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Title: A Guernsey herd
Description: Depicts Guernsey cows in a field in the Berkshires., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.7]

Title: Near Sheffield, Mass. 1890
Description: Depicts a man wearing a vest and felt hat driving a pair of oxen to plow his field. He carries a large switch in his right hand to encourage the animals, and at his left hand is a little girl in a checked dress and broad-brimmed hat. The field has been fenced and is surrounded by trees, shrubs and a small lake., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.6]

Title: Among the Berkshire Hills
Description: Depicts a man driving a buggy with two horses down a very narrow dirt road, surrounded by unspoiled verdant countryside., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Label on mount reads: Loaned to the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.9]

Title: Rules and regulations to be observed by persons employed in this shop
Description: Signed: Richard Kitson. Lowell, September 1, 1862., Richard Kitson was the inventor of cotton machinery and founder of the Kitson Machinery Shop. Cf. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (1908), p. 754., Text printed within decorative border; printed area measures: 24.8 x 14.8 cm., Purchased with NEH-PEAES funds., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 10.
Creator: Kitson, Richard, 1814-1885
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm# Am 1862 Kitson 16538.Q

Title: [Group in front of a house near a lake]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men gathered in front a two-story house with a large tree growing in the yard, likely at Massachusetts. Various bicycles are propped up against the house and a dog stands beneath the tree. A lake is visible in the background behind the men., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.588]

Title: [Group in front of a house near a lake]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men gathered in front a house with a large tree growing in the yard, likely in Massachusetts. Various bicycles are propped up against the house and a dog stands beneath the tree. A lake is visible in the background behind the men, September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.589]

Title: A Berkshire road. 1888
Description: Depicts a slender young woman, her sleeves rolled up, wearing an apron over her long skirt and a bonnet, carrying a spray of flowers in her left hand and a basket over her right arm. She stands in a narrow dirt road., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.8]

Title: "See Saw."
Description: Depicts two young girls sitting on a seesaw made of a board of wood, balanced on logs in a field. Two baskets and a wheelbarrow are on the ground nearby., Title from inscription on mount., Exhibited in 1889 Third Annual Exhibition of Photographs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: August 18, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.9a]

Title: Harvey & Parker, produce commission merchants No. 3 South Market Street, Boston. All business entrusted to us will be promptly attended to
Description: Caption title., At head of title: January [year?]., Commodities price list for the Boston Market, Jan. 16, 1864., Library Company copy addressed in MS. to: Levi Leonard Adams Mass.; with a Boston postmark; imperfect: torn at top, removing some text., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Harvey & Parker
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Harvey 14387.Q

Title: A.V. Burlingame
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist. Burlingame, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, sits facing slightly right. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's violent attack of antislavery Senator, Charles Sumner, in Congress in 1856., Possibly by Mathew B. Brady., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date inferred from photographic medium., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Burlingame [(1)5750.F.63h]

Title: Hon. Anson Burlingame, M.C., from Massachusetts
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist attired in a white collared shirt, plaid waistcoat, black bowtie and jacket. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's physical attack of antislavery senator, Charles Sumner, in 1856., Title from item., Date from manuscript written on recto: 1856., Published with an accompanying article in Frank Leslie's Illustrated magazine, October 18, 1856, p. 301. [LCP **Per L, 1856]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., 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: Brightly, Joseph H., 1818-1901
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [(1)5750.F.63i]

Title: [Group of cyclists]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men with their bicycles standing across a dirt road, likely in Massachusetts. Many of the men wear hats and bowties as they prop up their bicycles., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.587]

Title: [Group standing in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing in front of a one-story building with a sign reading "Garage," likely at Massachusetts. A dirt road curves in front of the building and various cars are parked along the road. Bicycles lean agains the front of the building. Many of the men wear suits, hats, and bowties., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.591]

Title: [Group standing in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing in front of a one-story building with a sign reading "Garage," likely at Massachusetts. A dirt road curves in front of the building and various cars are parked along the road. Bicycles lean agains the front of the building. Many of the men wear suits, hats, and bowties., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.592]

Title: [Group of four cyclists on a boardwalk]
Description: Photograph showing four men standing on a wooden boardwalk each propping up a bicycle. The men wear light shirts, ties, and one wears a hat. The water is visible in below the boardwalk on the left., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.597]

Title: Hicks' patent (applied for) improved spring blind fast I beg to call the attention of the trade to the above very important improvement in fastenings for outside window blinds and shutters
Description: Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kellogg, C. D. (Charles D.)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Kellogg 14634.Q

Title: Die Americaner wiedersetzen sich der Stemple Acte, und verbrennen das aus England nach america Gesandte Stemple Papier zu Boston im August 1764
Description: Scene depicting a riot in the town square of Boston protesting the enactment of the Stamp Act in 1765. Cheering spectators and participants, including a woman and an African American man, surround a bonfire, and brandish farm tools, and throw stamped paper onto the flames. Others watch from building windows overlooking the square., Inscribed upper left corner: S. 61., Plate 1 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Creator: Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher
Date: [1783]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.1]

Title: Union Republican 1864 ticket Ward 6 For presidential electors. ... For governor. John A. Andrew, of Boston
Description: Illustration at head, featuring Peace and Liberty flanking the U.S. flag and a cannon, is signed: Bricher-Russell engravers. Wright-Potter printers., Printed in red and blue; printed area measures 31.3 x 11.4 cm., Library Company copy has the red and blue printings poorly aligned., 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 (Mass.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Repub 5793.F.45a

Title: "Feeding the chickens."
Description: Depicts two young girls feeding chickens at the entrance of a barn. One girl stands poised with her hand in a metal pail of chicken feed, ready to disperse it to the chicken at her feet. Another girl sits on the step leading into the barn. A large pile of hay sits on a cart behind them., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Title from inscription on mount., Included in the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: Aug. 12th, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.11]

Title: Cobbs Tavern, Photo by Tho[ma]s H. Hall
Description: Photograph showing two cyclists standing in front of Cobb's Tavern. A dirt road runs next to the building, with trees growing on the left. Cobb’s Tavern was built circa 1740. It served as a tavern as well as the East Sharon Post Office from 1871 to 1895, after which it became a private residence. It was a popular stop on bicycle tours in the 1870s-1880s., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.567]

Title: Hathaway's patent portable writing case, designed for army use This is a neat, compact, and useful article, so constructed as to combine both the portfolio and desk. A small metal case contains a patent secure-top inkstand, paper, pens, envelopes. &c., --attached to this is a portfolio for note paper and letters,--and connected with the whole is a light, yet strong hinge table or writing board, which can be held in the hand and used in any position, either standing, sitting, or on horseback, and furnishes a hard and smooth surfaced for writing, always at hand and easily used. When packaged for transportation, it forms a roll of only nine inches in length, and weighs but thirteen ounces. They are made two different sizes. The new patent inkstand can be had separately, either singly or by the gross
Description: The illustration shows a Union soldier, in camp, writing on the portable desk., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: John M. Whittemore & Co.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 John M 9982.F.19 (McAllister)

Title: The Union mower
Description: "Thomas H. Dodge, proprietor, 42 Exchange Street, Worcester, Mass."--p. [3]., This machine was awarded a prize at the New England Agricultural Society fair held in Sept. 1864., Illustrations engraved by J.W. Orr and W.C. Whittemore., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Dodge, Thomas Hutchins, 1823-1910
Date: [not before 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Dodge 14574.Q (Beit- ler)

Title: [Group at edge of Ponkapoag Pond]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men sitting at the rocky shore of Ponkapoag Pond. The men fold their legs to keep their shoes dry. Scrubby grass grows among the rocks on the shore., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.593]

Title: [Group at the edge of Ponkapoag Pond]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men sitting at the rocky shore of Ponkapoag Pond. The men fold their legs to keep their shoes dry. Scrubby grass grows among the rocks on the shore., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.594]

Title: Ponkapoag
Description: Photograph showing a group of men resting in the grass near Ponkapoag Pond. A man wearing a straw hat with his hands on his hips stands apart from the group., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.599]

Title: The Sec. Ed
Description: Photograph showing a man leaning against his bicycle in front of a tree, likely at Massachusetts. He wears a three-piece suit and holds his hat in his hand, which rests on his hip. A path runs behind the tree., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.600]

Title: [Group of men in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing on a dirt road in front of a garage, likely in Massachusetts. One of the men wears a long white coat and holds a cigar in his hand. Many of the other men wear hats and suits., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.606]

Title: [Group of men in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing on a dirt road in front of a garage, likely in Massachusetts. One of the men wears a long white coat and holds a cigar in his hand. Many of the other men wear hats and suits., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.607]

Title: Camp of Second Mass. Regt., [graphic] : Col. George H.J. Gordon, commanding.
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., View of the Union military training camp at Roxbury, Massachusetts. Shows two brigades of soldiers marching toward each other under the inspection of officers on horseback. Also shows rows of tents among trees in the background.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: c1862.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - S [5779.F.19]

Title: Dr. Hooker's medicines J.T. Webber & Co., druggists and apothecaries, No. 7 State Street, Springfield, Mass. Proprietors of Dr. Hooker's Cough and Croup syrup, Solidified Balsam and Liquid Balm. Dealers in patent medicines, cooking extracts, perfumery, toilet articles, &c., &c. Pure wines and liquors for medicinal purposes. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded
Description: Joseph T. Webber began his drug business on State St., Springfield, Mass. in 1863, and moved to the corner of State and Main in 1865., "Family knitting machines. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company."--p. 2. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company was organized in Springfield, Mass. in 1865., A leaf detached from an unidentified work, with running title: Advertisements., One illustration signed: T. Chubbuck sc. Springfield., 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: J.T. Webber & Co.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 J T Web 112072.D (Helfand)

Title: Benj. F. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket with a boutonniere, looks slightly right. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.100]

Title: Benjamin F. Butler
Description: Right profile, bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler wears a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [P.8911.103]

Title: Maj. Gen. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly right. Probably published in one of several editions by various publishers between 1862 and 1882 of John S.C. Abbott's The History of Civil War in America...(LCP Am 1864 Abbo, (2)15996.O). Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., LCP book plate differs., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.104]

Title: Benj. F. Butler
Description: Right profile, bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler wears a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket. While commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, he declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.105]

Title: Benj. F. Butler Likeness from the latest photograph from life
Description: Full-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in his military uniform with a sword, sits beside a table covered in a patterned cloth. There are papers on the table and strewn on the floor. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1861-1864), p. 423. (LCP Uz 3, 3333.Q)., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portraits Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subject's faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies that he situated in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.128]

Title: Facts! The U.S. bounty to volunteers ceases August 21st! State and city aid is to "volunteers" and not to drafted men. A volunteer who has a family will receive $614 for the first year's services, or about 51 dollars per month. The same man, if drafted, will receive for nine months services $199, or about $22 per month. The company now recruiting by Capt. Hooper and Lieut. Swift, will be the last "bounty" company and will fill the quota of Roxbury
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1863 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Facts (2)5777.F.70c (McAllister)

Title: Die Einwohner von Boston wersen den englisch-ostindischen Thee ins a Meer am 18 December 1773
Description: Scene depicting the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Protestors board and dump barrels of tea from English ships as spectators watch from the shore. Among the spectators is an African American man sitting on a barrel and a Native American man smoking a pipe., Inscribed upper left corner: S.74., Plate 2 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Creator: Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher
Date: [1783]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.2]

Title: Massachusetts State Building.
Description: Exterior view, front of building. Depicts porch, shrubs and walkway in front.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9299.39]

Title: The happy governor of Massachusetts
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of John Albion Andrew. Shows the rotund governor skipping. Andrew organized the first African American Civil War regiment., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.2a]

Title: Bachelder's "Army of the Potomac." During the "seven days' fight" before Richmond, probably one of the most thrilling, picturesque and interesting spectacles to an observer, was the fording of Bear Creek by the great supply trains of the Army of the Potomac. ... Accurate sketches of the locality, and minute notes of the scenes of that day, were made by the successful artist Col. Jno. B. Bachelder
Description: Signed on p. [3]: Jno. B. Bachelder, publisher, 123 Washington Street, Boston., Testimonial letters dated January to April, 1863., "Sold by subscription. Agents wanted. Good business chance for disabled officers or men who were in that campaign."--p. [3]., Last page blank., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Bachelder (2)5786.F.151a (McAllister)

Title: Brig. Gen. Edw. A. Wild
Description: Bust-length, front facing portrait of Wild attired in Union uniform. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War achieving the rank of Brigadier General. He commanded several African American brigades., Title from item., Published in Frank Moore, ed. Rebellion record (New York: D. van Nostrand, 1867) vol. 10, opp. p. 450. (LCP Per R 15), Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - W [P.8911.1048]

Title: [Group at Scituate on rocks]
Description: Photograph showing a group of four men stiting on large rocks near the sea at Scituate, Mass. They wear light shirts, ties, and three of them wear hats. A large building is visible across the water in the distance., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.595]

Title: [Group at Scituate on rocks]
Description: Photograph showing a group of four men stiting on large rocks near the sea at Scituate, Mass. They wear light shirts, ties, and three of them wear hats. A large building is visible across the water in the distance., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.596]

Title: W.B. Everett by cannon
Description: Photograph showing W.B. Everett standing next to a cannon with the words "John Brown" painted on the side, likely in Massachusetts. He wears a suit and hat and holds a long stick in his hand. A house stands behind him and cannon., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.605]

Title: Inkstand. Extra. Why are Boston's quotas not full? Is it not because Boston has not been so liberal as the adjoining towns? If the authorities had offered $200 for three years' men, and $100 for nine months' men, would not the quotas, in all probability, have both been filled by this time? Can they not be filled by the first of September, if those bounties are immediately offered? Will it not be better to offer them than submit to the disgrace of a draft? We think all these questions can be answered in the affirmative, and we hope it will be tried before too late. Let Boston not be behind in liberality. Volunteers want money in hand not "regimental funds." Offer to put $100 into every man's hand who will volunteer for nine months, and men will come forward with a will. Let the city government order it forthwith!
Description: 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 Inkstand (2)5777.F.67b (McAllister)

Title: Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly left. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Printed below image: Your obedient servant, Benj. F. Butler., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Putnam operated his own publishing business between 1857 and 1867., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.63]

Title: Major General B.F. Butler, U.S.A
Description: Playing card size bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General attired in military uniform. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on the presented age of the sitter., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.62]

Title: The last days of Webster at Marshfield To the family and friends of the late Daniel Webster, this plate, representing a scene from his last days at Marshfield, is most respectfully dedicated by the publishers
Description: Engraving after a painting by Joseph Ames showing family, relatives, and friends gathered around the dying Daniel Webster, who sits in bed propped up against a pillow. Webster, a Whig senator from Massachusetts, died at his home in Marshfield in 1852 after falling from his horse. His attendees, gather around the foot of his bed, including his wife Caroline LeRoy Webster, attired in a white lace veil, who cries with her head in her hand. In the right, a seated, Mrs. Caroline Fletcher Webster gazes at Webster while her son leans against her and a young, white girl rests on a stool at her feet. Behind her is Sarah, an African American servant, holding a silver tray with a pitcher and cup. Attendees include: Charles Henry Thomas, Jacob LeRoy, Edward Curtis, Caroline LeRoy Webster (wife), Mrs. James W. Paige, Samuel A. Appleton, James W. Paige, George Ashmun, Rufus Choate, Peter Harvey, Daniel Fletcher Webster (son) and his wife Caroline S. White, Caroline L. Appleton, Daniel Webster, Ashburton Webster, Caroline Webster (granddaughter), Dr. J. Mason Warren, Dr. John Jeffries, Sarah (African American servant), John Taylor (farmer), and Porter Wright (farmer). A bust of George Washington sits on a shelf on the wall in the right. In the lower margin is a small vignette of the estate at Marshfield., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 by Smith & Parmalee in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York., See A Description of the great historical painting of The last days of Webster at Marshfield. Painted by Joseph Ames, of Boston. New York : Smith Brothers and Parmelee, 1855. [Am 1855 Smi Bro, 73625.O], LCP also holds one trial proof, two proof without letters, two engraved artists proofs without letters, and five additional copies of print. [***GC - Webster, P.2012.69.1-10], Gift of David Doret, 2011., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Mottram, Charles, 1817-1876, engraver
Date: 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***GC - Webster [P.2011.63.26]

Title: The bloody massacre perpetuated in King Street, Boston, on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 25th Regt
Description: Depicts a scene during the "Boston Massacre" of March 5th, 1770 in which an officer signals seven British soldiers to fire into a mob of protesting colonists. The wounded lie on the ground or are carried away by the crowd. A woman in a shawl observes the carnage. Eighteen lines of verse criticizing the actions of the British and a list of colonists killed or injured appear below the image: "Saml Gray, Saml Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patk Carr (killed) and it is noted that there were "Six wounded; two of them (Christr Monk & John Clark) Mortally." Crispus Attucks, included in the list of colonists but not transparently depicted, was a free man, sailor, and the alleged leader of the crowd who was the first colonist shot and killed., Title from item., Most well-known of Paul Revere's prints, and a nearly identical copy of a print entitled "The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre" by Henry Pelham who accused Revere of piratism., Facsimile based on the original by Revere., Inscribed: Copy Right Secured., One of the prints originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Massachusetts. 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., Revere was a Boston silversmith, engraver, and cartoonist, most known for his patriotic activities during the American Revolution.
Creator: Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, artist
Date: March 5, 1832
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1770-1 [1884.F.25; 5738.F.8]

Title: The abolition Garrison in danger & the narrow escape of the Scotch Ambassador
Description: Anti-abolition print celebrating the 1835 attack on William Lloyd Garrison in Boston by "gentleman of property and standing" preceding his scheduled speaking engagement before the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Depicts Garrison at the center of an angry mob of white men. He has a noose around his neck and his newspaper "The Liberator" in his pocket and yells, "Help Children of Africer - help brothers." Scottish abolitionist George Thompson, who was rumored to be the Society's speaker, flees the scene attired in a women's clothes. He states with a Scottish burr that he will not be a "Martyr in sie black cause." As the mob screams, "Down with the incendiary abolitionists," and calls for Garrison's lynching and arrest, Garrison is being pulled by the noose by several of the rioters and steps upon editions of the "Evening Post" and "Human Rights," serials sympathetic to the abolitionist cause., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text on recto: Boston Oct. 21st, 1835., Purchase 1958., 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: [1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1835-10W [6259.F]

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