Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper., Image of two seated women who appear to be playing tambourines, possibly in a graveyard., Illustration appears in The pictorial Sunday book: designed for the use of families, Bible classes, and Sunday School teachers: derived principally from the manners and customs of the Jews ; the rites, traditions, and antiquities, of eastern nations, explanatory of many portions of the Old and New Testaments together with interesting descriptions of the principal places mentioned in the Bible, illustrated by numerous landscape scenes, from sketches taken on the spot (New York, 1846), p. 322. Caption of illustration - "Mourning women.", Tape (inscribed “1832”) on obverse., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Family chart containing floral, sentimental, allegorical, and landscape vignettes within twelve framed oval insets for portrait photographs. Vignettes include views of country homes, trees in full foliage, vases of flowers, allegorical female figures for spring and fall, and children at play. Ovals bordered by notations that read age, stature, weight, complexion, eyes, hair, form, and education. Vignettes separated by floral and vine details. Also contains tables for "Births"; "Marriages"; and death captioned "Oh Grave Where is Thy Victory. Oh Death Where is Thy Sting" and angels, a cherubic figure, and scenes of mourning., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by Roberts & Wheeler in New Jersey., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 67, Library of Congress: PGA - Haehnlen--Family record (D size) [P&P]
Creator
Sharp, A.C, artist
Date
c1870
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Haehnlen--Family record (D size) [P&P]
Statues of two children. Joy is smiling at a live animal in her hand, Grief is crying over a dead one.
The actual title of "Joy" is "Delight" and the actual title of "Grief" is "A Child's grief".
Class tribute signed Class of 1875; dated November, 1874. First line: But few months have elapsed since it fell to our lot., With: Philomathean Literary Society tribute. First line: Gone to the grave has our sister., Printed area, including foliated border, measures: 20.6 cm x 9 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Kutztown State Teachers College, Class of 1875
Date
[1874.]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1874 Kutztown 8758.F
View showing mourners on the sidewalk in front of buildings, including a hardware store and the business of "H.R. Miller," decorated in black bunting in memory of the assassinated president., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
April 1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Funerals [(6)1322.F.25d]
A woman in black mourning dress stands next to a tombstone marked "In Memory" and holds a handkerchief in her gloved hand. She smirks and looks over her should at a man in the background., Text: Oh! vain desembler, dry your eye, / And quickly throw that onion by; / Your dress and tears we truly know. / Are only traps to catch a beau., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
A man in a black suit smirks and holds a flower over a grave with an unmarked gravestone. Two woman stand behind him., Text: Vain pretender, put off thy badge of woe; / For, well we know, if you were only able / To cach [i.e. catch] a wife, the funeral baked meats / Would coldly furnish forth the marriage table., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
A woman in a black dress sits at a table. She holds a handkerchief to her eyes and is crying. There is an open bottle and a glass on the table and "Gammon" is written on the wall behind her. Gammon means nonsense and suggests that her grief is insincere., Text: Poor widow wooding for the loss, / Of one you’ll ne’er forget / And yet the thought my mind will cross, / That you are TO BE LET. / But in you no charm I see, / And therefore frankly own, / That all the chance you have with me, / Is to be LET alone., Provenance: Helfand, William H..