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Title: View of the high banks & bed of Genesee River
Description: Landscape view showing a gorge through which the river flows., Title from label on negative., Unmounted half stereograph., Inscribed in negative: 135., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New York., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - New York [5741.F.76b]

Title: [Ship Yorktown, Pier 20, East River]
Description: View of a large ship docked at Pier 20 on the East River in New York City. Broadsides advertising "London," "Liverpool," and "New World," are posted all over the pier. Another sign reads, "First packet for London & Liverpool. For passage apply...South St." Men sit and stand near the ship and a horse is tethered to a pillar on the pier., Title supplied by cataloger, but derived from manuscript note on mount and verso: Pier 20 E.R. ship Yorktown., Creme mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.9022.40]

Title: American Fall from Luna Island
Description: Winter view of American Falls from Luna Island, one of three falls that form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the border of the United States and Canada. A tree covered in thick icicles frames the view of the falls in the foreground., Title and photographer's imprint on mount., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, No. 25., Distributor's label pasted on verso: James Cremer, publisher of stereoscopic views, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Stereoscopes and views, wholesale and retail., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., George Barker was a prolific New York stereographer in the 1860s whose gallery catered to the tourist trade in Niagara Falls.
Creator: Barker, George, 1844-1894, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Barker - Views [P.9022.18]

Title: The Horse-shoe Fall, Niagara, as viewed from Goat Island
Description: Landscape view depicts a man walking toward the Terrapin Rocks and Terrapin Tower from Goat Island over a boardwalk bridge spanning the Niagara River. Depicts the Horseshoe Falls, one of three falls that form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the border of the United States and Canada. Boardwalk bridge removed in 1887., Title printed on verso., Quote printed on verso by N.P. Willis describes the scene depicted in the photograph. Also includes a poem by the Earl of Carlisle below the quote. A vignette of eagle clutching "United States of America" banner, arrows and a shield in its talons surmounts text. Text and vignette enclosed within decorative border., Creme mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.39]

Title: Yankee notions for July
Description: Thomas W. Strong published Yankee notions from 1852 to 1875; he was at this address from 1843 to 1866., Printed in red and black., The illustration, signed Woolf, shows an eagle dressed as a drummer boy., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Strong, Thomas W.
Date: [between 1861 and 1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Strong (6)4777.F.43 (McAllister)

Title: Ende der Feindseeligkeiten. Die Englander raumen den Americanern Neu-Yorck ein - 1783
Description: Includes Native American family., Inscribed upper left corner: S. 144., Plate 12 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., 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.8935.12]

Title: Comic monthly June
Description: Comic monthly was published in New York by Jesse C. Haney from 1859 to 1881., The illustration, signed Morse [Joseph W. Morse?], shows a soldier in Zouave uniform leaving his sweetheart, with both in tears; caption: The zu-zu off for the war., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Strong, Thomas W.
Date: [between 1861 and 1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Comic (6)5777.F.37b (McAllister)

Title: Rustic boat landing. Central Park, N. Y
Description: Landscape view of two boys recreating near a small rustic boat landing on a lake or pond in New York City's Central Park. One boy fishes in the foreground and the other sits on a rock looking down at the water., Title printed on mount below image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.43]

Title: Kingford's Oswego starch, the best starch in the world! Kingsford's Oswego corn starch for puddings, custards, blanc mange, &c. Kingsford's silver gloss starch, gives a beautiful finish to the linen. Read this! Less than half a cent will pay the difference, in an ordinary family washing, between the cost of Kingsford's celebrated starch and any of the common starches, and the difference will be more than saved by its extra strength
Description: The illustration shows a patriot holding the U.S. flag, and resting his hand on an eagle., Printed in red and blue; printed area, including ruled border, measures 21.0 x 12.7 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the Civil War.
Creator: T. Kingsford & Son
Date: [between 1861 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 T King (2)5786.F.122c (McAllister)

Title: Niagara -- General view from American side
Description: Landscape view showing the waterfall on the Niagara River near New York and Ontario, Canada. Includes a man wearing a top hat and a boy sitting on the edge of the cliff in the foreground., Title printed on mount., Photographer's blind stamp on mount., Publisher's label pasted on verso., White mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American Stereoscopic Co.
Creator: American Stereoscopic Company
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [8248.F.1]

Title: Dwelling house, corner Avenue A & 85th Street, New York 38 x 38 feet
Description: Architectural view showing the Victorian-style residence with mansard roof and a porch. Land and townscape is visble in the background., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.93c]

Title: Dwelling house, corner Avenue A & 85th Street, New York 38 x 38 feet
Description: Architectural view showing the Victorian-style residence with mansard roof and a porch. Land and townscape is visble in the background., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.93c]

Title: Church, corner 4th St. & Washington Av. Morrissania, Long Island, N.Y 55 x 80 feet
Description: Architectural view showing the Gothic-style Methodist Episcopal church for the parish established in 1850. Also shows pedestrian traffic., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.93a]

Title: Church, corner 4th St. & Washington Av. Morrissania, Long Island, N.Y 55 x 80 feet
Description: Architectural view showing the Gothic-style Methodist Episcopal church for the parish established in 1850. Also shows pedestrian traffic., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.93a]

Title: Falls of Niagara from New Suspension Bridge. On the line of the N.Y.C. & H.R.R.R
Description: View of Niagara Falls on the Niagara River from the Suspension Bridge (i.e., Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge and International Suspension Bridge), the world's first working suspension railway bridge connecting Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario. View includes the shoreline and mist rising from the base of the falls. The bridge was completed in 1855 after the designs of John A. Roebling and operated until 1897., Title and photographer's imprint on mount., Manuscript note on verso: Mr. Stanley C. Muschamp, compliments of H.P. Brown., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., George Barker was a prolific New York stereographer in the 1860s whose gallery catered to the tourist trade in Niagara Falls.
Creator: Barker, George, 1844-1894, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Barker - Views [P.9022.33]

Title: American Fall from Canada
Description: Landscape view of American Falls, one of three falls that form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the border of the United States and Canada., Title printed on mount below image., Manuscript note on verso: Thanks Marie I enjoyed the book. Chris., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.8537]

Title: General view of the falls, Niagara, from Prospect Point
Description: Landscape view from Prospect Point of American Falls in the foreground and Horseshoe Falls in the background, two of the larger three falls that form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the border of the United States and Canada., Title printed on mount below image and on verso., Explicative paragraph of text printed on verso describes the scene from a quote by British author and poet Eliza Cook. Includes vignette of eagle clutching "United States of America" banner, arrows and a shield in its talons. Text and vignette enclosed within decorative border., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.38]

Title: Broadway, New York City
Description: View showing the 500 block of Broadway in Manhattan. Businesses line the block, including a hat store, photographic studio, and optician. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and several horse-drawn carriages and hansom cabs travel down the congested street., Green mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Gift of Saul Koltnow., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1865, ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.46]

Title: Bowling Green
Description: Street level view of fenced-in park containing trees and large fountain surrounded by streets lined with rowhouses. In the center is a building labeled, Washington. Also includes heavy street with men on horseback, horse-drawn carts, and a horse-drawn omnibus. Men, women, and children pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and streets. Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan is New York City's oldest park., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Magnus, Charles, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. -New York [P.2010.6.25]

Title: Dancing for eels at Catharine [sic] Market N.Y A scene from "New York as it is" as played by Chanfrau and Winans, at the Chatham Theatre N.Y
Description: Print after the theatrical advertisement published by Eliphalet Brown, Jr. and James Brown depicting the most popular scene from the mid-19th century play about the lives of the New York city lower classes. Shows an African American boy, attired in torn and worn clothes, street dancing while surrounded by a crowd of spectators. Spectators include an African American man, boy, and woman marketer with a basket; Mose, the central character of a fireman b'hoy, and a white man fish monger, attired in torn and worn clothes. Also shows a white woman vendor near a broadside titled "Mose" to the right of the image and the slip in the background. From the 18th century, Long Island enslave people would cross the East River to sell produce or to street dance to earn money, fish, or eels at the Catherine Slip Market. The performances transformed into impromptu dance contests paid for by market customers., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1848 by J. Baillie in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Southn Dist of N.Y., Created postfreeze., Purchase 2005., 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: Baillie, James S., active 1838-1855
Date: 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Entertainment [P.2005.10]

Title: Five Points, 1827
Description: Chaotic street scene after the 1827 painting Five Points by George Catlin depicting the early 19th-century New York City lower income area east of City Hall. Shows several white and Black men and women, individually, as couples, and in groups at the crossroads of Orange, Anthony, and Cross Streets. The streets are lined with places of "entertainment," "lodgings," and grocery stores primarily selling liquor. Amongst the melee on the streets, a large brawl and several small fights occur, people are knocked over, "couples" of men and women stroll and engage in conversation, peddlers sell their goods, a white woman pumps water, and pigs roam free., Title from item., Inscribed lower right corner: For Valentine's Manual., Plate from D.T. Valentine. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York for 1855 (New York: New York Common Council, 1855) (LCP Am 1855 New Yor Com)., Original painting in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Mrs. Screven Lorillard (Alice Whitney), from the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 2016., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984., 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., McSpedon & Baker, the New York lithographic partnership of Thomas McSpedon and Charles W. Baker, primarily performed stationery work. Illustrative plates executed by the partnership are rare.
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - New York - New York City [P.9057.8]

Title: Central Park, N.Y., the oak bridge
Description: Landscape view of the pedestrian bridge built ca. 1860 after designs by Calvert Vaux spanning a tree-lined Bank Rock Bay in New York City's Central Park. Bridge replaced in 1935., Title on negative., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, 37., Mint green mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.47]

Title: [East River Pier 20, New York, N.Y.]
Description: View showing laborers working on a wooden pier jutting into the East River in New York City. Also shows a horse-drawn cart on the pier and piles of lumber visible next to the pier in the right foreground. Also shows the cityscape on the opposite bank of the river in the background., Title supplied by cataloger, but derived from manuscript note on verso: Pier 20 E.R., White mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.9022.41]

Title: Important manifesto! Citizens! Look to your rights!! P.F.W. having evacuated his late premises, and taken possession of a more tenable position, hopes, by an ample supply of ammunition, and all the materials necessary for a prolonged business siege, to carry the war into the very heart of the trading community, or by a peaceful treaty with his customers, preserve that union of interest which has so long existed between himself and the American people. ... May the Union never slide!!!
Description: Peter F. Wallace, carpenter, is listed at this address in the New York City directory for 1862; in 1863, his business address is listed as 142 Grand., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wallace, Peter F.
Date: [1861 or 1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Wallace (2)5786.F.174d (McAllister)

Title: Important manifesto! Citizens! Look to your rights!! P.F.W. having evacuated his late premises, and taken possession of a more tenable position, hopes, by an ample supply of ammunition, and all the materials necessary for a prolonged business siege, to carry the war into the very heart of the trading community, or by a peaceful treaty with his customers, preserve that union of interest which has so long existed between himself and the American people. ... May the Union never slide!!!
Description: Peter F. Wallace, carpenter, is listed at this address in the New York City directory for 1862; in 1863, his business address is listed as 142 Grand., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wallace, Peter F.
Date: [1861 or 1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Wallace (2)5786.F.174d (McAllister)

Title: Farrington Hall, Yonkers Positively one night only Wednesday evening, June 10th, '63. Cards of admission, twenty-five cts. No half-price. Doors open at half-past 7 o'clock. Performance to commence at 8. The world-celebrated Peak Family Swiss bell ringers of 12 members, in their novel and select costume concerts!
Description: The illustration, signed Shugg, shows twelve handbell ringers, although there are only eleven performers listed on this playbill: Mr. and Mrs. William Peak, Julia Peak Blaisdell, W.B. Blaisdell, E.E. Blaisdell, E.W. Crayton, Gustave Kaufman, J.F. Spalding, Lizette Peak, Eddie S. Peak, and Frank Peak., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 56.2 x 20.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Peak Family (Swiss bell ringers)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Peak (25)5761.F.79a (McAllister)

Title: Simpson's Hall, Peekskill Positively one night only Thursday evening, June 11th, '63. Cards of admission, twenty-five cts. No half-price. Doors open at half-past 7 o'clock. Performance to commence at 8. The world-celebrated Peak Family Swiss bell ringers of 12 members, in their novel and select costume concerts!
Description: The illustration, signed Shugg, shows twelve handbell ringers, although there are only eleven performers listed on this playbill: Mr. and Mrs. William Peak, Julia Peak Blaisdell, W.B. Blaisdell, E.E. Blaisdell, E.W. Crayton, Gustave Kaufman, J.F. Spalding, Lizette Peak, Eddie S. Peak, and Frank Peak., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 56.2 x 20.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Peak Family (Swiss bell ringers)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Peak (25)5761.F.80a (McAllister)

Title: [Winter view of icicles and waterfall, Niagara Falls, New York]
Description: Winter view of Niagara Falls, New York. Large icicles hang from boulders in the foreground and a large waterfall is visible in the background., Inscribed in negative: 1278., Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher's imprint from label pasted on verso. Printed on label: These are a few select views taken in the winter of 1860 and '61., Distributor's label pasted on verso., Cream mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. was one of the largest suppliers of photographic apparatus in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Date: ca. 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Anthony - Views [8248.F.11]

Title: Central Park, N. Y. The lake, from terrace
Description: Landscape view of the lake from Bethesda Terrace in New York City's Central Park. Shows row boats on the water and a small boat landing in the distance., Title on negative., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, 34., White mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.48]

Title: Shipping scene
Description: View depicting a congested scene of several closely docked sloops and shipping boats., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Gift of Saul Koltnow., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.22]

Title: Falls of the Genesee
Description: View depicting the large waterfall of the Genesee River at Rochester, New York. In the center, shows the water rushing down the hill and towards the viewer. Cliffs jut out in the left and in the right. In the background, several buildings are visible., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the lithographer., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Bufford’s Lith
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. - New York - Genesee [P.2010.6.28]

Title: Fulton Ferry [Brooklyn, N.Y.]
Description: View showing pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles traveling near the Fulton Ferry terminus in Brooklyn, New York. The bare masts of docked ships on the East River are visible in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Buff mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.9022.42]

Title: East River Bridge, N.Y
Description: View looking from Brooklyn showing the Brooklyn Bridge, built 1870-1883 after the designs of John Roebling, spanning the lower East River. In the foreground, several Brooklyn businesses and industries are visible, including a stove warehouse, grocer, liquor dealer, and a "cordage, twine, mats, & wicks" manufactory. Also shows several ferry boats and sloops docked along the shore. Manhattan is visible in the distance on the far right of the image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount and from label on negative., Gift of Saul Koltnow., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.44]

Title: Life in New York. Inconvienency of tight lacing
Description: Caricature satirizing early 19th-century, middle-class men’s fashion, specifically male corsets. Depicts a scene in front of a fence at New York's “St. John’s Park” where a white dandy dressed in a top hat, ruffled shirt, and slip on shoes holds onto a lamp post, his right leg up, outstretched, and held by a dandy man companion. He holds his head back and his right hand toward his mouth. The friend, similarly attired in a top hat, waistcoat, and stiped pants crouches with his legs apart. Both are unable to bend. A "practically" attired, older man wearing an overcoat, vest, pants, and boots stands to the right and observes the scene. He states that he will report the event to the "Morning Courier & N.Y. Enquirer." Scene also shows dense foliage and a tree in the park behind the fence., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., Inscribed: No.4., Inscribed: St. Johns Park, Sept. 28, 1829., Anthony Imbert, a New York artist, was a pioneer of American lithography who was also known for his ability as a marine painter., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in New York (New York Set) [P.9704.2]

Title: Children's goat carriage. American scenery. Central Park N.Y
Description: View of an open air children's goat carriage steered by an African American man coach driver in New York City's Central Park. The driver, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a dark-collared suit, and a brimmed hat, holds the reins to two white goats with horns. Riding as passengers in the carriage are two white girls, attired in fine hats and coats. In the right background, a white woman and two children sit on a bench., Title from item., One of a series of copy issues entitled: American Scenery., Gift of Saul Koltnow, 1984., 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.
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereographs - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia-New York [P.9022.23]

Title: To the people of America, this engraving of "First in Peace," from the original painting, is respectfully dedicated, representing the arrival of General George Washington at the Battery, New York, April 23rd, 1789, previous to his inauguration as the first president of the United States of America, April 30, 1789
Description: Print after the design of painter Henry Brueckner of Washington's arrival by barge to New York (the nation's capital) for his inauguration depicting a large crowd welcoming the newly-elected president. Shows Washington, at the head of the barge, raising his hat to New York Governor George Clinton standing within a heavily decorated "Welcome" canopy on the wharf. Clinton stands next to his wife, daughters, and white men envoys, all finely attired. On the heavily-decorated barge, containing a red canopy, Washington is surrounded by white men envoys and oarsmen. The envoys are finely attired and the oarsmen wear matching tan suits and black caps adorned with ribbons. The ribbons contain the names of the U.S. states. Throngs of men, women, and child spectators stand along the wharf and upon sailing vessels on the river. Spectators include an African American man cheering with his hat in the air (right); white women in gowns; a white sailor hanging from a rope ladder attached to a ship (right); and an Indigenous man, woman, and baby seated in a canoe by the barge (center right). The man claps and the woman holds the baby in a cradleboard to her chest., Title from item., Place of publication and date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1867 by John C. McRae, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York., Name of artist and engraver from earlier state in collections of the Library of Congress., See also Scottish American Journal, April 21, 1866, p. 5 and Vermont Chronicle, May 19, 1866, p. 3 for articles that describe the engraving as representing "Washington after the proclamation of peace with Great Britain." Articles also note that McRae was occupied on the work for nine years., Gift of David Doret, 1994., In poor condition. Stained and tears., Cataloged 2021.
Creator: McRae, John C., engraver
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***GC - Washington [P.9472]

Title: A strike! A strike!
Description: Anti-labor union cartoon satirizing the several New York workers' strikes for higher wages in early 1836 during a harsh winter; a period of severe inflation, including exorbitant market prices; and an era of property speculation. Depicts livestock on strike for a higher market value near fish peddlers attired in winter garb, including two African American shellfish vendors. Animals include a Tom turkey ordering a turkey hen not to sell her young ones because "gobblers will bring twenty shillings and hens fifteen"; hens refusing to lay eggs for "less than four pence a piece"; a pig holding a banner inscribed "Hams 15 cents per lb exclaiming "I shall Jew them out of a shilling a pound"; an indignant lamb and calf conferring about their deserved increased prices per pound; and a confident steer exhorting the range of high prices for ordinary beef, corn fed beef, and beef shins. In the foreground, two African American men vendors get advice from two African American marketers, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular, about oysters unable to "strike for de frost" and that "gemmen" will not buy open mouthed clams. A white man fish peddler hawks his bass at "whole for two shilling de pound" and cut at "tree shillin" to a white gentleman inquiring about fresh fish. In the right, a barking dog sits on his "House to let. Inquire No. 48 Courtlandt St." (address of publisher) and comments "I feel like a savage! this is all contrary to law," probably an allusion to the "Geneva ruling" of 1835 by the New York state supreme court, which proclaimed unions and strikes forbidden by law., Title from item., Artist's initial lower left corner., Publication information from Weitenkampf., Copyright statement printed on recto: Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1836, by H.R. Robinson, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States of the Southern District of New York., Described in Nancy Reynolds Davison's "E.W. Clay: American political caricaturist of the Jacksonian era" (PhD diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 164-165., Purchase 2003., 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.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: [March 1836]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1836 - 1w [P.2003.40.1]

Title: Pulling down the statue of George III "By the Sons of Freedom." At the Bowling Green City of New York, July 1776
Description: Print commemorating American independence after the painting by religious and historical artist, Johannes A. Oertelat, at the New York Historical Society. Depicts white men attempting to topple the equestrian statue of King George following the reading of the Declaration of Independence at the foot of Broadway. At the base, men pull on ropes wrapped around the sculpture while men from behind use rods to knock it over. In front of the pedestal, an African American man has fallen over on the ground. An excited crowd of spectators, including well-to-do and working class men, women, and children cheer, point, hold torches and mallets, and trample upon the broken fence once surrounding the statue. In the left is a Native American man attired in a feather headdress and carrying a spear. Several dogs run in the foreground. In the background, ships in New York harbor are visible., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1978., 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: McRae, John C., engraver
Date: c1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-American Revolution [8384.F.11]

Title: [Entry of Washington into New York, after the city was evacuated by the British in 1783, Nov. 20th]
Description: Print after the painting displayed at the National Academy of Design in New York by native Philadelphian and prolific 19th-century book illustrator, Felix Octavius Carr Daley. Depicts the historic scene at the close of the American Revolution showing General Washington, his hand on his hip and his face turned to the left, on horseback and triumphantly parading his troops through a crowded New York City street on November 25, 1783. Exuberant spectators, some running and some held back by uniformed guards, line both sides of the thoroughfare and cheer from balconies, roofs, and windows. Spectators include many parents with children. In the left foreground, an African American man servant or waiter, attired in hoop earrings, a white collared shirt, a bow tie, a jacket, breeches with white stockings, and buckled shoes, carries a serving tray under his arm and stands and peers into the street to watch Washington. Three dogs run in the foreground., Title from: Illustrated by Darley: an exhibition of original drawings..., May 4- June 18, 1978 (Delaware Art Museum. Wilmington: The Museum, 1978). (LCP Print Room Yb A2696.O)., Alternate title from 1863 artist's proof at the Museum of the City of New York., Manuscript signature of engraver in lower right corner., Gift of Dr. Anthony N.B. Garvan, 1981., 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., Ritchie, a New York painter and prolific engraver of portraits and genre scenes, produced at least three engravings after the works of F.O.C. Darley.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - American Revolution [P.8646.3]

Title: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper no. 314 for this week, contains a mammoth picture of the bombardment and capture of Forts Beauregard and Walker Also, the interior of the works after the occupation by the United States forces, and numerous illustrations of incidents connected with the expedition, from sketches by our special artist, who witnessed the engagement from the U.S. Steamship "Star of the South."
Description: Forts Beauregard and Walker, Port Royal, S.C. were bombarded and captured in Nov. 1861., Printed in red and blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
Date: [1861 or 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Leslie (5)5777.F.49b (McAllister)

Title: Ville de Paris, Dauphin, 18, E. 14th Str., New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the title displayed on a signboard with a crown surrounded by flowering vines, a winged cherub and a bust statue., Advertising text printed on verso promotes W. Dauphin's "city of Paris" where flowers, garnitures, ball and bridal outfits, mourning goods, and hair dressing services are provided., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Dauphin [1975.F.891]

Title: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines marketed by R.W. Robinson & Son, wholesale druggists, of New York, N.Y.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., The company was formed in 1870 by Russell W. Robinson. It went into bankruptcy in 1908., Contents: [1] The Old Squaw's Cure for Fever & Ague, one testimonial dated Sept. 1871; with MS. notes on verso by a women, "Diary of one day, not a 'busy' one. September 14, 1887" -- [2] Robinson's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with hypophosphites of lime and soda, sold by A.C. Mabie, Sparkill, N.Y. -- [3] Sol-San-Dis (Soluble Sanitary Disinfectant), one testimonial dated Sept. 8, 1890., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R.W. Robinson & Son
Date: [between 1870 and 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111803.O (Helfand)

Title: [Business stationery of McKesson & Robbins, importers and jobbers in drugs and druggists' articles and manufacturing chemists, New York]
Description: Includes three billheads and two letterheads. Billheads contain vignette exterior view of the storefront at 91 & 93 Fulton Street. A horse-drawn omnibus, wagon, and carriage travel in front of the building adorned with signage and an American flag. Billheads also contain terms and conditions for payment and delivery, names of partners, promotional text, and "Invoice Book" and "Page" numbers. Firm founded as Olcott & McKesson by Charles Olcott and John McKesson in 1833. It was renamed McKesson & Robbins following Olcott's death in 1853 and the admittance of partner Daniel Robbins., Title supplied by cataloger., Billheads (P.2011.46.191-193) completed in manuscript to Gauntlett & Brooks on May 17, 1878 and August 7, 1878 and Maicas & Co. on July 28, 1887. Items billed include hemlock, hair brushes, Hoyt's cologne, wax gas lighters, and borax., Letterheads completed to Friend Griffing from John [illegible] on March 26, 1888 regarding a check and Mr. Massey of Messrs Caswell, Massey & Co. from W. H. Wickham on June 20, 1888 regarding the selection of a "College of Pharmacy" by E. H. Morgan., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870-ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - M [P.2011.46.191-195]

Title: Paints and drugs, for cash 162 Broadway, just below Courtlandt St. "The cash drug house," P.D. Orvis. Notice. Your are respectfully requested to put this circular in your memorandum book and call at my establishment, conveniently located in Broadway, just below Courtlandt Street and Maiden Lane, where courteous salesmen will be in readiness to show you a full line of paints, ... drugs, patent medicines and fancy goods
Description: The illustration shows a U.S. flag with the motto: Stand by the flag., Printed in red ink; printed area measures 15.7 x 10.7 cm., Library Company copy has contemporary MS. note: P D Orvis circular drugs &c 1861., 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: Orvis, Philander Denslow, 1828-1903
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Orvis 113005.D (Helfand)

Title: Bought of Eimer & Amend, wholesale druggists, 205, 207, 209 & 211 Third Ave., cor. 18th St
Description: Billheads containing ornate lettering and variant vignette views of the several-story building of the firm established in 1851 and incorporated in 1897. Views also show street or pedestrian traffic. Street traffic includes a horse-drawn wagon and carriage. View on circa 1890 print includes an American flag on the roof of the building. Establsihed in 1851 as Gail & Amend, Bernard Amend entered into partnership with Charles Eimer in 1856. Eimer retired in 1883 and the firm was incorporated as eimer & Amend in 1897. The firm specialized in the importation of rare crude drugs., Printers include Photo-Electrotype Eng. Co. N.Y., Printed upper right corner: Book No [ ].; Folio. [ ]., Printed above image: Wo only give credit for empties as charged in invoice, if returned in good and clean condition. All claims for deduction must be made within eight days after receipt of goods., P.2011.46.144 completed in manuscript to F. M. C. Gilroy on October 31, 1887 for "4 3/4 Gall Alcohol" for $10.45. Stamped: Paid Nov. 1, 1887, Thos. F. Gilroy, Receiver and Received Payment New York 1887 Eimer & Amend. Inscribed: Correct JHC., P.2011.46.145 completed in manuscript to N.Y. Engraving Print Co on March 22, 1899 for "Carboy 39 Lg. Ferre chloride" for $14.01. Stamped: Approved [Initials illegible]Received Drug Department and O.K. [W.R.R.S.] Manufacturing., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - E [P.2011.46.144 & 145]

Title: The only reliable illustrated is Frank Leslie's newspaper no. 344, and supplement no. 345, for the present week. Turn over
Description: On verso: Contents. The Battle of Williamsburgh, Va. (Full page.) The Capture of New Orleans by the national gunboats. (Double page.) ..., The Battle of Williamsburg took place May 5, 1862., Imprint from colophon., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Leslie (2)5786.F.93b (McAllister)

Title: [Wall Street Ferry Terminal, foot of Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York]
Description: Elevated view of the Wall Street Ferry Terminal, built ca. 1853 at the foot of Montague Street in Brooklyn, showing two ships with bare masts near a docked ferry boat in the foreground. Shows other vessels on the Hudson River and a partial view of Manhattan in the background. Ferry operated 1853-1912 by the Union Ferry Company., Title supplied by cataloger. Identified from ca. 1884 photograph., Manuscript note on verso: View on the Delaware, Philada., Printed list of three series, "Philadelphia Centennial Views," "Philadelphia City and Park," and "Miscellaneous" on verso. Below lists of series on verso: Philad'a Stereo. Publishing Company., Publisher's imprint on mount., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Fleischner - Views [P.9670.2]

Title: Horace Greeley
Description: Bust-length portrait of the New York abolitionist, newspaper editor, and politician. Greeley, attired in a white collared shirt, a necktie with stripes, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly left., Title from item., Published as frontispiece in Nineteenth century (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber & Co., 1848), vol 1., no. 1., Gift of Bruce Pearson, 2013., 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: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - G [P.2013.58.5]

Title: Horace Greeley
Description: Bust-length portrait of the New York abolitionist, newspaper editor, and politician. Greeley, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-G [P.8911.408]

Title: Janet Morris on dock with copper ingots, S.S. Octorara, Great Lakes Trans. Co., Buffalo, NY
Description: Photograph taken during a family trip to Canada and Washington state showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris standing on a dock among large piles of metal ingots at Buffalo. She wears a hat and a sailor dress. A ship is docked behind her with the words "Octorara, Great Lakes Transportation Company" painted on the side. A smokestack billows on the right. Lake Erie extends behind the ship with hills rising on the far shore., 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: July 5, 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2014.69.4]

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