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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Description: The piece is signed in the weaving: "S. Chevre 1861" and "Isaac Dreyfus Sons Basle." It consists of a portrait of Lincoln in an oval frame of flowers. At the top of the Oval is a shield with an eagle bearing a banner in its beak that says Union For Ever.
Creator: S. Chèvre and Isaac Dreyfus Sons Basle
Date: 1861
Location: OBJ 674

Title: Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
Description: Plaster cast reproduction after the original life mask made by Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) in 1860., Gift of Rose Gallagher, 1990.
Creator: Boston Sculpture Co.
Date: 1880-1920
Location: OBJ 833

Title: Hon. Abraham Lincoln, [sic]
Description: Bust-length portrait after a painting by Thomas Hicks of Abraham Lincoln, when a candidate for president. The clean-shaven Lincoln is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, and faces right., Title from item., Date based on content., Facsimile of signature of sitter printed below image: Yours truly, A. Lincoln., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., Trimmed., 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: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **portrait prints - L [5792.F.86a]

Title: Abraham Lincoln
Description: Proof of a bust-length portrait of the sixteenth president of the United States. Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces right. Also contains a color bar., Title and date from duplicate in the special collections of the Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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: Wynkoop, John J.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.85]

Title: Abraham Lincoln
Description: Half-length portrait of the sixteenth president of the United States. Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a black waistcoat with a gold pocket-watch chain, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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: Hagelberg, J.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.79]

Title: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States signing the Emancipation Proclamation
Description: Proof of a full-length portrait of the sixteenth president, seated, near a table, in front of a bookcase, stuffed eagle, and a bust of George Washington. He holds a quill in one hand, and rests the Emancipation on the table with his other. A Bible and ink stand lie on the table., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864, by John Dainty in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Printed lower right corner: Proof., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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: Serz, John, approximately 1810-approximately 1878, engraver
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.84]

Title: Abraham Lincoln
Description: Bust-length portrait of the sixteenth president. Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Facsimile of signature of sitter printed below image: A. Lincoln., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.83]

Title: Abraham Lincoln, late president of the U.S. assassinated April 14th, 1865
Description: Bust-length portrait of the sixteenth president. Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces the viewer., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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: Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.81]

Title: Abraham Lincoln, late president of the U.S. assassinated April 14th, 1865
Description: Bust-length portrait of the deceased sixteenth president Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Printed signature of sitter below image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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: Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.80]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of Abraham Lincoln]
Description: Bust-length portrait of the sixteenth president surrounded by an oval frame. Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces right., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of artist and date supplied by accompanying label: The One Hundredth Birthday Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1909. In this engraving of Abraham Lincoln by William E. Marshall, the management of the Hotel Majestic, Philadelphia, presents a masterpiece which well portrays the countenance, thoughtfulness, weight of care and sorrow of the martyred President. Before this engraving we seem to stand in his presence, as no finer or more inspiring portrait of Lincoln exists., Contains the embossed seal of the Hotel Majestic, Philadelphia., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Created postfreeze.
Date: 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.95a]

Title: Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth president of the United States
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the president and author of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 after the Cooper Union portrait made by New York photographer, Mathew Brady, in February 1859. A clean-shaven Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black suit with a black waistcoat, stands beside a table covered in a red cloth. He rests his left hand on a stack of books on the table. In the background is a window that has a red curtain pinned back to the right revealing a landscape of trees., Title from item., Printed below title: No. 29., Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated weekly, October 1860., Accessioned 1998., 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: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait prints-L [P.9614]

Title: Abraham Lincoln
Description: Bust-length portrait of the president and author of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a black waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a black jacket, faces right., Title from item., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Purchase 1997., 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., Sartain, son of prominent Philadelphia engraver John Sartain, engraved a series of popular sentimental Civil War prints from around 1864 to 1868.
Creator: Sartain, William, 1843-1924, engraver
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - Lincoln [P.9557.1]

Title: Proclamation of Emancipation. By the President of the United States of America. [graphic] / W. Roberts, Del. sc.; C. A. Alvord, Printer.
Description: Copyrighted by R. A. Dimmick., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Print commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation. Contains a portrait of Lincoln surounded by American flags and the American eagle; six vignettes within an ornamental border depicting the horror of Southern slavery and the industriousness of the free North; an allegorical scene contrasting the war savaged Confederacy with the proseprous Union; and the text of the proclamation
Creator: Roberts, William, b. ca. 1829, engraver., creator, Dimmick, R. A., copyright holder., creator
Date: c1864.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. GC - Emancipation [5792.F.27]

Title: Chew, smoke Old Abe fine cut smoking, B. Leidersdorf & Co., Milwaukee, Wis
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln flanked by patriotic symbols, including an American shield and laurel wreath. Bernhard Leidersdorf and Henry Helmholtz started a tobacco factory in Milwaukee in 1858. Helmholtz left the partnership in 1869 and the firm continued operations as B. Leidersdorf & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized., H. Gugler & Sons, the partnership between Henry, Sr., Julius, Robert and Henry Gugler, Jr., formed in Milwaukee in 1878, however father Henry and son Julius had both been working in the lithographic trade with various partners in Milwaukee since 1871.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Leidersdorf [P.9983.1]

Title: Diogenes his lantern needs no more, an honest man is found! The search is o'er
Description: Allegorical print showing the Greek philosopher Diogenes resting his lamp on an oval framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States. Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right. Also includes a view of the U.S. Capitol with its original dome designed by Charles Bulfinch., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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: Hall, Henry Bryan, 1808-1884, engraver
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.82]

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: Columbia's noblest sons
Description: Memorial print published after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865 containing portraits, allegorical figures, vignettes, and pictorial details. Depicts Columbia, depicted as a white woman and attired in classical garb and a Phrygian cap, crowning a bust-length portrait of George Washington (left) and bust-length portrait of Lincoln (right) with laurel wreaths. Flagpole finials with flags appear as wings behind her. Documents, partially rolled, associated with Washington and Lincoln, the "Declaration of Independence 1776" and the "Emancipation Proclamation 1863," appear below the portraits of the presidents. Each president's life dates are inscribed on the edge. On the left are vignettes with scenes from the Revolution depicting the Boston Tea Party "Dec. 18th 1773"; the signing of the Declaration of Independence "July, 1776"; and the British surrender at Yorktown "Octr. 19, 1781." On the right, are vignette scenes of the Civil War depicting the bombardment of Fort Sumter "April 14th, 1861"; an encounter between an ironclad and two wooden ships ("Progress"), and Lincoln's triumphant arrival via coach with an African American driver in Richmond "6th April 1861." Latter vignette also includes an African American man cheering in the crowd. Vinery details frame the vignettes. Columbia's right foot rests on the British lion, and an American eagle emerges from behind her other leg. On the ground, near her feet, rest cannons, cannon balls, and broken shackles., Title from item., Name of publisher and date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in year of 1865 by Henry & Wm. Voight [illegible] D[istrict of] N[ew York]., Reproduced and described in The Lincoln image, p. 194-195, 197., Gift of Gordon Wright Colket, 1970., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Lang, Manson, artist
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1865-9 [7879.F]

Title: Proclamation of Emancipation, Abraham Lincoln
Description: Oval bust length calligraphic portrait of Abraham Lincoln formed from the words of the Emancipation Proclamation., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by W.H. Pratt in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court of the U.S. for the Dist. of Iowa., Pratt taught penmanship in both private and public schools in Davenport, Iowa. Pratt executed a similar calligraphic portrait of Lincoln in German and a calligraphic portrait of George Washington., LCP copy trimmed., Purchase 1998., 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.
Creator: Pratt, W. H. (William Henry), 1822-1893, lithographer
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Lincoln [P.9626]

Title: Freedom to the slaves. Proclaimed January 1st 1863, by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof”__ Lev. XXV 10
Description: Civil War print evoking the Emancipation Proclamation depicting a freed, enslaved family with Abraham Lincoln in an outdoor setting. Shows Lincoln standing in the right, bearded, attired in a suit, and pointing the finger of his right hand into the air (and to the heavens) while his left hand is being kissed by the African American father of the family. The man, attired in shirtsleeves tucked into striped pants, kneels, and holds the right hand of Lincoln with his left hand as he kisses it. His right arm is by his side and his right hand holds a yellow, brimmed hat to the ground. Part of a broken shackle is under Lincoln’s foot by the left knee of the man. Behind the African American man, stands his African American woman partner holding a baby to her chest. She holds the baby’s arm with her left hand and their bottom with her right. A young child in a thigh-length smock with ragged edges stands at her right side. The woman wears a tied, green-striped head band around her forehead, a shawl with stripes, and a pink sheath dress with a floral pattern. Patches of grass are visible in the foreground and the roof and chimney of a dwelling are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Purchased in part with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Emancipation [P.2020.21]

Title: The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet
Description: Commemorative print after the historical painting by New York portrait painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter based on Lincoln's account of the event, and individual portrait studies of the President and the cabinet secretaries. Depicts Lincoln, a draft of the emancipation proclamation in his hand, seated at the head of a long table covered by papers, books, and maps, surrounded by his Cabinet officers in the Cabinet Room. Officers include Edward M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Gideon Welles, Caleb Smith, William H. Seward, Montgomery Blair, and Edward Bates. Contains the names of the sitters below the image. Carpenter resided and completed the painting in the White House between February and July 1864 and wrote about the experience in his 1866 memoir "Six Months at the White House.", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Original painting in the collections of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC., Accessioned 2002., 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.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Emancipation [P.2002.1]

Title: [Glorification of the American Union]
Description: Allegorical print glorifying life and liberty in post-Civil War America depicting the figure Columbia, depicted as a white woman, atop a tall pyramid-shaped pedestal. Flanked by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the latter holding the "Proclamation of Emancipation," she raises her hand toward emancipated enslaved men and women to her right who acknowledge her with raised shackled hands, a knelt position, and a tipped hat. Newly arrived European immigrants are gathered to her left. Abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher stands among the enslaved men, women, and children who have been emancipated, and revolutionary and diplomat Carl Schurz stands before the immigrants. The freed persons embrace each other, break free from shackles, and brandish instruments of free labor as behind them the Capitol, a large American flag, and apparitions of colonial soldiers stand vigil. The immigrants, depicted in their native attire, look to Schurz as they carry their belongings ashore. More ships continue to arrive in the background., Title from copy print at the Calvert Gallery, Washington, D.C., Printer's proof., Manuscript note on recto: Aun myn goeden arrend J. Bollens; J. B. Michiels., After a painting by Belgian historical painter Ferdinand Willem Pauwels, exhibited in 1867 at the Kunstschule in Weimar and possibly at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia under the title, "The New Republic.", See Hugh Honour's The Image of the Black in western art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989) Part 2, Vol. IV, p.248-249., Purchase 1999., 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: Michiels, Jean-Baptiste P., 1821-1890, engraver
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Emancipation [P.9672]

Title: True blue
Description: Poster commemorating the service of African American men during World War I. Shows an African American family gathered in a living room decorated with floral wall paper and looking at the framed portrait, hung above a fireplace, of an African American service man, likely the father of the family. In the right, the mother, attired in a beige sheath dress, holds a toddler attired in white pajamas in her arms while her daughter, attired in a white night gown, and holding a black baby doll in her left hand, stands next to her. The daughter stands in front of her older, seated brother. The older son, attired in a beige uniform, sits in an arm chair. The toddler and daughter reach and point toward the portrait on the wall. Decorative flags adorn the upper edge of the framed portrait showing the man in uniform. A fire burns in the fireplace and a portrait of George Washington, a portrait of Woodrow Wilson, a vase of flowers, a bust, and a clock adorn the mantle. On the wall to the right of the father's portrait, hangs a framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A patterned rug, a cat asleep by the fire, and a window displaying a service flag comprise the scene as well. Sheer curtains and a bowl-shaped vase of flowers also adorn the window., Name of publisher and date from copyright statement: [copyright symbol of "c" in circle] 1919 By E. G. Renesch, Chicago., Description revised 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Date: 1919
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Soldiers [P.2016.61]

Title: [Abraham Lincoln miscellany]
Description: Collection of miscellaneous Lincoln prints and ephemera, including a circa 1880 right-profile, photo mechanical portrait print of the president; 1909 souvenirs from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLUS) and the Philadelphia Electric Company in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Lincoln; and a series of ca. 1890 illustrations of medals commemorating and memorializing him. Imagery on souvenirs includes a portrait of Lincoln bordered by an American and MOLUS flag and the reproduced Jean Leon Gerome Ferris painting "Lincoln and the Contrabands" depicting Lincoln greeting an African American woman freedom seeker with her two children. Scene also shows African American men and women freedom seekers near a Union soldier, including a woman sitting with her head in her hands and an older man who takes his hat off., Title supplied by cataloger., Artists, printers, and publishers include Jean Leon Gerome Ferris and Wolf & Co., 5792.F.94c contains copyright statement: painting only copyrighted, Wolf & Co, Philada, 1908., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points 2021., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Date: 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Lincoln [5792.F.88d; 5792.F.92a-d&93a&c; 5792.F.93d; and 5792.F.94c]

Title: Proclamation of Emancipation. By the President of the United States of America
Description: Print commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation containing a bust-length portrait of Abraham Lincoln and two abolitionist vignettes above text from the Proclamation. In the center, Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right and is bordered by an American eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows in front of a backdrop of American flags. To the left and right of the portrait are scenes of an auction of enslaved people, with an African American woman, and free African American men working in a carpentry shop. Below the scenes, two African American cherubs hold a banner inscribed, "By the President of the United States of America." Below the text, an allegorical vignette contrasts the productive North with the destitute South depicting a white woman crying, surrounded by her children, sitting underneath a tree., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Purchase 1972., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., J. Mayer & Company, the Boston lithography firm established by John Julius Mayer in 1862, specialized in practical lithography. Despite the official firm name, John Mayer had no partners.
Creator: J. Mayer & Co., lithographer
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Emancipation [8025.F.4]

Title: Proclamation of Emancipation. By the President of the United States of America
Description: Print commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation. Contains a portrait of Lincoln surrounded by American flags and a bald eagle with the text of the proclamation below. In the left are three vignettes within an ornamental border that depict the horror of Southern slavery, including enslaved African Americans working at a cotton plantation, a scene of an African American man being auctioned, and African American men being attacked by dogs. In the right are three vignettes within an ornamental border that depict the industriousness of the free North, including a scene with a large house and estate, African American children in school, and a dock with a steamboat. In the bottom is an allegorical scene contrasting the war savaged Confederacy with the prosperous Union., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864 by R.A. Dimmick in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Roberts, William, approximately 1829-, engraver
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Emancipation [5792.F.27]

Title: The game of secession or sketches of the rebellion Our army and navy for ever!
Description: Gameboard containing a serpent-like figure comprised of 135 spaces surrounded by captioned vignettes also used on Civil War envelopes. Pro-Union designs advance the player and anti-secession designs retard the player. Vignettes depict portraits of prominent war figures; views of forts, soldiers, and preparations for battle; Union and Confederate flags; allegorical figures; and satiric and racist depictions of Confederates. Includes President Abraham Lincoln; Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Gen. Winfield Scott, Maj-Gen. George B. McClellan, Comm. S.F. Dupont, Confederate Gen. Beauregard; bombardment of Fort Sumter; Philadelphia Navy Yard; liberty; Columbia; and Confederate soldiers on retreat; riding a enslaved African American man, and protected by bales of cotton. "Directions" to play the game printed in the lower left corner. Flags and shields adorn the borders., Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George McClellan. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Reproduced in Erika Piola, "For the millions: Civil War stationery for women and children in the McAllister Collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia," The Ephemera journal 13 (2010), [39]., 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: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Games [5793.F.44]

Title: The last offer of reconciliation In rememberance of Prest. A. Lincolns. "The door is open for all."
Description: Allegorical print with decorative border commemorating the reconciliation of the North and South at the end of the Civil War. Depicts Lincoln extending a hand to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and to Liberty, depicted as a white woman, who sits behind the presidents in a temple adorned with the names of the Union states. Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of War Gideon Welles, two Union Officers, General Sherman, and General Grant on horseback accompany Lincoln in the prosperous North. Grant holds a ribbon containing the names of the Confederate states, and Sherman attaches it to the Temple of Liberty. In the burning, war-torn South where ghostlike figures roam, Davis is accompanied by General Lee, a man resembling Henry Wilkes Boothe, an enslaved African American man who holds his shackled arms above his head, and a solemn young man holding his stove pipe hat. The decorative border contains healthy vines and branches on the northern side, dead vines on the side of the "South," and vignettes of an enslaved African American man being whipped by a white man enslaver, hand-to-hand combat, white men working the field, and a white man fishing., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year of 1865 by Henry & Wm. Voight in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York., Text below title: Dedicated to the Memory of our most lamented late President Abraham Lincoln., One of three companionate allegorical lithographs about the Civil War produced by Kimmel & Forster., Originally from a McAllister scrapbook of Lincoln materials. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, 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.
Creator: Thomas, Henry, lithographer
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political cartoons-1865-6R [5792.F]

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: 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: Emancipation Freedom for all, both black and white!
Description: Print depicting the Emancipation Proclamation for both African Americans and whites including equal opportunity to education. Depicts Lincoln raising his right hand and holding the "Emancipation Proclamation" in his left hand in the center between a poor white family and an enslaved African American family. Both families, attired in torn and worn clothing, stand and kneel as they hold their clasped hands up toward Lincoln, who treads upon broke shackles and a serpent. A "Spelling Book" lies on the ground near them. In the background, Union soldiers stop a white man enslaver from whipping a shackled and enslaved African American woman and children enter "Public School, No. 1." From the roof of the school waves a flag inscribed "Education to all Classes." Contains text from the Proclamation above the image, "and by virtue of the power and for the purpose of the aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves, within designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free!", Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to the act of Congress A.D. 1865 by J.L. Magee in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Magee, a lithographer, painter, and cartoonist, established his own firm in Philadelphia in 1850., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, p. 77., Accessioned 1999., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Emancipation [P.9702]

Title: Centennial Westward the course of empire takes its way
Description: Print commemorating the 100th anniversary of the nation, celebrated at the Centennial Exhibition through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in Philadelphia. Contains the text of the Declaration of Independence and the Proclamation Emancipation bordered by several historical and allegorical vignettes, scenes, and views that symbolize the social, political, and technological progress of the country. Oval frames surround the texts, which encircle bust-length portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The frames are adorned with banners labeled with the names of the original 13 colonies and the 38 states recognized as of 1876. Two bird's eye views showing the development of a cityscape, possibly New York City, from 1776 to 1876 are visible between the framed texts. Other images show the "Battle of Bunker Hill"; "Battle of Gettysburg"; "Surrender of Cornwallis"; "Columbus - 1492"; colonists landing at "Plymouth Rock"; "[Lafayette's] Visit to U.S. in 1824"; "A Home of 1776" with a white woman at a loom; "Franklin's Printing Press"; "Hoe's Ten Cylinder Press"; "A Home of 1876" with a white woman at a sewing machine; the marine battles of the "Constitution and Guerriere" and "Merrimac and Monitor"; Independence Hall, and the U.S. Capitol., Uncaptioned vignettes show an auction of enslaved African American people, African American children in a classroom, farmers harvesting a field by hand, a farmer harvesting a field with a horse-drawn reaper, a man traveling by horseback, a speeding train, a hand-pump fire engine of "1776" and a steam engine of "1876." Other pictorial elements include an American eagle, flags, and a view of the Main Building of the Centennial Exhibition incorporated into the title design in addition to floral vinery interweaved between the vignettes, scenes, and views., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1876, by D.T. Ames in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Letters of title illustrated with state seals., Title based on quote by Bishop George Berkley., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 96, Gift of David Doret, 2001., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Ames, Daniel T., artist
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Centennial [P.9974.2]

Title: The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th 1870
Description: Commemorative print celebrating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment depicting a large central scene of the May 19, 1870 Baltimore parade surrounded by several portraits and vignettes. A float of young African American girls leads the parade in view of the city's Washington Monument. The parade consists of African American Zouave drummers, men in top hats on horseback, and ranks of troops. The portraits of African American civil rights supporters framing this scene include President Grant; Martin Robison Delany, the first African American Major; Frederick Douglass; Mississippi Senator Hiram Revels; Vice-President Schuyler Colfax; Abraham Lincoln; and abolitionist John Brown. The numerous vignettes, all captioned, include scenes of an African American classroom, an African American congregation, an African American wedding, an African American officer, an African American man reading to his family, African American masons, and an African American man voting., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year of 1870 by Thomas Kelly in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro history, p. 78., Purchase 1968., 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., Beard was a respected illustrator most well known for his nature illustrations.
Creator: Beard, James C., designer
Date: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *political cartoons - 1870-4 [7765.F]

Title: The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of the African race in America and its final accomplishment, and celebration on May 19th A.D. 1870
Description: Print commemorating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment containing a large central scene of the celebratory parade held in Baltimore in May surrounded by several bust portraits and vignettes. Parade is led by several African American Zoaves down Monument Street, which is lined with African American and white men, women, and children spectators. Bust-length portraits of African American civil rights supporters above and to the sides of this scene include Abraham Lincoln; Baltimore jurist Hugh Lennox Bond; abolitionist John Brown; Vice-President Schuyler Colfax; President Grant; Pennsylvania representative Thaddeus Stevens; Maryland representative Henry Davis; Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner; Martin Robinson Delaney; Frederick Douglass; and Mississippi Senator Hiram Revels. Vignettes include a plantation scene depicting enslaved African American men and women working in a cotton field while a white man stands looking on titled, "we are in bondage, deliver us!; a Civil War battle with African American troops; a classroom with an African American man teacher and African American students titled, "Education will be our pride"; an African American congregation; and a parade of African American Masons holding banners., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1870 by Metcalf & Clark, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Purchase 1968., 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: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *political cartoons - 1870-2 [7764.F]

Title: Heroes of the colored race
Description: Print commemorating men prominent in and representative of the advancement of African American civil rights. Depicts a central vignette of bust-length portraits of ex-Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and ex-Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi surrounded by four scenes of pre- and post-Civil War African American life. Includes two titled scenes, "Receiving the News of the Emancipation" depicting an older African American man, two women, and children celebrating, and "Studying the Lesson" depicting an African American man teacher instructing a classroom of children. Adorning the borders of the central vignette are a portrait of John Brown flanked by a horn of plenty and school books, and an eagle holding American flags embellished with portraits of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and Ulysses S. Grant. Other scenes depict enslaved African American men and women picking cotton and African American Civil War soldiers fighting a battle. Includes corner portraits of African American legislators John R. Lynch of Mississippi, Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina, Robert Smalls of South Carolina, and Charles E. Nash of Louisiana., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 60-61., Gift of Gordon Colket, 1975., Reaccessioned as P.9615., 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: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - African American Heroes [8140.F]

Title: Afro-American historical family record
Description: Blank African American genealogical certificate containing a family tree surrounded by portraits of the first twenty-four U.S. presidents; portraits of prominent African American men and women religious, political, and educational leaders; and eleven vignettes contrasting life in the South of the enslaved versus the free. African American portraits include Frederick Douglass flanked by Washington and Lincoln; Judson W. Lyons, Register of the Treasury; Miss Lucy C. Laney, Founder of the Haines Institute; Booker T. Washington; H.M. Turner, Bishop of the A.M.E. Church; T. Thomas Fortune, editor New York Age; Hon. John M. Langston, diplomat; Madam Sissiretta Jones, performer and singer; Miss Hallie Q. Brown, educator and African American women's rights activist; Prof. Mary V. Cook, Principal of the State University, Louisville, KY; Miss Ida B. Wells, editor and author; Hon. John R. Lynch, U.S. Paymaster and ex-Congressman; Dr. Henry Fitzbutler, founder of the Louisville National Medical College; and L.H. Holsey, Bishop of the C.M.E. Church. Vignettes depicting slavery include the last auction of enslaved people in Savannah; enslaved cotton pickers working the field; enslaved people dancing and playing instruments "as children were taught in the dark days of slavery"; and an enslaved family in front of their “hut.” Contrasting post-emancipation scenes include a view of Tuskegee Institute; a view of "progressive farming as taught at Tuskegee Institute"; a group portrait in front of a "school house erected by a Tuskegee graduate"; the Victorian house of R.R. Church, a free man; and Spanish-American War battle scenes of African American regiments assisting the Rough Riders, including at San Juan Hill. Also contains the white eye of Providence below the title., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1899, by J.M. Vickroy, Terre Haute, Ind., Printed on recto: Branch Office Terre Haute, Ind., Purchase 2002., 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., Vickroy, a prominent Indiana fine arts publisher, specialized in genealogical and fraternal order certificates.
Date: 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - African American Heroes [P.2002.16]

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