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Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and United Kingdom, 1883-1905]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1883 and 1905, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); pharmaceutical apparatus and tools; a sick-bed scene showing a doctor with a thermometer at the side of his female patient; an eagle perched on a cliff; the interior of a drug store; and a horse and groom. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include a thermometer, floral imagery, frames, filigree and flourishes. Firms represented include Sagar Drug Co. (Duluth, Minn.); Sandhop, Fritsch & Co. (N.Y.); J. J. Seinsoth (Hartford, Conn.); S. H. Wetmore Company (N.Y.); J. E. Silliman (Erie, Pa.); Smith, Benedict & Company (Boston); Southern Drug Co. (Morristown, Tenn.); Stone, the Druggist (Fitchburg, Ma.); Strong, Cobb and Co. (Cleveland); Tarrant & Company (N.Y.); Thomsen & Muth (Baltimore); Dr. G. Ulrich (Erie, Pa.); Van Natta-Lynds Drug Co. (St. Joseph, Mo.); Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. (Memphis, Tenn.); Vogeler, Winkelmann & Co. (Baltimore); William A. Whittem (Philadelphia); Winkelman & Brown Drug Co. (Baltimore); and Alfred Wright (Rochester, N.Y.). Billed patrons include T. Belhummeur, Lake Linden, Mich.; New York Department of Public Charities; Hartford Street Railway Company; H. A. Kerste, Schnectady, N.Y.; A. A. Beckman; Geo. H. Gilbert Mfg. Co.; A. S. Emmons; Carriger & Roberts; Fitchberg [?] Electric Light Co.; A. E. Phillips, Sinclairville, N.Y.; Dr. H.C. Porter & Son (Towanda, Pa.); W. P. Carriger, Morristown, Tenn.; J. F. Walther; D. W. Marris, Emporia; J. E. Chandler, Malvern; A. W. Holsey; Resinol Chemical Company; and H. F. Belanger, Houma, La. Collection also contains billhead of British chemist and druggist R. C. Walshaw (Huddersfield)., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging receipt of payments, terms of sale, and changes of address., Printers include Christie & Collier, Litho. Duluth; Strobridge & Co., Lith Cincinnati; A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore; S. C. Toof & Co., Memphis; and Craig, Finley & Co. Lith. Phila., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1883-1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (S-Z) [P.2011.46.410-428]

Title: [Scraps no. 3 for 1832]
Description: Plate one from the 1832 edition of, "Scraps," Johnston's popular satirical series of societal caricatures published between 1828 and 1840, and in 1849. Depicts a montage of nine scenes lampooning contemporary social issues and every day life such as corporal punishment, public drunkenness, popular fashion, marital relations, and libraries. Includes "Lock on the Understanding in two Toms bound in boards" depicting two "Toms" locked in a stockade without refreshment discussing their "Dry Goods" & "Stationary" business;" Heavy Wet" depicting a white man homeowner shocked to see a bank of snow fall from his roof unto a passerby's head; 'What a piece of work is a Man...." depicting hogs ashamed to be seen with a white man drunkard unconscious in their slop near a distillery; "Cowed Down" depicting a white wife upset about her cow's well-being as she watches her "mischievous" white husband being gored by it; "The Menagerie" depicting a confused African American man witnessing children mistaking a white man dandy and white woman dandiette for wild creatures at an animal menagerie; "Bullying Up" depicting a white farm boy haranguing a bull in front of his angry mother; "The Cat Doth Play & After Slay" depicting a picture "copied from an innkeeper's sign in Jugtown, N. Jersey" showing a cat playing a fiddle in front of a horse-drawn sleigh; "The Library" depicting the interior of a library where a foppish white woman, a Frenchman, and white men librarians misinterpret and misunderstand comments about popular literature; and "A Soporific" depicting an ailing white man unaffected by "laudanum opium" requesting his Reverend to preach a sermon in order to put him to sleep., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed in upper left corner: Plate 1., Published in D.C. Johnston's Scraps No. 3 1832 (Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1832), pl. 1., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1893., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1832 Scr (a) [5656.F.25]

Title: Oh! Massa Jeff. dis sesesh fever will kill de nigger
Description: Cartoon depicting the ill effect of secession on enslaved people. In the dwelling of the enslaved African American men, Jefferson Davis, attired in a broad-brim hat and with the Union flag hanging from his pocket, checks the pulse of an emaciated, bedridden African American man with "Bond Plasters" on his chest. An angst-ridden enslaved African American man stands behind the bed and weeps as he holds a bottle of medicine. On the wall behind him are three posters advertising various medicines: "Dr. Jeffy's Celebrated Bond Plasters ...," "The Great Southern Remedies," "Dr. Jeffy's Celebrated Lettres du Marque A Radical Remedy for all Constitutional Afflictions.", Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 1961., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1861-22W [6449.F]

Title: [Scraps for the year 1830]
Description: Plate three from the 1830 edition of "Scraps," Johnston's popular satirical series of societal caricatures published between 1828 and 1840, and in 1849. Depicts a montage of nine scenes lampooning contemporary society titled: Practitioners of the Bar Lamenting the Failure of the United States Mint; Putting the Best Leg Foremost; Fixed Air; Erudition; A Discharge of Filth; Improvement in Bathing; Conjugal Affection; Making Up a Party of Pleasure; and Hot Corn. Scenes depict: white men commodities brokers bemoaning the "winter" market at a tavern; white women shoppers lamenting a lost butter firkin and questioning the quality of a leg of meat including an African American man carrying a basket of food; two white men in a bed chamber with a closed window discussing the unhealthiness of "fixed air"; a white man quibbling over the omission of the word "physician" in the dictionary; the chastisement of a Boston drunkard near his overturned cart pulled by his drunk "haus"; a white man shower-bathing with an umbrella; the fattening of a dying white man to be purchased as a cadaver ; a working class, white Boston family reminding a destitute woman of the pleasure in witnessing a hanging; and a discussion of the processing of "hot corn" between a African American waiter and two white men patrons. Includes two African American characters, a servant and a waiter, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular., Title supplied by cataloger., Inscribed upper right corner: Pl 3., Published in D. C. Johnston's Scraps for the year 1830 (Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1830), pl. 3. (LCP Am 1830 Joh, 7021.F.3)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1979., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - [1830]-Scr [P.2275.25]

Title: Fun! Fun! Fun! The Soldiers' Ethiopian Troupe! Will be at [blank] on [blank] eve'ng [blank] '64 This troupe is composed entirely of wounded soldiers! Now is the time to serve your country's defenders. Admission, 25 cents Tickets to be had at the door. Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at half-past 7
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Soldiers' Ethiopian Troupe
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *PB 1864 Soldiers (28)5761.F.35 (McAllister)

Title: The Hutchinson Family! "Tribe of Asa," will give a benefit concert for the sick & wounded soldiers under the care of the Penn Relief Association, at the Spring Garden Institute, corner Broad and Spring Garden Streets, on Friday evening, Jan. 30, 1863, when they will sing their new songs of home, patriotism, Union and freedom! With some of their standard productions, which have received the cordial approbation of the musical public of the entire North, East and West; ... Admission, 25 cents Children under 12 years, 15 cents. Doors open at 7. To commence at 8 o'clock
Description: The Hutchinson Family, Tribe of Asa, consisted of Asa B. Hutchinson, his wife Elizabeth Chace Hutchinson, and their children Abby Hutchinson (later Anderson), Frederick Chace Hutchinson, and Oliver Dennett Hutchinson., Printed on rose-colored paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Hutchinson Family (Singers)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Hutch (25)5761.F.41b (McAllister)

Title: [Convalescing children]
Description: Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana

Title: [Convalescing children]
Description: Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts, probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana

Title: Linton, Nancy, of Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Description: 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”.
Date: [1829?]

Title: Do not forget to go and hear J.E. Murdoch's great patriotic address! For the benefit of the sick & wounded soldiers and their families, Thursday eve'ng, Aug. 13 at the Academy of Music!
Description: Aug. 13 fell on a Thursday in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Acad Mus (2)5786.F (McAllister)

Title: Lecture "Our glorious country, the United States, foretold in the Holy Scriptures," clearly delinieated, described & located
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Strowbridge, Prof
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Strow (28)5761.F.9b (McAllister)

Title: Dr. Browning's C. & C. cordial. For coughs and colds
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a doctor checking the pulse of a sick man seated in an armchair and attired in a dressing gown and cap. A large bottle of medicine sits on a table next to the doctor., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Dr. Browning's C. & C. cordial for colds, asthmatic coughs, bronchitis croup, and for the relief of consumptives. Also promotes Dr. Browning's tonic and alternative, which "purifies the blood, enriches the blood, [and] improves the appetite." Also informs patrons of Browning's impending move from 1117 Arch Street to 1321 Arch Street after January 1st, 1881., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Browning's [1975.F.75]

Title: [Interior of a medical clinic]
Description: Depicts women patients, including two African American women, receiving and awaiting treatment in a clinic with stained floors. In the right, two white men doctors, attired in suits, treat a seated African American woman's arm using nearby basins. In the left, two men attendants attend to the other two seated women patients. In the right foreground, a white woman nurse organizes medical supplies on top of a draped table. In the left foreground, medicinal bottles rest on a desk with an open drawer of bandages., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the sitters., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators-Non-Philadelphia-Afro-Americana

Title: [Incomplete set of "Series C" of "Hidden Book Titles" rebus puzzle card game]
Description: Incomplete set of card game (9 of 15 cards) to which "ladies and gentlemen" couples interpreted the pictures on each card to name the title of the book (depicted as a rebus) and for additional credit, the name of the author. Some imagery is racialized. Includes No. 4 showing a framed portrait of a bride + "of" + a lamb + "R" + a three-quarter length image of the left profile of a Black man in a hooded robe holding out one arm and holding a staff with the other = The Bride of Lamermoor; No. 6 showing a map of the Southern portion of the U.S. as well as the Philippine Islands + a cluster of addressed envelopes = American Lands and Letters; No. 8 showing the front profile of a black cat = The Black Cat; No. 9 showing two capital letter Y's + "and" + two lower case letter y's = Wise and Otherwise; No. 10 showing an oblong-shaped globe turned to the side with Greenland, America, South America, and New Zealand visible = The Wide, Wide World; No. 11 showing an open chest + "R"+ a desk on which a series of books with titles beginning "Tales" stand = Old Chester Tales; No. 12 showing a lantern out of which a ray of light shines + a man using a manual lawn mower + "NA" = Ramona; No. 13 showing the front profile of a very round hog + "Rt" + the Pigot Diamond captioned "Exact Size of Pigot Diamond" = The Great Hogarty Diamond; and No. 14 depicting a woman with sunken cheeks lying up in bed and with a tray of food on her lap + an eye + a newspaper ad for a "Blacksmith" = Iliad. One of a series of four "Hidden Book Titles" games, including Series A with thirty cards, and series B and C with fifteen cards, and Series D (Literati) with fifty-five cards., Publication information based on copyright statement: Copyright Oct., 1899, by the Hidden Book-Title Publishing co., Philadelphia, Pa., Housed in envelope., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC
Date: Oct., 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - games & toys - Hidden [P.2021.35.1a-i]

Title: Soby, Elizabeth.
Description: In A treatise on the alterative [sic] and curative virtues of Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1833), plate facing p. 94., “Page 94”., According to the accompanying article, Elizabeth Soby was relieved of the pain she suffered from the ulcer on her face by using Swaim’s panacea., Charles Joseph Hullmandel was a London lithographer., Another portrait of Elizabeth Soby appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [19]., Three-quarter length portrait of a woman with a disfiguring scar on the right side of her face.
Date: [1833?]

Title: Tregomaine, Mrs.
Description: In A treatise on the alterative [sic] and curative virtues of Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1833), plate facing p. 95., “Page 94”., According to the accompanying article, Mrs. Tregomaine was relieved of the pain she suffered from ulcers on various parts of her body by using Swaim’s panacea., Charles Joseph Hullmandel was a London lithographer., Another portrait of Mrs. Tregomaine appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [22]., Recumbent portrait of a woman with scars on her face and hands, leaning against pillows.
Date: [1833?]

Title: Parker, Dorothy, Mrs.
Description: In A treatise on the alterative [sic] and curative virtues of Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1833), plate facing p. 54 of the appendix., “Page 54. Appendix”., According to the accompanying article, Mrs. Dorothy Parker was relieved of the pain she suffered from rheumatism, abscesses, and ulcers on her legs by using Swaim’s panacea., Charles Joseph Hullmandel was a London lithographer., Another portrait of Mrs. Dorothy Parker appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [26]., Full-length portrait of a woman with scars on her legs, sitting up in bed.
Date: [1833?]

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