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- Title
- Horses, horses, horses 100 horses wanted for artillery. The subscriber will be at [blank] [blank] [blank] to buy horses. None but sound ones will be bought
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Heulings, Isaac, 1813-1897
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Heulings (6)5777.F.29b (McAllister)
- Title
- [Horse race]
- Description
- View of a race track depicting spectators watching two horses race neck and neck. In the foreground, two race horses run beside one another. The jockeys have an intense look on their faces as they hold the reins. Along the white guard rails, men and women spectators, including African Americans, stand and lean forward to watch the race., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., 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
- [ca. 1940]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Portraits - Sports & recreation
- Title
- [Silas McMinn residence, Lake Idaho?]
- Description
- Portrait of an African American man on a horse-drawn sulky on a farm. The man, attired in a brimmed hat, a coat, pants, and shoes, holds the reins to the horse. In the background are two log cabins, grazing calves, and men with a hay wagon., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s, exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs often won prizes.
- Creator
- Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.179]
- Title
- [Champion horse]
- Description
- Portrait of a champion racing horse draped in a garland of flowers at a track. The jockey, still mounted, holds the reins. An African American man groom controls the horse by his bridle bit. A crowd of men and women spectators look on and congratulate the winner., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., 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
- [ca. 1945]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-Non-Philadelphia-Portraits-Sports & recreation
- Title
- [Men husking corn]
- Description
- Depicts men agricultural workers, including an African American man, sifting through and husking corn in the middle of a large mound of cobs. In the center, five men and two dogs sit and stand in a large amount of corn. In the left, an African American man, attired in a bowler hat, a white, long-sleeved shirt, a waistcoat, and pants, sits on a wooden crate as he husks corn into a wooden barrel. Another man stands and husks into the same barrel. Three other men bend and stand sorting the corn. Behind the mound of corn is a horse-drawn cart. In the background is a large barn with the doors removed., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs won prizes.
- Creator
- Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1888]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.180]
- Title
- [Group portrait in front of the rear of a frame residence at an unidentified location]
- Description
- Portrait of a large group standing before a picket fence before a house at an unidentified location. In the right, five white men stand and sit, attired in uniforms, possibly baseball uniforms. In the center, a group of white men, women, and children, possibly a family, sit and stand and look at the viewer. In the left, a group of African Americans, who possibly work with the family, include two women one of whom holds a baby, a young girl, and a man who holds the reins of a horse. Several dogs are also in the portrait., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by attire of the sitters., Purchase 1989., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1895]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - family [P.9260.615]
- Title
- Frank & his darkies. A wagon load of beets just in from the field
- Description
- Group portrait depicting African American women agricultural laborers posed in front of a horse-drawn wagon loaded with beets. Three African American men agricultural laborers, including the foreman "Frank," stand beside them and on the cart. The women, most attired in hats, long-sleeved shirts, and full-length skirts, are covered in dirt from the day's work. In the left, another horse is visible., Title from manuscript note written on verso., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Tom Nicely, 1990., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7- unidentified - Non-Philadelphia [P.9297]
- Title
- The precarious situation
- Description
- Cartoon addressing the tenuous position of Republican presidential nominee General Ulysses S. Grant as the candidate of a party whose radicals support African American civil rights and Reconstruction under military rule. Depicts Grant holding up a knife inscribed "military despotism" as he straddles the "radical platform" rope that is stretched across the "Salt River" (i.e., political disaster). One end of the rope is tied to a rifle labeled "military reconstruction." The other end is held by "Negro supremacy" depicted as an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, barefooted, and attired in torn and worn clothes, who sits upon the tombstone of "Southern Confederacy." He asks in the vernacular, "Whar you be Massa Grant if I lef' go, yah! yah!!" Grant replies, "I'll fight it out if it takes all summer.", Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., Accessioned 1979., 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
- [1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1868-19aW [P.2275.3a]
- Title
- The great November contest. Patriotism vs bummerism
- Description
- Racist cartoon depicting the 1868 Presidential Election as a carriage race between the "patriotic" Democrats and the "bum" Republicans who support Reconstruction. Depicts the elegant Democratic carriage with the banner "This is a White Man's Government" pulled by the horses with the heads of Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair racing passed the stalled Republican wagon steered by the asses with the heads of nominees Ulysses Grant and Schuyler Colfax. In the Democrats' carriage are four allegorical figures: Liberty, depicted as a white woman holding the Constitution and a banner which reads "Our Glorious Union Distinct, like the Billows, One, Like the Sea' This is a White Man's Government!"; Navigation, depicted as a white woman holding a miniature ship; Agriculture, depicted as a white woman holding sheaves of wheat and a scythe; and Labor, represented by a bearded white man with a hammer and flywheel. The Republican wagon passengers include radical Thaddeus Stevens, the grim reaper, and an African American man and woman couple, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular. Massachusetts Republican representative Benjamin F. Butler tries to push the stalled wagon passed the bones of those who paid "The Price of Nigger Freedom" and the rocks of "Ruined Commerce," "Debt," and "Negro Supremacy.", In the background, a cheering crowd brandishing American flags near the U.S. Capitol await the winning Seymour and Blair while on the building's other side a group of African American men dance. In the left foreground, Henry Ward Beecher and Horace Greeley play a shellgame looking for Grant and an African American man and woman, attired in torn and worn clothes, discuss another man returning to his former enslaver. In the right foreground, an African American man sits behind a table labeled, "Pompey Smash, Salt River Line Ticket Agent" and sells tickets to "Salt River" (i.e., political disaster) to a white man with a bag labeled, "J.G.B. Boston Carpet Bagger." Behind them, two African American men and a drunken white man holding a bottle talk about the Republican wagon., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1868 by Bromley & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the southern District of New York., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., 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
- 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons - 1868-15 [5760.F.125]
- Title
- The great presidential race of 1856
- Description
- Cartoon ridiculing the Democratic and American (Know-Nothings) Party presidential candidates James Buchanan and Millard Fillmore by depicting them in a race to win the election of 1856. Depicts Buchanan having crashed his mount (i.e, running mate John C. Breckenridge depicted as a buck) into a rickety platform marked "Democratic Platform," Slavery," and "Cuba." An enslaved African American man, portrayed with racistly caricaturized features, and wearing shackles on his ankles and worn and torn clothes, shoes, and a hat, stands upon and ridicules the "Democratic Platform." Buchanan angrily replies, "You infernal Black Scoundrel, if it had not been for you and that cursed Slavery Plank that Scared and upset my Buck, I should have won this race certain." Following Buchanan is Fillmore using his running mate Andrew Jackson Donelson, depicted as a goose, as his mount. Fillmore, the American Party candidate, carries a "Know-Nothing" lamp and fears his loss will dissolve the Union. In the distance, the Republican candidate John C. Fremont pulls ahead to the cheers of many of the spectators. Brother Jonathan, (predecessor of Uncle Sam), stands on an observation or judging deck and carries a timer’s watch. Additional spectators include white men belittling Fillmore as "spineless" and a "goose," and a white boy holding a sign inscribed, "We Po'ked Em in 44; We Pierced Em in 52; and We'll 'Buck Em' in 56." He is being hoisted by two African American men, portrayed with racistly caricaturized features, upon the back of a gruff and annoyed-looking, bearded, white man asking him if he's a "Fre'mounter.", Title from item., Artist and publication information supplied by Reilly., Political cartoon Horse sassengers! A free lunch lithographed on recto. (political cartoons - 1858 Hor, P.2275.18b)., Accessioned 1979., 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., Magee was a New York cartoonist and lithographer who eventually established his own lithographic firm in Philadelphia in 1850.
- Creator
- Magee, John L., artist
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1858 Hor (verso) [P.2275.18a]