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Title: [Philadelphia Eagles football players Edward Herman, Dennis Harrison, and Woody Peoples entering the field at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts Philadelphia Eagles football players Edward Herman and Dennis Harrison, with Woody Peoples behind them, entering Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia. They are attired in football helmets and uniforms. They pass through two lines of cheerleaders, attired in sweat suits and white boots, who raise pom poms in their hands. In the background, spectators are visible in the filled stadium., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [1980]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - non-Phila - Afro-Americana

Title: [Specimen sheet for Theodore Leonhardt & Son, Commercial Lithographers 922 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA.]
Description: Includes a "Specimen of High Grade Engraving" depicting an eagle. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm continued to operate into the early 20th century., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 87, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - L [P.2004.44.5]

Title: [Craftsman posed with light standard for second floor balcony of Rotunda]
Description: Elaborate bronze standard surmounted by three tiers of globes and an eagle. Unidentified man standing next to lamppost, looking up at it., Typed label on verso: Standard for Penna. State Capitol Building, Mr. Joseph M. Huston, Architect. 12' x 9' 1/4" high. Weight 1133 lbs. S-32 - Gilt - Four of this class., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., An image of this standard appears in Charles H. Caffin's Handbook of the New Capitol of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Mount Pleasant Press, 1906) p. 45., See P.8479.14 for William H. Rau's photograph of the Senate which shows the standards., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.49]

Title: [Marble carver in workshop sculpting an eagle for entresol floor of the Pennsylvania capitol building.]
Description: Depicts a marble worker carving an eagle that will be placed on top of the sculptured cherub-globe ornament over the entresol door in the Rotunda. Designed and sculpted by Vincenzo Alfano, who could very well be the man depicted in the photograph., The Pennsylvania State Capitol building was constructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.74]

Title: [Marble carver in workshop sculpting eagles for the Pennsylvania capitol building.]
Description: Depicts a marble worker carving eagles for the Pennsylvania State Capitol building, contructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston., Manuscript note on verso: Duplicate. Marble eagles. House and Senate entrances. Copy in scrapbook., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.75]

Title: [Standard for main entrance of the Pennsylvania State Capitol building on display in the studio of the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company]
Description: Depicts Eugene F. Aucaigne standing next to the twenty-one foot high ornamental bronze column surmounted by an eagle, in the studio of the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company. The standard was designed by Joseph M. Huston, modeled by Piccirilli Brothers, and cast in one piece by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, under the supervision of Aucaigne. Created for the Capitol building, constructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston., Note on mount: Designed by Joseph M. Huston, architect. Modeled by Piccirilli Bros. Cast in one piece by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company. 21 feet high., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Reproduced in The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee's Literature in Stone: The Hundred Year History of Pennsylvania's State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.: Integra Graphics, 2006), p. 242., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.46]

Title: [Detail of bronze grille with eagle for Pennsylvania State Capitol building]
Description: Detail of a grille, possibly designed for the balcony opposite the entrance of the Supreme Court, in the Capitol building constructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston. Design consists of an eagle with wings outstretched in the middle, flanked on both sides by floral ornaments., Typed label pasted on verso: Designed by Joseph M. Huston, architect for Pennsylvania Capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa. Cast and finished by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. Weight 965 lbs. 9' 1" x 2" 6"., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., An image of the balcony grille appears in Charles H. Caffin's Handbook of the New Capitol of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Mount Pleasant Press, 1906) pg. 61., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection [P.8479.48]

Title: General Grant's farewell address to the Union Army in the field 1865. [graphic].
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook or envelopes and portraits., Commemorative print containing vignettes surrounding a transcription of Grant's June 2, 1865 address. Vignettes depict Grant as a "Cadet at West Point" and a "General Commanding"; "General Grant Cottage, Mt. McGregor, N.Y."; and "The Grant Monument, Riverside Park, N.Y." Also contains a portrait of Grant; an eagle holding a banner inscribed "E. Pluribus"; a scene showing Grant overseeing his advancing troops; and symbols of military life.
Date: c1893.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Grant [5785.F.66a]

Title: Emblem
Description: Cigar box label showing an American eagle in flight and clutching a spear in the light of dawn. The dome of the U.S. Capitol is visible in the background., Letters of title depicted as feathers., 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. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.112]

Title: [Textile label depicting the American eagle]
Description: Shows the American eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows atop of a globe positioned to display the Atlantic Ocean. American flags border the globe and a suspension bridge, probably the Brooklyn Bridge, is visible in the background. Vessels travel underneath the bridge., Printed and inscribed on recto: No. B605 E.L. 3/2 Yds. 60 Ins., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.102]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and United Kingdom, 1883-1905]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1883 and 1905, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); pharmaceutical apparatus and tools; a sick-bed scene showing a doctor with a thermometer at the side of his female patient; an eagle perched on a cliff; the interior of a drug store; and a horse and groom. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include a thermometer, floral imagery, frames, filigree and flourishes. Firms represented include Sagar Drug Co. (Duluth, Minn.); Sandhop, Fritsch & Co. (N.Y.); J. J. Seinsoth (Hartford, Conn.); S. H. Wetmore Company (N.Y.); J. E. Silliman (Erie, Pa.); Smith, Benedict & Company (Boston); Southern Drug Co. (Morristown, Tenn.); Stone, the Druggist (Fitchburg, Ma.); Strong, Cobb and Co. (Cleveland); Tarrant & Company (N.Y.); Thomsen & Muth (Baltimore); Dr. G. Ulrich (Erie, Pa.); Van Natta-Lynds Drug Co. (St. Joseph, Mo.); Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. (Memphis, Tenn.); Vogeler, Winkelmann & Co. (Baltimore); William A. Whittem (Philadelphia); Winkelman & Brown Drug Co. (Baltimore); and Alfred Wright (Rochester, N.Y.). Billed patrons include T. Belhummeur, Lake Linden, Mich.; New York Department of Public Charities; Hartford Street Railway Company; H. A. Kerste, Schnectady, N.Y.; A. A. Beckman; Geo. H. Gilbert Mfg. Co.; A. S. Emmons; Carriger & Roberts; Fitchberg [?] Electric Light Co.; A. E. Phillips, Sinclairville, N.Y.; Dr. H.C. Porter & Son (Towanda, Pa.); W. P. Carriger, Morristown, Tenn.; J. F. Walther; D. W. Marris, Emporia; J. E. Chandler, Malvern; A. W. Holsey; Resinol Chemical Company; and H. F. Belanger, Houma, La. Collection also contains billhead of British chemist and druggist R. C. Walshaw (Huddersfield)., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging receipt of payments, terms of sale, and changes of address., Printers include Christie & Collier, Litho. Duluth; Strobridge & Co., Lith Cincinnati; A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore; S. C. Toof & Co., Memphis; and Craig, Finley & Co. Lith. Phila., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1883-1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (S-Z) [P.2011.46.410-428]

Title: [Brownings trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Brownings fine clothing and gent's furnishing store in the Girard House at Ninth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict ornate, gilt cards with decorative text and borders; flowers; birds; a horse-drawn carriage; a butterfly; an eagle; a hunting scene; a cabin; and a buffet of sweets, including fruit and cakes., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include the New York firm Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. and the Boston firm L. Prang & Co., One print [P.9306.3] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston, U.S.A., Advertising text printed on rectos and versos. One print [1975.F.62] contains "Directions for Self-Measurement" on verso with front and back views of a man attired in a coat. Another print [1975.F.49] contains printed text on verso that attests to the quality of Brownings clothing., Two prints [1975.F.113 and 116] die cut and shaped into ovals., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.9306.3] gift of Gordon Marshall., Digitized.
Date: [c1878-[ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brownings [1975.F.49; 1975.F.62; 1975.F.113; 1975.F.116; P.9306.3]

Title: ASSU Illustration 7796
Description: Block numbered in three places: 7796., Image of interior of Independence Hall, Philadelphia; male and female visitors include one black woman. Two decorative rondelles in corners depict a statue of George Washington and the Liberty Bell, flanking an eagle., Signed: Lauderbach, sc.; S [i.e., Seymour?]., Illustration appears in Child's world, v. 33, no. 3 (Feb., 1876?), p. 1.
Date: [1876?]
Location: Boxed with **Per C51.7 11590.F (Teitelman)

Title: Variation "Old Abe", Wisconsin Eagle
Description: Shows the bald eagle "Old abe" tethered to a platform stand. Platform is shaped as a shield, and decorated with stars and stripes.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.27b]

Title: "Old Abe", Wisconsin Eagle.
Description: Display of "Old Abe", a Wisconsin Eagle, housed in an annex north of the Wisconsin State Building. Lithograph caption: "North of this building is an annex intended for special display of the productions of Wisconsin. It contains specimens of the ores, minerals, stone and woods of the State. Over this collection presides the war-eagle 'Old Abe,' a bird which can boast of a biography the particulars of which some of the 'Badger State' attendants will be glad to relate."
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9047.169]

Title: [Times Printing House trade cards]
Description: Series of trade cards for the Times Printing House, located at 610 Chestnut Street and later 725-727 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. One illustrated trade card depicts portraits of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant, an eagle, and patriotic bunting., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876-1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Times [P.9111.13; P.9111.16; P.2006.20.67]

Title: J. Russell & Co. Green River Works, MS. Established 1834 International Exhibition 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Trade card containing vignette views showing major exhibition buildings and the pictorial detail of an American eagle perched on an American shield. Buildings depicted include Horitcultural Hall, Art Gallery, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Main Building. Majority of the buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Contains advertising text repeated in French, Spanish, and German on verso. Promotes the Mississippi cutlery firm's products, including table cutlery, butcher knives and hunting knives, and cutlery for painters, chemists, and the family., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.98]

Title: [ "Old Abe," Wisconsin eagle, 1876]
Description: View showing the eagle named "Old Abe" on a specially-designed perch adorned in patriotic stars and stripes. The mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Old Abe was on display in the Agricultural Building at the Centennial Fair. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., Manuscript note on verso: Famous "Wisconsin eagle" carried by a Wisc. regiment during the Civil War and later exhibited at the Centennial., Stamped on verso: G.L. Howe, M.D., 924 Clover St., Rochester, N.Y., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.9047.169]

Title: Hurrah! for Thayer's Printing House, 805 Sansom Street, above 8th, Philada
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting patriotic imagery, including an eagle grasping an American shield and laurel wreath in its talons and group of men with their arms raised in celebration as one man holds a large American flag., Price lists printed on versos for various cards, books, circulars, tickets and other job printing items., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Thayer's [1975.F.882 & 883]

Title: Eagle house
Description: View showing the eagle exhibition at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from printed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.18]

Title: [Centennial Memorial]
Description: Allegorical print showing the figure of liberty holding a laurel wreath over a bust of George Washington that is mounted on a pedestal reading “E. Pluribus Unum 1876 1776”. The image of two overlapping torches separates the dates on the pedestal and an American flag drapes the bust. The figures are surrounded by an eagle, American flags and oak leaves intertwined with a banner that reads “These United Colonies Are And Of Right Ought To Be Free And Independent States,” a quote from the Declaration of Independence., pdcp00038, Copyrighted by the "Centennial Album.", Title from duplicate in the collections of the Boston Athenauem, Boston, Massachusetts., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Centennial, Trimmed.
Creator: Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Date: c1875
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana – Centennial

Title: Centennial commemoration at Philadelphia [ticket] Three millions of colonists on a strip by the sea. Now forty millions of freemen ruling from ocean to ocean
Description: Ticket to the "Grand Mass Demonstration in favor of the Centennial Commemoration of American Independence, February 22, 1873" at the Academy of Music containing scenes contrasting life in Philadelphia in 1776 with life in 1876. Scene of 1776 shows white men colonists, including one attired as a backwoodsman, in front of a log cabin and standing near a barefooted, enslaved African American man, attired in torn and worn clothing, sitting on a pile of sticks. Scene of 1876 shows a white man soldier talking to a white man artisan near an African American man laborer seated next to an anvil and machinery gears. Cityscape is visible in the background. Also includes an eagle holding an American flag crest adorned with a portrait of Washington. Contains text printed on the verso soliciting subscriptions to make the Centennial a success as well as to make Pennsylvania the representative to the world of the "power of the Republic.", Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Centennial and Columbian Exposition views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr -8 x 10 - Events [5758.F.26c]

Title: [Business stationery of Nichols & Harris, wholesale and retail druggists, New London, Ct.]
Description: Includes two billheads and one receipt. Billheads contain ornamented type and ornamental details. Check contains the trademark of the firm depicting an eagle perched on a mortar & pestle. One billhead also contains a list of the medicines, including Nichol's toilet cream, for which Nichols & Harris serve as proprietor, as well as the "N&H" emblem as a cornice detail., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include G. A. Smith, Steam Print, Lyme Ct., P.2011.46.202 & 203 completed in manuscript to W.N. Kirtland (& Co.) on December 17, 1878 for $3.25 and February 23, 1888 for $11.99. Items billed include family syringe, camphor gum, and cherry drops., P.2011.46.204 completed in manuscript on October 4, 1894 to C. L. Clark, signed Nichols & Harris for receipt of $86.36., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection -N [P.2011.46.202-204]

Title: Samuel Hart & Co. Philadelphia and New York
Description: Playing card containing vignette portraits of George and Martha Washington, the American eagle and shield, and the ace of spades. Also includes banners, stars, and vinery. Samuel Hart & Co. began the manufacture of playing cards in Philadelphia and New York in 1849. George & Martha Washington Aces of Spades was one of the firm's most popular designs, with at least five different versions issued until after 1900., Printed on recto: Patented May 8 1866., 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.
Creator: Samuel Hart & Co.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.178]

Title: Wallace & Sons, manufacturers of the eagle pin, superior to all others in quality and finish
Description: Label for the rolling metal and drawing wire manufactory showing an American eagle framed by an ornamented border. Border includes pictorial details depicting flowers and vinery. Wallace & Sons, a brass manufactory established in 1848 in Ansonia, Ct., operated until 1895., Printed on flaps: Perfect heads & points. Spring temper., 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. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.110]

Title: Jackson's old United States bounty land and pension office. E.O. Jackson, attorney-at-law and pension agent, No. 138 South Third Street, above Walnut, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a patriotic vignette of an eagle clutching arrows in its talons., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Jackson [(2)5786.F.180b]

Title: [E. & H.T. Anthony trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards containing patriotic vignettes. Images include eagles clutching olive branches, arrows, and shields in their talons and a woman, possibly Liberty, clothed in robes. Pictorial details also include an "E plurubus unum" banner., Title supplied by cataloger., Prints (2)5786.F.117d, g-h printed in blue ink on green paper and envelope (2)5786.F.117j printed in green ink on blue paper., Advertising text printed on rectos for E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway - New York (3 doors from St. Nicholas Hotel), manufacturer, publisher, and importer of photographic materials, carte de visite photographs, stereoscopic views, and card portraits of eminent persons., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Edward and Henry Tiebout Anthony operated one of the largest photographic manufacturing and distribution businesses in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Anthony [(2)5786.F.117d, g-h, j; P.9631.1]

Title: Proclamation of Emancipation. By the President of the United States of America
Description: Print commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation containing a bust-length portrait of Abraham Lincoln and two abolitionist vignettes above text from the Proclamation. In the center, Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right and is bordered by an American eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows in front of a backdrop of American flags. To the left and right of the portrait are scenes of an auction of enslaved people, with an African American woman, and free African American men working in a carpentry shop. Below the scenes, two African American cherubs hold a banner inscribed, "By the President of the United States of America." Below the text, an allegorical vignette contrasts the productive North with the destitute South depicting a white woman crying, surrounded by her children, sitting underneath a tree., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Purchase 1972., 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., J. Mayer & Company, the Boston lithography firm established by John Julius Mayer in 1862, specialized in practical lithography. Despite the official firm name, John Mayer had no partners.
Creator: J. Mayer & Co., lithographer
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Emancipation [8025.F.4]

Title: E. Ketterlinus' steam power lithographic and letter press printing house cor. of Arch & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard, probably issued during the Civil War, containing an exterior view of the lithographic establishment of Ketterlinus at the northwest corner of Fourth and Arch streets. Other pictorial details include an eagle holding the American flag in its claws., Not in Wainwright., Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Ketterlinus, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 24, Ketterlinus established his own firm in 1842 and relocated to Fourth and Arch streets in 1856.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Ketterlinus

Title: Civil War era patriotic ream wrappers [graphic].
Description: 5793.F.33a contains inscriptions about ream price., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War miscellanies and materials related to George McClellan., Seven of the collection trimmed., Collection includes ream wrappers for ruled note paper from Ellsworth Mills; Fremont Mills; McClellan Mills; Parsons Paper Co. (Holyoke, Mass.); and S.C. Upham (Philadelphia, Pa.). Also includes two "Union Note Paper" wrappers issued from unidentified sources. Majority of wrappers contain ornate borders and patriotic designs including eagles, the figure of Liberty, portraits of Elmer Ellsworth and George McClellan, and military iconography.
Date: ca. 1863.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Ream wrappers [(2)5786.F.159f; (5)5786.F.169d; 5793.F.33a&35a; P.2006.1.13a-d]

Title: Civil War era patriotic ream wrappers [graphic].
Description: 5793.F.33a contains inscriptions about ream price., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War miscellanies and materials related to George McClellan., Seven of the collection trimmed., Collection includes ream wrappers for ruled note paper from Ellsworth Mills; Fremont Mills; McClellan Mills; Parsons Paper Co. (Holyoke, Mass.); and S.C. Upham (Philadelphia, Pa.). Also includes two "Union Note Paper" wrappers issued from unidentified sources. Majority of wrappers contain ornate borders and patriotic designs including eagles, the figure of Liberty, portraits of Elmer Ellsworth and George McClellan, and military iconography.
Date: ca. 1863.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Ream wrappers [(2)5786.F.159f; (5)5786.F.169d; 5793.F.33a&35a; P.2006.1.13a-d]

Title: Bruce's New-York Type-foundry, 13 Chambers st., New York [specimen sheet]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Specimen sheet containing twelve numbered examples of Civil War envelope vignettes published by the Bruce New York Type Foundry also known as George Bruce's Son & Co. Designs depict the American flag. Some include the American eagle; military personal; a patriotic-themed border; or historic figures. Vignettes also include prices, ranging between 50 cents and 2 dollars, for plain or two-colors.
Creator: George Bruce's Son & Co., creator
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. GC - Civil War [(2)5786.F.1b]

Title: Eagle with banner woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: # Am 1863 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.57c, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with the banner: mottos vary" Banner is blank in this example, but text varies on each poster. Examples include "Don't give up the ship"; "Irish Volunteers!"; "When duty calls, 'tis ours to obey."
Date: 1863-1864

Title: Bruce's New-York Type-foundry, 13 Chambers st., New York [specimen sheet]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Specimen sheet containing twelve numbered examples of Civil War envelope vignettes published by the Bruce New York Type Foundry also known as George Bruce's Son & Co. Designs depict the American flag. Some include the American eagle; military personal; a patriotic-themed border; or historic figures. Vignettes also include prices, ranging between 50 cents and 2 dollars, for plain or two-colors.
Creator: George Bruce's Son & Co., creator
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. GC - Civil War [(2)5786.F.1b]

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]

Title: Soldiers memorial. 4th Regiment. Company F. U.S. Col. Troops Mustered into the United States Service at Baltimore, Md., Aug. 4, 1863, by Col. Wm. Birney
Description: Stock commemorative certificate with some variations for the African American 4th Regiment, Company F troop and containing a montage of allegorical and battle scenes, patriotic motifs, and soldier vignettes above the printed names of 4th Regiment Privates, Lieutenants, Sergeants, Corporals, and Field and Staff Officers. The allegorical scene depicts the female figure of Columbia, resting upon an American shield and seated next to an American eagle that looks down on a snake it clutches under its claws. Columbia holds her head with her left hand and the "Constitution of the United States" down between her knees in the other. She is portrayed as a white woman with long dark hair, wearing a gold headpiece and white veil, and attired in a dress with a blue bodice, red skirt, and white sleeves and collar. Surrounding the central scene (counterclockwise) are views of white Union soldiers at battle and firing cannons near a harbor and across from Union forts displaying American flags; a departing white Union solder embracing his wife in front of his family, an older woman holding her grandchild, his crying son, and their dog, outside of their home in the countryside as troops march in the distance; white Union cavalry corps charging during battle; the previously depicted white Union soldier returning home, shown in mid stride and holding his cap in the air as his family heads toward him with their arms out; and white Union soldiers, with a cannon, and at battle near a trench. The scene and views within the montage are bordered and framed by portraits of George Washington, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson and pictorial details of American flags, flowers, and filigree., Pictorial details surrounding the names of the soldiers in the lower half of the print include outer columns composed of marble and wood trunks with one unsplit and adorned with the placard "United We Stand" and another split with stakes and adorned with the placard "Divided we fall; inner columns wrapped within the American flag; medallions depicted with red, white, and blue stripes and stars; and images of the American eagle atop an American shield that is adorned with a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum." A. Hoen & Co. printed several slightly variant copies of the Soldiers Memorial in 1866, to commemorate different regiments and with different publishers. In the upper half of the print, the montage imagery remained the same, and in the lower half of the print, the imagery for and near the columns was altered in addition to the printed names of the officers and soldiers and their placement between the columns. The 4th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry was organized in Maryland, July 15-September 1, 1863. The African American unit saw action in Virginia and North Carolina before being mustered out May 4, 1866 after the designation change to 76th U.S. Colored Troops on April 4, 1864. The Regiment lost nearly 300 officers and enlisted men while in service., Title from item., Name of publisher from publication statement: Published at Baltimore by Jos. L. Kessler., Date inferred from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by Whitney & Anderson in Dist. C. of Md., Purchased with Louise Marshall Kelly Fund.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Certificates [P.2022.28.2]

Title: Eagle with flag and banner woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.24a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with the flag and banner."
Date: 1862-1865

Title: Eagle with blank banner on horn woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.30b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with a blank banner, perched on a horn."
Date: 1862

Title: Eagle with "E pluribus unum" banner woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.62b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with the banner: E pluribus unum."
Date: 1862

Title: [Cloth mitten pattern for Civil War soldiers provided by Wilcox & Gibbs sewing machine and E.W. Carryl & Co., military & house furnishing store; King & Baird, printers; and S.A. George, electrotyper and stereotyper] [graphic].
Description: Title supplied by cataloguer, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Pattern containing explanatory text, cutting and sewing directions, patriotic vignettes, and advertisements. Vignettes show the figure of liberty, flags, a soldier, eagle, shield, and George Washington. Text explains the efficiency of women sewing cloth mittens by machine; the availability at E.W. Carryl & Co. of the pattern and free cloth remnants supplied by the U.S. Arsenal; and the receipt of the mittens by the "Philadelphia Ladies Aid Society." Advertising text promotes printed military supplies available at King & Baird, including muster rolls, military blanks,and military manuals. Also contains a testimonial by G.H. Crossman, Deputy Quartermaster General, dated November 30th, 1861.
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War [(2)5786.F.4a]

Title: Eagle with shield woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.24g, Recruiting poster illustration depicting an "eagle holding a small shield upright in his talons."
Date: 1861-1863

Title: Eagle with flag woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.3a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with the flag."
Date: ca. 1861

Title: Eagle on drum with flags woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: Sm# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.6b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle on a flag-draped drum, with eight flags behind."
Date: 1861

Title: Eagle on shield with banner woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 German (2)5777.F.7a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle on a shield, with the banner: mottos vary." The motto on this poster reads: "When duty calls, 'tis ours to obey." Other examples include, "No compromise with traitors, and no argument but the cannon's mouth"; "The Union now and forever"; "Not for ourselves, but for our country." See woodcut15 for a similar image.
Date: 1861-1865

Title: Eagle on shield with banner woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.6e, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle on a shield with the banner: mottos vary." The motto in this poster is: "The Union, it shall be preserved!" Other examples include, "No compromise with traitors, and no argument but the cannon's mouth."; "Obey the call of your country!"; "Fall in and keep step to the music of the Union."
Creator: Stephens, H.L., (Henry Louis), 1824-1882., creator
Date: 1861-1862

Title: Eagle wearing chain with shield woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.41a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with a shield on a chain around his neck, beneath the motto: E. pluribus unum."
Date: 1861-1862

Title: Eagle on shield woodcut
Description: Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.16d, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle on a shield, no banner."
Date: 1861

Title: Union and Liberty
Description: Sheet music cover including a figure of Liberty surrounded by an ornamental border containing an eagle. Liberty depicted attired in a liberty cap, holding a shield and American flag adorned with a laurel wreath, and flanked by an eagle, lyre, globe, and artist's palette., Probable publication information supplied by Reilly., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany., Trimmed and altered., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Whateley, H., artist
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1861 - 19 variant [5786.F.127a]

Title: William J. Mullen, agent for the inspectors of the Phila. Coy. Prison & for the Phila. Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons. Office Phila. County Prison. Residence 1502 South 4th St
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a seated angel of Death as an old man with an hourglass and scythe, a female angel standing behind a gavel and block, and a man draped in robes holding a scroll above a small vignette of a prison within a clock dial. Also shows an eagle and a scene of salvation represented by a prisoner in the likeness of Jesus being saved by a fatherly figure in front of a holy building surmounted by a large cross., Includes printed text on top, bottom and in two side panels signed by Wm. Bigler; Wm. M. Heister, Secy. of Commonwealth; Wm. F. Packer, Gov. of Pennsylvania; Eli Slifer, Secy' of the Commonwealth; A.G. Curtin, Gov. of Penn'a; and John M. Sullivan, Dep. Sec. of the Commonwealth., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mullen [(6)1322.F.24b]

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]

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