holds a wooden pole on the shore as a lever as a white man in civilian clothes rolls a barrel toward a Confederate soldier (his back to the viewer). The soldier places sacks on the back of a mule. A sack, crate, and barrel lie near the mule. Volck was active in smuggling medicines into the South across the Potomac River in response to the Union's ban of the passage of medical supplies to the South., Inscribed upper left corner: 18., Issued as plate 18 in Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), a series of pro-Confederacy cartoons drawn and published by Baltimore cartoonist Adalbert John Volck under the pseudonym V. Blada. The "first issue" of 10 prints (numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 21, 24), with imprint "London, 1863" were printed as etchings. The remaining 20 prints (numbered 4, 8, 9-11, 14, 17-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 45) headed "Second and third issues of V. Blada's war sketches" and dated "London, July 30, 1864" were printed as lithographs., Title and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 18 [2990.F.21]
- Title
- Civil War stationery collection
- Description
- Collection of stationery containing patriotic designs often used on patriotic envelopes, with a majority including a title, slogan, and/or verse. Designs predominately include views of regiment camps; images of soldiers, including battle and camp life scenes; patriotic symbols including flags, eagles, bells, shields, stars and the figure of liberty; portraiture of historic and military figures; and basic designs including stripes, colored edges, and lined borders. Unique designs with assigned LCP numbers include an untitled regiment view showing the soldiers playing baseball, possibly at Abner Doubleday's camp (RE-LCP 35); a view of Poughkeepsie from 1854 (SC-NW-LCP-3); the New York funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln on April 25, 1865 (SC-NW-LCP-4); two designs published by J.W. Barber of New Haven showing bars of music from "My Country Tis of Thee" (O-M-LCP-8) and an allegorical scene of Liberty fighting treason, rebellion, tyranny, and oppression (F-P-LCP-1). Collection also contains a series of seven Charles Magnus hand-colored designs containing birds-eye views and military maps. Views show Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. and the Capitol. Military maps shows Maryland and Virginia; Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction; Richmond and Alexandria; Fortress Monroe and Richmond; and the southern coast between Fortress Monroe and New Orleans. Collection also includes a small number of Confederate stationery. Confederates designs include a view of enslaved African American people driving a wagon of supplies to a battlefield and a satire of Abraham Lincoln as an Native American chief. Portraits include George Washington, George McClellan, and Elmer Ellsworth. Three uncut printed proof sheets of patriotic stationery used as ream wrappers and the first style of U.S. postcard (circa 1872) also included as part of the collection., Some copyrighted., Some contain manuscript notes., Various publishers including Philadelphia publishers James Magee and L. N. Rosenthal as well as New York publisher Charles Magnus., Title supplied by cataloger., See William R. Weiss, Jr.'s The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995). LCP copy annotated to show collection holdings., See the George Walcott collection of used Civil War patriotic covers (New York: Robert Laurence, 1934)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Civil War. McAlliser Collection, gift, 1886., Reproduced in Erika Piola, "For the millions: Civil War stationery for women and children in the McAllister Collection at The Library Company of Philadelphia," The Ephemera journal 13 (2010), [32]., RVCDC, 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.
- Date
- 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War Stationery [various], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Ream Wrappers [P.2006.1.30a-c]
- Title
- Our relations at home and abroad.
- Description
- Stephen's album drolleries no. 1., Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War. First nine cards show the British "surly lion" giving a "generous roar," (i.e., the recognition by Great Britain of the Confederacy); which "temporarily astonishes" the "Gallic Cock"; who eventually overpowers the lion; who later weeps "is he not a bird and brother" for a crow, (i.e. a slave of the South) at Exter Hall; "which he forgets in the embrace of the "Belligerent Wolf of the C.S.A." while stepping on the crow; which leads to his "arming of the wolf"; while the Mexican vulture is garroted by the Gallic cock (i.e., French intervention in Mexico); causing the lion to protect his rams with the introduction of the "Swamp Angel" and Greek fire,( i.e. the bombing of Charleston) by the American eagle; which causes the "grand combat" between the eagle and the wolf. Last three cards predict "to consult history" to see the Union victory of the eagle over the wolf; the eagle vindicating the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico by overthrowing the Gallic cock; and the little child Liberty leading the supplicant British lion and Gallic cock., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55a-l]
- Title
- Exeter Hall. The Lion weeps: "Is he not a bird and a brother?" [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the lion who weeps "is he not a bird and brother" for a crow, (i.e. a slave of the South) at Exter Hall. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55i]
- Title
- Grand tableau of the future. The little child, Liberty, shall lead them. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the little child Liberty leading the supplicant British lion and Gallic cock. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55a]
- Title
- For the precise period at which this occurred, consult history. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the victory of the eagle over the wolf. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55c]
- Title
- The Eagle vindicates the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the eagle vindicating the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico by overthrowing the Gallic cock. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55b]
- Title
- Introduction of Master Swamp Angel: the Lion pockets his Rams. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the lion protecting his rams with the introduction of the "Swamp Angel" and Greek fire, ( i.e. the bombing of Charleston) by the American eagle. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55e]
- Title
- Grand combat between the Eagle and the Wolf. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the eagle and the wolf fighting. The lion hangs out of a window above the fight scene, near the words "police ; murder". Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55d]
- Title
- The arming of the Wolf by his faithful squire. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the lion arming the wolf. The wolf stands with one foot on the lap of the lion, who is fixing his boots. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55g]
- Title
- Which temporarily astonished even the Gallic Cock. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the British lion roaring and astonishing the Gallic cock. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55k]
- Title
- Who responded with warlike vigor when the Lion caved. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the Gallic cock overpowering the British lion. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55j]
- Title
- The Mexican Vulture garroted by the Gallic Cock. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., The Gallic cock is strangling the Mexican vulture and has his knife raised, about to stab him in this scene (i.e., French intervention in Mexico). Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55f]
- Title
- On England's muggy shore a surly lion gave a grievous roar! [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the British lion roaring from the coast of England, with the "Trent" (RMS Trent of the Trent Affair) steamship afloat in the background. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55l]
- Title
- Which he forgets in the embrace of the belligerent Wolf of the C.S.A. [graphic]
- Description
- Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the lion and the wolf shaking hands, and stepping on the crow. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
- Date
- c1863.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55h]
- Title
- Stephens' album drolleries no. 1 Our relations at home and abroad
- Description
- Collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War. First nine cards show the British "surly lion" giving a "generous roar," (i.e., the recognition by Great Britain of the Confederacy); which "temporarily astonishes" the "Gallic Cock"; who eventually overpowers the lion; who later weeps "is he not a bird and brother" for a crow, (i.e. an enslaved person of the South) at Exeter Hall; "which he forgets in the embrace of the "Belligerent Wolf of the C.S.A." while stepping on the crow; which leads to his "arming of the wolf"; while the Mexican vulture is garroted by the Gallic cock (i.e., French intervention in Mexico); causing the lion to protect his rams with the introduction of the "Swamp Angel" and Greek fire, (i.e. the bombing of Charleston) by the American eagle; which causes the "grand combat" between the eagle and the wolf. Last three cards predict "to consult history" to see the Union victory of the eagle over the wolf; the eagle vindicating the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico by overthrowing the Gallic cock; and the little child Liberty leading the supplicant British lion and Gallic cock., Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Date from copyright statement by William A. Stephens., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer
- Date
- 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Henry Louis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55a-l]