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Title: Proclamation to the people of Maryland After sixteen months of oppression more galling than the Austrian tyranny, the victorious army of the South brings freedom to your doors. ... You must now do your part. We have the arms here for you. I am authorized immediately to muster in for the war, companies and regiments
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Johnson, Bradley T. (Bradley Tyler), 1829-1903
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Johnson 5795.F.187b (McAllister)

Title: Mementos of the Rebellion. Confederate notes and shinplasters The undersigned has just published perfect fac-similes of the following "Confederate States of America" notes and shinplasters, which will be found curious as well as interesting mementos of the Rebellion. ... Retail price, 5 cents each. Trade supplied at $2 per 100, or $15 per 1000
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Upham 5795.F.137i (McAllister)

Title: Half price! Half price! Confederate notes and shinplasters selling at one-half former prices Fourteen different rebel notes, shinplasters and postage stamps, perfect fac-similes of the originals, (printed in red, green and black ink,) sold by the 100 or 1,000 at the following reduced rates:-- 50 cents per 100, or $4 per 1,000. One each of the fourteen different kinds sent post-paid to any address, on receipt of 25 cents. All orders by mail or express, promptly executed
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Upham 5795.F.128f (McAllister)

Title: Mementos of the Rebellion. Rebel notes, shinplasters and postage stamps The undersigned has just published perfect fac-similes of the following rebel notes, shinplasters and postage stamps, which will be found curious as well as interesting mementos of the Rebellion. ... Retail price of the notes and shinplasters, five cents each. Postage stamps, three cents each. Agents supplies with notes and shinplasters, at $2 per 100, or $15 per thousand. Postage stamps, at $1 per 100, or $7 50 per thousand. One each of the above notes, shinplasters and postage stamps, sent post-paid to any address, on the receipt of fifty cents. Quick sales and large profits. Upwards of 80,000 of the notes, shinplasters and postage stamps have been sold during the past four weeks, and the cry is still for more. Orders by mail and express promptly filled
Description: Facsmiles of two notes on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Upham 5795.F.139i (McAllister)

Title: Now ready. Price twenty-five cents. Embellished with 40 illustrations beautifully drawn and engraved Heroic incidents, personal adventures and anecdotes of the Civil War in America. Being a collection of the most interesting and exciting events of the present remarkable crisis in our history. This volume, which is elegantly printed, is intended to preserve in the recollection of the nation those numerous acts of heroic daring and endurance which have already made the present unhappy war so notable ... This is, par excellence, a book for summer traveling---the incidents being told in simple language, without the slightest attempt at that great disfigurement to all history, sensational writing, and every incident bears upon its face the stamp of undoubted truth
Description: Frank Leslie's Incidents of the Civil War in America was published in 1862., Printed in blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Leslie (6)5777.F.25b (McAllister)

Title: The Quaker gun now on exhibition, was brought from the Rebel works at Manassas, and wishing the public to witness the artillery used by the aforesaid Rebels, it will be exhibited for a few days only, a the old "Press" office, 417 Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Sts. Admission, 1 dime. Hours, from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M
Description: A "Quaker gun" is a wooden log, sometimes painted black to resemble the barrel of a cannon, placed to give the appearance of heavy artillery., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Image of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Quaker 5786.F.159c (McAllister)

Title: Important announcement! Lossing's pictorial history of the great Rebellion. ... Persons possessing pamphlets, or other materials relating to the Rebellion, will confer a favor by sending them to the author, Benson J. Lossing, Esq., Poughkeepsie, N.Y
Description: Includes letters of recommendation dated March 1862. The pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America was published in parts by G.W. Childs between 1866 and 1868., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; ink stamp: From John Penington & Son. Philada., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Childs, George William, 1829-1894
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Childs (2)5786.F.45b (McAllister)

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