In The Pennsylvania hermit (New York, 1838), title page vignette., Elizabeth Wilson (also known as Harriot Wilson), an unmarried woman, was tried and publicly executed for the murder of her twin infants in Pennsylvania in 1786. According to legend, her brother Amos Wilson arrived with a pardon from the governor immediately after the execution., Full-length portrait of the the convicted woman, hanging from a gallows, with a figure on horseback in the background.
In Brooke, H.K. Tragedies on the land (Philadelphia, 1845), p. 35., Mrs. Mary Warner, of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, allowed four men to enter her house on May 22, 1824. They had asked to see a member of her household, William Bonsall, who also lived there with his wife and child. After the men choked and stabbed William Bonsall, they threatened Mrs. Warner, and stole Bonsall’s property., Full-length figure of a woman holding a candlestick and staring at a seated man being assaulted by two men; two other men stand behind her.
In Cases of cures performed by the use of Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1829), frontispiece., “One of the most extraordinary cures ever recorded in the annals of medicine”., “See p. 25”., According to the accompanying article, Nancy Linton was cured of scrofula by using Swaim’s panacea., Another portrait of Nancy Linton appears in A treatise on Swaim's panacea (Philadelphia, 1829), frontispiece., Another portrait of Nancy Linton (as Ana Linton) appears in Coleccion de casos, en ilustracion de las propiedades restaurativas i sanativas de la panacea de Swaim, en varias enfermedades (Filadelfia, 1831), frontispiece., Another portrait of Nancy Linton appears in A treatise on the alterative and curative virtues of Swaim's panacea (Philadelphia, 1833), p. 86., Another portrait of Nancy Linton appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [10]., The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns a hand-colored lithograph with minor differences in composition. ("Drawn on stone by W.H. Kearney, printed by C. Hullmandel.") See Library Company of Philadelphia, Every man his own doctor (1998), p. 29., Full-length portrait of a woman with scars on her face, arms, and legs, seated with her right arm resting on a table next to a bottle labeled “Swaim’s”.
In Brooke, H.K. Tragedies on the land (Philadelphia, 1845), p. 149., On November 21, 1828, after a disagreement at their home in Philadelphia, Michael M’Garvey whipped his wife. She died one or two days later., Full-length portrait of a woman, kneeling with her hair tied to a bedpost; a man stands nearby with a whip raised above his head ready to strike her; another woman stares at them from behind an open door.
In American Sentinel (May 28, 1824), p. [1]., Three identical busts representing Hannah, Rebecca, and Abigail Hatch., “A very interesting Natural Curiosity, to be seen from 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. at the Masonic Hall, Chesnut street. Admittance 25 cents. It sometimes happens ... that ... there is a remarkable diminution in the human form. This inferiority of stature is ... exemplified ... in the case of three women, Hannah, Rebecca, and Abigail Hatch. They are daughters of the same father and mother, (who were of the ordinary size) and born at Falmouth ... Massachusetts.... their ages [are] between 25 and 40 years – and their height between 36 and 42 inches.”
In Summary of the transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, vol. 3 (1850), plate opposite p. 93., “Ruth Tucker, a large and healthy negro woman, aged twenty-four, was admitted into the Pennsylvania Hospital in January last, on account of tumours developed in the lobe of each ear. She stated that between five and six years before, she had her ears pierced, and that soon afterwards brass rings were inserted into them…. Some swelling had already shown itself around the punctures before they were taken out … and gave origin to the tumours, which had continued since slowly to enlarge.”—P. 93., Waist-length portrait of Ruth Tucker, a patient whom Dr. George W. Norris treated for tumors on her ears.
