Marriage certificate illustrated with vignettes within an ornamental border. Depicts vignettes representing peace and love including doves near an altar with an eternal flame, and cherubs floating on clouds, reaping grain, and rowing a gondola., Issued to John A. Jones and Mary Anne Dickerson. Signed by Rev. William Douglass, officiant, and by Samuel Van Brackle and George W. Hopewell, witnesses., Copyright secured., Title from item., Date based on date of the event represented., Purchase 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Croome, Meignelle & Co. was a Philadelphia engraving firm operated by engraver, William Croome, and banknote engraver, James Meignelle in the 1840s.
Creator
Croome, Meignelle & Co., engraver
Date
[ca. 1846]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9427] - Dickerson Family Collection - Miscellaneous
Marriage certificate from a Bible illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple sailing in a gondola adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, tassels, drapery, clasped hands, and the Bible., Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by William Flint. Name of copyright holder from duplicate (15129.Q)., Copyright statement partially illegible., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 143
Date
c1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1868 This 14333.Q [Roughwood]
Marriage certificate illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple, accompanied by the female allegorical figure Love, sailing in a gondola. Love holds an arrow and torch and the gondola is adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, the Bible, and clasped hands over the Biblical quote "What God hath joined together let not man put asunder, Matth. XIX.6.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by J.R. Jones in Washington, D.C., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Mr. Daniel S. Schaeffer of Fleetwood Berks co. Pa. and Miss Mary F. Potteiger of Jefferson Twp. Berks Co. Pa. on September 4, 1875. Signed by Rev. Thomas Calvin Leinbach of Womelsdorf. Witnessed by Adam N. Potteiger and Adam S. bright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 144
Date
c1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 14342.Q [Roughwood]
Marriage certificate from a Bible illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple sailing in a gondola adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, tassels, drapery, clasped hands, and the Bible. Certificate attached to a record sheet for marriages and births. Birth section contains annotations., Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by William Flint., Copy 15129.Q [Roughwood] records the marriage of Daniel Kemmer of Ober Wilford and Maryan Sangler of Wilford Bucks on August 10, 1867 at Fogelsville by William W. Kelfrich, Reformirfer Prediger., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 145/146, One of prints [P.2009.12] gift of David Doret.
Date
c1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 15129.Q [Roughwood], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Certificates [P.2009.12]
Contains a border comprised of gothic architectural elements, floral motifs, and two vignettes. First vignette shows the reverend blessing the formally attired couple. The bride wears an off-the-shoulder wedding dress and veil and the groom wears a tuxedo. Second vignette shows the married couple exiting the church, hand in hand, followed by three wedding guests., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Henry W. Shouse of Hauley Wayne Co. Pa. and Ann Eliza Nekerris of District of Spring Garden County Philada. on October 16, 1851. Signed by Edmund Neville, Rector of Christ Church, New Orleans., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 145
Creator
Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 14349.Q [Roughwood]
At head of title: "Whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 15.6 x 21.1 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Martin Mellinger and Miss Sarah Burry [i.e. Barry], married Dec. 13, 1864, by Rev. F.W. Kremer; with a five-cent stamp attached., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitied by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[not after 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Marri 16513.Q (Doret)
At head of title: "Whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 15.6 x 21.1 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Martin Mellinger and Miss Sarah Burry [i.e. Barry], married Dec. 13, 1864, by Rev. F.W. Kremer; with a five-cent stamp attached., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitied by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[not after 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Marri 16513.Q (Doret)
