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Title: ASSU Illustration 5757
Description: Block numbered in one place: 5757 [?], Image of a bust portrait of a Native American man., Back of block obscured by pasted-down paper. Sides of block irregular (possibly cut for reuse).
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 11

Title: ASSU Illustration 3501
Description: Block numbered in at least one place: 3501., Image of a Native American man chasing an unidentified animal, possibly a goat [?] up a hill., “Girls … [illegibile] p. 99” – inscribed on side of block., Tape (inscribed "761") on obverse., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 8

Title: Reward of merit
Description: Contains central vignette showing a Native American man seated on a hillside and watching a train approaching a town. Another train travels past the town., Includes verse: Tis sweet oh sweet to know, If we our time improve, We shall be happy while below, And dwell in heaven above., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.158]

Title: ASSU Illustration 3552
Description: Block numbered in two places: 3552, also 1220 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a Native-American woman wearing a dress and a long shawl, which she pulls closed with one hand; behind her is a tipi; a pointing man wearing a feather headdress and a seated man or boy are also behind her and regard something in the distance., Illustration appears in History of the Delaware and Iroquois Indians formerly inhabiting the middle states, with various anecdotes, illustrating their manners and customs. (Philadelphia, 1832), frontispiece.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 20

Title: ASSU Illustration 3550
Description: Block numbered in one place: 3550., Image of a man in European dress holding a book in one hand and gesturing with the other; in front of him sits a seated Native American man who holds a small tomahawk in one hand and touches his face or rests his head on his hand; behind him stand three other similarly-dressed men and what appears to be a woman., Illustration appears in Child's world, v. 13 no. 16 (1874), p. 3.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 20

Title: ASSU Illustration 5983
Description: Block numbered in two places: 5983., Image of a man in European garb who appears to be watching a group of Native Americans, in a natural setting., “Brainerd [unintelligible] the [unintelligible] Indians” -- inscribed on side of block. [i.e. David Brainerd?], “N.J. Wemmer & Son. 215 Pear St. Phila.” -- stamped twice on back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876.
Date: [between 1861 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 10

Title: William Penn medal
Description: Obverse: Profile of William Penn with Legend that reads, “William Penn. B. 1644 D. 1718. L.P.” (Lewis Pingo). Reverse: Penn shaking hands with a Native American who has a bow in his left hand. Legend reads, “By Deeds of Peace. Pennsylvania Settled 1681.” John Fothergill (1712-1780) was a Quaker and a friend of Peter Collinson and John Bartram. Collinson introduced Fothergill to Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin became ill after his arrival in London in 1757, he became Fothergill’s patient. They remained close friends. William Logan (1718-1776) was the son of James Logan., LCP Minutes, Vol. 2, p. 121: At a meeting of the Directors held September 12th 1775. Mr. William Logan having in the Name and by the Direction of Doctor Fothergill presented the Library with a silver Medal representing on the Face a striking Likeness of William Penn the worthy Founder of this Province Legend “William Penn. B 1644. D. 1718” and on the Reverse William Penn shaking hands with an Indian Legend “By Deeds of Peace Pennsylvania settled 1681.” The Board request Mr. Logan will be pleased to communicate their Thanks to the Doctor for his truly valuable present—Ordered that the Secretary furnish Mr. Logan with a Copy of the aforegoing Minute.”, Gift of John Fothergill, 1775.
Creator: Pingo, Lewis, 1743-1830
Date: 1775
Location: OBJ 903

Title: [Die-cut textile label depicting the United States Capitol Building]
Description: Shows the East Front and grounds of the Capitol building, including the cast-iron dome completed in 1866 and landscaped gardens. Also contains the vignette, profile portrait of a Native American man in a headdress, and a garland frame., Title supplied by cataloger., Embossed and stamped on recto: No. 2202. Yds., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.172]

Title: Reading's Sesqui-Centennial, Reading, Pa. Jubilee Week June 5th to 12th, 1898. 150th Anniverary
Description: Pictorial envelope designed by Sesqui-centennial committee members Samuel Dilbert, W. Morris Deischer and Howard L. Boas containing a menagerie of imagery bordering two vignettes. Vignettes depict a view of the Reading "Court House, 1782-1841" and a view captioned "1748" showing Native Americans near a teepee watching a traveling Conestoga wagon from across a river. Other images show a locomotive, factories, train shed, and a winged female allegorical figure holding a trumpet and bolt of lightning, probably representing progress. An anvil, gear, and angle rest at the figure's feet. Over 700, 000 envelopes were printed and distributed nationally. The sesqui-centennial celebration included band concerts; civic, firemen, and industrial parades; grand illuminations; fireworks; and an equestrian and bicycle day., Addressed in manuscript to: Ronalds & Johnson Co., 139 N. 7th St., Philadelphia, Pa., Printed in red ink on recto: Return to E. S. Summons' Plumbing & Heating Co., 209 N. 6th St., Reading, Pa., Ink-stamp postmark on verso: Received Philadelphia, PA Mar 31, 1898 6 30 PM., Publication information from Morton Luther Montgomery, History of Reading, Pennsylvania: and the anniversary proceedings of the sesquice-centennial, June 5-12, 1898 (1898)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [c1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.89]

Title: The Western world! A series of panoramic paintings of rare artistic merit The proprietors, well aware of the fact that the country is flooded with miserable daubs called by courtesy "panoramas," feel some reluctance in bringing the real merits of the Western world before the public in any other manner than by direct exhibition, ... Will be exhibited at [blank] on [blank] evening, [blank] 1863 ... Gifts! Gifts! Gifts! The proprietors will, this evening, distribute a large number of gifts, consisting of watches, plated ware, jewelry, &c., &c. The cost of these articles, procured through the regular channels of trade, would be from fifty to one hundred dollars. Tickets, 25 cents Children, fifteen cents. Doors open at 7 o'clock, panorama to commence moving at a quarter before 8
Description: Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 64.4 x 21.6 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *PB 1863 Western (25)5761.F.27a (McAllister)

Title: Beckwourth, James Pierson, Mrs.
Description: In The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth (New York, 1856), p. [116]., The Native American woman died after her husband punished her for disobeying him when she chose to dance in celebration of the scalping of three white men. After her death, her father (a Flat Head) prevented Beckwourth from being killed, and also presented him with the wife’s younger sister as a replacement wife., Recumbent portrait of Mrs. Beckwourth after her husband struck her with the side of his battle-axe.
Date: [1856?]

Title: Woman Chief.
Description: In The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth (New York, 1856), p. [203]., The Native American woman was taken captive and adopted by the Crows when she was about ten. After excelling as a warrior, she became a chief, and was known as Bíawacheeitchish, or Woman Chief. She married four women in her lodge. In his autobiography, James Pierson Beckwourth, calling her Pine Leaf or Bar-chee-am-pe, claims to have had a romantic relationship with her., Full-length portrait of the woman warrior astride a horse.
Date: [1856?]

Title: Washburn, Miss.
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Miss Washburn holding a rifle and glancing back at a wounded Indian., In Frost, John. Daring and heroic deeds of American women (Philadelphia, 1860), plate following p. 268., After being held captive for ten years by a group of Indians, Miss Washburn encountered several pioneers. She persuaded them to provide her with a rifle, which she then used to kill two of her captors as they launched an attack on the pioneers.
Date: [1860?]

Title: Shakoka.
Description: Waist-length portrait of Shakoka, seated, wearing beaded necklaces and earrings. Her untied grey hair features prominently in the portrait., In Prichard, James Cowles. The natural history of man (London, 1843), plate following p. 402., "Dr. Prichard’s Natural History of Man”., The distinctive physical features of the Mandan Indians - such as the prevalence of grey hair and variety of skin tones within the tribe - led Dr. James Prichard to include several of George Catlin’s portraits of Mandan Indians in his own anthropological works.
Date: 1842. [i.e., 1843]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/6.1.htm

Title: Old Bets, 1788-1873.
Description: In Bishop, H. E. Floral home; or, first years of Minnesota (New York, 1857), plate opposite p. 259., Old Bets was a Dakota woman, also known as Aza-ya-man-ka-wan, or the Berry Picker, who lived near St. Paul, Minnesota. She was involved in aiding white settlers in the Sioux Uprising of 1862., Waist-length portrait of Old Bets., Another portrait appears in: American phrenological journal, v. 26 (Oct., 1857), p. 84.
Date: [1857?]

Title: Hayne Hudjini.
Description: In McKenney, T. L. and J. Hall. History of the Indian tribes of North America, v.1 (Philadelphia, 1836), plate opposite p. 79. Also in 1838-1844 edition., "There is a Chinese air of childishness and simplicity about [her countenance] .... She was the favourite wife of Shaumonekusse."--P. 79, Waist-length portrait of Hayne Hudjihini, wearing earrings and necklaces.
Date: [1836?]

Title: Woods, Mrs.
Description: Full-length portrait of Mrs. Woods in the foreground, seemingly unaware of an Indian man entering the house behind her., In Frost, John. Daring and heroic deeds of American women (Philadelphia, 1860), plate following p. 120., “Early one morning, sometime in the year 1784, Mr. Woods being absent from home, and Mrs. Woods being a short distance from the cabin, she discovered several Indians advancing towards it. She ran towards the cabin, and reached the door before all the Indians but one, who pursued so closely, that before she could secure the door, he entered. A lame negro in the cabin instantly seized the savage, and, after a short scuffle, they both fell – the negro underneath. The resolute black fellow held his antagonist so tightly that he could not use his knife. Mrs. Woods then seized an axe from under the bed, and, at the request of the negro, struck the savage upon the head.”--P. 120.
Date: [1860?]

Title: Ta-Ma-Kake-Toke.
Description: In Lewis, J.O. Aboriginal portfolio, v. 1 (Philadelphia, 1835)., Full-length portrait of Ta-Ma-Kake-Toke holding garments (of dead spouse?), seated on a bench.
Date: [1835?]

Title: Tshusick.
Description: In McKenney, T. L. and J. Hall. History of the Indian tribes of North America, v.1 (Philadelphia, 1836), plate opposite p. 173. Also in 1838-1844 and 1848-1850 editions., "Like all handsome women, be their color or nation what it may, she knew her power, and used it to the greatest advantage."--P. 175., Tshusick, an Ojibwa woman, arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1826, destitute and supposedly seeking Christian conversion after traveling on foot from Detroit. After several months of being entertained by high-level U.S. government officials and mingling in the highest social circles, she left the capital, laden with many gifts. Later, her Washington friends discovered that she was a con artist, "a sort of female swindler" (P. 177) who often appeared in cities and used her charm to make friends and enjoy the hospitality of others., Full-length portrait of a seated Tshusick leaning on a table, wearing elaborately decorated clothing, including a hat, jacket, and moccasins, and holding a flower. A piece of paper on the table bears her signature: "Thusick" [sic].
Date: [1836?]

Title: Rantchewaime.
Description: In McKenney, T. L. and J. Hall. History of the Indian tribes of North America, v.1 (Philadelphia, 1836), plate opposite p. 147. Also in 1838-1844 edition., "Rantchewaime has been known, after her return from Washington, to assemble hundreds of the females of her tribe, and discourse to them on the subject of ... vicious courses which she witnessed ... among the whites, and to warn them against like practices."--P. 148., Waist-length portrait of Rantchewaime, wearing earrings and necklaces, and holding a fan constructed of feathers.
Date: [1836?]

Title: Pocahontas, d. 1617.
Description: In McKenney, T.L. and J. Hall. History of the Indian tribes of North America, v.3 (Philadelphia, 1848), plate opposite p. 53. Also in 1836-1844 and 1838-1844 editions., The story of Pocahontas remains one of the most powerful legends of early colonial America. Pocahontas was a friend to the English settlers, often intervening on their behalf in negotiations with her father, powerful chief Powhatan. She famously saved the life of John Smith moments before his planned execution. She married settler John Rolfe, moved to England in 1616, and died there soon after., "With a shriek of agony, and an impulse of energy and devotion known only to woman's heart, Pocahontas rushes forward, throws herself between the victim and the uplifted arm of the impassioned avenger, beseeching him to spare, for her sake, that doomed life. In what page of her voluminous annals does history record a spectacle of such exquisite beauty? What grace, what feminine tenderness and devotion, what heroic purpose of soul--what self-sacrificing resolution and firmness! And that in a child of twelve years old--and that child an untaught savage of the wilderness, who had never heard the name of Jesus, or of that gospel which teaches to love our enemies, and do good to them that hate us!"--P. 54-55., Other portraits appear in: New York Mirror, v. 18, no. 3 (July 11, 1840), p. 17; The Picture of the baptism of Pocahontas: painted by order of Congress, for the rotundo of the Capitol, by J.G. Chapman, of Washington, plate opposite p. 8; McKenney, T.L., Memoirs, official and personal, v.2 (New York, 1846), frontispiece; Hale, S.J., Woman's record (New York, 1853), p. 474; Jones, A.D., The illustrated American biography (New York, 1853), v.1., p. [21]; Jones, A.D., The American portrait gallery (New York, 1855), p. [21]; Frost, J., Pictorial history of America, v.1 (Philadelphia, 1856), p. 156; Clarke, M.C., World-noted women (New York, 1858), plate opposite p. 283; Goodrich, F.B., Women of beauty and heroism (New York, 1859), plate opposite p. 211., Waist-length portrait of Pocahontas, holding a flower.
Date: [1848?]

Title: Daviess, Mrs.
Description: Full-length portrait of the back of Mrs. Daviess, holding a shotgun aimed at an Indian man stepping through a doorway., In Frost, John. Daring and heroic deeds of American women (Philadelphia, 1860), plate following p. 206., Mrs. Daviess was the wife of the late 18th-century Kentucky pioneer Samuel Daviess. She tricked her potential captor into setting down his gun, which she then used to hold him hostage.
Date: [1860?]

Title: William Penn's treaty with the Indians postcards
Description: Depicts William Penn's treaty of 1682 for Pennsylvania as a peaceful interaction with Native Americans., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Divided backs., Accession numbers: P.9049.22 and P.9049.25., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1908-1919
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Historic events - [various]

Title: Native American woman standing in wooded area, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait of a Native American woman standing out of doors in an overgrown area near a tree. She wears an ornate headband and a full length fringed dress possibly made of leather, as well as decorated leggings, moccasins, and necklaces. She carries a decorated or woven purse or bag on her left arm., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.130]

Title: The Great panorama of the Indian massacre of Minnesota! will positively be on exhibition at [blank] Hall on [blank] 1864 In 1862 the great Sioux tribes of Minnesota and Dacotah were actors in one of the most savage and cruel massacres that history has ever recorded. Small parties roamed over the entire state, putting one thousand persons to death in the most cruel and barbarous manner--farm-houses entered and whole families put to death. Over 20,000 families, terror-stricken, left their homes, many of them to fall a prey to the red-devils in ambush. The exhibition will consist of the following views! all painted in the best style, and will be shown by a very powerful calcium or Drummond light on a canvas over twenty feet square! ... The whole to conclude with a laughable afterpiece! Admission, 25 cents Doors open at half-past 7 o'clock. To commence at 8
Description: Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 42.4 x 16.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Great (25)5761.F.111b (McAllister)

Title: The first steamboat on the Missouri
Description: Album page with pre-printed lithographic border containing a drawing and unattributed poem about the first steamboat on the Missouri from the 1838 edition of "The Token and Atlantic Souvenir." Drawing is after Joseph Andrew's engraving of the work by painter John Gadsby Chapman. Depicts two Native American men on a rock, one seated, and portrayed with a forlorn expression, and the other standing with their arms raised in an anguished pose, watching a steamboat in the distance. Poem, "The Indian's Farewell to the Missouri, on seeing the First Steamboat on its Waters," addresses the power of the white man and the steamboat as a harbinger of his usurpation of Native American territories., Title from album page., Date from album page., LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Douglass, an African American artist and early photographer, was an active member of the Philadelphia anti-slavery and civil rights movement.
Creator: Douglass, Robert M. J., 1809-1887, artist
Date: September 25, 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Martina Dickerson album [13859.Q.70]

Title: O'-Check-Ka, wife of.
Description: In Lewis, J.O. Aboriginal portfolio, v. 1 (Philadelphia, 1835)., Waist-length portrait of squaw, wearing necklace and hair ornament.
Date: [1835?]

Title: Callaway, Jemima Boone, 1762-1829.
Description: Full-length portrait of the young woman, standing with hands clasped and arms uplifted. In the foreground Anglo and Indian men wield swords while two women stand weeping in the background., In Frost, John. Daring and heroic deeds of American women (Philadelphia, 1860), frontispiece., Jemima Boone was the daughter of pioneer Daniel Boone. While living in Kentucky in 1776, she and a friend by the name of Miss Calloway [i.e., Callaway] were captured by a group of Indians. The girls were retrieved after a fatal confrontation between Boone’s men and the Indian men., Another portrait appears in: Frost, John. Daring and heroic deeds of American women (Philadelphia, 1860), plate following p. 26.
Date: [1860?]

Title: Sacred Sun, ca. 1809-1835 or 6.
Description: In McKenney, T.L. and J. Hall. History of the Indian tribes of North America, v.1 (Philadelphia, 1848), plate opposite p. 29. Also in 1836-1844 and 1838-1844 editions., Sacred Sun, also known as Mohongo, was one of seven members of the Osage tribe taken to Europe as "curiosities" for public exhibition. After their return to America, Mohongo visited Washington, D.C. and met various members of the government., "Perhaps when circumstances of embarassment, or perplexing objects of curiosity, were presented, the superior tact and flexibility of the female mind became apparent, and her companions learned to place a higher estimation upon her character, than is usually awarded by the Indian to the weaker sex. Escaped from servile labor, she had leisure to think. New objects were continually placed before her eye; admiration and curiosity were often awakened in her mind; its latent faculties were excited, and that beautiful system of association which forms the train of rational thought, became connected and developed. Mahongo was no longer the drudge of a savage hunter, but his friend. Such are the inferences which seem to be fairly deductible, when contrasting the agreeable expression of this countenance, with the stolid lineaments of other females of the same race."--P. 32., Waist-length portrait of Sacred Sun, seated, wearing metal and beaded necklaces and earrings, and holding a child on her lap.
Date: [1848?]

Title: Mi-neek-ee-sunk-te-ka.
Description: Waist-length portrait of Mi-neek-ee-sunk-te-ka, seated, wearing beaded necklaces, bracelets, and earrings., In Prichard, James Cowles. The natural history of man (London, 1843), plate following p. 402., "Dr. Prichard’s Natural History of Man”., The distinctive physical features of the Mandan Indians - such as the prevalence of grey hair and variety of skin tones within the tribe - led Dr. James Prichard to include several of George Catlin’s portraits of Mandan Indians in his own anthropological works.
Date: 1842. [i.e. 1843]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/6.1.htm

Title: Brown, Catharine, 1800?-1823.
Description: In Anderson, R. Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (Boston, 1825), frontispiece., Full-length recumbent portrait of the Cherokee woman, who was educated at Brainerd Mission near Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is depicted in bed, propped on her elbow, with an open book before her. Nearby, a woman, seated at a writing desk, holds a pen and appears to be taking dictation., "'Then raising herself in the bed & wiping a tear, that was falling from her eye, she with a sweet smile began to relate what God had done for her soul, while upon that sick bed.' Page 142."
Date: [1825?]

Title: Children's Wooden Puzzle
Description: Three puzzles that have lithographs of: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, Pennsylvania Railroad, and a Map of the United States. Housed in a wooden box with William Penn's Treaty with the Indians on the sliding lid., "Pubd by Jacob Shaffer Philada" on the map.
Date: [ca. 1850.]
Location: OBJ 713

Title: [Proofs after plates from McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America"]
Description: Series of three proof, possibly trial, prints after plates from the seminal work about early 19th-century Native American culture containing 117 portraits, several after paintings by Charles Bird King. Depicts No. 3 "Mo-Hon-Go, An Osage Woman"; No. 4 Shar- I-Tar-Ish, A Pawnee Chief; and No. 6 "Se-Quo-Yah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet." Plates possibly trials for the Rice & Rutter edition published 1865-1870., Title supplied by cataloger., Contain registration marks., Contain plate numbers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.63a & 64a&b]

Title: [Proofs after plates from McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America"]
Description: Series of three proof, possibly trial, prints after plates from the seminal work about early 19th-century Native American culture containing 117 portraits, several after paintings by Charles Bird King. Depicts No. 3 "Mo-Hon-Go, An Osage Woman"; No. 4 Shar- I-Tar-Ish, A Pawnee Chief; and No. 6 "Se-Quo-Yah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet." Plates possibly trials for the Rice & Rutter edition published 1865-1870., Title supplied by cataloger., Contain registration marks., Contain plate numbers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.63a & 64a&b]

Title: Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church [certificate]
Description: Life membership certificate containing a vignette contrasting scenes of apocalyptic doom and religious salvation. Shows to the right an angel trumpeting salvation and wielding the Bible above a missionary preaching to a large group of Native Americans and a converted Black family kneeling and reaching toward the heavens; broken shackles and swords beside them. Opposite the scenes of salvation, a cross rises from the ground, bringing forth a river of redemption too late for the lost souls of a bejeweled "heathen" woman and a skull-headed man entangled by serpents. Behind them a temple, probably the Vatican, collapses to the ground. The Missionary Society, officially organized in New York in 1820, worked first to convert Native Americans and enslaved people before extending their missions to the Black inhabitants of Liberia in 1823., Issued to Eliza J. Hamilton on April 7th, 1846. Signed by John Whitman, President and Saml. Sappington, Secretary., Gift of David Doret, 2009., See variant *Philadelphia Certificates - Organizations - M [P.P.2004.46.1]., 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., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certificates - Organizations - M [P.2009.26.1]

Title: C.P.
Description: Bust-length portrait of the criminal., In Sampson, M. B. Rationale of crime and its appropriate treatment; being a treatise on criminal jurisprudence considered in relation to cerebral organization. Edited by Eliza W. Farnham (Philadelphia, 1846), p. 158., “My acknowledgements are due to the officers of the Penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island for their politeness in furnishing me with facilities for taking the daguerreotypes, and to Mr. L. N. Fowler for aiding me in the selection of cases; nor must I omit to name Mr. Edward Serrell, who was obliging enough to take the outline drawings for me; or Mr. Brady, to whose indefatigable patience with a class of the most difficult of all sitters, is due the advantage of a very accurate set of daguerreotypes.” -- Introductory preface by Mrs. Farnham, p. xx., "C.P., a half-breed Indian and negro woman, under confinement for the fourth time. She has been twice imprisoned for petit, and once for grand larceny, and once for assault and battery with a knife. During one of her terms of confinement she attacked her keeper with a carving-knife, and he was compelled to fell her with a loaded cane. When excited she exhibits the most uncontrollable fury, and is always disposed to be offensive, aggressive, and more or less violent. In her head destructiveness is enormously developed, with large secretiveness and caution, and very defective benevolence and moral organs generally.”--P. 158.
Date: [1846?]

Title: Toki o cigarettes
Description: Textiles from a series of premium tobacco silks containing half-length portraits of prominent Native American chiefs. Depicts Chief Joseph; Many Horns; and White Shield. All are shown with feather head pieces. White Shield wears a large cross. Chief Joseph silk numbered "20.", Printed above images: Factory No. 649, First Dist., N.Y., Printed in lower right corner of P.2011.10.176.1: 20., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.176.1-3]

Title: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, President elect of the United States of America, with scenes and incidents in his life
Description: Periodical illustration containing a central bust-length, profile portrait of a beardless Lincoln and a decorative border comprised of vignettes representative of the 16th president's life. Also contains the text, "President Elect Abraham Lincoln," and the image of a rail, ax, and chain below the portrait., Title from item., Clippings pasted on verso., Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper (v. 11, no. 276), March 9, 1861, p. 247-248., Vignette captions: Lincoln's father killed by the Indians; Cap. Abr. Lincoln in the Black Hawk War; Law office; Springfield Capitol; Lincoln cropping corn in Indiana for Mr. Crawford; Lincoln splitting rails for Mr. Crawford; and Lincoln's residence., Originally from a McAllister scrapbook of Lincoln materials. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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: [March 9, 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **portrait prints- L [5792.F.16]

Title: Back of the State House, Philadelphia
Description: View of the courtyard and rear of the State House, with the mason tall case clock visible on the west wall. Several visitors utilize the grounds, including a delegation of Native Americans on tour, strolling couples, women promenading, and boys playing near a grove of trees. In the background, stand the American Philosophical Hall (built 1789); the site of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Library Hall (built 1791); and guard houses. Also visible is signage for Peale's Museum, housed in American Philosophical Hall between 1794 and 1811., Contains watermark: AMIES PHILA and dove with branch., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 22., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [ Sn 22c/P.2276.50]

Title: [Back of the State House, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the courtyard and rear of the State House with the mason tall case clock visible on the west wall. Several visitors utilize the grounds including a delegation of Native Americans on tour, strolling couples, women promenading, and boys playing near a grove of trees. In the background, stand the American Philosophical Hall (completed in 1789); the site of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Library Hall (completed in1791); and guard houses. Also visible is signage for Peale's Museum, housed in American Philosophical Hall between 1794 and 1811., Print trimmed., Title from duplicate print., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 22., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 22a/P.2276.49]

Title: Die Einwohner von Boston wersen den englisch-ostindischen Thee ins a Meer am 18 December 1773
Description: Scene depicting the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Protestors board and dump barrels of tea from English ships as spectators watch from the shore. Among the spectators is an African American man sitting on a barrel and a Native American man smoking a pipe., Inscribed upper left corner: S.74., Plate 2 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., Accessioned 1982., 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., Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Creator: Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher
Date: [1783]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.2]

Title: [Artist's study of detail from New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street Philadelphia]
Description: Street scene on Fourth Street below Cherry Street depicting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, leading a tour of a delegation of Native American men. Native American delegations visited the city to pay respects and to negotiate land treaties when Philadelphia served as the nation's capitol. Muhlenberg led a tour of several tribal groups in 1793. Also shows buildings in the right, including the New Lutheran Church built 1795-1796., Title from plate 6 in the first edition of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia.", Bequest of Charles Poulson, 1866., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., See Martin Snyder's "William Birch: His Philadelphia views," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 73 (July 1949), p. 271-315., Reproduced in Julius Sachse's Pictures of old Philadelphia from the originals in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1901), vol. 1, plate 43. (LCP Print Room Albums)., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia : Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: Camino Books in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), p. 105.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
Date: [ca. 1799]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department drawings & watercolors - Birch - Colonel Muhlenberg [P.9666]

Title: FacSimile of the revolutionary flag, A.D. 1774
Description: Depiction of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry’s flag from 1774. Shows the flag with fringed edges on a spiked flagpole adorned with two tassels and held open by a rope from its upper right corner tied to a tree in the right. In the top left of the flag are thirteen stripes representing the colonies. In the center, flanking a shield illustrated with thirteen ropes tied into a Gordian Knot are allegorical figures representing Liberty and Fame. Liberty, depicted as a barefooted Native American figure attired in a headdress, feather skirt, and with a quiver of arrows on their back, carries a bow and a liberty cap on a pole. Fame, depicted as a winged angel, blows a trumpet. Above the shield is a horse’s head wearing a bridle with the letters “LHC,” which stands for light horse cavalry. A banner below the shield reads, “For these we strive.”, Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1839, by Wm. M. Huddy, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna., Printed on recto: Plate No. 4., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.33]

Title: Selections from Tiffany & Co. - Main Building.
Description: Collection of metal ware, including two painted plates -- one with an Asian motif, the other with a Native American motif -- sugar bowls, vases, coffeepots, creamer and a candlestick decorated with Native American motifs and two Indian figurines, one in a canoe. Exhibit title: Tiffany & Co., New York, N.Y., Exhibit #430, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Titles on labels: Selection from Tiffany & Co.'s exhibit, and: Selection's from Tiffany & Co.'s exhibit, and: Taken expressly for Harper's Weekly.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: *Centennial - photos [P.9133.2]

Title: Women's portraits in A new system of phrenology.
Description: Five separate shoulder-length portraits on a plate illustrating the location of various ipseals, or self-regarding organs., In Grimes, J. Stanley. A new system of phrenology (Buffalo, 1839), plate preceding p. 213., It is likely that the Mrs. Rapp featured in the plate is the wife of George Rapp, founder and leader of the Harmony Society, a utopian religious group., Red Jacket, a Seneca Indian orator and chief, married twice. Featured is either Aanjedek, whom he divorced, or Awaogoh, whom he went on to remarry.
Date: [1839?]

Title: Henry Simons. Wagon & U.S. national coach works. Philadelphia [graphic] / W.H. Rease N.E. cor 4th. & Chestnut Sts.,i
Description: Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Select link below for a digital image., Lower left corner missing., Advertisement with ornate border containing a series of vignettes displaying several types of wagons, coaches, and carts produced by the manufactory. Vignettes are captioned with details of the products uses and surround a central view of the exterior of the busy "Simons, Coleman & Co. National Wagon Works" factory and office at No. 1109 North Front Street. Vignettes depict: African American plantation workers transporting sugar cane to a barge by a "cane cart"; laborers and settlers hauling materials out West by "road wagon" and "catamaran"; an ambush of U.S. Army soldiers, baggage wagon, and ambulance by Native Americans; and a busy Philadelphia port scene with a disinterested constable overseeing the wharf congested with carts and wagons as docked Henry Simons's factory ships ready for departure. Also contains an allegorical scene with a Northern factory worker and his Southern patron extending each other their hands before the shadowy figure of a factory agent; a large American eagle clutching the American flag; promotional text; and a listing of the factory's several business locations and names of agents. The city's high quality blacksmithship and large local lumber supply made Philadelphia the primary national and international manufacturer of wagons immediately following the Civil War.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W174.htm

Title: Peace Medal (From the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians)
Description: Presentation medal with the bust of King George II on the obverse and, on the reverse, a Quaker man holding a peace pipe at a council fire with a Native American man. Duffield, a clockmaker, engraved the die; the silversmith Richardson struck it. It was the first peace medal made in America. Benjamin Franklin and members of the Friendly Association would distribute these medals to Native Americans as tokens of goodwill., Exhibited in: Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (2005-2007); Library Company's exhibition, Quarter of a Millennium (1981).
Creator: Duffield, Edward, 1730-1803, engraver
Date: 1757
Location: OBJ 873

Title: In sixteen eighty two, you surely have heard how William Penn and honest treaty made. All good Indians mourn him still and remember his proclamation of good will to use the Enterprise bone, shell, and corn mill
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise bone, Shell and Corn Mills." Contains an anachronistic scene including a caricaturized depiction of William Penn's Treaty with the Indian Also contains a view of the Electrical Building designed by Van Brunt & Howe. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Bone, Shell and Corn mills. Two Styles. It is a well-known fact that Bone, Meal, Ground Shells, Cracked Corn, etc. are excellent for poultry. These mills are especially adapted to grinding Bones, Shells, Corn, Roots, Bark, Grain, Chicken Feed, etc. When it is considered that pure raw bone meal is one of the best fertilizers, they will soon pay for themselves for that purpose alone. The grinders are warranted as hard as and equal to hardened cast steel, and can be regulated to grind coarse or fine, by adjusting a thumb-screw near the centre of the fly-wheel. They are good general mills for farmers, poultrymen, etc., and for compactness, strength and durability we consider them unexcelled. Our No. 650 commends itself to those who wish to save space. It is intended to be screwed or fastened to a wall, post, etc. Capacity of these mills, about 1 1/4 bushels of corn per hour. these mills are not intended for grinding "green bones," but can be used for that purpose after the bones have been dried. Prices. No. 650...$7.50. No. 750,...$7.50., Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Typeface on verso varies between prints., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a No. 750 Enterprise bone, shell, and corn mill., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.65 & 74]

Title: In eighteen fourteen, Scott, the Indian hero, made red hot work for the red men-yes and redder himself he cooled with Juleps, cold as zero iced by the famous Enterprise ice shredder
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise Ice Shredder." Contains an anachronistic scene including a caricaturized depiction of Major General Winfield Scott following the Battle of Chippewa, July 5, 1814. Depicts Scott seated on a trunk and sipping a frosty julep through a straw as one of his soldier handles an Empire ice shredder on a cake of ice. Other soldiers stand guard behind him and in the background Native American lay on the ground and run. Also contains a view of the U.S.S. battleship Illinois. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Ice Shredder. Patented, 1893. For Shaving Ice coarse or Fine. Prices: No. 33 Tinned $7.20 per dozen. No. 34, Nickeled, $24.00 " ". The operation of our Shredder requires no explanation, being simply to draw the blade upon a piece of ice, the pressure applied producing fine or coarse pieces, as desired. To remove the finely cut ice from the cup, grasp the Shredder firmly in the right hand and strike it, inverted, upon the left, at the same time being careful to keep the lid closed. then scrape the ice into some convenient receptacle. It is not necessary to take the ice out of the refrigerator, as you may reach in and fill the cup from the side, end or top of a cake of ice without disturbing anything or wetting your hand. Its use will be appreciated for Fruits, Drinks, Oysters and clams on the half Shell, Olives, Celery, Radishes, Iced Tea, Sliced Tomatoes, etc., etc., and for many purposes in the Sick Room., Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a cross-section of the ice shredder on a cake of ice., Typeface on verso varies between prints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.62 & 76]

Title: [Job printing specimens for certificates, bank notes, receipts, labels, and billheads]
Description: Series of specimens (some proofs) depicting masonic, military, allegorical, and patriotic imagery, transportation views, women, agriculture, buildings, animals, and machinery. Includes views of locomotives traveling railroad tracks; sailing and steam boats; mines and mine workers; distilleries and refineries; farmers, farm hands, and farm animals; female allegorical figures of liberty, justice, and bounty; and sailors, blacksmiths, and steam factory workers. Imagery also depicts Native Americans; peasants; sheep herding; the American eagle; masonic emblems; historical and patriotic figures, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; storefronts, factories, and government buildings, including A. Exton cracker bakery (Trenton, N.J.) and Phoenix Iron Foundry (Wilmington, Del.); military camp and solider; deers, dogs, and children with animals; state and corporate seals, including Pennsylvania; and a city block on fire and an erupted volcano., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger, Klauprech & Menzel, Stein & Jones, and Jacob Weiss., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.155-162]

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