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Title: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848
Description: U.S. President., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.1a]

Title: Jno. Adams, general agent for the Parsons oil burner, Bradford, Pa
Description: Pictorial envelope advertising the Parson Manufacturing Company containing a diagrammed image of an oil burner. Parts include a steam outlet; oil pipes and valves; oil trap; steam and water pipes; and a burner., Title from printed return address., Contains on recto: ink-stamp postmark: Carrol[?] Jun 24 and cancelled three-cents stamp printed in green ink and depicting George Washington in profile., Date inferred from stamp., Contains on verso: calculation in pencil and ink-stamp postmark: New York June 25 8 30 AM.., Addressed in manuscript to: Mr. Jacob Stover, Frenchtown, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.67]

Title: ASSU Illustration 8825
Description: Block numbered in two places: 8825., Waist-length portrait of John Adams, who founded many Sunday schools., Signed: A.H. Markley, sc., “V. Grottenthaler [?]” – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories from 1867 to 1876., Illustration appears in A fruitful life: a narrative of the experience and missionary labors of Stephen Paxson (Philadelphia, 1882), opp. p. 47.
Date: [between 1867 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 18

Title: Union Guards 144th Reg. Col. J.B. Adams Good active men wanted for Company B. Head quarters, at C. Steinbrecher's Hotel, 247 Arch Street. Bounties as follows: $90 cash: $75 at expiration of service
Description: "The troops recruited for the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Regiment, never had a regimental organization, and were consequently assigned to other commands."--S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 518 note., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 144th (1862), Company B.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.45 (McAllister)

Title: Union Guards! 144th Regiment. Colonel John B. Adams $167 dollars bounty. To arms! On to Richmond! All able-bodied young men desirous of attaching themsleves to the Union Guards Regt., Company C, have now the last chance, as the company is nearly full. All bounties allowed by state and national authority guarantied. Pay, clothing and rations commence from the time of enlistment. This regiment has selected as camp ground, Jones's Farm, at the terminus of the Girard Avenue Railroad, and will go into camp immediately. Head quarters of the company, S.E. cor. of 18th & South Sts
Description: "The troops recruited for the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Regiment, never had a regimental organization, and were consequently assigned to other commands."--S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 518 note., The illustration, signed Bonfield and Howell, shows a Union soldier with rifle in hand, bayonet fixed, charging past a fallen Confederate soldier in battle., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 144th (1862), Company C.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.46a (McAllister)

Title: On to Richmond! To arms! To arms! Men wanted to fill up Company F, Union Guard Regiment, Col. John B. Adams. State & national bounties guaranteed! Able-bodied young men, who do not wish to be drafted, would do well to enroll their names before the 15th of August. Head quarters of the company, Lombard Street, below Broad, recruiting stations, Franklin Hose House, Broad St., above Fitzwater. H.B. Bunting's South St., below Broad
Description: "The troops recruited for the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Regiment, never had a regimental organization, and were consequently assigned to other commands."--S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 518 note., The illustration is an eagle with a blank banner, perched on a horn., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 144th (1862), Company F.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.30b (McAllister)

Title: Capitol Washington Declaration of Independance [sic] at Philadelphia. July 4. 1776. (Thomas Jefferson supposed to be the author.) The fourth of July is the day of national rejoicing, for on that day, the Declaration of Independance [sic] that solemn and sublime document was adopted
Description: Postcard depicting the view after the circa 1819 Trumbull painting showing members of the Second Continental Congress gathered in the East Room of Independence Hall signing the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. John Adams, Robert Sherman, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin stand before John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in the foreground. In the left, the Liberty Bell is depicted ringing and with the inscription, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”, Title from item., Date inferred from content., Publisher from copyright statement on recto: Copyrighted No. 8090 Am. Hist. Art Publ. Co. New York City 111 E. 14 Str. St. Louis, Mo. 813 Chestnut Str., Name of distributor printed in lower left on recto: C.L. Traver, 108 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J., Series no. printed in lower right on recto: Colonial heroes, no. 20., Expository text printed on recto: In the steeple of the state-house was a bell, imported twenty-three years previously from London by the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania. A joyous peal from that bell gave notice that the bill had been passed. It was the knell of British domination., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.30]

Title: In seventeen hundred and eighty three, by the Treaty of Paris, our states were made free, and the Enterprise cork puller helped on the cause while the patriots drank to our land and its laws
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise Cork Pullers." Contains an anachronistic scene including a caricaturized depiction of John Adams, John Jay, and Benjamin Franklin. Depicts the statesmen near a black servant using an Enterprise cork puller clamped to a table to open a bottle. Adams holds the "Treaty of Peace" and a glass. Behind the three men, several other dignitaries holding up glasses are partially visible. Also contains a view of the Massachusetts State Building designed by Peabody & Stearns. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Cork Pullers. Our cork pullers are first-class and are made in two styles, one screwing to the table and the other clamping thereto. The sliding barrel, both handles, etc. are nickel-plated; its action, exerting great pulling power where the strain is the greatest, is simple, expeditious and effective. Prices. No. III,...$1.50. No. 113,...$1.75., Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a cork puller clamped to the edge of a table., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.60 & 71]

Title: Ribbons & Textiles Collection. 1832-1880 (inclusive)
Description: Series I, Politics (1840-1880) holds campaign, commemorative, and mourning ribbons for a variety of politicians. Series II, Celebrations, Organizations, and People (1832-1862) is arranged in those three subseries, and holds printed and woven commemorative ribbons printed to be worn in honor of events, societies, and men. Series III, Civil War and Patriotic Themes (1860-1878) has a wider variety of formats and material, and includes dress fabrics printed with patriotic legends and iconography. Series IV, Relics (1861-1862), holds fabric fragments which purport to have historic significance: pieces of the Secession flag torn down by Col. E. E. Ellsworth at the start of the war; a fragment from a banner flown by a ship from Georgia that entered Boston Harbor in April 1861; and a small piece of a flag from the Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Series V, Great Central Fair (1864) contains a variety of ribbons and textile badges from Philadelphia's Sanitary Fair. They were worn by committee members who participated in planning the fair and staffing its exhibition booths., Some parts of this collection were previously assigned accession numbers 1322.F, 5741.F, 5750.F, 5755.F, 5786.F, 5792.F, 5793.F, 5795.F, P.2003.38 (Doret)., John A. McAllister was an antiquarian collector living in Philadelphia.
Creator: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1832
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts MSS McA 10090.F (McAllister)

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