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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Yankee notions for Feb
Description: Thomas W. Strong published Yankee notions in New York from 1852 to 1875., Printed on rose-colored paper., The illustration shows a Yankee character addressing a British one, with the caption: Brother Jonathan.--See here, Master Bull, your "strict neutrality" dodge is played out. When I get rid of my present trouble I may have a bone to pick with you, that's all., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press fo r Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Strong, Thomas W.
Date: [between 1862 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Strong 5796.F.160a (McAllister)

Title: Union meeting! A public meeting will be held at the hotel of James H. Gaddis, at Caatsban, in the town of Saugerties, on Wednesday evening, Oct. 28th, 1863, at 7 o'clock. Hon. James G. Graham will address the meeting on the political issues involved in the campaign
Description: The illustration shows an eagle with blank banners., 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 Union (6)5777.F.96a (McAllister)

Title: Genuine gold rings! for officers, soldiers and civilians The following 16 karat gold rings, stamped and warranted, as manufactured for the last ten years, exclusively for the trade, will now be sent, of any size required, by mail, postage paid, upon receipt of the price, as below. Dealers supplied at liberal discount. All the Army Corps rings, for every officer and soldier, richly enameled, at $3 and $5 each. ... And hundreds of other styles of rings and pins, in fine gold, not mentioned. Any ring may be engraved with the name for an additional 25 cents. Write description of article wanted and direction as fully and plainly as possible
Description: Erastus P. Beach is listed at this address in the 1865 New York City directory., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Beach, Erastus P.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Beach (2)5786.F.128a (McAllister)

Title: Kingford's Oswego corn starch for puddings, custards, blanc mange, &c., is the original,--established in 1849, and preserves its reputation as purer, stronger and mor delicate than any other article of the kind offered, either of the same name or with other titles. Mr. Kingsford has perfected it! Receipt for a plain Oswego pudding
Description: The illustration shows an eagle on a shield., Printed in red and blue; printed area, including ruled border, measures 18.3 x 10.7 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American 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.122a (McAllister)

Title: The Farmer Mower
Description: Printed in red ink., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Parmenter, F. W.
Date: [not before 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Parment 104319.D

Title: Our diagrams for army socks having been found useful, we herewith submit one for army mittens Those who may be disposed to knit mittens for the army, may forward them through the Women's Central Relief Association No. 814 Broadway, New-York. Specifications may be had by applying to
Description: The illustration is an outline of a mitten., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: John J. Hinchman & Co.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 John (2)5786.F.119a

Title: Pocket calendar describing Hunnewell's Universal Cough Remedy Hunnewell's Tolu Anodyne Hunnewell's Eclectic pills
Description: At head of title: 1862 1862., A folded sheet with four panels on each side when unfolded. The "outside" contains a title panel, a panel certifying J.L. Hunnewell's membership in the American College of Pharmacy (with an illustration engraved by William Tyler), and two 1862 calendar panels, each with a note "Please read inside carefully." The "inside" has the caption title "Special points in Hunnewell's Triple Remedies," and three panels, numbered 2-4, with running title "Hunnewell's Triple Remedies.", "John L. Hunnewell, proprietor, practical chemist and pharmaceutist, Boston, Mass."--panel 4., 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: Hunnewell, John L.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Hunne 112074.D (Helfand)

Title: Volunteer & Substitute Agency, No. 243 Broadway, (opp. City Hall Park.) New York City, December, 1864 Sir, We beg leave to call your attention to the following facts:-- 1st. That a call for a large number of volunteers will undoubtly soon be made by the president ... and a draft ordered ... 2d. That each substitute now furnished in anticipation of such draft will lessen the quota of the city, ... 3d. That after a call for troops has been made, the agents of many if not all the counties of this state resort to this metropolis for the procurement of volunteers and substitutes
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: A. Lyons & Co.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 A Lyons (2)5777.F.75f (McAllister)

Title: Woman and the war Woman has acted her part nobly in this war. She has toiled and sacrificed, suffered and died to relieve the wants and sufferings of our needy, sick and wounded soldiers. ... A work is now in press, to be published in New York, by N.C. Miller, and in this city by E.G. Storke, of the Auburn Publishing Co., bearing the following title: The heroines of the Civil War: comprising biographical sketches of the leading actors in soldiers' aid societies, in the sanitary and Christian commissions and in hospitals, camps, etc., etc., with notices of their patiotic devotion to our suffering soldiers. A record of true womanly heroism
Description: The publication in the advertisement has not been traced., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Woman (2)5786.F.63b (McAllister)

Title: Metropolitan Fair, April, 1864 The Executive Committee would call the attention of the public to the photographic studio, Station 77 (3d story, over the Furniture Department), under the management of Messrs. Gurney & Son, who are prepared to make cartes de visite and vignettes of all favoring them with a sitting, at the liberal price of $5.00 per dozen, in aid of the Sanitary Commission
Description: Printed on card stock; printed area, including ruled border, measures 24.5 x 31.1 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.). Executive Committee, Executive Committee
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Metro (2)5781.F.130a (McAllister)

Title: Andalusian stallion Hidalgo The following letter from Mr. Sprague, American Consul in Gibraltar, gives the history of this horse: ... There are only two colts of his get now at the stables of his owner, at Tarrytown. The above horse, presented by Mr. Aspinwall to the Metropolitan Fair for the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers, will be sold at auction, by Edward Schenck, on Thursday, 21st inst., at 4 o'clock, at the fair grounds, 15th Street
Description: The Metropolitan Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission opened in New York in March 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Metro (2)5781.F.136a (McAllister)

Title: Hubbel & Co.'s Celebrated Golden Bitters. The best tonic in the world By tonics are understood those substances the operation of which is to give vigor and strength to the system. ... This tonic is no humbug, but is in fact the best in the world
Description: On verso: Geo. C. Hubbel & co., proprietors of the Celebrated Golden Bitters., At head of title, each side: See index to advertisers page 51., At foot, each side: See over., "These Bitters, although only recently brought into the market, have acquired a marked degree of public favor, which must soon create for them a very general demand all over the country."--advertising article in the New York Times, April 25, 1864., Illustration of an eagle on an American shield signed: Pease sc., Printed on yellow paper., 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: Geo. C. Hubbel & Co.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Geo C 111846.O (Helfand)

Title: Now ready. Price twenty-five cents. Embellished with 40 illustrations beautifully drawn and engraved Heroic incidents, personal adventures and anecdotes of the Civil War in America. Being a collection of the most interesting and exciting events of the present remarkable crisis in our history. This volume, which is elegantly printed, is intended to preserve in the recollection of the nation those numerous acts of heroic daring and endurance which have already made the present unhappy war so notable ... This is, par excellence, a book for summer traveling---the incidents being told in simple language, without the slightest attempt at that great disfigurement to all history, sensational writing, and every incident bears upon its face the stamp of undoubted truth
Description: Frank Leslie's Incidents of the Civil War in America was published in 1862., Printed in 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: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Leslie (6)5777.F.25b (McAllister)

Title: The rebellion its latent causes and true significance. By Henry T. Tuckerman. Price 20 cents
Description: Tuckerman's book was published in 1861., Printed area, including border, measures 44.0 x 56.2 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: James G. Gregory (Firm)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Gregory (6)5777.F.31b (McAllister)

Title: A great fraud The true object of democratic institutions is to promote the security, happiness, freedom, and prosperity of the people, under a government of their own framing, and under laws enacted by the representatives of their own choice.---The government of the Unites Staes [sic] is of this kind. Politicians, ambitious of place and power, and who have for more than thirty years plotted the overthrow of democracy, have during all that time been guilty of a great fraud on the workingmen of the country. ... In the name of democracy they have stirred up the laboring men and have filled the streets of New York with bloodshed, arson, and riots, and have disgraced us in the eyes of the world. ... Workingmen of the Union! The man who advocates such doctrines is not a democrat, but an enemy of democracy, and the foe of every laborer
Description: Another issue is dated: New York, Nov. 19th, 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 49.
Creator: Democratic workingman
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Democrat (6)5777.F.109a (McAllister)

Title: Don't unchain the tiger! When the traitors of South Carolina met in Convention in Charleston, and passed their ordinance to abolish the American Union, to crush out the democratic principles of free government in America, ... Workingmen! when any man asks you to break the law, and tries to stir up your passions, while he skulks out of sight, you may set him down as your worst enemy. Spurn him as you would a viper. The patriotic workingmen of the North cannot afford to spend time in killing each other. Be wise, and above all things, don't unchain the tiger!
Description: Another issue is dated: New York, July 24th, 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 49.
Creator: Democratic workingman
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Demcrat (6)5777.F.103b (McAllister)

Title: Parr's patent American camp chest Patented June 25th, 1861
Description: Signed on p. [3]: "American Camp Chest Co.," 202 Broadway, N.Y., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: American Camp Chest Co.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 American 9982.F.17 (McAllister)

Title: New York, August 18th, 1862 Attention. Notice is hereby given that a book for registering the names of young men, their residences, and references, will be opened this day, and will remain open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at the Cooper Institute, Room No. 20. by the undersigned officer, for Colonel Charles C. Dodge's 1st Regiment, New York Mounted Riflemen, twelve month's in service and now at Suffolk, Virginia. For the purpose of forming a company of first-class young men, whose parents may rest assured that the evil influences generally accompanying the promiscuous enrollment of all classes, will be avoided. A committee will be appointed to enquire into the character of each applicant. The following bounty will be paid on being mustered in. viz. $4 recruiting fee. $25 U.S. bounty. $50 state bounty, total $79. One month's pay in advance when the company joins the regiment, and $75 at the end of enlistment. Relief tickets issued. For particulars apply at the above Institute, or at the head quarters No. 12 Centre Street, N.Y
Description: The 1st Regiment Mounted Rifles were organized in New York City in July 1861; they were in Suffolk, Va. from July 1862 to April 1863; the regiment was mustered out by consolidation with the 3rd New York Cavalry on July 12, 1865, to form the 4th Provisional Cavalry., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; MS. note: Refer to Wm. E. Dodge the father of the Col. A few more men wanted., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Cavalry, Mounted Rifles, 1st (1861-1865)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.73b (McAllister)

Title: $192! Extra bounty! $192! Fill up the old regiments! Privates wanted! Blacksmiths and buglers wanted!! Vacancies for sergeants and corporals. $192 cash in advance and $75 when discharged from the service will be paid to active, able-bodied men enlisting in the 3d battalion of Col. C.C. Dodge's Regiment of Mounted Rifles, at the recruiting office of Capt. H.C. Spalding, 43 Liberty Street
Description: Charles Cleveland Dodge was promoted to Col. in Aug. 1862, and to Brig. Gen. in Nov. 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press from Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Cavalry, Mounted Rifles, 1st (1861-1865)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.72a (McAllister)

Title: Beadle's dime Union song book no 2 for sale here price 10 cts
Description: Beadle's dime Union song book no. 2 was published in New York in 1861., Printed in red and blue., The illustration shows a Union soldier holding the U.S. flag and clutching his sword, stepping on a snake., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Beadle and Company
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Beadle (5)5777.F.50b (McAllister)

Title: Now publishing, in weekly numbers at 10 cts., and monthly parts, at 50 cts. each. Will make a large, handsome 8vo volume of 832 pages, every six months. The first volume will be illustrated with maps, and fine steel portraits ... The Rebellion record, edited by Frank Moore, author of "Diary of the American Revolution." It is the only impartial, systematic, and properly digested history of the great secession Rebellion. Containing all the documents, speeches, messages, seccession ordinances, proclamation, rumors, incidents, patriotic songs and ballads, together with graphic accounts of the movements of troops, both at the North and South
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Putnam 5786.F.26b (McAllister)

Title: America in England W.W. Broom, (the first Union advocate in Manchester, and old champion of reform in England) will relate the history of the formation of opinion in England on the American struggle. ... Croton Hall, 187 Bowery, Thursday evening, Feb. 9th
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 America (2)5786.F.94b (McAllister)

Title: To the subscribers and purchasers of Rebellion record Important documents, narratives, &c., with reference to the present crisis, are now publishing, uniform with the Rebellion record, in extra parts, which will form one or two supplementary volumes. The first of these extra parts, The spirit of the pulpit, containing 20 sermons by distinguished divines, North and South, 160 pages, royal 8vo, price 50 cents, is now ready. For sale by all booksellers and agents. Copies will be sent by mail free of postage, on receipt of price
Description: The first part of Spirit of the pulpit contains sermons preached from Nov. 1860 to Oct. 1861, and was published in New York in 1861., Printed on green paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Putnam 5786.F.27b (McAllister)

Title: To the subscribers and purchasers of Rebellion record Important documents, narratives, &c., with reference to the present crisis, are now publishing, uniform with the Rebellion record, in extra parts, which will form one or two supplementary volumes. The first of these extra parts, The spirit of the pulpit, containing 20 sermons by distinguished divines, North and South, 160 pages, royal 8vo, price 50 cents, is now ready. For sale by all booksellers and agents. Copies will be sent by mail free of postage, on receipt of price
Description: The first part of Spirit of the pulpit contains sermons preached from Nov. 1860 to Oct. 1861, and was published in New York in 1861., Printed on green paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Putnam 5786.F.27b (McAllister)

Title: Important from Charleston. Major Anderson taken! Entrance obtained under a flag of truce New Yorkers implicated! Great excitement. What will the Southern Confederacy do next? On the 8th inst., about 12 hours before midnight under cover of a bright sun, Col. George S. Cook, of the Charleston Photographic Light Artillery, with a strong force, made his way to Fort Sumter. ... Col. Cook immediately and heroically penetrated to the presence of Maj. Anderson, and levelling a double barrelled camera, demanded his unconditional surrender in the name of E. Anthony and the photographic community. Seeing that all resistance would be in vain, the major at once surrendered, and was borne in triumph to Charleston, forwarded to New York, and is now for sale in the shape of exquisite card photographs at 25 cts. per copy
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: E. Anthony (Firm)
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 E Anthony 5794.F.6a (McAllister)

Title: "My friends." When in July 1863, the city of New York was under the reign of a mob, when stores were closed, workshops shut, cars and stages laid up, alarm bells ringing, dwellings burning, inoffensive women and children seeking prisons for safety, unoffending men hanging and roasting at lamp posts, the horizon lighted up by burning orphan asylums, at such a time when no man felt safe, when every citizen had to guard his home, when peaceful law-abiding citizens had to patrol the streets for mutual protection, when law and order were as it seemed, dead, when arson, plunder, murder, and all the infernal passions of a brutalized mob were holding high carnival, and civilization went draped in mourning, then Horatio Seymour. the candidate of the McClellan Confederate Peace Democracy for governor of New York, requested the men doing these bloody deeds, to meet him in front of the City Hall in New York, and there began his coaxing, blarneying address to them, with the words "My friends."
Description: Printed area, including the ornamental border, measures 26.0 x 17.3 cm., 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 sm # Am 1863 My friends 5741.F.71c (McAllister)

Title: Purely mutual life insurance. New-York Life Insurance Co Established 1845. Home office, 112 & 114 Broadway, N.Y. ... This is one of the oldest, safest, and most successful life insurance companies in the United States and offers advantages not excelled, and, in some respects, not equalled by any other. It has paid to widows and orphans of the assured over two million dollars. ... Dividends declared annually. For 1865, fifty per cent
Description: Printed in red, blue, and black., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: New York Life Insurance Company
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 New York Life 15022.Q

Title: Circular to the trade Office of B.L. Judson & Co. 106 Franklin Street, New York. On and after March 26th, 1864, the prices of the following articles will be: ... The large advance in prices of all things used in the manufacture of the above articles renders it necessary to advance our prices to the above figures, which we believe are lower than the prices of many other standard remedies
Description: Printed on p. [1] only., 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: B.L. Judson & Co.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 B L Juds 112601.D (Helfand)

Title: Brown's Vermifuge Comfits, or Worm Lozenges Much sickness undoubtedly with children and adults, attributed to other causes, is occasioned by worms
Description: One testimonial dated Jan. 27, 1864., Printed area measures 19.9 x 13.2 cm., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Curtis & Brown
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Curtis 15210.Q

Title: Trade price list. Howe's spring beds, cots and berth bottoms
Description: One illustration signed: Kilburn sc., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Howe Spring Bed Co.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Howe 104209.D

Title: Oldest wood engraving establishment in New York. Commenced in 1838. Removal The engraving establishment of Lossing & Barritt, for many years at 71 Nassau Street, will be removed, on the first day of May next, to the building of the Nassau Bank, corner of Beekman & Nassau Streets, entrance in Beekman Street
Description: Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Lossing & Barritt
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Lossing 14874.Q (Zinman)

Title: $129 bounty paid as soon as sworn in Recruits wanted for the 12th Regiment, N.Y. Vols. Now serving in General Butterfield's brigade, Gen. Porter's 5th Army Corps, the crack corps of the army. One month's pay in advance $25 United States bounty, $50.00 state bounty! Also, $50 city bounty. $4.00 for each recruit Relief tickets issued to families
Description: Daniel Butterfield commanded the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac from May to Aug. 1862., The illustration, signed E. Purcell, shows Liberty perched on a cannon holding a sword and a laurel wreath, in front of an eagle and four flags, above the banner: E pluribus unum., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1865)
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.35 (McAllister)

Title: Extra bounty! Families of recruits provided for. By the liberal contribution of the Grocers' Committee, the Fifth Metropolitan Guard Col. T.W. Parmele, is enabled to offer an extra cash bounty of $10 for each recruit in addition to other bounties. The families of recruits are also provided for by the Metropolitan Police Fund, and have the gratuitous services of the physicians of the Police Department at their own homes. Headquarters, Howard St., near Broadway
Description: The 5th Metropolitan Guard, the 174th Regiment of New York Infantry, was mustered in Nov. 13, 1862 and consolidated with 162nd New York Infantry Feb. 17, 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 174th (1862-1864)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.4c (McAllister)

Title: A traitor's peace! Workingmen! The politicians who cry out for "peace," and "the Union as it was," tell us that it is a very easy thing to settle the troubles between the North and the South. Read the following conditions on which the Richmond Enquirer of the 16th of October, proposed to settle and have "peace:"--- ... Comrades! Vote for the party that stands by the government, and vote for the men who stand by us, and by our brave brothers in the field, and let the ballot-box tell the story of your patriotism, and your resolve not to be the "white slaves" of traitors or their friends
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 49.
Creator: Democratic workingman
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Democrat (6)5777.F.102a (McAllister)

Title: Mammoth ox "Pride of Livingston," weighing the enormous weight of 3,602 lbs being the heaviest animal of this species on record, is now on exhibition, with other fine animals, &c., &c., at the building erected for the cattle show, on 15th St., adjacent to the machinery and ship-building departments of the Metropolitan Fair
Description: The Metropolitan Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission opened in New York in March 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Metropol (6)5777.F.29c (McAllister)

Title: The soldier's book; a pocket diary for accounts and memoranda for non-commissioned officers and privates of the U.S. Volunteer and Regular Army. By Captain Robert N. Scott, Fourth U.S. Infantry. Published by D. Appleton & Co., 443 & 445 Broadway, New York. Soldiers of the United States:--This book is made for your use as a simple means for recording your military history (for which blank paper is furnished at the end), and preserving an account of the pay and allowances which you may from time to time receive. ... The above comprises the title-page and preface of The soldier's book, and gives a correct general view of this new, important, and useful "pocket diary."... Orders promptly filled at the usual discount to the trade. Terms: cash
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: D. Appleton and Company
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 D Apple (2)5786.F.103c (McAllister)

Title: The Rebellion record a complete, authentic, official history of the great struggle of 1860-2. Including three departments, namely: I. Documents, speeches, narratives and reports, from official sources--complete and reliable. II. A diary of events, concise, succinct, comprehensive. III. Rumors, incidents, ballads, songs, facetiae; a mirror of the poetical and humorous aspects of the time. Edited by Frank Moore. Illustrated with portraits, maps, and plans
Description: Sample letter to a canvasser, p. [3], dated 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Evans, Charles T.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Evans (2)5786.F.195a (McAllister)

Title: Putnam's Rebellion record. Notice to subscribers The sixth part of this work completing the first volume, is now issued. The agent respectfully informs subscribers that he is prepared to have their volumes bound in the best manner in various styles, ... Specimens may be seen at the office, or they will be sent on sight anywhere, on receiving notice by letter or otherwise
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: McFarlan, John
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 McFarlan (2)5786.F.47a (McAllister)

Title: Putnam's Rebellion record. Notice to subscribers The sixth part of this work completing the first volume, is now issued. The agent respectfully informs subscribers that he is prepared to have their volumes bound in the best manner in various styles, ... Specimens may be seen at the office, or they will be sent on sight anywhere, on receiving notice by letter or otherwise
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: McFarlan, John
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 McFarlan (2)5786.F.47a (McAllister)

Title: The brave soldier, consummate general, and devoted Christian! Thus does the New-York commercial advertiser speak of Stonewall Jackson. Chas. T. Evans, 448 Broadway, has just published the authentic biography of the great general of the South, by Markinfield Addey. With portrait. 12mo, cloth, one dollar. The appearance of this book has been hailed with acclamation by the public press of every shade of politics. ... The first edition is exhausted, so great has been the call for the work; and to meet the public demand, a new edition is now ready. 12mo, cloth, one dollar. Copies sent by mail on receipt of price. Canvassing agents wanted
Description: Addey's Stonewall Jackson was published in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Evans, Charles T.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Evans 5786.F.174b (McAllister)

Title: The tribute book a record of the munificence, self-sacrifice, and patriotism of the American people in defense of their integrity as a nation, during the war for the Union. Illustrated. By Frank B. Goodrich, author of "The court of Napoleon," &c. The undersigned intend publishing, at as early a date as possible, a book with the above title, the object of which is to preserve, in a permanent form, as large a portion as may be, of the names of those who have given of their means, or devoted their energies, to aid the government in prosecuting the war
Description: At head of title: "The tribute of a free-will offering."--Deut. xvi. 10., Signed and dated on p. [2]: Derby & Miller, publishers, No. 5 Spruce Street, Tribune Buildings, New York. October, 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Derby and Miller
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Derby (2)5786.F.111a (McAllister)

Title: Portraits of Major Robert Anderson 1st Regiment of Artillary. ... Sent free, by mail, to address. A liberal discount to dealers. Wholesale orders should be sent in immediately
Description: The illustration is a U.S. flag., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: D. Appleton and Company
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 D Apple 5794.F.7b (McAllister)

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