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Title: I wish I was in Dixie
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist and anti-abolition caricature of Abraham Lincoln showing Lincoln as a banjo playing Southerner with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his pocket., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4f]

Title: The Union forever! For president, Abraham Lincoln. For vice-president, Andrew Johnson For electors of the state of Maryland for president and vice-president of the United States. ... For governor, Thomas Swann
Description: At head of title: Baltimore City--Second District. Wards--8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20., Printed in red and blue; printed area measures 19.8 x 6.2 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Republican Party (Md.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Repub 5793.F.45c

Title: Union ticket. For president, Abraham Lincoln. For vice-president, Andrew Johnson For electors of the state of Maryland for president and vice-president of the United States. ... For governor, Thomas Swann
Description: Printed vertically along the left margin: Union ticket for voters residents of Worcester, Somerset, Dorchester, Talbot, Caroline, Queen Anne's, Kent and Cecil counties., Printed in red and blue; printed area measures 15.2 x 7.1 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Republican Party (Md.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Repub 5793.F.45d

Title: Startling from Washington! President Lincoln's vision! Washington, June 22. How the following strange and mysterious affair has got out, it matters not for the present to be stated; but it is a well-known fact that for sometime past the national capital, and especially the White House, has been the theatre of certain very mysterious and unaccountable occurrences
Description: Copyright 1863 by Barclay & Co., Includes advertisement: The volunteer's roll of honor. ... we will commence, on July 1st, The volunteer's roll of honor, in which it is our intention to record all the gallant deeds performed by the volunteers, ... It will be conducted by Wesley Bradshaw, ... Single copies, 25 cents. ... Barclay & Co., publishers, 56 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia., Library Company copy has ink stamp: From Charles Bender, newsagent and bookseller N.E. cor. 5th & Chestnut St. back of the Post Office; 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 #Am 1863 Startling 5792.F.32b (McAllister)

Title: Lincolniana Just published, in one volume, small quarto, pp. viii and 344, printed in the best style by John Wilson & Son, on fine tinted paper, a collection of sermons, eulogies, addresses, letters, etc. occasioned by the assassination and death of Abraham Lincoln. By clergymen and friends of our country in the United States, Great Britain, and the provinces; containing nothing heretofore published in any permanent form. List of contents. ... Sold by subscription only. Price five dollars per copy. Only two hundred and fifty copies printed. Those wishing to subscribe for this memento of our late lamented president should apply early
Description: Printed on p. [3] only., Library Company copy has a MS. letter on p. [1], dated Oct. 12, 1865, from Wm. B. Trask to John Jordan Jr. Esq.; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Spencer, William V.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Spencer 5792.F.35 (McAllister)

Title: The negro on the brain
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist woodcut caricature showing Abraham Lincoln wearing a naked African American shaped as a stovepipe hat. Contains photographic reproduction of several lines of verse in English and German on verso: A goodly difference does exist; Among the party that did call; There is among them many a [one?]; Conservative and true at heart; But there are others [who insist?]; The white man's freedom would deny; To place them on an equal footing; No matter what the cost may be; Something is for the negro done; The negro on the brain., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.1a]

Title: The negro on the brain
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist woodcut caricature showing Abraham Lincoln wearing a naked African American shaped as a stovepipe hat. Contains photographic reproduction of several lines of verse in English and German on verso: A goodly difference does exist; Among the party that did call; There is among them many a [one?]; Conservative and true at heart; But there are others [who insist?]; The white man's freedom would deny; To place them on an equal footing; No matter what the cost may be; Something is for the negro done; The negro on the brain., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.1a]

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: Old Abe Lincoln and his abolition war!
Description: Verse in two cantos; first line: Who sowed the seeds of discontent, hatred, strife., Caption title., Includes four letters, each signed "Julien": first, to James Gordon Bennett, dated Louisville, Sept. 8, 1861; second, to the president, dated Chicago, Aug. 10 1861; and third and fourth, both address "Dear Brother," and dated New York, Nov. 28 and New York, Dec. 22, 1861., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 56.5 x 41.2 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Julien
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Julien 5792.F.90 (McAllister)

Title: [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, 1000 block of South Broad Street, Philadelphia, April 22, 1865]
Description: View showing throngs of mourners at the 1000 block of South Broad Street during Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. Mourners crowd the sidewalks as well as the rooftops and balconies of buildings and businesses, including the Union House and Dining Saloon., Attributed to Schreiber & Glover., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [P.9161.2]

Title: [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, 1000 block of South Broad Street, Philadelphia, April 22, 1865]
Description: View showing throngs of mourners at Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. Mourners crowd the sidewalks as well as the rooftops and balconies of buildings and businesses, including the Union House and Dining Saloon partially visible in the image., Attributed to Schreiber & Glover., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Two of the images originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War Views, Places and Events and volunteer saloons and hospital views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [5778.F.27d; 5779.F.17i; P.8687.8; P.9161.1]

Title: Stand by the Union In Union there is strength. No "rats" of any "age" for sheriff. Printers' tracts, No 1. "The time has come."--Lincoln. ... Printed in the line of the Grand Union Procession, on Saturday evening, October 8th, 1864; in favor of the election of Lincoln, Johnson, and the whole Union ticket
Description: 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 sm # Am 1864 Stand 5793.F.40b (McAllister)

Title: The two roads to peace! How shall we end the rebellion--shall we coax it, or crush it? Every American citizen wants the rebellion ended and peace restored. Two plans have been proposed for doing it: one, by a convention which met at Baltimore, June 7; the other, by a convention which met at Chicago, August 20. Read and compare the two
Description: Text printed in two columns., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Union Executive Committee (U.S.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Nat Union 5793.F.50a (McAllister)

Title: Room in house
Description: View depicting an interior of the Lincoln House in Springfield, Illinois. A framed print commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation hangs on the wall-papered wall. Also includes a table adorned with a silver tray, pitcher, and goblets and a chair., Title from accompanying label: No. 21. Room in house., Date from copyright., Unmounted stereograph., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, and Phillips Civil War scrapbook., 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: Schreiber & Glover
Date: [May 22, 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [(13)1540.F]

Title: Lincoln Monument, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Annual greeting of the carriers of The Press to their patrons 1872
Description: View showing several park visitors surrounding the monument sculpted by Randolph Rogers that was erected in 1871 at East River (i.e, Kelly) and Lemon Hill drives. Visitors view the monument, converse, greet one another, read newspapers, sit on benches, and ride in carriages. Monument shows Abraham Lincoln, seated, with a quill in his hand after just signing the Emancipation Proclamation. The statue rests upon a pedestal adorned with sculpted garland, bronze eagles, and the City of Philadelphia’s Coat of Arms. The granite base is adorned with four panels inscribed with a dedication to and quotes from Lincoln of which two are visible. The monument was commissioned by the Lincoln Monument Association, one of the first such associations formed in the country, to raise funds for a city monument in memory of Lincoln. Also shows, in the background, boat houses along the Schuylkill River, river traffic, the West Philadelphia standpipe, and City Park Hotel., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 438, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Breuker & Kessler Co.
Date: [1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Monuments [P.9303.8]

Title: [President-elect Abraham Lincoln raising flag in front of Independence Hall in honor of admission of Kansas to the Union, February 22, 1861]
Description: Shows Lincoln raising a large American flag while upon a flag-draped platform in front of Independence Hall. Dignitaries stand near the president, a crowd of spectators, including men in trees, surrounds the platform, and guards protect the stage., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced as a wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, March 9, 1861, p. 145., Reissued and copyrighted by Theodore S. Hacker in 1865., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [February 22, 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Events [(3)1322.F.7b]

Title: [Photographic reproduction of an allegorical view including Abraham Lincoln, a pavilion, and marching soldiers]
Description: Boudoir card depicting a photographic reproduction of an allegorical Civil War painting by Paul Philippoteaux, possibly a panel from one of his four versions of "The Gettysburg Cyclorama." Shows a figure resembling General George McClellan pointing to Lincoln, his hand on his chest and standing on the steps of a pavilion. A white and African American man stand next to Lincoln. The pavilion is comprised of a tent adorned with ornate shields and stone columns marked "Union" and "Liberty." Urns rest atop the columns. Smoke rises from them. A large statue of the figure of Liberty rises over the pavilion. Inside the pavilion, men in suits sit at a long table at which two other men, one in shirt sleeves, stand and sign documents. A crowd of men stand behind and beside the table. Near the "Liberty" column in the right, a white man breaks the shackles of a male slave as armed African Americans rush by. Troops of soldiers march around the pavilion in front of cheering men, women, and children, including blacksmiths near an anvil, flags, and a shield in the right foreground. In the left foreground, an older man holds the reigns of a rider less grey horse next to a man astride a black horse. In the left background, the U.S. Capitol is visible and in the right background ironclads sail on the ocean. French artist Paul Phillipoteaux was commissioned to create the Gettysburg Cyclorama painting in 1879. Depicting Pickett's charge, he created four versions, with the first completed in 1883 and displayed in Chicago. The second version was first shown in Boston in 1884, with the third and fourth versions shown in Philadelphia and New York in 1886. Two of the four versions are known to be extant (Chicago and Boston). Contemporary descriptions of the extant cyclorama paintings do not include the scene reproduced by Allen & Rowell, who also reproduced "The Gettysburg Cyclorama" as boudoir cards circa 1884., Date inferred from possible provenance and its year of display in Boston., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)
Creator: Allen & Rowell
Date: [ca. 1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Allen & Rowell [P.2017.83]

Title: Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation
Description: Photographic reproduction of a lithographic facsimile of the original draft of the proclamation printed and sold as a fundraiser for the Soldiers Home of Chicago. Facsimile includes a portrait of Lincoln and patriotic vignette. Lincoln gave the draft to the organizers of the 1863 Northwestern Sanitary Fair to be sold at auction and then donated to the Chicago Historical Society. Draft was bought by Thomas B. Bryan and given to the Soldiers Home before its display at the historical society., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., 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. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [5792.F.4j]

Title: Funeral Car, used at the obesequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865, [graphic] : Designed and built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, south east corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia / Tholey.
Description: Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American City (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1990), p. 221., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1971 p. 43., Scene depicting the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower covered casket with the President to Independence Hall. Funeral officials, dressed in black and wearing top hats, attend the open air funeral car with canopy, draped in black cloth, and drawn by eight horses. Mourners line the city street including an African American man and woman.
Creator: Tholey (Firm), lithographer., creator
Date: [1865]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W146.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W146 [7929.F]

Title: Grand gathering of patriots! All friends of Lincoln and Johnson! All gallant veterans who have fought for our glorious Union; all who honor our brave soldiers; all who are determined that the majority shall rule, all who would negotiate an honorable peace with Grant, Sheridan, Sherman & Farragut as peace commissioners; ... all Americans, native and adopted, are requested to meet at Independence Square, on Saturday evening, October 8th, 1864 to testify their devotion to the Constitution and the Union! which armed traitors in some states, and unarmed sympathizers in others are trying to overthrow Let all the people come! and with united voices proclaim, that in spite of slaveholding nabobs and European despots our country shall forever remain a free land for posterity and a home for the oppressed of all nations! God and our country, freedom forever. The following eloquent and distinguished speakers will address the meeting: Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, ... and other distinguished speakers. A grand display of fireworks will take place on the adjournment of the meeting in the square
Description: One poster printed on three 82 x 117 cm. sheets; second sheet begins: All gallant veterans who have fought for our glorious Union; third sheet begins: and with united voices proclaim, that in spite of slaveholding nabobs and European despots., The names of 23 other speakers follow Andrew G. Curtin., Printed in red and blue., The illustration, on the first sheet, is a U.S. flag, flanked by the typeset words: No North, no South, one country. The stars and stripes for all the land. Maine, Vermont, Mobile, Atlanta, Shenandoah., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Union City Executive Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Nat Union (5)5777.F.41 (McAllister)

Title: Lincoln! Grant! Sherman! Meade!
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; possibly the top half of a double-sheet poster?, Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Lincoln (5)5777.F.7 (McAllister)

Title: National Union ticket Für Präsident: Abraham Lincoln von Illinois. Für Vice-Präsident: Andrew John von Tennessee. Man untersuche vorsichtig das nachstehende Ticket. Wähler.--- Electors. Morton McMichael
Description: Twenty-five additional electors are listed after Morton McMichael., Printed in blue., The illustration shows Americans gathered around the U.S. flag, before the temple of Liberty built upon the rock of the Constitution & Laws, with scenes of the Civil War in the background; surmounting all is the banner: One flag, one country., 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 4# Am 1864 Nat Union (5)5777.F.44 (McAllister)

Title: Tenth Ward! The friends of Lincoln and Johnson! Will assemble at corner of Broad and Race Streets, this, Friday evening, at half-past 7 o'clock, to make the necessary arrangments to participate in the grand torchlight parade on Saturday night Citizens of the ward intending to joins the cavalcade, please notice. The meeting will be addressed by the Hon. Charles O'Neill, " James Pollock, Hon. A.W. Benedict, Wm. S. Pierce, Esq
Description: The illustration, signed Maas & Co., is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln., 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 4# Am 1864 Tenth (5)5777.F.33 (McAllister)

Title: [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, Sixth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View showing Lincoln's catafalque followed by crowds of mourners congesting the street and sidewalk at Sixth and Chestnut. Businesses line the route, including B. C. Worthington, wholesale domestic and foreign cigar dealer (102 South 6th). Also shows soldiers holding back the crowd; a recruitment poster, advertising enlistment salaries for "Maj. Gen. Hancock's Army Corps," adorning a storefront; spectators sitting in windows and on awning frames; and members of the crowd carrying a large broadside illustrated with an American flag, which was used as a barricade., Name of photographer supplied by variant. (P.9161.3)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Unmounted half of stereograph., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: [April 22, 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Processions [5792.F.48e]

Title: St. Clement's church, Easter 1865
Description: View showing the altar of the church adorned with black bunting in mourning of Abraham Lincoln who died Easter Sunday 1865. Protestant Episcopal church constructed between 1855 and 1859 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman at 2000-2030 Cherry Street., Title from manuscript note on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Duplicate of (4)1322.F.81(v)c., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Religion - St. Clement's [(1)5792.F.5]

Title: "I found when a grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, give always good measure, save labor and use the self measuring, Enterprise faucet."
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise Improved Patent Suction and Force Measuring Faucet." Contains a scene including a caricaturized depiction of Abraham Lincoln in a storeroom with large casks of molasses. Depicts Lincoln holding a sheet of paper in one hand and operating the Enterprise faucet on one of the casks to fill a large jug. Also contains a view of the Forestry building designed by Charles B. Atwood. 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., Contains several lines of advertising text printed on verso. Text promotes the correctness of the faucet to accurately draw one gallon in any season; it's efficiency and cleanliness; it's "warranted to measure according to United States Standard" advertised as "Eight (8) pounds, five and one-third (5 1/8) ounces of water"; and price of $3.00., 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 hand applying pressure to the handle of a faucet attached to a "Molasses" cask., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman., See also trade cards - Enterprise.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.63 & 69]

Title: President Lincoln's hearse
Description: Photographic reproduction of a print showing the five horse-team drawn catafalque carrying the flower-covered casket of the President stopped in front of a church. White men funeral officials, attired in black suits and top hats, attend the horses and hearse. Mourners line the city street, including an African American man., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Henszey & Co., Photographers, No. 812 Arch St., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. 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.
Creator: Henszey & Co.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Henszey & Co. - Lincoln [5792.F.48b]

Title: New Ethiopian Serenaders now performing at Washington The Black Republican Opera Troop, now occupying the White House, respectfully inform the public that they have, at great expense to the nation, engaged the celebrated clown and acrobat, Abe Linkum, This artiste, so famous for his fete (a joke) between Harrisburg and Washington in March, is the source of much interest, though not a man of much principle. (another joke.) By permission of Gen. Beauregard he will in a few days conclude his entertainment with a flying leap from the dome of the Capitol to the Illinois State House. W.H. Seward, manager
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 New Eth 5793.F.22c (McAllister)

Title: [Hearse and coffin in Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the procession of Lincoln's catafalque. Military guards escort the hearse passed mourners crowding the sidewalks and the rooftops and balconies of buildings and businesses lining the 1000 block of South Broad Street. Businesses include commission merchant, M.S. Myer, and the Union House and Dining Saloon., Attributed to Schreiber & Glover., Title supplied from duplicate in private collection., Yellow mount with square corners., Manuscript note on verso:The funeral of Mr. Lincoln, Broad St., Phila., April 22, 1865., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), plate 174., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [8248.F.7]

Title: [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, Sixth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View showing the procession of Lincoln's catafalque among crowds of mourners congesting the street and sidewalks at Sixth and Chestnut. Businesses line the street, including B.C. Worthington, wholesale domestic and foreign cigar dealer (102 South 6th). Also shows a recruitment poster, advertising enlistment salaries for "Maj. Gen. Hancock's Army Corps," adorning a storefront; spectators sitting in windows and on awning frames; and members of the crowd carrying a large broadside illustrated with an American flag., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Manuscript note on verso: 6th & Chestnut Phila., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - processions [P.9161.3]

Title: The Friends of Lincoln, Johnson, Union and victory, in the Fifteenth Ward, to our soldier-brothers in the Army, greeting "The time has come!" You have been defending the flag of the free with bayonet and bullet. You are now called upon to ballot-down this bloody rebellion, which has torn you from your homes and entailed upon the whole country war and desolation. ... We send you, enclosed, the electoral ticket which in voting represents the flag
Description: 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 sm # Am 1864 Friends 5793.F.40a (McAllister)

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: Lincoln Monument, foot of Lemon Hill
Description: View showing the Lincoln Monument at the entrance (Kelly and Lemon Hill Drives) of Fairmount Park surrounded by men who stand and look at the viewer, including white men spectators and three men guards, one possibly African American, attired in caps with insignia pinned to their lapels, and holding swords. In the right, two white men sit within a horse-drawn carriage. Sculpted by Randolph Rogers, Abraham Lincoln is depicted seated with a quill in his hand after just signing the Emancipation Proclamation. The statue rests upon a pedestal adorned with sculpted garland, bronze eagles, and the City of Philadelphia’s Coat of Arms. The granite base is adorned with four panels inscribed with a dedication to and quotes from Lincoln of which two are visible. Unveiled in September 1871, the monument was commissioned by the Lincoln Monument Association, one of the first such associations formed in the country to raise funds for a city monument in memory of Lincoln. City Park Hotel is seen in the background., Artist from duplicate print., Title from manuscript note on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Phila., 1876., P.9299.100 on pink mount with rounded corners., P.2011.47.932 on orange mount with rounded corners., Monument described in Fairmount Park Association's Sculpture of a city: Philadelphia's treasures in bronze and stone (New York: Walker Publishing Company, 1974) p. 46-52. (LCP Print Room Uy 8, 3208.F)., Monument described in Penny Balkin Bach's Public art in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992) p. 49-50, 198. (LCP Print Room Is 4, 9379.Q)., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Jane Carson James, 1990 [P.9299.100]; gift of Raymond Holstein [P.2011.47.932].
Creator: R. Newell & Co., photographer
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT. stereo - Newell - Monuments and statues [P.9299.100], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Fairmount Park - L [P.2011.47.932]

Title: Freedman's National Monument
Description: Interior view showing the plaster model for the proposed design of the Freedman's Memorial to Lincoln by expatriate sculptor Harriet Hosmer when on display in the Boston Athenaeum, likely statuary gallery, in 1866. Shows, from an oblique angle, the model on top of a draped table and in front of two archways. The model of the Memorial design was composed of mutiple tiers on the top of which lied a figure of Lincoln in a sarcophagus within an open temple. An edited version of the words of the Emancipation Proclamation adorned the temple which stood on a base with a frieze designed with thirty-six female allegories representing the states of the Union during Lincoln's presidency. On the base below the temple was a sculptural cycle of African American history to that period. Four standing Black male figures on pedestals surrounded the base at each corner. The figures portrayed included a seminude, enslaved man, with his head down, and his wrists manacled; a soldier in uniform with a forward gaze and a bayonetted rifle in his hands that was pointed to the ground; an enslaved man who rests on a hoe with his head bowed down; and a soldier, looking ahead, and holding a gun. On the four outside corners were "Mourning Victories" with their trumpets reversed. The angle of the image shows a view of the model that includes the Lincoln figure, three of the African American men figures, and three of the "Mourning Victories.", Hosmer designed the Memorial in response to a monument project sponsored by the Western Sanitary Commission of St. Louis after formerly enslaved Charlotte Scott of Marietta, OH pledged $5 for a monument to Abraham Lincoln following his assassination in 1865. Donations from formerly enslaved persons grew to $20,000 within months of Scott's original donation. Hosmer later altered the design and an engraving of her new proposal appeared in the Art Journal (London), January 1, 1868. Hosmer's model, purported to cost over $100,000 to be executed, was never sculpted. After years of competing projects, designs, and sponsoring agencies, on April 14, 1876, a sculpture by Thomas Ball, "Emancipation," designed without the input of the formerly enslaved donors was erected in Lincoln Square, Washington, D.C. on an eastern edge of Capitol Hill., Title printed on mount., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by Harriet G. Hosmer, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts., Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908) was a lesbian, expatriate neoclassical sculptor, who was one of the most famous artists of her time. Hosmer had her own studio and her work often focused on idealized mythological female figures associated with strength and courage. Hosmer was also a women's rights activist and an inventor., Purchased with the Louise Marshall Kelly fund., See Kirk Savage, Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves: Race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), p.89-128., John B. Heywood (d. 1870) operated a photographic studio in Boston circa 1858-circa 1870, when he then appears to have relocated to Chicago per 1870 census records. He may also be the J.B. Heywood who advertised a photographic studio in New Bern, N.C. in 1866. Between 1869 and 1870, he is listed in Boston at 25 Winter, the address of photographer and publisher Frank Rowell, who established a branch of his photographic studio in Chicago in 1867.
Creator: Heywood, John B., -1870, photographer
Date: 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Heywood - Monuments & statues [P.2022.28.1]

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: [Early model for Freedmen's Memorial by Thomas Ball]
Description: Front and oblique views with a dark background, likely photographed in Thomas Ball's studio, showing his model for a design later proposed and adapted for the Freedman's Memorial to Lincoln (erected 1876, Washington, D.C.) that was first discussed as a Lincoln monument in the later 1860s. Shows the model composed of a figure of Abraham Lincoln (left) and a kneeling, emancipated, enslaved Black man figure (right). The Black man figure, is portrayed in left profile, looking out toward the vista, and with his left knee to the ground and his right knee bent. His left foot is arched up from the ground. He holds his left hand with his knuckles to the ground and his right hand across his waist and resting on the inner elbow of his left arm. The figure has curly hair and wears a Liberty cap and a loin cloth. Broken shackles adorn his wrists. The Lincoln figure, attired in a suit with a long coat, stands, looks down on the Black man figure, and holds out his left hand above the kneeling man, while his right hand holds the Emancipation Proclamation (semi-rolled) on a plinth decorated with patriotic symbols. Symbols include a profile portrait of George Washington, the fasces of the U.S. Republic, and a shield adorned with the stars and stripes. The base of the plinth is inscribed "T. Ball 1865." The figures rest on a base marked "And upon this act-I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favour of Almighty God.", A national monument project sponsored by the Western Sanitary Commission of St. Louis was initiated after formerly enslaved Charlotte Scott of Marietta, OH pledged $5 for a monument to Abraham Lincoln following his assassination in 1865. Donations from formerly enslaved persons grew to $20,000 within months of Scott's original donation. After years of competing projects, designs, and sponsoring agencies, on April 14, 1876, Ball's sculpture adapted from the model depicted, the "Emancipation Memorial," and designed without the input of the formerly enslaved donors was erected in Lincoln Square, Washington, D.C. on an eastern edge of Capitol Hill., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Manuscript note on verso of verso of P.2023.32.1: Florence March 15th 1872. Emancipation Proclamation. T. Ball of Boston., Manuscript note on verso of verso of P.2023.32.1: Florence March 15th 1872. Emancipation Proclamation. T. Ball of Boston. Sculptor in Florence., Date from manuscript note on verso., Thomas Ball (1819-1911), sculptor, focused his career on the portrayal of statesmen and historical figures. He located to Florence to study sculpture in 1854. Between 1857 and 1865, he worked in Boston before returning to Florence until 1897. Ball was part of an expatriate community of artists and sculptors, including Hiram Powers, father of Longsworth Powers., See Kirk Savage, Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves: Race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), p.77-83 and 114-123., RVCDC, Longsworth Powers (1835-1904), son of sculptor Hiram Powers, lived in Florence with his family in the 1830s and returned in 1860 and began a career as a sculptor and photographer. Powers photographed prominent men and women in the city.
Creator: Powers, Longsworth, 1835-1904, photographer
Date: [1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Powers [P.2023.32.1-2]

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: Lincoln Monument, Phila. Park
Description: View showing the Lincoln Monument at the entrance (Kelly and Lemon Hill Drives) of Fairmount Park surrounded by men who stand and look at the viewer, including white men spectators and three men guards, one possibly African American, attired in caps with insignia pinned to their lapels, and holding swords. In the right, two white men sit within a horse-drawn carriage. Sculpted by Randolph Rogers, Abraham Lincoln is depicted seated with a quill in his hand after just signing the Emancipation Proclamation. The statue rests upon a pedestal adorned with sculpted garland, bronze eagles, and the City of Philadelphia's Coat of Arms. The granite base is adorned with four panels inscribed with a dedication to and quotes from Lincoln of which two are visible. Unveiled in September 1871, the monument was commissioned by the Lincoln Monument Association, one of the first such associations formed in the country to raise funds for a city monument in memory of Lincoln. City Park Hotel is seen in the background., Manuscript note written on verso: K. Duefor? Oct. 21, 1871., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Distributor's label on verso: E. Borhek & Son, Opticians, No. 628 Chestnut St., Monument described in Fairmount Park Association's Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's treasures in bronze and stone (New York: Walker Publishing Company, 1974) p. 46-52. (LCP Print Room Uy 8, 3208.F)., Monument described in Penny Balkin Bach's Public art in Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992) p. 49-50, 198. (LCP Print Room Is 4, 9379.Q)., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Co., photographer
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Monuments and statues [P.9260.68]

Title: Civil War photograph collection
Description: Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes.Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]

Title: Union, Lincoln and victory! 10th Ward. 10th Ward. National Union ticket! Congress, second dist., Charles O'Neill. Representative, eighth dist., James N. Kerns. Select Council, Joshua Spering! Common Council, Edwin V. Machette! School directors, Alexander Omensetter, Adam Matsinger, Robert W. Cushman. Constables, John G. Hollick, George Joyce
Description: One poster, printed on two 82 x 117 cm. sheets; second sheet begins: Congress, second dist., Charles O'Neill., Printed in red and blue., The illustration is a U.S. flag., 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 4# Am 1864 Union (5)5777.F.34a (McAllister)

Title: [Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting three sad irons in a wooden box; a caricature of Abraham Lincoln holding a document in his left hand as he uses his right to operate an Enterprise faucet to fill up a container with molasses; and an exterior view of the Forestry Building on the grounds of Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois for the 1893 world fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the voyage of Columbus to the New World. The following text separates the caricature of Lincoln from the view of the Forestry building: "I found, when a grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, give always good measure, save labor and use the self measuring, Enterprise faucet.", One print [P.9577.13] copyrighted 1893 by Donaldson Brothers, lith. N.Y., Printers and engravers include Maryland Lith. Co. (Baltimore) and Donaldson Brothers (New York)., Includes advertising text for Enterprise's "sad iron outfit" and "measuring faucet" printed on versos. Enterprise's "sad iron outfit" sold by C.Y. Schelly & Bro., Allentown, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.9162] gift of George Allen., Digitized.
Date: ca. 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Enterprise [P.9162 and P.9577.13]

Title: Grinning for the presidency
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing the undesirability of the possible candidates for the presidential election of 1864. Shows George McClellan, John Fremont, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin F. Butler wearing horse collars on a stage in front of a grinning spectator. A broadside reading, "Great Match. Grinning through Horse Collar. The Ugliest to Win. Prize White House." adorns the stage., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wood, William Horace
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.97i]

Title: Writing the Emancipation Proclamation
Description: Pro-Confederacy caricature bombasting Abraham Lincoln's legal and moral authority to write the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicts a demented Lincoln writing the Proclamation seated at a table adorned with a spectral eye; ram horned African American heads, portrayed in racist caricature; and legs ending in cloven hooves. He sits upon a chair with a back decorated with the head of an ass, the "U.S. Constitution" trampled beneath his foot. Atop the table, the devil holds his inkwell before him. A liquor decanter rests upon a sidetable nearby. On the wall, framed paintings hang depicting "saintly" St. Ossawotamie (i.e., John Brown), and the "murderous" rebellion of the enslaved in the 1790s in "St. Domingo"(i.e., Haiti). Behind Lincoln, near window drapes held back by a vulture headed tie back, a statue of liberty, her liberty cap fallen over her face, rests her shield down upon the wall pedestal on which she stands., Inscribed upper left corner: 25., Issued as plate 25 in Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), a series of pro-Confederacy cartoons drawn and published by Baltimore cartoonist Adalbert John Volck under the pseudonym V. Blada. The "first issue" of 10 prints (numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 21, 24), with imprint "London, 1863" were printed as etchings. The remaining 20 prints (numbered 4, 8, 9-11, 14, 17-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 45) headed "Second and third issues of V. Blada's war sketches" and dated "London, July 30, 1864" were printed as lithographs., Title and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., 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: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 25 [2990.F.10]

Title: Abraham's dream! "Coming events cast their shadows before."
Description: Cartoon lampooning Lincoln's belief in prophetic dreams and fear of losing the presidential election of 1864. Above the dreaming, sleeping body of Lincoln, Democratic candidate George McClellan arrives at the White House. He witnesses Liberty, depicted as a white woman, hurling the decapitated head of an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, at a fleeing Lincoln as he states, "This don't remind me of any joke!!" Lincoln is attired in a plaid Scotsman's cap and cape, an allusion to his disguise in response to an assassination threat before his first inauguration, and carries an inscribed scroll, "To whom it may concern," a reference to his written edict that he would only receive, not seek, offers of peace from the Confederacy., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, A.D. 1864, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York., Probably drawn by Louis Maurer., 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: Currier & Ives
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1864-41 [6374.F]

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 question settled
Description: Cartoon depicting Abraham Lincoln as "Old Abe," a white cat who drives "Jeff," (i.e., Jefferson Davis) depicted as a grey striped cat with a noose around his neck from the "United States" food dish. The black cat, "Contraband," (i.e., African American Civil War freedom seeker) makes his way into the dish from the other side. The plate rests upon the Union flag and a map depicting the lower Southern States blockaded by figures of Union ships., Title from item., Possible date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Purchase 1970., 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.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862-12W [7870.F]

Title: Ten fine steel plate views of places of interest, new map and guide to Philadelphia
Description: Views include Carpenter's Hall; Centennial Art Gallery; Chestnut St. Bridge; Girard College; Independence Hall in 1876; Lincoln Monument; Masonic Temple; Independence Hall in 1776; United States Mint; and View in Fairmount Park (i.e., Girard Avenue Bridge). Most of the views also show street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn vehicles. Chestnut St. Bridge image includes men in row boats and other small vessels on the Schuylkill River. Carpenter Hall print depicted as a winter view. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title from wrapper., Printed on recto of wrapper: Price 25 cts., Housed with complementary uncut sheet of ten titled views of places of interest in Philadelphia. [P.2011.45.8]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *PhPr - Views [P.2011.45.9]

Title: Ten fine steel plate views of places of interest, new map and guide to Philadelphia
Description: Views include Carpenter's Hall; Centennial Art Gallery; Chestnut St. Bridge; Girard College; Independence Hall in 1876; Lincoln Monument; Masonic Temple; Independence Hall in 1776; United States Mint; and View in Fairmount Park (i.e., Girard Avenue Bridge). Most of the views also show street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn vehicles. Chestnut St. Bridge image includes men in row boats and other small vessels on the Schuylkill River. Carpenter Hall print depicted as a winter view. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title from wrapper., Printed on recto of wrapper: Price 25 cts., Housed with complementary uncut sheet of ten titled views of places of interest in Philadelphia. [P.2011.45.8]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *PhPr - Views [P.2011.45.9]

Title: Civil War stationery collection
Description: Collection of stationery containing patriotic designs often used on patriotic envelopes, with a majority including a title, slogan, and/or verse. Designs predominately include views of regiment camps; images of soldiers, including battle and camp life scenes; patriotic symbols including flags, eagles, bells, shields, stars and the figure of liberty; portraiture of historic and military figures; and basic designs including stripes, colored edges, and lined borders. Unique designs with assigned LCP numbers include an untitled regiment view showing the soldiers playing baseball, possibly at Abner Doubleday's camp (RE-LCP 35); a view of Poughkeepsie from 1854 (SC-NW-LCP-3); the New York funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln on April 25, 1865 (SC-NW-LCP-4); two designs published by J.W. Barber of New Haven showing bars of music from "My Country Tis of Thee" (O-M-LCP-8) and an allegorical scene of Liberty fighting treason, rebellion, tyranny, and oppression (F-P-LCP-1). Collection also contains a series of seven Charles Magnus hand-colored designs containing birds-eye views and military maps. Views show Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. and the Capitol. Military maps shows Maryland and Virginia; Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction; Richmond and Alexandria; Fortress Monroe and Richmond; and the southern coast between Fortress Monroe and New Orleans. Collection also includes a small number of Confederate stationery. Confederates designs include a view of enslaved African American people driving a wagon of supplies to a battlefield and a satire of Abraham Lincoln as an Native American chief. Portraits include George Washington, George McClellan, and Elmer Ellsworth. Three uncut printed proof sheets of patriotic stationery used as ream wrappers and the first style of U.S. postcard (circa 1872) also included as part of the collection., Some copyrighted., Some contain manuscript notes., Various publishers including Philadelphia publishers James Magee and L. N. Rosenthal as well as New York publisher Charles Magnus., Title supplied by cataloger., See William R. Weiss, Jr.'s The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995). LCP copy annotated to show collection holdings., See the George Walcott collection of used Civil War patriotic covers (New York: Robert Laurence, 1934)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Civil War. McAlliser 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), [32]., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1861-1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War Stationery [various], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Ream Wrappers [P.2006.1.30a-c]

Title: Views of Fairmount Park Album
Description: Album of photographs of aerial and landscape views taken in the park during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Photographs predominately depict views from observation towers at George's Hill and Lemon Hill.

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