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- Title
- A Verse Written to a German Air
- Description
- Removed from its frame in 2007., Verse written to German air by Andre at the request of Miss Rebecca Redman in Philadelphia. MS notes on verso: Autograph of Major Andre's German Air - Words compos'd by Major Andre at the request of Miss Becky Redman Jan 2, 1777 afterwards Miss E. Lawrence, and presented by her daughter Miss E. Lawrence to Henry Penington. Autograph of Major Andre written for Miss Rebecca Redman at Philadelphia in the year 1778 and presented by her daughter Miss Eliza Lawrence to her cousin Henry Penington in the year 1841. Return'd to me after the Death of Mr. H. Penington and I now give them to Foxhall A. Parker U.S. Navy Eliza Lawrence, Aug. 22d 1862. Also a newspaper clipping from the North American, Jan. 28, 1842 with printed version of the poem and notes the 3 profiles that accompany it: Andre, Capt. Batwell, and "Sir John Wrotesb who was one of the managers of the celebrated entertainment...[Meschianza]" Also notes that Miss Redman was one of the famous belles of the Meschianza., Gift of Mrs. John Meredith Read, 1900., LCP Annual Report, 1900: "In concluding this brief review of the year’s gifts, it remains to mention that which Philadelphians will probably considered the most valuable: it is the André Collection, belonging to the late Gen. John Meredith Read, at one time Minister of the United States to Athens, presented by his family to the Library Company. It comprises a large mirror which formed part of the decoration of the Wharton House at the time of the Mischianza; profiles cut by Major André for Miss Rebecca Redman, in 1778, of Capt. Lullum Batwell, of the 46th Regiment of Foot, and of himself; a ticket for the Mischianza, May 18th, 1778, with invitation written on the back and signed by Sir Henry Calder; profile of Major Edward Stanley, of the 17th Light Dragoons, afterwards the twelfth Earl of Derby, and the following verses written to a German air by Major André at the request of Miss Redman, January 2d, 1777:, Return enraptur’d Hours, When Delia’s heart was mine; When she, with Wreaths of Flowers, My Temples wou’d entwine. When jealousy nor care Corroded in my breast, But visions, light as air, Presided o’er my rest-- Now nightly round my bed, No airy visions play; No flowrets crown my head, Each vernal holiday-- For far from those sad plains, My lovely Delia flies, And rack’d with jealous pains, Her wretched lover dies.
- Creator
- André, John, 1751-1780
- Date
- 1778
- Location
- OBJ 060
- Title
- There are now but two parties in this country, the friends and the enemies of the government Every man who does not stand up for all measures that may be adopted for the maintenance of the honor of our country, at whatever cost of blood or money that may be necessary, is a traitor at heart
- Description
- At head of title: "A union of hearts and a union of hands, a union that none can sever, A union of hearts and a union of hands, and the flag of our Union forever!", Three illustrations: an eagle with the flag and a blank banner is flanked by two copies of a man nailing the U.S. flag to a pole., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 There (6)5777.F.101a (McAllister)
- Title
- Somebody's darling
- Description
- Poem written in 1864? by Marie Ravenel de Lacoste; later set to music by John Hill Hewitt., First line: Into a ward of the white-washed halls., Verse in five stanzas., Printed area measures 17 x 10 cm., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- La Coste, Marie Ravenel de
- Date
- [1864?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm #Am 1864 La Coste 54304.O.4
- Title
- Carrier's annual address to the patrons of the Davenport gazette for January 1, 1864
- Description
- Verse in thirty stanzas, printed in two columns; first line: Time sweeps along from shore to shore., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 37.3 x 20.3 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 #Am 1863 Carriers 5784.F (McAllister)
- Title
- Annual address of the city watchmen, December 25th, 1862
- Description
- Verse in 18 stanzas., Printed in two columns, divided by a double rule; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 35.4 x 25.4 cm., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Annual 9666.F (Rough- wood)
- Title
- Primary Lessons No. 5
- Description
- “Primary Lessons. No. 5” at the top and within a decorative border includes nine poems. There are four relief prints along the top that illustrate the poems. Stamped, Boston Chemical Printing Company, at the bottom., Contents: The Birth-day (first lines: Try me, father, try me, and mark me on the wall) -- The School (first lines: School is out, but do not shout) -- Invitation to a little bird (first lines: Little bird, roam, quick to my home) -- The Bird's answer (first lines: I thank you, my dear, but I'd rather live here) -- Invitation to a little ant (first line: Run here, little ant, for the pretty bird can't) -- The Ant's answer (first line: Stop, stop, little miss) -- Little Mary (first line: Little Mary was good) -- Mama and the baby (first line: What a little thing am I) -- My mother's sweet kiss (first line: I have learned my lesson)., Bequest of S. Robert Teitelman, 2009.
- Creator
- Boston Chemical Printing Company
- Date
- after 1834
- Location
- OBJ 898a
- Title
- Sehnsucht nach dem himmlischen Jerusalem
- Description
- A hymn in five verses and a chorus, words only; first line: Kommt ihr Freunde, wir eilen jeszt fort., Caption title., Dated by Yoder, "probably from the late nineteenth century.", Printed area measures 14.4 x 6.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [between 1850 and 1900?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1850 Sehns 106030.D (Roughwood)
- Title
- Sehnsucht nach dem himmlischen Jerusalem
- Description
- A hymn in five verses and a chorus, words only; first line: Kommt ihr Freunde, wir eilen jeszt fort., Caption title., Dated by Yoder, "probably from the late nineteenth century.", Printed area measures 14.4 x 6.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [between 1850 and 1900?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1850 Sehns 106030.D (Roughwood)
- Title
- On the crucifixion of our Saviour and the two thieves
- Description
- Poem by William Browne; first lines: Behold O God! In rivers of my tears I come to thee., Copyright 1834; printed by E. Durand., Printed within and flanking three crosses; text to be read across lines and also as an acrostic within each of the crosses., Serves as a type specimen showing a wide range of fonts., Not in Checklist of American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Browne, William, 1590-ca. 1645
- Date
- [1834]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare # Am 1834 Browne 9528.F (Roughwood)
- Title
- On the crucifixion of our Saviour and the two thieves
- Description
- Poem by William Browne; first lines: Behold O God! In rivers of my tears I come to thee., Copyright 1834; printed by E. Durand., Printed within and flanking three crosses; text to be read across lines and also as an acrostic within each of the crosses., Serves as a type specimen showing a wide range of fonts., Not in Checklist of American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Browne, William, 1590-ca. 1645
- Date
- [1834]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare # Am 1834 Browne 9528.F (Roughwood)
- Title
- Das goldene A B C für jederman, der gern mit Ehren wollt bestahn
- Description
- A broadside of moral and religious aphorisms in rhyme., Caption title., At head of title: Im Nahmen der allerheiligsten Dreyfaltigkeit., Sometimes attributed to Christopher Dock. While he may have used this broadside in his school, the text predates him., Printed on laid paper with watermark "P"; printed area, including double-rule border, measures 33.9 x 28.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [between 1770 and 1800?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1770 Goldene 9523.F (Roughwood)
- Title
- Das goldene A B C für jederman, der gern mit Ehren wollt bestahn
- Description
- A broadside of moral and religious aphorisms in rhyme., Caption title., At head of title: Im Nahmen der allerheiligsten Dreyfaltigkeit., Sometimes attributed to Christopher Dock. While he may have used this broadside in his school, the text predates him., Printed on laid paper with watermark "P"; printed area, including double-rule border, measures 33.9 x 28.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [between 1770 and 1800?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1770 Goldene 9523.F (Roughwood)
- Title
- The Second Louisiana. May 27th, 1863
- Description
- Caption title., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sm # Am 1863 Bok 52111.O .15
- Title
- The Wounded soldier's appeal
- Description
- Verse in twelve stanzas., At foot of poem: David Gingry, Jr., A prose account of Gingry's service in the Army of the Potomac, during the Civil War, precedes the poem; Gingry was severely wounded and sold the poem to support his family., At head of title: Price ten cents each side., Printed side-by-side with The Empty sleeve, then separated for sale., Printed in two columns separated by a vertical rule; the printed area, including ornamental border, measures 24.2 x 12.2 cm., Library Company copy was pasted into a scrapbook, then removed; newspaper clippings of other poems are pasted to the verso., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm# Am 1865 Wounded 13924.Q
- Title
- The Empty sleeve
- Description
- Verse in ten stanzas., At foot of poem: David Gingry, Jr., A prose account of Gingry's service in the Army of the Potomac, during the Civil War, precedes the poem; Gingry was severely wounded and sold the poem to support his family., At head of title: Price ten cents each side., Printed side-by-side with The Wounded soldier's appeal, then separated for sale., Printed in two columns separated by a vertical rule; the printed area, including ornamental border, measures 24.2 x 12.1 cm., Library Company copy was pasted into a scrapbook, then removed; newspaper clippings of other poems are pasted to the verso., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm# Am 1865 Empty 13925.Q
- Title
- Primary Lessons No. 8
- Description
- Within a decorative border is “Primary Lessons, No. 8.” Includes five poems, with three relief prints that illustrate the poems. Stamped, Boston Chemical Printing Company, at the bottom. Hemmed around the edges by hand., Contents: The Little child (first line: See me, I am a little child) -- A Morning prayer (first lines: Awaked from sleep, O God to thee I lift my heart, and bow my knee) -- The Child's time table (first line: Sixty seconds make a minute) -- The Infant school boy (first lines: Pray, how can I, a little lad, in speaking make a figure?) -- Anna and her chicken (first line: Mamma, my little chicken see)., Bequest of S. Robert Teitelman, 2009.
- Creator
- Boston Chemical Printing Company
- Date
- after 1834
- Location
- OBJ 898b
- Title
- To the memory of James Gifford who was killed by the bursting of a cannon on the 24th, day of December 1832, aged 20 years 9 months and 10 days at Tuckahoe, New Jersey
- Description
- Poem in ten four-line verses, with grape cluster border and mourning vignette., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1832]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1832 To the 15136.Q (Roughwood)
- Title
- To the memory of James Gifford who was killed by the bursting of a cannon on the 24th, day of December 1832, aged 20 years 9 months and 10 days at Tuckahoe, New Jersey
- Description
- Poem in ten four-line verses, with grape cluster border and mourning vignette., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1832]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1832 To the 15136.Q (Roughwood)
- Title
- Franklin Book & Job Printing Establishment rear of 52 No. Sixth St. Philadelphia. Newspaper, book and plain & fancy job printing
- Description
- A four-line poem at head of title: A Union of lakes and a Union of lands, A Union of states none can sever, A Union of hearts and a Union of hands, And the flag of our Union for ever., A four-line poem printed vertically, flanking the title: The flag of our country, long may it wave, O'er the land of the free & home of the brave. No pent up Utica contracts our powers, But the whole boundless continent is ours., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 27.8 x 21.0 cm., The illustration shows an eagle with the flag and the banner: Our country our flag & liberty., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Library Company copy 5786.F.123a printed on yellow paper., Library Company copy 5786.F.124c printed on rose-colored paper., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Young, William S., publisher
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Young 5786.F.123a (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Young 5786.F.124c (McAllister)
- Title
- The Pennsylvania cyclone
- Description
- Verse in four unnumbered stanzas; first line: The shadows of death are upon us, and a calamity has occurred,., On Jan. 9, 1889, a tornado swept over Reading, Pa., destroying the Grimshaw Silk Mill and the Reading Railroad paint shop, killing 17 and injuring more than 100 people., Printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.3 x 19.8 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bessel, Fred
- Date
- [1889?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1889 Bessel 112042.O (Roughwood)
- Title
- The Pennsylvania cyclone
- Description
- Verse in four unnumbered stanzas; first line: The shadows of death are upon us, and a calamity has occurred,., On Jan. 9, 1889, a tornado swept over Reading, Pa., destroying the Grimshaw Silk Mill and the Reading Railroad paint shop, killing 17 and injuring more than 100 people., Printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.3 x 19.8 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bessel, Fred
- Date
- [1889?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1889 Bessel 112042.O (Roughwood)
- Title
- Keystone Normal School Class tribute to Ellen S. Christ
- Description
- Class tribute signed Class of 1875; dated November, 1874. First line: But few months have elapsed since it fell to our lot., With: Philomathean Literary Society tribute. First line: Gone to the grave has our sister., Printed area, including foliated border, measures: 20.6 cm x 9 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Kutztown State Teachers College, Class of 1875
- Date
- [1874.]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1874 Kutztown 8758.F
- Title
- Keystone Normal School Class tribute to Ellen S. Christ
- Description
- Class tribute signed Class of 1875; dated November, 1874. First line: But few months have elapsed since it fell to our lot., With: Philomathean Literary Society tribute. First line: Gone to the grave has our sister., Printed area, including foliated border, measures: 20.6 cm x 9 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Kutztown State Teachers College, Class of 1875
- Date
- [1874.]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1874 Kutztown 8758.F
- Title
- Daily evening bulletin
- Description
- A carrier's Christmas and New Year address; verse in eight stanzas, printed in two columns; first line: Peace be unto you, dear patrons., Printed area, ruled border, measures 29.6 x 19.5 cm., The poem mentions several Civil War battles, including Gettysburg, from 1863., Printed in violet ink., The illustration is a spread eagle with the banner: E pluibus unum., 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 Daily 5784.F (McAllister)
- Title
- Watchman's address on the return of Christmas, 1851
- Description
- Verse in fifty-six lines; first line: Now Christmas dawns, the season dear., Caption title., At head of title is a woodcut eagle with the banner: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year., The poems is printed in two columns divided by a wavy rule., At foot is a woodcut of a watchman on a snowy night, along with "Counting house almanac" for 1852, "Solar and lunar eclipses for the year, 1852," and "Regulations of the state house bell in case of fire.", Printed area, including arched ornamental border, measures 43.5 x 26.6 cm., Library Company copy pasted to a 20th-century hand-painted sign advertising: Sermons by the Redemptorist preacher Rev. Andrew L. Doran, ..., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1851 Watch 9521.F (Roughwood)
- Title
- Watchman's address on the return of Christmas, 1851
- Description
- Verse in fifty-six lines; first line: Now Christmas dawns, the season dear., Caption title., At head of title is a woodcut eagle with the banner: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year., The poems is printed in two columns divided by a wavy rule., At foot is a woodcut of a watchman on a snowy night, along with "Counting house almanac" for 1852, "Solar and lunar eclipses for the year, 1852," and "Regulations of the state house bell in case of fire.", Printed area, including arched ornamental border, measures 43.5 x 26.6 cm., Library Company copy pasted to a 20th-century hand-painted sign advertising: Sermons by the Redemptorist preacher Rev. Andrew L. Doran, ..., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1851 Watch 9521.F (Roughwood)
- Title
- An Idyl by S[amuel] B[uckley] Morris
- Description
- Glass negative showing a poem entitled An Idyl written by Marriott C. Morris' brother Samuel Buckley Morris. The script is etched directly into the emulsion as well as a decorative border around the edge of the plate., 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
- June 19, 1884
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.15.1]
- Title
- O, Susanna! Das bekannte Lied eines verliebten Negers
- Description
- Verse in four unnumbered stanzas., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 22.6 x 7.7 cm., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm# Am 1865 Foster 13944.Q (Stod- dard)
- Title
- Friedrich Wilhelm, König von Preussen, Todes-Testament
- Description
- Printed in two columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 18.3 x 13.1 cm., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1861?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm# Am 1861 Fried 14030.Q (Rough- wood)
- Title
- A mark of friendship's pleasing power
- Description
- Album page with embossed border and containing a drawing depicting a bunch of flowers above a four-line sentimental poem about friendship and rememberance. Flowers include a rose. Other flowers are depicted in the colors of orange, red, and violet. Image also includes a stem and leaves., Title from manuscript verse., Probably by civil rights activist and educator Ada Howell Hinton who founded a school in 1849. Hinton was daughter of Philadelphia African American elite community member, barber, perfumer, and abolitionist Frederick Augustus Hinton., Contains four lines of verse: A mark of friendship pleasing power,/In this small trifle see/And sometimes in a lonely hour,/View it and think of me., RVCDC, Description revised 2022.
- Date
- ca. 1840
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Martina Dickerson album [13859.Q.73]
- Title
- The Wife. By Washington Irving
- Description
- Album page containing an ornately calligraphed transcription of an excerpt from the Irving sketch in "The Sketch Book of Geoffery Crayon, Gent" about the wife as a helpmate to her husband. The sketch first published in 1816 was widely reprinted in periodicals during the 1830s, including in "The Ladies Garland" in 1838. Transcription contains multiple styles of handwriting and is enclosed within a border comrpised of swirls., Title from item., Date from item., Transcription of calligraphic text: AS THE VINE WHICH HAS/ long twined its graceful/foliage about the oak and/ been lifted by it in sunshine will when/ THE HARDY PLANT IS RIFTED/ By the thunderbolt cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs so/BEAUTIFULLY so it is ORDERED BY/ PROVIDENCE/ THAT WOMAN who is the mere DEPENDENT/ And ornament of man in his happier hours should be his stay and solace when/ SMITTEN WITH SUDDEN/ calamity WINDING herself INTO the rugged/ recesses of his nature tenderly/ supporting the drooping head/ and binding up/ THE BROKEN HEART, RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Reason, born in New York and one of the few known 19th-century Black engravers and lithographers, was also an anti-slavery and voting rights activist. He spent much of his career, which began when he was a teen in the 1830s in New York, before relocating to Cleveland in the late 1860s.
- Creator
- Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898, artist
- Date
- [January 1839]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.25]
- Title
- "I love a flower!"
- Description
- Album page containing a drawing of a wild pink rose above eight lines of allegorical verse about the beauty of flowers. Shows the rose with a stem, five green leaves surrounding the petals, and two buds., Title from manuscript verse., Date inferred from complementary entries in album., Contains eight lines of verse: I love a flower! it ever brings/ A warmth of feeling to my heart,/ Unlike those gay and gilded things/ That flatter coldly, coldly part./ But flowers! – Oh they are eloquent/ They speak when lips would still be dumb/ When by the hand of friendship sent,/ Her price interpreters they come., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Douglass, was an artist, prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, educator, and anti-slavery activist.
- Creator
- Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1833]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.9]
- Title
- "Forget me not!"
- Description
- Album page containing a drawing of a stem of blue forget-me-nots above a poem about remembrance. Shows the stem with mutiple flowers and leaves., Title from manuscript verse., Date from item., Probably by Margaretta or Mary Forten, civil rights activists and members of the multiracial Pennsylvania Female Anti-Slavery Society. The women were the daughters of Philadelphia African American entrepreneur and abolitionist James Forten and abolitionist Charlotte Vandine Forten, Contains lines of verse: Forget me not”!—how sweet the token,/ When early hours have faded long,/ And hopes as well as hearts are broken,/ To know they still exist in song!/ Thus, may the exile fondly dream of/ Many a dear and transie[n]t ray/ And watchful memory catch a gleam/ Each colouring of a by-gone day. What tho the wave with ceaseless motion/ Protracts the union of o’er lot:—/ Our Hope’s the rock, which stems Time’s ocean,/ Our Love’s the flower, “Forget Me Not.” Excerpt adapted from poem by William G. Simms Jr., “The ‘Forget Me Not,’” in Early Lays (Charleston, South Carolina: A. E. Miller, 1827)., Manuscript of "Philadelphia" outlined with dots., Manuscript numbers for year "1834" formed with dots., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Date
- [1834]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.14]
- Title
- "Long long be thy heart with your memory fill'd..."
- Description
- Album page containing a drawing of a white vase of flowers on a square-shaped base and above a poem about memory and remembrance. Flowers depicted are of various kinds and include roses. They are long-stemmed, have leaves, and are in colors of pink, red, yellow, white and blue., Title from manuscript verse., Date inferred from complementary entries in album., Contains four lines of verse: Long, long be my heart with your memory fill’d!—/Like the vase in which roses have once been distill’d—/ You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will;/ But the scent of the roses will hang round it still., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Forten, was a civil rights activist, founding member of the multiracial Pennsylvania Female Anti-Slavery Society, and educator. She was the daughter of Philadelphia African American entrepreneur and abolitionist James Forten and abolitionist Charlotte Vandine Forten.
- Creator
- Forten, Margaretta, 1806-1875, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1834]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.16]
- Title
- No marvel woman should love flowers
- Description
- Album page containing a drawing of coupled red and blue flowers above six lines of allegorical verse about unappreciated beauty. Shows the red camellia with fluffy stamens below three, five-petal blue flowers, possibly forget-me-nots. The flowers are also depicted with buds, leaves, and stems. The stem of the red flower contains thorns., Title from manuscript verse., Date inferred from complementary entries in album., Contains six lines of verse: No marvel woman should love flowers, they bear/ So much of fanciful similitude/ To her own history; like herself repaying/ With such sweet interest all the cherishing/ That calls their beauty or their sweetness forth;/ And like her too—dying beneath neglect. Verse from a poem by English writer Letitia Elizabeth Landon that was frequently published, including in the Ladies’ Miscellany (Salem, Mass., April 7, 1830)., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Douglass, was an artist, prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, educator, and anti-slavery activist.
- Creator
- Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1833]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.24]
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln's character Sketched by English travellers
- Description
- Caption title., Signed on p. 2: W.W.B. [i.e. Walter William Broom]., Text printed inside single-rule mourning borders., "In memoriam."--p. [3], verse, signed and dated: W.W.B. Brooklyn, April 30, 1865; first line: Gone! But still his spirit is here., Verse on p. [4] is a German translation of In memoriam; first line: Dahin! Sein Geist doch wallet ferner heir., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Broom, W. W. (Walter William)
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Broom 5792.F.44a (McAllister)
- Title
- Now is the time. 50,000 pairs boots, shoes & gaiters cheaper than ever Read the following prices, and judge for yourselves: ... Ladies' and children's shoes of all descriptions at the lowest prices. Gum boots, sea, water, gunning, fishing and ditching boots, made to order at the shortest notice
- Description
- A four-line poem at head of title: A Union of lakes and a Union of lands, A Union of states none can sever, A Union of hearts and a Union of hands, And the flag of our Union for ever., A four-line poem printed vertically, flanking the title: The flag of our country, long may it wave, O'er the land of the free & home of the brave. No pent up Utica contracts our powers, But the whole boundless continent is ours., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Gallagher, William J., shoemaker
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Gallagher (2)5786.F.168a (McAllister)
- Title
- The first steamboat on the Missouri
- Description
- Album page with pre-printed lithographic border containing a drawing and unattributed poem about the first steamboat on the Missouri from the 1838 edition of "The Token and Atlantic Souvenir." Drawing is after Joseph Andrew's engraving of the work by painter John Gadsby Chapman. Depicts two Native American men on a rock, one seated, and portrayed with a forlorn expression, and the other standing with their arms raised in an anguished pose, watching a steamboat in the distance. Poem, "The Indian's Farewell to the Missouri, on seeing the First Steamboat on its Waters," addresses the power of the white man and the steamboat as a harbinger of his usurpation of Native American territories., Title from album page., Date from album page., LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Douglass, an African American artist and early photographer, was an active member of the Philadelphia anti-slavery and civil rights movement.
- Creator
- Douglass, Robert M. J., 1809-1887, artist
- Date
- September 25, 1841
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Martina Dickerson album [13859.Q.70]
- Title
- "Bray-more," or the Welles-iad An epic in two bottles. A long way after Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Brahma."
- Description
- Verse in fifteen stanzas; first line: If the torpedoer's torpedes., Caption title., This poem appeared in Charles G. Halpine's The life and adventures, songs, services, and speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly (New York : Carleton, 1864), in a letter dated "In camp, Folly Island, S.C., April 25, 1863", under the title "An idyl of the iron-clads.", The First Battle of Charleston Harbor took place on April 7, 1863, and involved a fleet of ironclad ships for a naval assault on Charleston, S.C. Mentioned in the poem are Gideon Welles, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, commander of the naval forces, and Alban C. Stimers, designer of ironclad vessels., Printed on p. [1]-[2] only., Library Company copy has a MS. stanza inserted following the second stanza on p. [1], and MS. correction in the text on p. [2]., 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
- Halpine, Charles G. (Charles Graham), 1829-1868
- Date
- [not before 1864?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Halpine 5782.F.16d