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- Title
- Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home. Academy of Music, Philadelphia. October 23 to November 4, 1865. [graphic] / F. Bourquin, Chesnut St. 602.
- Description
- Published in The Knapsack, October 24, 1865. [*Per K 9.7 5776.F.25], Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Floor plan showing the layout of departments at the exhibition organized to raise funds for the home for destitute and wounded Civil War veterans. Display sponsors include the Fire Department, First Presbyterian Church, "Women's Mission" and the Penn Relief Association as well as local neighborhoods, towns, and counties including West Philadelphia, Germantown, Montgomery County, Chester County, Bethlehem, and Jenkintown. Displays include fancy goods, china, photographs & albums, books, canned fruit and confectionery, hardware, sewing machines, dolls, silhouettes, and silver. Exhibition also provided a table for the fair periodical "The Knapsack," a fruit stand, donation table, refreshment saloon, smoking saloon, and ladies dressing room.
- Creator
- Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808 lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *BW - Theatres & halls - A (2)5786.F.106a]
- Title
- Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home. Academy of Music, Philadelphia. October 23 to November 4, 1865
- Description
- Floor plan showing the layout of departments at the exhibition organized to raise funds for the home for destitute and wounded Civil War veterans. Display sponsors include the Fire Department, First Presbyterian Church, "Women's Mission" and the Penn Relief Association as well as local neighborhoods, towns, and counties including West Philadelphia, Germantown, Montgomery County, Chester County, Bethlehem, and Jenkintown. Displays include fancy goods, china, photographs & albums, books, canned fruit and confectionery, hardware, sewing machines, dolls, silhouettes, and silver. Exhibition also provided a table for the fair periodical "The Knapsack," a fruit stand, donation table, refreshment saloon, smoking saloon, and ladies dressing room., Published in The Knapsack, October 24, 1865. [*Per K 9.7 5776.F.25], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 607, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
- Creator
- Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808, lithographer
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Theatres & halls - A (2)5786.F.106a]
- Title
- Circular. Press on, to victory! The disabled soldier, truly grateful for recent considerations, on short acquaintance, humbly begs to inform the citizens of Philadelphia, and an appreciative public, that he is established at Stand No. 2, near S.W. corner Western Market, on Market Street, between 15th and 16th, where by assiduity and affability he desires to serve ice creams, fruits, pies, cakes, candies, nuts, segars and tobacco, to all consumers. Please respond with increasing patronage to enlarged efforts to please. Wounded but not whipped! Disciplined, yet determined to thrive! Devoted to the public good
- Description
- William Constable appears in Philadelphia directories in 1864, in a variety store, 2015 Locust Street, and in 1865 as a confectionery, 832 Shippen., The illustration shows an angel blowing a trumpet., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Constable, Wm. (William)
- Date
- [1864 or 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Constab (2)5786.F.199b (McAllister)
- Title
- Circular. Hear ye! Hear! Hear! Hear! Lovers of the Constitution and the Union, and our one government: Your servant and patriot brother was disabled by gun-shot wounds in battle, but will not surrender, no, never! yet appeals to a discriminating public for patronage. P.S. Help such as persevere. We are enlisted for life
- Description
- William Constable appears in Philadelphia directories in 1864, in a variety store, 2015 Locust Street, and in 1865 as a confectionery, 832 Shippen., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Constable, Wm. (William)
- Date
- [1864 or 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Constab (2)5786.F.112b (McAllister)
- Title
- The Treasury note, a little book designed to aid in disarming treason, and restoring repose to the nation, to provide homes of comfort, and open up fields of enterprise for returning volunteers. For sale here. Price 10 cents
- Description
- Printed on card stock., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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 Treasury 5786.F.53b (McAllister)
- Title
- Lecture "Our glorious country, the United States, foretold in the Holy Scriptures," clearly delinieated, described & located
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Strowbridge, Prof
- Date
- 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Strow (28)5761.F.9b (McAllister)
- Title
- Benefit of the Fair for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home The Typographical Dramatic Association have the honor to announce a grand performance at the Academy of Music, on Saturday ev'ng, Sept. 16, 1865, on which extraordinary occasion they will be assisted by the Philadelphia Saengerbund, ... An engagement has also been effected with the Germania Orchestra, ... The proceeds of this great exhibition will be handed over to the managers of the Soldiers' and Sailors Home, of Philadelphia, for the benefit of the fair to be held in October, ... The bill for the evening will consist of J. Sheridan Knowles' beautiful play of The wife: a tale of Mantua. ... Price of admission, 50 cents. Family circle and amphitheatre, 25 cents. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Performance commences quarter to 8 precisely. Box sheets now open at Chas. W.A. Trumpler's Music Store, S.E. corner Seventh and Chesnut, and at the Academy of Music
- Description
- Head-piece shows a disabled soldier and a disabled sailor flanking a sick room scene., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Typographical Dramatic Association
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Typo (1)5781.F.35a (McAllister)
- Title
- Fair for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. To the citizens of the United States The Ladies Visiting Committee of the Soldiers' Home, in the city of Philadelphia, propose to open a national fair at the Academy of Music, on the twenty-third day of October next, for the purpose of raising a building and endowment fund for the institution with which they are connected
- Description
- Caption title, with first lines of text., Signed on p. [3] by forty-four prominent Pennsylvania men, and dated: Philadelphia, April 14th, 1865., "Donations in money for the fair may be sent to Wm. Struthers, treasurer, No. 1022 Market Street. Donations in goods, provisions, &c., may be sent to the Soldiers' Home, corner of Race and Crown Streets, Philadelphia, marked to care of Mrs. D. Haddock, Jr., president, or Mrs. J. Horner, secretary. All donations duly acknowledged. Philadelphia, May 23d, 1865."--p. [3]., Printer's name from p. [3]., Head-piece on p. [1] shows a disabled soldier and a disabled sailor flanking a sick room scene., Printed on p. [1] and [3] only., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Soldiers and Sailors Home Fair (1865 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Soldiers (1)5781.F.142c (McAllister)
- Title
- Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home Academy of Music Philadelphia October 23. to November 4. 1865
- Description
- Wholly engraved., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Soldiers and Sailors Home Fair (1865 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Soldiers (2)5781.F.25b (McAllister)
- Title
- Fair The children of Mount Vernon intend opening a fair on Monday, November 3d, 1862, in the Manayunk Engine House for the benefit of the sick & wounded soldiers
- Description
- 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 #Am 1862 Fair (6)5777.F.28a (McAllister)
- Title
- Children's fair in aid of the sick & wounded soldiers Tickets, five cents
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; printer's proof, with MS. corrections; the majority of printer's proofs in this collection are from King & Baird, Philadelphia., 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 4# Am 1861 Children (6)5777.F.85b (McAllister)
- Title
- Fair in aid of the sick & wounded soldiers will be held in Bromley's Hall, Baker and Mulberry streets, Manayunk, to commence on Tuesday, the 11th of Nov., and continue until Saturday afternoon, the 15th
- Description
- Nov. 11 fell on a Tuesday in 1862., The illustration shows an eagle clutching arrows, on a shield propped up by a cornucopia., 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 sm # Am 1862 Fair (2)5786.F.107a (McAllister)