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Title: [The Seaman's Home, northwest corner of 2nd and Queen Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of building facade with a group of young men congregated around entrance looking at camera. Another building, perhaps a store, appears in background with groups gathered near it's entrance. Designed by architect Frank Furness, the Seaman's Home was built in 1878 at the northwest corner of Front and Queen Streets. Building began as a church for seamen and became a boys' club in the 1920s. It is also known by the names Church of the Redeemer for Seamen and their Families, Neighborhood Boy's Club, and Church of the Redeemer. Building burned 1974., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: It is not in England despite the decidedly English style of architecture. It is the Seamans Home. 2" and Queen Sts. Note old house in background and tell about the outpouring of young men and boys., Duplicate: P.8513.25: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 114 [P.8513.114], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson114.htm

Title: Mother and great-grand-aunt of the two daughters
Description: Group portrait of woman holding her two daughters with her aunt sitting next to her on a couch., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Age of the g-g-a 103 yrs. Does not wear glasses, can walk, attend to household duties and possesses a remarkable memory. Is hard of hearing but can keep up a rapid fire conversation. Has a fine sense of humor. Eats what she wants, when she wants it, does not worry and has never had indigestion. Age authentic. (Relate story of the fractured hip and dislocated shoulder blade). Had her hair bobbed., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 113 [P.8513.113], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson113.htm

Title: Bread St. bel. Arch St. A Jewish family and a delegation of the darktown brigade
Description: Exterior view of depicting the entrance of a Jewish family’s brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. In the right, a white man, attired in a cap, a collared sweater, pants, and shoes, holds a broom and sweeps in front of the door. In the left, four white women peer out of two first-floor shuttered windows and look at the viewer. Underneath the windows five young African American children sit, attired in winter hats and coats. Smoke from a fire in the street wafts in front of the children., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Wisp of haze near centre of picture is smoke from a fire in the street opposite the house. Certin [sic] rooms in the building had just been papered and a bonfire was made of the refuse. This house is about 125 yrs old. Note the splendid condition of the brick work and mortor [sic] joints. Bricks were carfully [sic] made in those days. The proper proportion and careful selection of loam, shale and sand was an art. Then too the drying and baking of the brick was of vast importance and was done with the utmost attention towards the securing of the best results. These bricks were baked with wood fires, as was the lime on which they were laid. Explain why wood baked lime and bricks are superior to the coal baked product., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.84], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson84.htm

Title: Bread St. bel. Arch St
Description: Exterior view of depicting the entrance of a Jewish family’s brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. In the right, a white man, attired in a cap, a collared sweater, pants, and shoes, holds a broom and sweeps in front of the door. In the left, four white women peer out of two first-floor shuttered windows and look at the viewer. Underneath the windows five young African American children sit, attired in winter hats and coats., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: (without wisp of smoke). Mortor [sic] was mixed in those days in a huge mortor [sic] box. The lime was slacked by shoveling it into the box, permitting water to flow into the box and keeping the mass in constant motion with a hoe, thereby preventing the lime from being burned or killed, when properly slacked, it was run off into a basin of sand, where it was mixed with the sand and made ready for use., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.97], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson97.htm

Title: Bread St. bel. Arch St
Description: Exterior view of depicting the entrance of a Jewish family’s brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. In the right, a white man, attired in a cap, a collared sweater, pants, and shoes, holds a broom and sweeps in front of the door. In the left, four white women peer out of two first-floor shuttered windows and look at the viewer. Underneath the windows five young African American children sit, attired in winter hats and coats., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: (without wisp of smoke). Mortor [sic] was mixed in those days in a huge mortor [sic] box. The lime was slacked by shoveling it into the box, permitting water to flow into the box and keeping the mass in constant motion with a hoe, thereby preventing the lime from being burned or killed, when properly slacked, it was run off into a basin of sand, where it was mixed with the sand and made ready for use., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.97], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson97.htm

Title: Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Description: Print depicting a white Union soldier reading the Emancipation Proclamation to families of enslaved African Americans in a cabin. The families are depicted with anxious and solemn mannerisms. Family members surround the officer near a dining table and hearth. An older boy holds a torch providing the officer with light. The father watches over the soldier's shoulder. Other figures, including a "young woman with two children, the house servant of her [enslaver], not belonging to the cabin but happened to be in on the occasion" pray, cheer, and cling to their mothers. Interior also includes a side of bacon hanging next to a ladder, a drying line with cotton balls handing from it above the hearth, and a cradle. Contains portrait of Abraham Lincoln below the image. The Emancipation Proclamation, effective January 1, 1863, granted African Americans not only their right to freedom but the right to join the Union Army., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., After painting by Henry Walker Herrick exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1865. Exhibited by "possessor" Lucius Stebbins., Publisher and copyright holder Stebbins published complementary pamphlet "Emancipation Proclamation of January 1st, 1864 [sic]" that included "Description of the Engraving." Description: Old man at the right with folded hands, Grand-father; Old lady at the left with cane in hand, Grand-mother; man leaning on ladder, the father; woman with child in her arms, the mother; lad swinging his hat, oldest son; one holding torch, second son; little girl, oldest daughter; infant in the arms of its mother. Young woman with two children, the house servant of her master, not belonging to the cabin but happened to be in on the occasion. Party reading, Union Soldier. The internal view of the Cabin is true to nature. The stone chimney, garret, ladder, side of bacon, rough cradle, piece of sugar cane and cotton balls, &c, all combine to give a correct idea of the slaves' home. Lincoln Financial Foundation copy of pamphlet accessible at Internet Archive., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 44., LCP exhibition catalogue: An African American Miscellany p. 22., Purchase 1993., 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., Lucius Stebbins (1810-1901), born in Massachussets, worked in Hartford, Connecticut, in the businesses of map coloring and subscription book publishing (American Publishing Company).
Creator: Watts, James W., -1895, engraver
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Emancipation [P.9429]

Title: [Unidentified family portrait including three women of various ages, a young girl and a baby.]
Description: Pale hand colored pink on cheeks. Possibly depicts four generations., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet embossed Van Loan's Gallery 118 Chestnut St. Philada., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers within an octagonal border. No design on back.
Creator: Van Loan, Samuel, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8640]

Title: [African American family in front of their Pennsylvania residence]
Description: Depicts the African American family of four women, two men, and a boy posed in front of their two-story house with a porch, trellis, and picket fence. In the left, an older African American man, wearing white hair, stands behind the picket fence and looks directly at the viewer. A woman, wearing her hair tied up in a bun and attired in a long-sleeved dress with decorative stripes at the bottom, stands with her left arm resting on top of the open gate and looks to the left. Three women, attired in brimmed hats and long-sleeved dresses, stand resting an arm on the picket fence. The barefooted boy, attired in a cap, a shirt, a collared jacket, and pants that end just below the knees, stands next to a dog. In the right, the man, wearing a mustache and attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, holds the reins as he sits on top of a horse, which stands on the sidewalk in front of the house., Title supplied by cataloger., Mount has decorative gold border., See accompanying manuscript notebook United States View Company's Instructions to Salesmen. (P.9502)., Gift of Martha Graybill, 1988., 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., The United States View Company, was established by Newton Graybill and Lewis Garman of Richfield, Pennsylvania in the 1890s. It was one of several view companies which employed operators and salesmen to photograph and sell the prints of small town residents posed in front of their homes and community buildings.
Creator: United States View Company, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - United States View Company - residences [P.9253.74]

Title: Attention troopers! To horse and off for the war again! 80 young and active men wanted for a troop of horse for the Second R.I. Cavalry! This is a dashing and pleasant service, and young men will have a chance to become good horsemen. Bounty 402 dollars! Cash in advance 330 dollars! In addition to the above the city of Providence pays $4 per week to the families and dependents of volunteers. Office, Room No. 5, corner of Orange and Westminster Sts., Providence, R.I
Description: The Second Regiment of the Rhode Island Cavalry was organized in Nov. 1862 and ordered to duty in Louisiana; it was consolidated to a battalion of four companies in Aug. 1863, and transferred to 1st Louisiana Cavalry; it was transferred again in Jan. 1864 to the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry., The illustration is a trotting stallion., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1863)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.4 (McAllister)

Title: Patriots arouse! Cavalry men wanted! To form a battalion under Major A.W. Corliss. Now is the time to join a crack battalion for the gallant General Burnside's division! 400 dollars bounty! $325 before leaving the state! Families provided for by the state! Each man will be furnished with a good horse, equipments, &c. Rally! Rally!! Rally!!! This is the last opportunity you will have to join a cavalry regiment! Recruiting offices, Armory Hall and Rathbun's Block, Woonsocket
Description: The Second Regiment of the Rhode Island Cavalry was organized in Nov. 1862 and ordered to duty in Louisiana; it was consolidated to a battalion of four companies in Aug. 1863, and transferred to 1st Louisiana Cavalry; it was transferred again in Jan. 1864 to the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry., The illustration is a trotting stallion., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1863)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.7a (McAllister)

Title: Cavalrymen wanted! To form a new battalion, under command of Major A.W. Corliss. Now is the time to join a crack battalion for the gallant Gen. Burnside's division! 400 dollars bounty! $325 before leaving the state! Families provided for by the state! Each man will be furnished with a good horse, equipments, &c. Rally boys! This is the last opportunity you will have to join a cavalry regiment! Recruiting office, No. 28 North Main Street, Tyler's Building, up stairs, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Description: The Second Regiment of the Rhode Island Cavalry was organized in Nov. 1862 and ordered to duty in Louisiana; it was consolidated to a battalion of four companies in Aug. 1863, and transferred to 1st Louisiana Cavalry; it was transferred again in Jan. 1864 to the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1863)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.8c (McAllister)

Title: Cavalrymen wanted! To form a new battalion, under command of Major A.W. Corliss. Now is the time to join a crack battalion for the gallant Gen. Burnside's division! 400 dollars bounty! $325 before leaving the state! Families provided for by the state! Each man will be furnished with a good horse, equipments, &c. Rally boys! This is the last opportunity you will have to join a cavalry regiment. Recruiting office, cor. of North Main St. and Market Sq., Prov., R.I
Description: The Second Regiment of the Rhode Island Cavalry was organized in Nov. 1862 and ordered to duty in Louisiana; it was consolidated to a battalion of four companies in Aug. 1863, and transferred to 1st Louisiana Cavalry; it was transferred again in Jan. 1864 to the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1863)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.5 (McAllister)

Title: $400 bounty State aid to men with families, 4 dollars per week! Good men wanted immediately for the 2d Regiment R.I. Cavalry under the command of Major A.W. Corliss, which has been ordered to join Major General Banks' expedition! Men who enlist in this regiment will receive 25 dollars, a good uniform, horse and equipments on the day of enlistment; $300 before leaving the state! $75 when discharged! The best chance and the largest bounty ever offered. Recruiting offices: corner of Westminster and Orange Streets, up stairs, Room No. 5. " Market Square and North Main Street. Dorrance Street. A.W. Corliss, Major comd'g
Description: The Second Regiment of the Rhode Island Cavalry was organized in Nov. 1862 and ordered to duty in Louisiana; it was consolidated to a battalion of four companies in Aug. 1863, and transferred to 1st Louisiana Cavalry; it was transferred again in Jan. 1864 to the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry., Printed on yellow paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1863)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.13 (McAllister)

Title: Second Regiment of Rhode Island Cavalry! The dashing young men of Rhode Island have long been desiring to enter this branch of the service. Then up and away! With Major Corliss for our leader, and Harper's Ferry our rallying cry, we will again charge through the valley of the Shenandoah among the passes of the Blue Ridge, until the rebel hordes are driven back to their southern forests. The bounty alone is more than you can earn at home: 325 dollars! before you leave the state. The towns make provision for your family! Do not forget the bounty, which is double the amount for nine months! Come in to the headquarters and you can obtain any further information you may desire, corner of Dorrance and Weybosset Streets
Description: The Second Regiment of the Rhode Island Cavalry was organized in Nov. 1862 and ordered to duty in Louisiana; it was consolidated to a battalion of four companies in Aug. 1863, and transferred to 1st Louisiana Cavalry; it was transferred again in Jan. 1864 to the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1863)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.10 (McAllister)

Title: Recruits wanted for Co. E! Co. E! Merchants' Regiment! 146th P.V., commanded by Col. J.D.C. Johnson Arrangements will be made by which soldiers' families may receive, in this city, allotments of monthly pay. $2 on being mustered into service; $25 U.S. bounty, in advance; $50 city of Philada. bounty; $13, one month's pay, in advance; $75 on being mustered out of service. Sum total $165. Young men wishing to join a good company under experienced officers, who have seen service both in Mexico and the present war, had better enroll immediately as the company is nearly full. Apply at 207 South Front St., or at West Chester House Market Street, above Nineteenth
Description: "The troops recruited for the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment, never had a regimental organization, and were, consequently, assigned to other commands."--S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 551 note., The illustration is an eagle with the banner: To arms! To arms!, 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, 146th (1862), Company E.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.48a (McAllister)

Title: 121st Regiment, P.V Twenty-third Philad'a Light Infantry Col. Chapman Biddle. Wanted, able-bodied men for Co. I in this regiment, going into camp immediately. $162 bounty! As follows: $25 U.S. bounty in cash. $50 Philadelphia city bounty. $10 extra bounty. $2 on mustering in, and $75 U.S. bounty at end of the war. Arrangements will be made by which soldiers' families may receive, in this city, allotments of monthly pay
Description: The 121st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in Sept. 1862, and mustered out in June 1865; Chapman Biddle was discharged in Dec. 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 30, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 135., 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, 121st (1862-1865), Company I.
Date: [1862 or 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.38d (McAllister)

Title: For your country! Now or never! Don't wait to be drafted! To horse! The foe is on us!! Young men wanted to join at once! The first troop Penn'a Light Horse! We will fight the guerillas on their own soil! Arouse, men of Pennsylvania! The rebels are menacing the homes of your fathers!! "Strike for your altars and your fires! Strike for the green graves of your sires! Strike, till the last armed foe expires!" Your countrymen have provided liberally for your families, and all the bounties for three years, or the war, will be paid men joining this troop
Description: The 16th Cavalry, 161st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, under the command of Col. J. I. Gregg until Aug. 1864, was organized in the summer and fall of 1862 and mustered out in Aug. 7, 1865; Nathan S. Hill and Archer N. Martin both served in Company I; Lieut. Hill was promoted to captain Nov. 15, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 950, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 179., Printed in red and blue., The illustration shows a mounted Union cavalry soldier, sabre drawn, attacking a mounted Confederate soldier., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 16th (1862-1865), Company I.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.16i (McAllister)

Title: For your country! Now or never! Don't wait to be drafted! To horse! The foe is on us!! Young men wanted to join at once! The first troop Penn'a Light Horse! We will fight the guerillas on their own soil! Arouse, men of Pennsylvania! The rebels are menacing the homes of your fathers!! "Strike for your altars and your fires! Strike for the green graves of your sires! Strike, till the last armed foe expires!" Your countrymen have provided liberally for your families, and all the bounties for three years, or the war, will be paid men joining this troop. This troop will be organized on the principle of the Anderson Troop
Description: The 16th Cavalry, 161st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, under the command of Col. J. I. Gregg until Aug. 1864, was organized in the summer and fall of 1862 and mustered out in Aug. 7, 1865; Company I, recruited primarily from Philadelphia, was led by Capt. William H. Fry, who was promoted to Major Nov. 14, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 950 and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 179., Printed in red and blue., The illustration shows a mounted Union cavalry soldier, sabre drawn, attacking a mounted Confederate soldier., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 16th (1862-1865), Company I.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.16h (McAllister)

Title: Extra bounty! Families of recruits provided for. By the liberal contribution of the Grocers' Committee, the Fifth Metropolitan Guard Col. T.W. Parmele, is enabled to offer an extra cash bounty of $10 for each recruit in addition to other bounties. The families of recruits are also provided for by the Metropolitan Police Fund, and have the gratuitous services of the physicians of the Police Department at their own homes. Headquarters, Howard St., near Broadway
Description: The 5th Metropolitan Guard, the 174th Regiment of New York Infantry, was mustered in Nov. 13, 1862 and consolidated with 162nd New York Infantry Feb. 17, 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 174th (1862-1864)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.4c (McAllister)

Title: $129 bounty paid as soon as sworn in Recruits wanted for the 12th Regiment, N.Y. Vols. Now serving in General Butterfield's brigade, Gen. Porter's 5th Army Corps, the crack corps of the army. One month's pay in advance $25 United States bounty, $50.00 state bounty! Also, $50 city bounty. $4.00 for each recruit Relief tickets issued to families
Description: Daniel Butterfield commanded the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac from May to Aug. 1862., The illustration, signed E. Purcell, shows Liberty perched on a cannon holding a sword and a laurel wreath, in front of an eagle and four flags, above the banner: E pluribus unum., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1865)
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.35 (McAllister)

Title: End the war! To strike now is to crush the foe! Men wanted for Co. E., Camden Guards, attached to the Twelfth New Jersey Regiment, Col. Robert C. Johnson. $150 bounty $88 advance. Premium of two dollars will be paid for each accepted recruit. One month's pay is given in advance, and $50 bounty from Camden County to each recruit, when mustered in the U.S. service, and a further bounty of $25 from the U.S. when the regiment is mustered in. Married men, and those having dependent widowed mothers receive $6 per month, and single men, $2 per month, extra pay from the state; making the total bounty, married men, $366! Single men, 222! Recruiting offices, No. 9 Front Street, above Plum, and Andrews' Hall, corner 4th and Market Streets, Camden. Philip M. Armington, 1st Lieut. James McComb, 2d Lieut. Charles K. Horsfall, Captain
Description: The 12th Regiment New Jersey Infantry was mustered in Sept. 4, 1862 and mustered out July 15, 1865., Printed in red and blue., The illustrations are a farmer holding a flag and a gun in front of a plow, a soldier in uniform holding a gun in front of a cannon and the flag, and one, signed L. Johnson & Co., an eagle on a shield with the banner: The Union now and forever!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 12th (1862-1865), Company E.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.2a (McAllister)

Title: Jerseymen! To the rescue! Fifty able-bodied men wanted for the Camden Guards! This company has been accepted, and is now attached to the 12th New Jersey Regiment, Col. Robt. C. Johnson. One hundred dollars bounty. One month's pay is given in advance to each recruit when mustered in the United States service, and $25 bounty is paid to each recruit when the regiment is mustered in Married men, and those having dependent widowed mothers, receive $6 per month, and single men $2 per month, extra pay from the state. Recruiting office, Andrews' Hall, cor. 4th and Market Sts., Camden
Description: The 12th Regiment New Jersey Infantry was mustered in Sept. 4, 1862 and mustered out July 15, 1865; Capt. Horsfall and 1st Lt. Armington are on the rolls of Company E., The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is an eagle on a shield with the banner: The Union now and forever!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 12th (1862-1865), Company E.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.1a (McAllister)

Title: Rapid transit in Southern Mississippi
Description: Racist scene showing an African American family comprised of the parents and eleven children traveling in an open wagon pulled by two oxen. The parents, each holding a baby, sit on the cab as the older children stand in the bed of the wagon. A wood shack, with three small windows, a door, and dilapidated fencing stands in the background. Two African American women, each holding a baby, stand in front of the building. The women and girls wear cotton shirtwaists, skirts, or smock dresses, and kerchiefs or a wide-brimmed hat. The man and boys wear long-sleeved shirts, pants, and hats or caps., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1895, by Strohmeyer & Wyman., Title from item., Title printed in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish on verso., Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022., In 1912 Keystone View Company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. Keystone remained in business until 1970.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Portraits & Genre [P.2018.16.9]

Title: The industrious man It is Saturday night. The industrious man returns home from his labour in peace-He is welcome to an humble home-Pleasant smiles and happy voices greet him. Let him fear and serve God will bless him and his household for ever
Description: Shows a man returning to his quaint home and family convened around the dining table after a day of work. He enters the door with a lunch pail in his hand and greets his son who runs to him. In front of the table, laid out with a pot of tea, an older daughter uses a plate of water to bathe her younger sister who has been stripped to her waist. At the end of the table, the mother holds a baby at her bosom. Nearby, the family cat sits in front of the stove slightly visible in the right of the image., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00026, Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Manuscript note on verso: James L. & Isaac W. Morris from Aunt Sarah [Pitrom’s?] Christmas 1849, Accompanied by text titled "Welcome Home" moralizing that a happy home stems from a strong work ethic by the "honest laborer" who is one of the "noblest of men.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 117, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
Date: [ca. 1849]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union

Title: A stated meeting of the Society of the Home Friends of the Volunteers and Enlisted Men of Bethlehem and Vicinity will be held at the Sun Hotel on Saturday evening, May 2, at 8 o'clock
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Society of the Home Friends of Volunteers and Enlisted Men (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Soc Home (2)5786.F.86c (McAllister)

Title: To arms! Inscribed to our brave volunteers
Description: A poem in six verses, followed by a recruiting offer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; MS. note: Nov. 1861., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Rogers, E. S., Mrs.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Rogers (2)5777.F.75g (McAllister)

Title: On the march to the sea
Description: Civil War scene from Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's notorious campaign across Georgia in 1864 and 1865 depicting the depredation and destruction of countryside near the Atlantic coast. Amidst smoke, Sherman sits on his horse, looks through a scope, and scouts the horizon. Around him, white men Union soldiers and an African American man dismantle railroad tracks, and further down the line a railroad car has been set on fire. Newly free African Americans leave on foot and by raft. In the right, an African American family of a mother, father, son, and grandfather, attired in worn and torn cloths, carry bundles as they travel over the dismantled railroad tracks. The mother holds her son’s one hand while he uses the other to rub his eyes. The father rests his hand on the back of the grandfather. Behind them, two Union soldiers cut down a telegraph pole. In the background, Union soldiers round up cattle, burn homesteads and a bridge, and fire upon retreating Confederate soldiers. In the lower margin is a portrait of Sherman., Title from item., Plate signed by Darley lower right corner., Manuscript note on verso: Acc. No. 0479; Gift Minnie Owen., See Nancy Finlay's Inventing the American past: the art of F.O.C. Darley (New York: New York Public Library, 1999), p. 28 and opp. p. 32., Accessioned 2000., 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., Ritchie, a New York painter and prolific engraver of portraits and genre scenes, produced many engravings after the works of the premier illustrator of the 19th century and native Philadelphian, F.O.C. Darley.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Civil War [P.9854]

Title: "Look upon this picture and on this." Shakespeare Intemperance and temperance
Description: Allegorical genre scene showing an intemperate and temperate family in front of a tree on the banks of the Schuylkill River. In the left of the image, a man dressed in ragged clothing leads his somberly-dressed wife and barefoot sleepy child from a dilapidated tavern down a weed strewn path. At the tavern, men drink, cajole and are passed out on the porch underneath the tavern sign adorned with the image of a pig. Pigs laze and eat from a trough beside the drinking establishment. In the right of the image, a well-dressed couple watches their child pick flowers into a basket as others picnic on the grass in the background. In the distance, the Fairmount Waterworks is visible. Also shows the half of the tree on the intemperate side dead and leafless while the other half on the temperate side is full of foliage., Not in Wainwright., Name of printer partially crossed out and deduced by cataloger., Manuscript note pasted on verso: The original sketch of this picture was made by Thomas Birch, about the year 1826. His daughter Mrs. Veacock, now (Aug. 1891) living at the age of 83 years remembers seeing her father working at the drawing. This copy was found in her garret where it had been for many years., Label pasted on verso: Presented to the Historical Society of Pa. by A. R. Thomas, M.D., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 443, Revised August 2018 based on copy at American Antiquarian Society, Lithf Chil Birc Look. Originally recorded Childs & Lehman as printer with ca. 1834 as the publication date., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 B 617, Inscribed in verso: Taken off the wall, 1940.
Creator: Rider, Alexander, artist
Date: [ca. 1832]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 61 B 617

Title: Fall in Fifth Ward Captain Thos. H. Taylor, late of the 69th P.V. is now organizing a company, at New Market Hall, Second & Pine Sts. for the Union League Brigade! Third Regiment, Colonel George P. McLean, com'dg. late of the 88th P.V. for state defence, 3 months or sooner discharged. All the authorized bounties paid, and families provided for. Action, not words! Must defend the state. Recruits uniformed and sent to camp at once, near the city
Description: The Third Union League Regiment, 59th Regiment Infantry of the Ninety-Day Militia, under command of Col. George P. McLean, was mustered into service July 1 and discharged Sept. 9, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1311, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 251., The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., in an eagle on a shield, with the banner: Our country and our flag., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 59th (1863)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Penn Mil (3)5777.F.42 (McAllister)

Title: National Guard Regiment! Union League Brigade! Recruits will receive all authorized bounties, and their families will receive $2 per week in addition to their pay from the state. Term of service three months! State defence! Head-quarters, 605 Arch Street, & Receiver of Taxes Office, Sixth and Chestnut sts
Description: The Second Union League Regiment, 52nd Regiment Infantry of the Ninety-Day Militia, under command of Col. William A. Gray, was mustered into service July 9 and discharged Sept. 1, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1295, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 251., The illustration is a regimental parade, with a sergeant major leading, left arm raised, four drummer boys, and one mounted officer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1863)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Penn Mil (3)5777.F.9 (McAllister)

Title: To arms! A few more men wanted to fill up the Darby Rangers! Attached to the 29th Reg't P.S.M., Col Hawley. The National Union League of Darby will give $10 bounty! A woolen shirt and gum blanket to every man who will join the rangers, now mustered in for the present "Emergency" for state defence, and provide for their families while absent. Recruiting station, Buttonwood Hotel, Darby. Rally, men, rally! The rangers have but a few days to fill the company
Description: The Twenty-ninth Regiment, Infantry, of the Pennsylvania Militia, under the command of Col. Joseph W. Hawley, was mustered in June 19 and discharged Aug. 1, 1863; Capt. Andrews commanded Company H. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1241., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 29th (1863), Company H.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1863 Penn Mil (1)5777.F.36c (McAllister)

Title: Company C, Third Regiment, Reserve Brigade Recruits wanted immediately for Co. C, 3d Regiment, Reserve Brigade, now recruiting at Commissioners' Hall, 37th & Market Streets to serve under the call of the governor, for a period of three months, unless sooner discharged. Recruits in this company receive bounty, $13 per month for the benefit of their families, in addition to state pay and city bounty. Citizens' Bounty, 24th Ward, $13, city bounty, 10, bounty per month, 13, state pay, 13, advance
Description: Joseph D. Sorver was Captain of Company C of the 25th Regiment, Militia of 1862, under command of Col. C.E. Eakin. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1204., Printed on yellow paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 25th (1862), Company C.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Penn Mil (1)5777.F.30 (McAllister)

Title: Old '76 and young '48 From the original picture in the possession of the American Art-Union
Description: Mexican War-era genre print evoking the memory of the American Revolution depicting a young, white man Mexican War soldier returned home to his family, including his grandfather, a Revolutionary War veteran. In a parlor, the young man, attired in his uniform, sits, turned away from his meal, surrounded by his mother, father, sister, grandfather, and family dog. He raises his hand in the air as he regales his family about his experiences. They all look at him intently, except the grandfather, seated in an arm chair, and leaning on a cane, who stares a little off to the side. In the background, three servants (two African American men and an African American woman) listen from the doorway. A portrait painting of the grandfather as a young man in his military uniform hangs on the wall. In the left, a fireplace with mantle is visible. Above the mantle, a framed print reproduced after Trumbull's painting "Declaration of Independence" is displayed near lamps, a clock, and a bust of Washington on a bookcase. Also shows the soldier's cap and sword lying on the floor in the foreground., Title from item., After an 1849 painting by Robert Caton Woodville in the collections of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore., One of six prints issued in 1851 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York., Gift of David Doret, 2006., Description revised., Access points revised., Described in the Bulletin of the American Art-Union, June 1850, p. 46., 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.
Creator: Pease, Joseph Ives, 1809-1883, engraver
Date: 1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Mexican War [P.2006.28.23]

Title: Pore lil' Mose sends his Pa a valentine
Description: Racist cartoon containing vignettes about an African American family, portrayed in racist caricature, with the boy prankster Pore Lil' Mose giving valentines to his gal Happy Lil' Sal and his Pa. In the left, shows Miss Sally Sunbeam, portrayed in caricature and wearing her hair in pigtails with yellow bows and attired in a pink dress with a white ruffled collar, yellow stockings, and boots, standing with her dog. She smiles and holds up the valentine while Mose looks on from behind a fence. Below is a vignette depicting Pa angrily holding and reading his “comic” valentine, “Moses Pryor shif’less coon quit his job de first of June never works again till fall hates to ever work at all.” Mose’s mother, attired in a red headkerchief with white polka dots, a yellow shawl, and a blue dress, smiles as she looks over Pa’s shoulder. A younger brother, attired in a red and white sailor shirt with a green bow and green pants, stands behind Pa and scowls with his hands in his pockets. The next vignette, shows Mose fleeing the kitchen with only his legs visible running out the door as a mule looks on. Pa, tripping over the cat, flies through the air head down and legs up and carrying a stick in his hand. Ma leans back with her hand on her head as the plates, cutlery, and coffee pot are thrown from the kitchen table. In the top right is a portrait of Uncle Jack, wearing white hair and attired in a black top hat, a white and red striped shirt, a yellow vest with red polka dots, blue pants, red socks, and brown shoes, standing with his hands in his pockets. The image of Pa’s valentine depicts a racist caricature of an African American man stealing a chicken at night under the moonlight. Contains 21 lines of text written in the vernacular explicating the scenes ending with the line "Pore Lil' Mose.", Title from item., The "Por Lil' Mose" series was published in the New York Herald from 1901 until 1902., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, 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., Richard Felton Outcault (1868-1928) is renowned as the creator of the first published full page comic. He is also the creator of "Buster Brown."
Creator: Outcault, Richard Felton, 1863-1928, artist
Date: [ca. 1901]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1901 Por [8391.F]

Title: [Family posed in front of clapboard house]
Description: View showing a family, including a baby in a carriage, posed in front of their residence, probably in Philadelphia. Family members stand on the porch and on the sidewalk. Trees adorn the front yard., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inscribed on recto., Photographer's monogram inscribed on recto., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American views., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: September 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [5739.F.87b]

Title: Views of the Wilson family on their estate
Description: Views show the Wilson family recreating on their estate. Depicts the family reading, picnicking, sitting and lounging in their yard, walking and working in their gardens, harvesting corn, playing with family dogs, posing near a small footbridge, and eating on their porch. Several members of the family are seated on their horses in a few of the images. One image includes an African American man, attired in a white chef’s hat and apron, overseeing a meal under a tent. Also shows exterior views of the family's two-and-a-half story residence with porches on the first two levels, a stone barn, and outbuildings. American flags are included in several of the images., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on content and attire of the people., Photographer's labels pasted on versos., Stereograph [P.9439.17] contains manuscript note on verso: "For Mr. Wilson with compliments of the artist.", Contains twenty-two photographs, seventeen printed on yellow mounts with square corners and five printed on mint green mounts with square corners., Purchase 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9439.1-22]

Title: Privat [sic] residence near Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of residence partially obscured by trees. Includes a family (father, mother, and daughter) posed on the front lawn., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Robert Newell., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Residences [7992.F.21]

Title: Emancipation
Description: Emancipation print depicting a series of scenes contrasting African American life during and after slavery. Central scene portrays the interior of a free person's home where several generations of the family socialize around a "Union" stove as the mother cooks. Below this scene is a portrait of Lincoln and above it a depiction of Thomas Crawford's statue of freedom, as well as the hell hound Cerberus fleeing Liberty. Scenes to the right display the horrors of slavery including the flogging, branding, selling, and capturing of enslaved people. Scenes to the left display the forthcoming results of freedom including the exterior of a free person's cottage, African American children attending public school, and African Americans receiving payment for their work., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J.W. Umpehent, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Originally published in Harper's weekly, January 24, 1863., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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., Nast was a cartoonist and illustrator most known for his work for the 19th-century periodical "Harper's Weekly."
Creator: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1865-3R [5792.F]

Title: Emancipation: the past and the future
Description: Emancipation print contrasting African American life during and after slavery. Central scene portrays the interior of a free person’s home where several generations of the family socialize around a "Union" stove as the mother cooks. The horrors of slavery are depicted through scenes of the flogging, branding, selling, and capturing of enslaved people. The forthcoming results of freedom are depicted through scenes of the exterior of a free person’s cottage, African American children attending public school, and African Americans receiving payment for their work. Also depicted are: a baby angel freeing the shackles of a kneeling enslaved man as the angel, who has the year 1863 above his head, is held by Father Time; Thomas Crawford’s statue of freedom; and the hellhound Cerberus fleeing liberty., Title from item., Originally published in Harper's weekly, January 24, 1863., 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., Nast was a cartoonist and illustrator most known for his work for the 19th-century periodical "Harper's Weekly."
Creator: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons - 1865-3 variant [(10)1540.F]

Title: The past and the future
Description: Emancipation print contrasting African American life during and after slavery. Central scene portrays the interior of a free person's home where several generations of the family socialize around a "Union" stove as the mother cooks. The horrors of slavery are depicted through scenes of the flogging, branding, selling, and capturing of enslaved people. The forthcoming results of freedom are depicted through scenes of the exterior of a free person's cottage, African American children attending public school, and African Americans receiving payment for their work. Also depicted are: a baby angel freeing the shackles of a kneeling enslaved man as the angel is held under the year 1863 by Father Time; Thomas Crawford's statue of freedom; and the hellhound Cerberus fleeing liberty. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of 1864 was organized by the Philadelphia division of the United States Sanitary Commission to raise money for their soldier relief organization. Although emancipation was a popular theme of the fair, African Americans were excluded from the exhibition., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Inscribed: Price [Fif?]ty Cents., Originally published in "Harper's weekly," January 24, 1863., LCP exhibition catalogue: African American Miscellany, p. 22., Accessioned 1987., 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: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons - 1865-3a variant [P.9177.30]

Title: [Photographic reproductions of the Cartoon Printing Co. series after the 1878 Harper’s Weekly "Blackville" series “The Twins”]
Description: Photographic reproductions of drawings based on a racist series of African American caricatures originally created for Harper's Weekly in 1878 by Sol Eytinge that satirized the courtship and marriage of and the start of families by "The Twins." The African American figures are depicted with exaggerated features and mannerisms. Includes "No. 1 The Flirtation" showing the "Twins" meeting their suitors; "No. 2 The Introduction" showing the "Twins" being formally introduced to their suitors; "No. 3 The Courting" showing the "Twins" being courted together; "No. 4 The Proposal" showing the "Twins"suitors proposing to them in different manners; "No. 5 The Duel" showing the "Twins" suitors preparing to duel with guns; "No. 6. The Wedding" showing the "Twins" dual wedding; "No. 8 Return from the Honeymoon Tour" showing the "Twin" couples promenading in town; "No. 9 Coming Events" showing the town doctor and the husbands of the "Twins" racing down a dirt road on donkey back; and "No. 10 The Event Or Where '2 Pair is Better Than 4 of a Kind'"showing the arrival of the "Twins" twins., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright statement on four of the original drawings in the series: Copyrighted 1881 John McGreer, Chicago, Ill., Name of artist stamped on versos: McGreer Chicago., Series missing No. 7. The Wedding Feast., Name of publisher inscribed on four of the original drawings in the series (No. 2-3, 6, and 9)., Inscribed on two of the original drawings in the series (No. 2 and 8): Remodeled from sketch in Harpers Weekly or Reproduced from sketch in Harpers Weekly by the Cartoon Printing Co. Chicago., Inscribed on one of the original drawings in the series (No. 3): Reproduced from sketch by Sol Eytinge in Harpers Weekly by the Cartoon Printing Co. Chicago., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2017, p. 52., John McGreer (1833-1905) was a dime museum painter, landscape artist, and cartoonist. He worked in Chicago after 1870 and was a partner in the novelty and satire printing firm Cartoon Printing Co., later Cartoon Publishing Co., by the early 1880s. In 1897, he patented statuettes of African American caricatures for use as cardholders. He resided in New York and was noted as a landscape artist at the time of his death in 1908., See Shawn Michelle Smith, Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 82-86., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: McGreer, John, 1839-1908
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5 x 7 - Unid. - Events [P.2017.26.1-9]

Title: No. 10 The event Or where "2 pair is better than 4 of a kind"
Description: Tenth scene in a racist series of African American caricatures originally created for Harper's Weekly in 1878 by Sol Eytinge that satirized the courtship and marriage of and the start of families by "The Twins." The African American figures are depicted with exaggerated features and mannerisms. Shows the tall husband of one of the twins, twin babies in hand, arriving at the home of the other twin and her husband after the birth of their twins. In the right, the twin lies in bed under the covers as “Dr. Black” turns to the entryway and prepares to give her a spoonful of medicine. Near them is the bed-ridden twins' husband, seated and feeding one baby twin a bottle as the other rocks in a cradle. To his right, the “grandmother,” attired in a bonnet, glasses, polka dot dress, and apron raises her hands in excitement as she greets the arriving husband of the twin's sister. A stool, framed pictures, and a sideboard adorn the room., Title from item., Name of publisher from other photographs in series., Date from copyright statement inscribed in original drawing: Copyrighted 1881 John McGreer, Chicago, Ill., Name of artist from stamp on verso: McGreer Chicago., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2017, p. 52., RVCDC, Desciption revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: McGreer, John, 1839-1908
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5 x 7 - Unid. - Events [P.2017.26.9]

Title: Prospect from Ridgeland, Fairmount Park, Phila
Description: Lithograph showing the landscape of West Fairmount Park near Ridgeland, the dwelling built as a farmhouse for William Couch between 1752 and 1762. A woman stands on the porch of the dwelling watching two children drag a tree branch toward the house. A man approaches a bench and cluster of trees nearby. Includes the outlines of Belmont Mansion and Girard College in the distance. Dwelling sold to the city of Philadelphia in 1869., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.3]

Title: Bits of nature and some art products, in Fairmount Park, at Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Volume of compiled prints and drawings by lithographer, etcher, and artist Augustus Kollner primarily depicting landscapes of Fairmount Park and originally published in his "Bits of Nature ...," one of four volumes in his 1878 series of small folio pictures. Also contains views of Philadelphia and Bucks and Montgomery counties. Several of the prints also show park and riverscape; residences and estates; animals, including canal mules, horses, cows, and dogs; park visitors, including an African American family, children, and persons on foot and on horseback; steamboats, rowboats, and other vessels on the Schuylkill River; and rock formations. Other views show wharf workers at lunch and a cliff-side residence at North Twenty-Seventh Street near the park., Mount Pleasant Mansion was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Titles include Thos. Moore’s Cottage, Phila. Park; Schuylkill River, Fairmount Park, Phila. (Columbia Bridge); Prospect from Ridgeland and Fairmount Park, Phila.; (In Fairmount Park) Sweet Briar Mansion, in 1843; In Ravine near Sweet Briar Fairmount Park, Phila.; Schuylkill River below the Falls, Fairmount Pk. Phila.; Belmont and Waterworks. Mount Pleasant, Fairmount Park, Philada.; In Wissahickon Valley, Fairmount Park, Philada.; Peters Island, Fairmount Park, Philada.; Schuylkill Riv. above Fairmount Dam, Philada. in 1843; Phila. 1842; Schuylkill River Pa.; Pt. Pleasant, Pa.; Near Willow Grove Penna.; Life Scenes in Fairmount Park; Near East Park, Phila./ "S.E. corner 27th & [Arben?]"; Schuylkill Valley Pa (dated 1893).; Delaware Riv. [Easton?]; Life Scenes in Park; City Wharf Scene (dated 1894); and West Phila [illegible] near Sweet [Briar?] West Phila., Title from title page., Maroon leather binding, stamped in gilt on cover: Bits of Nature. A. Kollner., Spine stamped: Bits of Nature. Kollner., Prints variably signed AK; A. Kollner; A. Kollner fc.; From nate. and etchd by A. Kollner; and Kollner, fect., Titles on the stone or plate. Some annotated with inscribed titles., Two of prints [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.15 and 16] printed on recto of proofs. Proofs depict "Life Scenes in Park" and "The Christian Soldier.", Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Date: [1878-1894]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F]

Title: [Migrating African Americans emancipated from enslavement]
Description: Drawing by Alexander Kitzmiller, a 24-year-old Pennsylvania German, prisoner Number 4780 at Eastern State Penitentiary. Depicts two African American families of freedom seekers emancipated from enslavement, portrayed in racist caricature, migrating on horseback and on foot. In the left, an African American man, barefoot and attired in a yellow hat, a blue collared shirt, and orange and white patterned pants, rides on a mule with his son and daughter. Behind him walking on foot is a boy, attired in a soldier’s cap, a red collared shirt with a red tie, and blue pants with suspenders and the African American mother, attired in a red head kerchief, hoop earrings, a yellow dress, and yellow and black shoes, who holds the arm of her daughter. The young girl, attired in a blue hat and a red and white striped dress, carries a Black doll. In the right, another family walks, including an African American man, attired in a yellow hat, a red and white striped collared shirt with a brown tie, white pants, and black boots, who carries a bundle on a stick; an African American woman, attired in a white head kerchief, hoop earrings, a red dress, and yellow and black shoes, who carries a baby on her shoulder, and a boy, attired in a soldier’s cap, an orange collared shirt, blue pants with suspenders, and brown shoes, who has his hand in his pants pocket. Adaption of Francis B. Schell's illustration, "Arrival at Chicksaw Bayou of the negro slaves of Jefferson Davis, from his plantation on the Mississippi," published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper on August 8, 1863., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and tenure dates of S.W. Woodhouse as physician at Eastern State Penitentiary., Manuscript note on verso: Presented to me by a German prisoner in the State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania during my residency there. S.W. Woodhouse, M.D., Woodhouse was a Philadelphia surgeon, naturalist, and pioneer ornithologist who served as resident physician at the Eastern State Penitentiary from 1862 to 1863., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1997, p. 37., Purchase 1997., 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: Kitzmiller, Alexander, approximately 1839-, artist
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings & Watercolors - Kitzmiller [P.9547]

Title: [Parting scene; Old Kentucky Home]
Description: This parting scene illustrates a verse from Foster's song. Standing on the front porch of the old Kentucky home, a black woman cries into a handkerchief as she watches a black man walking away. He is followed by another man on a horse., Plate in Stephen Collins Foster's My Old Kentucky Home (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 211 Tremont Street, 1888), n.p., The following verse is printed on the opposite page: "The time has come when the darkeys have to part, -- / Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night!", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Daily Life.
Creator: Kilburn & Cross
Date: [1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1888 Foster 70524.O n.p., https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2836

Title: The pic nic on the Fourth of July, "A day to be remembered"
Description: Copy of subscription print published in 1864 and 1866 for "Demorest's Monthly Magazine" after the painting of Lily May Spencer showing her family at a Fourth of July picnic in a grove near, possibly, the Passaic River, in Newark, N.J, the hometown of the Spencers. Shows Spencer's husband Benjamin in the center of the view, lying on his side, and with one hand on the broken rope of a tree swing. Family members surround him, seated and standing, and predominately laugh and clap, except for a boy who attempts to help him up and the artist who runs toward him with her arms out. Another child waves a flag while on her father's shoulders. In the foreground, in the right, an African American man servant with a picnic basket, pot, and ice cream churn at his feet is distracted by the husband and pours wine on an older female guest who scowls. To their left, an African American woman caretaker holds a concertina and watches the scene with African American man. Seated next to her is her young white charge, who rests on a dog. To the right, a boy, holding up a small instrument, possibly a noise maker, lays behind a log on which a young couple courts each other. They hold hands and the woman places a fan to her face. Lush greenery forms the landscape, and in the background, a path through the woods, and canoes, a sailboat, and boys playing at the river is visible., Title from item., Published and copyrighted by the New York Engraving, Printing & Publishing Company in 1864 and published by H. Peters and P. & J. Levy (N. Y.) in 1866., Gift of David Doret, 2009., Trimmed and strip of paper mounted on bottom edge., 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: Hollyer, Samuel, 1826-1919, engraver
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Holidays - F [P.2009.6.1]

Title: "Old Joseph, the Patriarch"
Description: Engraving accompanies a fictional episode described in Letter IV, "The 'Purchases' -- Old Joseph." Episode takes place on Christmas Eve in the cabin of the coachman Rafe, the slave seated on the log near the fireplace to the extreme right. Rafe has learned that he will soon be sold, and thus separated from his wife, who sits to his right, and their young child, who rests on her lap. Other slaves cluster around the couple, trying to comfort them. Leaning on his walking stick, Old Joseph (described as "the beau ideal of a patriarch, at once humble, dignified and venerable") stands and faces the group, offering words of wisdom and consolation. Interior is furnished with a bench, a chest of drawers, a large chair, and stools of varying sizes. The men's discarded top hats are placed throughout the room, as are assorted utilitarian and domestic objects, such as pots and pans, an umbrella, and an axe. In the foreground, a book, quite possibly the Bible, rests on a stool., Frontispiece for Emily C. Pearson's Cousin Franck's Household, or, Scenes in the Old Dominion (Boston: Upham, Ford, and Olmstead, 1853)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Creator: Hedge, Franklin, b. ca. 1830, engraver
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Pear 73222.O frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2792

Title: African mother on a rock
Description: Yarrima, an African mother, watches in despair as her son, Yazoo, is whisked away on the white man's boat., Illustration in Lydia Childs's the Oasis (Boston: Benjamin C. Bacon: Tuttle and Weeks, printers, No. 8, School Street, 1834), p. 28., Caption underneath the illustration reads: "Yarrima climbed to the highest rock, and saw the white man's boat moving rapidly over the waves.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator: Hall, John H., engraver
Date: [1834]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1834 Chi 70173.D.5 p 28, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2734

Title: [Deborah Passmore Gillingham scrapbook of prints, drawings, and specimens]
Description: Scrapbook of chiefly engravings, drawings, and specimens compiled starting in 1847 by Quaker amateur artist Deborah P. Gillingham. Contains several circa 1810s-1850s book and periodical illustrations, including from "Godey’s Lady’s Book," the "Union Magazine", and the "Literary Souvenir" (London), that depict genre, sentimental, historical, European, and literary scenes and views, as well as portraits of prominent American and European literary, religious, and political figures, particularly abolitionists. Titles of illustrations include "Cinderella"; "Harvest Wagon"; "Bolton Abbey, Wharfdale"; "Lockport, Erie Canal"; "Bit"; "The Sisters Clio"; "Steps to Ruin"; "The Rescue"; "Warming the Mitten"; "Going to School"; "Queen Henrietta Interceding for the King"; "France, Lyon"; and "Fall of Terni." Many of the "Union Magazine" illustrations are after the work of artist Tompkins H. Matteson and depict scenes with children, women, families and/or couples. Illustrations also include the 1848 comic plate "The Lost Glove" depicting an African American servant and a dandy ("Union Magazine," April 1848) and an 1838? portrait of "Joanna," the enslaved woman with whom British–Dutch colonial soldier and author of "The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam" (1796, reprinted 1838) John Gabriel Stedman had a relationship. Portrait sitters include Lucretia Mott, Gerrit Smith, Elias Hicks, Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Moore, Daniel O’Connell, Alice B. Neale, and Benjamin Lundy. Illustrations also depict Philadelphia landmarks, including Franklin Institute, Schuylkill Water Works, and Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Philadelphia views also include a separately-issued lithograph depicting Clermont Academy printed by Childs & Inman after George Lehman., A number of pencil works and ink drawings comprise the scrapbook with many captioned and depicting dwelling, landscape, and landmark views of Switzerland and Great Britain. Includes pencil sketch "from memory" of "Jungfrau, Switzerland" (Alps) by "E.B.E"; pencil drawing "The House in which Shakespeare was born. Henley Street. Strafford Upon Avon"; gouache and watercolors of "Chinese Fish"; pencil drawings with Chinese white captioned "Austin's Farm at Supiston Suffolk. The early residence of Robert Bloomfield" and "Mill at Bannockburn in which James 3rd was killed"; a pencil drawing of Friends Bank Meeting House inscribed "Mary Young"; pencil drawing of "Residence of George Fox" inscribed "John Young"; and two landscape watercolors by English Quaker social reformer and anti-slavery activist Elizabeth Heyrick., Scrapbook also contains several labeled botanical and material specimens from historical, Biblical, literary, and cultural landmarks and sites, as well as "Specimens of sea moss (i.e. algae) from Cape May May 1848" (one arranged in the letters "D.G.") and the hair of "E.M. Chandler." Often placed in folded sheets of paper with inscribed labels, specimens include "From the scene of Grays Elegy by Mantle Tower That Yew Tree shade"; "From the grave of Cromwell"; "Waterloo"; "Piece of South Sea Island Cloth"; "Mummy cloth unrolled by Gliddon 1851"(Egyptologist George Robbins Gliddon publically unwrapped mummies as performances in Boston and Philadelphia, 1851-1852); and "Pompei.", Additional items of note include a pencil sketch by Gillingham of "East Mount. The residence of John Pease England"; etchings depicting Suffolk landmarks by Henry Davy; the anti-slavery manuscript poem "America" signed and dated by British Quaker novelist, poet, and abolitionist Amelia Opie (Norwich 1846); the anti-slavery manuscript poem "Do as thou wouldst be done by"… signed and dated by British Quaker poet Bernard Barton (Woodbridge September 19, 1846); and circa 1847 calling cards by Chinese writing specialist Tsow Chaoong (Philadelphia 1847-1849) handwritten in English and Chinese characters “D.P. Gillingham” and "Y. M. Gillingham." A small number of circa 1900s clippings and photomechanical prints of portraits and landscapes also comprise the contents., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Inscribed on p. [1]: Deborah P. Gillingham 10 mo 20. 1847., Marbled paper binding., Several pages contain tissue paper overlays., Incomplete pencil sketch of dwellings on verso of drawing of "The River Side of Earlham" on p. [10]., Various artists, engravers, printers, and publishers include Childs & Inman; John Collins; Henry Davy; A. L. Dick; George Lehman; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green; Tompkins H. Matteson; Henry Sadd; John Sartain; and Thomas Sinclair., RVCDC, Access points revised 2022., Housed in phase box., Number of items missing or removed from pages., Page numbers added by cataloger lower right corner., Loose pages and inserts of gold paper removed, placed in enclosure, and housed with scrapbook in phase book., Deborah Passmore Gillingham (1820-1877), cousin of professional botanical illustrator Deborah Griscom Passmore (1840-1911), was an amateur botanical illustrator. Disowned from the Orthodox Philadelphia Meeting, Northern District in 1842, Passmore became a member of the Hicksite Green Street Meeting. She married Philadelphia wool merchant Yeamans Moon Gillingham (1817-1885) in 1844 and relocated with him to Moorestown, N.J. in 1850 following his retirement. The couple had a son Aubrey Howard Gillingham (1850-1885). In 1855 the family was recommended by the Green Street Meeting for the Eversham Monthly Meeting, N.J. At her death, Gillingham was a member of the Moorestown Monthly Meeting. Among her bequests were funds to endow beds at the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Dispensary and the Women’s Hospital.
Creator: Gillingham, Deborah Passmore, 1820-1877, compiler
Date: [ca. 1810-ca. 1910, bulk 1830-1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2019.6]

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